by maryshutan | Jan 9, 2020 | Animism, Cosmic Energies, Energetic Cleansing, Enlightenment, Healing Trauma, Navigating the Spiritual Realms, Raising Your Consciousness, Reiki, Self Inquiry, Shamanism, Spiritual Awakening
Every time there is some sort of larger happening in the world I see a call to “send energy”: to send prayers, intentions, or even do some type of energetic or spiritual work to be of assistance. In this I see the best of intentions: a desire to be of service,...
by maryshutan | Oct 23, 2019 | Change and Transformation, Enlightenment, Raising Your Consciousness
As much as I find the notion of “silver bullets” or the “get enlightened now” crowd to be illusory (and unhelpful to boot) there really are realizations and understandings that can assist people to cut through, to find the right information to find something true and...
by maryshutan | Sep 29, 2019 | Enlightenment, Raising Your Consciousness, Spiritual Advice column, Spiritual Awakening, Spiritual Initiation
Understanding the Mechanics of Awakening What happens during the spiritual awakening process is that latent traumas arise into conscious awareness to be processed. Before this time, we were living out these traumas without awareness (looping through them again and...
by maryshutan | May 30, 2019 | Enlightenment, Kundalini, Raising Your Consciousness, Spiritual Awakening
One of the things that I find it vital to understand is the difference between lived, embodied experience and conceptual ideologies. Put more simply, you can understand something from a book on an intellectual level, you can repeat it often to others, you can say it...
by maryshutan | Apr 5, 2017 | Enlightenment, Raising Your Consciousness, Self Inquiry, Spiritual Awakening
You can find Part One, and the first three ego traps, here… There are many ego traps that I could go over here, and some I will not talk about because I talk about them quite frequently in other blogs. The spiritual path is about becoming whole – about...
by maryshutan | Mar 30, 2017 | Enlightenment, Raising Your Consciousness, Self Inquiry, Spiritual Awakening
This is Part 1 of a two-part blog. Part 2 can be found here. To begin, I will say that my definition of the word “ego” is simply that it is our identity– the thought of who we are and what the world is like (so, perhaps more based in Eriksonian thought...
