The Awakening

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Yet... examples of transcendent ability abound in both Western and Eastern history, and the awakening happening today... 

Here, beneath a tree. .. the noble Prince who had given up the throne. .. and who had become a monk to free himself and to free other beings from all pain and suffering. Here Gautama— the Muni of the Shakya clan—on the morning, that followed a night, that will be blessed forever became Buddha, the Enlightened One, the Awakened One, the Perfect One. 

The soul is trapped within the cage of the body. The awakened soul can progress along a way which leads to annihilation in God. 

In order for dreaming to be contained in sleep, the brain must sharply demarcate its states. But it often fails to do so, as anyone who has awakened from a nightmare unable to move knows at first hand. The terror that prompted the awakening in the first place is not only unabated by the arousal, but it may be augmented as the return of waking consciousness takes account of the persistent sleep paralysis. 

John and Louisa Aiken founded the Church of the Awakening. The Church of the Awakening is the oldest psychedelic church. In presenting the account of its founding and development, John Aiken presents a contemporary account of an age-old problem common to all who develop a new religious vision. Parts of the account are reminiscent of some of the accounts of the difficulties of the early Christians and of the early history of any new sect. This is probably no accident, but is rather part of the sociological consequence of trying to... 

The Church of the Awakening is a fellowship of those who are dedicated to conscious participation in their own spiritual... 

The idea seemed to have merit, and continued to develop. On October 14, 1963, the Church of the Awakening... 

The name Church of the Awakening was selected after careful consideration of our orientation and motivation. The explorations in awareness, of "inner space," such as those we have described, result for many in a new perspective. It is a... 

The Church of the Awakening, therefore, encourages doubt, questioning, and experiment as the way of growth, the way of... 

The Church of the Awakening is dedicated to this ideal of enhancing the growth of the inner life of each member, and also the expression of that growth through more-enlightened... 

We would avoid, in the Church of the Awakening, the temptation to rely on the momentary experience and the desire to seek to repeat it frequently. We would encourage the application of insights and the development of new patterns of thought, feeling, and action more nearly in line with That which we have seen is our real Self. 

JOHN W. Aiken founded the Church of the Awakening in 1963 and retired from general medical practice in New Mexico in 1964. Since then, he has lectured to various metaphysical and religious groups throughout the United States. 

Human sleep occurs involuntarily. That is, with rare possible exceptions, humans cannot volitionally change their brain state from wakefulness to sleep. The environment and behavior can be manipulated to increase the likelihood of sleep, but the neural activity that brings about sleep is essentially involuntary. Similarly, the maintenance of sleep (i.e., sleep length) and the termination of sleep (awakening) are endogenous processes, rather than under voluntary control. In fact, when individuals wish to impact the awakening process, they rely on external stimuli (e.g., alarm clock). In sum, endogenous neural processes control ... 

There haven t yet been any studies comparing effects from mescaline with those from peyote. The Church of the Awakening used both fairly extensively and characterized mescaline effects as "identical with those we had obtained through the use of peyote itself (in John Aiken s words). 

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