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The Waking Down Process
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The Waking Down ProcessWhat is Waking Down in Mutuality? The idea of waking up is a part of many spiritual teachings. It is associated with the endeavor to get spiritual, conscious, awake, enlightened, free, or somehow escape the perceived prison of the phenomenal world of body, emotion, and mind as you experience it. There are innumerable methods to achieve such changes. In general, waking down, as we live and offer it, is different in that you "fall" into your fundamental transcendent nature and your bodily, human personhood simultaneously. Instead of trying to get out of life, you realize more and more that you are infinite transcendental Being concretizing, crystallizing, and incarnating as a divinely human person. The phrase waking down signals that this is very different from trying to rise out of this world and all your karmas here into some other state or dimension. In this process, you directly realize and bring the infinite divine reality to life. And, if you bring that infinite or unconditioned quality of Being to life in real, authentic ways, you wind up becoming deeply receptive to others, and profoundly communicative about this, especially with others who are doing the same themselves. This is what we call mutuality. Because life is not just about the self, or even the great Self. Here's a huge part of the mystery: many of us are under the impression that upon getting fundamentally enlightened in that non-finite Self or Truth, we will then somehow be free of all the impositions and challenges of relating to others. After all, they would just be part of our real Self, right? But it's not that way. In the relative plane, otherness leaps forward to claim its dues from anyone who is deeply, authentically bringing the infinite identity to life. And it requires you to relate to others as a relative self who does not know them in any perfect sense, not just as a big infinite Self who is supposedly free of such mundane obligations. Mutuality, especially with people who are living at the same evolutionary depth you are, becomes a huge commitment and undertaking. Thus, we speak of waking down in mutuality as a singular, multi-faceted process, path, and life-work. Ken Wilber, who is widely considered the pre-eminent modern interpreter of the Perennial Philosophy, has offered the following commentary on Saniel's teaching work: "Saniel Bonder is one in whom the Conscious Principle is awakened, and he is attempting to forge a new path of mutuality in the midst of ordinary, messy, everyday realities. You should know that this an experiment, which may or may not work at large. But if you can stand the heat, you might want to check out this remarkable adventure." We also received this endorsement from Peter Russell, the author of The Global Brain and Waking Up in Time, and a respected explorer of the interface between science and spirituality: "Saniel Bonder offers a refreshingly grounded yet wise approach to spiritual awakening, one that is founded on a deep understanding of the human condition and expressed in contemporary Western language." To learn more about "Waking Down in Mutuality" click here. |