What is spiritual dissociation?

Trauma has been referred to as spiritual disconnection [10-12]. It is well recognized that crises, such as those experienced during and following trauma, can drive a traumatized person inward, there to experience the “dark night of the soul” [13].

What dissociation mean?

Dissociation is a mental process of disconnecting from one’s thoughts, feelings, memories or sense of identity. The dissociative disorders that need professional treatment include dissociative amnesia, dissociative fugue, depersonalisation disorder and dissociative identity disorder.

Are spiritual experiences and enlightenment the same thing?

Spiritual experiences and enlightenment are not the same thing. Some enlightened people have these crazy spiritual experiences. It’s also possible that some don’t. Many people have all manner of intense spiritual experiences and have not crossed the threshold of enlightenment.

What is enlightenment or awakening?

Enlightenment, or awakening, is not like this at all. To say it is humbling is a comical understatement, as it wipes out the inner personhood to whom pride or shame or accomplishment could accrue. Everything in the whole universe changes, and yet it is at the same time, completely anti-climactic and very ordinary.

Is it possible to attain enlightenment?

There is no “you” to attain enlightenment. In that moment any reality of a “you” who could succeed or fail, attain or not attain, is understood to the very core to be unreal. It’s not an intellectual understanding. It does not involve the mind or thinking or evaluating or believing. You just see it.

What happens when you cross the threshold of Enlightenment?

When you cross it, you are in a totally different terrain. It’s not a static state, like you “reach” enlightenment and that’s it. But this is the fundamental threshold of living in a state of basic clarity that is not mental, theoretical or academic.