Spiritual Awakening
By
Rod C. Davis
©
“The light of the body is the eye:
If therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light”
Matthew 6:22
This Spiritual Eye is as shown in a painting by Swami Kriyananda. In the text below I mention a Spiritual Eye that I initially saw while working out. It had a dark gray center, with a lighter gray surrounding it, like the iris of the eye, and there were gray lines radiating out from the iris in a defined pattern, around its entire outer perimeter. I can no longer find that Spiritual Eye picture on the Internet. But this Eye to the left is what I now see and have been seeing since some time in late 2003. The yellow ring that I see grows to a paler yellow as it extends out from the blue center, and the star that I see does not look like the star in the picture to the left, but just like a star that you see in the sky at night.
 | ||||||
| ||||||
Prior to the spring of 2003 I do not recall having any spiritual abilities, and I had no idea whatsoever that I could develop them until I made an appointment on a whim with a spiritual medium. I say on a whim because I’d never made an appointment with any type of medium before, psychic or otherwise, and it definitely was not something that I had been considering. The urge to see a spiritual medium came out of nowhere, so perhaps a spiritual nudge is the catalyst that brought it to fruition.The urge hit me in mid April of 2002 when I decided to take a break from my work. I picked up a local newspaper just to pass the time, and while flipping through the pages I came across an ad stating that the world renowned spiritual medium, Hans Christian King, would be in Las Vegas, Nevada. It gave the dates and times that he would be holding a public seminar, and it also stated that he had private appointments available for those who were interested.I didn’t know at the time what motivated me to pick up the phone to make an appointment … but I did. Hans Christian King only had two openings left, and even though it cost $250 for one hour, something still motivated me to commit and spend the money.I didn’t know what to expect when I walked into the room to meet Hans Christian King, but I certainly didn’t expect him to tell me that I could do the same thing as him. He gave me the title and authors of three books that he felt I should buy, which I did. I must say that as I read them I thought: “There’s no way I can do this!” So I put them aside and that was that until the spring of 2003.I regularly workout on the Total Gym, and many, many times while lying on my back going through the repetitions I saw an eye looking at me when I closed my eyes. I didn’t pay much attention to it for quite a while, and I do not know why … perhaps I just mentally filed it away as being one of those things.However the day finally came when a realization hit me that I’d been seeing this eye for weeks, every time I closed my eyes, and maybe it had been longer because I really do not recall when it began. The day that realization hit me I sent an email to a person who I had been introduced to me by an acquaintance, and at the time we had been corresponding by email for a month or more. When I sent the email I described the eye that I had been seeing, and when she responded she told me that it was the “Spiritual Eye.”Well I’d never heard of the Spiritual Eye before, so I logged onto the Internet to see what I could find out. I typed “Spiritual Eye” in the Yahoo search engine bar, and a list came up with several items to check out. When I clicked on the first one and it opened, I saw the eye that I had been seeing for so many weeks, staring right back at me. I guess that had to be my first wow of my spiritual awakening, and I’ve had many since. I’ve written about all of them, but I’ve only posted a few of them on my Website, and they can be found in the “Experiencers” section. The button for that section is on the left side of my home page as you scroll down.I’ve thought often about what exactly I did to open the spiritual door for me, and I’ve come to the conclusion that it could be a combination of a few things. My spiritual world really started to evolve when I began to write the second or third chapter of River of Fear: Encounters. Somewhere in the second or third chapter the words just began to pour out of me … I didn’t have to think about what to write … the words just flowed, and it was during that time that I saw the Hans Christian King ad. So perhaps writing that book, which contains several spiritual scenes, opened something up in my spiritual world for me that I had no clue about.Also, I think that Hans Christian King’s statement that I can do what he does, certainly had something to do with expanding my spiritual awareness. I’m specifically referring to my reading the books that he recommended I buy. Even though at the time I said, “There’s no way I can do this,” I believe my reading the books helped to further stimulate my subconscious mind to work on my conscious mind. I can tell you this for sure, as of this writing I can’t begin to measure up to Hans Christian King … perhaps someday during my spiritual evolvement I will, but not right now.I cannot give a reading to someone like he does, but if someone asks me a question … most often I will hear an answer that sort of pulses in the top center of my head. And most times the answer is in a normal voice level, but sometimes it is very soft, and there are times that it is so loud that I cringe. But enough of that for now … I will share more in other articles.For some reason there have been many occasions since August 2003, when I have felt very strongly that if I touched a person having a medical or emotional problem, that I could help, or even heal them. Again, I do not know where those thoughts have come from, because I certainly did not consciously think them. One day while visiting my Aunt in the hospital I had an urge to do something to help her, and on an impulse I asked her to hold her out hands to me. While lightly holding her hands I closed my eyes, and when I did the Spiritual Eye appeared immediately.Since I really didn’t know what to do, I decided to concentrate on the vision of the Spiritual Eye, and as I did it began to grow larger and turn a deeper blue. I remember thinking, what a beautiful color blue. As the spiritual eye grew and the blue intensified in color (it was an awesome blue, and unlike any shade of blue that I have seen on this earth) I noticed that I was taking rapid deep breaths, again something that I did not consciously do. With that realization I felt a sensation of some kind of energy building within me. It built quickly, and then I felt it surge into my chest area and flow out through my arms; and then it ended. I opened my eyes and asked my aunt if she felt that, and I did not think to tell her what I meant by “that.” But evidently she must’ve known, because she said: “Yes.”The next time I had an urge to help someone, everything started out the same way, but it ended up being very different. My mother has arthritis in her fingers and toes, and it’s very difficult for her to do the every day things people normally do with their hands, and walking ? well it’s certainly painful for her to walk.The thought had been popping into my mind to see what I could do to help her ease the pain in her hands and feet, and again I’m not sure why, but it did, and it would not leave me alone. Finally one day on an impulse I asked my mother to put her hands into mine, and again the Spiritual Eye appeared to me the second I closed my eyes. Next I noticed that I again involuntarily began to take rapid deep breaths as the Eye intensified in size and color … but this time it seemed like the process went into a zoom mode, because everything happened so fast. The spiritual eye grew so large so fast that I remember thinking that it might burst, and I felt energy flooding into my body, but this time, because the energy came so fast and in such a large volume, it overwhelmed me … I didn’t understand what was happening within me, and because I didn’t understand, I couldn’t mentally handle it. The second I became concerned about me and not my mother, the energy flow stopped.I knew that I had failed my mother, and it happened because I was not prepared for such a powerful experience. I didn’t know what to expect, and now that I do, I will be better prepared to give help to a person when the urge hits me again. I haven’t had that urge since that day, but I still have the feeling that spirit will use me again to help and/or heal someone. I’ve been told by a friend, Stephanie Ann Stevens, a Metaphysical Master, that I had been given a powerful glimpse.I’m sharing this awakening with you in the hopes that it will motivate you, if you have not already, to begin your spiritual awakening. You too have that ability … we’re all born with it, and I now know that part of my purpose in this life is to help people recognize that fact … to get them on the road to their own awakening. I firmly believe that the main ingredient to an awakening is a sincere desire to develop your own “knowing;” to find your freedom, knowledge and happiness from within.My awakening came about through a series of events that I did not consciously plan. However, I believe that they developed in the manner in which they did to clearly demonstrate that my spiritual abilities have been consistently evolving on a path to a higher self awareness and understanding; why? So that I could use those events and my step-by-step spiritual evolvement as teaching tools, or as examples if you will to demonstrate that once I discovered my spiritual abilities, that they can and will evolve.I think there is an important ingredient to my awakening that I need to mention … as the spiritual events occurred in my life, I opened and welcomed them … I did not fear them. I think wonderment best describes my reaction when they began … I consciously received and let them manifest; I put aside the lessons that I learned over the years in church.What do I mean by that? If we are members of, and attend the traditional churches, i.e., Presbyterian, Congregational, Baptist, Catholic, Episcopalian, and so on, we are taught that such things are not possible. That statement could not be further from the truth, and these spiritual experiences are not “of the devil” as many of those religious leaders like to profess.God is within each one of us, and we need only reach out to Him to receive His blessings. Unless it is meant to be in your case, your spiritual awakening will not manifest to you overnight … it will take time, as it did for me. I encourage you to include in your daily prayers, a prayer to the Heavenly Father to send you spiritual guidance to begin your awakening.From time to time I will write an article like this in hopes of instilling the desire in more and more people to awaken their spiritual abilities, and I will also be giving some other helpful hints, and eventually exercises to help you further your awakening.IN THE LIGHT OF TRUTH
Rod C. Davis
We are each given four basic spiritual gifts: prophecy; vision; feeling; and intuition. Of those gifts one is “primary,” and that primary gift determines our avenue of spiritual communication while on Earth. In Chapter 12 of 1 Corinthians it speaks about the gifts of Spirit.1 Corinthians 12
12:7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all:
But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all:12:8 for one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit,
for one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit,12:9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the same Spirit,
to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the same Spirit,12:10 to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discernment of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues,
12:11 But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually as He wills.
| ||||||
| ||||