THE GOAL OF LEVEL 1
The completion of LEVEL 1 -> STEP 7, is defined as the Mid Life Crisis or the Spiritual Emergency (emerging). The entire process of living through these first seven steps is to accumulate what humans consider BAGGAGE or divine considers unique life EXPERIENCES so that the soul can have a singular personality and a perspective that can grow the collective experience.
The following stories have been taken from my first book “A 94-Chakra Journey” where I documented my own physical symptoms that allowed me to recognize I had limited my life experience which leads to the EMERGING process of the spirit.
Third Eye Chakra (Step 6)
Did you ever go to school with a kid in your class who did explainable things? I was that kid in class who would crawl under my teacher’s desk and roll into a fetal position because the light and sounds hurt so badly. I used to get tunnel vision in high school and fall out of my chair because I was so nauseated and sick. I participated in a research case study, which took place at a hospital, to study migraines headaches. We tried so many of the latest and greatest medications. I remember some would make my migraines exponentially more intense, others would numb me to the point of feeling nothing in my body.
During this particular time I was living in Wayne, Michigan, and on this day, this “episode” ended with me passed out in the back seat of my mother’s car. We were parked in the emergency room parking lot of a hospital, but we never went in. Earlier that day I was experiencing one of my tantrums, moving from room to room in our house, screaming, pulling my hair, banging my head on the walls and floor. As I was completely inconsolable and unable to calm down, my mom put my sister and me in our car seats and proceeded to drive to the hospital. Finally, my screaming stopped abruptly, and I fell fast asleep (probably worn out) as we were driving into the hospital parking lot. Relieved, baffled, and too young to know any better, she drove us back home, never going inside of the hospital.
Later on, we learned that this was probably the start of my migraine headaches. These episodes were common in my childhood and throughout my own spiritual emergency. As a very young child, throughout my teens, and into my twentieth year, I suffered greatly from head-splitting migraines. This is a symptom of my spiritual emergency, just as a sore throat may be a symptom of a cold. For me, these migraines appeared repeatedly, representing the struggle between the mind and the soul. I had many battles with my mind and only later did I understand how to let go of the control I tried to impose upon myself.
For me, my spiritual emergency happened at such a young age that my initial approach to “heal” myself also was very elementary, very “western philosophy.” During this time my chakra system was not fully matured, so I coped with my symptoms on a very physical level. My migraines were a desperate cry to release my mind and the hold it had over my body, but my only available approach was to numb myself with medication.