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For a
dozen or more years, Arjuna Ardagh has
been studying individuals from all over the world who have
spontaneously had a type of breakthrough experience almost
absent from the anecdotal literature until fairly
recently. He describes it as a "Radical
Awakening." One such person is Byron
Katie, a woman, who had suffered years of morbid
depression. At one period in her life, she got to the
point she would not leave her bed. In the moments before
the extraordinary event, she was feeling totally at the end of
her tether -- full of anger and outrage, one dark thunderstorm
of a mood. Sounds like she just wanted to die.
Suddenly, she felt totally overwhelmed with an
unimaginable warmth and laughter and joy welling up from
within. It was as if this great being or greater Self was
suddenly present, full of love and empathy, but completely --
radically -- its own magnificent being. And in spite of
her long-lived pathological state up to the instant before, she
found herself laughing with sheer delight and
wonder!
From that moment forward, she was a totally transformed
woman. She got out of bed and regained her life, fully
healed from her formerly afflicted consciousness! There
was also an extraordinary work of insight that came with this
Presence that eventually bore fruit as a clearly inspired
teaching, one product of
this being her first book, Loving What Is: Four
Questions That Can Change Your Life*.
According to Ardagh, the characteristics associated with such
experiences are .. |
