You May Get a Choice
Kensho vs. Satori
After completing My “Quest” on the Art of Manifesting, by Mindvalley’s Regan Hillyer, I recently started to ask why my own life had transformed so profoundly within the past 3 years and exponentially in less than a year? The 3-year journey was marked by a “radical event” that put me on the fast-track to healing. I’ve posted recently about my 2023 work-place assault that left me with a amnesia, TBI, and over-the-top anxiety in the workplace. This was my “Kensho” experience of transformation. “The Universe’s tough love” as Vishen Lakhiani, CEO of Mindvalley calls it. I’d been chugging along with life’s ups and downs, managing life in a better than average way, becoming an educated and successful professional, not overly concerned about manifesting any radical changes in my way of thinking, living, and being. Life was good. Then, quite literally, I was “slammed” into life’s mirror, reflecting my inner being “scared, small, caged, and limited.” It was through this Kensho pain and suffering that I started to see some changes were critical. Through this radical Kensho event, my vulnerability was exposed. I saw that the edifices of personal success were not enough. I journeyed through intensive trauma therapy, that took me WAY back through my life experiences, starting in early childhood. It was definitely a painful and arduous route, but critical to my healing and emotional and spiritual growth.
Then, In October 2024, I planned a mini-vacation over the course of 10 days that literally started with a shamanic healing (I just thought it sounded good, and decided to check it out), walked through the only Holy Door in North American at Cathedral-Basilica Notre-Dame de Québec City now locked for 25 years, (was recommended by my tour guide), and a profoundly deep “altered consciousness” Breathwork session with Ashira Lavine, (a gift to me from a family member). This was my Satori week! This was my “pure insight” that led to such fundamental growth and transformation over this past year. In contrast to the painful process of Kensho, this Satori experience felt “gifted” to me.
In my transformation “research”, I’ve been wondering what leads us onto transformational paths. I wonder if we chose, are chosen, or both?