The story of Cleopas and the other disciple, Luke 24:13-35, meeting Jesus on the road and not recognizing Him is about the thoughts and feelings of alienation and separateness that most people live with until the higher awareness of Universal Consciousness is realized. Universal Consciousness or Cosmic Consciousness is the Christ Consciousness that Jesus is leading us to realize in what is still the Great Mystery.
If you are fully serious you make a commitment to the Great Spirit or Mystery or God or Creation or Nature or whatever you want to call it or however you understand life. Christ Consciousness, Buddha Consciousness, and Krishna Consciousness are the same consciousness and are perfected Universal Consciousness. It is possible in your life for you to reach the ground floor of Universal Consciousness. You must reach certain understandings. Up until now, awakening to Universal Consciousness has been considered becoming Superconscious. We are collectively slowly evolving into Superconscious awareness. On the ground floor, you realize that everybody is the same as you inside themselves. You realize how we are energetically related to each other within the overall cosmic energy. You realize we are just in different bodies living under different conditions. When you get close to the ground floor you begin to see through the egos of others. We have obstructions that have been imprinted on the egos that block us from seeing and knowing Universal Awareness of each other. You see what is keeping others thinking and feeling they are separate from each other and the whole. You see what has been keeping others from the farther reaches of Self-Realization which is really Us-Realization. When you come out of this separateness you have awakened to the profound Super Intuitive or Super Aware or Superconscious state of Universal Consciousness. D.R. Hawkins calls this Enlightenment.
Jesus, Cleopas, and the other disciple stopped to eat. They had not recognized Jesus yet. Luke 24:31 states, “Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him.” The “eyes opening” is Cleopas and the other disciple awakening to Universal Consciousness or Christ Consciousness realizing that it is Us-Consciousness. The eyes of their hearts (intuition) opened. They had to tell others what they realized which is we are all the same inside struggling to awaken to Universal Consciousness and we will. Jesus is a model for us to realize about ourselves. This is the state where you reach what is called Unconditional Love or 540 while ascending to 700 (ground floor) on the theoretical framework of the D.R. Hawkins Map of Consciousness. High empathy and compassion are born here because you realize the universal struggle or the individual and collective struggles of humanity. You feel for others and the Charity of “loving your neighbor as yourself” is born. You are not separate from others.
I was born in Wisconsin to a Roman Catholic family. My mother June was a talented writer and started her own service club. My father Joe was a Right-of-Way agent for Bell telephone. Joe was an avid golfer and overall sports enthusiast. Joe would play sports with me and I became a life-long athlete.
I was known as a rebel and was expelled from the Catholic school I attended at the age of fourteen. I was arrested at nineteen for being a thief and was placed on probation. Around this time, not being happy, I turned inward. I worked at different jobs that did not satisfy my budding inner life. I traveled down south several times reading books trying to find myself. In 1980, at the age of twenty-seven, I enrolled at a local college. I was now in an interesting environment. I was curious about almost everything and I eventually majored in speech and psychology or speaking and thinking.
Many people told me that I was funny. I was able to make them laugh about unusual subjects. In the summers of 1981 and 1982, while still a college student, I traveled to Minneapolis and pursued the art of stand-up comedy. During these summers I would write comedy, run twenty-five miles a week and perform comedy at night. I was also a juggler but did not juggle in my stand-up act. I took up Hatha yoga and studied nutrition. In Minneapolis, I interacted with the local up-and-coming comedians. Minneapolis at that time had a small close-knit comedy culture that produced a good number of comedians and some became quite famous. I was making audiences laugh shortly after I started. During this time I was also performing comedy in other cities. I planned on being a professional comedian.
Catholicism conditioned me to have a clear inner voice. I had to make people laugh and the only way I could see to do it was to be brutally honest with myself. I thought honesty would align me with common reality. The Sisters of St. Agnes, who taught me, always told me to tell the truth. So I was continually examining myself and weeding out delusional thinking. This became my way of life.
One day in 1983, I was alone at my parents house and all of a sudden I had a massive spontaneous kundalini awakening. The awakening of this spiritual energy made me realize my self. I achieved the ability, among others, to see through other peoples egos or read their hearts. I was forever changed. In 1983 there was no internet or otherwise easily accessible information for me to be able to find out what had happened to me. Because of the massive explosion of energy my nervous and digestive system had to rebuild.
Due to what happened to me, I changed my plans and soon moved in with my best friend and her son. We lived together for many years. I hid out in college going on and off for thirteen years. I read one book after another to understand what happened to me. I eventually received an M.A. in Speech/Rhetoric and also amassed many extra college credits. Currently I am an investor and forever a student.
I am repentant of the trouble I got into years ago and the embarrassment it brought to my parents. People that knew me when I was a kid remark that I sure changed my ways. I went through what I call psycho/spiritual/physical alchemy or I transformed myself by healing the past and living in the ongoing present.
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