For the past 13 years, ever since I graduated from college, I have been growing spiritually at exponential rates.  Every once in a while I will reach a point where I feel I have just grown so much, I just can’t fathom that there is another step, only to find out, there is never an end.

Right now, I am at a point where knowing myself as One and All is becoming less and less of a concept and more of a state of being.  I have had a few experiences that stand out which have led me to this knowledge but really, they are just little milestones on the path to Self-awareness. 

On March 11 (funny, 6 months ago today) I had a very profound awakening experience.  I was going to a conference sponsored by Omega Institute where Byron Katie was going to be speaking.  I chose to spend all of that Saturday with Katie rather than scattering my attention with too much information and too many teachers.  I had not been exposed to her work before so I went to her page and clicked on her awakening experience http://www.thework.com/KatiesExperience.asp.  As I read about her experience, I started sobbing and felt a shift in awareness.  It was late and I knew that something very profound was happening and also knew that when I woke up the next morning, I would experience the shift that was happening within me. 

I did not wake up with an ecstatic revelation like she did, however, that morning when I took my shower I realized, "I am the shower, I am the water that streams down and cleanses this skin, I am the tiles and the door of the shower.  I am the little girl who was sleeping in my bed, I am the bed.  I am the classes I go to, I am the music I listen to, I am the air I breathe.  I am all of it.  I am the observer and the observed.  Everything I experience as Kerri, I am... even that which I don't experience as Kerri I am.  I am the universe and I am so much greater than anything I can experience as Kerri, but Kerri is the magnificent vehicle I have chosen to experience myself as "it."   I wanted to say I am awareness... but I am even more than that... I am also the unaware.

The next day, I decided to go for a walk.  As I was walking, I was very present.  It had rained the night before and all of a sudden, I realized that I was everything in my awareness, I was (am) consciousness itself.  I realized that I was the puddles, I was everything and I created everything within my awareness for me to experience myself as ME!  With that realization, I started taking running leaps into the puddles and had so much fun, that by the time I got home, my pants were completely soaked.  I realized that since I was everything and everything was me, then everything must also be consciousness. 

The rocks and water were just as much me as this body I seem to inhabit, they are just more of me, an extended body of consciousness for me to experience myself as All.  

This was six months ago.  Now my awareness is growing beyond that experience but I feel as if that awakening experience was the beginning of my true spiritual journey.  I will share more shortly.  Thanks for reading.

Sincerely,

Kerri