This, and some of the above, may need to go under separate thread. Like my blog, or "mystic relationships". But I have something very interesting to state before I forget or fall asleep. I think it belongs in discerning attainment or something. It's all over the place.
Tonight I asked my partner many questions which provided evidence to her having attained some level of enlightenment. It's interesting, though, as she was the one who brought up the subject right before I was going to.
1) Without my prompting, she referred to the time we were together and I put my hand on her back and pulled all the negative conditioning from the last 15 years out. As you may remember, it took at least a weak for me to recover. I felt weak, insecure, scared--like the old me. She says that after that day, she has felt more secure, and is no longer unhappy. And so it literally seems I've helped her "get to heaven."
2) For the last 4 months, she's been getting energy surges or blasts often and everyday. During our 1.5 hour phone chat, she had 3 or 4 of them. She knows how important spirituality is to me, so you can see how it is a shock for her to say this and me not known about it earlier. She never seems to talk about it, because of some baggage from Christianity when she was young. She says she tries to avoid the energy surges, block them, because she doesn't want people to see her arms and wonder why the hairs are all on end like that.
3) At least one of her vivid dreams felt like it lasted for 3 days (when it was only a few hours that she was asleep.) I asked her if it ended in death, and she said "Yes."
4) She feels like she's being twisted, turned, and shaken when she lays in bed. She recently even had an OOBE where she simply sat up in bed, saw red energy in her hands and feet with orange and yellow throughout the rest of her body. She looked in the direction of my daughters room, and could see a red glow coming from where our daughter was sleeping. There was a wall completely blocking visual, and yet she saw the red.
She may have also said that she saw some strange strings, like puppet master, connected to bodies. I'm not certain about that one. It may be mixing this up with another friend whose discernment and observation aren't as refined.
5) Lastly, she says when she was younger she had difficulty sleeping. She would close her eyes and see (i think she said) a dark circle with yellow light behind it. And it was surrounded by kaleidoscope. That sounds like the mandela that monk mentioned to me.
6) She used to sleep walk, except she was conscious and couldn't stop any of her movements. So, it was sleep paralysis, except her body was moving on it's own, and she was just watching. This is crazy sounding. Has anyone heard of this?
You'd think that alone could get her into the stream at least. She is extremely observant and honest. I do not expect any of this information to false in it's primary details.
After i heard all this, I was like "Dude! We're freaking Enlightened Parents!? Are you serious!? That's awesome!" (Which was my way of saying, I am so pleased and feel confident about our future.)
For me; I remember the first "awakening energy blast" was followed by many more less intense surges, at least everyday, for many months. Then they would slow, and I hit another "awakening energy blast" moment, and the softer one's were back for a while again. Then there is the last "awakening energy blast" I experienced while reading Eckhart Tolle's book; the Power of Now. That was followed by more energy surges, vibrating/shaking in bed, and vivid dreams I still remember to this day.
I never considered she might be enlightened, before. Because she doesn't formally meditate (to my knowledge.) But, now I'm remembering that I wasn't intentionally meditating IN THE MOMENT that I got blasted by Eckhart Tolle's book. I was just being aware of the charisms while I read. But, that's meditative absorption, isn't it? LOL. So, she must be doing this. She must be paying attention to a charism.
Do you think it is possible to become enlightened (stream winner or once-returner) without formal meditation? It seems Eckhart Tolle did. He appeared to contemplate himself into absorption of the in-between immaterial and material samadhi, like I have done myself.
Do we agree that she sounds at least a stream-winner?
Again, I am very tired. This may need to be moved to a efferent thread. Can't keep eyes open anymore. Too tired.
