Because we experience life through the lens of separateness, there is always a gap between ourselves and everything else. The rest of life becomes an object in our consciousness, so we lose a sense of direct connection with it. This makes the rest of life seem less than fully real, and our lives lose that richness we had as a child and become flat. We crave intense experiences to compensate for this, but even those are lived from within the bubble of our separateness and so don't fulfill us. We are still stuck within our bubble of separateness, continuously self-referencing ourselves, as we endlessly replay and talk to ourselves about our life experiences with nonstop stories in our minds. No matter how much we try to engage life, our life experience is played out more in the separate mind-bubble in our heads than in our hearts. Our experience becomes a sort of instant replay with commentary, rather than the richness and wholeness that we seek.

In the awakening stories shared by students below, you'll find a large continuum of different experiences. They range from surprise, to the confusion that can arise when the sense of 'I' disappears, to the joy and peace and spaciousness that is available when the bubble of separateness bursts and life flows through. As you read these stories, my hope is that it will give you a momentary taste of what is beyond your own bubble.

Some of the stories refer to basic awakening and some refer to later awakenings.

When I first learned about VortexHealing, I already had a deep desire to get to the other side of my intense suffering - I had the motivation, I just needed the right tools to get me there. VortexHealing provided me with the tools I needed to accelerate my process and evolution in ways I never thought possible. Today, any suffering I feel is largely overshadowed by the clarity and Freedom that has become a permanent part of my experience. I cannot recommend this path enough!

At that point [of awakening] my whole being felt like it dropped. Gave way. My neck muscles gave out, and my whole body went into a deep relaxation. It felt like time had stopped. Momentarily groggy, heavy. Like I had woken from an anesthesia. I looked up at the trees, heard the birds sing their sunset songs and then looked down at my own body. I touched my arms to feel if all of this was real.... There, at that moment, there was just being.

During one of the awakening classes, I was sitting in a bus in London, upstairs. I was looking through the window. This was such an amazing "experience" for me. I looked through the window of the bus, and there were no people on the street. There was (and still is) only the ONE movement of LIFE itself.

With my first awakening, when losing the Core Veil, I felt a sense of letting go into the unknown, and with it came this deep peaceful love that was endless, like an ocean of peaceful love.