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God, Self, and Spirituality - Ken Wilber

The Mindvalley Podcast

CHAPTER

The Importance of Waking Up

As organized religion grew up around the original spiritual insights, it increasingly looked at them in terms of belief systems. Since individual experiences were less and less trusted, remember, direct spiritual experiences tended to go straight from God right to the individual bypassing the church. You get this back by reintroducing waking up, you take up something like centering prayer, whether prayer of the heart, or meditation, or contemplation. And that's how you get back to the great origin of the religion.

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