I believe myself to have spiritually awakened, this having happened gradually over the last few years due to a health crisis and recovery, blended together with a midlife crisis. This caused me to re-evaluate everything from the ground up, change my habits and set the focus on what really matters to me alone. My view of religion is different and I am more spiritual.
I cut out many social connections that gave me nothing and where a performance at best. Started reading a lot more and started writing again, more seriously this time. Read/listened to most of the self help literature that is out there, e.g. Napoleon Hill, Earl Nightingale, Jim Rohn, Brain Tracy, Alan Watts, Tony Robbins and all the rest of them. Something that I would not have been caught dead doing, in my past. Collectively, there is a lot of truth to their message and one must listen with humility, for the message to stick.
Then focusing on Carl Jung was very helpful to me, learning about the 4 stages of living, the architypes and then about spiritual awakening. I was oblivious to all of this of course, started to realize that I seem to be in the middle of my spiritual awakening. Some aspects of this are positive yes, but the negatives are there also. The numbness to certain things for instance and the lack of drive to achieve (apart from the willingness to write and create), this is not helpful at all.
I suppose you could this a call for help.
Is anyone else here in a similar situation? How do you get out of this rut, and get your drive back?
A.G. Munson
