he may have overlooked the one happening through him. . Cary Bayer is a Life Coach who conducts private practices by

the ocean in south Florida (954-788-3380) and in the mountains of New York State (845-679-5526). You can find him at

www.carybayer.com and reach him at successaerobics@aol.com Enlightenment: Defining the Ineffable A coaching client of mine happened to be speaking about The

Secret in session yesterday, and mentioned that the video helped her become enlightened. That expression of hers

inspired me to write about Enlightenment. The term, as I?ll speak about it in this column, is much more than the Enlightenment that the great

French philosophers Rousseau and Voltaire wrote about in the so-called Age of Enlightenment that helped usher in an idealism and egalitarianism

that inspired the writing of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. These two documents helped further inspire a more

enlightened way of looking at government throughout the world for decades and centuries to come. They still do.

The Enlightenment that I?ll speak about in this column is also more than the understanding of the Law of Attraction and Creative Thought

that?s become so popular with the best-selling The Secret. It?s the realization of living truths that were recorded millennia ago.

The Enlightenment that I?ll speak about in this column is more than the Cosmic Consciousness flashes depicted in the revolutionary

book, Cosmic Consciousness, written a century ago by the Canadian psychiatrist R.M. Bucke. In this seminal classic, a desert island read

for me if I was limited to even just a handful of books, the therapist voluminously categorized the mystical gleanings of great seers, sages,

philosophers, poets, and the like throughout history. The book is so important in the study of consciousness because the spiritual

experiences that it elucidates are given greater importance than the ritual performances that take place a couple of hours every weekend in

America. There?s a world of difference between ritual and spiritual. As important as all these different glimpses are, of Enlightenment

is actually much, much more. Enlightenment isn?t a tasty appetizer, the way Bucke depicted it, but a five-course meal. You may visit Paris

as a tourist for a vacation: a Parisian on the other hand, is French. You glimpse France, he lives it. It?s only fitting in this age of 24/7 that

Enlightenment becomes widely known as the all time 24/7 state that it is, rather than an occasional glimpse or fleeting experience that it isn?t.

One more thing: Enlightenment isn?t some weird, vague state of being, but the most grounded, natural and comfortable way to go about the

joy of living each and every day. So it is with Enlightenment, that a perpetual condition of transformed consciousness as much as it is of purified physiology.

Because it takes the transformation of the nervous system to consciously reflect all the time, the timelessness of the Transcendent that?s your

essential nature, the ground of your inner Being, your higher Self. Meditation is a marvelous method for awakening this state that

doesn?t go away. That?s because it gives regular glimpses of this Samadhi, this Transcendental Consciousness and then it goes away.

But the regular alternation of this glimpse into the fourth state of consciousness alongside the ever changing three states of waking,

dreaming, and sleeping, in time, creates a fifth state of consciousness that never goes away. Whether you?re filling out tax forms, having

some Dali-like surrealistic dream, or are in deep sleep, the light of your inner Self will always be lit. Maybe that?s why the term Enlightenment

is truly appropriate. Happily Overheard ?A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn?t like the tune.? -Anon.

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