Awakening

From The Spirit Wiki

As outlined in the book The Great Awakening, awakening is the process of drawing consciousness into your body. Michael Sharp likens the process to pouring water (i.e., consciousness) into a glass (i.e., your body)

it is helpful to view your body as a container for your spiritual consciousness. In fact, you can wrap your head around the whole “awakening” thing with greater ease... if you simplify the container metaphor and strip it down to the bare essentials.... Visualize an empty water glass in your left hand and a clear glass jug of water in your right. Now, think of your body/mind unit as the empty glass (container) in your left hand and your consciousness, your soul, as the water in the jug in your right hand. When you are conceived (sperm meets egg), you begin to pour water into “the glass” (the cells) to animate the body. After you are born, and while you exist in “normal” consciousness, you pour water into the container, into the glass, to about the ten percent line. When you sleep, you pour water out of the glass till about the two percent line. During your normal sleep cycles, you go back and forth between two percent and ten percent... <ref name="Sharp">The Great Awakening</ref>

Sharp goes on to explain spiritual awakening as moving from the ten percent "normal" consciousness of our veiled existence in the old world, to "higher" levels (fifteen percent and beyond) of consciousness in body as a result of the efficiency and efficacy of new world spiritual knowledge.