Are you Experiencing a Spiritual Awakening?

Recently I had a dream where I saw a cave in the basement of a shop. Picture it sort of like the secret lab below Gus Fring's laundromat but with no meth or drug lords. I was watching this from a screen view. Not really all the way in or out of the experience. Sometimes it would appear 3D and sometimes it would appear as though I was watching a movie or 5D holograms. At one point I stood in the basement where the cave was looking around at people walking in and out of the cave. There was no drama or urgency, just felt like people getting on with "normal" life. Then the basement started to explode. Someone said to a few other people, "this had to be done." No one was hurt but people moved like shadows out of the basement and the cave was destroyed. Again, no panic. More of a calm and stillness. Above the basement was a shop. I ran upstairs and told the people calmly they should go outside. Everyone complied and no one was harmed. When I woke from this dream, I immediately knew I just dreamed of a rendition of the Allegory in the Cave from Plato's Republic. I went into my Akashic Records and asked if this dream was for me or the collective and I got that it was very much for all of us. Many people are awakening right now. They are opening their eyes to the lies and deception. They are starting to see more truths. They are stepping into the light. If you don't know the Allegory of the Cave, the simple version is that inside this cave are people chained with their backs to a fire and the opening of the cave. They've been there their entire lives so they've never seen light of day. They are chained in such a way they can't turn around to see behind them. People who aren't chained walk behind them in the cave and the appear to those chained as shadows. They see the shadows from the light of the fire and opening of the cave. But the shadows are their reality. That's all they know. Then one day one of the chained people is freed. When they are let out of the cave at first they are blinded by the light. Slowly they get used to being in the light and they are shown things in real life. Not the shadow form they are used to. It takes them a while to adjust. They later go back to the cave and tell the people in the dark about the light and world out there. They are met with hostility and violence. The people want to stay in the dark, in their comfortable reality. The freed person goes back to life outside. Leaving the people they love behind. I thought of when I awakened, how I lost close relationships and how incredibly challenging it was at first. And this was before the internet and groups and such. But even still, as more people awaken by the masses, more people are experiencing this. The collective energy begins to wobble a little. This idea of who you were and who some of your loved ones still are puts you into a state or grief and cognitive dissonance. They are met with rebirth which can be exciting as well as painful. Once we see the light we don't go back to the way things used to be. Sometimes when we see the light it gets lonely. We lose the people who were there with us in the darkness. We also learn to look at the shadows and get more comfortable with them. I mean what is life but our perception of what we see? And that includes the shadows. Plato's Republic was one of the first things I read after having an awakening. The Allegory of the Cave especially was one of the first catalysts for me in the 90s. I remember seeing the world differently after reading this story. I began to question things more and more. Maybe you can relate to that. What are you questioning? What I learned through this awakening process is to have a lot of grace with yourself. It's like an unraveling and it never really ends. It is more like a constant evolving and recalibrating. And though you see more clearly, it can be easy to get sucked into every single thing that makes you question the shadows. So be careful with your energy. As this new way of looking at things unravels you create a clearing. Be mindful of what you place into that clearing. Leaving the old behind can be challenging because sometimes we bring the new to old and vice versa. In becoming this newer version of you. The one that is vibrating at a higher frequency, you are simultaneously mourning the person you were. Rebirth means letting go of what was before and sometimes that can be rather painful. You can experience the 5 stages of grief for the old version of yourself as you evolve. The five stages are: 1. denial 2. anger 3. bargaining 4. depression 5. acceptance In my experience these don't always happen in order or separately. Sometimes they happen together and in a different order and often times you cycle through these 5 stages. It's like being in a labyrinth. So as you wobble, you take a next step and gain your balance. Concentrating on one foot, one step, and one breath at a time. As a coach for empaths with ADHD, I help those people who are awakening gracefully through their transformation. Reach out of you'd like some help on your journey.  Mahalo, Dre