The Anxiety That Comes Before Awakening | Alan Watts
Do you feel like you’re losing your mind? Like the ground beneath your feet is dissolving? Like everything you once believed is crumbling and you can’t go back but you haven’t arrived anywhere new? If you’re experiencing a profound existential anxiety unlike anything you’ve felt before—not worry about bills or relationships, but a terror about the very nature of existence itself—you need to hear this. You’re not going crazy. This is the anxiety that comes before awakening.
🔑 WHAT YOU’LL DISCOVER:
– Why this existential anxiety is different from ordinary worry
– What it means when your entire worldview starts cracking
– Why you feel like you’re going insane but you’re not
– The death that must occur before rebirth
– Why you can’t go back to who you were
– How to navigate the dark night of the soul
– What’s actually dissolving and what remains
– Why this terror is a sign something is going right, not wrong
đź’ˇ THE CORE TEACHING:
There’s a particular anxiety that arises at a certain stage of spiritual development—it’s the feeling that everything you’ve built your understanding of reality upon is crumbling. Your entire worldview is cracking. The story you’ve told yourself about who you are is revealing itself as fiction. You feel like you’re going mad, losing your grip on reality, falling through space with nothing to hold onto.
The terrible thing is you cannot go back. You’ve seen something that makes it impossible to believe in the old way anymore. But you haven’t fully arrived in the new way. You’re between worlds, between stories, between identities. This liminal space, this dark night of the soul—this is where the anxiety arises. And it’s actually the sign that awakening is beginning.
đź“š DEEP CONCEPTS EXPLORED:
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This teaching is essential for anyone experiencing profound existential anxiety during spiritual growth, those who feel they’re losing their mind but can’t explain it to anyone, people in the dark night of the soul, those who’ve glimpsed truth but are terrified by it, anyone between their old identity and new understanding, and those who need to know this terror is a stage, not a destination.
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đź’ IF YOU’RE EXPERIENCING THIS:
You are not crazy. You are not broken. You are in one of the most difficult but most important passages a human being can go through. This anxiety is the birth pang of awakening. Others have survived this and emerged transformed. You cannot go back, but there is something profound on the other side. Trust the process.
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⚠️ DISCLAIMER:
This content is intended for educational and spiritual purposes only. The voice and presentation are AI-generated, inspired by the philosophical teachings and ideas of Alan Watts. This is not original audio of Alan Watts but a modern educational presentation of his timeless wisdom and philosophy. If experiencing severe psychological distress, please seek professional support.
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