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Enjoy this all-encompassing article on enlightenment. The words in the article are based on an experiential journey into dimensions beyond physical reality. Together, we ask whether it is desirable to achieve enlightenment in today’s society.

A completely different question we could ask ourselves: Aren’t we all already enlightened? Is enlightenment a delusion? I would like to briefly address this as well.

What is Enlightenment?

Enlightenment is still a very undiscovered area of experience for Western cultures. We are mainly familiar with enlightenment from the mystical and esoteric teachings from the East.

With this article, we enter a field beyond logic because we cannot understand enlightenment with logic.

The word “enlightenment” provides a deep insight into these mystical teachings. On the one hand, enlightenment means that we illuminate, experience, and transcend our limited, conditioned identity. But, on the other hand, enlightenment means that in most cases, we no longer maintain a fixed new identity.

After we attain enlightenment, all the karmic connections we have given ourselves for this life dissolve into thin air as we let go of our identity.

At the same time, it also means that we renew old and new karma faster and more diversely based on our actions. So, karma may or may not work in our favor.

The reality is this: Most people with spontaneous enlightenment experiences have difficulty integrating this into their daily lives because there is absolutely nothing left to do through their “new” eyes or is there something left to do?

Osho, one of the great Indian spiritual teachers said the following about enlightenment.

Everyone is enlightened because enlightenment is the essence of our being. How can we be considered not enlightened when it is our essence? From that perspective, we are always enlightened.

Then what do we want to achieve and find when we talk about attaining enlightenment?

We want to access our true self, to feel our divine essence. Perhaps it is similar to the fish in the water or the bird in the wind. For both fish and birds, water and air are like breathing and thinking for us humans. It is normal, so normal that fish and birds don’t even realize they are in the water or air!

Maybe being enlightened is also as normal as air is for the bird and water is for the fish. So normal that we humans have even forgotten how much the enlightenment state is our essence that we live out in everyday life.

“…the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form. Both are illusions.”

– Eckhart Tolle

Enlightenment Psychology

Is there a psychological explanation for enlightenment? The field of enlightenment is full of myths and legends. Psychology deals with the psyche of human beings. Enlightenment is an experience of non-physical reality that can severely affect our physical reality.

Since I am not a scientist nor a psychologist, I and can only speak from my experience of exploring consciousness, I do not wish to draw any definitive conclusions. Likewise, the subject of enlightenment is also not meant to draw “final conclusions.” Think of it like a cloud that comes and goes. Every cloud is unique, and so is every enlightenment experience unique in its existence.

What is clear is that such an experience shapes us throughout our lives, including psychologically. Neural structures change permanently and connect in a new way. As a result, thoughts, feelings, and emotions are perceived entirely differently.

Ecstasy may or may not be perceived much more intensely, just like grief or sorrow. This is the paradox of being enlightened.

From a scientific perspective, during an enlightenment experience, all our cells renew at a rate unknown to us. However, there are no measurements for this, as enlightenment is more of an anomaly in this day and age.

The physical, emotional, and mental body is unconsciously prepared for this enlightenment event since and even before birth. So, either people are prepared or unprepared. There is no in-between here.

If we are prepared, we can integrate this experience into our daily lives. We quickly reach our physical, emotional, and mental limits if we are unprepared.

The preparation determines whether we develop resilience after attaining enlightenment from the perspective of psychology or not.

Enlightenment Religion

Achieving enlightenment from the religious perspective deals with belief rather than science. Therefore, depending on religious background and beliefs, people perceive an enlightenment experience differently.

It also depends on whether we partially reintegrate karma and identity after such an experience or not.

When people achieve enlightenment, it can also lead them to no longer belong to any religion or suddenly join a religion. All this develops based on the personality of the person.

“Enlightenment means dissolving your limited personality. No persona means a limitless Presence.”

Sadhguru

What is Enlightenment in Buddhism?

We can best illuminate enlightenment in Buddhism through Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha we are familiar with. Osho once told the enlightenment story of Buddha. According to his stories, Buddha was the prince of a royal family who was not enlightened from birth but attained enlightenment later in life.

Then, after he became enlightened, Buddha changed the royal clothes for down-to-earth and poor clothes. When Buddha shared this indescribable enlightenment experience with his royal father, the king became angry and upset. “I don’t recognize my son!” So Gautama was to immediately reappear in royal splendor as his father had raised him.

Gautama then said. “Father, you have never known me and have never been interested in knowing me.”

Buddha gracefully refused this request to appear again in the royal splendor.

Even Buddha experienced familial rejection from his father after his enlightenment experience.

Does Enlightenment Really Exist?

Either you experience enlightenment, or you don’t. There is no logic to enlightenment. However, many charlatans are convinced that they are enlightened. Please do not believe that I am enlightened either. It has no demonstrable relevance. The only thing that has relevance for me is that I have not been the same since my personal experience a single day, even though many around me still perceive me as my former self.

Visualize the fish and bird example again. Both animals do not know that they swim in water and fly in air. If as Osho told at one point, enlightenment is our essence – we cannot “experience” it because we have always been, always are, and always will be enlightenment.

In this perspective there is no enlightenment to attain, we can only experience it from within. Like a shell that has hidden its pearl inside, we would hide our inner sun within.

Scientifically proven, there is no such thing as enlightenment. From a religious belief, there is also no enlightenment. Anything subject to a belief or logic can never be compared to enlightenment.

Some things in life we have to experience, and even then, most of the time, we have to submit to the limited logical human communication that wants to understand such an experience.

If the subject of enlightenment interests you, it may or may not have relevance to you. Welcome to the world of enlightenment.

Stages of Enlightenment

For me, there is no stage of enlightenment. Either people are enlightened or not, either people are awake or not.

Some people can feel something serious changing in their lives weeks or months before this event.

Enlightenment Symptoms – How do you feel after enlightenment?

Possible symptoms are so varied that there is no point philosophizing about them. Just as we can experience many physical symptoms such as fever, itching, or relaxation, there are also symptoms after and before enlightenment.

This depends on, among other things, what you identify with, what kind of environment you live in, what your physical, emotional, and mental state is like, whether you have an enlightened master around you, and much more.

At least there is no enlightenment doctor you can go to quickly. And there will be no one to give you a certificate of enlightenment – LAUGHING.

Enlightenment Experiences

If you look at books and videos of enlightened experiences, you will realize how different all these enlightened people are. Most of them, like Sadhguru, have a personal story that everyone knows. In Sadhguru’s case, according to his stories, it was a meditation experience that felt like it lasted only an hour, and when he stopped meditating, 14 days had passed without him being aware of it.

Also, Osho told again and again about his memorable experience of presence, compared with the experience of Eckhart Tolle, one of the few recognized enlightened people from the West, after the publication of the book “NOW.”

The Life of an Enlightened Man

Most enlightened people live inconspicuously in everyday life without other people ever noticing. Often these enlightened people have never heard of “enlightenment” and do not care.

Many people live after enlightenment as they did before enlightenment with the difference that they perceive all activities from a different perspective.

Depending on the quality of consciousness of the enlightened person, some also decide to be successful or accompany people in everyday life. But, of course, all this is highly individual, as in every area of life.

Enlightened People – Who Became Enlightened?

We are entering a highly speculative subject. We are all always full of curiosity! Is this person enlightened? Yes or no! How do we recognize an enlightened person?

For one thing, our limited conditioning usually plays tricks on us. For another, only an enlightened person will recognize an enlightened person.

I can’t give a personal list of myself here, but only tell you about people convinced that they are enlightened. And since it is almost taboo to talk about it in the West, we have to look to the Eastern spiritual countries like India.

Here are a few enlightened candidates: Sadhguru, Moojiji, Osho, Dalai Lama, Thích Nhất Hạnh

How Do You Achieve Enlightenment?

Not at all. Those who have enlightenment as a goal will never achieve it. The likelihood of it being just another selfish goal is too great. Enlightenment is selfless, uncomfortable, and free of any morality.

Of all the experiences I am aware of, it was never a conscious goal to achieve but always a spontaneous event.

Today, however, we live in a time when many people want to achieve enlightenment. Most people are not aware of what it would mean to be enlightened. Many believe that after enlightenment, they would only live a peaceful, harmonious, and loving life. They forget that it depends on what karma they have brought with them, what their environment is like, and what they have given themselves as a life mission for this stage of their life.

Even if the whole identity dissolves after enlightenment, the immediate environment does not necessarily change or certain conditioned tendencies that we live out.

We need to ask ourselves whether being enlightened increases our quality of life. To do that, we should know what quality of life is for us and what we hope to gain from that enlightenment.

You probably agree that spiritual experiences are often different from what we first imagined. This is because we have to experience enlightenment, peace, and unconditional love. We have never tasted these fruits, and our intellect wants to compare experiences with what is known to us. Our intellect wants to rationalize these experiences and compare them with other people and their experiences. Therefore, we should strive to increase our quality of life, not be enlightened.

“Enlightenment is the ultimate self-realization.”

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The article’s goal about the three states of consciousness is to make you more aware of your current well-being and prosperity. But the article should also inspire you to look! Where?

Recognize which worries, fears, or doubts are still robbing you of vitality in today’s worldwide extreme transformative situation.

Maybe you are tired of scratching the surface. Then you’ve come to the right spot with this article and Beyonduality.

So here we go! Step out of the shadows, into the gifts.

How do you find out which of the three states of Consciousness you are in?

There are many consciousness state self-tests, but none like this one. It combines the wisdom of the Gene Keys with other models of Consciousness. In the Gene Keys, there are the three states of Consciousness – Shadow, Gift, and Siddhi.

In the Map of Consciousness by David R. Hawkins, there are 17 different states of Consciousness. I want to discuss some of these states combined with the spectrum of Consciousness from the Gene Keys.

So, in this list, I classify some of these 17 states into Shadows, Gifts, and Siddhis. With this method, you can see which energy field you are most often in. This self-analysis also requires a great deal of courage and honesty.

Even if you have been on your spiritual journey for a long time, you will often find yourself in the shadows along with the gifts and siddhis unless you are the reincarnation of a Buddha in the final stage? 😊 Who knows.

Important note for the consciousness states test:

In the Gene Keys, there are the living areas of purpose, relationships, and prosperity. In the Wheel of Life, there are often seven different areas such as happiness, love, personality development, career/vocation, money, relationship, and family.

Consider the three states of Consciousness together with all seven areas of the Wheel of Life because you will act differently in each one. In each area of life, you think, feel and act differently. So it can be that you live out your vocation, but in the relationship and love, you are a loser and occupy yourself only with negative thoughts or even completely suppress the topic. I developed this model because one of the higher purposes of man is to come into harmony, balance, and prosperity in the wheel of life.

In the following, you will recognize if you act from the shadow, the gift, or the siddhis in your daily life.

Here starts the self-test for the three states of Consciousness – so where do you stand? 😊 Where are you? Have fun!

State of Consciousness: Shadow

Contemplate it about happiness, love, personal development, career/vocation, money, relationship, and family.

The 5 Shadow Essences

✅ Lowest Frequency

✅ Low Lifeforce

✅ Subconsciousness

✅ Unconscious Victim Attitude

✅ Narrow-minded Worldview

In the following part, I describe a few examples of different states of shadow consciousness.

Shame

This state of Consciousness is like a collective virus that prevents us from going our way and living our dreams. We feel there is no way out for our situation in this low-energy field. Everything is surrounded by seriousness. Every time we feel ashamed of something, we suppress more life force. Every time we maintain the role of shame, we don’t have to feel our deep inner pain and collective suffering. You can only transform your shame into a higher loving frequency if you express your inner pain. To do this, you must first accept and embrace this suffering. Then, you must act courageously and breakthrough your limitations until you realize that such a wonderful light and playful energy comes forth behind the shame.

Is there something you are currently ashamed of? Discover a playful way to transform this state of Consciousness of shame.

Fear

This state of Consciousness stays permanently in the future. It takes away our breath. We react. We breathe shallowly instead of taking deep breaths into the abdomen and solar plexus. We hoard air because we are afraid. We are all fearful at certain stages of life, yet it is often not so obvious. Fear is the field that allows diseases to flourish. Fear is also the field where we have neither the will nor the willingness to change. Fear is an illusion until it manifests itself in people’s lives as just such “fear.” Here we may transform the fear of death, which is possible for us only when we experience that death does not exist.

Is there something you are afraid of? Discover a playful way to transform this level of Consciousness of fear.

Frustration

This state of Consciousness focuses most of the life energy in the chest to the head area after a certain point. Frustration either leads to outbursts of anger at a certain point if we do not find a suitable outlet to vent it. The suppression of this energy exhausts us until we are lackluster and depressed. Frustration is like accumulating too much baggage and too many unfinished sequences of action. We may allow frustration the space to distribute itself throughout the entire body with equal loving mindfulness. Meditate. Pause and find your unfinished sequences of action that you have long pushed away. Resolve them by taking proactive steps. Use this proactiveness as an outlet! Focus is the key.

Is there something that frustrates you? Then, discover a playful way to transform this level of frustration.

Grief

This state of Consciousness stays permanently in the past. We grieve for things we did not do, for people we have lost and are caught in a web of illusions. We have forgotten to remember. We hold on. We find it hard to let go of things. Partners, as well as a business or a deceased loved one. Here you may realize that the whole life is coming and going. Just as birth is part of life, death is also part of life. Here we may learn to decide. To lovingly let go of old things from our past. Then the mysticism happens. We realize – no one ever goes or leaves us.

Is there still grief in you? Discover a playful way to transform this level of Consciousness of grief.

Desire

This state of Consciousness is very subtle. Desire means that you give your shadows room to rule over you. You are in the service of your shadows. They tell you that you should eat that juicy piece of beef or that piece of cake. They tell you that you need to satisfy your sexual desire! This neverending dissatisfaction can lead to all kinds of distractions in your life. Often, desire doesn’t let you look deeper into the shadow world. It stirs up intense inner conditioning in you that distracts you from looking closer, more thoroughly, where real true change might occur. Often we give in to our cravings after we have been successful. We give ourselves an unhealthy time-out without being aware of its effects. We may be very gentle with this craving here to transform it. 

What strong desire still exists in you? Discover a playful way to transform this level of Consciousness of desire.

Pride

This state of Consciousness makes us seemingly strong. We are successful – but at the same time, we need the respect and recognition of other people. Growth here still means to eat or be eaten, even if this level of Consciousness is often already accompanied by the willingness and the will to change oneself and others. Spiritual teachers, coaches, or psychologists often fall for this trap of recognition without being aware of it. Pride could also lead us to be convinced – to be further, better, higher than others. However, we very seldom realize it in this form of pride. Here in this state of Consciousness, we want to protect our shadows. We like to work with the shadows and problems of others, but we gratefully decline when it comes to ourselves. We have built up a kind of resilience to look deep into our inner suffering. We usually only dissolve this pride by making severe changes in our lives. So you may look very closely at what your true motive is. Who do you serve? The higher well-being of the people or mostly only yourself? So let go of all expectations of yourself and others.

What are you proud of in your life? Discover a playful way to transform this level of Consciousness of pride.

State of Consciousness: Gift

Contemplate it about happiness, love, personal development, career/vocation, money, relationship, and family.

The 5 Gift Essences

✅ Higher Frequency

✅ More Lifeforce

✅ Consciousness

✅ Active Creator Mode

✅ Advanced Worldview

In the following part, I describe a few examples of different states of Gift consciousness.

Creativity

This state of Consciousness is a creative tool to transform shadows. We give our shadows a higher reason for existence in the form of music or art. Art could mean many things. All professions have one thing in common – interpersonal relationships. We use these relationships to get to know our shadows mindfully. We then transform these shadows in creative or silent work, such as meditations, painting, singing, to name a few examples. In this state of Consciousness, we expand our worldview, experience more life force, and mindfulness. In the creative activities, we are hopeful and inflow. Self-hatred quickly transforms into love in these activities, and frustration becomes playful ease.

Discover a playful way to use this level of Consciousness of creativity as a gift to transform shadows.

Courage

This state of Consciousness is, as you can already imagine, encouraging. You begin to explore new paths that you could never have imagined before. In courage, you also awaken your imagination that everything in your life is well. You trust yourself and life, even if it is often tricky and bumpy. Courage also means to dare – to be yourself, including all the shadow parts in you. You courageously go into the basement, where your shadows are just waiting for you. The lust, the frustration, the distraction, the fear …. but courage as a gift faces all these shadows, even if they are unpleasant. Courage is thus a transformational gift for you and the world.

Discover a playful way to use this courage for yourself and others.

Neutrality

This state of Consciousness is like a neutral level where you communicate with others. Neutrality exudes logic and rationality, but here we use our minds to loosen old beliefs and conditioning. We see other people in a new light. The consciousness level of neutrality has a calming effect on you and others, even though it can come across as detached or indifferent. Between neutrality and indifference, the difference is often difficult to discern. Neutrality is in creator mode, and indifference takes on an unconscious victim posture. At the lower frequency, we protect ourselves from supposed external dangers and not get into creative action. At the higher frequency of the gift, we simply look at a situation to expand our worldview and move into action.

Discover a playful way to use this level of Consciousness of neutrality as a gift.

Willingness

This state of Consciousness takes calculable risks. Here we also are willing to try out new things and jump into ice-cold water without knowing – what will happen to us in the water. It is the willingness to act creatively without focusing on possible doubts. Perhaps doubts will arise on the journey. However, we also have the willingness to transform our doubts here. This state of Consciousness is essential when you are in the process of change at work. A new job? Maybe from employee to entrepreneur? A new country? Everywhere you need the willingness and also the courage. This readiness needs optimism. Readiness also means knowing the art of decisions. Every time you decide to do one thing, you let go of another. Do you want to travel to another faraway country and even live there? Then you enter into the willingness to meet new people, new professions and break social and language barriers. At the same time, you are leaving many things behind. Here it is advisable to have the confidence always to be taken care of. Money flows in and out. Friends come and go. This play is the art of choices.

Discover a playful way to use this level of Consciousness of readiness as a gift.

Acceptance

This state of Consciousness accepts people as they are. It neither tries to change them nor to evaluate them negatively. Acceptance has the gift of objectively judging a person without condemning them. But we accept other people, especially ourselves and our shadows. We work hand in hand with our shadows until they are in service to us, rather than continuing to waste life energy trying to maintain the illusion of our masks and roles. We need a great understanding of unconscious worries, fears, and frustrations so that after a particular time, we transform them as if automatically. Acceptance is self-reflective and self-loving. Acceptance allows. Where in the shadow we still act selfishly, in the consciousness level of the gift, we care equally about the welfare of other people. Mostly, however, we only care about family, friends, or business partners. For “strangers,” the gift level is still sufficient, where altruism is also found, but here we are usually not willing to give everything. This unconditional willingness is reserved for the consciousness levels of the Siddhis.

Discover a playful way to use this level of Consciousness of acceptance for yourself.

State of Consciousness: Siddhi

Contemplate it about happiness, love, personal development, career/vocation, money, relationship, and family.

The 5 Siddhi Essences

✅ Highest Frequency

✅ Maximal Lifeforce

✅ Superconsciousness

✅ Unlimited Creator Mode

✅ Inconceivable Worldview

In the following part, I describe a few examples of different states of Siddhi consciousness.

Love

This state of Consciousness goes beyond human love. It is the level of unconditional love to which we give ourselves selflessly. We send loving energy to strangers because we are full of life force. We take on a worldview that is still incomprehensible to us. The reason is simple – this kind of love is beyond our reason and ratio. It is irrational, beautiful, and indescribable. If a person attacks us physically or psychologically, we remain in our center, far from any reaction. We meet non-love with love. Thus all masks and roles dissolve as if by themselves. We have arrived beyond duality – beyond good or evil, right and wrong, perpetrator and victim as the sun sends its warmth to “good” and “evil,” so we send our warm love to all.

Joy

This state of Consciousness is like a sustained high while intoxicated but goes far beyond. All thoughts dissolve into thin air, and all that remains is simply the creative freedom of joy. Ecstatic states are a normality in this high state of Consciousness. It is like a tingling sensation throughout the body with no locality like “goosebumps.” With goosebumps, we usually feel it on our backs. With ecstasy, it goes beyond our physical body. We merge with the sea of all possibilities and draw from it. Joy is only possible in surrender. As soon as the first thought arises with the question, “What is this feeling?” the joy is already gone.

Peace

At this state of Consciousness, we have arrived at peace. Eckhart Tolle describes this state very well in his bestseller “NOW.” You are in your center and harmony no matter what anyone tells you. Peace is like a future energy field waiting to be physically born, to appear. Whoever radiates true peace embodies a deep inner serenity. Thoughts dissolve as if into thin air – they are gone. You are gone. We are gone. The game is over, and at the same time, it is just beginning. Beginning and end dissolve. Everything is as it should be. Where the shadow is still in conflict with itself, the gift in diplomacy, the peace in the Siddhi whispers NOW.

Enlightenment

Are you acting like a Buddha and Jesus, or are you just pretending? A legitimate question that we may ask ourselves again every day. How would Buddha act in this situation? Here there is absolute clarity, and the field acts paradoxically, selflessly, and irrationally. We recognize the beauty in everything, even in darkness. Just a thought is enough to beam us from the deepest shadows directly into higher states of ecstasy. Here you also have the feeling that your body is invisible, although it is still there. You recognize and embody connections that can transport people directly into higher levels of Consciousness. At the consciousness level of enlightenment, you also possess almost like supernatural abilities. These abilities could be physical or non-physical. For example, the Iceman Wim Hof controls his physical body so well that he can keep his body temperature in the normal range for a long time in freezing temperatures. Here are countless stories of spiritual masters who have made the impossible possible.

The end of the self-test! Where are you most of the time? What are you still allowed to transform?

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Did you know that David R. Hawkins found out in consciousness studies that only 10-15% of people live beyond the “shadow” level of Consciousness? 85-90% of humanity lives permanently in the shadows without being aware of it. 10-15% dare to step into the gift, and only 0.0001-1% of people reach the consciousness level of Siddhi.

Where are you most of the time? 

Feel free to share your current Wheel of Life result in the comments. Also, feel free to pick an area to share here and SHARE the article with friends who should also take the self-test.

With love,

Dominik

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Many more people have been opening up to spirituality, consciousness expansion, and shadow work in recent years. In essence, people open up to the immaterial. This detailed and profound article is about the five essences of true transformation in shadow work. However, since I am not a philosopher or psychologist, please do not expect an article of this nature here. This article is primarily here to spark your desire to do shadow work. It is full of personal experiences and inspirational musings.

What is shadow work?

Over the last 50 years, shadow work has gained tremendous popularity. In addition to worldwide application in analytical psychology practices, shadow work also gained significant importance in spiritual settings and personal development.

Initially, the term shadow work gained popularity and importance in the West through the psychiatrist and psychologist C. G. Jung. He described it as inner work with the unconscious parts of ourselves.

Likewise, shadow work in the Human Design System became essential in illustrating self and non-self.

The Gene Keys by Richard Rudd is the system I actively work on. Also, in the Gene Keys and the Spectrum of Consciousness, with its 64 archetypal stories of human DNA, we find 64 shadows, some of which we are more and less aware of. An example from Gene Keys is the shadow conflict. So it is about resolving conflict, or as Richard Rudd beautifully describes it in Gene Keys, acting diplomatically to get into the essence of peace. To do this, we must learn to understand why we conflict first.

1. Shadow Work: Universal Understanding

In order to transform our shadow work and the energies bound in it, we first need a universal understanding. We could also call it inner wisdom. Many teachers, mainly psychologists and spiritual teachers, are interested in guiding you into the quintessence of shadow work. As in all the articles on

Wisdom

Only when we realize that shadow work is not a goal but a path can we become enthusiastic about shadow work. It is also not the path of strength as we have come to know it in our society. For it is a path of unconditional surrender. We are increasingly aware of universal rules that enable us to walk this path of shadow work. For example, we know that we are in the exact situation that we have manifested. Everything in our lives reflects our thoughts, emotions, feelings, and beliefs. Everything reflects our karma; even though karma as a concept is invisible to us, we know from every cell that we are the creator of our life situation.

That is why deep shadow work is not for everyone, but only for those souls for whom the path of shadow work arises in life, like you.

No matter how long you have been engaged in shadow work, your inner wisdom is also aware of more profound levels. As a result, you are and remain open and curious about the subject of shadow work and integrate it into your everyday life.

Even though I write that we all draw situations into our lives ourselves – it is too complex to “prove” quickly. But what we can definitely “prove” is the way we deal with our life situations and what we learn from them. Here, the attitude towards the situation makes your experience more favorable or less positive.

I liked to remember my last dentist appointment here in 2021; it was a lengthy procedure and partly without anesthesia because it was important for the dentist to get my feedback. Overall, I had a very relaxed attitude towards the procedure. I just transformed the pain and saw it for what it is—releasing energy that can be pretty intense. I just let it flow, and while the pain was noticeably very intense, I no longer rejected it and accepted it wholeheartedly. As a result, I have even stored the experience as very positive, although I, like many people worldwide, absolutely avoid visits to the dentist.

Consciousness & Matter

You are also aware of the interplay between consciousness and matter. You know the teachings of Dr. Bruce Lipton, Dr. Joe Dispenza, Eckhart Tolle, and the many spiritual teachers on earth.

Consciousness creates matter. The invisible creates the visible.

That is why we call it shadow work.

We deal with the hidden part of our shadow. After the successful shadow work, we eventually recognize the external changes in our life. The faster we perceive external changes, the more intensively and profoundly we have let go of our shadows. One of the external changes is inevitably your life’s attitude. It will often be the same situation, but you perceive it entirely differently.

This inner transformation is the optimal human confirmation of the universal rule that the invisible creates the visible. Only when we have experienced this transformation and its effects in our lives are we aware of this universal understanding. The immaterial creates the material!

A trivial example is the subject of nutrition. We all know bad and too much input of sugar or alcohol maximizes the possibility of obesity. The more calories you eat, the more weight you gain. At the same time, we are all different. Some people never seem to gain weight. Others gain weight very quickly. Many studies prove that weight gain is due to our metabolism and many other mechanisms we know about, and we may consult doctors to see the research data on them. What is less known or asked is how this metabolism comes about. We know that our DNA and genes are responsible for it. But we rarely ask ourselves whether we can change or adapt our genes.

It is in the unseen, in consciousness. The transformation and transmutation of our DNA activations seem impossible for us. Beyond our free will. And yet there are people like the Iceman, Wim Hof, who make the supernatural a reality. It is, therefore, our mind that creates matter. The invisible creates the visible. The non-form creates the form. We have harnessed one of these “non-forms” in the last 100 years – electricity. You can’t see it, but it’s there!

2. Shadow Work: Genuine Self-Love

Self-love means accepting everything we have projected and manifested in the world. It also means not being trapped further in the ego’s dualism of knowing and not knowing, or truth and not truth.

Creator & Creativity

We are all creative creators, aren’t we?

Creator in German means “Schöpfer” and creativity means “Kreativität”. In English, the creator and creativity are entangled. Within the creator is creativity, and within creativity must be a creator. In the German language, we could use a word (Schöpfertum), but it is rarely used.

We all know that we are capable of creativity, of being creators! At the same time, it is fascinating that in the German language, we prefer “Kreativität” over “Schöpfertum,” and I even had to google Schöpfertum to see if the German word even exists.

It feels like we have fallen deep into the matter and expect a savior from outside. But, unfortunately, this is what much science and religion instill in us today.

“If you have sinned, go to church and put away your sin.”

“If you are sick, go to your doctor and lay aside your sickness.”

In doing so, we are, in large part, abandoning our responsibility!

It is important to note that there are significant differences here. So much of modern science is an essential milestone in our development. This includes, first and foremost, how good we have become at saving lives in exceptional situations with our technological advances. Also, our digital world gives us so many beautiful ways to communicate. But we humans, with our minds, say to ourselves.

“Where there is light, there must be shadow.”

This quote is one of the standard shadows or limiting beliefs that unconsciously make us victims instead of actively creating ourselves.

If we look at electricity, we know that it is the other way around.

“Where there are shadows, there is light.”

Because before electricity served us, it was a shadow and a taboo. It was dangerous because it was in an unknown realm. And yet, there were a few crazies who dealt with it. Without these crazies, there would be no Internet as we know it today. To know true shadow work, we must learn to let go of negative beliefs.

In addition, we have many abilities and potentials that are still hidden. And this is where we can connect with shadow work as an integral part of our everyday life. Shadow work also helps us unfold our abilities and potentials, as you can see from the example of electricity. Just as electricity is a gift today, your shadows will serve you soon. Your shadows become your gifts.

Immerse Yourself

To do justice to genuine self-love in shadow work, we need to immerse ourselves and not look away. Instead of running away from our shadows, we may shine a flashlight or candle on them.

It takes a tremendous amount of honesty to face your deepest fears and challenges and perform fundamental root cause research in your everyday life. Curiously getting to know your shadows is a prerequisite to entering the deepest levels of your basement.

Imagine yourself in a house. You walk from the first floor to the basement. It is cold, dark, and cramped. You enter the room with a candle. The room in the basement is lightly lit. Stay in your center. Be free of fears that tell you that it is dangerous to be in the basement. Open-heartedly and with mercy, respond to these fears if they arise. Remain yourself, full of loving mindfulness. After long shadow work, a part of the basement opens with a safe. In this vault is buried your core and your pearl. You will have the courage and willingness to look into the vault and beyond at a certain point in your development.

When this moment comes, I cannot tell you. However, what is certain is that this moment is reserved for all people who playfully deal with their shadows. The important thing is to pause again and again until the new meets with resonance on the outside. That means you act with distance and love in the same situations you used to argue and condemn. That’s how easy it is to find out. It doesn’t help you or those around you to think of shadow work as “short-term business.” On the contrary, mastering shadow work is the higher purpose of all human beings.

Genuine self-love also means allowing this distance and love to arise naturally. Today there is far too much “fake it until you make it!” Energetically, this lie only leads you further away from yourself – as you play a role again without letting go of the previous role. You are pushing the old role away and building a new role simultaneously. This behavior is called suppression, and it is precisely the energy that arises from suppressing your shadows, masks, and roles that we want to liberate.

3. Shadow Work: Dharma

Dharma is essentially about considering every relationship, interaction and event in our lives as the perfect stimulus for our emotional and spiritual growth.” – Excerpt from Gene Keys – Venus Sequence

Dharma is about the ethics of people and how they should behave. According to this, Dharma is like a transition to the astral world or the emotional body. It’s like a transition from the visible world to the invisible world, which we didn’t learn a word about in school.

That is why shadow work is so essential for all of us to deal with if we want to participate in the new earth that Eckart Tolle also writes about in his best-selling book.

How does Dharma specifically relate to the essence of shadow work? What does Dharma mean in terms of your shadow work?

In the following three subsections, we will find out.

High Sensitivity

I want you to look at high sensitivity concerning shadow work from a different light. So often, we, as highly sensitive personalities, which I count myself among, believe that we can read the energies of others on the outside. We walk into a room and receive or lose energy. We feel comfortable or uncomfortable. We attribute it to certain people on the outside that we feel well or less well.

This effect is also true because we radiate more life energy in different environments and less in others. But what I have also become aware of only recently, thanks to Jeffrey Kastenmüller’s excellent German book “I am a mistake, and I love it,” is that we always rob ourselves of energy. And the more sensitive we are, the more energy we seem to pull from ourselves.

When we trap ourselves in the victim role, we convince ourselves that our environment or “negative people” or energy vampires are pulling our energy. However, some other good reasons make us realize how inefficiently we are using our life energy through this behavior.

Energy Vampires as a Teacher

Why might energy vampires or “negative people” be teachers for us?

They trigger us. Energy vampires make us feel uncomfortable, and they draw energy from us.

That’s how we often think of them. Isn’t it so?

Then how could energy vampires be teachers for us?

Let’s look closer, look deeper inside ourselves, and realize that it is not the environment, negative people, or energy vampires that are draining our energy. Instead, we are the cause of this exhaustion!

This revelation is a true quantum leap into the field of love and compassion.

How is this possible? Why would we rob ourselves of energy and for what in the first place?

Attention. The Big Reveal.

We use our life energy to sustain our role or mask. That’s why it feels like someone is robbing us of energy from the outside. We maintain a mask or role that we want those around us to see, and we suppress a shadow that we don’t want to come to the surface.

What masks or roles are we talking about?

We have learned to play a role in dealing with these people around us without being explicit about whether we want to continue playing it. They are the masks that we maintain with our life energy! We want to hide the shadows from ourselves and others. We don’t want anyone to see them. This denial costs us an immense amount of energy.

But is this true?

At least I could observe the immense effects of this over the years with my parents. I will report on this in the next part of the article. Test it for yourself and your environment! Dare to think outside the box.

Family as a Spiritual Teacher

We all know it. Our parents are the best at triggering us, aren’t they? Many of us would love to change our parents because we recognize behaviors in our parents that we don’t want to be. Yet we are already caught in the illusion.

Many studies over the last 100 years have found how similar the behaviors of parents and their children are. Some aspects that we take over from our parents. These are often the aspects we would like to change in our parents. We visit our mother as a general example.

She loves cleanliness and is a control freak.

Now we recognize the control freak in our mother and seethe inside. We hate it without wanting to admit it. But we identify ourselves with this behavior alone and do not recognize that our mother has awakened the control freak in us.

Now we control with our control freak, the control freak of our mother.

You can probably already imagine where this will end, right?

Quarrels, emotional arguments, up to the “I don’t want to see my mother anymore – complex.”

And I call it “complex” on purpose because we don’t want to realize that we are the control freak. So we retreat and say, “I never want to end up like my mother so that I won’t visit her anymore!”

And that’s precisely the control we create for ourselves. So we don’t want to visit the basement with all our shadows that our mother can open anymore!

Later, for example, we behave towards our children or partners with the same control freak tendencies without realizing it because our children and partners are the most significant possible trigger next to our parents!

That’s right!

Even if we run away, we cannot escape our inner life. Even if we don’t want to see our mother anymore, we attract people into our lives who trigger us again (awaken our shadows).

So why not start the shadow work with the parents while they are still physically here on earth? But even if they are no longer physically incarnated, someone will trigger you, seemingly from the outside. Maybe the media? The pharmaceutical industry? They are all friendly people, aren’t they? They only want your best! Health erhm money 😀 Sorry, that had to be – LAUGH! So stop to look for the evil outside, because thereby we create it worldwide altogether! The Inner world creates the outer world. The invisible creates the visible.

Therefore, our family and environment are great spiritual teachers and masters that we may recognize. They awaken our demons, which we then only have to cultivate. To do that, of course, we have to know-how. There are so many permission slips for this, with which we allow ourselves to transform these shadows within us.

A small example from me: I can still remember how difficult it always was for me to go home to my parents after I had not lived with them for years.

What happened to me?

I changed with a new social environment, friends, and partners. At the same time, I was still doing little inner shadow work. Every time I was with my parents, they awakened my shadows. I wanted to prevent this and used my life energy to suppress this. As a result, I was constantly exhausted when I went home and returned to my environment. I needed breaks for days. I was simply exhausted!

Do you know this too?

Then, after I realized that it was up to me, I took 100% self-responsibility. Then, in the process of contemplation, I looked within myself and transformed that role that awoke.

I understood that to let go of my role. I first had to love it.

When you infuse the role you “hate” so much with true love, it dissolves as if by itself. For that, you must get to know the role you are playing. Like in movies, you have to be aware of your role (superhero, villain) or whatever other endless roles there are to be able to discard them afterward.

Even if you don’t want to play the role anymore, you have to learn to love it first! Then immensely much more life energy is available to you.

The essence of shadow work recognizes the outside triggers as your transformation potential for the fruits to blossom.

The triggers are like an entrance for you to look at your role.

You may live this transformation process in your everyday life. Not only at some seminars or in books.

That’s why there is the saying.

“The inner work starts in your home!”

or in other words

“Shadow work begins within you, not in others!”

4. Shadow Work: The Power of Affirmations

The Misunderstanding

The true power of affirmations in shadow work develops when we stop putting positive affirmations like “I love myself” over our “I hate myself” wounds. If we cry internally from sadness, using an affirmation like “I laugh happily” externally is not the way to go. This fakeness is then only like a band-aid of lies. Like the movie “Joker”, the laughter is inauthentic and simply false. Looking at the movie from this perspective can be a real eye-opener.

So it’s okay to grieve, it’s okay to be weak, it’s okay to accept the shadow sides that we don’t want to see, and most importantly, not to show the shadow sides to others. The important thing is to face life with love and respect. And your shadows are part of your life, whether you want to admit it or not.

True Love

Affirmations have real value in shadow work only when we have learned to love the part of ourselves that we hate after we learned to love the part of ourselves that is sad.

In Jeffrey Kastenmüller’s German book, the very title “I’m a mistake, and I Love It!” hints at this quantum leap. We approach non-love with love.

I heartily recommend this book to everyone! The book’s title, “I am a mistake, and I love it!” works in his example not as an affirmation, as we know it today, to strengthen the positive, but to awaken the shadow a teeny bit more. “I’m a mistake, and I love it.” is like another trigger to make you feel the negative sensation ever so slightly and then envelop it in love.

How can we still meet non-love with love?

– In every shadow lies hidden a gift

– Keeping lightness towards karma

– Compassion towards fellow human beings or events

These three points can be a very bright light in dark times. If we know that in every shadow, no matter how dark, there is a gift hidden, there is hope. When we don’t take karma too seriously and recognize the lightness and gift within karma, it gives us freedom. When we have compassion for events and fellow human beings, it reminds us that on earth, as human beings, we are all in the same boat.

What is the role of true love?

True love is the force that pierces duality and captivates every shadow. True love is beyond the human love we are familiar with, which only attracts further suffering. True love reveals itself only when we are willing to look deep within ourselves.

To meet non-love with love is difficult, but possible! I have witnessed it live in seminars with so many others. I have been able to experience it myself. It is doable!

My secret tip: Recognize yourself in all people, no matter how ego-driven or deeply this person may have fallen and no matter how strongly the person triggers you.

Success Patterns

In 2016, I learned about a series of seminars that changed my life forever. There I learned about the playful reprogramming of my negative beliefs (CYP-Bio-Feedback System). At that time, I had never heard of shadow work. However, the seminar series was the most profound journey into the inner child and beyond, so I participated in another 70 days of offline events in the following three years. Yes, the seminar series are actual events! Events of inner transformation.

If you want to apply affirmations, I can recommend the five steps guide for overcoming limited beliefs, which I learned at the seminar series. You may follow these steps to make affirmations work successfully. Here I would like to translate the five steps into shadow work.

Step 1 is about having the willingness to change. That means not just reading this or other articles or books, but taking the initiative and being proactive. So you go down to the basement and open the door! You light a candle and dare to step into the unknown. Shadow work is the path, not the destination, no matter where you stand.

Step 2 is about tracking down the source of a shadow which is an undertaking that can be very difficult. Think of it this way. You are now in the house’s basement, where a high-security safe is hidden. As in step 1, you have lit the candle and vent into the unknown. But, first, you must find the safe in the dark, and after finding it, you still lack the access code. Again, transparency and true love are needed to unlock the access code of the original patterns.

Step 3 is about taking away the power of this shadow over you. It loses its power over you! Instead of you serving the shadow, the shadow serves you from now on. For this, you need the understanding and the connection of the origin to transform the whole energy. Here you also need to meet the shadow with love—a huge step. In the example of the dark cellar, the safe opens, and you look at its contents with distance and overview. It is essential to relate to this emotion that is connected to it in the situation slightly. That’s why I learned about the bio-feedback methodology at the seminar.

Step 4 is about giving light to your shadow. Imagine that the released energy is now ready to serve you. You are mentally creating a new loving origin for yourself. This recreation process is the step of self-empowerment. In this way, you prevent the released energy from flowing back into the same neuronal structure, to put it scientifically. Here you can also use affirmations like “I love myself,” whereas, in step 2, you still verified “I hate myself.”

In step 5, you strengthen your success pattern and act accordingly in everyday life. If you have less energy than before in the long run, you find it difficult to act according to the new ethics, and you know that the shadow still controls you, or you serve this shadow.

5. Spectrum of Consciousness

For more details, visit my articles Gene Keys.

The 64 states of consciousness of the Gene Keys offer a much broader spectrum for your shadow work. Therefore, I recommend the book “The 64 Gene Keys” to work with the alternation of the 64 shadows, gifts, and siddhis.

Thanks for reading! Feel free to post what helps you with your shadow work in the comments! I am curious about your experiences regarding shadow work!

With Love

Dominik

This article is also available in: German

Overcoming your self-doubts about any topic in life is challenging. So how can you doubt your self-doubts, finally achieving the unachieved? For that to happen, you need to understand and overcome self-doubts. Then you will thrive activity, and therefore the realization of dreams on the physical plane can be real. This continuous daily activity was and still is a big challenge in my life, so it seems some have luck and others do not.

So, in which aspects will this article guide and support you to stop questions everything and start acting?

1. You deepen the understanding of self-doubts in your life.
2. You thrive on the inherent gift of Inquiry.
3. You create prosperity of your life’s challenges with excellent decision-making and daily activity.
4. You motivate and inspire yourself and others.
5. You do, act, and stop questioning everything.

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What are self-doubts?

Self-doubts are often a form of mental stagnation. We created a negative behavior and thought pattern which keeps us locked in a loop of hopelessness. Pessimistic questions run your life. You may create statements for yourself that others are so blessed and wealthy and you are poor and unlucky every day. Whenever a question pops up in your awareness, it guides you into more self-doubts which finally leads to a complete lack of energy and purpose. Your self-esteem becomes exceptionally low and unstable because you question everything in your life. Most likely, you cannot sit still – if not on the outside by physical activities; then you cannot sit still on the inside with emotions and thoughts because they constantly interfere with your life with negativity. This dilemma sums up the power and destruction of doubts. However, in the Gene Keys Approach by Richard Rudd, I remembered that every shadow (self-doubt) is hidden a gift. You may read this the first time in your life and ask – how can self-doubts be a hidden gift?

What is the hidden gift of self-doubt?

The gift hidden within self-doubt is Inquiry. Inquiry is the enormous gift to use your mental abilities to forgive, motivate and inspire. The most known expression of this gift is marvelous storytelling that inspires and motivates you and others. However, Inquiry is mostly about inner questioning and healing your history. It is a gift about forgiving others and yourself – seeing and understanding the bigger picture of reality. Instead of questioning and focusing on the doubts of life, as an example, you use your self-doubts and create art or music until you receive inner revelations, and you can let go of the past. This attitude is an act of pausing and allowing your shadows (self-doubt) to be! You recognize the level of victimization through doubts in your life and how they run your life. You deepen to accept your shadows, and you also understand via Inquiry that you can change and evolve, even if others disagree with you. You stop using the past as a mirror of your future. Your past is the past. Instead of reacting or repressing relationships through the past, you stay open-hearted, and the past becomes your greatest teacher. 

Example of Self-Doubt vs. Inquiry

How can your mind trick you into a low-frequency, pessimistic pattern, and how can you streamline and use your mind to inspire and motivate yourself and others?

The shadow of Self-Doubt:

My perspective of Beyonduality changed over time. I am not sure why stuff constantly changes for me. Maybe I am not good enough to find something to focus on? It seems like I cannot let go of my old patterns – they always return. And I am not even sure how my articles and my content is helping others. Probably other people cannot change their patterns, and they stay still in their lives. So I am helpless to help others in their lives.

Note: After reading my lines of self-doubt, observe gently if some of your self-doubts trigger you. We can all agree that this inner communication in our lives is often a norm of society. What can you do about it? First, you need to allow and accept that you are in self-doubt. From early childhood, the questions we asked and the answer we received from our environment influenced our lives. The answers we received from our parents often were logical, and we may even have felt shameful or guilty to ask such questions. This feeling of shame and guilt over the years may have even deepened enough for you to lose all curiosity in life. The only way to heal this mental stagnation in life is patience and gentleness, which leads to Inquiry. It would help if you forgave your parents and environment because they also did not know better. Now it is your job to evolve! When your parents and ancestors could not forgive in a time and space, it is your job to be strong enough to learn to forgive. When you achieve this quantum task, instead of feeling heavy and blocked with your mental package, you begin to feel light and fluid once again. You only need to observe children’s curiosity and lightness in their eyes and whole body.

The Gift of Inquiry:

My perspective of Beyonduality changed over time. It is a project to heal your history and discover your soul purpose and a project to guide you in your deep self-reflection and helps in self-inquiry. While reading one of my articles, you may realize essential solutions and to-dos for your life. Of course, you need to implement changes, and old patterns and conditions are not always easy to change from one day to another. But like an onion, you have many slices of old behavior patterns that need to be replaced by new success patterns, bringing your quality of life in new dimensions.

Note: Inquiry opens the mind to new possibilities and strengthens your will to act. In the past, I observed a pessimistic habit and attitude in my life, again and again. And this never ends well because our physical body feels anxious and exhausted. So, it is essential to keep an open mind full of curiosity and to use the gift of Inquiry to heal your history. It would be best if you did not insist on blaming and judging your self-doubts because your job is to observe the doubts and remember and learn how to use the gift of Inquiry to self-heal your history.

3 Ideas How to Overcome Self-Doubts

1. Mindfulness through Meditation

You must remember and realize that you are in a state of self-doubts, which is possible through mindful practices. If you are not mindful of thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations – you will not change your behavior. Meditations are the best acceleration tool to realize the state you are in. And do you know why many do not like to meditate? Because they are confronted by their inner self-doubts and all their baggage of the past and the future fears. It takes courage and patience to start to meditate regularly. I meditate for several years now, and it is a true blessing. I love meditation!

2. Gentleness in Daily Activities

Another essential realization is gentleness in daily activities. If you are always in an escape mode or a confrontation mode, you cannot understand your self-doubts. That is why mundane tasks like walking in the forest, washing your dishes, or cleaning your flat can be such a great teacher of gentleness. They have the potential to change who you are. But only when you approach your emotional baggage with gentleness and patience.

3. Patience through Understanding

Do you want to read more about patience? Probably not! Patience is something we are not thriving in society. Everything needs fast fixes – from businesses, investments to self-care.  But a tree needs patience in winter to improve his next summer for a greater blossoming of his fruits. And it would help if you had patience with your shadows and emotional turbulences to heal them and to receive more energy and open-hearted frequencies, so you are more valuable for others too. Patience is a gift of divinity.  It is the gift that time and space are expandable through patience. Some call patience luck. And yes, sometimes it feels like luck. But it’s divine trust in the events in your life, and that creates alignments that may feel like luck. Most people live their life’s like a mayfly, rushing from one event to another without self-awareness until their death. It is time for you to reevaluate your purpose in life. You have the power to change and evolve. The mayfly’s purpose is its quick death. So be patient about your worries, fears, and doubts.

How to Create Prosperity in Your Life

What is prosperity? For me, prosperity is physical, emotional, and mental harmony guided by my higher mind and higher self.

For many, prosperity is led by the lower nature and the animal instincts of survival of the fittest, leading to feeling the need to store a lot more money. Spirituality can be dangerous when we use our logical minds and emotional immaturity to create prosperity because it often leads to more imbalances in our lives. Therefore, it is crucial to understand the true meaning of prosperity, and you discover this meaning. I can’t entirely agree with the many people living in poverty because of spiritual beliefs that money is evil, and I’m afraid I also have to disagree with the many living in richness because of the spiritual belief that money equals prosperity because it is not. At the same time, you must understand that money is the monetary system we live in on earth and that it takes centuries to change our perspective of the system. The system is not inherently negative or evil because the only evils are the human beings abusing such systems for their greater good while not giving back to humanity. Especially human beings that do not earn millions of dollars because their purpose needs to be allowed, accepted, and nourished through the global system.

It would be best if you remembered your place of happiness in life. What is your level of responsibility for culture and society? Whenever you feel lightness and curiosity in your life, you know that you prosper, and whenever you feel heavy and stagnating, you know you are not. Prosperity is not something you “achieve.” It is something you embody and live on every day.

Self-doubts can make this journey incredibly challenging because doubts always tell you that it’s good to focus on the heavy journey full of troubles and similar thought patterns and loops. These self-doubts are the path of what you know, experienced, and embody.

Inquiry is an unlearning process into the unknown fields of the future. You need to let go of the rotten patterns of the past to move into the beautiful harvesting fields of the future. And this takes time and patience. Embodiment always takes time. In winter, you cannot just wish for a quick next day summer for a beach day, except flying to a warm country for a holiday.

Living 15 years or even 50 years in pessimistic self-doubts every day needs time for adjustments. And the gentler and more patient you are for those changes to occur, the faster they manifest in your life.

How to Inspire and Motive others?

The most straightforward approach to inspire and motivate others is to tell the story of your transformation to them. This approach helps and guides others in their inner Inquiry through relating. The more blessings and quantum changes occurred in your life, the more authentic stories you can share. Also, you understand others better – which leads to empathy and compassion for them