What is a spiritual awakening?

View of Earth from Saturn, taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. 900 million miles from Earth.

There are many things we could say about spiritual awakening, from my experiences their defining characteristics are a shift in our consciousness and our life perspective. Imagine you were to go on holiday to a country which is very different from your own. You’d get to experience new people, sounds, foods, customs and so on. […]