Enlightenment Etiquette (from a Professional Enlightenment Coach)
Enlightenment Etiquette. Yes, it’s gotten to the point where many people have moved into Enlightenment. What happens when they talk with friends who aren’t?
Enough stories have come to my attention… Ugh, enough already! Right now, let’s discuss what’s appropriate to discuss with friends about Enlightenment. Versus what amounts to bad manners.
Even if you’re NOT in Enlightenment yet
This article can help you. Helping you even if you don’t personally know anyone in Enlightenment… yet
Because today’s post can protect you from hurt feelings. Plus teach you some social skills that you can start using today.
Likely, you’ll need these skills even more as they years roll on. Because more and more people are moving into Enlightenment. This article will give you some perspective about how to talk to them.
And If You ARE in Enlightenment by Now
Overall, your manners tend to be lovely. I know, having talked a lot with most of you on this list of my clients in Enlightenment.
About that aforementioned blog post, where I celebrate Energy Spirituality clients and students in Enlightenment. Most are in Age of Awakening Enlightenment. But not all. Others are in Traditional Enlightenment.
Either way, the following points may be helpful for you, as well. Since, as this Enlightenment Coach has finally realized, etiquette matters. Namely, certain understandings about how to discuss Enlightenment with others. Versus what not to say.
For everyone curious about today’s new Enlightenment Etiquette
Hey, don’t be embarrassed at anything that follows. It took me seven years to think of writing today’s post. Seven years since I first formally began to add Enlightenment Coaching to the other specialties of Energy Spirituality.
Without learning about appropriate manners for any situation, what happens? Awkwardness ensues. Or worse.
So let’s all get our acts together. Today might be the first blog post anywhere about good manners regarding Enlightenment.
Enlightenment Etiquette Suggestion #1.
Basic Tact for Folks In Enlightenment
If you’re in a social situation with others in Enlightenment, notice who else is there. Might anyone be with you who isn’t in Enlightenment?
Perhaps someone you know through my Energy Spirituality blog. Or a fellow Energy Spirituality client. Even somebody you met at an Energy Spirituality workshop.
Assuming that you find even one such person, immediately — yes please, immediately — stop talking about Enlightenment.
Why not? It’s rude. Talk about something else.
Not Yet in Enlightenment
People who care about moving into Enlightenment can sometimes feel bad they’re not there yet. As the founder of Energy Spirituality and an Enlightenment Coach, here’s what I know to be true.
What matters about personal growth? It’s sure not about wearing a label like “In Enlightenment.” Instead, ask yourself:
- Am I growing emotionally and spiritually?
- Do I tell the truth?
- And otherwise, do I live in integrity?
- Overall do I do your reasonable best in life?
These very human considerations matter way more than some title. No kidding!
Extra helpful is to do 20 Daily Minutes of Technique Time daily. Not more. Not less. And just about any form of Technique Time will do. Just, please, avoid psychic development, mediumship, channeling. Also, sadly, avoid today’s meditation practices.
What if you encounter folks in Enlightenment “talking consciousness lifestyle” in your presence? For heaven’s sake! Tell them something like this: sake! Tell them something like this:
Please use your Enlightenment Etiquette. Don’t discuss Enlightenment when people like me are in the group. It’s rude. Let’s talk about something else.
Enlightenment Etiquette Suggestion #2.
Avoid Enlightenment GOSSIPING
Here I mean, avoid gossiping about whether other people are in Enlightenment or not.
For Folks in Enlightenment
Apparently some folks in Enlightenment sometimes like to discuss how “well” others are doing. Assessing other people’s spiritual evolution! Such as referring to mutual friends as “pre-Enlightenment.” Or “So far from Enlightenment!”
Avoid this horrible kind of gossip. I implore you.
Maybe you were influenced by comments that I’ve made at my Spiritual Enlightenment List?
Let’s be clear. Nothing about Energy Spirituality is meant to involve gossip. This YouTube video explains why I undertook this research project, and it sure wasn’t to promote bragging. To be clear, that blog post at my website isn’t remotely intended as a channel for gossip. Seriously undertaken volunteer work by an Enlightenment Coach — that’s the deal.
And Just to be Crystal Clear
Probably you know, this is a free service I provide at this blog. Commenting on a public figure’s state of consciousness.
- Never for gossip.
- Always in order to bring a higher truth value to ongoing conversations.
- Because so many people are confused about higher states of consciousness. I’d like to change that.
- Plus I’m disgusted by lying gurus, coaches who confuse spiritual seekers with their persuasive crazy-talk, and sometimes outright fraud.
For that Enlightenment Life List, I make use of my skills as an Enlightenment Coach. Also, serious ethical standards.
Not Yet in Enlightenment
What if you hear somebody else talk like this. Gossiping away!
Whether that person is in Enlightenment or not, use your Enlightenment Etiquette. Say something like:
Excuse me. Did I just hear you evaluating somebody else’s closeness to Enlightenment?
What business is that of yours? Are you trained as an Enlightenment Coach? Please, let’s talk about something else.
Enlightenment Etiquette Suggestion #3. Don’t Volunteer Spiritual Guidance
For Folks in Enlightenment
During a session, Joe told me that an Energy Spirituality friend asked him this: “Are you getting close to Enlightenment yet?”
Wow, when I heard that did I ever yell at Joe! Because I haven’t felt this angry for a very long time.
Note to any of you readers who may have wanted to ask such a question: For heaven’s sake, don’t! For one thing, it’s a stupid question. Yes, just plain stupid. Because people seldom know how close they are. When I’ve validated Enlightenment for Energy Spirituality clients, usually they’ve been totally surprised.
Besides, Enlightenment isn’t a skill. Rather, it’s a deeply personal state of consciousness. Basically, between you and God.
Are people in Enlightenment automatically trained to serve humanity as an Enlightenment Coach? Of course not.
Really? Asking somebody, “Are you getting close to Enlightenment yet?”
What an unbelievably irresponsible, muddle-headed question! Confusing to others. And on a par with everything you’ve ever been told about etiquette in other social contexts. Asking a question like this is really, really bad manners.
Not Yet in Enlightenment
Either asking or answering questions like, “Are you getting close to Enlightenment yet?”
Euww, don’t you play around with this sort of conjecture, either. You have no way of knowing, do you?
Granted, on rare occasions, I’ve told a client, “I think it’s likely that you’ll move into Enlightenment in this lifetime.” Or even “Seems to me, you’re getting close to Enlightenment.”
Very rarely have I said such things. And only when they’re true. Namely, true in my opinion as an Enlightenment Coach. True and part of my unique way of helping every Energy Spirituality client and student. Because there are plenty of things I don’t know how to do. But one of the things I do know — amazingly — is how to be of service as an Enlightenment Coach.
Incidentally, What If You Think You May Be in Enlightenment?
Don’t discuss it with other people. Why ask their opinions? Only ask somebody you trust as a qualified Enlightenment Coach.
Since I have some experience in that regard, I can tell you this:
Usually when people think they’re in Enlightenment, guess what? They’re actually in spiritual addiction.
No kidding.
Whether or not you expressly book a session with me regarding Enlightenment… Guess what else? I’ll always pay attention to your state of consciousness. And if I should find that you’re in Enlightenment, you can be sure that I’ll facilitate the sacred procedure known as “Enlightenment Validation.”
In Conclusion
Don’t play “Enlightenment Coach.” This kind of spiritual service is sacred. Treating it as a game might bring you some pretty icky karma.
Yes, now I’m speaking directly to anybody who has been doing any kind of Enlightenment Gossip…
Which you might be, whether in Enlightenment yet or not.
Understandably, you might have fallen into copying me. Or copying somebody else. Just because the concept of Enlightenment Etiquette is new to you. No repining. Until recently, it never occurred to me to even think about good manners concerning Enlightenment.
So let me ask you a serious question: Honestly, have you been trained as an Enlightenment Coach?
Answer: You haven’t. At least you sure haven’t been trained by me.
How do I know this? So far, I haven’t found any Energy Spirituality Practitioner ready to train as Enlightenment Coaches. Not even Energy Spirituality experts. (And I hold every one of them in the highest esteem.)
Not even Energy Spirituality experts who are in Enlightenment themselves! Serving as an Enlightenment Coach is different from living in Enlightenment.
Readers, I hope this new concept of Enlightenment Etiquette makes sense to you. Definitely new. I just googled on “Enlightenment Etiquette” and found zero hits. Pretty hard to type anything into a search engine these days and find zero hits, isn’t it?
This article was originally published at Rose Rosetree’s blog on December 10, 2018.
