(3) Embodying Authentic Truth
The realization of oneness is where many spiritual practices stop, and it leads to a kind of liminal space where nothing feels urgent anymore. The ego has been seen through. The world is no longer personal. There is more peace, or at least neutrality. And for a while, that seems like the point. But then life continues. Desire comes back, though not in the same way. Old motivations have dissolved, but the movement of life keeps on.
After we remove the blocks of conditioning and imposed limitation, we shift from a conditioned state—where our natural expression was manipulated or suppressed—to a natural state, where our life force energy can flow cleanly and with ease. With this shift, expression itself changes. Instead of acting from fear or lack, we move from wholeness. Authenticity becomes its own frequency, naturally carrying the qualities of love, coherence, vitality, and openness. This is the real meaning behind what people call "high vibration." It is the natural signature of being, unobstructed.
This is the phase many don’t expect, and that many seekers find disorienting. They’ve unraveled the story, but they haven’t yet learned how to become the author of their own. While you know you are essentially awareness, you are still expressing as an individual life. The question naturally arises… What do you do with the knowledge that you are everything, when you are still asked to live as someone? Most traditions end the path at the realization of oneness, but unity is just the foundation from which individuality can be expressed without distortion.
This stage of the path is one of recognizing that your uniqueness is not in conflict with the truth of oneness. It is where individuality returns as intentional design, not ego. Each life is an expression of the same source, shaped into distinct configurations of sensitivity and contribution— none more important than another, and none separate from the whole.
Imagine a wildflower field. Every bloom is shaped by the same sun, rooted in the same earth. But no two flowers are the same. They differ in scent, in hue, in size, and in season. Now imagine a flower suppressing its bloom because it was told it was too bright. Imagine another bending its stem to match the height of the one beside it. Imagine a field of life force twisting itself into shapes that feel acceptable rather than true. What would happen to the field? To the bees, the cycles, the fertility of the whole? This is what we risk when humans override their nature. Beyond the implications of living a personal life that isn’t authentic to you, conditioning from truth keeps us from creating a world that truly reflects the wholeness that we collectively are. Every person who lives from alignment restores coherence to the field, and every authentic act gives the world something it didn’t have before.
The nature of the spiritual path has not changed, but the way we understand it must. When we forget our nature, we do not stop creating. We create unconsciously, repeating what has been handed down, building lives and systems that mirror the past rather than evolve it. Most of our world is the residue of unconscious imitation. It’s only when enough remembering gathers in one place, whether through an individual or through a generation, that something truly new has the chance to emerge.