Mary Mueller Shutan is a spiritual healer and teacher with an extensive background in Chinese Medicine, CranioSacral therapy, Zero Balancing, and energy work. She is the author of The Spiritual Awakening Guide, The Complete Cord Course, The Body Deva, and Managing Psychic Abilities. Mary lives near Chicago, Illinois.

Introduction

Part I: Awakening and the Twelve Layers of Conditioned Reality

- The Awakening Process
- The Sleeper
- The Somewhat Awakened
- False and Ego Awakening
- Between Awake and Asleep
- The First Stage of Awakening
- Twelfth Layer: Releasing The Self
- Eleventh Layer: Past Lives
- Tenth Layer: Immediate Family Systems
- Ninth Layer: Ancestral Patterns
- Eighth Layer: Societal and Collective Conditioning
- Seventh Layer: Karmic Patterns
- Sixth Layer: World, Global, and Cosmic Patterns
- Fifth Layer: Ego Death
- Fourth Layer: Understanding and Releasing Thoughtforms
- Cosmic Consciousness
- Third Layer: Archetypal Influences
- Second Layer: Mythic Influences
- First Layer: The Destroyer
- The Void
- After the Void/Post-Layers
- Cosmic Understanding
- Illumination
- Awakening
- After Awakening

Part II: Types of Awakenings

- The Gradual Awakening
- The Sudden Awakening
- Shaktipat, Attunement, and Energetic Transmission
- Awakening through Place or Event
- Pranic and Subtle Energy Awakenings
- Meridian and Channel Awakenings
- Individual Chakra Awakenings

Part III: Sudden Awakenings

- Top Down Awakenings
- Psychic Awakenings
- Kundalini Awakening
- Shamanic Awakening
- Occult Awakening
- Religious Awakening
- Walk-Ins
- Possession/Entity Awakening
- Non-Human Origin Awakening
- Indigo/Always Awake

Part IV: Common Experiences of Awakening

- Physical Sensations
- Spontaneous Movements
- Spontaneous Vocalizations
- Chills
- Spiritual Depression and Cognition Issues
- Chronic Fatigue and Fluctuations in Energy
- Digestive Issues and Diet
- Headaches
- Dreams and Sleep
- Sleep Paralysis
- Astral Projection
- Emotional Fluctuations
- Alterations of Belief Systems
- Release of Behaviors
- Time
- Drug Abuse and Numbing
- Initiations
- Mental Illness vs. Spiritual Awakening

Epilogue
About the Author