The shift coming and going, stabilizing slowly, or not at all
The shift is not always permanent or stable. Many accounts describe weeks, months, or years of moving between ordinary experience and something else: the opened state coming and going, stabilizing slowly over time, or cycling in waves that could last for years.
These accounts are valuable precisely because they resist the common framing of awakening as a permanent, once-and-for-all event. For many people, the process is more like a tide than a light switch.
Sometimes I get prophetic waves of things incoming for the collective.
It was like a burden that I didn't even know I was carrying was sort of dropped in that moment. Or sometimes I would say like someone cut my head off for a moment — so detached. And that was it. It was just such joy of living. It was like coming home.