After Enlightenment Then What?

It goes without saying as with many people who have experienced this in the past, but perhaps o that they are or have been guided to do something with it, but perhaps this is only a few. I am an ordained minister with the International Metaphysical Ministry. This arrived in my email on January 5th of this year. I receive them every Sunday. I had requested direction for my Spiritual path from Jesus. As I read (see below underlined text. That was the third instance of the same message. Then I remembered that in the days that followed the event in 2003, I experienced an epiphany, that I would be helping many. Thus this blog is that guidance in action. Just the fact of my being a minister confuses others. I am often asked where I Preach, I do not Preach I teach. Any great teacher or master knows that you lead a student to the of education, it is up to them to walk through. I say I teach as Christ did, not in a building, but wherever I go, to whoever will listen.

My ministry and Bachelor’s Degree of Metaphysical Science is a Psychological Spiritual Philosophy for Living, much the same as Buddhism.

After Enlightenment, Then What? By Dr. Paul Leon Masters

January 5, 2025

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At this very moment there are many people throughout the world following many different spiritual paths, which they hope will bring them to what they believe is the very end of the spiritual rainbow—Enlightenment.

People traveling the various paths to Enlightenment feel that if they can achieve it, then they have achieved the Ultimate human experience. In its truest description, Enlightenment goes beyond intellectual comprehension of the experience. It is not about seeking God, speculating, or theologically theorizing about God or Ultimate Beingness. Enlightenment means the firsthand, intimate, mystical experience of God Presence or Oneness with the Universe. It is beingness with Ultimate Beingness itself—in the innermost center of consciousness, yet also to its universal outer reaches.

If what is being stated here is accurate, it would indeed seem that experiencing Enlightenment would be the end of a journey through countless lifetimes for the soul, which is the individualized expression of Ultimate Beingness, Consciousness, Spirit or God. What else is there? If, in the next moment, one would suddenly experience Enlightenment, would life come to an abrupt halt? Would one’s soul be swallowed up by an infinite field of light, with one’s physical body vanishing as a result?

The history of Enlightened people reads otherwise. Physical life continues on the outside, and to family, friends, and work associates, such persons outwardly look much the same: They don’t have visible auras around their heads. Outwardly, life seems to go on as it was—at least in the time right after the experience. They may speak of it to a few whom they feel would not think them mentally unbalanced. But, for the most part, they remain silent, knowing that few would believe, and, as such, it would be better left unsaid. The exception would be those very few souls whose life purpose would be to teach that such an experience of a Higher Ultimate Reality is possible.

So, what happens after Enlightenment for the others? In short, they become living energy expressions of the Experience. What this means is that their lives are under the influence of a Will higher than their personal wills—that consciously or unconsciously, each will feel that, as the Mind of Christ that was in Jesus expressed it, “I am about my Father’s business.” In this state of beingness, Enlightened persons go about their days expressing greater love and creativity in whatever they are involved in. Everything is done under Universal Influence, and even when one stumbles or appears to fail, one is being guided to a higher plateau of consciousness.

Each will do things better in life because of being so guided, although, again, this may not be evident in the worldly definition of success. Fame, fortune, notoriety, and worldly power are not sought after, for with Enlightenment such goals are seen as what they are: grand illusions of the personal ego and its constricted view of what life is.

Again, after Enlightenment a person’s outward life may seem little different to others: Family life will go on, sexuality will go on, sickness and health will go on, failure and success will go on. But inwardly, the personal ego is no longer in charge, for the person is marching to a different drummer, the drumbeat being orchestrated by the Ultimate Universal Life Presence—or God—to guide the soul’s path and this life.

Yes, there is life after Enlightenment—a very wonderful life; for in a short time after the experience or at some point in the person’s lifetime, each will become fully conscious and aware that his or her life is being fully Guided by Ultimate Beingness or God. The Awareness of this Intimacy of Consciousness with the Supreme is a great gift to one’s mind, peace to one’s soul, and love’s Ultimate Presence for one’s Spiritual Heart of Hearts.

Dr. Paul Leon Masters

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Text taken from Dr. Paul Leon Masters’ Book, “Mystical Insights: Knowing the Unknown,” Pgs. 149–151.
Copyright © 2016 by the International Metaphysical Ministry.

Just before my heart attack, I bought a book The New Science of Transformation, How Enlightenment Changes Your Brain, by Andrew Newberg MD, and Mark Robert Waldman. I had started to read it, but then was in the hospital post open heart surgery. I was too miserable to even read at that point. I did not get back to it until months afterward. I would recommend this book as well, not just to those who have had the mystical experience/s but also to those who may be searching with burning questions to the nature of God, or consciousness.

Newberg speaks of his own experience, describing it as I too know it to be. He says he is going to try to describe it but at that moment he struggles with explaining it. He goes on to say that any level of enlightenment is almost impossible to relate in words. It is important to keep in mind that enlightenment large or small is an indescribable experience that alters the brain and our awareness of ourselves, and our place in the world, completely rewriting our beliefs and values. His journey was from a young age of questioning. Where we differ is that his questioning led him to enlightenment, my intense and obsessive quest to find answers came after the event.