Like most spiritual awakenings, mine happened during deep inner crises in my life, it was messy and beautiful. 

I have since come to realize soooo many things, and a curious one that we are all on the same path, we are just at different parts of the road. And I started seeing more connections than disconnections, that I can walk straight rather than stumble and get lost in the darkness of pain.

I thought I had achieved pretty much every milestone contoured by Western civilization, I had everything I wanted, a successful corporate career, a beautiful house, a serious partner, a great social life, the freedom to do whatever I wanted, and a deep dark hole that got bigger and darker. And the absurdity of all of that is what cracked me open, the fact that I should have been really happy and yet there was a deep current of pain underlying my life, and the more senseless it became the more clear I could see.

So I opened the door to a new way of life. I dove deep into studying human behavior, oriental philosophies, spiritual teachings, and Eastern and Western scientists embracing consciousness as the all-pervasive truth. My resisting rational left brain was particularly swayed by all the new science showing on so many fronts what mystics have been teaching for millennia.