Part 6.
Experience It Yourself
From Knowing to Being
The Call to Personal Awakening
“Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience.”
— Albert Einstein
“Religion is not 'doctrinal knowledge,' but wisdom born of personal experience.”
— Martin Luther
“Knowledge gained through experience is far superior... than bookish knowledge.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
Let’s be clear: the goal of the OCA Movement is not the accumulation of spiritual ideas to build a better belief system. It’s to guide you from the measurable known—manifested consciousness—to the unmeasurable unknown—unmanifested consciousness—so that you can directly experience your authentic divine nature.
“The adventure is always and everywhere a passage beyond the veil of the known into the unknown.”
— Joseph Campbell
“Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown.”
— Wm. Paul Young, The Shack
“In our willingness to step into the unknown, we surrender ourselves to the creative mind that orchestrates the dance of the universe.”
— Deepak Chopra
“In the end, we know God as unknown.”
— Thomas Aquinas
“In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.”
— William Blake
And to pass through those doors—into Heaven—it won’t be through intellectual memorization or devotion to dogma. It will be through the same way the great spiritual masters crossed: with an open heart, a creative spirit, and a soul willing to be changed.
“Christ wasn’t a Christian and Buddha wasn’t a Buddhist... They were having the experience of unity consciousness.”
— Deepak Chopra
“The highest leaving is leaving your notion of God for an experience of That which transcends all notions.”
— Meister Eckhart
“My faith is not a matter of traditions and dogmas, but rather, a spiritual experience.”
— Jane Fonda
Words Don’t Mean a Thing Without Practice
Yes, the OCA Movement offers spiritual principles. But they are nothing—just ink on a page—if not embodied through direct, intentional spiritual practice. Only then do we create the unmanifested—Heaven—and experience it.
“The problem is not with Jesus; the problem is with us... Belief means nothing in the absence of lived experience.”
— Marianne Williamson
“Draw forth your own deepest experience, and you will know the Christ all day every day...
Church, temple, and mosque will become totally boring and unnecessary.”
— Richard Rohr
“Our religious institutions have far too often become handmaidens of the status quo, while the genuine religious experience is anything but that.”
— Marianne Williamson
This movement will not repeat the mistake of confusing thinking about God with experiencing God.
“Religion is a defense against the experience of God.”
— Carl Jung
“There must be a way of promoting human values... based on common sense, experience, and recent scientific findings.”
— Dalai Lama
“I looked in temples, churches, and mosques. But I found the Divine within my heart.”
— Rumi
The Practice Is the Point
So no, the OCA Movement isn’t here to teach you a new philosophy. It’s here to invite you—through intentional, creative, daily spiritual practice—to experience the unmanifested consciousness we call Heaven. Not someday. Now.
“My teaching is not a philosophy. It is the result of direct experience... a means of practice, not something to hold onto or worship.”
— Buddha
“I don’t have to have faith. I have experience.”
— Joseph Campbell
“Teach you? I cannot teach you. Go; experience for yourself.”
— Buddha
“The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.”
— Saint Augustine
Love Is the Ultimate Experience
There are infinite doors into Heaven—art, breath, music, meditation, service, compassion, nature, childlike play. But one surpasses them all: Love.
“Love is the essential reality and our purpose on Earth... To experience love in ourselves and others is the meaning of life.”
— Marianne Williamson
“A fresh kind of life is starting... Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world are seeking each other, so that the world may come into being.”
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“Love is all that matters, because love is all that is.”
— Mari Perron, A Course of Love
“Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.”
— John Keats
Answering the Call Through Experience
This means that when our species finally answers Heaven’s wake-up call—when we truly choose to consciously evolve—our response won’t be to study more doctrine or debate dogma. We won’t go reaching for the known, wrapped in the confines, limitations, and self-righteousness of organized religion.
Instead, we’ll do something far more radical:
We’ll experience our divinity for ourselves.
We’ll create an unbroken, direct line to the unknown—Heaven on Earth—not through belief, but through being.
And what do I mean by a spiritual experience?
I mean the moment when unmanifested consciousness—Heaven—flows into manifested experience—Earth.
That is what conscious evolution truly is.
So now we must ask the only question that matters:
Are we spiritually experienced enough to take the call?
And if we’re being honest, the answer—right now—is a resounding hell no.
Just look around.
Darkness. Division. Disconnection.
If we were ready, we’d be living in Heaven already.
But we’re not.
Not yet.
Still, that doesn’t mean we can’t be.
Because everything can change—especially our thinking.
And that change? It only comes through practice.
Spiritual practice is how we gain the experience.
It’s how we learn to engage with the unknown.
It’s how we build the strength to answer the call.
In the end, if we want to consciously evolve and create Heaven on Earth,
we must first experience Heaven within ourselves.
And the only way to do that is through spiritual practice.
That’s why Our Conscious Awakening has created a spiritual practice schedule—
to support those ready to walk this path.
So go ahead.
Lace up your spiritual running shoes.
For those brave enough to join this movement,
now is the time to practice, to prepare,
and to answer Heaven’s wake-up call—
by boldly stepping into the unmeasurable, unknowable unknown.
Because the only way in…
is through experience.