How You Can Become Enlightened in Four Easy Steps

Most people think “enlightenment” is something that can only happen to a person dedicated to spiritual disciplines for many decades. Other people think it can only happen suddenly to one in a billion folks — like it did to Eckhart Tolle. I used to believe both of those things, but now I know differently. Why? Because I have interviewed over 100 enlightened people, ranging from the Dalai Lama to Deepak Chopra, including many enlightened folks on my podcast, Awareness Explorers. In these interviews, I’ve learned that enlightenment can happen relatively quickly if you follow four specific steps.

Before I get into what those four simple steps are, let me give you some background. I was a very depressed — even suicidal — teenager. Rather than kill myself, I went on a spiritual search. That led me to try various paths, live in spiritual communities, and interview a lot of spiritual teachers. Yet, the results from all that searching were mediocre at best. Then I learned of the work of a Harvard-trained psychologist, Dr. Jeffery Martin, who interviewed over 1200 awakened people to find out what typically led to their experience of enlightenment. His research led to some surprising discoveries.

One of the things Dr. Martin learned was there are different “types” and levels of enlightenment. He also learned that many people could awaken to the more common types of enlightenment relatively quickly. For example, after an hour a day of using specific methods for 45 days, about half of folks claimed to be in a…