Dr. Dorothy

Why awakening can be dangerous, because it’s not always pretty, loving and edited.

Awakening is dangerous because it strips away the illusions that kept everything neatly in place. It doesn’t come wrapped in love and light, packaged for easy consumption. It’s raw, messy, and often brutal. It reveals truths you weren’t ready to face, not just about the world, but about yourself. And once you see, you can’t unsee.

It’s dangerous because it can make you unpredictable. The parts of you that were suppressed? the rage, the desire, the unapologetic truth, begin to surface. You stop conforming to expectations, stop catering to comfort, and stop filtering yourself for the sake of social palatability. That kind of authenticity can be threatening to those who prefer the familiar over the real.

It’s also dangerous because it forces you into a confrontation with everything you once believed. Awakening dismantles the carefully constructed narratives that made you feel safe. The roles, the rules, the limits, they all crumble. What replaces them is the unknown, and stepping into that unknown requires a level of trust in yourself that most people never develop.

The “spiritual” version of awakening, the soft, loving, neatly edited version, is just a fraction of the experience. The real awakening is fire. It burns away illusions, and sometimes, it burns away parts of you that you thought were essential. It’s a death and a rebirth, all at once. And like any birth, it’s not without pain, struggle, and chaos.

But the danger isn’t just in what it destroys, it’s in what it creates. Awakening expands your capacity for existence. It gives you access to your fullest potential, your rawest power. And power, when not understood or integrated, can be destructive. It’s why some people lose themselves in it, spiraling into recklessness or detachment. Awakening is not the end of suffering, it’s the beginning of learning how to hold it, how to alchemize it, and how to wield the power that comes with seeing beyond the veil.

It’s not for the faint of heart. But for those who embrace it, it’s the only way to truly live.