Awkward Awakening: Embracing the Cosmic Next Step
Every first step forward feels awkward. If you’ve ever tried to pick up a new language, move to a new country, or change a bad habit, you know the sensation: confusion, resistance, sometimes outright embarrassment. As Dr. Scott Guerin shared in our conversation—a conversation rooted in both personal honesty and unapologetic cosmic aspiration—this isn’t just a personal quirk. It’s a universal law of change, and perhaps the signature mark of true spiritual progress. And in his opinion we are preparing to take a major step forward in human consciousness
The awkwardness, it turns out, is the point.
We began where all journeys of transformation do: the struggle to make sense of what’s inherited. Scott’s childhood was saturated in the search for meaning—structured church, Sunday sermons, study, and later, all the zeal of “doing it right.” But no amount of external accomplishment provided refuge from heartbreak, from collapse, from the void that eventually forced him to shift perspective or be broken by reality. “I came in hot to this planet,” Scott mused, “but I still had to lose everything before a deeper awakening took root.”
Why Every Awakening Hurts
Why should the path to greater vision and unity begin with resistance, confusion, or darkness? We discussed the historic pattern. Every spiritual revolution—Copernicus declaring the earth wasn’t the center, the first hints of new psychological or scientific truths—is met, at first, with skepticism, anger, even scorn. Every “new wine” bursts the old “wineskins.” We’re wired for homeostasis, for comfort. Every leap into greater breadth or compassion feels, initially, like a betrayal of what came before.
But the greatest threat is not actual “heresy.” It’s self-satisfied certainty—the refusal to step beyond our own familiar boxes. Scott described his years of questioning, his dark nights, his intent to “reboot” his understanding of God—until, knocking against rock bottom, he discovered the ancient foundation all over again, but with deeper humility and openness.
Angels, ETs, and the Expansion of Revelation
Out of this humility came curiosity. Scott moved beyond the rigid boundaries of tradition to seek wisdom in unexpected places: angelic encounters, psychic phenomena, the new “mystics” of our age—including credible channels and intuitives, some of whom have been at their craft for decades. His acclaimed “Angel in Training” series and later books grew out of this borderless search—a quest to draw from scripture, psychology, and the wild new data of consciousness research, all at once.
We talked about discernment. How do you keep your center when the boundaries of what is “sacred” or “real” are suddenly fluid? The answer, paradoxically, is not tighter control—but exercised capacity. “Strong meat belongs to those who by reason of use have had their senses trained to discern good and evil,” Paul reminds us (Hebrews 5:14). The genuine mark of maturity, both spiritual and scientific, is not gullibility or rigidity, but practiced, humble, living discernment.
Could channeling or ET contact be just another case of “the devil in disguise”? Fundamentalists worry, atheists scoff. Yet history is replete with the divine speaking in unanticipated voices—and with dire consequences for those who refused to listen, simply because the vessel was unfamiliar. “God is bigger than anything we can think about,” Scott argued, echoing the oldest mystical traditions. “If we really believe in a limitless Source, then why shrink revelation to a single book, culture, or millennium?”
Unity Without Uniformity—The Next Lesson
This is where the conversation turns from the speculative to the urgent. For Scott (and for many who are feeling this same shakeup), the reason to embrace new sources of wisdom—whether from angels, the dead, or cosmic neighbors—is not escapist exo-fantasy, but because the future every tradition envisions is, at core, one of radical inclusion and unity.
But not uniformity. The coming “unity consciousness” isn’t flattening sameness but harmonious diversity—a symphony rather than a single note. Here, Scott and I resonated over the deep need for balance: the individual must never be simply absorbed, nor should the collective be abandoned in favor of isolated autonomy. Real unity is not coerced. It is discovered, earned, chosen. “You can’t have one without the other…if we look back throughout history, the human project is all about learning to build unity out of profound difference.” That, at its root, is the American project, the scriptural project, the cosmic project.
Are We Ready for Graduation?
Scott’s latest book, Awkward Awakening, is subtitled “Finding Your Way Home.” But the home he is pointing to isn’t just comfort, or a return to what once was. It is a home that lies beyond the current boundaries of species, religion, and even planet. In his readings and intuitions, the “veil” is thinning—the time is coming when humans will need to face, not just their own collective shadow, but the larger family of conscious beings: “Our galactic neighbors, who have watched and waited until we matured enough to join the larger conversation.”
Sound like science fiction? Perhaps. But recall: at every turning point in spiritual history, the harbinger of “what comes next” has sounded like heresy, madness, or fantasy to the last era’s guardians. “All great truths begin as blasphemy,” as George Bernard Shaw put it. The real question is not when or how “contact” will occur, but whether we have faced enough of our own darkness, enough of our awkwardness, to greet the stranger—be it angel, alien, or fellow human—without fear or denial.
The Practice: Leaning Into the Awkward Next Step
Where does all this leave us? Scott’s work is, at its heart, a call to practice: the humility to listen beyond what you think you know; the wisdom to discern without clinging or fleeing; the courage to accept that the next step—even the cosmic one—will feel awkward, embarrassing, perhaps even dangerous; and the discipline to keep moving anyway.
It is the movement from being children—safe in our cribs—to mature beings, willing and able to meet the unknown. “You don’t have to accept everything,” Scott reminds us. “Just keep the door open. Ask. Discern. Risk love over fear.”
In these days of upheaval, both personal and planetary, let us honor the gift of awkwardness as a sign of growth. Let’s use our senses—inner and outer—and each other, to take the next awkward, necessary step toward home.
For more on Dr. Scott Guerin’s work, see his “Angel in Training” series and his new book, Awkward Awakening.
If this exploration resonates, or if you find yourself resisting—share your experience below. What has been your most awkward awakening? How has the expansion (or contraction) of your spiritual world shaped what comes next? The conversation, as ever, is just beginning.
