This ten minute explanation or description of enlightenment by Penny Kelly in the Arlington Institute Quartet interview from April 2025 is about the best I’ve ever heard and I listen to many sources. Penny’s description is from approximately 27 minutes to 37 minutes of this Youtube video. Now, of course, there are those who say that enlightenment is in stages and its never done, or those who think it happens with the kundalini experience or you might argue it happens after a near death experience because it is probably impossible to define. Yet, Penny was brave to describe the physical aspects of her personal life’s experience of what she considers to be enlightenment.
To follow, is the transcript of these ten minutes:
So the question is what is enlightenment? And how might one know if they are enlightened? And so I’m going to say a couple of things and but I’m going to start by saying you reach enlightenment in stages and if you have a sudden experience of enlightenment you still have to go through those stages afterwards. Theyare stages of integration and development. So, um, you can say there’s all kinds of talk about, oh, I can get into alpha, I can get into theta, I can get into gamma.
That’s not enlightenment. True enlightenment is the ability to begin to take in enough energy to generate light. Period. And when you can’t generate that light then you haven’t um ignited that that enlightenment process and and that is um so what what does that mean generate light? How do you generate light? Your body literally generates you begin to light up like a light bulb.
The first thing that happens is that your ex there’s a huge expansion of your energy field and the energies moving through it are much higher in frequency. Um or there’s let’s say it this way, you don’t lose the old frequencies. You just have a whole bunch more um at a much higher rate, much higher voltage. Yeah. Um there’s a bigger field around you and that field is the result of the current moving through.
So in the first uh 10 years after the Kundalini experiences that I had, you know, light bulbs would pop when I went walked by. I could not wear a watch. Computers crashed constantly. It was such a nuisance. Sometimes my vehicle wouldn’t start. It was brand new. And other times it would it wouldn’t start for me. But if I walked away and had somebody else start it, it would start just fine.
And and so there’s all kinds of electro mechanical problems that occur. Those are signs that the enlightenment process has started. So let me say it again. Enlightenment is the ability to hold enough energy throughput to begin to generate light. So um and you want most people’s field is about 16 feet in diameter. A lot of people in the world today are only eight or 10 feet in diameter but the norm is 16 to maybe 20.
But when enlightenment begins that expands to 60 feet and beyond. So um couple things. When you enter into when enlightenment begins you enter into states of consciousness in which you cannot differentiate between yourself and everything around you. These are moments of total oneness and there’s no mistaking those those there are also what are called in the ancient language beatotific um where you’re beatified.
That’s another sign that the enlightenment process is beginning. And really, you can think of enlightenment as the evolutionary development of human being that is normal and expected unless you do something to arrest your development. So um once you have one even just one of those enlightenment of those um beatatified states of those states of total oneness um everything about your consciousness changes and it doesn’t go back and what changes is that you are in light you see light around everything that was the first thing I kept thinking there was something wrong with my eyes the light was just this glaring light around everybody and everything.
Um, and that is part of the illumination. And those are accompanied by uh what I’ll call states of mystic awareness where you see something or know something that’s coming or something that is important for you to know. It might not be a universal mystic state, but it’s important for you because each one of us is unique. So the second thing is that all of the meanings in your life change. One single experiment of this or experience of this um beatified state or this state of illumination or you know oneness your consciousness changes and that all of your meanings change.
That’s really a difficult stage. It’s the It opens up the stage of crying and you will cry typically for a couple years at least. Eventually, you’ll get control of that crying again. But some people never do. They weep at everything because they’re so sensitive. So, as meanings change, the job you had that you worked so hard for that you went to college for for four years or eight years or 12 years might not mean might mean nothing.
the woman or the man that you married might all of a sudden mean nothing. Why? Because you have grown past them. So um other things change your perception of color changes tremendously. um your appreciation of beauty. You see beauty in everything that is um accompanied by a sense of goodness and love, deep appreciation for what is good in the world and sort of a moving away from anything that is not good.
You don’t spend a lot of time pounding on or trying to get rid of what is not good. You just don’t give it any attention because the focus is on goodness. um consciousness deepens and it expands greatly and now you’re seeing what is motivating people, what’s behind the curtain, where is that going, you know, what is the pattern that’s involved here? Um all sorts of changes in your consciousness as it deepens and expands and um genius appears.
That is just a common thing. your energy frequency, your frequency ID changes and your choices begin to change because now you are no longer the same person. So it isn’t something that you can uh logically fight either. I fought for 17 years to make the whole thing go away and finally caved and thought this is you know I got a message from my people saying look this is normal this is how the human is supposed to develop and you’re fighting it all the way stop so um how do you know if you’re moving toward enlightenment or getting into enlightenment um you’ll have sometimes voices that you hear sometimes you’ll see a moment or a flash of light.
That’s typically going to be lightning occurring in your field of energy. Other times you will see light in your head or all around you. Close your eyes and it’s lighter there than it is out in the world. The world is very dark. Um and then there’s a sexual very sexual rapturous feeling. And I’m going to say this, people often go, “Oh, but you are always turned on. It becomes a natural state and you that sexual energy.”
Um, Dr. Levvengood did some experiments in the lab in which he um got somebody to masturbate in and be hooked up to the machine and she almost blew the machine right off the the bench. Okay. So what happens in a sexual experience is that there’s a huge throughput of energy and you have to learn to hold that. That’s the whole basis of tantric training. You hold that energy and that energy is what begins to generate light.
So um there’s that. Couple more things I mentioned the tears of joy. There’s an awareness of an infinite presence around you that you can communicate with and it communicates with you immediately. And so you’re never alone. Um there’s a sense of wonder and awe at the beauty, the magnificence of this place. Um there are visions. You’ll have visions. You’ll know what’s coming.
You’ll know the truth when people speak. There’ll be this truth meter in you. that says mm- um there’ll be wisdom, courage, and strength that you never had before. And uh like Frank said and and I have often said to my students, you know, I go to the way station, which is where people go after death. They’re all lined up to come back here. So that whole idea of getting out of here, going someplace better, that’s not happening.
This is the place to be. This is a magnificent reality system. It’s rich in form and color and light and sound and the sensory development that is been developed to be able to appreciate and enjoy that. You don’t find that in every reality system. So those are that’s what enlightenment amounts to. And as you proceed through stages of development, you come to this place of absolute utter silence within until you want to make a move.
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