[averkif]

A trusted mentor once used that word; said that I had "awakened", or at least that I was in the process of awakening. I'm unsure what the full meaning of this word is, though, and I bet people use it differently.

I guess to me it meant that I was rather suddenly opened up to the spiritual world. It's like opening your eyes to the sunlight when you've been in dim artificial light for a long time, or seeing something in person that you've only ever seen on TV or in pictures. Things go from feeling artificial, plastic, unreal and lifeless, to sudden vibrancy like you never could have imagined. And then along come all those crazy new abilities, or betterment of the ones you had... I guess that would be my own definition of awakening.