By Jen Peer Rich -- True-nature is overdue for normalization. Self-awareness and living a conscious life is often reserved for gurus, teachers and "spiritually enlightened" folks. In our Western culture, it is the norm to put people who wake up to true-nature on a kind of a psychological and spiritual pedestal. This approach is flawed because it maintains an illusory hierarchy of consciousness, an exclusively human mind-trick. We tend to make simple things mysterious. This is exactly what keeps true-nature such a carrot-stick mystery for many.