Beth,

I enjoyed your succinct take on awakening. As you say, the word gets tossed around as a buzz word. I tried a few years back to tackle the various meanings of the word as it appeared in various contexts.

https://medium.com/hageon/what-does-it-mean-to-awaken-f8224082b48d

If you choose to take a look, fair warning -- it's long-winded, from a time I was figuring out how to write on this platform.