Awakening is not Salvation
What most folks in spiritual communities refer to as 'awakening' is what the Course calls salvation or the happy dream. It's the state where Oneness or self-connectedness with All This Is has been recognized conceptually. It's the most joyful and most secure or safest version of the dream and it corresponds to Jeff Martin's Locations 1-3 on his Continuum of Fundamental Wellbeing. It's also the perspective that some of the most famous teachers communicate from (e.g., Eckert Tolle, Rupert Spira, Jesus/ACIM, and most Christian mystics). Whereas true Awakening or "Enlightenment" is the end of all dreams, corresponding to Jeff Martin's Location 4 and beyond.
An assessment that Awakening is not wanted is accurate and the fact we see this suggests we're closer to it than most. We're close enough to see that no rational character in the dream could possibly want Awakening because it means the end of the character, which means the end of a story about a character, especially including the spiritual story about someone on a purifying journey toward something called Awakening or God. That loss is indeed tragic and is experienced as Infinite (the loss of everything), but only from the perspective of a character in a dream, which as the Course teaches is not who or what we are. It also means the end of all concepts in the dream, including concepts of Love/Divinity, as well as Divine order and authority. It's not that these ideas disappear entirely or are no longer useful tools for communicating or managing our affairs in the dream. We still use them just as I'm using them in this conversation. We just don't hold them to be any more or less special than any other part of the dream. This is why the Course instructs us to diminish specialness.
The good news about Awakening is that we don't just see and understand conceptually, but we now directly experience the things the Course speaks of, especially including how death and darkness are unreal and how All That Is, is fundamentally loving and supportive of Itself ("Only Love is real."). Words fail in This Space because words are dream tools that can only be wielded within the context of a dream. But suffice it to say, the only qualms there could possibly be against Awakening are the concerns of a character in a dream that ends the moment the alarm clock buzzer is heard. 💜