So what exactly is the Harvest?

[zenmaster]

IMHO the Harvest is the awakening. If you become spiritually aware at this time, then I would say you are harvestable.

No way. This is definitely not necessarily true. Becoming 'spiritually aware' is just barely opening the 'heart'. It is the beginning of the validation of subjective experience, the use of the intuition, the Green vMeme of Spiral Dynamics. But once that is touched, one may polarize faster (and ultimately sufficiently for harvest) because things are seen in a new light allowing for possibly more efficient use of catalyst. IMHO, the key to polarizing sufficiently in a lifetime is reaching a point of acceptance where a fear reaction is not based on the illusory reflection of some aspect of self. Such fear is also manifest as anger. There is also not the binding rejection of self stemming from hope (that we see in distortions such as zealotry).