November 2011 – The Awakened Dreamer

Enlightenment Smarties

Two nights after I woke up from the daydream of reality, I had a night dream. In it, I was eating a colorful treat from my childhood called “Smarties,” little round disks of candy-coated chocolate. A month later I understand the meaning of this symbolic dream. When all the clutter of a mind preoccupied with […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

Letting Go Gracefully

Stuff is falling away, and so are people and places. My coveted book collection is on yard sale and giveaway status: Everything from quantum theory, to psychology theory, to conspiracy theory and much more, is leaving. What do I really need to know, that I will not know in the moment? Other than a how-to […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

It’s So Damn Quiet In Here

Here is my first report: It is so damn quiet in here. More than three weeks ago, thoughts ceased. Well, ninety percent of them, anyway. What remain are functional thoughts: Turn the steering wheel, buy more milk, walk the dog. What has departed is the endless busy chattering of the thinking mind that I now […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

Holey Moley, I’m Awake!

I woke up three weeks ago. I don’t mean I woke up in the morning, though I did that too. I mean I woke up from the dreamer of reality into the dreamless self. “Behold your dreamless being, awake my child, awake!” I read those words almost thirty years ago in the book called Autobiography […]