The Awakened Dreamer

How to Stay Sane & Awake in Pandemic Times

Sometimes it takes a global pandemic to shake us out of complacency and into realization that death has always been at our doorstep, waiting patiently for us to recognize that life as a Me is a day pass in the grand scheme of the cosmos. Death waits, with a smirk on her face, knowing that […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

The Transmission

The Crossing There comes a time in every lifeWhere, all at once, you arrive. You stand at the vacant thresholdof your Being, on the doorstepof an abandoned Truth — no stepsleft to climb, no remnant journeyfrom there to here. The arrival itself constellateslifetimes, collapses every mortalbreath you have ever taken into the black holeof this […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

The Eight Time Lords of Spiritual Awakening

I am sitting on the roof deck in a small Mexican town called Troncones, looking out to the Pacific ocean. The sun is rising behind me, a dog barks nearby, a rooster crows the morning into being. I have just read the second page of a book called The Impersonal Life and at once, have been […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

What Spiritually Woke Folk Look Like (and how to spot a faker)

This morning, while thumbing through my brand new copy of Buddha on a Bull (one of the most startlingly honest books on enlightenment out there) I landed on this: “Our minds have a lot of ideas of what an awakened human being looks like. But what if your teacher is not ….a vegetarian? … doesn’t […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

The Living Edge of Surrender & Why You Don’t Need to Amputate your Ego to Find Enlightenment.

She describes her dark night of the soul as “entering into that territory where the practices that have sustained us no longer can guide us in the terrain we are in. It takes some major spiritual cohones to navigate that terrain because it’s so vulnerable, there is nothing to cling to, no familiar reference points.” […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

The Neptune Effect: Can a Planet Herald Your Awakening?

Some of you know that I am an astrologer, not only a writer about awakening. Lately I have been noticing how the transits of outer planets impact our awareness of truth, particularly the planet Neptune. To be clear, I am not saying any planet is a causal agent. What planets seem to be in relationship […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

The Last Satsang: When Suffering Ends, What Next?

I’m sitting in an airy room in Costa Rica, bird song wafting through the open windows along with a warm breeze. The sound of a spiritual teacher answering questions from his seat up front is just a part of the mandala of beauty that is this moment. The day wears on. I am without questions. […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

The Astounding Magic of Timeless Time & Why YOU Can Never Access It

Let’s face it. Everyone wants to jump aboard the magic carpet ride of manifestation, prophecy, telepathy, miracle healing and mind-bending synchronicity. These are wonder hits, the unicorns of life that—when encountered—fire up a burst of gratitude, delight and joy. What these amazing phenomena also do is slam dunk you back home, to the you that […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

12 Signs You are Waking From The Dream (not in it).

It’s that moment where you realize you just might have not only woken up in the dream, but from it. Symptoms: 1. Nothing on the menu of self development and spiritual growth matters. Cause you know the self that is tinkering with self improvement is not real. 2. Everything you do matters because you are […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

Are You Dreaming You are Spiritually Awake?

Have you ever had one of those nocturnal dreams where you are convinced you just got out of bed and made a cup of coffee but for some reason the coffee tastes like nothing and the clock on the wall is unreadable? And then your lucid dreamer mind kicks in and you go, “oh shit, […]