Author: Lori Ann Lothian

Lori Ann Lothian is a spiritual revolutionary, Hellenistic Astrologer divine magic maker and all-purpose scribe. She writes about love, relationships, enlightenment and even sex, at Huffington Post, Good Men Project, Yoganonymous, Origin magazine, Better After 50 and more. She is also a senior editor at the online magazine, The Good Men Project, where she founded Good for the Soul, a section dedicated to the exploration of men and spirituality. Lori Ann lives in Vancouver, Canada, with her husband and daughter, where she has learned to transcend the rain and surrender to mega doses of vitamin D. Tweet her at Twitter or friend her on Facebook at Facebook.

by Lori Ann Lothian

When a Tree Falls in the Woods, What Rises?

An encounter in the woods with a wise woman, angry man and a falling tree shifts everything. — The other day, I took my dog for a game of fetch in a field near the woods. As I drove up in my car, the parking lot was blocked by a giant pick up truck idling. The […]

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A Spider, a Dog named Leela and a Meaningful Dialogue with the Universe in My Kitchen

Yesterday I awoke to find a spider had spun its web in front of the door to the patio. It had suspended its gossamer world between a coffee maker and the door lintel in such a way that when I swung open the door, the spider–resting in the very center of its creation–was unperturbed and the […]

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The Unexpected Blessing of Crazy-Ass Discord

Yesterday was one of those pivotal junctures in life where reality shows up with unexpected high-intensity chaos. In the face of these jaw-dropping surprises you have a choice: let the drama override the lesson. Or let the lesson reveal itself by quieting the riot within. At times like this, meditation becomes more than a practice–it’s like […]

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Discover the Thing You Were Born For in 5 Easy Steps

Lately I’ve given up gazing into the navel of enlightenment. There’s only so long you can talk about waking up without boring or repeating yourself. What has captured my imagination (other than the wonder and awe of an increasingly non-ordinary life) is the question of purpose. I’ve always intuited that being born came with hidden mission […]

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Enlightenment Magic Trick Number One: As You See It, So It Is

Changing your thoughts is nothing compared to changing the perceiver of them. — Six months before my overnight awakening, I dreamed I was wandering in the ruins of an ashram in India. (Later I would learn from photos this dreamscape is the now derelict grounds where the Maharishi held court in 1968 with the likes of actress Mia […]

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The Awakened Magician: What Happens When Non-Ordinary Becomes Ordinary?

I’ve been hiding something from my readers. A dirty little enlightenment secret. It’s the kind of cover-up that happens when you think you might be crazy to voice something that no one else in the non-duality, awakening to Self/No Self crowd talks about. You think: Maybe I’m an anomaly? Or you wonder: Did I get caught […]

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The 4 Types of Goal-Setters Pre and Post Awakening: Which One Are You?

Recently someone posted on an enlightenment FB group, the question, “Do you have goals?” If this were any place else, the query would have seemed strange and the answer would be “Of course I have goals.” What happened next were dozens of comments along the lines of “No goals here. No one here to set […]

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Why Shakti Matters

I’m in a room of folks who are shaking, trembling, laughing and crying. One is even chanting in Spanish though I think she told me she was Bulgarian. We’ve been meditating for about thirty minutes and the sudden outburst of expression is happening because the teacher has gone around the room touching peoples heads. In […]

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5 Reasons a Teacher can be Good for Your Post-Awakening No-Self

“If you don’t know where you are going any road can take you there” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland — Disclaimer: While at the time this was written statements in this article were true for me, I’ve since discovered a ‘guru’ can also be a reason to hide from my own inner-teacher and truth. […]

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Bigger Than The Sky: A Book About the Love that You Are by Vicki Woodyard

If you are looking for a non-duality treatise full of mental acrobatics don’t bother with this book. Frankly, I never manage to get through a Vicki Woodyard offering without going through at least a half a box of Kleenex—she knows how to jerk those tears. But she also elbows in a few good jokes (after […]