Freshly Hatched Stories of Awakened Awareness – Page 3

The Master Key to Awakened Magic

I heard from a friend recently, an author and a teacher who had an awakening two decades ago who told me that the flow of magic had abruptly dried up in her life. By this, she meant the gifts of self-remembrance ( synchronicity, ease, intuitive knowing and mini-miracles) had come to a halt just as if […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

The Liberating Magic of Lucid Living

I’m going to let you in on my dirty little secret. Well, maybe it’s more like a nervous confession —I live my daily life increasingly convinced I am dreaming it all up and that everyone in this dream serves me in some mysterious and magical way. No, I don’t mean servitude but rather service—all of […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

What if Your Awakening is Not Just for You?

Have you noticed there’s a not-so-subtle narcissistic weather pattern that prevails in today’s awakening and non-duality climate? It’s a kind of low pressure system of “how can waking up make MY life better” and unfortunately a whole lot of contemporary teachers—me included—have at times accidentally or even purposefully catered to that self-serving impulse. I’ve watched people in […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

Cops Killing Black Men: Why Righteous Anger Matters to Your Awakening

The video footage online this week of two police murders of black men is clearly the detonation that will demolish many cherished and false ideals in the USA, namely that all men are created equal and that racism more or less ended with the impact of the civil rights movement. Alton Sterling was shot in […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

7 Ways to Get Your Flow Magic Groove On

Yesterday a friend sent me her article about holy feminine rage with a note that she had a hunch I was meant to see it. I rarely have time to read anything these days, but my instincts told me that yes, it was important to read. I loved the piece so much, I posted it to […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

You are a Dandelion Ready to Blow Apart

Do you imagine the you who thinks it wants to experience enlightenment is solid? That this identity is as dense as say, a block of wood or a boulder? Because if your fictional self is getting ready to let go, once and for all, it’s really more like a dandelion gone to seed. Sure, you […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

The Whiplash of Sainthood: Why Your Awakening Can Look Like a Soap Opera

Myth: Awakening is an exit door out of this duality gong show where you get to leave behind identification with emotional content and plot-thickening storylines such as betrayal, abandonment, jealousy, blame and shame. Truth: Awakening is more like entering a fast track through some of the most crazy-ass chaos you will ever encounter, a manic, magnified […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

Discovering the Flow Magic of an Awakened Life

Awakened Flow Magic is what the book The Secret tries to mimic.

by Lori Ann Lothian

Why I Prefer the Company of Awakened Women over The Non-Duality Manscape

That radically feminist quote by the Dalai Lama is starting to make sense. “The world will be saved by the western woman,” his Holiness said at the 2009 Vancouver Peace Summit. When I first heard about these controversial words five years ago, I was steeped in the vastness, percolating awe and stillness in a months-long post awakening bliss […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

Less Luminous Beings, Awakening and the Dark Side Politics of America

I’m breaking the enlightenment rules again. Instead of playing the non-duality equanimity game that implies it’s spiritually-incorrect to have an opinion about politics, I’m going to go out on a burning limb and speak up about what I perceive is really happening in the frightening spectacle of American politics these days. And I’m not just going […]