Uncategorized – The Awakened Dreamer

How to Collapse Reality for Superior Outcomes

This is what fate looks like — mistakes we all make in not realizing that we stand in every split second at a fork in our road. The path is NEVER singular.

by Lori Ann Lothian

When Awakening Becomes a Pandemic Battlefield

Or a really bad game of ping pong. Look, I don’t even have the energy here to really convey what is happening. But I will attempt to share the gist of it. And even as I do this, I am reminded of my role in my astrology chart, my “guru slayer” aspect that literally means […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

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

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 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, […]