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The Desire Paradox: How Your Wants Can Wake You Up

Turn the Desire Trap into an Awakening Map.

Billy Graham Died Again: The Surreal Landscape of the Mandela Effect and What it Means for Humanity

Billy Graham died yesterday which is remarkable —not because the man lived to the ancient age of 99, but because in the memory of some people, this is his third death or more already. To them, this famous American evangelical pastor died in the fall of 2017, 2012, or 2009 and even earlier This situation […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

Riders on The Storm: Navigating Rapidly Shifting Reality in Today’s Earth Matrix

Brace for a surreal ride. Because whether you are ready to admit it or not, we’ve collectively begun to wake up to a strange new porous reality. Or as Morpheus says to Neo in the film The Matrix, “You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

Awakening and the Radiance Factor

You know those halos on the heads of saints in medieval Christian art, the solar disc in Egyptian hieroglyphs or the flaming nimbus in Asian holy art? Well, I call it the radiance factor. And everyone has it. The thing is your radiance factor might be shining at only 40 watts instead of say the […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

Sex, Intimacy & Awakening: The One Thing that Changes After You Wake Up

It’s about six weeks before the overnight spontaneous awakening of October 23, 2011. I am sitting cross-legged on the floor next to my husband among several rows of seekers here to see a female spiritual teacher named Ganga-gi. He has put up his hand for a question and she is listening quietly as he speaks. […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

Wired for Magic: Awakening Beyond “Just This”

You keep hearing that the whole point of awakening is the end of suffering because the self that suffers is seen as a character in the dream, not the real you. I’ve said it myself in early post-awakening articles and even today, it’s being said repeatedly by non dual teachers. Just this morning I read […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

How to Wake Up to Your Divine Agency

If there ever was an historical era where getting past the passive no-self phase of awakening mattered, this is it. Environmental peril, US presidential insanity and all-purpose darkness is on the rise. You see, it’s not enough to just play the equanimity card in the game of enlightenment. Sure, it’s true at one level that […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

Valentines Special: What’s Romantic Love Got to Do With It?

I remember, almost wistfully, the pre-awakening days when I was addicted to falling in love. The heady intoxicant of new romance always came with a huge surge in well-being, optimism, equanimity and even synchronicity. I yearned for the in-love-drug the same way a junkie craves the next hit. Then, abruptly I woke up. The awakening […]

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 […]