Awakening – Page 4 – The Awakened Dreamer

The Soul Saving Power of Synchronicity When Sh*t Happens

The morning of the day my mother will be felled by a Ford 250 truck jacked up on larger than life logging wheels, I wake up with a sense of dread so alarming it feels like the sky is falling. I can’t seem to shake off a foreboding that began weeks earlier and has now intensified […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

Forty Day Magic Challenge — Enter the Spiritual Heart

Day: 28: There is a secret doorway to abiding magic. Here’s the Key. So far you’ve been playing with magic tools and learning to pay attention to the non-ordinary. And you’ve probably noticed the more you pay attention, the more synchronicity shows up in your life, along with precognition, deja-vu, telepathy and more. You are […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

A Simple 5 Minute Trick to Increase Your Daily Synchronicity, Magic and Miracles

I’ve been busy video blogging (VLOGing) in the last two months. One of my most popular videos (34K views on the Awakened Dreamer Facebook Page) is this little dancing Awakened Dreamer ditty. I won’t say much in the way of build up–it’s just a sweet little trick that works. Enjoy! (oh, if you like this, […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

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 […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

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 […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

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 […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

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. […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

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 […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

Do You Become an Emotional Zombie? And 3 More Burning Questions about Awakening

In the hoopla of my last post, Why We are Not Ready for the Full Bodied Truth of Awakening which generated an unprecedented 30,000 views in one week, I also received dozens of personal emails with comments and surprisingly, questions. One email stood out for me because of what felt like such an earnest […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

Why We are Not Ready for the Full Bodied Truth of Awakening (and Crucify Those Who Tell It)

The Myth: Awakening is a shift of perception, a mental-emotional acrobatic that leaves one refreshingly peaceful and delightfully uninvested in personal identity, but that has no impact whatsoever on the physical body. The Truth: Awakening is a radical of shift of identity that leaves one refreshingly peaceful and delightfully uninvested in personal identity, but that […]