Awakening – Page 5 – The Awakened Dreamer

Riders on the Storm: Finding the Hidden Gift in Chaos

Every now and then life twists and turns with all the grace of a roller coaster half off the rails. Things feel perilous, unpredictable and wobbly. And that’s just your life. Never mind the recent uptick in conflict simmering in geo-political hot spots like the Ukraine, the middle-east and riot-ridden Ferguson, Missouri. Add to this, […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

The Mental Trap: There’s No One Here to be Enraged…or Blissful

What is with the contemporary non-duality crowd who love to pretend they are not really here? They keep insisting “there’s no one to awaken” and “there’s no me to get enlightened.” And because your thoughts and feelings come from this imaginary you (that can never wake up), there is no need to worry about […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

When You’re Okay and Everyone Else is Not

My healthy, athletic 60-year-old husband had a stroke four days ago. He collapsed while visiting his elderly parents in a a small town at least an eight hour drive from Vancouver–as the story goes, he stood up from the sofa to head toward the dining room for dinner and felt dizzy. Next thing he knew he […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

Why I Have a Spiritual Teacher Post Awakening

— 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. The slippery slope of enchantment in another (no different in many ways to falling in love) leads inexorably to […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

The Awakened Beauty

This Space emptied of him, her, this and that, deleted of doing and wiped clean of what ifs and should haves, this place of thundering silence is refuge. Here I fall freely into the mystery, surrendered to the velocity of Truth. You see, the dream of me has lost its enchantment and sober among the drunken […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

New Year’s Truth: Feeling What Is, Not Feeling Better

Okay. I am not feeling better. I am just feeling. A year and two months post an awakening shift of consciousness (in which suffering more or less collapsed into non-existence) I am reporting from the front lines less and less frequently. Part of my sporadic reportage is there is nothing new to report. I can […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

Politically Incorrect Enlightenment: Being a Human Being

Ever since this awakening point of view shift, and attendant blogging about it, I’ve been under the microscope and on the pedestal of other people’s lives. Not a lot, mind you. It’s not like I’m Madonna of the Non-Duality enlightenment crowd. Yet, in the last while, I’ve gotten interesting comments and emails from readers of […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

Everything Matters, Including Whisky, Fairy Pools and Waterfalls

It’s a trip in which an everything matters epiphany arrived while dipping my toes into an icy fresh highland river.

by Lori Ann Lothian

Let the Games Begin: How to Play with God

In the apocalypse of my awakening, there followed a period of such sublime distinterest in the world and its shenanigans, I wondered if I would ever get off the sofa and do anything again.

by Lori Ann Lothian

The Carnal Elephant in the Satsang Room

A reader asked me the other day about my sex life post-awakening and whether it had changed (Answer: yes, drastically and yet, not at all). During the same time I got wind of an upcoming teleseminar series with interviews of well known spiritual teachers about their vulnerabilities and challenges. A kind of get real endeavor […]