Enlightenment – Page 2 – The Awakened Dreamer

Discovering the Flow Magic of an Awakened Life

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

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

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

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

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

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 […]