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The Othering of America

How the Republican party became a religious movement based on demonizing the other.

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

Channel Surfing the End of the World

I am on a zoom call with a pretty young face named Gia Prism, telling me how this thing will work. I can ask questions, and she will open up the line for any number of her celebrity dead people to come through with answers. Her afterlife crew runs the gamut from singer/songwriter Prince, to […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

Covid Confessions & A Plea for Love

In the Winter of Corona, I got jacked up on fight-or-flight fear — not because my awakening equanimity was weak, but because the echoes of living through a pandemic were strong. Believe it or not, I’d lived through the black plague as another iteration of my eternal self, and as a young child had a […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

Why We are Not All in this Together & How We Can Be

Covid-19 has tilted the world axis so dramatically that most of us feel we are falling off the edge of the world. In this teetering mess, a the majority of us are thinking like a “we not a me” by following social distancing mandates, working from home if we can, hand washing and avoiding all […]

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

The Eight Time Lords of Spiritual Awakening

I am sitting on the roof deck in a small Mexican town called Troncones, looking out to the Pacific ocean. The sun is rising behind me, a dog barks nearby, a rooster crows the morning into being. I have just read the second page of a book called The Impersonal Life and at once, have been […]

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 Living Edge of Surrender & Why You Don’t Need to Amputate your Ego to Find Enlightenment.

She describes her dark night of the soul as “entering into that territory where the practices that have sustained us no longer can guide us in the terrain we are in. It takes some major spiritual cohones to navigate that terrain because it’s so vulnerable, there is nothing to cling to, no familiar reference points.” […]