Non Duality – The Awakened Dreamer

The Astounding Magic of Timeless Time & Why YOU Can Never Access It

Let’s face it. Everyone wants to jump aboard the magic carpet ride of manifestation, prophecy, telepathy, miracle healing and mind-bending synchronicity. These are wonder hits, the unicorns of life that—when encountered—fire up a burst of gratitude, delight and joy. What these amazing phenomena also do is slam dunk you back home, to the you that […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

12 Signs You are Waking From The Dream (not in it).

It’s that moment where you realize you just might have not only woken up in the dream, but from it. Symptoms: 1. Nothing on the menu of self development and spiritual growth matters. Cause you know the self that is tinkering with self improvement is not real. 2. Everything you do matters because you are […]

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

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

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

Carbonated Holiness and Synchronistic Mischief

“Laughter is carbonated holiness.” ~ Anne Lamott I’ve been crazy busy these days creating courses in the synchronicity playground, where my life is becoming so non-ordinary in its meaningful coincidences that I am startled into wonder and awe daily. My Forty Day Magic Challenge and the Love Your Body Magic and Miracles Bootcamp are filled with […]

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

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

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.