Spirituality – 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

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

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

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

Tuned to Channel Cosmic Professor

And now, for something completely different. Over my years as a writer, every now and then I found myself consumed by the urge to take dictation from a voice in my head that did not sound like me. The cadence, language and tone was not my normal wry humor mixed with splashy adjectives and high […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

My Lover, My Muse

I remember a time when sitting down to write was a chore. It didn’t matter that writing is my profession of choice, and that I’d spent years eagerly refining compelling lead sentences at newspapers and magazines. Or that I had several unpublished labors of love-hate, full-length book manuscripts that had at one time swept me […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

Bending the Reality Spoon

I was nine years old when my first miracle happened. It was June, and a school field trip to the zoo was about to be cancelled in light of a monsoon-like morning. The torrential rain was forecast to continue well into the next day. I’d been looking forward to this outing for weeks and, like […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

Five Things My Dog Taught Me About God

I have a pet theory, no pun intended, that God is really a dog. Forget a bearded fellow on a throne, a crafty one-eyed Odin, or any number of fierce sword or skull wielding goddesses. Even forget softies like compassionate Kwan Yin or hearth-tending Hestia. God has four legs—meaning any anthropomorphic diety clearly is two […]