truth – The Awakened Dreamer

The Last Satsang: When Suffering Ends, What Next?

I’m sitting in an airy room in Costa Rica, bird song wafting through the open windows along with a warm breeze. The sound of a spiritual teacher answering questions from his seat up front is just a part of the mandala of beauty that is this moment. The day wears on. I am without questions. […]

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

What Right Action Looks Like on the March to World War Three.

“We do not need to be heroes to save the world; all we need is humility, a critical view of the commercial and political interests of those who would mislead us into wrongdoing, and a sense of wonder. ” ~ John Burnside, Scottish writer. It was just a few weeks before the spring 2003 announcement […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

The Unexpected Blessing of Crazy-Ass Discord

Yesterday was one of those pivotal junctures in life where reality shows up with unexpected high-intensity chaos. In the face of these jaw-dropping surprises you have a choice: let the drama override the lesson. Or let the lesson reveal itself by quieting the riot within. At times like this, meditation becomes more than a practice–it’s like […]

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 […]