Part 6 of 6 ~ Katie Davis on ConsciousTV, London with Renate McNay, Produced by Iain McNay

On Conscious TV in London, England, Renate McNay interviews Katie Davis, author of "Awake Joy" on spiritual awakening, enlightenment, Non-duality, Advaita and Self-realization. Iain McNay is producer of ConsciousTV. (7 minutes)

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Consciousness, the Waking Dream, Multiple Universes and Self-Realization by Katie Davis, Author, "Awake Joy"

Consciousness, the Waking Dream, Multiple Universes and Self-Realization by Katie Davis, Author, "Awake Joy: The Essence of Enlightenment"

That which is perceivable is born of pleasure or pain, whereas the Heart and the illumined mind’s pure consciousness display as a wise love and a certain charity for life, while transcending the dual opposites of the pleasure-pain cycle.

The altered state of consciousness (ego) changes along with its perceived conditions and only experiences its own judgment. That judgment is either based on past experience or an imagined future. The reaction varies according to the mind’s desire for pleasure or fear of pain based on its delusion of separation.

The egoic “I” and its body are time and therefore cannot be conscious of the formless and timeless now. Egoic “I” as identity is the obstruction.

Ego can become sort of present with the content of the present moment which is an important first step. Yet the body as identity cannot step out of space and time. You are not in space and time. They are within you.

What is independent of time is beyond the mind, its consciousness and remains uncreated and changeless; pure potentiality.

The consciousness of change points to the fact that you are already changeless; just as the consciousness of thought, emotion, the body, mental images, physical energies, memory, cognition, perception and evermore subtle layers of the intellect imply that you are beyond all of them.

Some say that when the mind dissolves that "nothing" remains and yet nothing also depends on “something.” It is another concept imposed by the divided mind before its dissolution. Nothing is dependent on the memory of something.

Are you losing your mind?

No, all that dies is its idea of separation as identity and therefore the end of suffering.

Pure Beingness is independent from that which is definable and altogether free of existence ...  yet identical and the same!

Consciousness also comes and goes, while Pure Awareness alone "shines."

However this word "awareness" is used by many and one can never be certain when it is used, where the word is truly pointing or where "you think" that it is pointing. It always depends upon who is looking. Are we speaking of the physical eye's attention that is the person, or the watcher that is the self-observer, or the field of attention of the witnessing consciousness, or is it beyond all?

I suppose we could speak of who I am as Pure I or the Heart, yet being indescribable, any word falls short.

Simply put, I am beyond all and without contradiction all of the above.

When one's identity is based solely on the person, there is consciousness, the "I am" that is existence and this existence is still witnessed. Witnessing is the subtle fabric of the mind and disappears with all its objects.

The witness is still within duality and hence we have this sense of being “between two worlds” that appears after complete and spontaneous detachment; formlessness that is separate from all form and still unity consciousness.

This separation ceases in Non-duality and the fully integrated life of Self-realization.

Being-consciousness-bliss depends upon “one another,” as well as upon the Supreme Reality.

In the Non-dual reality, all is real whether in movement or motionless, yet it is only the mind that moves creating the illusion.

For the "aspirant," it must be understood that virtually nothing that can be perceived or conceptualized can be who you are.

That which is witnessed is the mind's imagination and you will find that this is based on either the mind’s fear or desire.

The daytime dream is just that … a dream … it has continuity solely due to memory. Just like your nighttime dreams, you can wake up.

Within consciousness, there are infinite universes and when you realize that you are that which makes all possible (including the mind’s consciousness), you may experience any of these real/unreal dimensions, whenever they happen or appear.

They are just as real/unreal as your present daytime dream. Some are denser and others illuminated with more light, such as when only wise love prevails or when they are free of judgment and therefore negativity.

Each operates under different “universal” laws. Once again, by trial and error, these laws reveal themselves.

Could it be possible that we never step into the same river twice?

Are the laws that we have learned and been conditioned to believe for this “dimension” that we call “earth and universe” truly steadfast and “universal” or is it just that we believe in those limitations and mind structure?

Alas! First things first, before the adventures begin!

May I repeat and profoundly stress that as alluring as this might be for the mind and its consciousness, you are never anything that you can perceive!

This requires that you to step out of the tiny boat of personal identity that is the body limitation with its given name for an address. We lose nothing. We shift in identity only.

Nothing you perceive is your own.

First is the great disappearance of the universe. Then, when the consciousness of the illumined mind is pure and the world reappears, nothing is the same.

While extraordinary or dumbfounding, visions are essentially meaningless. You know who is calling you back!

Who are you really is the only essential question.

The invitation is to contemplate this and examine carefully so that this is realized directly.

 Nothing of true value can come from the impermanent “outside.”

You are only limited by the perception of yourself and the body is only another object seeming to appear in the ever changing field of consciousness.

I merely make all things possible, including nothing.

The only thing required is to be aware of being and all will be effortlessly revealed.

Apply the Self-inquiry question, “Who am I?” each time the compulsive, altered state of consciousness projects towards its sense objects and refuses to remain as the resting power that is the witness. This is not immediate! Persistence is required.

Self-inquiry is successful!

Where is “I” arising from?

Even here as the witness, you will disappear, so continue the Self-inquiry as the altered states of consciousness dissolve and the mirror of the mind gains perfect clarity and therefore a perfect reflection.

Finally, attend satsang with a “realized teacher.”

I believe the analogy used by many is that a wet log is nearly impossible to light with a single match, yet when you drop it into a roaring fire, it readily ignites. You will notice that for weeks after satsang the intensity seems to increase. One fine day, it will never again diminish. Yet, this too is a misperception.

The sun remains as brilliant on a cloudy day as when the sky is blue.

Satsang is not the entire answer. Awareness of being as an all day-long movement meditation, Self-inquiry and satsang, intensives or longer silent retreats are simple answers.

Further, once all of the wrong ideas are removed, what remains is Truth and the talks offered during satsang assist this right understanding, while silently burning tendencies.

While you cannot know who you are, since you are beyond the mind and its cognition, you can learn all that you are not and once directly encountered and spontaneously surrendered, what remains is who you really are.

However once again, if the one who is pointing is only half way up the mountain, detours and dead ends are likely. Nonetheless, when you are ready, the “appropriate teacher” finds you and conditions appear without seeking, evaluation and choice.

Everywhere you are is perfection.

It all happens by itself.

Deeply contemplate each of these paragraphs over time and when appropriate. The timeless has no issue with time.

I am not asking you to philosophize, agree, disagree or “do” anything. That would be counterproductive. Contemplation is meditation and deep noticing.

What seems to be true right now may in fact be false later. So we crystallize nothing and change nothing.

No one arrives anywhere.

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Teen Journey ~ Who Are You? ~ Dare to Find Out? ~ Vancouver BC - Katie Davis Blog: AwakebyKatie

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Does Ignorance Truly Exist or Is There Only Inattention? by Katie Davis

When someone inquires about ignorance, I will generally ask them to inquire first, who is ignorant?

They are not realizing that they are imposing the concept of ignorance over the present state of their thoughts and emotions. However, if they are willing to truly examine the thoughts or feelings each time the negativity arises, they discover that there is no such thing as ignorance; only inattention.

In the very moment that they are willing to be curious enough to look directly, it brings to light what worries them. Attention is all that is required. I am not proposing any action; only simple attention. After all, worry is a form of pain and one cannot deny that the pain is calling for attention. In the instant of merely shifting their attention, the call for attention ceases and the question of ignorance dissolves.

Whatever your question or worry may be, instead of waiting for the answer, find out who is asking the question and what is making it arise. You find of course that it is the mind that is asking the question and that it is demonstrating its fear of pain.

In fear there is memory and anticipation; that is past and future. Attention will bring you back to the present, the now, and presence is a state that is forever at hand, but rarely even noticed. The worry or anxiety cannot prevail in presence of now. Emotional pain is resistence born of the mind's time.

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Part 1 of 6 Sundance Burke on ConsciousTV Interviewed by Iain McNay

Part 1 of 6 ~ Sundance Burke, author of "Free Spirit" is interviewed by Iain McNay on ConsciousTV in London during his latest satsang tour to the mainland U.S., Europe, England and Canada on spiritual awakening, Non-duality, enlightenment and Self-realization.

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Part 2 of 6 Sundance Burke on ConsciousTV Interviewed by Iain McNay

Part 2 of 6 ~ Sundance Burke, author of "Free Spirit" is interviewed by Iain McNay on ConsciousTV in London during his latest satsang tour to the mainland U.S., Europe, England and Canada on spiritual awakening, Non-duality, enlightenment advaita and Self-realization.

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Part 3 of 6 Sundance Burke, Author, Free Spirit on ConsciousTV Interviewed by Iain McNay

Part 3 of 6 ~ Sundance Burke, author of "Free Spirit" is interviewed by Iain McNay on ConsciousTV in London during his latest satsang tour to the mainland U.S., Europe, England and Canada on spiritual awakening, Non-duality, enlightenment and Self-realization.

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Part 4 of 6 Sundance Burke on ConsciousTV Interviewed by Iain McNay

Part 4 of 6 ~ Sundance Burke, author of "Free Spirit" is interviewed by Iain McNay on ConsciousTV in London during his latest satsang tour to the mainland U.S., Europe, England and Canada on spiritual awakening, Non-duality, enlightenment and Self-realization.

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Part 5 of 6 Sundance Burke, Author, Free Spirit, on Conscious TV Interviewed by Iain McNay

Part 5 of 6 ~ Sundance Burke, author of "Free Spirit" is interviewed by Iain McNay on ConsciousTV in London during his latest satsang tour to the mainland U.S., Europe, England and Canada on spiritual awakening, Non-duality, enlightenment and Self-realization.

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Part 6 of 6 Sundance Burke on ConsciousTV in London, Interviewed by Iain McNay

Part 6 of 6 ~ Sundance Burke, author of "Free Spirit" is interviewed by Iain McNay on ConsciousTV in London during his latest satsang tour to the mainland U.S., Europe, England and Canada on spiritual awakening, Non-duality, enlightenment and Self-realization.

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Katie Davis, Author, Awake Joy and Sundance Burke, Author, Free Spirit on ConsciousTV, London with Iain and Renate McNay, Produced by Iain McNay

Katie Davis, author of "Awake Joy" and Sundance Burke, author of "Free Spirit" are interviewed by Iain and Renate McNay of ConsciousTV in London, England, during their latest satsang tour on the mainland U.S., Europe, England and Canada.

This spontaneous interview is entitled "Presence" and shares spiritual awakening, Non-duality, Advaita, Self-realization and enlightenment.

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Satsang in Haiku, Maui, Hawaii ~ Katie Davis, Sundance Burke ~ Maui Satsang

Spirit of Aloha Oceanfront Botanical Gardens, Satsang with Katie Davis, author of "Awake Joy: The Essence of Enlightenment" and Sundance Burke, author of "Free Spirit: A Guide to Enlightened Being.

Deepest gratitude to Swaroop and Meenakshi for hosting a magnificent evening of satsang at the secluded and heavenly Spirit of Aloha Oceanfront Botanical Gardens in Haiku on Maui in Hawaii.

We are grateful to all who attended and contributed to this lovely evening of grace and gratitude.

For those who did not hear of the gathering, please be sure to join our mailing list at www.KatieDavis.org. The mailing list only publishes once a month when you receive your free copy of the Friends of the Heart Newsletters with articles by Katie Davis and Sundance Burke on awakening, satsang, enlightenment, Non-duality, Advaita and Self-realization. We always include announcements for our upcoming events. You will be sure to be notified of our next Maui Satsang.

Whenever we are not traveling on a satsang tour, we meet weekly in satsang with the ohana on Maui. We have just returned from a tour that began last July to the mainland U.S, Europe, England and Canada. We will be on Maui until the end of February.

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Private Satsang with Katie Davis or Sundance Burke
November 24-February 8
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Magnificence! Maui Silent Retreat and Satsang
February 11-16, Beautiful Spa Estate
Affordable Luxury, Tranquility, Relaxation, Deep Stillness, Self-inquiry
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Love, Aloha and Gratitude ~ We are so happy to be home to paradise!

~ Katie Davis

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The Grace of Silent Retreat by Katie Davis, Author, Awake Joy

Silent Retreat is an opportunity to step out of daily activities and profoundly rest as deep silence. This stillness is the aliveness that is already within you, untouched by the ego, its time and suffering. This is an extraordinary chance to realize the Heart that you genuinely are at the core of being through being present, deep resting and Self-inquiry.

Gathering together for an extended period in the frequency of satsang, you may realize the conscious freedom and causeless joy that is endlessly available through spiritual awakening, enlightenment and Self-realization. With the rare guidance and support that only true satsang can offer, it is a time to at last discover the truth of one's being or to deepen, integrate and “stabilize” that profound realization.

Silent retreat is an intimate and safe place to expose the lie of every imagined obstacle to lasting happiness that is the birthright of every human being. It is a private time to focus on what you truly want, what really matters and then tell the truth about that revelation.

Retreat is one of radical relaxation to allow the ego, its anxieties and fears to totally unwind. With all daily needs taken care of for you, there are no distractions and you are able to effortlessly focus. When all falls away, you realize that what remains is an unspeakable sacredness, a field of pure potentiality that is eternal peace, bliss and wise love that has no opposition whatsoever. This shift is called Self-realization and it is the conscious and permanent fulfillment of the human being.

Perhaps you have assumed that a life that is totally free of negativity and suffering is utterly impossible. While we are required to explore this altered state of consciousness to its core, when the divided mind dissolves and we realize its illumination, it is the permanent end to all suffering. In fact, it is realized that suffering is no longer even possible!

This is far more than a “personal” freedom. There are universal reference points through which one will inevitably seem to pass and as one shifts deeper, the life situation and indeed the world situation effortlessly shifts on its own accord. In the end, the mind is only a mirror and when the "fog" on the mirror burns away, we have a perfect reflection of the Heart.

When we allow this realization to fully integrate, we no longer have a Source from which "all else" flows (duality and separation). We discover that we are living in a virtual paradise that reflects the basic goodness, selfless service, true compassion and unconditional love that is the Heart of all being.

I am not asking you to "believe" this. I am only inviting you to look, pointing where to look, and in what manner. Then, it is up to you. In this willingness, this realization is profoundly direct. Instead of doubt, confusion, frustration, misunderstanding and detours to Self-realization, we have harmony, simplicity and right understanding of the false. This is not a trivial matter. When it is said that you are the key to world transformation, it is a virtual truth.

While you may be perhaps prepared for an earthquake, are you prepared to be shaken awake? I have been traveling since 1999 and meeting a worldwide Heart family. The greater awakening is alive and flourishing ... so magnificently beautiful! By now, one could say that this shift is inevitable! Self-realization is not reserved for saints and sages. How could it be so, when it is the very essence that you already are?


Katie Davis, author of Awake Joy, is presently offering two silent retreats with satsang. The Mediterranean Retreat September 16-20 and the Magnificence! Silent Retreat and Satsang February 11-16 at a private spa estate upcountry Maui with Sundance Burke, author of Free Spirit.

Registration is open at the Katie Davis Website at:

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The Katie Davis Satsang Schedule is offering satsang in Seattle, Bellevue Washington, Valencia Spain, Bristol and London England, A Weekend of Satsang and Song in Paris France with music by Alexandra Cherrington, Keynote Presenter at the Body Soul and Spirit Expo at the Vancouver Convention Centre in Vancouver BC and Vancouver Satsang.

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Magnificence! Silent Retreat and Satsang, Maui Hawaii, February 11-16 with Katie Davis and Sundance Burke

Magnificence! Silent Retreat and Satsang, February 11-16, 2010, Maui, Hawaii

Private, Secluded Upcountry Spa Estate, Bi-coastal Views, Maui Sunsets

6 Days, Five Nights in Paradise, Relaxation, Tranquility and Deep Stillness

Registration Now Open at Katie Davis Satsang Schedule www.katiedavis.org/schedule.html

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Sundance Burke, Author, Free Sprit, www.SundanceBurke.org

Included in All Retreat Packages:

(9) Two Hour Satsang

(4) One Hour Silent Joy Satsang

Open access to Sundance and Katie who will be staying at the Estate.

Private or Shared Rooms without another home in sight
(only one room without oceanviews)

Yoga with the internationally acclaimed Meenakshi Angel Honig

Still Room, Privacy, Seclusion

Miles of walking in the adjacent Pine Forest Reserve

50 foot Saltwater Lap Pool, Ultraviolet Jacuzzi, Sauna

Private Vegetarian Chef, Meals Included

"Break the Silence" Maui Sunrise

Molokini and Turtle Town Social Cruise on the 53 foot Lani Kai.

Available:

Spa and Body Treatments, Additional Private Yoga Sessions

"As a long time student of Papaji and Gangaji and the many teachers that have come to Boulder, please accept my deepest pranams for one of the most memorable teachings I have personally received in the last 18 years. Sundance and Katie make a great team. Their humor, love and deep caring were expressed so easily. The meditation was amazing. Their quiet and gentle approach awakened in a simple way the wonder of the non-dual presence. I look forward to be invited into this timeless embrace with them again." ~ Chandra, Boulder, Colorado, USA

Photos of Estate Acreage, Grand Villa Estate, Cottages, Rooms;
Complete Program Description, Room Descriptions
Seven Retreat Packages
Kama'aina and Event Organizer Discounts

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Satsang in London, England ~ Katie Davis, Author, Awake Joy and Sundance Burke, Author, Free Spirit

Satsang in London, England

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Satsang in London: Wednesday, September 30, 7-9 pm

Satsang in London: Thursday, October 1, 7-9 pm

Venue: The Library of the Philadelphia Association
Martys Yard, 17 Hampstead High Street
London NW3 1QW in Hampstead

Nearest Tube: Hampstead


Satsang in London, Sunday, October 4, 3:30-5:30 pm

Venue: The Studio
60 Queens Rd
Buckhurst Hill IG9 5BY in Essex

Nearest Tube: Buckhurst Hill on central line


Admission Each Satsang: 10 GBP, please no cheques or cards.
No pre-booking or seat reservations. Payment at the door. Cash only.

Contact: Gina phone 07940 788 734 or jivangina@btinternet.com
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Mediterranean Silent Retreat and Satsang, September 16-20, 2009
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Magnificence! Silent Retreat and Satsang, Maui, Hawaii, February 11-16, 2010
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