Awake Joy: The Essence of Enlightenment

by Katie Davis

Encouraged by Eckhart Tolle, Awake Joy is a unique and comprehensive guide to spiritual awakening, enlightenment, Non-duality, Advaita and Self-realization. It points to the radiant joy that is beyond the thinking mind, its separate sense of self and misidentification with form. Katie Davis points to freedom of the altered state of consciousness that we call the ego I and through Self-inquiry to its essential pure consciousness. We refer to this as Self-realization, or the realization of the Heart, that is Pure Awareness as pure being-consciousness-bliss. She then artfully encourages integration of this fundamental Truth to recognize the appearance of the universe as none other than the power of Truth.

The journey requires presence, not practices, although the book offers helpful experiments and meditations to free the idea of the practitioner. This book is designed to be your companion throughout your life s journey to true and lasting fulfillment. It will be a trusted resource again and again. This A to Z handbook stands free of concepts, philosophy and eastern jargon to point pragmatically for those who are ready to surrender suffering for themselves and the world.

196 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 2008

About the author

Katie Davis, author of "Awake Joy: The Essence of Enlightenment," spontaneously awakened over twenty years ago, without spiritual practices or teachers. She had never heard of awakening and had never been a seeker of Truth. In fact, she had no intellectual reference whatsoever for what had occurred. A former secondary school educator, businesswoman and mother of two, she simply radically awakened from the daytime dream of concepts, beliefs and form to fall into the reality of who we really are.Katie devoted the following years to integrating that transformation and now offers seminars in the form of satsang with her timeless message of true freedom and joy. Katie's husband, Sundance Burke, is her frequent teaching partner and author of "Free Spirit: A Guide to Enlightened Being.""