About this episode
Katie Davis is a spiritual teacher and author who offers satsang worldwide. She is a graduate of the University of Washington, a former secondary school educator, a former owner of aerobics studios in the Pacific Northwest and mother of two. She is author of Awake Joy: The Essence of Enlightenment and since 1999, she has been traveling to share with people the radical possibility of Self-realization that is the end of all suffering, separation and the key to world transformation. Katie Davis was a Keynote Presenter at the Vancouver BC Convention Centre in Canada. She offers spiritual talks at church services or spiritual gatherings, corporations, hospitals, professional communities and organizations, schools, television and radio shows, as well as for community organizers worldwide that are offering talks in the form of satsang in public meetings, intensives, and silent retreats. In 1986, Katie Davis radically and spontaneously awakened to the ultimate reality of who we really are without practices or teachers. She had never meditated or even heard of enlightenment, Advaita Vedanta, Non-duality or Self-realization. Katie had no intellectual reference whatsoever for what had occurred. Katie's book, Awake Joy: The Essence of Enlightenment Interview recorded 4/29/2012 YouTube Video Chapters: 00:00:00 - Introduction and Childhood Spiritual Experiences 00:03:30 - The Fear of Death and the Understanding of Being 00:07:19 - A Transformative Experience in the Youth Group 00:11:08 - Awakening through Life Experiences 00:14:34 - Detachment from Form and Personal Identity Loss 00:17:30 - The End of Suffering 00:20:46 - Developing Understanding through Experience 00:24:41 - The Power of Silence and Surrender 00:28:37 - Exploring the Nature of "Being" and "I-ness" 00:31:57 - Beingness and the Influence of Wind 00:35:15 - Practices to Relax the Sense of Self 00:39:16 - Habits and Conditioning 00:44:11 - Spontaneous Acceptance of Circumstances 00:47:49 - Describing vs. Prescribing the Path to Compassion 00:51:05 - Looking Beyond the Image 00:53:59 - The Essence of Being Pure Consciousness 00:58:02 - The Role of the Ego in Spiritual Growth 01:01:37 - Preferences and the Body Intelligence 01:05:57 - Fulfillment beyond Circumstances 01:09:35 - The Road Map of Self-observation and Detachment 01:14:08 - Reflections and Witness State 01:17:35 - Unity Consciousness and Direct Looking 01:20:54 - Exploring Different Types of Surrender 01:24:39 - Surrendering to the Cosmic Personality 01:28:18 - Letting Go of Trying and Searching 01:32:10 - Accessing Unconditioned Intelligence and Creativity 01:36:46 - The Vastness of the Universe 01:39:50 - The Indescribable Nature of the Absolute 01:43:37 - Surrendering to Divine Intelligence 01:47:32 - Thanking the Community and Concluding Remarks 01:50:41 - Conclusion and Farewell