Waking Up: Over 30 Perspectives on Spiritual Awakening—What Does It Really Mean? - Various Artists (Sounds True)

A growing number of people are beginning to see things in a radically different way. In other words, more and more of us are starting to “wake up” spiritually—to discover an entirely new identity beyond the usual sense of who we think we are. But what is spiritual awakening, really? How does it happen—and what are the consequences? Is it possible to attune to this dimension of experience at any moment?

In Waking Up, Sounds True publisher and founder Tami Simon speaks with over 30 teachers about their personal understandings of spiritual awakening—how it takes place, what changes (and what doesn’t), and how their experiences can inspire and inform our own realizations.

Tracklist:

1. Adyashanti: A Radical Shift in Identity
2. Jack Kornfield: The Mandala of Awakening
3. Eckhart Tolle: The Death of the Little Me
4. Sally Kempton: Awake, Yes, But Keep Practicing
5. Reggie Ray: A Freedom that Leaves Nothing Out
6. Hameed Ali (aka AH Almaas): There Is No End to How We Explore True Nature
7. Thomas Hübl: Directness with Life
8. Sandra Ingerman: Being a Light in the World
9. Richard Rohr: Saying Yes To Being Found
10. Tara Brach: Loving Ourselves into Freedom
11. Ken Wilber: Recognizing Your Original Face
12. Matt Kahn: Whatever Arises, Love That
13. Robert Thurman: Shifting to the Infinite Lifestyle
14. Mark Nepo: The Call of Aliveness
15. Cynthia Bourgeault: Dropping the Mind into the Heart
16. Shinzen Young: Discovering Happiness Independent of Conditions
17. Jeff Foster: Life is Here Awakening Is Not a Destination
18. David Frenette: Divinized and Humanized
19. Tsultrim Allione: Remembering Our True Nature as the Ground of Being
20. Thomas Moore: Nothing Special
21. Loch Kelly: Small Glipses, Many Times; Unhooking Awareness from Thought
22. Rami Shapiro: Polymorphus Aliveness
23. Andrew Harvey: Dying into the Light
24. Rick Hanson: The Neuroscience of Awakening From State to Trait
25. Sera Beak: Remembering
26. Peter Fenner: Aware of Awareness
27. Mukti: What is Stillness
28. Chris Grosso: Removing the Armor of the Heart
29. Judith Blackstone: Opening Our Whole Being to Fundamental Consciousness
30. John Pendergast: Waking Up, Waking Down and Waking Out
31. Richard Freeman: The Process of Continual Awakening
32. Bentinho: Enlightenment Is Nothing but the Development of a New Habit
33. Rev. Michael Beckwith: One with the Infinite
34. Gangaji: Stopping in Our Tracks: The Turning Point of a Lifetime