Wide Awake Living

Spiritual Awakening, Realization, Enlightenment, Liberation or Finding the Kingdom of Heaven... the name you might use just depends on what your spiritual tradition might be.


This is beyond religion.  We are simply finding again who we are--what Mother Nature has known all along and is telling us in the flowers, in the birdsong, in the circumstances of our down-to earth lives and everywhere we look.

Welcome!

In our diverse spiritual traditions, phenomena such as spiritual awakening have long been the domain of spiritual teachers and adepts who have lived lives apart from our everyday world, in monastic or otherwise isolated settings.


Today, however, many people are finding that spiritual awakening is not so far away, not lifetimes in the future, but Here, right in the middle of our modern lives.


This site began back in early 2003 as a simple expression of something that the author sees as a possibility for all people; the possibility of awakening out of lives of limitation and suffering into lives which are freely, intimately, and joyously at-one with all that is.


Spiritual awakening is seen not as a far-away dream to be reached at some future time, but as a different way of perceiving what is here now. A way where one looks to, and eventually lives from the core of who we truly are, rather than living out of a false identity built of ideas and concepts about oneself and one's world.

The pages that are included in the site are for your enjoyment, and you are welcome to explore them at your leisure. The photography is a hobby I very much enjoy, and if I do well with the photos, they can also bring the teachings of the natural world somewhat into the online format that we work with here. The natural world supports all of our lives in every way, and is a beautiful and marvelous teacher.

Please join our subscription list to stay connected and grow with us as we develop more aspects of an interactive online community as a support to those who are interested in awakening, and particularly those who are deeply involved in the actual living of that in everyday life.

And I hope that you enjoy exploring my book called Life Beyond Belief, Everyday Living as Spiritual Practice which is available on this site and elsewhere.

Blessings,

Alice Gardner

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