Awake Joy: The Essence of Enlightenment [Hardcover]

Katie Davis (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1, 2008

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.

Editorial Reviews

Review

“As the world situation becomes more intense, we see the balance as it is expressed in the light of consciousness – also becoming stronger and brighter. Katie Davis is one of those precious lighthouses who beam their joy across the sea of humanity. We are blessed to share her book, Awake Joy, with us on our journeys. It is a gift for all seekers of Truth and enlightenment.”

~ Deva Premal and Miten, Prabhu Music

“Katie Davis shares a fresh vision of the awakened life in honest, elegant language that is a pleasure to read. Her lucid descriptions are accompanied by practical experiments that point you to the direct experience of your true nature here and now. I am happy to recommend her to you.”

~ David Dasarath Davidson, author, Freedom Dreams

“Katie’s obvious love of the real shines through every page and invites us all to recognize what is ever present.”

~ Isaac Shapiro, author, It Happens by Itself

“Katie Davis apparently has intimate knowledge of this mysteriously simple truth-place and her book will send you spinning round it like a moth around a flame. With luck, grace, or utter abandon, you may even fall into the flame.”

~ Michael Green, Artist and Creator, The Illuminated Rumi Books 

“Awake Joy is a lyrical expression of the essence of enlightenment. But do not be deceived by the rare delicacy of the prose. This is a must read of depth and brawn. Every question the seeker might ask is answered in exquisite detail. Even to the final page, I felt I was handling pure Essence, perhaps the most beautiful sheaf of pages ever in my rough hands.”

~ Dr. Mark Waller, author, Awakening

About the Author

In 1986, Katie Davis radically and spontaneously awakened without spiritual practices or teachers. In fact, she had no intellectual reference whatsoever for what had occurred. A graduate of the University of Washington, former secondary school educator, businesswoman and mother of two, she was stunned awake from the daytime dream of concepts, beliefs and form to fall into the reality of who we really are. This spiritual realization took twelve years to integrate and in 1999, she began offering meetings in the form of satsang in spiritual gatherings. Today, she travels worldwide with her message of conscious freedom and causeless joy in events, satsangs, intensives, silent retreats and private sessions.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Awake Spirit Publishing (February 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0980091225
• ISBN-13: 978-0980091229
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #683,472 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Katie Davis is a spiritual teacher, author and Keynote Presenter who 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.

In 1986, Katie spontaneously awakened without spiritual practices or teachers. Since 1999, she has been traveling worldwide to share at events, satsangs, intensives, retreats and private appointments the miracle and ecstasy that are available through realizing the awake Heart.

www.KatieDavis.org, the Katie Davis Website, offers free videos, free downloads of articles and e-books, a blog, a free Friends of the Heart monthly newsletter with articles on Non-duality and Advaita as well as her event schedule.

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The One Who Loves Her, June 10, 2008

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Sundance Burke - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Awake Joy: The Essence of Enlightenment (Hardcover)

In 1986, the author, Katie Davis, owned an aerobics business named Body by Katie. One day of that year, while Katie was teaching a superfit class, she simply disappeared from all earthly experience into the divine mystery beyond all awareness of form. Clearly a challenge to put into words, Katie calls this divinity within us, Awake Joy, the essence of living. Though her attention returned to the aerobic floor, its space and time, after being in attention only to its essence, it took her twelve years to fully re-integrate with the body and mind in this dimension. During that period, Katie was faced with the daunting challenge of integrating every human sense and impression that arose into the divine within her knowing. For that entire period, she existed in a state of consciousness that burned away every trace of illusion as it arose. In fact, her aerobics business literally burned down two years after her awakening. Many symbolic burnings followed. By 1998, the divine essence was fully embodied and the inspiration for this book was born into this life.

Awake Joy is Katie's gift of sharing the Truth with all of us. The fullness of Love and Joy is all that truly is. She states that this is who you are and what is always here and now. The "I" that you think you are and the body that you perceive are wondorous symbols that point to your timeless essence and formless beauty. The frequency of the divine Spirit within form is vibrantly alive and awake in this writing. My favorite passages are found where Katie shares her impressions of the natural world perceived from within the intelligence of the awakened Heart. Here we are lifted into the awe and wonder that she knows as the reality of our nature. Katie is simply a living angel, who's intimately aware of our life's goodness, beauty, love, peace and co-passion for all Being. How do I know this? I am her Beloved husband in this life. That admitted, this is a great book that will profoundly touch your soul if you are willing to give your mind to your Beloved, this Being, this life, this moment, just as it really is.

One proviso: Awake Joy is not for the timid or those of us who are still great believers in the personal self and what it might achieve. No, Awake Joy calls for your surrender of all that holds you to this surface dream. You see, causeless Joy depends on nothing you dream about, it depends only on You, or rather...it is You.

Injoy, Sundance Burke, Author, Free Spirit: A Guide to Enlightened Being

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fully Awake and Alive, May 21, 2008

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Robert Blake (Boulder) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Awake Joy: The Essence of Enlightenment (Hardcover)

"Awake Joy" is written by a western author that is awake, not awakening. Previously, my favorite book was Be as You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi (Arkana) by Ramana Maharshi. The difference is that "Awake Joy" does not use eastern terms that keep sending the reader to a glossary to determine the sanskrit meanings.

For pleasure reading, I have also enjoyed A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (Oprah's Book Club, Selection 61) and The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle. I loved these books, but they didn't seem to take me deeper than I am. Similarly, Awake Joy encourages conscious awakening, but also completes the journey to enlightenment and Self-realization.

Most useful, Katie encourages us to note "where we are looking from." She offers universal reference points all of which encourage deeper seeing. This noticing allowed a significant shift deeper during my first reading. Since I became aware of the reference point, I realized that I was actually beyond it, as Katie clearly points in the book.

For those who are sensitive to the awakened frequency, this book, Awake Joy: The Essence of Enlightenment, consumes "you."

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Spiritual Encyclopedia, March 18, 2008

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C. Mazuy - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Awake Joy: The Essence of Enlightenment (Hardcover)

"Katie Davis has written a Spiritual Encyclopedia! Everyone interested in enlightenment, spirituality or inner contentment will greatly benefit from this book. Covering every topic from the inner workings of the mind, Advaita, meditation and awakening, Katie leaves no stone unturned, no experience uncovered. A great celebration and teaching from one who is obviously Awake & Living Joy."



Kip Mazuy, Bliss Music