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