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Eight years ago Trillium Awakening was chosen as the new name for our organization, formerly known as Waking Down in Mutuality. After an intensive search, the name Trillium Awakening was brought forth at the last moment and carried the day by a close vote over Core Emergence. Not everybody was in love with the name…
My Story
“You know all those great spiritual ideals we’ve cherished for years? Those are actually real things and they can be experienced by ordinary people like you and me.” These words were spoken to me by my friend Max in 2002 and, needless to say, they got my attention. His voice was so matter of fact…
Always Awakening: The Continuing Playful Exploration of Self-Inquiry & Life
This essay is to become part of a book, a good friend has challenged me to post it as it is, which I am doing here. This is just a start, hopefully it is helpful for some folks as it is so far. The folks I’m addressing here in this essay are not primarily those in…
Whole Being Consummation
Trillium Awakening as expressed by Fax Gilbert For me awakening is a movement into who we are as consciousness, who we are as a person and who we are in relationship. A whole being awakening. This movement can have specific transition points (recognitions, peak experiences) or can emerge as more of a flow, where the…
Poem: Now
There will never be any other time than now. Now is more than enough. Now contains the universe and beyond. Now what? Now what matters is loving now. Nowness is the miraculous fabric of life unspooling into infinity. From nothing, into everything, into nothing again. Infinity always becoming, now.
Racism is Alive in Me
As we say in Trillium Awakening: the good news is that perfection is not required in order to have a spiritual awakening. And, we are quick to add: the bad news is that perfection is not bestowed upon spiritual awakening! This is a humbling fact, to say the least. It means that after realizing our…