About Us
The Awakening Collective is a trusted space to find articles, exercises, teachers, tools, and resources that can help you find your way from initial awakening to full enlightenment. Whether you’re just beginning your journey or looking to go deeper, our curated collection of resources helps you deconstruct the concepts that continue to create illusions, even deep into the awakening journey.
Our Values
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Critical Thinking & Questioning
Spiritual communities often punish participants for questioning or having different perspectives from the group. But in Reality, there is no 'right' or 'wrong' perspective. In fact, questioning and exploring beyond groupthink or what appears to be true is exactly what leads to full enlightenment. Therefore, one of our key missions is to teach you how to question concepts, beliefs, thoughts, and emotions more effectively. |
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Secular Approach
Although we talk about spiritual ideas on this website, awakening doesn't actually have anything to do with spirituality. Anyone can wake up, regardless of whether they are spiritual, religious, or even atheist. Beyond the sense of doership, beyond cause & effect, and beyond meaning-making, it becomes obvious that everything, including awakening, is happening on its own in complete freedom. |
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Integral Understanding
Even though awakening can happen to anyone, our awakening experience is crucially affected by our psychology. Psychological maturity (also called ego development) is key to integrating our awakening in ways that help us both progress towards full enlightenment and offer true compassion to the apparent selves who still suffer. |
About the Founder
Dr. Tchiki Davis, M.A., Ph.D. has dedicated her life to reducing suffering.
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✓ At age 15, she began hosting well-being events for her friends.
✓ She completed a BA, MA, and PhD, studying emotions and their effects on well-being. ✓ She then spent 6 years as a consultant supporting mental health startups. ✓ She founded The Berkeley Well-Being Institute, which has reached more than 16M people. ✓ She then had a spontaneous awakening and began the journey towards full enlightenment. |
Now, Dr. Tchiki focuses on helping people see through the illusions that hide full enlightenment.
Neither spiritual nor psychological practice alone leads to full enlightenment (or the seeing through of conceptual reality). To neglect either leaves us trapped in mental illusions that continue to create suffering (e.g., Wilber, 2024). After recognizing this widespread misunderstanding about awakening, Tchiki decided to create this website.
✓ Articles: All of the content on this website aims to help you deconstruct the concepts, beliefs, thoughts, and emotions that create illusions and suffering. Because most people awaken from earlier stages of psychological development, these illusions generally persist deep into awakening and even into nondual awareness.
✓ Mentoring: Dr. Tchiki's mastery of psychology enables her to recognize and support people in all stages of psychological development—stages that crucially affect how awakening is perceived, experienced, and transcended. Learn about one-on-one sessions with Dr. Tchiki by clicking the button below.
Neither spiritual nor psychological practice alone leads to full enlightenment (or the seeing through of conceptual reality). To neglect either leaves us trapped in mental illusions that continue to create suffering (e.g., Wilber, 2024). After recognizing this widespread misunderstanding about awakening, Tchiki decided to create this website.
✓ Articles: All of the content on this website aims to help you deconstruct the concepts, beliefs, thoughts, and emotions that create illusions and suffering. Because most people awaken from earlier stages of psychological development, these illusions generally persist deep into awakening and even into nondual awareness.
✓ Mentoring: Dr. Tchiki's mastery of psychology enables her to recognize and support people in all stages of psychological development—stages that crucially affect how awakening is perceived, experienced, and transcended. Learn about one-on-one sessions with Dr. Tchiki by clicking the button below.