About
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, emotions, and other experiences more effectively. |
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Secular Approach
Although we talk about many 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 or self-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 spent the last 20+ years exploring the human mind and the path to well-being.
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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.
On their own, neither psychological (self) nor spiritual (no-self) insights lead to full enlightenment (or the convergence of self & no-self). To neglect either side of this apparent duality 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, integrated, and embodied.
On their own, neither psychological (self) nor spiritual (no-self) insights lead to full enlightenment (or the convergence of self & no-self). To neglect either side of this apparent duality 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, integrated, and embodied.
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