About
The Awakening Collective is a trusted space to find articles, exercises, teachers, tools, 1-on-1 sessions, meetings, and resources that can help you find your way from initial awakening to deeper nondual 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 well 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 there is no 'right' or 'wrong' perspective. In fact, questioning and exploring beyond spiritual groupthink (or what appears to be true) is exactly what leads to deeper insight. Therefore, one of our key missions is to give you permission to question your (and other people's) concepts, beliefs, thoughts, emotions, and other mental structures. |
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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, with no rules, as an expression of complete freedom. |
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Integral Understanding
Even though awakening can happen to anyone, whatever remains of the self & duality (and there is always a remainder) affects how we interpret and experience our awakening. This is why psychological maturity (also called ego-development or self-development) is key to integrating our awakening in ways that help us gain deeper insight, compassion, and stability. |
About the Founder
Dr. Tchiki Davis, M.A., Ph.D. spent 20+ years studying and writing about the human mind, emotions, and well-being as a research psychologist.
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✓ Raised as an atheist, Tchiki pursued science. She was never a spiritual seeker.
✓ She completed a BA, MA, and PhD, studying emotions and their effects on well-being. ✓ She built a career as a psychology writer, and her articles reached more than 30 million people. ✓ She had a spontaneous awakening that eventually evolved into deep nonduality. ✓ As greater clarity emerged, she wrote the content for this website. |
The Surprising Benefit of Being A Spiritual Outsider
After my awakening, I tried to participate in many different spiritual communities with no success. Unfortunately, I found most of these communities to have rigid belief systems, hierarchies of authority, and group-think—features that are the exact opposite of what awakening revealed to me.
Although those early years on my own were difficult, I eventually found myself to be uniquely positioned to approach awakening without any of the spiritual blind spots that get reinforced in these communities. Thus, this website became a space where awakeners could explore numerous perspectives on awakening, think critically about spiritual teachings, and freely choose the path that's right for them.
In my group sessions and 1-on-1s, I have nothing to teach, no agenda for what way the conversation will go, and no desire to change your perceptive or even 'wake you up'. No perspective is good or bad; no path is right or wrong. I have no attachment to any particular truth. Thus my role seems to be mostly a mirror that shines light on things you may not have noticed.
After my awakening, I tried to participate in many different spiritual communities with no success. Unfortunately, I found most of these communities to have rigid belief systems, hierarchies of authority, and group-think—features that are the exact opposite of what awakening revealed to me.
Although those early years on my own were difficult, I eventually found myself to be uniquely positioned to approach awakening without any of the spiritual blind spots that get reinforced in these communities. Thus, this website became a space where awakeners could explore numerous perspectives on awakening, think critically about spiritual teachings, and freely choose the path that's right for them.
In my group sessions and 1-on-1s, I have nothing to teach, no agenda for what way the conversation will go, and no desire to change your perceptive or even 'wake you up'. No perspective is good or bad; no path is right or wrong. I have no attachment to any particular truth. Thus my role seems to be mostly a mirror that shines light on things you may not have noticed.