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From our dear friend Nikki at glad.is<\/a> regarding our annual Wake Up Festival<\/a>…<\/p>\n

I HOPE WE WAKE UP NEXT YEAR – 3 REASONS WHY WE SHOULD<\/strong><\/p>\n

At this time last week, I was sitting in my chair in Estes Park Colorado, at The Wake Up Festival<\/a>, listening to Jeff Foster<\/a>, day three of my journey there. At least I think I was sitting in my chair \u2013 I may have been floating in the air, or laying on the floor dying into Who I am.<\/p>\n

It was an incredible experience and I\u2019m about to give an unabashedly impassioned retrospective of this festival. Not because I\u2019m paid to do so by any means, but because, as I sat there in my chair, I wished that I could give every one of my friends and family the gift of attending this festival.<\/em><\/p>\n

First though, it\u2019s not a \u201cfestival,\u201d like say Wanderlust or Coachella. It\u2019s five days of something in between what Sunday School or church should have been and the courses you wish they would have taught in University. <\/strong>It\u2019s extremely well run, featuring the best of the best of modern day spiritual teachers, Ivy League professors and heads of Clergy, shaman and mystics and few sound healers too.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m a Virgo and very prone to my sign\u2019s traits of being able to point out how anything could be done better, and I don\u2019t think a festival or gathering of this kind could be done better.  It\u2019s deep \u2013 there\u2019s none of the superficial sales-y stuff I somehow find myself in at \u201cspiritual\u201d events in my hometown of Los Angeles.  It\u2019s the real deal. It\u2019s delivers raw truth in the teachings, the kind that you wouldn\u2019t expect to experience at something with the name \u2018festival\u2019 in the title.  <\/em>This is a place to go and absorb.<\/em><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know if there were fifty people there, five hundred or five thousand. But when Jack Kornfield got up on stage, there was just he and I. He found a crack in my heart that I didn\u2019t even know was there, and filled it with an intangible wisdom and courage that stuck, right in the place where the book I read last week was already forgotten.<\/p>\n

I almost didn\u2019t make it. My husband had a huge new business meeting, I couldn\u2019t find anyone to cover for me to watch our two young kids. One of my daughters was in a play I had to miss. This website was having technical issues \u2013 how could I justify letting all those things go to cover the Wake Up Fest?  The list of things goes on, but I\u2019m so grateful I made it. To be honest, I didn\u2019t expect it to be such a unique personal experience. I was going as a member of the media, but I came home a filled soul.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s 3 Reasons why you should consider attending next year:<\/p>\n

1- Many of us just don\u2019t prioritize physically attending events like this, and instead practice alone or in a cyber space.  (And in fact many people don\u2019t even have access to this type of open-minded spiritual gatherings where they live.)   We used to gather to hear uplifting messages in the weekly Sunday meetings of the traditional churches we grew up in, but now many people have a hole where the experience of spiritual community used to reside. So if you are a modern seeker, you must seek a physical community.<\/p>\n

2 \u2013 To hear these great masters, teachers & authors deliver their message, to practice with them in person is priceless. It\u2019s like the difference between looking a photo of the ocean or being there. (bonus: they\u2019re all accessible at the event \u2013 bring your books to get signed.)<\/p>\n

3- It\u2019s a great tragedy that our educational system provides no curricula for life.  There is plenty of college worthy content in this space \u2013 scientific studies on happiness, libraries of philosophical theories and of course loads of unifying spiritual beliefs that should teach us about being human, about dealing with life\u2019s ups and downs.  This four days of life class.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s for those reasons; finding community and the deepening of wisdom, <\/strong>that I hope you\u2019ll either attend the Wake Up Festival, or find something similar that provides this experience.<\/p>\n

Personally, I wish I could attend something like this every week or every month. I can\u2019t, but I do hope you\u2019ll meet me there next year \u2013 I\u2019ll definitely send you a reminder! (Make sure you\u2019re signed up for our email list.<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a run down, the nuggets if you will, of what I took away from the speakers I personally heard. (There were many more \u2013 I missed Adyashanti and others \u2013 and each of these speakers provided so much wisdom, it would be impossible to get it all down but there\u2019s a lot of great messages from these masters below!) Enjoy, and if you were there, please add or share your experience below.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Also, since you\u2019ll have to wait a year for the next Wake Up Festival, we\u2019ve put together a page of our favorite books by these teachers on page 1 in our Amazon store.<\/a><\/p>\n

Wake Up Festival Highlights:<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Tara Brach-<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tara gave us a two hour lesson on the nature of fear. It was powerful. Epic even. She reminded us that it\u2019s not about getting rid of fear. We need it, we are conditioned to have it. But our frontal cortex allows us to be mindful toward it, and to find freedom to relate to it. We have the equipment we need to wake up out of the trance of fear. She explained that the whole of the spiritual path is to meet your edge and allow it. Then she invited us to have tea with our fears.<\/p>\n

Mark Nepo –<\/strong><\/p>\n

Author Mark Nepo enlightened us on the importance of story, how we each have our individual stories, but that we are also part of each other\u2019s stories. He told the story of how his grandmother made him feel special, and gave him the confidence to go forward with his story.  (Which, is similar to my experience \u2014 the name of this website is not only a nod to joy (gladness) but also to my grandmother Gladis.)<\/p>\n

Mark reminded us that you can\u2019t step into the same river twice \u2013 a story also evolves based on our perception, and our personal growth\u2026over time some stories become more important than others.  The story we\u2019re in takes time to tell itself.  Have patience and courage to let the story evolve. We do see our stories differently as time goes by. Write them down.<\/p>\n

Sandra Ingerman-<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sandra was the only Shaman and one of the few mystics on the speakers roster. She gave a great introduction to Shamanism, reminding people that it\u2019s the oldest spiritual practice known to man \u2013 it dates back over 100,000 years and it was practiced all over the world, by every culture.  Everyone in the world has ancestors who practiced it. There are culture specific ceremonies, but shamanism is not specific to certain culture.<\/p>\n

Sandra explained Shamanism and how to work with spirits; spirits can help you ride the waves of life and connect us to source. It\u2019s a path of direct revelation. The key to learning about it is to practice it, she said. It\u2019s about the experience.<\/p>\n

David Whyte-<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh my, David Whyte. He was the keynote speaker on Friday evening. I\u2019ve read his poetry, but have to be honest; I don\u2019t ever find myself buying books of poetry. But when David Whyte stood on stage and spoke, for 90 minutes, reciting his own poetry, and also quoting the famous and not so famous philosophers and sages, without ever once looking at any notes, never once interrupting the melody of his poetry with an \u201cummm\u201d or a \u201clike,\u201d  I simply melted.<\/p>\n

When David spoke, I could clearly imagine a time, long ago, where women fell in love with and swooned over poets and writers and intellectuals instead of rockstars and soccer players and reality stars. As it should be.<\/p>\n

One of the many things he told us is that what we\u2019re most afraid of is our own unhappiness. Because \u201cif you were to claim it, everything in your world would require downsizing \u2013 all the parts of you that told you it was not possible would need new jobs.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

If you ever have the chance to hear him, please don\u2019t miss it.<\/p>\n

Dr. Kelly McGonigal-<\/strong><\/p>\n

This PhD, Stanford professor and yogini took us through slideshows of the brain that should have put you to sleep, but each slide and study that she explained was SO fascinating \u2013 this is the class that should be a requirement for any diploma.<\/p>\n

She took us through the functions of the prefrontal cortex, the Insula, the anterior cingulate cortex, and after showing us how the different parts of the brain work together, and how they signal other parts of the body, she explained how to connect with our highest self and stop identifying with the suffering. I mean seriously, how do we NOT learn this stuff in school?<\/p>\n

Jeff Foster-<\/strong><\/p>\n

This guy must be creating lots of spiritual crushes everywhere he goes. He\u2019s like a younger surfer version of Eckhart Tolle, but with a British accent.  He delivers his words with a really unique style, lush with intent, humor and compassion. His talks were like an orchestra of sensations for the ears, brain and heart to process together, to take in his direct and uncompromising message, which comes broken up with his funny laugh, and the too long pauses\u2026 which you later realize a real gift, to allow you the time to inhale and exhale\u2026.and allow his words go straight to your heart and feel their truth.<\/p>\n

Jeff inspired a separate, full article of quotes.<\/a> But my favorite piece of advice from Jeff\u2019s keynote: \u201cPerhaps all our suffering is pointing to the same place. Perhaps even this is God. Perhaps even this is grace. Even if it\u2019s not the grace you read about in the books. You\u2019re not really interested in a second hand life \u2013 in living someone else\u2019s life. You want to taste it, taste life right now because you want to be alive.   Taste the moment, the pain, don\u2019t try to escape.\u201d<\/p>\n

Seane Corn-<\/b><\/p>\n

The gorgeous Yogi entertained the crowd with her humor and her passion to move people to make difference. She pointed out that many people \u2013 no, most people in the world \u2013 live in perpetuated oppression, never allowed to challenge what religious authority tells them. Put to death for it even. But not us. We can question, evolve, transform, seek the truth. What a blessing. And why us? Were we just born at a lucky latitude or longitude or are we living out some karmic progression? I don\u2019t know the answer, but we DO get to do this, be in this free-thinking, truth-seeking community of discovery. What a gift.<\/p>\n

My favorite quote from her, paraphrased \u2013 \u201cIt\u2019s why we must go deep, get raw, celebrate the opportunity to grow and transform. We do it not to be right, but because we make the world better. We make the world better not by being right, but by being love. By understanding the wholeness of our being. By expressing love and knowing truth. And we will make peace inevitable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rabbi Rami Shapiro-<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rabbi Rami, delivered a fantastic, humorous talk on why he loves religion, and why it\u2019s also really scary.<\/p>\n

He points out that all religions stumble around the same ideas. Even though they divide us, every religion has the same perinnial philosophy or idea: The throught that you are not who you think you are. The extent to which you identify with who you think you are, is the extent to which you live with alienation, fear, suffering violence.  The extent to which you live in the larger sense is the ability to live in more joy, peace and have an ability to make the world better.<\/p>\n

He explained how religion is a human construct. How it is brilliant when it taps into something beautiful like \u201clove your neighbor as you love yourself\u2019 \u2013 and then the tragic irony of a religion that says \u2018love your neighbor, but kill or hate all those people over there.\u201d   God is not like that. People are like that.  Religions do that to get people to commit to their ideas. Religions are brands with taglines and slogans. (Death sells.) Question yours. Always.<\/p>\n

Matthew Fox-<\/strong><\/p>\n

Matthew Fox<\/a> lead a non-denominational \u201cCosmic Mass\u201d service on Saturday night, the closest that this festival got to being a festival the way I think of the word. I hadn\u2019t heard of Matthew, and feel that I need to introduce him to explain this event:  Matthew Fox is an internationally acclaimed spiritual theologian, an Episcopal priest, and an activist who was a member of the Dominican Order for 34 years. He holds a doctorate, summa cum laude, in the History and Theology of Spirituality from the Institut Catholique de Paris. As a spiritual theologian, he has written 30 books<\/a> that have been translated<\/a> into 48 languages and have received numerous awards<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With the Rabi, Sandra Ingerman Shaman, and Tami Simon joining him on stage, Matthew kicked off a mass that I at first I couldn\u2019t quite fit in with the rest of my Wake Up experience, but days later I understand that of course everything there has purpose and meaning ,and his presence was a part of dismantling my own ideas of what a church service looks like.  He\u2019s certainly a radical, but our times call for radical leaders.<\/p>\n

He reminded us that for most of human history, dance has been an important part of spiritual ritual. (And we danced, with Shiva Rea and Djs) We were reminded that the Pope did not invent mass. That we need to stop challenging the priests and pastors to keep us awake in the pew, but to become our own priests.  He told us not to abandon religion and ritual just because the modern church abandoned us, but reminded us that we must gather in new ways to meet our modern needs. He pointed out that the West remains so out of touch with its own mystical tradition that many Westerners seeking mysticism still feel they have to go East to find it. But we can create the practice and find the wisdom our soul seeks and knows is true, he said. And so we did.<\/p>\n

Anne Lamott-<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anne is probably the person you\u2019ll most want to have dinner with when this festival is over. She is as hilarious and loudly individual as you\u2019d expect and then some.  Feminist, mother, writer, comedienne, philosopher and intellectual, she\u2019s like the crazy aunt that enters a room and casts a spell of wonder on every adult and at the same time makes every child there feel that there\u2019s no one so special as them. You see your own specialness, your wildness in Anne Lamott.<\/p>\n

Anne on Life:  Life is like driving in the dark at night with the headlights on. You can only see a little ways, but that\u2019s all you need to make the whole journey.<\/p>\n

Anne on Writing: \u201cYou write and write and it\u2019s great but then you have to cut 75 pages. So you go back and kill your little darlings that were so perfect and so well said, but they were not human, they were arrogant and weighty. So you cut them and thank them for getting you to the human stuff. Those days writing those words were not wasted.  It\u2019s just like meditation. I sit, it goes badly. The bell rings, and it\u2019s ok because I get a piece of me back. And I still get full credit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jack Kornfield-<\/strong><\/p>\n

Who better to close five days of being in spirit, getting to know your soul, and connecting to the higher source, than the author of \u201cAfter The Ecstasy, the Laundry\u201d?<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Words truly can not describe how amazing his closing keynote was.  I probably would have messed up the whole experience once I got home, if he hadn\u2019t been there to take us home to the message. He led us through a couple of beautiful meditations, a poignant closing ritual, and mostly talked to us about this path, reminding us that everyone has triumphs and losses on it. \u201cLast year foolish monk, this year no change,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He surprised most of us in the audience when he told us his wife asked for a divorce last year, after almost thirty years of marriage. He reminded us that \u201cwe all get lost, that we forget, in our small sense of self, and then we remember, that we are not that limited person. Your loving awareness, your spirit, can not be taken.\u201d No matter what our circumstances when we get home.<\/p>\n

\u201cWho do you think you are?\u201d he asked, \u201cWho is born into that body with patches of fury hair, with a hole to put in plants and dead animals\u2026how did you get in there?  You come here and get joy and sorrow, pain and happiness. It\u2019s the curriculum. It teaches the heart how to love.  It\u2019s messy.\u201d<\/p>\n

The secret of all of this, (\u201cthis\u201d being both life, and being on this path) is to act well, without attachment to your emotions or what happens in your life. It\u2019s about not depending on your hopes for the results of things. That\u2019s the key.<\/p>\n

His parting advice:  \u201dFind the people who love the inner life. You need community.\u201d<\/p>\n

So, the over-riding message, take away from the Wake Up Festival, as I experienced it?  Wake Up. Wake up to being present and fully alive. Wake up with this community of seekers of truth, to the acceptance of Suffering, and it\u2019s trusty side-kick Fear, as part of the human experience. Don\u2019t shame them away, or shut them away; invite them to tea instead.<\/p>\n

\"review<\/a>Were you there? Do you recommend it to others? Please add, and tell others about your experience below!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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