Awakening refers to a direct experience of God by surrendering the clouds that block our awareness of the Presence. We study the teachings of those who have awakened to the experience of God.

We use this term often to symbolize emotions, thoughts, stories, attachments, aversions or anything that separates us from the realization of God’s Presence.

We often refer to Dr. David R Hawkins as “Doc.”

The Self with a capital “S” means the Divine Essence within each human being or God immanent. It can have different terms from different religions like, Holy Spirit or Buddha Nature, to name a couple.

The self with a lower case “s” stands for the ego-based identity that sees itself as a separate individual.

There are many states of consciousness. We use “zip codes” as a term identifying the multiple nature of various conscious experiences which are as diverse as the ecology, economy, population, vegetation, etc., of different zip codes throughout the world. One is not better than another.