The Awakening West

The Awakening West - Lynn Marie Lumiere, John Lumiere-Wins

The Awakening West by Lynn Marie Lumiere and John Lumiere-Wins, subtitled Conversations with Today's New Western Spiritual Leaders, explores a remarkable development. For centuries, Western seekers looked to the East for wisdom and enlightenment. Today a fresh and distinctly Western approach to spiritual awakening is taking shape, drawing on Zen, Hinduism, Advaita Vedanta, Kashmiri Shaivism, Judaism and Christianity.

In this book The Awakening West the authors bring together the voices of contemporary teachers who are shaping this living tradition, including Adyashanti, Gangaji, Byron Katie, Eckhart Tolle, Douglas Harding and Lama Surya Das. Through personal stories, reflections and shared experiences, each offers a different perspective on the search for truth, inner freedom and a deeper awareness of life. Together they show how ancient wisdom can speak to the questions of modern Western seekers and what awakening can mean in everyday life.

Lynn Marie Lumiere is a marriage and family therapist in the San Francisco Bay Area with a special interest in bringing non-dual insight into psychotherapy. John Lumiere-Wins is a hypnotherapist and spiritual counselor with many years of experience in Eastern and Western spiritual practice. An inspiring book for anyone interested in spiritual growth, non-duality, consciousness and the many paths to awakening.