Welcome...
That's me (David), sunglasses and all, actually doing a Jeshua channeling for a group in Boston, from a few years back now. The sunglasses were His idea.
I hesitated to use that as the main image for a site dedicated to the sacred subject of awakening, and the suffering it ends.
But the image conveyed what I wanted to show, and what He has often taught me. The issue with awakening isn't lack of seriousness - seriousness is the problem itself.
We awaken to joy... to flow... to the one thing we can awaken to: the greater awareness of the lived presence of love that is the nature of the reality we are always part of.
And it isn't serious.
Perhaps the most impactful question ever asked of me, on a dedicated path of truth seeking for over 40 years now, was this. It was a casual question from a casual acquaintance:
"Hey, what are you doing for fun?"
I gave some casual social reply, but I knew the real answer, deep into my spiritual path, was "nothing."
And I could see that if I didn't change, I would be shut down. I was collapsing.
And I realized right then that I was not to take a step until I was aligned with the energy of fun. So I stood there, right in the middle of a public hallway, until I was. I moved only in the direction of fun.
And in doing just that, it changed my life as much as any lesson in A Course in Miracles, or any of the other intense spiritual texts and curriculum I have studied these long years.
Desire of the heart, extending itself in love...joy...play, and friendship...that is what awakening is about. And it is the fastest way to enlightenment. Sacred fun, you might say. Loving Desire.
And if your journey has brought you here, it may not have been by accident.
Because once you become a truth-seeker, things almost never are!
And while what follows might sound serious, please know all is in service to the greatest truth ...we are free.
And we express that freedom in the extension of desire. And it is why we are experiencing and doing what we are experiencing and exactly now. And it is all perfect.
And if we don't see that yet, if we are still using our freedom to pretend we are not...well...that is just damned impressive!
And it all is just because we have gotten very good at hide and seek.
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For over forty years, I have explored the deeper meaning of human life through two intertwined callings: a lifetime of work as a fine artist, and a lifelong devotion to authentic spiritual inquiry.
My search was driven by a totally unexpected teen-age fall into a hell of such self-loathing that I almost did not survive it. And my approach to how to deal with all this is well summarized by the words of an early teacher of mine:
The Only Unsafe Thing is Not to Pursue the Truth.
Yes.
And from early on I discovered that unless we learn to see beyond surface appearances, we cannot perceive the deeper truth running through this world.
That insight has shaped both my art and my spiritual path — and ultimately led me through several profound teachings that answered questions nothing else could. And saved me from that hell.
This site brings those threads together into The Art of Awakening.
These teachings distill years of study into a synthesis of insight, clarity, and practical guidance for those seeking a more coherent and meaningful inner life.
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Over the years, students have shared:
“On that day, my whole life changed.”
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“I know of no finer spiritual teacher and guide than David, even after sixty years of seeking.”
