Katie Davis is a spiritual teacher and author who offers satsang worldwide. She is a graduate of the University of Washington, a former secondary school educator, a former owner of aerobics studios in the Pacific Northwest and mother of two.

She is author of Awake Joy: The Essence of Enlightenment and since 1999, she has been traveling to share with people the radical possibility of Self-realization that is the end of all suffering, separation and the key to world transformation.

Katie Davis was a Keynote Presenter at the Vancouver BC Convention Centre in Canada. She offers spiritual talks at church services or spiritual gatherings, corporations, hospitals, professional communities and organizations, schools, television and radio shows, as well as for community organizers worldwide that are offering talks in the form of satsang in public meetings, intensives, and silent retreats.

In 1986, Katie Davis radically and spontaneously awakened to the ultimate reality of who we really are without practices or teachers. She had never meditated or even heard of enlightenment, Advaita Vedanta, Non-duality or Self-realization. Katie had no intellectual reference whatsoever for what had occurred.

Katie's book, Awake Joy: The Essence of Enlightenment

Interview recorded 4/29/2012

YouTube Video Chapters:

00:00:00 - Introduction and Childhood Spiritual Experiences

00:03:30 - The Fear of Death and the Understanding of Being

00:07:19 - A Transformative Experience in the Youth Group

00:11:08 - Awakening through Life Experiences

00:14:34 - Detachment from Form and Personal Identity Loss

00:17:30 - The End of Suffering

00:20:46 - Developing Understanding through Experience

00:24:41 - The Power of Silence and Surrender

00:28:37 - Exploring the Nature of "Being" and "I-ness"

00:31:57 - Beingness and the Influence of Wind

00:35:15 - Practices to Relax the Sense of Self

00:39:16 - Habits and Conditioning

00:44:11 - Spontaneous Acceptance of Circumstances

00:47:49 - Describing vs. Prescribing the Path to Compassion

00:51:05 - Looking Beyond the Image

00:53:59 - The Essence of Being Pure Consciousness

00:58:02 - The Role of the Ego in Spiritual Growth

01:01:37 - Preferences and the Body Intelligence

01:05:57 - Fulfillment beyond Circumstances

01:09:35 - The Road Map of Self-observation and Detachment

01:14:08 - Reflections and Witness State

01:17:35 - Unity Consciousness and Direct Looking

01:20:54 - Exploring Different Types of Surrender

01:24:39 - Surrendering to the Cosmic Personality

01:28:18 - Letting Go of Trying and Searching

01:32:10 - Accessing Unconditioned Intelligence and Creativity

01:36:46 - The Vastness of the Universe

01:39:50 - The Indescribable Nature of the Absolute

01:43:37 - Surrendering to Divine Intelligence

01:47:32 - Thanking the Community and Concluding Remarks

01:50:41 - Conclusion and Farewell