Awakening and
World Change by Catherine Ingram
After years of dharma practice, there came a point when I thought: 'This is all well and good for us, but how does it help anybody else?' I wanted to be around people who were manifesting their understanding in the world. So I became a journalist solely to talk to those people (and have an excuse for them to talk to me). I settled down in Cambridge, Massachusetts and I began seeking out what you could call 'the Gandhis of our time'. I interviewed all the great spiritual teachers I could find and specialized in consciousness and activism. I wanted to figure out how our actions in the world are reflections of our understanding. Enlightenment is not a word I use. I prefer to call this a natural way of being, the most natural actually. I don't use the word “enlightenment� because the term itself is very loaded and implies