by Bob Banner

HopeDance reprinted an excerpt from Jan Frazier’s book “When Fear Falls Away” in the Jan/Feb issue. We promised readers we would follow up on the author. The book is now available at stores. The following is a short interview we conducted with her via email.

You write that there are many people becoming “enlightened” at this time? How do you know this?
My impression is that attention to awakened consciousness, as a general phenomenon, is growing. It is natural that this would come about in a time like ours, when so much of our world is in crisis – that is, that people would be moved to look within for answers, for a source of unwoundable peace. The outer sources of fulfillment are wearing visibly thin; few would disagree with this. The growing appeal of Eckhart Tolle’s message, of Byron Katie’s teachings and others’, is evidence that awakening (even if it’s only “relative,” only in a given moment) is being given more attention than it used to be.

Awakened awareness comes alive, shining light into the moment, any time people see their interior experience from a bit of a distance. Any time a person declines to identify, one hundred per cent, with a reaction, a thought, a feeling. This phenomenon of non-identification is surely more widespread than it was a few years back. In any life where that is taking place, there is almost certainly a reduction in suffering, a general “lightening” in relationships, work life, political and social activities.

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