What Spiritual Awakening Actually Looks Like — with Lisa Cairns

A New Way of Being · 2025-06-16

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A deep and honest conversation about what happens when your identity dissolves, and how awakening isn’t what most people think.

In this episode of A New Way of Being, Simon speaks with spiritual teacher Lisa Cairns about the raw and real experience of spiritual awakening.

Lisa shares how a spontaneous shift in Bali completely changed her perception of reality — dissolving her sense of self, shaking her identity, and opening her to a sense of vast, loving awareness. Far from being a blissed-out fairytale, her journey included disorientation, vulnerability, and deep questioning.

This conversation explores:

What spiritual awakening actually looks and feels like

Why awakening doesn’t make life easier — but can make it more honest

The illusions we live by and what happens when they fall away

How to navigate the loss of identity with self-awareness and care

Why freedom is always available — even in the mess

This is a challenging and inspiring listen that cuts through spiritual clichés and gets to the heart of what it means to wake up.

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A New Way of Being

A New Way of Being is about the art of inner alignment and finding flow.It starts with developing a different relationship with your thinking mind. You are not your thoughts, you are aware of your thoughts. This is a crucial distinction that can have a profound effect.Life isn't something to be 'won', but is rather a continuous miracle to be experienced, and Simon Mundie and guests discuss ways to understand and embody this new way of being.Guests range from world renowned thinkers, philosophers, scientists and healers - to many of the most successful athletes of all time.

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