The Great Awakening: Concepts and Techniques for Successful Spiritual Practice

The Great Awakening: Concepts and Techniques for Successful Spiritual Practice is a clear and accessible guide to authentic spiritual growth written by Dr. Mike Sosteric, the founder of the Lightning Path. Unlike typical spiritual texts that dwell in abstract mysticism or religious dogma, this book offers practical advice rooted in lived experience and grounded in a system designed for healing and reconnection. In two parts—”Road School” and “Driving the Roads of Creation”—Dr. Sosteric guides readers through essential concepts like connection, trust, breathing, and self-confidence while debunking common spiritual misconceptions. With down-to-earth language and a compassionate tone, The Great Awakening invites readers to awaken not to a rigid spiritual doctrine, but to their own innate capacity for connection, healing, and empowered living.

Theoretical Introduction

The Great Awakening functions as an introductory cornerstone within the Lightning Path corpus, elaborating a contemporary reconceptualization of mysticism and spiritual development grounded in a scientifically aware, psychologically literate, and decolonially informed framework. Unlike traditional Enlightenment-centric spiritual discourses which elevate detachment and dissolution, Sosteric asserts the primacy of “connection” as the authentic telos of human spiritual evolution. Drawing from a radical reinterpretation of spiritual experience as connection events—as detailed more extensively in his autoethnographic and theoretical work (Connection 100, Mysticism, Consciousness, Death)—this monograph introduces a user-ready psycho-spiritual map for re-integrating the Bodily and Spiritual Egos, facilitating full-spectrum human development. By foregrounding systemic disconnection, toxic socialization, and ideological distortion as spiritual pathologies, The Great Awakening provides both theoretical scaffolding and tactical praxis for individuals navigating late-stage capitalist malaise toward authentic reconnection with the Fabric of Consciousness.