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Cindy Teevens — Spiritual Awakening, the End of Seeking, Enlightenment, Separation & the Nature of Self

After her father’s suicide, Cindy became determined to find an end to suffering. Years later, during the pain of a breakup, she discovered something that changed the direction of her life: the suffering wasn’t caused by the breakup, and the love was not caused by any relationship. The suffering was being created, it’s a real experience of the imaginary mind.

Over roughly two weeks, she repeatedly moved from suffering into joy and back again until she learned to remain in love, joy and peace. For the next nine months, that love continued to deepen until it at times becamse overwhelming. Cindy fell in love with Love itself and wanted to know its source.

She was not a believer. She did not want to believe in God. She wanted to see for herself.

One day, walking in the woods with that longing, she realized that if the totality is God, nothing can exist outside it—including herself.

What followed was an explosion of love that knocked her to her knees, tears streaming down her face. When she looked up at the trees, she saw herself. Everywhere she looked, there was only the same Self that she is. Laughter exploded from her being, tickled every cell and drew tears of love and joy as she fell over in the snow.

Later, things were “wonky” as everything she knew about reality was being re-written—the historical mind was catching up with reality. A waterfall of tingling bliss rained down day and night for months. The extraordinary energetic intensity and months of bliss eventually faded. The realization did not. The loving did not.

Sixteen years later, including through four years of severe physical disability, the fundamental realization has never been lost: what she saw then is still what is seen now.

Cindy distinguishes the mental-emotional experiences accompanying realization from the reality that is realized. Bliss, expansion, energy and other extraordinary experiences arise and pass. An experience happens and passes. The more important question is: when the experience ends, does what is seen end with it?

Awakening is Not Enlightenment

Awakening is waking from the imaginary and temporary real experience of the unreal mind. Dreaming is a verb, an activity and experience. Enlightenment is Self-knowledge: recognizing the nondual identity of oneself and reality.

Self-Realization (or Enlightenment) Doesn’t Fade

Sixteen years after realization, the extraordinary bliss and energetic intensity have faded. What she sees has not: “Everything is still myself. So the seeking ended, but the loving didn’t. I still live in happiness, joy and peace, you could say its the new normal. Even through 4 years of painful disability.”

Enlightenment is Self-realization. It is true Self-knowledge: realizing both what you are not AND what you are. What you realize you are not, you never actually were. What you realize you are, you have always been.

So awakening concerns dreaming. Enlightenment concerns identity.

Signature Interview Topics

1. Two-Minutes to Inner Peace
2. The fireworks fade. Reality doesn’t.
3. Awakening is Not Enlightenment.
4. The Seeking Ended. The Loving Didn’t.
5. She Went Looking for the Source of Love—and Found Herself.
6. I Thought the Breakup Was Causing My Suffering. It Wasn’t. We don’t suffer reality
7. What Self-realization looks like 16 years later—after the bliss, through illness, disability and ordinary life.
8. “I had and lost my awakening” is not possible

About Cindy

Cindy has been teaching and facilitating since before 2010. She is the author of The Happiness Lie and Alchemy: How to Feel Good No Matter What, and is developing The Human Handbook series.

Her previous interviews include a full-length appearance on Buddha at the Gas Pump. She also has video of a conversation with Mooji shortly after her direct realization in the woods. Additional past interviews include radio and online media appearances.

Previous Interviews with Cindy Teevens

Buddha at the Gaspump Interview

Watch the full interview with Rick Archer here: Buddha at the Gas Pump (BATGAP).
Also see some Q&A on that page.

Cindy Speaks with Mooji after the direct seeing of Self

Awareness Explorers Interview

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About the Author – Cindy Teevens

Cindy is a transformative voice in the world of inner peace, happiness, and spiritual awakening. Unlike common self-help or spirituality experts who offer intellectual ideas, beliefs or philosophies, Cindy delivers a direct experience of freedom, love, and joy—one that profoundly shifts perspectives even in a single conversation.

What Makes Cindy Unique?

✔ A Life-Changing Awakening:
Her own suffering was immediately swapped for joy, revealing the illusion of self and other. This radical transformation led to a deep understanding of how we mistake the outside for the inside and how shifting our inner state dissolves suffering—no matter what life throws at us.

✔ Laughter, Love & Liberation:
Her journey isn’t just about finding peace—it’s about the cosmic joke of reality. She brings humor and lightness to deep spiritual truths, making complex ideas simple, practical, and immediately life-changing.

✔ A Guide Through Darkness to Light:
Having walked through profound suffering, including the suicide of her father, Cindy deeply understands emotional pain, loss, and struggle. She doesn’t just teach inner peace—she walks with people through their darkest moments, showing them the freedom they always have.

✔ Transforming Lives from the Inside Out:
Cindy’s work effortlessly shifts people’s states—from despair to peace, from fear to love. She helps seekers see through the illusions that keep them trapped and directly experience the truth that sets them free.

✔ Author of Powerful Books on Happiness & Awakening:
She is the author of Alchemy: How to Feel Good No Matter What and The Happiness Lie, revealing the hidden misunderstandings that keep generations stuck in suffering.

✔ A Visionary Perspective on Self & Awakening:
Months after her initial joy awakening, a spontaneous explosion of love dissolved all separation, leaving only Self. This profound non-dual experience—which she’s documenting in her upcoming third book—sets her apart as someone who truly sees beyond the mind’s illusion.

Cindy doesn’t just talk about transformation—her pointers shift perspectives, dissolve suffering, and awaken laughter and joy.

Cindy Teevens is an international inner peace and happiness facilitator, exceptional and unique in helping people shift their state and transform their lives permanently, from the inside out.

Six years after the suicide of her father, in one moment her own intense suffering was swapped for amazing joy, altering her life permanently. Happiness and peace became her predominant states. Laughter exploded at the simplicity and power of it, and tears of gratitude flowed. Understandings began to come about how we have been living backwards, how we have mistaken the outside for the inside, and how we have tethered ourselves to the uncontrollable winds of change in the midst of freedom—and how we can return to truth, sanity, and peace.

She dropped everything she was doing to show people how to feel good no matter what because when you shift your state, your whole perspective and world shifts; problems dissolve, villains become victims, and compassion kicks in. She wondered “How was it that we could not have known this before?” So many understandings followed this amazing revelation, that she simply could not NOT share this gift. Now Cindy helps people awaken joy in their lives.

About nine months after discovering joy, one day in the woods she was knocked to her knees by an explosion of love that was followed by the end of time and space, self and other, and when she looked up at the trees, she saw them as herself, as everything is. Uncontrollable laughter belted out from the belly of being, tickling every cell in her body as it laid on the snow, laughing and crying at the simplicity and unbounded joy of it all.

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“You are a blessing… I needed to hear what you said in just the words you said. Your clarity is beautiful and effective because you speak from direct experience. That is so evident.” — Laurell Eden, recording artist and personal development teacher, New York City

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“In the moment the shift happens it feels like a miracle has taken place.”

— Vivienne C., Ottawa

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