Navigating the Path of Awakening: A Personal and Research-Based Journey Through Spiritual Transformation

In this presentation, I delve into my journey through various phases of spiritual awakening, from pre-awakened brushes with death and pilgrimages on the Camino de Santiago and Via Francigena, to a profound kundalini awakening. This pivotal event spurred me into deep academic research and worldwide travel, studying with over 100 practitioners that unfolded over four years. This phase closed with the publishing of my book ‘Capitalist Buddha: Waking up to Conscious Economics’ and a subsequent kensho awakening. Each phase of my awakening journey revealed unique cognitive, emotional, and existential challenges that reshaped my views on life, spirituality, consciousness, and economics. I will share insights from my experiences and academic research, exploring kundalini and kensho awakenings, the dark night of the soul, spiritual transformation, and my vision of conscious economics. Throughout the presentation, I’ll outline practical strategies for overcoming common obstacles in spiritual awakening and examine emerging trends in consciousness expansion.

Dr. Jeffrey Overall is a professor of conscious economics and entrepreneurship. He studies the link between consciousness and: mental health, optimum performance, increased productivity, sustainability, business ethics, financial performance, wakefulness, and spirituality. He also studies the causes of entrepreneurial and organizational success and failure. He has nearly 50 publications with 25 of these in peer-reviewed academic journals. He is the author of Capitalist Buddha: Waking up to Conscious Economics. Dr. Overall has been an academic for over a decade. He was a tenured professor at Ontario Tech University in Canada. Before that, he held professorships at Nipissing University in Canada, Ryerson University in Canada, and Leibniz Universität Hannover in Germany. He taught at the St. Petersburg Polytechinical University in Russia and the University of Bradford School of Management in Britain. He has 25 years of experience working directly with entrepreneurs within start-ups, incubators, and SMEs across various sectors and countries.