About Sundance Burke and Awakening
Sundance was born in Seattle, Washington under the given name, Donald Russell Burke III. He is a graduate of the University of Washington and the Gonzaga School of Law. While traveling for business in 1982, he experienced a profound spiritual awakening that fundamentally dissolved his concept of self with Satoshi (Osho) and Sunyata named the Rare Born Mystic by his friend Ramana Maharshi, who he met through happenstance alone.
In 1988, he met his future wife, Katie Davis, who had similarly experienced the miracle of Self-liberation. They spent twelve years integrating the spiritual realization.
In 1998, Sundance and Katie became close friends with Eckhart Tolle. When Power of Now published, they were invited to travel with him for two months. Subsequently, Eckhart invited them to share the teachings and they offered six week seminars on Eckhart teachings the Self-inquiry teachings of Ramana Maharshi on enlightenment. Sundance and Katie have been offering satsang since 1999.
In 2004, Eckhart encouraged Sundance and Katie to write their books, Awake Joy and Free Spirit. They moved from Seattle to Maui to write their books with their desks side by side and the expanse of the Pacific before them. Their books published in February 2008.
Sundance and Katie travel worldwide, wherever invited to offer satsang. Their 2008 schedule include Awake Joy and Free Spirit talks, satsang, satsang intensives and silent retreats with satsang in Dallas and Plano Texas; Sedona, Flagstaff, Scottsdale, Tempe and Chandler Arizona, Boulder, Ridgway, Telluride Ouray Colorado; Toronto and Richmond Hill Ontario; Chicago and Highland Park Illinois; Seattle, Bellevue, Redmond Washington; Vancouver BC, Kihei, Wailea, Haiku, Wailuku and Lahaina Maui Hawaii; Carlsbad and Los Angeles California.
Sundance Burke
"Our essential Presence does not need to be understood any more than the smile of a child, the beauty of a flower, or the splendor of a sunset. The nature of such encounters is self-evident and the intellect does not serve to enhance such moments. In fact, if you bring thinking to a sunset, you are likely to miss its sacredness and beauty altogether. Without thinking, you are taken in. With thinking, you are seeking entrance."
~ Sundance Burke, Author, Free Spirit
