Joe Perez’s Awake, Alive & Aware is committed to practicing and advocating integral ways of living as conscious beings in an evolving universe. Our vision is to be a source and reflection of God’s Light and Love, exploring how to live life to the fullest with inquisitive minds and open hearts. We are grounded in World Spirituality built on Integral principles.
I started this blog in August 2011 and it has fast become one of the most rapidly growing Integral blogs. It extends a corpus of blogging tracking my integral development all the way back to 2005 (including the archives of such defunct blogs as Rising Up and Until). My first blog, The Soulful Blogger, was founded in November 2003 and was the inspiration for my book Soulfully Gay.
Archives of most of my posts from 2005 to 2012 can be found at the defunct Soulfully Gay and Language Mystic blogs.
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Notice on Ethics
I commit to my readers to write with integrity and not exploit their trust by promoting products or services that I don’t believe in. At the same time, I do not subscribe to the notion that bloggers are starving artists with no right to benefit financially or in other ways from the work they do in the world. Blogging is not merely a hobby for me, but an integral part of my professional portfolio.
I always write my own posts (i.e., posts with my by-line). My posts are not promoting any business, product or service. It is possible that I may write about for-profit businesses or products associated with my friends, clients, acquaintances, or organizations to which I belong. These posts are always written for informational purposes only, never advertising. I reserve the right not to call out every instance in which a pre-existing relationship exists between myself and the subject of my post.
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From time to time, I may receive tuition scholarships or discounts in exchange for attending conferences or workshops or free DVDs or books to review. In this event, I will make a note of the financial or in-kind benefit in the body of the post or article.
This isn’t a print magazine; I have to be both writer and editor. Accordingly, I reserve the right to edit my words after they are first posted without notice. If I think it might matter to anyone, I’ll add a note to the post indicating that a correction was made.
