The Sleeper Must Awaken ~ The Voice of Silence
- Dec 12, 2025
- 8 min read
Updated: May 15
Enjoy an excerpt from the beginning of The Sleeper Must Awaken by Dr Peter Davis.

Awake?
Are you conscious that you are conscious? What are you
conscious of? Are you aware of your awareness? What are you
aware of?
Can you move your awareness (attention) from one object to
another object intentionally and seemlessly, without thinking,
without falling into fantasy or desire, without falling back into
the dream? Do you feel the pressure and presence of the objects
and subjects around you as you control your attention? You are
beginning to feel the real.
When you are able to do the above persistently, especially during
your daytime adventures, and at times while you dream at night,
you may, in fact, be awake.
You are living a real life only when you are awake.
I wake up in bed at 04:00. Focus attention on following breath.
Sublime. Peaceful. Sleep comes again at quarter of 5 or so. Find
myself in living room of my old house. Broken glass everywhere.
Walk into our front yard to tell wife. She is snoozing in bed and I
join her. We cuddle and snooze. I wake up again but this time I
am still asleep, but awake also. I say to myself, “Oh, I am
dreaming.” I am instantly completely awake, walking in an
airport, engaging humans, particularly energetic, attractive ones,
freely. I notice the energy, the glow of everyone. I move from
luminous face to face, completely awake, present, choosing my
next action freely, in my “dream.” Splendrous. Telepathic
communication from face to face. I ask myself, “How long do I
want to remain awake?” After a while consciousness fades into
an ordinary dream. I wake up physically. I am joyful.
• The purpose of a human being, ant, Earth, star or galaxy
is to exist, to function. To exist is to be a transformer of
energy; an aware, self-configuring, necessary, incredibly
valuable information processing universal being. We have
forgotten this! Love as much as you can while you are
here.
• The world is not what it appears to be. What you see are
the limits of your own perception, sculpted for the utility
of survival. Your brain is a wondrous illusion generator
or dreaming machine - a spacetime measuring machine.
The brain is not designed to show you reality.
• You are not awake. Humans are hypnotically, collectively
asleep, dreaming our lives away. Unnecessary suffering
stems from psychological sleep. It IS possible to awaken,
to escape from prison: your self-absorbed perception,
your wrong thoughts and deadly actions.
• Your friends, family, and the people you consider “great”
are asleep, dreaming, and in prison; in fact everything
around you has been built over centuries to keep you and
everyone you know asleep, and unable to DO anything
that would fundamentally better the world.
• Although the challenge of the millennia, IT IS POSSIBLE
TO WAKE UP. Intentional, conscious evolution, built
upon inner silence, is the only possible way to awaken.
Among many inconceivable benefits, awakening brings
enduring inner peace.
Section One
Awakening the Luminous Path
The Sleeper Must Awaken
In Frank Herbert’s extraordinary novel Dune, the Duke Leto
Atreides and his son Paul stand upon the balcony of the Atreides
Castle, overlooking the flowing water below. The Atreides are
preparing to leave for Dune, the desert spice planet where they
will probably die, when the Duke states to his son cryptically,
“The sleeper must awaken.”
Wake Up!
The singular problem that life on Earth faces is that its dominant
technological species, Homo sapiens (we folk) are collectively asleep
and drunk in the black night, at the wheel of a big daddy Mack
Truck, driving at full speed toward the edge of a very, very high
cliff. The worse problem is that every single living creature on
Earth is our payload, holding on for dear life, not knowing if they
will live or die today.
Please.... Wake up!
Awake, you really will see the light in everything and everyone,
and be more protected than ever before.
What’s it Like to Wake Up?
When you first wake up, everything you see is lit-up, everything is
obvious; it’s as if you can see, feel and hear for the first time in your life.
You are present now. You feel and see what is before you; you are
not thinking; you are not dreaming the past or the future. You
experience a certain detachment. As you accept being awake you
feel the texture of everything around you as if it is inside you, part
of you. It is part of your body, it is your life. The people you love
or despise, your room, the trees in your neighborhood, the ocean,
the moon, sun and sky you feel, not metaphorically, but literally
as part of you. Your observing power penetrates your surroundings,
perceiving nuance as never before; it’s as if nothing you want to
see can hide from you.
Breathing Eternity
When I was in clinical training and therapy with Dr. Curcuruto
he would have me breathe and breathe while on the treatment
couch. At some point he would tell me to stop breathing. With
extraordinary energy coursing through me, I would begin to
awaken. I would feel a blinding, luminous “something” expanding
inside, filling me completely and beginning to awaken my brain, my
consciousness as if from a very long slumber. The roof would
come off my skull, and I would begin to see everything as it was.
As if my IQ had doubled questions I had asked my whole life
were answered. The most perplexing and arcane mysteries
suddenly became completely obvious. Everything was clarified in
an instant. I, at last, understood enigmas and truths which had
haunted me forever; enigmas and truths that my parents, pet
geniuses, professors, gurus and teachers had been unable to solve.
At long last, my energy and my brain were awake; they were free!
The Parallel Paths You Walk
We don’t know it, but in life we always walk two parallel paths. One
is the path of the average man or woman, governed by birth, survival,
genetics, memetics, worldly status, one’s parenting, the media, big
external authorities; accompanied with generally an unassailable
perception of the world as constructed of objects, often of great
importance to us. Nearly all of us live and die glued to this path.
But there is more to life. A second path.
The average man’s path lacks emotional intelligence, he or she
does not feel nor respect their natural environment and does not
empathize well with other humans. Unfortunately the world and
all its stock religions, most all spiritual disciplines, medicine and
psychotherapy, although valuable in other ways, trap us on this
collective path. Such a path is deadly when not tempered by the
second path. Only the second path offsets this.
Unbeknownst to most of us there exists a second, parallel path we walk.
Problem is, we are unaware that we walk this parallel path. This
second life is the path that potentially leads to full awakening and
freedom. Potentially. The path of the awakening man. Sometimes I
call this path, this line of life, the warrior’s way, or the path of the
luminous one. Call it what you want: the path of salvation, the
adepts’ way, the way of higher knowledge, mindfulness, whatever.
Whenever you are deeply silent within, you know it. Whenever you
are fully present, you know it. The luminous one exists in all of us,
but it deeply sleeps, dormant, unable to give us the courage and
power it could. Pay attention and watch yourself wake up.
Waking up is a fight that can be won only by the luminous one as warrior.
We have parallel histories: our ordinary, social consensus history
of which we are somewhat aware, and a second history, just as
existent, which ordinary awareness just can’t reach: the history
and future of our luminous one. Only this path fulfills us.
The path of the awakening warrior is the alternative path
designed for us by universal forces activated in ancient, powerful
seers who existed as our spiritual grandparents, charting a course
for higher, conscious evolution. The path of the luminous one is a
way of living, a code of conduct, lived by awakening humans; a
path which commands the impeccable use of information and
energy. We are destined to walk both paths, if unconsciously.
The warrior learns to see luminous energy as it flows in the universe. When
you are awake, you see that humans actually glow. The luminous
one’s path does not grant objects all conquering supremacy, as
does the average man, especially the very money-rich; but sees
objects as perceptual conveniences, secondary to energy. Even
now neuroscientists are proving this truth. So the facts and
governing perceptions of the warrior’s life are robust energetic
facts and perceptions. But the luminous one must awaken to
notice this.
Everybody is both a sleeping warrior and an average person.
Whereas the average man or woman, successfully or not, seeks
survival, cessation of pain, security, protective relationship with
members of our own kind, body pleasure, material wealth, status
and constant entertainment, the sleeping warrior in you is about
something else. It exists for another purpose.
The luminous one in you connects you to the universe.
The warrior has power the average man cannot begin to imagine.
Tremendous energy, correct information and knowledge; and
arising of the ontological self (being presence) is required for the
luminous one to awaken. This energy and knowledge you do not
now have, because all your energy is deployed to uphold the
world of average men and women, of which you are a charter
member. You, and every single man or woman you will ever see
(almost) is asleep on their feet, unaware of the unknown warrior.
Some of the people you see walking around have in fact already
died, yet somehow the body still walks....
If you want inner peace take up the luminous warriors path.
If you want outer peace take up the luminous warriors path.
A Quick Start
From the time I was born I had to know the secrets of the
universe. I have always had to find out what was on the other
side of the mountain. What exists behind that closed door? Did
Christ and Buddha really exist, or were they merely men or
myths of whom history spun fairy tales? Does life have a
meaning, do we humans have a bigger purpose, or is life just an
accident, arbitrary and insignificant? Is war inevitable, built into
beings like us who eat and get eaten; or is war an aberration of
primitive beings, one more evolved beings learn to do without?
Do great intergalactic civilizations exist in this universe or do all
technologic cultures extinct themselves with nuclear weapons, AI
machines and neglect?
Because I was so driven I always sought out older, wiser, more
masterful people to spend my time with. Hence, I am the product
of lineages of masters. Masters are human beings who reach the
pinnacle of their craft; a few are the living examples of esoteric
traditions. In specific cases I have been the pupil of an ingenious
scientist, an evolved engineer, several tai chi kung fu masters; a
biochemist who was also an Indo-Tibetan tantric priest; and a
Hawaiian kahuna who taught hula and language.
Evolve Now!
If you are reading this you are aware that our human civilization
is in crisis. We are threatened by several forces, three of which
are nuclear war, the acceleration of AI (artificial intelligence),
and accelerated climate change. The fourth is that our leaders
are mostly nightmarishly asleep. Denying these deadly threats is
insanity. Human males now produce less sperm than in recorded
history and female eggs are less viable. Humans are dying from
the inside out.
We will not avoid these threats by accident, good luck, ignoring
them, nor through our current political climate. We must change.
We must evolve. And we must evolve right now. Or we will destroy
ourselves.
Every technological civilization reaches certain, unavoidable
crisis points, ontological enigmas or filters, which they must
negotiate or perish. We reached the nuclear decision point with
the annihilation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945; and we are
at this very instant reaching the crisis of technological singularity
with AI; the point at which AI becomes unstoppable, programs and runs
itself, then runs us. Don’t let any tech-head tell you different. If they
do they are suicidal and a threat to your survival.
We must evolve now. Or perish. We must, for real; no made by
Hollywood let’s all pretend-pray together shit. We must evolve a
collective new way of thinking now; a singularity in human awakening
now.
It may seem impossible, but evolve yourself now!


