Publishing Date: 2011-04-30

Sales Start Date: 2011-04-30

Language: English

It is a concise, practical manual for those who seek to understand the role of the Divine Mother, the Devi, as She presides over the processes of liberation of the soul engaged in the human dream. This little handbook can greatly accelerate dissolving obstructions to spiritual practice, first by facilitating the understanding of the intricate relationship between personal psychology and evolution into Light ? and by illustrating how to open to the force of the Divine Mother, Whose kinetic Grace releases us from the ties that bind us. The Mother is the essence of the spiritual fire. Flanked by excerpts from Sri Aurobindo, Mother Meera, The Siva Sutras and more, Tao of the Mother reveals what becomes of the fire in the world ? how it is lost, how it may be regained ? with special focus on the deep psychology of the aspirant. This book is dedicated to you who truly burn to find the EXIT sign.

Junipur

In August of 1976, upon sitting for meditation the first time, I had a radical kundalini awakening, which is discussed at length in The Book of Fire. During the nine months of the waxing period of this phenomenon were many seminal visions, experiences. In one such dream, I was expressing (to no visible person) that I yearned to "go to India" - a destination whose significance was clear, to a student of comparative religion (such as I was at the time, at Lewis and Clark College, in Portland, Ore.); over the ages, India is a land of spiritual enlightenment, in the psyche of the collective. A voice spoke out of the ethers, saying simply: "You have to go through Africa, first." Those were the few, but telling words given, pregnant with the intimations of things to come, to be prepared for - before light, and freedom, the jungles of the unconscious, like wide, wild rivers full of rapids, and unknown creatures of the deep, would have to be crossed. The journey ensued; the ferment I was predestined to encounter traversed and, to what extent I have been capable, transformed. Thus the material for Mother of Light: The Book of Fire came into being, and the story written down.

Formal studies abounded in and around the turbulent travels of the inner realms: I graduated from a nationally-renowned academy of natural healing, which was oriented in body-centered psychotherapy and its adjuncts. Traditional scholastic pursuits include the field of Comparative Religion, studied at the University of Virginia, and Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon, as well as Transpersonal Psychology, at Temenos Institute, in Connecticut.

I went on to do extended work in chakra/karmic clearing, and a further, in-depth apprenticeship in shamanism. A small healing center was created around a crystal shop I opened, in 1987.

My search for wisdom has carried me to places as diverse as India and Germany. I took the Reiki initiations, through the 3rd degree. I have been an avid student of astrology and metaphysics since the age of 18, and spent a year in Virginia Beach to devote concentrated time at the Association for Research and Enlightenment (A.R.E.), founded by the great mystic, Edgar Cayce.

Come visit me at: http://www.motheroflightthebookoffire.com and take a peek at The Prologue and beginning of Book1...