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| Author: Sera Beak Sera J. Beak |
| Format: | Paperback |
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| "The Red Book" is nothing less than a spiritual fire starter -- a combustible cocktail of Hindu Tantra and Zen Buddhism, Rumi and Carl Jung, goddesses and psychics, shaken with cosmic nudges, meaningful subway rides, haircuts, relationships, sex, dreams, and intuition. Author Sera Beak''s unique hybrid perspective, hilarious personal anecdotes, and invaluable exercises encourage her readers to live more consciously so they can start making clearer choices across the board, from careers to relationships, politics to pop culture and everything in between. For smart, gutsy, spiritually curious women whose colorful and complicated lives aren''t reflected in most spirituality books, The Red Book is an open invitation to find your true self and start sharing that delicious truth with the world. |
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From the Publisher:
With The Red Book, Sera Beak offers a new level of creativity and individuality to hip, spiritually curious young women. This funky, innovative, irreverent, and substantive book draws from such diverse traditions as goddess worship, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Marian devotion, along with a range of nontraditional practices from contemporary teachers. With her characteristic playfulness, vivid examples, and powerful exercises, Beak’s unique hybrid perspective bridges old religious doctrines and the new age of individualism–and invites women to add a luminous spiritual dimension to their lives.|| Sera Joan Beak (San Francisco, CA) is a world-traveled, Harvard-trained scholar of mysticism and comparative religion. With The Red Book, Sera Beak offers a new level of creativity and individuality to hip, spiritually curious young women. This funky, innovative, irreverent, and substantive book draws from such diverse traditions as goddess worship, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Marian devotion, along with a range of nontraditional practices from contemporary teachers. With her characteristic playfulness, vivid examples, and powerful exercises, Beak’s unique hybrid perspective bridges old religious doctrines and the new age of individualism–and invites women to add a luminous spiritual dimension to their lives.| | Sera Joan Beak (San Francisco, CA) is a world-traveled, Harvard-trained scholar of mysticism and comparative religion. |
Chapter OneLight the Match Set Your Intentions Free
So how the hell do you start igniting your divine spark? Well, first and foremost, start by setting your intention. Your intention is the energy, the electric charge, the awareness you bring to every aspect of your life. It's the force that lies behind everything you do, the fuel for your fire. Your intention helps create the pathway for your experience; therefore, setting it ain't no trifling, careless thing, but a responsibility, one not to be taken lightly. Intention is big. Countless are the spiritual books and teachers that discuss, in great detail, just how we should set our intentions (check the resource section for just a few that I find helpful). But here in The Red Book, I want to keep it simple, by asking you to use intention in a way that helps you give more conscious direction and divine spark to life's ordinary and extraordinary moments. Setting your |
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