Mystical Intimacy

Mystical Intimacy

Author: Linda L. Nardelli

Publisher:

Published: 2017-05-14

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 9781927755525

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Linda L. Nardelli's intimate exploration of channelled messages and personal stories takes you on a journey into mysticism. She offers a renewed vision of ourselves that reveals the inherent wisdom and spiritual essence within all our felt-senses and life experiences. Mystical Intimacy draws you into an inner sanctuary of belonging and integrity.


Enchanted Love

Enchanted Love

Author: Marianne Williamson

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-12-17

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 1439127077

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Three of Marianne Williamson's previous bestsellers -- A Return to Love, A Woman's Worth, and Illuminata -- explored the issue of relationships. Now, in this deeply personal collection of essays, prayers, and self-reflection, she turns to romantic love. In Illuminata, Williamson wrote that "we experience God to the extent to which we love, forgive, and focus on the good in others and ourselves." Now, in Enchanted Love, she writes that "enchanted partnership begins with the conscious understanding, on the part of two people, that the purpose of their relationship is not so much material as spiritual, and the internal skills demanded by it are prodigious." High romance, she says, "is not about past or future. It is not about practicality. It is not about society or worldly routines. It is an audacious ride to the center of what is, at the heart of every person. It is a bold and masterful inquiry into what two people really are and how we might become, while still on earth, the angels who reside within us."


Tafsir as Mystical Experience: Intimacy and Ecstasy in Quran Commentary

Tafsir as Mystical Experience: Intimacy and Ecstasy in Quran Commentary

Author: Todd Lawson

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-11-26

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 9004385436

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In Tafsir as Mystical Experience, Todd Lawson shows how the Quran may be engaged with for meaning and understanding, the usual goal of mystical exegesis, and also how it may be engaged with through tafsīr in a quest for spiritual or mystical experience. In this earliest of the Báb’s extended works, written before his public claim to be the return of the hidden Imam, the act of reading is shown to be something akin to holy communion in which the sacred text is both entrance upon and destination of the mystic quest. The Quran here is a door to an “abode of glory” and an abiding spiritual encounter with the divine through the prophet, his daughter Fāṭima and the twelve Imams of Ithna-ʿasharī Shiʿism who inhabit the letters, words, verses and suras of the Book. Cover calligraphy by Burhan Zahrai of Quran 53:11


Living in God's Embrace

Living in God's Embrace

Author: Michael Fonseca

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780877939399

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Fonseca knows well the difficulties that can arise on the spiritual journey, but he also knows the graces that can come to the ardent seeker. Each chapter is made up of a brief introductory section and ten prayer exercises, guides readers through the ups and downs of the spiritual journey, and provides encouragement to stay on the path toward God.


Advanced Spiritual Intimacy

Advanced Spiritual Intimacy

Author: Stuart Sovatsky

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2014-05-14

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1620552787

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A practical guide for both individuals and couples to transform sexual energy into spiritual and erotic fulfillment • Explains how to awaken advanced stages of sexual development for spiritual intimacy and deep erotic satisfaction • Includes illustrated instructions for exercises and techniques based on yoga, kundalini, breathing practices, mantra chanting, and chakra meditation • Explores how this practice can deepen a life partnership, enhance creativity, heal emotional scars, and awaken new understandings of gender Sexual development does not end in adolescence. There are advanced stages of glandular, emotional, and erotic development based in the lifelong “puberty of the spine.” Known in India as kundalini awakening, these stages form the energetic basis of all yoga forms and deeper erotic aspirations. They present an opportunity for couples and individuals to explore the consciousness-expanding abilities of sexual energy as both spirituality and sexuality transform into what Michel Foucault called ars erotica, far beyond the Freudian scientia sexualis sexuality of the Western world. Offering a guide to the advanced stages of human sexuality and a passionately infused tantric yoga practice, Stuart Sovatsky explains how to awaken the complete spinal puberty, resulting in spiritual intimacy and orgasmic pineal maturity that far surpasses the gratifications of modern sexuality. With illustrated instructions, he reveals flow-yoga asanas, mantras, and devotional breathing practices for solo kundalini yoga as well as couples’ yoga practices and chakra meditations to awaken the heart and the divinely eroticized mind. He shares inspiring stories from those on this path about ever-deepening life partnerships, enriched family life, enhanced personal creativity, profound new understandings of conception, masculinity, femininity, and gender itself as well as healing emotional scars of romantic breakups and sexual abuse. Sovatsky shows that by transcending conventional Western sexuality and returning to the ars erotica beliefs of ancient India, we can harness the divine energy--glimpsed for only an instant by most people--at the heart of all erotic yearning.


The God of Intimacy and Action

The God of Intimacy and Action

Author: Mary Albert Darling

Publisher: Fortress Press

Published: 2019-03-05

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1506454925

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Acclaimed evangelical speaker and writer Tony Campolo teams up with spiritual director and teacher Mary Albert Darling to reveal some gems from the liturgical Christian tradition to Protestants who may be ready for a refreshing change. While steeped in their own evangelical tradition, the authors are not afraid to venture back into Christian history and reclaim practices that have long been considered exclusively Catholic--including Centering Prayer, along with works by Ignatius Loyola and Catherine of Siena--as excellent spiritual tools to help evangelicals grow in faith and love for the poor. A vital theme in Campolo and Darling's work is that spirituality is not solely an individualistic practice but must lead Christians to love and help the oppressed. True Christian mysticism, they posit, is not an either/or proposition. That's because the nexus between evangelism and justice is to be found in Christian mysticism.


Mystical Sex

Mystical Sex

Author: Louis William Meldman

Publisher:

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13:

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This entertaining, frequently inspiring, and socially important book explains the principles of equality that underlie all the traditions of mystical sex. Dr. Meldman shows how society's left-brain approach to eroticism has spawned such social problems as pornography, domestic violence, sexual abuse, and economic sexism.


Seeking Spiritual Intimacy

Seeking Spiritual Intimacy

Author: Glenn E. Myers

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2011-03-28

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0830835512

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In Seeking Spiritual Intimacy Glenn Myers introduces us to the Beguines, a network of faith communities in Medieval Europe, where women organized their world around a simple life with Christ at the center. Learn from the insights of wise women of faith who, from their modest homes and communities, revitalized the faith of a continent.


Sex and the Spiritual Teacher

Sex and the Spiritual Teacher

Author: Scott Edelstein

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2011-03

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 0861715969

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Explores the reasons why sexual transgressions between spiritual teachers and student occur, when this type of relationship becomes a problem, and how to avoid it from happening.