June 2006 Books
The Yoga of Sound; Savage Breast : Mystic Warrior; Autobiography of a Yogi
The Yoga of Sound
Tapping the Hidden Power of Music and Chant
Welcome to sonic mysticism, “the spirituality of sound expressing the Divine Reality.” The Yoga of Sound celebrates the rediscovery of the healing qualities of ancient mantra practice and the therapeutic use of sacred music.
Unifying thousands of years of research, Paul offers a powerful contemporary spiritual system for unifying the profound healing principles inherent in yoga and music into an effective practice requiring neither extreme physical flexibility nor expertise in music. This book offers a holistic approach, bringing together speech, music, chant, movement, breath, mantra and meditation to promote health, vibrant mental powers and profound spiritual fulfillment.
For the growing number of practitioners from all spiritual traditions who are now including sacred sound in their daily practice and their healing work, this book/CD package stands as a pivotal text for gaining a deeper understanding of mantra and music as forms of vibrational healing and as viable methods of spiritual self-realization.
Thoroughly researched and backed up by two appendices and an index, it offers theoretical understanding, instructions for practical application in a wide variety of contexts, historical insight into numerous sound traditions, and more. This is a reference text you cannot afford to be without; it will serve you for years to come.
Savage Breast
One Man’s Search for the Goddess
Ever notice that all the books out there on the Goddess, all the Goddess card decks, are created by women? Move over, ladies. Savage Breast was penned by a contemporary male who has taken a much needed look at the roots of men's terror and repulsion when confronted by images of feminine strength.
Savage Breast is a daring exploration of archaeology, myth, metaphysics, love and sex, interwoven with the story of how his search brought up his own dark side and challenged his relationship with the woman he loves.
“The truly strange thing,” he says, “is that we men don't seem to recognize there's a problem here.” Problem? What problem? Aren't men doing housework now, using unisex language, accepting women on the job? But Ward makes it clear that until men open their eyes to their own buried hatred of the feminine, they too remain victims, unable to achieve the true intimacy they so desire with a woman.
Ward immersed himself in the research for this book, and his beloved Teresa dove in with him. Together they traveled to faraway places famous for ancient Goddess cultures, and together they unveiled within themselves the myriad reflections and contradictions of Kali… Diana… Artemis… even the “rotting goddess” Hecate.
On the one hand, this is a travelogue through ancient mythology. On the reverse face, it is a novel burning with searing passion. Ward spares himself not at all in his revelation of the raw realities of flesh and emotion that drew them ever more deeply into each other as they relived the sex and power struggles that have forever ensnared men and women.
Savage Breast offers an inner feast I fear few men will partake of. Those who do will find the banquet spicy, perhaps a bit hard to digest but ultimately tremendously satisfying. And women readers will have ample opportunity to learn about themselves, from a man's point of view.
Mystic Warrior
A Novel Beyond Time and Space
As an award-winning contemporary thriller, Mystic Warrior stretches the perceived reality envelope. This provocative novel with a spiritual twist reads like something of a cross between X-Files and The DaVinci Code .
Loaded with intrigue and alive with action, the story opens with Alec Thorn having a childhood out-of-body experience. “Don't be afraid,” a voice whispers. “You know how to do this.”
Well, that's just for starters. He grows up, and in the summer of 2001 we find him struggling to start a communication company. A key associate dies mysteriously, and allies turn against him. An eccentric florist with uncommon intuition and keen wisdom uncovers a group of mercenaries with highly developed psychic abilities and an ancient bone to pick…. Need we say more?
OK, we will. World peace is at stake here. Led by the icy but beautiful Erica Buenavista, the ultra-savvy mercenaries not only seek to torment and destroy Thorn, but more ominously, have stolen a nuclear device from Russia and are threatening to auction it off to terrorists unless NATO agrees to pay them off. It's a race against time, and Thorn must develop his own psychic abilities to compete in a world where his previous beliefs about time and space no longer apply.
Thorn's spiritual transformation exposes an unknown world of mystics living openly in society, pursuing goals far beyond imagination. Along the way, the minds and motivations of hidden powerbrokers, mercenaries and selfless spiritual allies are revealed, with the fate of millions hanging in the balance.
Fasten your seatbelt and open your mind to spine-tingling adventure in this world of mystics and remote viewers—a world the author says is “not really visionary,” but “the way the world operates–it's just that few people actually know it.”
—Chiwah
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Autobiography of a Yogi
It's a classic. And 2006 is its 60th anniversary.
The Autobiography of a Yogi is Yogananda's story—of his remarkable childhood, encounters with many saints and sages (including Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Luther Burbank, the Catholic stigmatist Therese Neumann, and other celebrated spiritual personalities of East and West), his 10-year training in the hermitage of a revered yoga master, and the 30 years he lived and taught in America. Also included is extensive material he added after the first edition came out in 1946, with a final chapter on the closing years of his life.
If you've read this delightful account of an exceptional life, which is also a profound introduction to Yoga and meditation, you know it changed your life. It's fascinating reading for anyone. My son loved it when he was ten, and my former husband, who has little patience for spiritual reading, enjoyed it too.
If you're on a spiritual path, don't save this book for your last meal. Celebrate its 60th anniversary now!
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