Red Hot and Holy: A Heretic's Love Story Author: Visit Amazon's Sera Beak Page | Language: English | ISBN:
1622030532 | Format: EPUB
Red Hot and Holy: A Heretic's Love Story Description
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"Finally, a book both my mother-in-law and I can enjoy!"
-Mary Magdalene
"Holy. Shit."
-Sera's shadow
"Red Hot and Holy is stunning on so many levels. I simply couldn't put it down! This, ladies and gentlemen, is what the Divine Feminine looks and feels like-embodied, immediate, down-to-earth, and completely accessible. Bravo, Sera Beak!"
-Christiane Northrup, MD, author of the New York Times bestsellers Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom and The Wisdom of Menopause
"Sera Beak blazes with bold and flowing passion for the direct mystic transmission and primal creative power of the sacred feminine. Red Hot and Holy is juicy, funny, raw, and a wonderful contribution for modern-day soul adventurers."
-Shiva Rea, yogini
"What do you get when you combine a weird, hip angel of a thirty-something woman, advanced training in the study of religion, laugh-out-loud writing, God as Girl, and a direct encounter with cosmic soul no longer "tricked into a tradition"? You get Sera Beak. You get this book, which is really not a book at all, but a living revelation, an American Gnostic gospel posing as a spiritual memoir."
-Jeffrey J. Kripal, author of Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred
"Red Hot and Holy is wildly original, hilariously funny, and deeply wise. I think it can start a movement of the great and good and maenadic ladies of the Red persuasions. It is truly cataclysmic and magnificently dangerous! I would join up even in my now-76th year. It is what life is all about."
-Jean Houston
"This is a brave, untamed, and yes, holy and hot book. Sera Beak describes a spirituality unfettered by dogma (traditional or new age). Like all true mystics, Sera's words compel us to fearlessly confront whatever stands in the way of our awakening. Sera Beak is pioneering new pathways."
-Gail Straub, teacher, activist, and author of Returning to My Mother's House: Taking Back the Wisdom of the Feminine About the Author
Sera Beakis a Harvard-trained scholar of comparative world religions who spent years traveling the world studying spirituality with Sufi dervishes, Tibetan monks, Croatian mystics, shamans, and more. She is the author of The Red Book: A Deliciously Unorthodox Approach to Igniting Your Divine Spark, and has appeared in The New York Times, People, and Publisher's Weekly, as well as on NPR, The Dr. Oz Show, and Oprah and Friends. She lives in San Francisco, CA. For more, visit serabeak.com.
- Hardcover: 316 pages
- Publisher: Sounds True; 1 edition (July 1, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1622030532
- ISBN-13: 978-1622030538
- Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.2 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Sera Beak quotes from the Swiss Analytical Psychologist Carl Jung at the beginning of the second part of Red, Hot and Holy. Jung wrote those words around 100 years ago in what he called his Red Book. It is an uncensored document of one man's search for, encounter and reunion with his Soul. Only recently published, 50 years after his death, it shows us the deep work required to retrieve our Soul and to become what he called, an individuated Self. It involves facing the dark Shadow of our unconscious wounds and projections, while reclaiming and embodying ourselves in all our fullness. Ultimately this journey helps us embody our very own Essence, the gift that we've come to share with the world.
It takes immense courage to go on this journey. But to stand up and reveal it to others (while you're still in your 30s) is brave beyond words.
That is why I feel immense gratitude for Sera Beak and her own Red, Hot and Holy book. Here, in language we can relate to, even though it's richly woven with scholarship on the world's psychoanalytic, spiritual and mystical traditions, a girlfriend sits down with us over a glass of red wine and has the courage to share in the most intimate, heartfelt, soul searching, gut wrenching, deep belly laughing, and Real way her own incredible Love Story with the Divine. It's her life's search for an authentic and individuated way to honour what she comes to know and embody as herSelf: the Red Lady of her Soul.
As Sera's story reveals, the Soul's journey is a wild ride. And she shares it with us in all its messy and mystical detail. Holding. Nothing. Back. Because of this I couldn't put this book down.
I am a man, and I am so grateful to have had this book come into my life. I have been on a spiritual path since before I met Sera (where we went to college together), and have been on the yogic path, in and out of the new age scene since, and done my best to keep it real and authentic for myself all these years. I have read so many uplifting sacred non-dualistic, buddhist, tantric, kabalistic, self help texts, and tried my best to live up to these ancient lineages as a modern western man, with varying degrees of success. As inspiring as all the mythology around enlightenment is, nothing compares to honesty. Brutal and brave honesty. And for this, my inner divine feminine curtseys to Sera Beak. Her story is personal, yet universal. It is written for women, but as a modern man who has embraced his own shakti life force, I can see beyond the distinctions of male and female, and take away so much wisdom from Sera's journey of her own soul re-connection. Ultimately Sera is exposing her own struggles on this spiritual path (which is marketed to us as so shiny and fluffy and positive), and showing the true path home into our heart and sense of fullness isnt always sugar coated, and the fact that she is sharing this publicly is giving us all permission to acknowledge our own struggles, and not feel there is something wrong with our own tears of feeling separated from our soulmate (our very own soul), or feeling frustrated of having connected with it and loosing it, yet coming back to it (us) with an even deeper appreciation. So I say Bravo, and I wish all my sisters, and ex girlfriends, and strangers out there needing to taste something authentic with-in this superficial matrix we live in (and are seduced by), can be blessed to have this book come into their path.
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