Mother Love: Embracing the Wound, Tempering the Steel
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I learned that when you bring the divine into your life, a few things DON'T happen:
You don't get rescued from your path...but you get helped along it.
You don't get helped in all of the ways that you expect - but you do get help.
You don't immediately heal from mental illness...but you get the assistance you need to do that healing.
This book is a chronicling of 20 years of my life spent as a Seeker and a Follower of the great saint Ammachi. Ammachi started coming to the U.S. in 1987. I met her in 1988 when there were no crowds, and the time spent with her was very intimate and saturated in shakti (divine energy).
At the same time, I was two years shy of a nervous breakdown which would change my life. This period began a deep questioning which has never ended. Who is the divine? What is the purpose of the divine? How do I "tap" the divine when its representative - the guru - is not physically present? What is faith? Why do I have God in my life and still have emotional/mental problems?
I wrote this book to give the uninitiated the opportunity to perhaps experience what it is like to spend time with a great saint. I wrote it to be open about mental illness and its truths and myths. I wrote it as a love song to Amma, and I wrote it to try to understand what this journey is that I began in 1988 and continue, now in 2021 and beyond.
You don't get rescued from your path...but you get helped along it.
You don't get helped in all of the ways that you expect - but you do get help.
You don't immediately heal from mental illness...but you get the assistance you need to do that healing.
This book is a chronicling of 20 years of my life spent as a Seeker and a Follower of the great saint Ammachi. Ammachi started coming to the U.S. in 1987. I met her in 1988 when there were no crowds, and the time spent with her was very intimate and saturated in shakti (divine energy).
At the same time, I was two years shy of a nervous breakdown which would change my life. This period began a deep questioning which has never ended. Who is the divine? What is the purpose of the divine? How do I "tap" the divine when its representative - the guru - is not physically present? What is faith? Why do I have God in my life and still have emotional/mental problems?
I wrote this book to give the uninitiated the opportunity to perhaps experience what it is like to spend time with a great saint. I wrote it to be open about mental illness and its truths and myths. I wrote it as a love song to Amma, and I wrote it to try to understand what this journey is that I began in 1988 and continue, now in 2021 and beyond.