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Summary: A MUST read
Review: Frankly I was stunned. I knew nothing about Kundalini, and little about ecstatic experiences, but after finishing Dorthy Walter's "Unmasking the Rose" I was both enlivened, educated and inspired. This book is a MUST for anyone asking the question, "Is it ever too late to connect with God?" Dorothy Walters teaches us not only that connection is only a breath away, but how, through her own remarkable journey your own path may be created. Finally, books of this kind can frequently be thick and inaccessible. I found Ms. Walters writing to be both "friendly" and a joy to read. What more could I ask?
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Summary: A MUST read
Review: Frankly I was stunned. I knew nothing about Kundalini, and little about ecstatic experiences, but after finishing Dorthy Walter's "Unmasking the Rose" I was both enlivened, educated and inspired. This book is a MUST for anyone asking the question, "Is it ever too late to connect with God?" Dorothy Walters teaches us not only that connection is only a breath away, but how, through her own remarkable journey your own path may be created. Finally, books of this kind can frequently be thick and inaccessible. I found Ms. Walters writing to be both "friendly" and a joy to read. What more could I ask?
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Summary: A Masterpiece of honesty and candor
Review: I am so overwhelmed that I will be short in my praise : This book should be handed out free; It is simply a masterpiece of spirituality>Ms Walters shares with us her struggles to understand the amazing process taking place within her 'regular' life and the revolutionary leap it creates;
We all have to learn from Dorothy Walters; May God bless her and her superb work.
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Summary: An extraordinary witness to spiritual transformation
Review: I was so honored to be asked by Dorothy Walter's publishers to endorse this brave and wonderful book; How rare it is to read an account of a spiritual transformation that is both profound and very, in the highest sense, accessible. Ms Walters has made a unique contribution to the literature of the Spirit with an elegance, candor, humor and passion that will inspire all those who are blessed enough to read this book. In my blurb, I wrote "'Unmasking the Rose' is one of the most amazing and powerful books I have ever read". I have just read it again and I am happy and grateful to find it even more compelling than I did before.Do not hesitate to get this book and reflect deeply on what it has to say.Your life will be the richer for it.
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Summary: Uneven, but worthwhile
Review: Unmasking the Rose is compiled from Dorothy Walters' private journals over the past 25 years or so, during which time she experienced a spontaneous awakening of an energy she barely understood: kundalini. Her book has both the strengths and the drawbacks of this method. On the one hand, we follow along with her as she gradually tries to cope with and make sense of what is happening to her. On the other hand, the journal entries are not dated, and the connecting narrative sometimes makes it a little unclear how much time has passed or what is going on outside the inner self. The introduction and the concluding chapter, writtem in a more direct style for publication, help to frame the middle chapters and give them more clarity.As a Christian who is drawn to the mystical, I felt I needed to be introduced to kundalini. Walters certainly gives me a lot to think about. Her experience is primarily one of bliss. She attempts to describe as openly as she can her actual experience, and I am left with the understanding that kundalini feels like sexual pleasure transmuted so that it pervades the entire being. It occurs in the head, not as mental images, but as actual sensation. I am attracted to her insistence that the path to awakening is not out of the body but in more fully uniting body and spirit. This, in my opinion (though not in hers), is in fact what Christianity actually indicates. She also speaks of the fact that the image of Christ on the cross is the final image that will occur to a Christian being awakened. The lives of the Catholic saints certainly confirms that fact. On the other hand, the fact that Walters is a lesbian, dabbled in the occult, and uses primarily Hindu imagery in her explanations, challenges me. And if synchronicities mean anything, I can't overlook the fact that her initiation began when she was the exact same age as I now am, in the exact same profession, and that she wrote a book on the same author that I wrote my master's thesis on. The bottom line is that I have a better and more positive impression of what kundalini is all about. And I am left to wonder if the story of Genesis, where a serpent suggests to Adam and Eve that they eat of a forbidden tree and become like gods, is in fact a specific rejection of kundalini by the Hebrews. Since kundalini (despite the serpent image, which seems male) is considered to me a female power (goddess, even), is it possible that it was rejected in order to allow patriarchy to gain the ascendency? Or is it a warning from God Himself to avoid this serpent power? I am left with these questions.
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