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COSMIC SUGAR: The Amorous Adventures of a Modern Mystic

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Leela Jones' optimal path of spiritual development is to lead a life of sexual excess and untethered carousing. Can this be right? How do you get this job? Are universal love and lust the same thing? Is it the devil lurking in the sordid details or just our own unexamined morals?

This book will make you rethink where the deep and where the shallow waters of life are.

I read Cosmic Sugar on the advice of a friend. I lead a very straight and conventional life I have been married for 18 years and raised two children held executive positions and owned my own business. While reading Cosmic Sugar I was constantly entertained and found that I could not put the book down after reading just a few pages it was a mission that I needed to complete. I found that I have had a lot of similar feelings and intuitions even though I have led a very different life. After reading the book I now have embarked on my own decidedly second charka adventures. I have had chronic lower back pain since I was 16 years old and now as my second chakra becomes more and more opened my lower back pain has dissipated thank you Leela Jones

I generally read magazines and newspapers, because of me short attention span. Cosmic Sugar has changed all that. I read the book in one sitting, I just couldn't stop reading. The book was interesting, compelling, humorous and titillating. No matter what perspective one comes from, the book is a gas.



ASIN:0595492282 COSMIC SUGAR: The Amorous Adventures of a Modern Mystic

Cosmic Sugar is a sumptuous book, like a meal you won't forget - and I know it will continue to move me for a long time, if not the rest of my life. I haven't read a better memoir - beautifully compassionate, utterly honest and seriously profound.

Leela Jones gives a fascinating account of her sensual and spiritual journey, laying her life's story bare, so to speak, to draw out the life-changing lessons she has learned and the evolution she has undergone along the way. She writes like a dream, with wit, intelligence, and there are deep insights on virtually every page. Frankly, it was all I could do not to abandon everything else and read it in one sitting.

Leela's tone is never preachy, and she shares with compassion and wisdom all of the 'karmic ruts' that she and her companions along the way have been given to work through in this life. It's clear that she has invested in a significant amount of considered thought and dedicated spiritual practice into her life's journey, throughout the ups and downs that she traverses. If you read this book with an open mind and open heart, there is a great deal to learn from and apply to your own life, no matter how closely it does or doesn't parallel the specifics of Leela's journey. I found this incredibly instructive, as I was able to compare her journey and learning with my own and that of close friends around the world. At its heart, Cosmic Sugar is an exceptional master class in how to apply a dedicated spiritual practice to connecting with the Divine - right here, right now, in this life. I cannot recommend it highly enough.

i finished reading Cosmic Sugar yesterday and it was Ohhh So Sweet, So Delicious and So Healing on So many levels

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Beyond Words. That being said, the words that come to mind: comic hilarious tragic light dark erotic erotic erotic irreverent confident joyful balanced peaceful tolerant rational open empowering expansive exciting carnal energetic wise clear co-creative living humbling patience positive ( & negative in a positive kinda way ) courageous compassionate blissful loving

in short i look forward to reading Leela's sequel

Think of Cosmic Sugar as Moll Flanders with a modern-day kick. Sex, drugs, booze, and karma rock Leela's world, making her exploits all the more outrageous because they really happened. But what kicks Leela's adventures in and out of bed up a notch is that she uses them for spiritual transformation. She grows and evolves spiritually through her many sexual relationships, freeing her and inspiring the reader in the process. Don't read this book if you're looking for cheap thrills, though there are plenty. Read this book if you're interested in learning about the role of karma and how opening to its complex lessons can lead you to your higher self.

Tantric sex has been used for eons in India, and with the Taoists in China, but it has seldom shown up in the West in this mode, particularly for women. Leela Jones chose this as her spiritual path, and the fact that she is a psychic healer balances her nicely. Her story is especially appropriate at this time when women are finding more equality with men.
The book is well written, with wit and insight and full of what most will consider outrageous sexual adventures--giving readers a chance to get rid of inhibitions.
With the correct mindset, one can achieve enlightenment through chopping wood or doing needlepoint--Leela Jones chose cultivating her sexual energies as her path to liberation, and she has written about it in a most entertaining way!

I had to take it with me everywhere til I'd finished it. And believe me my frequent chortling and giggling won me some strange looks on public transportation and waiting rooms. Jones writes about her life with such a genuine voice, not once yielding to the pitfalls of writing in the first person. Her candor and guile create a viewpoint for the reader that has you vigorously nodding your head in recognition and shaking it incredulously almost simultaneously. It is encouraging and liberating to read a woman so at ease with who she is - And whether or not you have the same uncompromising lust for adventure and enlightenment as Leela Jones, reading her story might just convince you to seek out a piece of your own cosmic sugar.

I loved this book! Cosmic Sugar takes you into the immersion of heart energy and flow based on the life and adventures of Leela Jones. This book is a wonderful memoir and helpful teaching aid to creating a greater expansion of your spiritual self, with lovers or with your own sweet self by opening into Divine Feminine heart energy. This book helped set a new tone and clearing for my life and "what is left is an awareness of the ephemeral nature of the earth plane and the preciousness of every moment on our paths of awakening".

Thank you Leela!

I once told my family, over Thanksgiving dinner one year, that, "Psychedelics had the most profound influence on my thinking in my youth. Leela Jones has had the most profound influence on my thinking in mid-life."

She is, as Kesey once put it, "A glimpse of the infinite."

I agree with Ms. Davis' review above. If you're looking for superficial titillation, or cheap thrills, this may not be for you. But if you're ready to have the universe cracked open, Leela is a valid path on that journey.(Click on see all my reviews)

Be forwarned, however. She's not for the faint of heart. She will hit you like a ton of bricks.

A co-worker observed me devouring this book, and asked, "Are you trying to read this in one day?"

My only reply was, "It's a page turner."

You'll have to read it yourself to understand the references in my title.