Spiritual Enlightenment Through the Path of Virtue Known as Karma Yoga in India, the teachings of MAAT for living virtuously and with orderly wisdom are explained and the student is to begin practicing the precepts of Maat in daily life so as to promote the process of purification of the heart in preparation for the judgment of the soul. This judgment will be understood not as an event that will occur at the time of death but as an event that occurs continuously, at every moment in the life of the individual. The student will learn how to become allied with the forces of the Higher Self and to thereby begin cleansing the mind (heart) of impurities so as to attain a higher vision of reality.
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Commendable Spirit, Questionable Research,
By weftwise (Louisiana, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Inroduction to Maat Philosophy (Paperback)
Dr. Ashby is a learned man, but he does himself and his readers a grave disservice with his books about Ma'at and "Egyptian yoga". As an attempt to fuse Buddhist/Indian spiritual philosophy and the wisdom found in Ancient Egyptian writings the books would be interesting, but instead Ashby has taken Egyptian funerary & wisdom texts and altered them to serve as a veneer to present teachings belonging to a completely foreign culture. His interpretation of Ancient Egyptian culture/spirituality is very unorthodox, and his conclusions do not hold up under scrutiny. As examples: Ashby states that the Ancient Egyptians practiced a form of yoga dating back five thousand years, and that the role of AE priests was to teach this yogic system to the people. In close to twenty years of studying Ancient Egypt I have never encountered anything to support that claim. Indeed, in AE the temples were literally considered the homes of gods, and the priests' title "hem-netjer" translates as "servant of the god". Ashby presents pictures of supposed AE yogic poses (asanas), but in reality these are disparate images taken from unrelated funerary art: as far as I know, no AE treatise on yoga (or indeed any form of such discipline) exists. Ashby also liberally sprinkles his work with quotes attributed as "Ancient Egyptian proverbs" without identifying said proverbs' actual physical or literary source. These are only a few of many discrepancies that lead me to seriously question the author's knowledge of Ancient Egypt... and of Ma'at. Readers interested in Ashby's work would be better served seeking out the teachings of the Buddha and/or a local certified yoga instructor.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Tears to Peace,
By Melanie R Park (Austin, Tx United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Inroduction to Maat Philosophy (Paperback)
I bought this book at a very crucial time in my life. That is, a very crucial time *spiritually*... i was struggling with many unanswered questions, and failing to cope with fears/disappointments and guilt.....Though these are problems that most of us work through for our entire lives, Dr. Ashby's book spread light and hope upon the many things that can burden and weigh down the human soul. He uses an Ancient Egyptian approach to spiritual matters, though i will not say for sure that he sticks ENTIRELY to it. He does incorporate other teaching's into his work. But his love for the Neteru is apparent. This is definately on my top 10 of favorite books....
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Tears to Peace,
By Melanie R Park (Austin, Tx United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Inroduction to Maat Philosophy (Paperback)
I bought this book at a very crucial time in my life. That is, a very crucial time *spiritually*... i was struggling with many unanswered questions, and failing to cope with fears/disappointments and guilt.....Though these are problems that most of us work through for our entire lives, Dr. Ashby's book spread light and hope upon the many things that can burden and weigh down the human soul. He uses an Ancient Egyptian approach to spiritual matters, though i will not say for sure that he sticks ENTIRELY to it. He does incorporate other teaching's into his work. But his love for the Neteru is apparent. This is definately on my top 10 of favorite books....
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