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Rock Your World with the Divine Mother: Bringing the Sacred Power of the Divine Mother into Our Lives

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As a student of spiritual disciplines, Sondra Ray believes that inner peace as well as world peace requires the presence of the Divine Mother.

In Rock Your World with the Divine Mother, Ray shares her pilgrimages to holy places and reflects on spiritual women, such as Mother Teresa and Mary Magdalene, who have influenced her.

In the author's words, this book "is to help you achieve miracle consciousness." Throughout, Ray guides readers along a spiritual path to increased awarness.

The Divine Mother is called by many names by many cultures and religions. In China, she is Quan Yin, the goddess of compassion; in Hawaii, the goddess of fire, Pele; in Christianity, she is the Virgin Mary. Ray presents stories, teachings, and prayers designed to create a renewed interest in the feminine qualities from religion and cultural traditions. She also includes a chapter about Spiritual Renewal Breathwork and correlates it to her rebirthing movement. She challenges some of our Westernized thoughts about society and urges people to allow the Divine Mother back into their lives--for their own good and the good of the world.

One needs to be open to new thoughts about spirituality as she reads through the complex aspects of the Divine Mother's influence in life as described by Ray. In today's turbulent times, anyone who is concerned about the direction in which the world is headed should take the time to read Ray's book and seriously consider where there is room for the Divine Mother in their lives.

by Lee Ambrose
for Story Circle Book Reviews
reviewing books by, for, and about women

i wrote this review once, and i am not sure why it isn't here. this is a very misleading book. i bought it because i have led a coven for 10 years and was looking for some inspiration both for myself and my members. this book has maybe one meditation in the back worth anything. how it is supposed to help YOU find the divine mother is beyond me. the book is filled with the authors tellings of the places she's been and the people she's met and all of the coincidences between. she didn't write it to help anyone, only to brag about being able to travel the world and talk about the so-called miracle she's witnessed. who cares where you have traveled? how are stories of your travels supposed to help any of your readers find spirituality? this is how the book goes; "i traveled to a desert and led a group of people in meditation in a cave and something happened and it was a miracle. I then went to India and met a guru, this happened and that was a miracle." it's very blah, blah, blah, look what i've done. if you have honestly connected with the divine mother, what does telling us where you have traveled, who you met, and all the meditations and workshops you've led have to do with anything other than stroking one's own ego. leave that stuff for you're biography or "about the author" page. ego is not the way to any god. and, just because something interesting happens, doesn't mean it's a miracle.

I typed a long review of this book about 2 weeks ago, but, it has not appeared yet (?) The writing itself is just terrible. Sounds like a computer was used to randomly select and spit out canned "new age" phrases. Nothing is really explained well in this book, and, it appears to be one long advertisement for the author's business. Considering all the talk about Eastern philosophy and "selflessness", etc, the book just seemed like a long stream of I, I, I, I, me, me, me... My friend asked me to read it and tell her what she thought.. that's the only reason I didn't throw it in the garbage after about page 20!

After meeting Sondra and her husband, Mark Sullivan, in person and having a rebirthing session with them, I knew I wanted to read all of Sondra's books. During the rebirthing, Sondra and Mark chanted the 108 names of the Divine Mother.

I had heard of Goddess worship in earth-based religions, but this book is about how Sondra has personally experienced the Divine Mother in her spiritual service to others. I learned in this book that the collective Divine Mother presides over every one of us and She transcends and is even greater than the mythological diva or meaning assigned to her by a culture or religion. This is the sacred divine feminine aspect of God and I fell in love with the Divine Mother while reading Sondra's book. I actually felt Her loving presence. What a peaceful, blissful experience. Now, I'm ordering another book by Sondra!

I got this book yearning for the divine mother energy - and I enjoyed this book learning more about how this energy manifests itself in our world. It helps the reader to see her presence in many aspects of life and in different cultures, however it does not provide clear guide on how to connect the reader with the energy to actually experience it.

I would love to do a review, but unfortunately have not received the 2 books to date - 23 January.

Kind regards
Meryl