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The Sacred Bedroom: Creating Your Personal Sanctuary [Paperback]

Jon Robertson (Author)
4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)


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Book Description

May 10, 2001
Every aspect of life is essentially connected to the bedroom, whether sleeping, talking, making love, praying, crying, or enjoying solitude. The Sacred Bedroom is an inspirational guide to creating a bedroom that is a refuge not only for relaxing but also for restoring health in body, mind, and spirit. The author reveals how this most private room can be used to heal hurts, enhance happiness, and reunite people with the sacred in each day. The book includes tips on how to arrange the bedroom space using feng shui for optimum energy flow; how to incorporate meditation into daily life; how to establish an altar; and how to create a private haven within the home where one can learn how to love and be loved. It also contains inspiring quotations, easy mind and body exercises, and sidebars on ancient customs and scriptural wisdom.


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Robertson, a freelance writer and photographer, has created a curious but useful book, drawing equally from the disciplines and precepts of many world traditions. Despite the apparent promise of the title, his book is inspirational, not salacious. He shows readers, for instance, how to arrange a bedroom, more or less according to the principles of Feng Shui, for maximum good fortune; how to sacralize and ritualize encounters in the bedroom for maximum benefit, etc. This book will offend none but the most Grundyish, and it will help many. For most collections.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: New World Library (May 10, 2001)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1577311434
  • ISBN-13: 978-1577311430
  • Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 7.2 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 11.4 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,396,153 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jon Robertson is a publisher, editor, and author with twenty-five years experience in various aspects of the trade. In 2007, he founded Vegan Heritage Press, an independent, Virginia-based book publishing company dedicated to bringing excellent vegan cookbooks to the marketplace.

Jon is the author of several books and has worked as a newspaper stringer and magazine feature writer. Jon's article, "Writing from the Ground Up," appeared in the February 2008 issue of Writer's Digest. Two of his plays have been produced and one published. He has also worked with several opera composers as a librettist.

Jon is a native of Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, attended The Pennsylvania State University, and received his B.A. in English with a minor in philosophy from King's College, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He lives and works with his wife, author Robin Robertson, in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley.

See his company website at www.veganheritagepress.com and his Vegan Unplugged blog at http://veganunplugged.blogspot.com.

 

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4.0 out of 5 stars An Impractical but Beautiful Archetype, November 3, 2001
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emily vanlaeys (Oneonta, New York) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Sacred Bedroom: Creating Your Personal Sanctuary (Paperback)
This book brims with suggestions for transforming the bedroom into a sacred place for prayer and meditation, sleep and dreams, romance, rituals, and sacred sex. While it might take a few days or weeks to read THE SACRED BEDROOM, it could take several years to make most of the changes recommended. Just for starters, there's the physical space to be rearranged according to the principles of Feng Sui; the floor covering and bedclothes to be replaced with natural, non-toxic materials, and some sacred objects to be obtained for the creation of a bedroom altar. Robinson suggests that we make these changes gradually, as we can afford to. I started out by splurging on a compact box of tissues which enabled me to move my hand lotion from my bureau to my night table. Now I can use my bureau top for an altar. The altar is the focal point for meditation and prayer, essential activities for the maintenance of a sacred bedroom.
Robertson has created a beautiful archetype of the sacred bedroom for readers to aspire to. Some of its components are not practical for all of us, but the principles of the sacred bedroom, to be carried beyond the bedroom door into our daily interactions, can easily be integrated into our spiritual lives. These are: "The divine image within," the reminder that we and all those we meet are eternal souls made in God's image; "True Love," that helps us recognize God within ourselves and others; "Energy," being aware of the flow of energy everywhere we go, and keeping it positive; "Filtering the artificial," to protect ourselves from the influence of the media and the synthetic world; and "honoring the authentic self," the confident self who knows the permanence of the soul and its place in the universe, no matter what occurs in daily life.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Tips on creating a personal sanctuary, July 5, 2001
This review is from: The Sacred Bedroom: Creating Your Personal Sanctuary (Paperback)
Jon Robertson's Sacred Bedroom provides tips to creating a personal sanctuary for spirituality and refuge, from using atmosphere to encourage either romance or sleep to embellishing a room with candles or aromatherapy. Packed with practical applications.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars This book belongs in every home., December 10, 2001
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Kay Sturgis (Virginia Beach, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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The other day my brother dropped in for a visit and happened to wander into our bedroom. I went in after him to hear him exclaim, "I want my bedroom to 'feel' like this one. Why, it feels wonderful in here! What did you do to make it feel like this?" What I did was read and use Jon Robertson's "Sacred Bedroom" to help create a truly wonderful space that even my brother, who isn't easily taken in by his surroundings, noticed. Needless to say, he is receiving a copy of this book for a gift, so that now, he too, can enjoy the benefits of a good read and a transformed bedroom. Not only that, but the author will also introduce brother dear to the art of Feng Shui, dream therapy, and some other "boudoir" arts that will soothe his soul and tickle his fancy. Thank you Jon, for a great book, one that in my opinion belongs in every home.
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Our most life-changing experiences take place in the bedroom. Read the first page
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