By Sera Beak
With an extraordinary mix of audacious wit, scholarly acumen, and delicate vulnerability—vibrantly combined with pink wine, rock songs, tattoos, and erotic encounters—Sera candidly chronicles the highs and lows of her mystical trip. From the innocence of her early life weigh down on God; via a whirlwind of torrid liaisons and sour break-ups with Christianity, Buddhism, Sufism, Hinduism, and the recent Age; and at last into devoted monogamy together with her personal purple scorching and Holy Goddess, Sera stocks transformative insights, encouraging us all to belief our targeted direction and ignite our personal religious love affair.
Sera Beak's luscious writing and renegade religious knowledge that slices via spiritual and new age dogma made her debut booklet The purple Book a breakout good fortune. With Red scorching and Holy she deals a much more own book—an illuminating, hilarious, and specifically totally sincere portrait of the heart-opening strategy of mystical awareness. This scorching and holy e-book invitations you to include your soul, unharness your precise Self, and burn, child, burn with divine love.
Excerpt
As a toddler, i used to be head over heels in love with God. Gaga for God. In grade university, I used to write down “I (heart) God” on the most sensible of all my homework assignments and within the margins of the notes I handed to my girlfriends approximately which boys we inspiration have been cute. subsequent to The Little Princess, a children’s bible used to be saved on my bedside desk for nightly reading. Miracles? Prophetic dreams? Angels? therapeutic the sick? signal me up for these gigs! and each Thursday i assumed J.C. dropped by way of my bed room so i may ask him own questions and inform him which sister used to be tense me the most. i used to be magnetized to rosaries, prayers, and pyramids the way in which different childrens have been to doughnuts, MTV and the Cabbage Patch young children, and each time I observed a non secular determine (priest, nun, Buddhist monk, Hare Krishna) out in public, it'll take a major volume of dedication to not stalk them.
while occupation Days in school could come round, my questionnaire could glance a bit anything like this:
favourite subject? God
favourite hobby? God
What do you need to be if you develop up? God
(Okay, there has been a quick time whilst i used to be six years outdated while the reply to that final query used to be “an albino.” i assumed albinism might make me glow within the dark.)
whilst i used to be a baby, God was once no longer a trust of a paranormal Santa Claus type. He used to be as actual as my heart. I felt Him (inside me). I recognized Him (everywhere). I knew Him (personally). We frolicked jointly, and that i by no means sought after our rendezvous to stop. I purely sought after us to attract closer. i thought i used to be experiencing what many Catholics confer with as “the name” to be a clergyman, so I matter-of-factly trained my parish clergymen and Sunday college academics of my destiny vocation. They laughed, patted my head, and advised me I couldn’t have heard the decision to be a clergyman simply because I had a vagina.
ok, they didn’t say that final half, yet think me, it used to be implied.
They did inform me that merely males have been allowed to be monks simply because Jesus in basic terms had male disciples (to which Mary Magdalene juts out her left hip and slaps her around cheek with The Gospel of Mary Magdalene). yet, in fact, i'll constantly be a nun.
Table of Contents
half One B.M. (Before Marion)
- Divine Wild Child
- Mystical Misfits
- Trumped through the Tree of Life
- The Goddess Is in Da House!
- Kali’s Child
- My larger Education
- Caught purple Handed
- The purple gentle District of Divinity
- The Sacred Sorority
Part A.M. (After Marion)
- Rouge Awakening
- Red evening of the Soul
- Blast Off
- Red Alert
- The purple Tent
- Shadow Puppets
- Girls simply Wanna Have Fun
16 ½ Roses Are Red
- The crimson Block
- The crimson Princess
- Dragon Fire
- A Ruby within the middle of Granite
- REDefining Divinity
- Burn child, Burn
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Don’t overlook: i used to be a faith student (remember the vocal inflection and badass attitude). I knew intellectually that the Sufi definition and instructing of nafs have been even more advanced and multilayered than the simplified equation of “material fact = nothin’ yet badness. ” and that i knew intellectually that the majority non secular teachings at once or not directly emphasize the non secular significance of transcending this earth, the flesh, and, good, existence, and that those components have generally been known as “feminine” and seen as inferior, illusory, much less wakeful, and, every now and then, a capture. truth was once, I had identified for years that the realm religions diss “the female. ” yet what i used to be now not waiting for used to be for “the female” to be kicked to the cosmic reduce even within the mystical sects of those traditions, specially the person who my loved Rumi belonged to — Sufism. And what i actually used to be no longer anticipating was once my intensely visceral and emotional response to this truth. It felt like i used to be spiritually homeless, once more. while the tears had run their path, my type professor lightly steered I come to his subsequent type, titled “The Goddess in India,” which in order that occurred to be beginning in a couple of minutes. I blew my nostril one final time and walked with him out the door, leaving all these dead books I had especially ordered on Sufism marooned on that table subsequent to that library window within the Direct sparkling Presence of that Tree of existence. four THE GODDESS IS IN DA residence! rather than with regards to the observe goddess or divine female as statements of non secular trust or as literal representations of a deity, we will be able to use them as reminders of the limitless varieties spirit assumes in our global. we will be able to additionally discover how spotting those pictures and concepts of a divine female usually are not intended to enslave us, yet to help us in spotting our personal divinity. JALAJA BONHEIM Aphrodite’s Daughters Goddesses — I knew little or no and idea little or no approximately those unique creatures in the course of my first 3 years of faculty. in truth, Goddesses appeared a wee bit primitive to me, like archaic Barbie dolls with bizarre names and undesirable clothes. aside from spicing up myths, artwork, and pagan Earth Day celebrations, Goddesses seemed to haven't any actual religious element. regardless of my prejudice — or as a result of it — my final truth used to be approximately to get gangbanged via a few Goddesses from India. yet first, let’s get a short lay of the Indian land. Hinduism is the single significant global faith that almost immediately worships goddesses in addition to gods (and has been actively doing so considering that 2500 BCE). a few streams of Hinduism even view Goddess because the finish All Be All, the pinnacle Honchette of the Universe. actually, the 1st e-book my professor had us learn in “The Goddess of India” type was once an English translation of the Devi Mahatmya (The particular Greatness of Goddess), a favored non secular textual content written approximately fifteen hundred years in the past in northwest India that says final fact is female, and a badass female at that. The gist of this historic religious tale: One not-so-fine day, demons all started wreaking havoc on the earth.