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3.0 out of 5 starsfeminine review
Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2004
I agree with almost all mentioned aspects of reviews contained on this page. Additionally, that the book appears to be outdated to today's evolution. Nor can any one experience of such nature be put into mere words alone or molded to one set way of occurrence. I do respectfully commend the courage behind the words in this book and respect the writer's own thoughts and experience. Most of the facts and perspectives were one of the best I have found in written materials regarding this topic. I think it's a better book to at least "paint a picture" to most people not familiar with the topic or thought or experience. However, I would greatly embrace future reading materials on this topic that are both updated and expanded portraying profound perspectives and the allowance to one's own experience and open mind... way. To date, most materials don't do the experience adequate justice - they do not caputure it's truth. Yet, I still take from them something. So, all are part of the whole and all contribute something to my own truth. But perhaps, I will read it for a third time.
As a modern independent woman in today's world, I can say I was raised with more trad'l values... However, also with the freedom to embrace the individuality of me to evolve in becoming my own -a balance of both and the ultimate power of simply who I am... Labeled by nothing, yet simply me!!! I can also say, I found the book pointed more towards femininity and also a balance of masculinity and femininity to both parts. The scope of those issues from a spiritual standpoint is exponential with an unspoken or unwritten definition. It surpasses our normal conscious understanding. So, the book would also mean that the defined woman without balance of both couldn't experience such an occurence. - Same with a man not comfortable with or having balanced out his feminine traits. I, however, didn't walk away from reading this one (twice now) to conclude only a "barefoot, in the kitchen" woman could only ever be so lucky to deserve such things! But maybe that is because I am sure in the woman (or "spirit") of who I am and my path in life, world, faith... Truth. More over, anyone truly encountering this experience is a highly evolved being possessing distinct awareness on a Universal level - of also being both... One. So, it could not be trapped in a black and white, one-dimensional realm. - It's both... It's all.
If one must deduce a demoralized, smaller version of women, then what about the man to attain such an experience as well? - Ah... the real answer here is that you have to evolve to be who you are and remain true to that. And also that, respectively, no one story could be the same in this particular attainment. God speaks to all, allows for all truths - that ultimate truth of us! Lest I mind you, people come about their truths in different ways. Consequently, it pretty much comes down to your own path and enlightenment and balance of both and your ultimate desire of capacity for love and life... Your truth. No man or woman should have to give up their identity or choice of self, light, life or personal power to fit a stereotype! That only falsifies the very ideal or existence of such possibility of experience.
Therefore, I conclude, I did not take away that you couldn't attain the fruition of said experience by succumbing to silencing your voice or the spirit of you - man or woman. This experience is about ultimate balance and maturity of unconditional love. A tempered, yet divinely beautiful gift of fruits beyond fruits. That is, after all, mutual existing positive power in and of itself... it's existence. And true love is found from the knowing within - period. Yes, as with every experience, I walked away from reading this one, having absorbed the parts useful to me... to evolve with my own experience and thoughts. All the while, still holding true to the way I choose to live, my experience, and truth of me. Further, what compliments that truth is... balance.
