About the Author:
Autobiographical sketch by Omna: After the burning hot kundalini fire rushed up the spine to burn into the brain, all past societal & intellectual programming was swept away. It was a total rebirth. I was thrust onto the spiritual Path. There was no choice, no turning back - the end of all preconceptions. This amazing force caused attunement with the Great Spirit and forced a life lived totally beyond the proscribed strait-jacketed bounds of so-called civilized society - in the jungles and wilderness of North Queensland in Australia - and for many years as a sadhu - a spiritual seeker - in India and Nepal. I have lived half of the last 40 years in Asia - India, Nepal, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Tibet - closer to Shambala - the spiritual Heart of the planet. Walking on the wild side, living on the edge, balancing on a tightrope, seeking only to tune into the divine energy, i lived in realms beyond nationalism, politics, society, the bounds of all old religions and philosophies....until near Nelson in New Zealand in 1979, i experienced the Light in the heart and at the same moment this same Light permeating the whole cosmos. I then realized that God is alive...the guide and conscience; speaking, singing within each person s heart and is conscious loving intelligent energy that permeates the whole Universe in an endless dance of Creation. Thus i was enlightened, in the sense of knowing that God is real and is the creator, continual re-Creator and ruler of the Universe. This does not mean that i want to be anyone's guru, or start a cult. I just want everyone to know that God lives within them, that they are part of God and that it is essential, especially in this coming period if Big Brother tries to imprison them in his paradigm, they free their minds of all the programmed conditioning and belief systems that stop them evolving and awakening to Who they really are. Because they are ruled by their egos, people assume everyone is the same. But an enlightened person has no ego. To become enlightened, all attachments, skins and possessions must be shed. There is no thought of self, only an intense desire for union with the Great Spirit. Once enlightened, a person realizes that the personal self is an illusion, and that we are all fragments of the One divine energy. Then one can act wholeheartedly, as a fully turned on, radiant free being, whose life and consciousness is not controlled by anyone or by any programmed belief systems.
Review:
I would have liked to have read the book years ago, perhaps quenching my thirst for such knowledge. The writing is brilliant. --Ruth Sommerhalder
This book could become a new Bible. --Demetria
Whilst the text illumines and indicates the path to those ancient mysteries, once inaccessible, the inspired poetry rejoices and dances on the page, celebrating Life! For the poetry alone read the book. beautiful enlightenment intent light is love is clear to see peerless poetry; flares illuminate scenes already lit, the haunting call of the stars to contemplation, to wander to be alone to be somewhere wild and free - crystal clear of air and water, and drawn in to see - taunted to know! --Anne Henry
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