Awakening Shakti: The Transformative Power of the Goddesses of Yoga

Indra knows enough to let that pass. He knows that she can do no less than save her world. A moment later, she agrees. “Yes,” she says, “I will intervene to restore the balance of the world.”

When we engage these Shaktis, we touch into the deep structures of the cosmos and of ourselves. We touch the source code, the hard drive of consciousness itself.

Second, a corollary of the initial insight is the recognition that physical and emotional pleasures can be doorways into the divine.

Parvati stands there unmoving, deep in meditation on the mantra, “Om namah shivaya.”

The subtle worlds that lie between the transcendent vastness and the physical universe are also inside our own subtle bodies, ready to be experienced by anyone who has the stamina and grace to enter into the inner world of the heart.

counterpart. Since her beloved is the notoriously untamable outsider-god Shiva, there’s an element of danger and illicit delight in their relationship, a quality of mystery that makes even their domesticity seem fraught with potential chaos.

Daniel Odier’s book Tantric Quest,

When demonic forces are unleashed in the world, the forces of evolution become highly accessible, and not just in human minds and hearts.

around. From a Tantric perspective, the inner masculine—Shiva—is the source of consciousness, awareness. But in order to act, to stir, he must take energy from the inner feminine. In ordinary life, this is exactly what many men do when they project their creative energy outward into a muse, a nurturing wife or assistant, who then pours her energy i