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When we engage with the personal aspects of these energies—with their mythic, symbolic forms—we activate hidden powers in our own psyche. Then, these powers transform us.
Sally Kempton • Awakening Shakti: The Transformative Power of the Goddesses of Yoga
Invoking the energy of an enlightened being can set your practice on fire, bring sweetness to a dry meditation, and open you to the subtle, protective and transforming forces of the cosmos. Sally Kempton, Meditation for the Love of It
Vickie MacArthur • A Lotus on Fire: How a Buddhist Monk Ignited My Heart

Sylvia Boorstein
Jack Kornfield • Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are
Among them, I recommend Pandit’s Specific Principles of Kashmir Shaivism for the new student. More yogic works are Swami Lakshmanjoo’s Self Realisation and The Secret Supreme, Swami Chetanananda’s Dynamic Stillness I and II, and, of course, Siddha Meditation by Swami Muktananda.
Swami Shankarananda • Consciousness Is Everything: The Yoga of Kashmir Shaivism
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Jack Kornfield • Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are

As you read this book and do the practices here, you’ll learn how to make visible certain numinous qualities in yourself, qualities that are embodied in these forms and the principles associated with them.
Sally Kempton • Awakening Shakti: The Transformative Power of the Goddesses of Yoga
Because human consciousness and human imagination are so powerfully creative, our attention to