The Esoteric Path of Marriage: A Guide To Spiritual Enlightenment Through Relationship (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780692495131)

Maha and David are the authors of The Esoteric Path of Marriage: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment Through Relationship. When he was 28, David entered a silent meditation retreat in Joshua Tree, California, having never meditated before. Facing enormous feelings of depression and anxiety, meditating all day and throughout the night for many days he experienced a dramatic spiritual awakening. He says that it was as though a root was pulled out of his chest and with it, from the depths of his Soul came a primal scream as his pain-body exploded. He was left with a radical feeling of Love that overwhelmed him into spontaneous singing and dancing. He was admitted into a mental hospital for three days where he refused the medication even as it was offered along with the promise of an immediate release (having seen the film One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest). With a profound new perspective and an expanded state of consciousness (known in the East as a full-blown Kundalini Awakening) he has spent the ensuing decade, predominately in India, integrating his awakening and blazing the trail of Enlightenment through relationship with Maha. It was in India where Maha and David met in the ashram of Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, which translates as 'Mother of Immortal Bliss', known to the world as Amma, 'the hugging saint'. Maha, having experienced a divine vision in the American desert quit her job in London for a pilgrimage to India. Following some months of meditation, she had an encounter with the formless aspect of the Divine Mother as her heart leapt into spacious communion with that Eternal Presence, sparking the beginning of an intense, devotional awakening. She often finds herself surrendering to divine raptures, accompanied with blissful tears. Maha, (also known as Lakshmi) is a compassionate healer. Through holding the space of Unconditional Love she has reconnected many to their Spirit and has even helped relieve the suffering of people afflicted with back problems, depression, chronic fatigue etc. Many have reported having divine visions in these sessions.