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When one person dares to speak her truth, it challenges us all to live our own. With Red Hot and Holy, Sera Beak offers a provocative and intimate view of what it means to get up close and personal with the divine in modern times. With a rare combination of audacious wit, scholarly acumen, and tender vulnerability—vibrantly mixed with red wine, rock songs, tattoos, and erotic encounters—Sera candidly chronicles the highs and lows of her mystical journey. From the innocence of her childhood crush on God; through a whirlwind of torrid liaisons and bitter break-ups with Christianity, Buddhism, Sufism, Hinduism, and the New Age; and finally into committed monogamy with her own Red Hot and Holy Goddess, Sera shares transformative insights, encouraging us all to trust our unique path and ignite our own spiritual love affair. Sera Beak's luscious writing and renegade spiritual wisdom that slices through religious and new age dogma made her debut book The Red Book a breakout success. With Red Hot and Holy she offers a far more personal book—an illuminating, hilarious, and above all utterly honest portrait of the heart-opening process of mystical realization. This hot and holy book invites you to embrace your soul, unleash your true Self, and burn, baby, burn with divine love. Excerpt As a child, I was madly in love with God. Gaga for God. In grade school, I used to write “I (heart) God” at the top of all my homework assignments and in the margins of the notes I passed to my girlfriends about which boys we thought were cute. Next to The Little Princess, a children’s bible was kept on my bedside table for nightly reading. Miracles? Prophetic dreams? Angels? Healing the sick? Sign me up for those gigs! And every Thursday I believed J.C. dropped by my bedroom so I could ask him personal questions and tell him which sister was annoying me the most. I was magnetized to rosaries, prayers, and pyramids the way other kids were to doughnuts, MTV and the Cabbage Patch Kids, and every time I saw a religious figure (priest, nun, Buddhist monk, Hare Krishna) out in public, it would take an enormous amount of willpower not to stalk them. When Career Days at school would come around, my questionnaire would look a little something like this: Favorite subject? God Favorite hobby? God What do you want to be when you grow up? God (Okay, there was a brief time when I was six years old when the answer to that last question was “an albino.” I thought albinism would make me glow in the dark.) When I was a child, God was not a belief of a magical Santa Claus type. He was as real as my heart. I felt Him (inside me). I recognized Him (everywhere). I knew Him (personally). We hung out together, and I never wanted our rendezvous to stop. I only wanted us to draw closer. I assumed I was experiencing what many Catholics refer to as “the call” to be a priest, so I matter-of-factly informed my parish priests and Sunday school teachers of my future vocation. They laughed, patted my head, and told me I couldn’t have heard the call to be a priest because I had a vagina. Okay, they didn’t say that last part, but believe me, it was implied. They did tell me that only men were allowed to be priests because Jesus only had male disciples (to which Mary Magdalene juts out her left hip and slaps her round cheek with The Gospel of Mary Magdalene). But, of course, I could always be a nun. Table of Contents Part One B.M. (Before Marion)
Divine Wild ChildMystical MisfitsTrumped by the Tree of LifeThe Goddess Is in Da House!Kali’s ChildMy Higher EducationCaught Red HandedThe Red Light District of DivinityThe Sacred SororityPart Two A.M. (After Marion)
Rouge AwakeningRed Night of the SoulBlast OffRed AlertThe Red TentShadow PuppetsGirls Just Wanna Have Fun16 ½ Roses Are Red
The Red BlockThe Red PrincessDragon FireA Ruby in the Heart of GraniteREDefining DivinityBurn Baby, Burn Red Hot and Holy: A Heretic's Love Story, by Sera Beak - Amazon Sales Rank: #165882 in Books
- Brand: Beak, Sera
- Published on: 2015-05-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.81" h x .69" w x 6.46" l, .25 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 288 pages
Red Hot and Holy: A Heretic's Love Story, by Sera Beak Review “Red Hot & Holy is stunning on so many levels. This, ladies and gentlemen, is what the Divine Feminine looks and feels like—embodied, immediate, down-to-earth, and completely accessible. Bravo, Sera Beak!” —Christiane Northrup, MD, author of the New York Times bestsellers Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom and The Wisdom of Menopause “Sera Beak's memoir will take you on a passionate, provocative, and revealing journey through one woman's soulful sojourn into her true self. Red Hot & Holy makes no apologies, bares all, and crosses boundaries into uncharted mystical and emotional lands. If you're looking for a spiritual page-turner, you don't wanna miss this phenomenal book. I couldn't put it down!” —Kris Carr, bestselling author of Crazy Sexy Cancer “Red Hot & Holy is wildly original, hilariously funny, and deeply wise. I think it can start a movement of the great and good and maenadic ladies of the Red persuasions. It is truly cataclysmic and magnificently dangerous! I would join up even in my now-76th year. It is what life is all about . . .” —Jean Houston author of The Wizard of Us: Transformational Lessons from Oz “Sera Beak blazes with bold and flowing passion for the direct mystic transmission and primal creative power of the sacred feminine. Red Hot & Holy is juicy, funny, raw, and a wonderful contribution for modern-day soul adventurers.” —Shiva Rea, yogini and author of Tending the Heart Fire “‘Red Night of the Soul!’Only Sera Beak could approach the classic spiritual emergency as an occasion for make-up sex with the Holy One. Sera embraces the whole of soul-life with fearless and often hilarious directness, from the most harrowing plunges into the depths of emptiness to the most intimate reunion with the Sacred Self.” —Mirabai Starr, author of God of Love and translator of Dark Night of the Soul and The Interior Castle “I heard that once a young person came to Hafiz, asking for permission to use some of his poems in another language. And after permission was granted, said, ‘What is the most important quality in the translation I need to make the poems . . . true? And Hafiz replied, ‘My poems—like great art—lift the corners of the mouth, the soul's mouth, the heart's mouth—and affect any opening that can make love.’ I think there is some grand art in the work of Sera Beak. Go for it; grab hold, dance, fly, applaud life.” —Daniel Ladinsky, international bestselling Penguin author “Sera Beak's Red, Hot & Holy is a permission slip to bring your most soulful self to the spiritual table without limiting restrictions. In a world full of spiritual self-help teachers who are either feeding your ego, nourishing their own, or asking you to be less of Who You Really Are, Sera Beak is a refreshingly disruptive breath of light. Don't read this book if you're not willing to get out of your comfort zone. But if you're ready to unleash the full potential of your true self, dive in. This book will ignite fireworks in the heart of your soul and leave your spirit dancing a red hot tango.” —Lissa Rankin, MD, New York Times bestselling author of Mind Over Medicine “If you’re looking for a spiritual book filled with raw passion, brutal honesty and uncompromising integrity look no further; Sera Beak’s Red Hot & Holy is it. Sera’s heart fans the flames of Divine Grace and fierce wisdom. Read this book and let it burn baby burn.” —Chris Grosso, bestselling author of Indie Spiritualist: A No Bullshit Exploration of Spirituality “Sera Beak is the real raw deal. She is a direct hotline to the divine feminine. The consequence of encountering her—in person or through her glorious book—is that the intensity of your connection to your own divinity turns on and turns up to a luscious new volume. A blast of Sera is as good as dancing naked in the moonlight.” —Regena Thomashauer, creatrix of Mama Gena's School of Womanly Arts “What do you get when you combine a weird, hip angel of a thirty-something woman, advanced training in the study of religion, laugh-out-loud writing, God as Girl, and a direct encounter with a cosmic soul no longer ‘tricked into a tradition’? You get Sera Beak. You get this book. Which is really not a book at all, but a living revelation, and American Gnostic gospel posing as a spiritual memoir.” —Jeffrey J. Kripal, author of Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred “This is a brave, untamed, and yes, holy and hot book. Sera Beak describes a spirituality unfettered by dogma (traditional or new age). Like all true mystics, Sera’s words compel us to fearlessly confront whatever stands in the way of our awakening. Sera Beak is pioneering new pathways.” —Gail Straub, teacher, activist, and author of Returning to My Mother’s House: Taking Back the Wisdom of the Feminine "Sera Beak is the real deal, and her fearless, fabulous book is on the must-read list for all of my soul sisters!" —Kathleen McGowan, bestselling author of The Expected One
About the Author Sera BeakSera Beak is a Harvard-trained scholar of comparative world religions who spent years traveling the world studying spirituality with Sufi dervishes, Tibetan monks, Croatian mystics, shamans, and more. She is the author of The Red Book: A Deliciously Unorthodox Approach to Igniting Your Divine Spark and Red Hot and Holy: A Heretic’s Love Story, has appeared in The New York Times, People, and Publisher’s Weekly, and on NPR, The Dr. Oz Show, and Oprah and Friends. She lives in San Francisco, CA. For more, visit serabeak.com.
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61 of 62 people found the following review helpful. "How strange my journey was... life has led me back to you, my Soul." By Stephanie Pietkiewicz Sera Beak quotes from the Swiss Analytical Psychologist Carl Jung at the beginning of the second part of Red, Hot and Holy. Jung wrote those words around 100 years ago in what he called his Red Book. It is an uncensored document of one man's search for, encounter and reunion with his Soul. Only recently published, 50 years after his death, it shows us the deep work required to retrieve our Soul and to become what he called, an individuated Self. It involves facing the dark Shadow of our unconscious wounds and projections, while reclaiming and embodying ourselves in all our fullness. Ultimately this journey helps us embody our very own Essence, the gift that we've come to share with the world.It takes immense courage to go on this journey. But to stand up and reveal it to others (while you're still in your 30s) is brave beyond words.That is why I feel immense gratitude for Sera Beak and her own Red, Hot and Holy book. Here, in language we can relate to, even though it's richly woven with scholarship on the world's psychoanalytic, spiritual and mystical traditions, a girlfriend sits down with us over a glass of red wine and has the courage to share in the most intimate, heartfelt, soul searching, gut wrenching, deep belly laughing, and Real way her own incredible Love Story with the Divine. It's her life's search for an authentic and individuated way to honour what she comes to know and embody as herSelf: the Red Lady of her Soul.As Sera's story reveals, the Soul's journey is a wild ride. And she shares it with us in all its messy and mystical detail. Holding. Nothing. Back. Because of this I couldn't put this book down. She describes being flamed by a contemporary mystic, erotic acts of Sacred Touch, mysterious appearances of Red Lady cheerleading teams, her intense experiences with JC, MM and Sarah, their daughter, and months of nights and days in a Red Tent where, losing everything of her former life, she wakes to the tenderness of her own Beloved's arms. The book ends with Sera's ongoing act of courage: the fragility and fierceness of honouring and embodying this great Love.Why am I so grateful to Sera for this book? Her uncensored and `heretical' words have made it safe for me to reclaim and honour my own mystical experiences of being kissed (and slapped and embraced) by my Inner Divine, as SHe calls me to be here, fully, home.In this way, Red, Hot and Holy is much more than an unputdownable sexy, sassy and `potty mouthed' 'spiritual memoir'. It's a map - scented and splattered with red markers (petals and blood) for each of us, should we choose to go on that strange journey back to find the Beloved of our own Soul.Sera's `map' gives us courage to reclaim our own experiences with and embodiment of the Sacred Lord or Lady of our own Being. To show up as That, and to share It and Shine through It in the world. As such, this book is `an open-handed offering', reminding us all `to shine our inner light.' When Sera does this, it's bedazzling.Deep, deep Soul bows to you, Sera. Thank you.
49 of 50 people found the following review helpful. For all the men out there.... By Oliver Moon I am a man, and I am so grateful to have had this book come into my life. I have been on a spiritual path since before I met Sera (where we went to college together), and have been on the yogic path, in and out of the new age scene since, and done my best to keep it real and authentic for myself all these years. I have read so many uplifting sacred non-dualistic, buddhist, tantric, kabalistic, self help texts, and tried my best to live up to these ancient lineages as a modern western man, with varying degrees of success. As inspiring as all the mythology around enlightenment is, nothing compares to honesty. Brutal and brave honesty. And for this, my inner divine feminine curtseys to Sera Beak. Her story is personal, yet universal. It is written for women, but as a modern man who has embraced his own shakti life force, I can see beyond the distinctions of male and female, and take away so much wisdom from Sera's journey of her own soul re-connection. Ultimately Sera is exposing her own struggles on this spiritual path (which is marketed to us as so shiny and fluffy and positive), and showing the true path home into our heart and sense of fullness isnt always sugar coated, and the fact that she is sharing this publicly is giving us all permission to acknowledge our own struggles, and not feel there is something wrong with our own tears of feeling separated from our soulmate (our very own soul), or feeling frustrated of having connected with it and loosing it, yet coming back to it (us) with an even deeper appreciation. So I say Bravo, and I wish all my sisters, and ex girlfriends, and strangers out there needing to taste something authentic with-in this superficial matrix we live in (and are seduced by), can be blessed to have this book come into their path. Sera shows us it's not about us following her way, rather it's about us all following our own way, tuning into our own inner divinity, and meeting on the dance floor of life as complete and embodied marriages of soul and spirit, male and female. It's one path to say the information, and it's another to live the teachings. For that I appreciate Sera's work. The world needs to learn from real experiences, not dry concepts, and Red Hot and Holy is a breath of fresh air in the genre of mystical awakenings. I laughed, I cried, it was better than Cats! ;)-Oliver author of Unknown Halsman
46 of 49 people found the following review helpful. Unexpectedly Open and Inspiring By C. Towler I was both surprised and impressed by this book. I find most spiritual memoirs to be uninteresting, but this was different. I think the difference is that Sera Beak approaches spirituality with a kind of ruthless self-honesty that is rare to see.Basically, this is a story of how a spiritual journey is ultimately one that you have to take alone. Not in a vacuum... Sera has lots of teachers and influences. She's tempted along the way to settle on one tradition or another, but there's something inside her that keeps pushing her to find her own truth. She's very candid about her stumbles and fears along the way, and some of the chapters are uncomfortable to read because she's so frank about the self-delusions that she uncovers. I really got the impression that she was opening up her soul in this book.For the most part, I don't "do" spirituality like Sera Beak does. There are some insights that I liked a lot (like the difference between "spirit" and "soul" work... that's really interesting), but on the whole I'm not that attracted to many of the practices or philosophies that speak most strongly to her, and all her "Redvolution" stuff doesn't really do much for me. But that's okay. The main point I got from this book is about being true to yourself, and NOT settling for someone else's version of spirituality. And that's what I found most inspiring about it.
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