The Marriage of Spirit: Enlightened Living in Today's World

by Leslie Temple-Thurston, Brad Laughlin, Leslie Temple Thurston

Book Overview

The techniques of The Marriage of Spirit, filtered through modern psychological thought and the author's own life experiences, emerge in an original form designed especially for the more mentally... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0966018206
• ISBN13: 9780966018202
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Corelight
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.0" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

The tools to make a difference

This book is without a doubt the most practical and useful manual for exploring and clearing your subconcious that I have ever encountered. I've come to use the techniques Leslie Temple-Thurston gives us in the book on a daily basis. They've improved my life in ways I'm only beginning to recognize. This book is a must have for any spiritual seeker and anyone who is ready to deal with their unconcious patterning.

The Best of the Best

If you are ready to focus on your spiritual path in a dedicated way, there is no better guide than Leslie Temple-Thurston's THE MARRIAGE OF SPIRIT. In 60+ years of reading books of spiritual guidance and insight, I've enjoyed and been grateful for the work of many writers, from Joseph Campbell and Jung to Marion Woodman, Carolyn Myss, Robert A. Johnson, Ram Dass, Deepak Chopra, et al. Temple-Thurston's work puts the pieces of the puzzle together in the clearest yet most profound way I have so far encountered. Highly readable, very practical, and always inspiring, the book helps one break through old, ingrained patterns of ego-bound behavior and thinking. The individual reader is challenged to become a "spiritual warrior," aspiring to nothing less than enlightenment or unity-consciousness. Specific exercises accompany each chapter. Two points of clarification: first, the book is not about marriage in the literal sense; second, Temple-Thurston has a respectful and reverent perspective toward all world faiths and religions; no single tradition (Christian, Jewish, etc.)is promoted in her work, although the Eastern mystics are clearly her central influence. In summary, to me this book stands apart from, and above, all others of similar purpose.

This is Not Your Father's Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Leslie Temple-Thurston has added something new - and in my opinion much needed - to the spiritual literature, a manual for dissolving the samskaras. Samskara is a sankrit word that refers to all those tendencies and bad habits that sabotage any efforts at achieving anything, such as losing weight or becoming enlightened. It is otherwise known as our patterns, and makes up our conditioning, or patterned behavior. By thoroughly eluclidating on the subject of polarities and their effects on us personally - and she is working on the level of clearing the personality or ego throughout this book - you first begin to understand how energy has been routed and patterned throughout your system over the years (and lifetimes.) Once you clearly see the problem, you can begin to do something about it. But it all begins with being aware of the problem first, and Leslie gently brings our awareness to this, beautifully. Then she has a series of exercises designed to bring out the polarities in any situation - again, to become aware of the problem further - and other exercises to help you to neutralize them so that the energy they have been using up for so long can be freed and reclaimed for your own use. Do this long enough, and you are completely free of any energy stealing habits, patterns and conditioning. Voila - liberation! Sound good? It is. But this is not your father's Jonathan Livingston Seagull. You gotta work at it. I myself have shied away from the material, only to come back to it again and again. Each time I work with it, I come away with a greater awareness of my own conditioning, via the polarities they use. Little by little, I think I am getting it. It is a work that demands your full attention and whole-hearted devotion, but you will easily see rewards comensurate with the time you put in. Even your first little "ahas" of recognition will be very exciting. By then, you'll want more, and it won't seem like work anymore, just thoroughly satisfying self-discovery.