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Reviews
Reviews of Meditation:
Key to Spiritual Awakening
New Connexion, Pacific Northwest's Journal of Conscious Living:
Mary Ellen Flora is the co-founder of the Church of Divine Man
and has taught meditation techniques for two decades. By her own account, the
techniques provided in her book are simple and accessible. Meditation is a tool
anyone can use to listen to his or her inner voice. Some persons refer to the
guidance as God, angels, or guides. The important point stressed in the 96
pages of the book is the truth of our innate connection to God. We are all
spirit. Ms. Flora offers this gentle reminder throughout to encourage her
readers to accept that basic premise.
With the assistance of black and white illustrations, the basic
techniques required to become a practitioner of this spiritual tool are
provided. Ms. Flora begins with an explanation of meditation followed by the
first technique in grounding; something I’ve noticed is absent in other works
and meditation classes. Her advice is honest and sincere. She warns against
taking this new way of relating to yourself, your spirit and your physical
world lightly. "Many give up meditation practices after a short time, as
they are disappointed by the results. They begin to experience all the
disturbing or painful energies they have created and allowed in their reality,
and stop meditating before they work through the difficulties."
Central to the technique is the visualization of roses, focusing
on them during creation and destruction exercises. These are valuable experiments
with manifestation. I was comforted by the constant sense of safety throughout
the text and this is from the point of view of an individual who had a
disturbing and intrusive experience during my first attempt to center myself
with meditation several years ago. I cannot think of anyone who could consider
a rose threatening and it bolstered my resolve to keep my intention focused.
Extra support and reference is provided for beginners as well as
long-term practitioners with the companion 63-minute cassette tape*. On Side
One you are guided by the author’s voice through five spiritual techniques.
Once you are comfortable feeling your energy systems, Side Two leads you
through two practice meditations. Mary Ellen Flora’s voice is lilting and
confident. She keeps her instructions for meditations, manifestation practices,
and advice to the point and clearly understandable.
Meditation: Key to Spiritual Awakening has
encouraged me to resume my meditation practice with a sense of security,
comfort and unconditional love. You can purchase this book, audiotape and
others in the key series via CDM Publications, 2402 Summit Avenue, Everett, WA
98201, 1-800-360-6509, or the website www.c-d-m.org.
--- Review by Kimberly A. Bennett
Northwest Literature, Bellingham, WA:
Meditation: Key to Spiritual Awakening is written for those seeking validation of their spiritual abilities and the ways and means to tap into them. It provides a roadmap for the healer who wishes to change self and world; for the opening of the spiritual system and communication with spiritual guidance... it's packed with information, insight and encouragement for all travelers on the journey within.
The book presents spiritual techniques... complete with exercises to help you experience and validate their effects. Mary Ellen leads into the techniques with an essay describing the purpose and goals of meditation. She provides useful insight into the effects of meditation on the individual, the distractions that pull the individual away from meditation, and how to overcome these distractions.
There's revelation in here for the novice and the adept: the kind of revelation that lends itself to repeated reading, like poetry, providing new insight at each return.
Reviews of Chakras: Key to
Spiritual Opening
Midwest Book Review, Oregon, WI:
Mary Ellen Flora is a spiritual teacher, healer, and clairvoyant reader who brings her remarkable insights on spirituality, daily meditation, and the Chakras to her introduction to how the chakras affect everything we do. She reveals just what the chakras are and how we can access the information in them to benefit our lives. The text comprising Chakras: Key to Spiritual Opening is clear, concise, and offers techniques to open our chakras, creating the life we truly desire -- and a welcome addition to students of metaphysics and spirituality.
Reviews of Clairvoyance: Key to Spiritual Perspective
Psychic News, London, England:
One of the series of books by Miss Flora, this volume on clairvoyance stresses its value in spiritual unfoldment. Clear seeing she explains, holds the "key to our spiritual perspective as it allows us to see spiritual phenomena.
Although the spiritual world may always be present, it is only when we allow our awareness to be opened that we are able to perceive it. The very fact that the ability enables us to actually "see" spirit, the author maintains, helps us to realize that we are spirit ourselves thus giving us the clarity to see our path back to God.
Although children frequently manifest this ability quite naturally, the gift is seldom encouraged and quite often goes into abeyance when they get older.
Clairvoyance as many psychics already know, can be used as a tool for healing, to read the aura, to glean information on reincarnation experiences and to gain insight into our spiritual perspective. It can be a life enhancer and bestow understanding.
Reviews of Cosmic Energy: The Creative Power
NAPRA Trade Journal:
Cosmic Energy, writes Flora, is the spiritual force underlying the creation of matter and form. Essentially, it is us, and everything around us. It can be experienced in many different ways: light, sound, and color, for example. There is also Christforce energy, Godforce energy, the energy of teachers and messengers, and own unique personal vibration. Meditation, she says, is an effective vehicle for making contact with these energies. Flora reminds us in clear, loving language that it is time to reconnect with our spiritual nature, our truest inner selves: in so doing, we will open up unlimited possibilities.
The New Times, Seattle, WA:
The author of this book is co-founder of the Church of Divine Man (CDM)... and has produced books and tapes on meditation, healing, clairvoyance, and chakras. In this particular book, she focuses attention on the existence of and our use of cosmic energy which is the flow of energy from cosmic consciousness. Since everything around us --- including us --- is an expression of this energy, we can learn how to interrelate with it to create our experiences in life.
A basic understanding of concepts is given followed by various techniques: grounding, centering in your head, creating and destroying as spirit, running energy, color meditation, your aura, and working with mock-ups. The information is
given in a simple and easy-to understand form, making the book excellent
for those new to these concepts. People who have already studied a lot
of this information will find some new ideas and exercises here, making it a good addition to one's spiritual library.
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