AWAKENING
HEALTH
REVIEW & INTERVIEW
Awaken Your
DIVINE INTUITION
by Susan Shumsky
Thousands of books have been written about the benefits of meditation,
and one of the most popular and well-known forms is transcendental
meditation. It was made popular by the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who came
to fame as the guru of the Beatles.
S
usan Shumsky was not only a
disciple of the Maharishi, but
even served on his personal staff
for over two decades. It is therefore particularly intriguing that
someone with her background
has written a book pointing out
the difference between transcendence and divine mystical union,
and why she found TM wanting. In TM one enters
into a state of profound silence and bliss, but in
mystical union that Divinity speaks back to you.
Shumsky, who is also a doctor of divinity, discovered that the experience of divine mystical union
was the piece of the puzzle missing from her decades of devotion to spiritual awakening. Learning
how to communicate with God within allowed love
to fill her heart. In learning to contact both the personal and impersonal aspects of God she realized
that it is really possible, and that we never have to
feel alone again.
Shumsky has written a very practical guide to
achieving a personal spiritual breakthrough, and
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