The Spiritual Awakening Guide: Kundalini, Psychic Abilities, and the Conditioned Layers of Reality

This is the 2nd book of Mary Shutan's that I have read. I enjoyed 'Managing Psychic Abilities' so much that I wanted to read more of her books, so I started with her first. By the flow of the text, you can tell that 'The Spiritual Awakening Guide' is her first publication, but it has her practical, straight forward, no nonsense style that makes her books clear, easy and a joy to read. This book is so knowledge dense, enough for 3 books on the subject, that I often set it down for a day or two to digest the information (my brain felt full, not that the information was difficult to understand). I thoroughly enjoyed this book and it was easy to pick back up. This is not a step by step guide to starting an awakening, but rather what each step accomplishes and what it may feel like. She offers strategies to work through each step and how to find someone who can help, if you are having trouble, as well as the type of teachers and gurus to avoid. She also addresses some of the pitfalls that can keep you stuck at a stage and not moving forward, and how to get out of them. These include ego traps (feeling superior to others because you are further in your spiritual awakening than they are) and spiritual bypass (focusing only on 'love and light' and not acknowledging other valid feelings such as anger and shame). While I have not read all of her books yet, I would highly recommend any book by Mary Mueller Shutan (pick one that sounds most interesting to you), to anyone who seriously wants to understand, gain knowledge in and/or start on a spiritual path. I feel her books have given me a clear general roadmap, where to start and how to proceed on my own spiritual awakening. My two favorite books so far are this one and 'Working with Kundalini'. I have found very little overlap among her books. Each one has so much new information that you won't feel you are getting the same thing with a new cover. I hope you enjoy them as much as I.