Divine Distraction

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Beyond the Place of Laughter and Tears in the Land of Devotion Book

$15.00

Beyond the Place of Laughter and Tears in the Land of Devotion is a compilation of David's poetry, essays, aphorisms and discourses. It is also a confession of his ecstatic spiritual realization and a potent vehicle of his living transmission.

In the Introduction to David's book, the Reverend Thomas Ahlburn writes: ". . . I think David's views are as brilliantly insightful as any that one is likely to encounter among living spiritual writers, including those of Ram Dass, Andrew Harvey, Ken Wilber, Bernadette Roberts, and the great spiritual genius Adi Da Samraj."

David's book will be sent to you in sincere appreciation for your donation in support of his teaching.

Quotes

"When you have something precious, you hide it, you never show it off. You don’t wear it on your sleeve. You bury it inside your Heart. Otherwise, if you bring it into the light of day, you’re going to look with those daylight-consciousness eyes and all you’re going to see are fragments, splinters, and more suffering. No matter what you bring out, no matter how beautiful it was within, when you bring it out into daylight-consciousness, daylight-consciousness will get its fangs out. You’ve got to have this thing about you that understands that certain things are meant to stay in the dark, a secret forever."

Fri, 07/16/2010 - 20:15 — michael ortega

I am Divinely Distracted by a great Vision.
I am completely blown away by "who" "David" Is, and I don't mean this in any sort of Neo-Vedantic sense, either. David literally is the Transmission of Awakened Consciousness. This Shakti Transmission reveals all-pervasive potent Consciousness as utterly animating the body/mind in the most extreme impersonal sense, simultaneously igniting pure Bliss- Devotion. This Avataric-Shakti is intensely purifying and spares nothing. All that is not resonant with ultimate Truth is exposed, as Kali's scrimitar slices away the persona, revealing karmic patterns of false identification.

This process that I have undergone with David is the most powerful, compelling, overwhelming and spiritually real initiation into the realm of the 'shining ones.'* In this case, it is the stunning, incomprehensible Darshan of Devi, The Divine Mother, as well as the bewitching irresistible grace of Krishna, the Superconscious manifestation of shimmering, shining, flashing Transcendental Consciousness raised to the ultimate pitch of Radiance Blessing.

I can only resort to astonishment, hyperbole, and bad poetry when attempting to speak it.

"Who's awakened? Consciousness is awakened, not "you"."

"The Power that is released from a Liberated Consciousness is unspeakable." -David Spero

* The term 'Devi', like the term Deva is derived from the Sanskrit for 'shining one'.