Awakening the Energies of Love: Discovering Fire for the Second Time

by Anne Hillman

Book Overview

This book illuminates the awakening of the human heart and mind to a different kind of Love - one that has long been misunderstood. Anne Hillman suggests that such a love is an intelligence to which... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1883647169
• ISBN13: 9781883647162
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Bramble Books
• Length: 363 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Love is The Mystery

After reading this book, it struck me that some books tell 'about' the Truth and others tell the Truth. 'Awakening the Energies of Love' tells the Truth. The author steps right into it, up to her neck, as it were, and takes us with her. On virtually every page the author takes us into her life--courageously, unabashedly. But while standing this deep in the Truth at times can be discomforting, it never feels like what she reveals is 'too private'. On the contrary, what she describes turns out to be as much ours as it is hers since her words then embrace and caress her experiences, becoming reflections of what those deeply personal experiences mean universally, spiritually. How do we use in our own lives these deep inner Truths she has touched? As intimate and deeply personal as Hillman's writing is, it carries, in beautiful prose and poetry, a universal message about love that is rarely articulated quite so clearly and personally. In her own words, we learn that the love we yearn for, even as we erect barriers against it, is "not something we do. It stands revealed as who we really are. Walls fallen away, we find ourselves in communion with everything--in communion with Being itself--I AM." (p. 331)I suspect I will never finish reading this book, for each time I open it again, usually to a random page, I discover a part I have perhaps understood too quickly and so must read again as if for the first time.

Creative masterpiece

Awakening the Energies of Love is a gift to us all from a lifelong spiritual seeker. Poet, musician, and facilitator, Anne Hillman draws on a rich and varied life experience to offer a transformative journey beyond the limits of intellect. And the innovative way the book was created and produced drew me in immediately. Expressed is a mixture of the holiness of the ordinary along with mystical descriptions of times in life when meaning and peace seem to escape us. Her book will be a companion of mine from now on! Shirley Madden, Half Moon Bay California

A Remarkable Book

This is a remarkable book: it doesn't take sides. True to her subject of Love, Anne Hillman doesn't make different points of view wrong in order to prove her own. She doesn't speak to just one kind of reader either--not only to Christians or those with New Age perspectives, to Buddhists or agnostics or scientists. Rather than adding to the arguments between all these warring factions, this author includes all of us, so that we may (in her words) "join hands." She honors our differences, then demonstrates how we can develop new skills to bring our conflicts to an end. Whatever your persuasion, be it martial arts or philosophy, religion or cosmology, Anne invites you to join her on a journey into the common denominator of Love. In the first half of the book, "The Known," she'll guide you down into the three "Foundations of the Soul"--your body, heart, and mind--and help you to understand not only your heritage, but also yourself more deeply. In the second half, "The Unknown," she'll take you further than psychology and religion as we usually think of them, beyond what you know through your intellect and your feelings, towards the mysteries of a different kind of Love. You will understand that awakening to such an "unknown" is a rebirth: what her subtitle calls Fire for the Second Time. How can you awaken to this kind of Love in your life? To a Compassion that serves all life on this planet--all of existence? This book will inspire you to answer those questions for yourself. For anyone looking for more depth, purpose, or a new direction for your life, I urge you to read it.

A hugely important book for our time.

I read Anne's first book, Dancing Animal Woman: A Celebration of Life, back in the late 90s soon after I left my first marriage. it gave me the courage and insight I needed to carry on, to move into the next chapter of my life. Many of you have also been helped through change by her wise words. Since then Anne has been a very important mentor of mine. Now, finally, she has finished a hugely important book--the result of her lifetime of courageous inquiry, reflection, open mind and open heart. This book is essential reading for those who are ready for transformation.

A journey of the heart

Anne Hillman explores the possibility that every person has the potential to connect on the deepest level; to life, to each other and to the world around us. She uses story, art, poetry and real life examples to guide the reader into feeling and experiencing the awakening she describes as similar to what it must have felt like to discover fire for the first time. If you're tired of the direction our world is going and want to find a path towards a more healing peaceful way of living let the words of this book be your guide.