A brilliant new Myss teaching about the soul -- our spiritual castle -- and personal power that synthesises Eastern and Western mystical teachings, as only Caroline can, to create a new process for awakening the spirit and getting your soul more in touch with God. A new vision of spirituality, intuition, and personal transformation in 7 steps.
'Entering the Castle' is a breakthrough book of spiritual practice and direction that will show readers how to get in touch with their deepest Soul. Readers do this by working directly and personally with a mystical roadmap that Myss synthesised and modernised from the great spiritual text, 'The Interior Castle', as well as other templates from other mystical tradition, and which she explains in non-abstract, non-esoteric ways. Grounded in theology, but not tied to any particular religion, Myss teaches how to be spiritual without having to follow strict dogma; she shows a middle way for people who are uncomfortable with some of the restrictions and directives of traditional religions, although her students number practising Catholics, Jews, and Protestants, as well as the lapsed.
'Entering the Castle' gives readers a clear path for deepening their life's journey. It provides a roadmap for modern mystics -- mystics without ashrams or monasteries, spiritual seekers who do not want to take off from the real world and abandon their everyday lives in order to find and know God.
'Entering the Castle' provides a step-by-step process that transforms the individual, as well as his or her relationship with God and the world itself. Along the way, readers learn how they can be a channel for grace in the world, that prayer is a power beyond measure that can heal the self, others, and humanity, and that contemplation -- essential to maintaining a dialogue with the soul -- requires far more skill than just withdrawing into private time.
'Entering the Castle' will be a companion to readers' most intimate relationship -- the one they have with their own soul and with God -- to which readers can refer for the rest of their life. Readers will learn spiritual exercises, such as meditation and prayer techniques, energy healing, spiritual journaling, and other disciplines.
The book dismantles the many myths that have formed around intuition and intuitive abilities and help readers break through the use of intuition into a deeper, more authentic experience of God, a more profound experience of mysticism, moving from intuitive guidance to divine revelation. It presents a grounded, contemporary theology that readers can practise every day and goes beyond 'the spirituality of intuition', which is discussed as a halfway point between the practise of conventional religion and the deeper experience of mysticism and spiritual awakening. It will help people who crave spiritual intimacy with the Divine, but also have deep fears about the mystical process, God, and the ways that encountering the Divine will change their lives. It will help readers see how they sometimes re-route their frustration with their spirituality to psychological and health disorders and how to prevent and heal those physical as well as mystical or soul disorders.
Caroline uses the kind of entertaining and spiritually illuminating stories for which she's famous, including quotes, examples of theologians, mystics, and spiritual teachers who have articulated and excavated the ancient, archetypal journey of the soul in search of the Divine. These include the star mystic Teresa of Avila, but will also bring in Thomas Merton, John of the Cross, Ignatius, Loyola, Francis of Assisi, as well as the great mystics and sacred texts of Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, and Buddhism, to make a truly universal spiritual work -- as she did in 'Anatomy of the Spirit' -- that will appeal to readers from many backgrounds.
