Shakti Mantras

Zusatztext Praise for Shakti Mantras Shakti Mantras by Thomas Ashley-Farrand . . . combines his knowledge as an American Hindu priest! [his] adventures as an experienced spiritual guide! [his] considerable storytelling gifts . . . and the immensely practical! useful knowledge of what chants to use when. In his disarmingly unpretentious and accessible style! Ashley-Farrand draws on an enormous body of knowledge from ancient traditions to art and literature and contemporary science. . . . Shakti Mantras is an appealingly modest treasure! which everyoneman! woman! young! older! novice! adeptcan enjoy. It's as embracing and supportive as a good mother! as entertaining as a teasing sister! and as rewarding as a loving partner. DOE LANG! Ph.D. Columnist! DBR Media! Inc. Author of The New Secrets of Charisma In the face of difficulty! confusion! or imbalance! there are moments when you may just want to lie in your mother's arms. Thomas Ashley-Farrand's Shakti Mantras takes you right to the heart of Divine Mother's energy. From that place of nurturing peace that we all have within! things have a way of working themselves out. What a blessing! IYANLA VANZANT Author of In the Meantime and One Day My Soul Just Opened Up Ashley-Farrand throws light on some important secrets. . . . Shakti Mantras is a comprehensive work presenting an easily readable account of a range of cultures! mantra practices! and spiritual traditions. [It] provides a wealth of information that can lead to a most rewarding life experience. The mantras are presented in an easy way to pronounce for a Westerner. DR. SARASVATI MOHAN Director! Sanskrit Academy Informationen zum Autor Thomas Ashley-Farrand Klappentext SHAKTI MANTRAS Tapping into the Great Goddess Energy Within • Enhance your spiritual gifts • Lighten your karmic burden • Improve your health and increase prosperity • Live in harmony with the universe Now, with Shakti Mantras, we can all benefit from this ancient practice. Thomas Ashley-Farrand, a Vedic priest, is an American expert in the intricacies of Sanskrit mantra. With nearly thirty years and thousands of hours of experience in chanting, he is supremely well-equipped to write the first book that teaches women (and men as well) to tap into the dynamic feminine energy of love in all its manifestations. By sharing enchanting Hindu myths and astonishing true stories from his own practice, Ashley-Farrand helps us to understand the real power that this age-old art awakens in those who perform it. Through dozens of actual mantras-each one presented with phonetic spelling for easy pronunciation and recommendations for specific applications-he enables us to increase our "shakti (power) and use it to solve problems, ensure abundance, create health and well-being, summon protection, and invoke personal and universal peace. Whether you're new to chanting or an old hand, Shakti Mantras will take you places you've never been before . . . and measurably enrich your life. 1 The Basics Chakras, Sanskrit, and Shakti If you have a thorough understanding of how mantras work, you may want to skip this chapter. On the other hand, various divisions of shakti are discussed in a way you may not have encountered previously. Background of Chanting In my book Healing Mantras, I discussed the mystical traditions of many cultures that orally record a rich legacy of tapping into seemingly hidden sources of information and energy through the power of chanting. Some culturesthe Melanesians, Mbuti Pygmies, Cibique Apachespromote successful hunting and fishing through chanting. Those cultures have used the same methods successfully for hundreds, even thousands of years. But only one tradition has carefully organized and recorded t...

Praise for Shakti Mantras

“Shakti Mantras by Thomas Ashley-Farrand . . . combines his knowledge as an American Hindu priest, [his] adventures as an experienced spiritual guide, [his] considerable storytelling gifts . . . and the immensely practical, useful knowledge of what chants to use when. In his disarmingly unpretentious and accessible style, Ashley-Farrand draws on an enormous body of knowledge from ancient traditions to art and literature and contemporary science. . . . Shakti Mantras is an appealingly modest treasure, which everyone–man, woman, young, older, novice, adept–can enjoy. It’s as embracing and supportive as a good mother, as entertaining as a teasing sister, and as rewarding as a loving partner.”
–DOE LANG, Ph.D.
Columnist, DBR Media, Inc.
Author of *The New Secrets of Charisma

• “In the face of difficulty, confusion, or imbalance, there are moments when you may just want to lie in your mother’s arms. Thomas Ashley-Farrand’s Shakti Mantras takes you right to the heart of Divine Mother’s energy. From that place of nurturing peace that we all have within, things have a way of working themselves out. What a blessing!”
  –IYANLA VANZANT
  Author of *In the Meantime
• and *One Day My Soul Just Opened Up

“Ashley-Farrand throws light on some important secrets. . . . *Shakti Mantras is a comprehensive work presenting an easily readable account of a range of cultures, mantra practices, and spiritual traditions. [It] provides a wealth of information that can lead to a most rewarding life experience. The mantras are presented in an easy way to pronounce for a Westerner.”
–DR. SARASVATI MOHAN
Director, Sanskrit Academy

Auteur

Thomas Ashley-Farrand

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SHAKTI MANTRAS
Tapping into the Great Goddess Energy Within

• Enhance your spiritual gifts
• Lighten your karmic burden
• Improve your health and increase prosperity
• Live in harmony with the universe

Now, with Shakti Mantras, we can all benefit from this ancient practice. Thomas Ashley-Farrand, a Vedic priest, is an American expert in the intricacies of Sanskrit mantra. With nearly thirty years and thousands of hours of experience in chanting, he is supremely well-equipped to write the first book that teaches women (and men as well) to tap into the dynamic feminine energy of love in all its manifestations. By sharing enchanting Hindu myths and astonishing true stories from his own practice, Ashley-Farrand helps us to understand the real power that this age-old art awakens in those who perform it. Through dozens of actual mantras-each one presented with phonetic spelling for easy pronunciation and recommendations for specific applications-he enables us to increase our "shakti” (power) and use it to solve problems, ensure abundance, create health and well-being, summon protection, and invoke personal and universal peace.

Whether you're new to chanting or an old hand, Shakti Mantras will take you places you've never been before . . . and measurably enrich your life.

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The Basics

Chakras, Sanskrit, and Shakti

If you have a thorough understanding of how mantras work, you may want to skip this chapter. On the other hand, various divisions of shakti are discussed in a way you may not have encountered previously.

Background of Chanting

In my book Healing Mantras, I discussed the mystical traditions of many cultures that orally record a rich legacy of tapping into seemingly hidden sources of information and energy through the power of chanting. Some cultures—the Melanesians, Mbuti Pygmies, Cibique Apaches—promote successful hunting and fishing through chanting. Those cultures have used the same methods successfully for hundreds, even thousands of years. But only one tradition has carefully organized and recorded the outcome of chanting in specific ways that is now available to Westerners. To access, bring in, and activate specific qualities of the Great Feminine within, ancient spiritual S…