{"quotes":[{"text":"In Demons of the Flesh, Zeena describes how Shiva and Shakti are actually ‘two sides of the same deity’. The goal of the initiate on the left-hand path is to become ‘this bisexual twin godhead’ and activate a state of perceptual sexual ecstasy within one's own consciousness. Zeena points out that a corresponding symbolism is found in the western hermeticism in the idea of ‘the inner androgyne.’--About Zeena Schreck by Malin Fitger 'Contemporary notions of Kundalini, its background and role within new Western religiosity,' University of Stockholm, 2004.","author":"Zeena Schreck","tags":["action","buddhism","dissident","initiation","jivanmukti","left-hand-path","liberation","magic","magick","magick-and-faith","materialism-versus-spiritualism","outcasts","revolutionary","self-examination","shamanism","sorcery","spiritual-journey","spiritual-transformation","spirituality","subversion","taboo-breaking","taboos","taking-action","tantra","tantric-buddhism","theology","vamamarga","women-warriors","zeena-schreck"],"id":11967,"author_id":"Zeena+Schreck"},{"text":"Serious spiritual practice is more than serene walks in the woods, lit candles and incense. You have to be committed. You have to be willing to enter into your own darkness and transcend it.","author":"Maria Erving","tags":["awakening","awakening-the-consciousness","consciousness","ego","false-self","spiritual-development","spiritual-growth","spiritual-transformation","true-spirituality"],"id":57281,"author_id":"Maria+Erving"},{"text":"Zeena Schreck believes that the right-hand path and the left-hand path have traditionally had the same end goal; it is only the method that is different and the fact that adepts on the left-hand path seek liberation in this life.--About Zeena Schreck by Malin Fitger 'Contemporary notions of Kundalini, its background and role within new Western religiosity,' University of Stockholm, 2004.","author":"Zeena Schreck","tags":["action","buddhism","dissident","initiation","jivanmukti","left-hand-path","liberation","magic","magick","magick-and-faith","materialism-versus-spiritualism","outcasts","revolutionary","self-examination","shamanism","sorcery","spiritual-journey","spiritual-transformation","spirituality","subversion","taboo-breaking","taboos","taking-action","tantra","tantric-buddhism","theology","vamamarga","women-warriors","zeena-schreck"],"id":79168,"author_id":"Zeena+Schreck"},{"text":"A certain amount of native skill and training can allow many individuals to be fairly successful magicians, achieving a surprisingly high ratio of positive results through sorcery.(...) These outer changes, no matter how dramatic, will not necessarily have a deep impact on the deepest levels of your psyche, which is where the process of initiation most meaningfully manifests.'--Zeena Schreck for “Contemporary notions of Kundalini, its backgroundand role within new Western religiosity,” University of Stockholm, Malin Fitger 2004.","author":"Zeena Schreck","tags":["buddhism","initiation","jivanmukti","left-hand-path","liberation","magic","magick","magick-and-faith","materialism-versus-spiritualism","self-examination","shamanism","sorcery","spiritual-journey","spiritual-transformation","spirituality","tantra","tantric-buddhism","theology","vamamarga","women-warriors","zeena-schreck"],"id":86153,"author_id":"Zeena+Schreck"},{"text":"The left-hand path adept seeks to liberate him/herself from passive subjection to the illusory nature of Maya, thus freeing the consciousness from the binds of self-created delusion.","author":"Zeena Schreck","tags":["buddhism","jivanmukta","left-hand-path","materialism-versus-spiritualism","spiritual-transformation"],"id":126702,"author_id":"Zeena+Schreck"},{"text":"This rose of pearl-coated infinity transformsthe diseased slums of a broken heartinto a palace made of psalms and gold.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["broken-hearts","classic-poems","classic","compassion","faith","grief","healing-grief","hope","infinity","inspiration","inspiration-for-the-soul","inspirational","newtown-connecticut","palaces","pearls","pearls-of-wisdom","for-easter","rebirth","recovery","recovery-from-grief","resurrection","roses","savannah--and-poets","sorrow","spiritual-transformation","spirituality","survival","transformation"],"id":135256,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"Nothing could be easier than disturbing a status quo instituted by others; the real work of the sinistercurrent is to break the rules we rigidly establish for ourselves.”-Zeena Schreck for 'Contemporary notions of Kundalini, its background and role within new Western religiosity,' University of Stockholm, Malin Fitger 2004.","author":"Zeena Schreck","tags":["action","buddhism","dissident","initiation","jivanmukti","left-hand-path","liberation","magic","magick","magick-and-faith","materialism-versus-spiritualism","outcasts","revolutionary","self-examination","shamanism","sorcery","spiritual-journey","spiritual-transformation","spirituality","subversion","taboo-breaking","taboos","taking-action","tantra","tantric-buddhism","theology","vamamarga","women-warriors","zeena-schreck"],"id":137886,"author_id":"Zeena+Schreck"},{"text":"We all have vices, visible and invisible. Some we deliberately keep secret. Others we don’t even realize or we refuse to admit we have…Vices can be lots of fun, or they can turn your life into a living hell. Accept them for what they are, just another aspect of the mind’s creation, and you can enjoy them—if you choose—without being broken by them.- Zeena Schreck for VICE Magazine.","author":"Zeena Schreck","tags":["empowerment","freedom-of-choice","freedom-of-thought","independence","morality","self-determination","sins","spiritual-transformation","strength","vice-magazine","vices","virtues-and-vices","zeena-schreck"],"id":139332,"author_id":"Zeena+Schreck"},{"text":"Always remember, wherever you are, whether near or far, you had a mother who really, really loved you. The original mother. Once you've found your true inner guru you can never again be divided. Perfect union with the divine, through the grace of your real teacher, transcends time, space, death and all worldly limitations. Your real teacher is the original mother - regardless in which manifest or non-manifest form, or gender, she appears. The one who nurtures you and the one who also, out of wisdom and compassion, corrects you if you are misguided.","author":"Zeena Schreck","tags":["bhairavi","bhakti","death","empowerment","freedom","goddess","guru","guru-puja","healing","healing-rituals","jivanmukti","left-hand-path","love","magick-and-faith","men","mother","mothers-love","parenting","self-esteem","spiritual-journey","spiritual-mother-love","spiritual-teachers","spiritual-transformation","spiritual-wisdom","spirituality","strength","tantric-buddhism","truth","vamamarga","visions","women","women-warriors","zeena-schreck"],"id":163059,"author_id":"Zeena+Schreck"},{"text":"Zeena Schreck believes that the right-hand path and the left-hand path have traditionally had the same end goal; it is only the method that is different and the fact that adepts on the lefthandpath seek liberation in this life.--About Zeena Schreck by Malin Fitger 'Contemporary notions of Kundalini, its background and role within new Western religiosity,' University of Stockholm, 2004.","author":"Zeena Schreck","tags":["action","buddhism","dissident","initiation","jivanmukti","left-hand-path","liberation","magic","magick","magick-and-faith","materialism-versus-spiritualism","outcasts","revolutionary","self-examination","shamanism","sorcery","spiritual-journey","spiritual-transformation","spirituality","subversion","taboo-breaking","taboos","taking-action","tantra","tantric-buddhism","theology","vamamarga","women-warriors","zeena-schreck"],"id":185965,"author_id":"Zeena+Schreck"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}