TONIGHT June 17th, 2008
Wisdom Rising
Date of Publication: July 2008
ISBN13: 978-0-9773200-6-6 Status: Returnable
Number of Pages: 198Wisdom Rising -Table of Contents
Vaishali
Tonight's LIVE Guest
Website: www.purplehazepress.com & www.purplev.com
Vaishali attended San Francisco State University and graduated Magna Cum Laude from the Religion & Philosophy Department. Vaishali has spent her adult life seeking esoteric wisdom and studying diverse spiritual and religious expressions of God consciousness. Since the early 90’s she has conducted spiritual workshops.
Sometimes wisdom is best served up like M&M candies, in small pieces that you can savor, enjoy and hold in your hand. So it is with Vaishali's new book, "Wisdom Rising." It is a delightful, sweet, and satisfying collection of brilliant articles and short stories, that like gem quality jewels, are a thing of beauty, and a joy to behold.
The topics and subject matter are as wide and diverse as wisdom is infinite. Vaishali offers everything from a test to see how Spiritually healthy you are; to an examination of what happens when you die; to how humor is a Spiritual necessity; to Oscar Wilde; to paranormal and non-ordinary reality experiences, and everything in between.
Vaishali has learned much about suffering from the many challenges in her life including being diagnosed terminal twice. She has distilled the wisdom she
gained on her road to personal empowerment into a buffet of tasty reading treats. As Vaishali likes to say, “Please, learn from my life, so you don’t have to
gather profound wisdom the way I did... which is the hard, ugly, highly unfashionable, painful way.”
About Vaishali
One of the things that I have always felt needed upgrading more than our technological toys, is our concept of Spirituality. It seems mainstream awareness is as out dated, uptight and out of touch with reality as the Puritans who first put their hands into stirring up the "what is acceptable Spiritually pot."
Spirituality is about LOVE, first, last and foremost! Unfortunately, real love seems to have taken the biggest hit in our modern handling of Spirituality. Love has become convoluted and confused for what it is not. Love is not a possession; it is not a quality that is earned, or a commodity that is exchanged for personal gain. Love is our inherent nature. Love is not who we are, but rather what we are! Love is inseparable from what we give our attention to, because as God consciousness, we do not have awareness, we are awareness. And whatever we give our awareness to we are infusing with God juice.
My life purpose is to embody the Spiritual teacher that I was brought to this planet to be. My goal is to share timeless, eternal wisdom through writing, teaching, consulting, radio, television, iPod players; by any means available with any and all ready and willing to learn, heal and grow. My life's journey has been about demystifying the mystery of why we are here. I have survived almost every possible personal challenge anyone could face. These experiences created the venue for practicing Love Now and a heartfelt appreciation on how to understand the purpose behind human life when all is so bleak.
I wanted to create a venue through which people might examine what it is they are giving their attention to – how are you using your mind. You Are What You Love is that perfect venue. 18th century scientist, philosopher and spiritual explorer Emanuel Swedenborg has been such a profound shaper of my understanding and wisdom that to attempt to share the Truth without his contribution seemed impossible to me. The problem is that so few people have ever heard of the guy that massive education was required to establish a common ground upon which we might share and explore True Self. You Are What You Love makes Swedenborg’s philosophies more accessible and my dream is that I am able to make him a household word just like Jesus, Dalia Lama, Buddha, Sri Ramana Maharshi, Dr Phil, Cheech & Chong and Homer Simpson. I wanted to make Swedenborg fun and easy, so everyone could benefit from this amazing force of Love. Not just for those who read fluent Latin, as that is all Swedenborg wrote in. Not just for those who received an education in Religious philosophies, but for everyone who ever hungered for the Truth. For everyone who desired to set their mind free.
I also wanted to show that every Spiritual tradition is saying the same thing. In this modern world of prove it to me scientifically anal retentiveness, there is a measurable, readily experiential, duplicable evidence of ONENESS. There can be heard a single, unwavering voice of consistent unconditional Love, amidst the chorus of Spiritual and religious singers throughout all of recorded time.
You Are What You Love was written to provide a tool by which you may improve the quality of you life, make the mind your friend, and to get a leg up on ending suffering as we know it.
Rock on and Divine Blessings to us all!