Doorway to the Sacred: Transform Your Life with Mantra Prayer

Product Description This book is a guide to aligning with your inner Sacred and to creating a life of joy that expresses your inner Truth. Specific guidelines are provided for manifesting with mantra prayer as well as a detailed guide for creating your spiritual practice. Breath and mantra practice from across a variety of faith traditions are also included to help you on your journey. The book concludes with numerous stories, from participants in Rev. Rutt's classes over the years, sharing their experiences with mantra prayer. Review Doorway to the Sacred: Transform Your Life with Mantra Prayer is a wonderful guide to personal growth and an inspirational guide to spiritual practices in six faith traditions. The first 60 pages gives an orientation to spiritual practice and seven guidelines, containing an explanation of mantra prayer and how it works for both inner growth and assisting the reader in overcoming difficulties in life. This is a practical way to transform from where you are to inner freedom. Rev. Stephanie Rutt also gives a very practical guide to people wanting to learn how to begin a mantra prayer practice in any tradition and also a guide as to how to avoid the inner resistance to change, which can block us from making the practice a daily one for life. She also gives inspiration and encouragement to seekers on their paths. The balance of this book reaches beautiful mantra prayers in each of the six traditions and provides testimonials o success in using them. The excellent section on Sanskrit mantras has the Master Mantra (Gayatri), the Great Liberation Mantra (Taraka) and four more very powerful mantras with explanations and guidance for their use. This is a great book for guiding beginners, an inspirational book for more experienced practitioners, and an adventure in learning from the traditions unfamiliar to the reader. --Rev. Satyabhama Ashley-Farrand, Vedic Priest and President of Sanatana Dharma Satsang, Gayatri TempleStephanie Rutt is one of America's finest teachers of East-West spirituality. In this book she weaves a beautiful and inspiring story of our belovedness in the Divine. Stephanie's practical insights and instructions will open up new pathways of prayer, especially for those who are drawn to the devotional common ground between Hinduism and Christianity. Doorway to the Sacred will become a classic text for seekers everywhere who seek attunement with the infinite music of the Creator. --Robert A. Jonas, Ed.D., Founder and Director of The Empty Bell in Northampton, MA From the Author Disclaimer! This book is an earlier edition of my book published by Wifp and Stock Publishers in 2021, Lovers in the Wilderness: Awaken Mystical Unity and Create a Joyful Life with Mantra Prayer. About the Author Rev. Stephanie Rutt is an interfaith minister ordained in 2005 by the New Seminary for Interfaith Studies in New York City. She is founder of the Tree of Life Interfaith Temple and serves as Presiding Minister. She is also the founder and creator of the Tree of Life Interfaith Seminary and the Tree of Life School for Sacred Living, LLC. Rev. Rutt is the creator of numerous spiritual studies programs including Rise Up! The Bhagavad Gita: Job Description for a Spiritual Warrior. She is the author of An Ordinary Life Transformed: Lessons for Everyone from the Bhagavad Gita, The Interfaith Worship Manual, and many other books and study curriculum. Rev. Rutt is a member of A World Alliance of Interfaith Clergy, the Interfaith Alliance and the North American Interfaith Network. Rev. Rutt holds a Masters of Arts in Psychology, Guidance and Counseling and in the early 90s worked as a mental health counselor at Milford Regional Counseling Services and taught for many years in the behavioral sciences at the University of New Hampshire at Manchester. Today, she is pursuing a D.Min. degree from Andover Newton Theological School.