TY - BOOK AU - Beckwith,Michael Bernard TI - Spiritual liberation: fulfilling your soul's potential SN - 1582701997 (hardcover) PY - 2008/// CY - New York, Hillsboro, Or. PB - Atria Books, Beyond Words KW - Self-realization KW - Religious aspects KW - Spirituality N1 - Love-beauty -- Evolved people -- Transportation to transformation -- From reel to real -- Transcending the tyranny of trends -- Inner ecology : your personal laws of life -- Energetic shapeshifting : a practical practice for urban Shamans -- Creatively maladjusted -- Architects of the beloved community -- Don't get serious, get real -- Jesus the Christ : master of the existential encounter -- The myth of perfection -- How to prevent identity theft -- Spiritually liberating livelihood -- Minding your spiritual manners on planet earth -- Conscious creativity : heaven's kiss of inspiration -- Soulware for authentic happiness -- How to make it through the night : a luminous view of the dark night of the soul N2 - Michael Bernard Beckwith, founder of the Agape International Spiritual Center, shares his transforming central message and his powerfully accessible means for embodying that message in daily life, a process he calls "aspiring toward spiritual liberation." Beckwith teaches that it is inner spiritual work, not religiosity or dogma, that liberates us. He draws on a wide spectrum of ancient wisdom teachers, contemporary spiritual luminaries, and Western contributors to the New Thought tradition of spirituality, to create a profound new belief synthesis, a coherent practice that is neither Eastern nor Western but truly spiritually global. Read either silently or aloud, Spiritual Liberation can be included during meditation or prayer. Each chapter includes an affirmation that distills its core concepts into a sentence or two for the reader to easily practice throughout the day. Personal accounts guide the practitioner to integrate and activate the intrinsic gifts of divinity into everyday life.--From publisher description ER -