Invoke the Goddess; Visualizations of Hindu, Greek, and Egyptian Deities Review

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(More customer reviews)The strength of this book lies in the ritual baths and goddess meditations. While I thought the meditations were a bit too structured and guided, I appreciated the creativity behind them. It did surprise me, however, that the suggestion was placed where a goddess may refuse you during the meditation. I think planting that idea in someone's head is defeating the purpose of the working. It would have been better to say "how does the goddess respond to you" instead of going into the meditation worry if the goddess is going to refuse you. Also, there was little mention of thanking that goddess for her gifts/audience.
I thought the weakness of the book was in the Mundane Archetypes. For the most part, it gave the impression that the goddess are petty and the information did not necessarily follow the mythology presented earlier in the chapter - especially for Artemis (orgies?!). The book "Goddesses in Everywoman" by Jean Shinoda Bolen is a much better resources for this type of information. I think the author would have been better served to leave out these sections and maybe focussed more on the Tarot aspects.
I would recommend this book for the ritual baths and meditations (with less structure). I would not turn to it as a resource for goddess information. However, I was inspired to check out the author's bibliography to see where she got her background information.

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A Shepherd's Rod Review

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(More customer reviews)In A Shepherd's Rod, Ammena, the daughter of Nido, Pharaoh's chief sorcerer, was a powerful character. Her irresistible beauty drew the unwanted attentions of Pharaoh and every other man who cast his eyes upon her, but what impressed me the most about her was that she was not fixed on this part of herself. Though others were obsessed by her physically perfect form and face, she had more important things on her mind. She wanted to escape the life she was leading and rescue her brothers from their forced apprenticehip under their father's dark direction. Although her father's expectations for Ammena's life only included marrying well and having children, Ammena demonstrated her independent spirit from the beginning. She hated the dark magic that her father practiced and did not hesitate to tell him so, but she supported her brothers because their mother had abandoned the life she could not stand with their father and her brothers needed her love.
In addition to speaking out against the dark practices she loathed, Ammena pursued her interest in healing, in horses, and in slinging under the tutelage of Inarus, her mentor, and Daniel, Inarus's Hebrew slave. These interests made her different from the other women in pharaoh's court and from the women who were Hebrew slaves. When pharaoh condemned Ammena's father and brothers for failing to put Moses in his place after he asked for the release of the Hebrew slaves and used their failure as an excuse to sentence her to slavery in the Hebrew camp for scorning his advances, she continued to break the stereotypical mold for the women of her day by fighting back. She did this by attempting to rescue her family from pharaoh's grasp, by using her skills to survive the challenges she faced after she left Egypt, and by battling as a slinger whose experiences in war convince her that her destiny is to serve the Hebrew God.
Like all of us, Ammena is a unique individual, with a unique plan, but it took a long process of unexpected events and deep suffering for her to discover what the outcome of that plan would be. Eventually she emerges as a heroine of fire and faith unlike any other, but exactly like the person she was always meant to be. The stereotype breaking process through which she did it is a thrill ride that can inspire every one of us who wants to discover his or her true destiny. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. If you want to see an example of someone who lost everything but found her true identity by doing it, open this book, get on this roller coaster, and ride this adventure to the finish.


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Light from Ancient Africa Review

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(More customer reviews)From a spiritual and psychological point-of-view we all have a desire to "Go Home".Dr Akbar shows us the way home by way of the truth,which happens to be the Light.You couldn't have picked a more fitting name.Thanks for the Wake-up call!When it comes to blowing up a blackward psyche You are the Bomb Diggy! Hetep!-the little scarab

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Light from Ancient Africa is a critical contribution towhat might be called the "Re-Africanization of Psychology Project."It was within this project that we came to realizethat the notion ofhuman psychology was and remains an African invention...In this book,Na'im Akbar provides the reader with a clear and concise understandingof the African (Kemetic) origins of psychology, and provides theinsightful guidelines to modern-day implications and applications ofthe field. From foreword by Wade W. Nobles

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