Bonnie L. Greenwell - When Spirit Leaps: Navigating the Process of Spiritual Awakening

In this seminal work, Greenwell provides us with a detailed understanding of how to respond to both the sublime and beatific realizations, and the emotional and mental challenges that naturally arise as one integrates transcendent wisdom with everyday life. When Spirit Leaps is a must-read for all who wish to understand the complexities and pitfalls that occur, in one form or another, to all who are engaged in the process of spiritual awakening.

Richard Miller, PhD, past president of the Institute for Spirituality and Psychology, and author of The iRest Program for Healing PTSD and Yoga Nidra

Bonnie Greenwell is a wonderful guide for both the awakening of mind and of your bodys energies. Understanding energy work is an important bridge between the two worlds of infinite awareness and everyday reality, which has not been clearly described, and yet is so important for the unfolding awakening. You will find When Spirit Leaps a gift in navigating the awakening process of body, mind, and spirit.

Loch Kelly, author Shift into Freedom

Some spiritual seekers mistake intellectual understanding for Realization. Others have a genuine Awakening, but are frightened or confused by the experience because they dont understand it. I think that seekers should consider the cultivation of both experience and understanding a lifelong project, as Bonnie has done. One of the fruits of her dedication, which is rare among spiritual teachers and writers, is that she appreciates the multidimensional nature of reality, and is thus comfortable embracing paradox. I think you will find this one of the more useful and memorable spiritual books you have ever read.

Rick Archer, Buddha at the Gas Pump

Any time a great writer tries to tackle higher consciousness, they can get lost in their own dogma. Bonnie Greenwells new book does not get lostit represents a lifetime commitment to help raise humanitys awareness of higher consciousness, how to live with an awakened kundalini, and offers wonderful, simple exercises that can help the process along the path in a clear and positive manner. Bonnie has put forth her lifetime of working with and studying people in the process of self-realization and even God realization. The end of the book shows insights into what this really means: that perfection is never 100 percent perfection, and awareness of this is awareness of what it really is in and of itself. It is a masterpiece of divine words with a pure heart and positive message. Anyone who reads this book will benefit from the experience.

Tom Kay, founder of www.ecomall.com, www.cybergod.com, and the last person to interview Gopi Krishna

When Spirit Leaps is the essential guide for spiritual awakening and transformation. It is for both the awakened teacher and the truth seeker in transition. It is also essential for those of us who may know our path very well, but are not familiar with other paths. One size does not fit all, and it is very important not to be dogmatic in our approach. This guide helps teachers see there are more ways than one. It is a profound, loving, and thorough book. In Zen it is said, If you want to know the way up the mountain, ask someone who comes and goes on it. Bonnie Greenwell is such a one.

Tom Thompson, spiritual teacher and consultant for over forty years; cofounder and director of The Awakened Heart Center for Conscious Living in Pittsboro, NC

Bonnie Greenwells new book When Spirit Leaps summarizes in a pragmatic fashion over thirty years of her psychospiritual practice, research, and personal experience about how to make ones way through the process of spiritual awakening in a lucid, inspiring way. Regardless of whether ones awakening experiences were spontaneous or the result of years of yoga or meditation practice, or whether they have been blissful, crisis-filled, or something in-between, this book takes you through many key components of how spirit can unfold within our awareness, including the areas of kundalini and non-duality. It will be of great benefit to experiencers, spiritual teachers, or health professionals that specialize in this emerging field.

Ted Esser, PhD, spiritual counselor, former director of the Spiritual Emergence Network, and assistant chair for the psychology department at Sofia University

This is a deeply touching, transforming, and empowering book. Different from inspirational autobiographical accounts of those seekers who suddenly found themselves in touch with spiritual realities of their minds, this book is written by an experienced psychologist, researcher, and trained clinician. Bonnie Greenwell used her professional skills in service to the spiritual search. As a result, the book both inspires and provides practical, pragmatic tools to ones own process of spiritual awakening and transformation. Most importantly, the book overcomes an illusory division between the spirit and the body by grounding spiritual awakening in lived reality of ones embodied every day. Like Bonnies earlier books, this volume is destined to become an instant spiritual classic.

Olga Louchakova-Schwartz, MD, PhD, professor emerita of psychology and comparative religion at the former (1975-2014) Institute of Transpersonal Psychology

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Copyright 2018 by Bonnie L. Greenwell

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There are moments when the habitual veils of consensus reality part and the heart quickens as new, unexpected vistas of experience and perception unfold within you, gifting your mind and body with what our ancestors called revelation. Like the spirit of God descending upon Jesus in the river Jordan, or the Buddha awakening under the bodhi tree after years of ascetic deprivation, there are moments when you are suddenly gifted with the fire of spiritual realization. These moments may be brief and fleeting or they may be deeply transformative, even disorienting, but either way once you are kissed with your own true nature you will have embarked upon a road less traveled, where new vistas of perception and experience unfold that will both amaze and challenge you to embody your true nature within body, mind, and spirit.

When Spirit Leaps is more than a clever title for this wonderful book. It signifies an already present reality as well as a living potential within us all. It speaks of awakening from the constrictive dream of the imagined self to our true nature, and the embodiment of that realization in our daily life. This leap is not a leap of faith, nor a change of belief system, still less a form of unending self-improvement. This leap is a leap of the spirit, of our true nature awakening into conscious recognition of itself. It is a leap out of the consensus dream of separation to the awakened view of life as it actually is: complete, whole, and all inclusive. Such awakening renders the world of time transparent to the transcendent light of eternity, and it opens a door to a whole new world of possibilities where eternal truth is not just experienced, but lived and embodied in the relative world.