Books
“Beak’s writing is like spiritual kindling…It’s smart, electric, and sumptious. It’s spiritual dark chocolate wrapped in a scarlet wrapper, and as I have finally discovered, dark chocolate is the only kind worth having.”
– Dianne Sylvan, author, The Body Sacred
The Red Book:
A Deliciously Unorthodox Approach To Igniting Your Divine Spark
The Red Book is nothing less than a spiritual fire starter—a combustible cocktail of Hindu Tantra and Zen Buddhism, Rumi and Carl Jung, Kali and Mary Magdalene, goddesses and psychics, shaken with cosmic nudges, meaningful subway rides, haircuts, relationships, sex, dreams, and intuition. It’s a book that encourages women to live more consciously so they can start making clearer choices across the board, from careers to relationships, politics to pop culture and everything in between. For smart, gutsy, spiritually curious women whose colorful and complicated lives aren’t reflected in most spirituality books, The Red Book is an open invitation for women to find their true selves and start sharing that delicious truth with the world.
“Every so often there comes our way a glorious chunk of life so utterly unique that even the jaded blink twice. The Red Book is just such a chunk, gloriously dropped out of the mind of Sera Beak as a special message for today’s contemporary woman in the language of just such a woman, placing before us the wisdom of the ages. From gentle meditation to bouncing sexuality and much in between, the path to personal rejuvenation through the enlivening of the heart, mind and spirit is laid out in such refreshing, sparkling, effervescent words that what results is a psychic shower for the soul. Get naked, get in, get wet. You’ll never feel as cleaned.” – Neale Donald Walsch, best-selling author, Conversations With God
Red Hot and Holy: A Heretic’s Love Story, will be published in 2012!
This book is about my personal journey with Red.
It’s my soul baby, my heart’s beat, and my love offering to the feminine divine.
TESTIMONIALS
“GORGEOUS! The Red Book is a deep, smart, and authentic guide to being more indelibly and powerfully yourself.” –SARK author/artist, Succulent Wild Woman
“The Red Book wrests spirituality from the death grip of the humorless believers and restores it to its wild natural state. If you’re hungry for real magic but allergic to self-righteous jive, sit yourself down at this feast.” –Rob Brezsny, author of Pronoia is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings
“Sera Beak’s Red Book is a woman-wise, grrl power, rosy red and unabashed, hands-on road guide to grabbing our relationship with enlightenment by the scruff and riding it hard, all the way to ecstasy.” –LaSara W. FireFox, sexual r/evolutionary and author of Sexy Witch
“… particularly timely … Sera Beak has a beautiful gift of writing that turns sometimes difficult material into simple — but not simplistic — anecdotes for living a more profound life. This is a wise and wonderful book that reminds young women that life is not a rehearsal, but rather a magnificent spiritual journey to be lived and experienced to the fullest. Read this book, but more importantly, apply it!” –Baron Baptiste, yoga teacher and author of Journey into Power
“Don’t be fooled, this book may taste like a juicy pomegranate, but what’s really going on here is nothing short of a revolution. Sera’s radical call is for young women to start believing in themselves, to trust and use their innate spiritual authority, and to understand that authentic power can never come from anything or anyone else. Beak writes out of her years of academic study, her participation in diverse spiritual practices from the east and west, and importantly, her personal and intuitive experience. Her lightness of being is worth taking seriously.” –China Galland, author of The Bond Between Women, professor at Graduate Theological Union.
Publishers Weekly
“Beak, a religious scholar, presents a brief but potent book focused on invigorating spirituality in the 20- or 30-something American woman. She vividly criticizes the patriarchal interpretation that has dominated most belief systems for centuries, and then quickly moves on to create her own feminist one. Beak encourages her female audience to do so as well, with their own “red book” modeled after hers, which was first given her as a birthday gift by her sister after their grandfather’s death. Beak initially rejected the idea of keeping a journal, but soon found herself writing down prayers, recording dreams and in essence keeping a spiritual scrapbook. Avoiding the typical sentimentality, Beak’s vision is a modern, femme fatale spirituality. The book lives up to its “unorthodox” subtitle, advocating that young women search for the spiritual in all things, even sex (memorably in a chapter called “Open Up and Say Ahh”). Beak calls herself a “spiritual cowgirl,” taking her readers along for the ride. Her writing is probably too brazen for more conservative spiritual readers, but she displays poignant insights throughout.” (June 16)
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