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Internationally renowned motivational teacher, spiritual instructor, and popular theologian Caroline Myss presents her most important transformational work yet with Entering the Castle. It is a comprehensive inner guide to caring for your soul and finding a deep, true mysticism and a connection with the Divine - without having to give up the everyday world. Taking inspiration from the revered writings of Teresa of Avila, Myss adapts Teresa's vision of the soul as a beautiful crystal castle with many facets and rooms, each of which represents a stage of spiritual development and of coming to know God. The book presents an entirely new, seamless synthesis of ancient Eastern and Western insights, reinterpreted for today. Readers will learn how to build an interior castle sustained by prayer and the practices of silence, healing, channelling grace and forming circles of soul companions.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #19030 in Books
• Published on: 2007-08-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

Customer Reviews

Liberating St. Teresa from the Inquisitors, and Much More
Before commenting on Caroline's "Entering the Castle", it is important to note how her book is based on sixteenth-century mystic St. Teresa de Avila (Teresa Sanchez de Cepeda). When St. Teresa wrote her theological treatises, the Church did not consider women competent to be authors in general, nor to write about theology, in particular. Although in her book "The Interior Castle" (Las Moradas), St. Teresa proved theologians of the time wrong on both counts, she had to write in a circumspect and self-deprecating style in order to pass the scrutiny of the Inquisitors. These limitations made her writings cumbersome and somewhat fragmented.
In her book "Entering the Castle", Caroline Myss has liberated St. Teresa from the suffocating Inquisition, and has brought sixteenth-century psychology of the spirit to the twenty-first century. Caroline's book offers courage, methodology and hope about how, independent of religious affiliation, we can enter our own "castle" to navigate our spiritual journey. More importantly however, Caroline very wisely suggests, we must be "mystics out of the monastery" so that we can reach others with the wealth of spirit required to advance global consciousness. As a clinical psychologist who teaches mystics wellness on their arduous journey to find union with the divine, I strongly recommend "Entering the Castle", for anyone who is seeking spiritual guidance that goes beyond New Age "quick fix".

Mystical Turn to the Divine
Myss has been teaching on human consciousness and spirituality for over 25 years. She describes the mystical journey in this book based on teachings of St Theresa of Avila.

"Entering the Castle" is intended as a guide into mysticism. The idea presented in the book is to become mystics without monastaries. This requires answering three key questions:

(1) Why was I born?
(2) What is my greater purpose in my life?
(3) How can I be of service?

The Castle spoken of in this book is our inner center - a place where can find sanctuary, peace and guidance. Through contemplation we can access this Castle within. The ideas in this book are based on St. Theresa of Avila's THE INTERIOR CASTLE, where she mentions seven mansions i.e. stages through which the soul passes in its mystical journey to union with the Divine.

"Entering the Castle" gives an inner dimension to our spiritual work that is at times lacking in current spiritual literature, which is more concerned with achievement and prosperity as end goals rather than inner development of the self. So I am glad to come across this book.

I also found "THE POWER OF NOW" and "A NEW EARTH" by Eckhart Tolle to reflect higher spiritual wisdom, along with "NEXUS: A NEO NOVEL" by Morrison & Singh, which offers a compelling journey of transformation based on connecting to our center called "the Nexus."

A wonderful treasure for the 21st centuary
This book is a wonderful treasure full of life-changing jewels. It invites us to love the life we are already living and discover sacred significance in simplicity and the so-called ordinary. Paradoxically everyone`s lives contain all the ingredients necessary for living extra-ordinarily. We are directed by a series of reflective questions and through contemplative prayer into a mystical world beyond the five senses. There are no promises or expectations given as to what we will find at the centre of our being because everyone`s experience will be unique. We are invited to give up trying to manipulate in order to get what we want out of life and instead expand fearlessly into Divine consciousness and discover what life needs us to be. A glimpse of true power - not the sort that dazzles and outshines but instead illuminates everything around it.