Full Endorsements for The Red Book

"Yeah. The Red Book ... and its for women ... but she takes it back sisters. I swear she does. Loving the girl power in one Sera Beak. My girl Ev gave this to me a few weeks ago and I haven't been able to put it down. Everything about yourself that you ever wanted to believe was true ... and confirmation that its OK to be true. New age, kick a** philosophies for unapologetic, spiritually diverse, un-Fing-believeable modern day women. Buy one for you and one for a girlfriend. Spread the Red and get real." --Bella Punk

A Spiritual Cowgirl Speaks How many times have you cruised by those books on traditional religions at the bookstore thinking, "Maybe this path will have the answers that I need?"

You buy the book, you study up on that religion, or you buy videos or CD's featuring that teacher's work. You diligently listen, absorb, and attempt to wrap your mind around the teachings.

How many times have you done this, only to realize - if you're being honest with yourself - that none of it really works for you?

So many religions and spiritual traditions have great grains of wisdom within them, yet they seem locked in the past. They aren't keeping up with real people, real humans, having real emotions, feelings, and - GASP! - even sexual desires.

Most religions are busy telling you how TRULY LIVING, with all of your senses fully engaged, is "bad" for you.

Or many of the New Age pathways seem to be always going on and on about "ascension," preaching escape from this realm, in one form or another. The ET's are coming to whisk us off in their spaceships. We're going to ascend on our own via our merkaba field or light body. Or we're going to, um, just wake up one day in a new, utopian reality.

Well, all of that can sound really nice on the surface. And most of these teachers are truly loving types who are doing their very best mapping out the landscape of the Divine and attempting to share their best theories or insights with their students.

But sometimes, no matter how enticing or beautiful a spiritual path is, it just seems like your grandmother's spirituality - crusty, uncomfortable, and heavy. Not yours.

Modern women and men need to get in touch with the sacred spark that lives within them without sacrificing fun, humor, or sex.

At least, that's part of the message that author Sera Beak is trying to get across.

She preaches (if that's the right word) an exciting, freeform type of spiritual adventure, encouraging us all to become spiritual "cowgirls" and to incorporate many different forms of play and invention as we create our own spiritual practice.

She was kind enough to sit down with me for a rousing, controversial chat, and I've just posted the interview with her now.

http://www.lipstickmystic.com/interviews/Sera_Beak_Red_Book.html

If you're ready to join the spiritual cowgirl movement (and yes, boys are allowed to join, too!) take a peak at my interview with Sera Beak.

I can guarantee you that you'll start tapping into light and fun vibes that will enhance your spiritual practice, whatever that might be! Sera's approach, plus her wonderful new book, will give you some great taking off points for your own mystical adventures. --Lipstick Mystic

“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, author of the Conversations With God series

“GORGEOUS! The Red Book is a deep, smart, and authentic guide to being more indelibly and powerfully yourself" --SARK author/artist Succulent Wild Woman

“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.

From Publishers Weekly

Beak, a religious scholar and writer for the San Francisco Chronicle Web site, sfgate.com, 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)

BTW, Guys Can Turn Red Too

"Sure it's supposed to be a chicks' book. But come on, this babe is writing about issues that transcend heaven and earth, secular and lay, sacred and profane, dream and reality; Don't you think it's gonna transcend penis and vagina? So guys, skip the bit about lipstick incantations on your bathroom mirror (just try dry-erase pens on your white boards), get over the marketing, and enjoy." -- Joe G.