Invite them in, She said

Lawrence Edwards’ Invite them in, She said is a gorgeous offering of healing joy and authentic vision to our agonized burning world. He is one of our most inspired and unfetteredly ecstatic mystic poets, gifted with a soaring simplicity of realized truth that cuts through all barriers of dogma or doubt. Read him, share him, celebrate his witness, and dare to embody the visions he shares with such lucid and empowering abandon.

Andrew Harvey - founder of The Institute for Sacred Activism™, retreat leader, bestselling author of The Magdalene Revolution.

In these exquisite poetic renderings, the Divine Feminine invites you - almost begs you - to come into Her heart and know the peace, the bliss, and the freedom that comes from entering there. Using Lawrence’s words as her tool, She reaches out to every tradition. She reminds the Buddhist how to set all beings free. She calls to the yogi in the guise of Shakti and to the Hindu through the power of Kali. For Christians, She alludes to St. Paul’s conviction that only the Unseen is Eternal. And all the while, she whispers her divine love into the ear of each and every one of us…. This is surely a work of divinely inspired creativity.

Teri Degler - author of The Divine Feminine Fire; and Gopi Krishna - A Biography: Kundalini, Consciousness, and Our Evolution to Enlightenment.

The voice of Kalidas, the beloved 5th century Hindu poet, speaks/flows/streams through Lawrence, calling the reader to remember their own spiritual longing and profound relationship with the Divine. Some poems admonish us for forgetting our true nature, others are powerful doorways directly into the Infinite. Great food for spiritual practice.

Lee Lyon - founder and director of The Foundation for Integrative Meditation; author of The 112 Meditations From The Book Of Divine Wisdom.

These transmissions from Lawrence Edwards are jewels. They cut to our true nature and provide powerful realizations and reminders of what is most important. It is such a gift to be able to take in these gems, these jewels, as they move into the depth of our being and awaken us. This is a profound poetry collection.

David Greenspan - Founder, Slate Path Capital; Board Member & Adjunct Professor, Columbia University School of Business.

This is a book of divinely crafted, poetic adventures into the blessed Unknown who is a Who and a You to each of us. This infinite Mother of creation invites us to know Her as the ultimate Source of freedom…

Robert A. Jonas, Ed.D. - founder of The Empty Bell sanctuary, retreat leader, and author of My Dear Far-Nearness: The Holy Trinity as Spiritual Practice.

Lawrence Edwards, PhD, BCN

Lawrence Edwards has practiced and taught meditation for over 50 years. His mystical experiences, which began in childhood, led him to pursue the formal study of meditation and psychology. He holds a magna cum laude degree from the University of Connecticut, where he studied transpersonal psychology with Dr. Kenneth Ring, and a PhD from Temple University. His doctoral research focused on the psychological and spiritual growth experienced through long-term Kundalini-based yoga practice.

Dr. Edwards has trained as a monk in India under the guidance of his Kundalini meditation master and has received teachings from H.H. the Dalai Lama, H.E. Tsewang Sitar Rinpoche, and Gelek Rinpoche. He is also trained in Jungian depth psychology, biofeedback, and neurofeedback, and is board-certified in neuro-biofeedback. He has served as president of the Northeast Regional Biofeedback Society.

As a licensed psychotherapist in New York, Dr. Edwards practiced transpersonal psychotherapy for over thirty years and was a faculty member at New York Medical College for 24 years. He is the founder and director of Anam Cara Meditation, an organization established after the 9⁄11 attacks to make transformative meditation practices freely accessible. For over two decades, Anam Cara has offered free weekly meditation programs, retreats, and courses. Dr. Edwards continues to guide individuals and groups in deepening their meditation practice and spiritual development.

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