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Ambika Devi is an international award-winning, best-selling author, speaker, scholar, mythologist, mystagogue, astrologer, and lifelong researcher of the human mind and consciousness. Known as the Mind-Tamer, she has spent a lifetime exploring a question that first captured her imagination in childhood: What does it mean to be human?

A teacher of yoga and meditation since 1978, Ambika spent twenty-one years as a professor of Holistic Health and curriculum developer. Her work bridges Eastern philosophy and Western thought, drawing from yoga, meditation, Ayurveda, Advaita Vedānta, mythology, astrology, sound and the human voice.

Her seventh book, Mythic Alchemy, explores Navarasa—the nine emotions—through the stories of Ganesha, yoga philosophy ...more

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	Lilith 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wizard and the Wrench by Ambika Devi (Goodreads Author), Dominic Albanese (Goodreads Author) 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Unfolding Happiness by Ambika Devi (Goodreads Author), Vijay Jain (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Identifying and Honoring the Goddess by Ambika Devi (Goodreads Author), Catalina Rueda (Illustrator) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Timing is easy to predict through the movement of the stars as they give the propensity of pure potential.”
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“Your path is illuminated by a road-map of stars. I am here to guide you!”
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“People are like vines that grow upwards to the Sun in the heavens. Our ascent is inspired by seeking a deep connection with the divine. When we are attracted to others, we are attracted to a spark of the divine that is a reflection of our true being.”
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