Degree 1 - The Journey of Becoming/Traveling the Sea of Forces Gain entrance into the unseen worlds of the seven main chakras, your seven bodies, your seed atoms, your silver cord and Sacred Fire. Learn how they inter-relate and why you should be paying attention to them. This book will open your thoughts and challenge your views with a comparison of mystic Christian and traditional Christian teachings. Gain an appreciation of how exquisite details within form and structure, mind and energy accommodate the same vital, life-giving force. Put death into perspective through learning of its role as a form of initiation in the evolution of your soul. Learn to appreciate the value of past lives and the importance of living in the present in preparation for future incarnations. Cultivate longevity and spiritual awakening through a little-known form of yoga and double its effects by tuning in to the Sound of the Holy Nahd. This is your primer for other books of more advanced teachings.
Earlyne Cantrell Chaney (1916-1997), was a mystic, healer, author, and teacher who wrote more than 100 books on spirituality and New Age subjects. In 1951, with her husband, Robert, she co-founded Astara, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the exploration of spirituality. A native of rural Texas, Chaney abandoned a brief Hollywood acting career to study and advocate the uniting of Eastern and Western religions. She developed a new discipline of meditation and prayer called Lhama Yoga. Among Chaney’s books are the degree series titled Astara's Book of Life and many others, such as Initiation in the Great Pyramid, The Mystery of Death and Dying and Remembering: The Autobiography of a Mystic.
Earlyne's life achievements earned her an honorary Ph.D. in Theology, and renowned commendation in the books, The World's Who's Who of Women, Two Thousand Women of Achievement, and the Who's Who in California. Her Modern Mystery School, Astara is 70 years old and thriving with world-wide members and students spreading the Light and Love of the Book of Life lessons.
"But the real Earlyne Chaney's life cannot be encompassed in biographical statistics. They cannot tell of her childhood psychic experiences, the cosmic illumination of later years, the extraordinary interweaving of lives and circumstances which first delayed and then developed her writing talents, nor the thousands who have benefitted from her philosophy and her natural capacity to heal those who are suffering from a troubled mind and a painful body."
I have studied the Astara Books of Life for many years from back when they were paperback booklets. Although I have gotten through them all, I've now started over and each read makes new things clear. The pictures look better in the booklets, but I really like having the information available on my Kindle. Highly recommended. But these all fall under the concept of "when the student is ready, the teacher will appear."