Rani Kumra
Speaking about her mother, Rani Kumra glows, recalling how tirelessly her mother worked to help and support all of the unfortunate and needy
.... "One day," Rani beams, "when I was so terribly worried about Mother being tired from her endless, selfless service to others, she told me her secret. And that secret - so simple and yet profound - still stays with me to this day: "With a little help, one's family problems are solved."
Since a very young age, Rani has spent the much of her own life in seva - or service - to the spiritual needs of others in both India and Africa. "Not only did I see the suffering all around me, but I felt the suffering of all those people. So much suffering ... so many people suffering ... and I felt it in my heart and soul."
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Shamanism in the Modern World
Many years ago, a powerful shaman named Twin Dreamers said to me, "We are all born wild like a mountain lion. To live in civilization we become sheep at a very young age. We become tame. But we are not house pets. We are fierce and wild by nature."
Twin Dreamers is a Kuna Indian of Central America. She is also a member of the Sisterhood of the Shields, an extraordinary group of native women who are the guardians of an ancient wisdom born of the sacred feminine that has been preserved and handed down from mother to daughter, shaman to apprentice for many thousands of years, and she is one of my teachers. For the past thirty years, it has been my great opportunity to study and work with the Sisterhood of the Shields, becoming a full member in my own right and a bridge between their ancient and our modern worlds.
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Books, etc.
Meeting The Great Bliss Queen: Buddhists, Feminists, and the Art of the Self
Media, etc.
Jewish Mysticism Demystified - Part 4 
A look at the history and religious role of the Kabbalah in Judaism.
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