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"This book details the goddess Kali, and her culture of devotion in West Bengal and South Asia. Different from most contemporary books about this Dark Goddess, this book offers a liturgy of worship -- a spiritual practice, the Song of the Hundred Names of Adya Kali, that readers can use to cultivate a direct devotional relationship to Kali. This book is also a context-setting guide, establishing this practice as a general orientation to life. Most compelling, the text of this liturgy and Commentaries contain an intimate revelation of how the goddess establishes herself in her devotees' bodies and thus intervenes, by unconditional love and acceptance, in their lives. A lengthy Introduction, both scholarly and personal, describes the goddess and the possibilities that these prayers will offer. Aditi Devi guides us in how to build a shrine to Kali, various types of offerings to make to her, and suggests a schedule for how to use this liturgy with a long-term commitment over the course of 108 nights. ""This Song of the Hundred Names is a powerful teaching that all forms are her forms"", the author notes. Male, female, or other gendered, readers are presented with the possibility to experience the depths of their own internal feminine energies, and thereby come into greater healing and wholeness, more readily able to express this often neglected part of ourselves. Aditi Devi's long term spiritual practice and immersion within living Tantric lineages in South Asia is the source of this book."

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Reveals with sensitivity and deepening insight the hidden mysteries of the Dark Goddess, luring us into a love affair of consciousness that has a beginning but no end in this shimmering precious book. -- Ma Ananda Sarita, Divine Sexuality

Reveals with sensitivity and deepening insight the hidden mysteries of the Dark Goddess, luring us into a love affair of consciousness that has a beginning but no end in this shimmering precious book. -- Ma Ananda Sarita, Divine Sexuality Aditi Devi beautifully bridges the world of scholar-teacher and Kali devotee to offer a potent and accessible way into the great mystery of the Dark Mother through the revelation of Her namavali (100 name) sadhana. A gift to all.-Shiva Rea, yogini, author Tending the Heart Fire In Praise of Adya Kali is a deep dive, it's Tantra in all its stark magnificence. The Song of Her Hundred Names has ignited all my practice and revealed to me a love that can be neither divided nor diminished. -Dawn Cartwright, internationally known teacher of Tantra. http: //www.dawncartwright.com Reveals with sensitivity and deepening insight the hidden mysteries of the Dark Goddess, luring us into a love affair of consciousness that has a beginning but no end. The tradition of Kali worship shimmers with renewed aliveness in this precious book.-Ma Ananda Sarita, author Divine Sexuality.

Reveals with sensitivity and deepening insight the hidden mysteries of the Dark Goddess, luring us into a love affair of consciousness that has a beginning but no end. The tradition of Kali worship shimmers with renewed aliveness in this precious book.-Ma Ananda Sarita, author Divine Sexuality.

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began the study & practice of South Asian Tantric traditions over 24 years ago. As an initiated yogini, ritualist, and lineage holder, she is authorized to teach the Kali Practices focusing on the reverence of women as embodiments of the divine. Aditi earned a Ph.D. in Anthropology and was a Fulbright scholar and college professor before turning full-time towards the ways of the yoginis and dakinis. Based in Boulder, Colorado, USA, she teaches privately, offers regular Kali Puja and Kirtan, yoga, meditation, and has established The Shala: A Classical Tantric Mystery School. www.aditidevi.com

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