Dena Merriam’s To Dance with Dakinis is a study of the universal law of cause and effect, how events in our life, our deeds, thoughts, and reactions impel the process of rebirth.
Book Spotlight – To Dance With Dakinis
Written by Dena Merriam
The story begins in 12th-century Tibet, with a woman’s search for the Goddess and the deeper truths of life. You meet ordinary people dealing with human suffering and visit magical lakes and mountains. You also meet the great Mother, and through her dakinis, adepts, gurus, and loving souls who guide us life after life without revealing their spiritual stature. Then, we meet the great Guru Rinpoche, known to Tibetans as Padmasambhava. We will learn more about the spiritual history of Tibet and India and the deep interconnection of these two great civilizations.
The story unravels the threads that link together three lives. Through a crisis that Padma, our main character, encounters, she is led to a Master who helps awaken memories of her previous life in medieval France and an earlier life in China, during which events were set in motion that led to the crisis she now faced.
This book recounts deeply touching tales of her experiences and learnings amidst the cultural settings of the times she lived in. In the process of her journey, great teachings are conveyed, teachings that we can apply to our lives today. Call it Life’s sense of humor or divine justice, that the person you resented the very sight of becomes a dear relative in the next; an illiterate low-caste woman in one life is reborn as a queen; the unfulfilled love of one life comes to ultimate fruition in another one; and so much more. It may suddenly strike you that all our feelings of resentment, anger, or pride are ultimately futile—and what a liberating realization that is! Life doesn’t forget anything – neither your good deeds and vows nor your wrong deeds or thoughts that you tried to hide from all.
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About the Author
Dena Merriam began working in the inter-faith movement in the late 1990s when she served as Vice Chair of the Millennium World Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders held at the United Nations in New York in 2000. She subsequently convened a meeting of women religious and spiritual leaders at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. She founded the Global Peace Initiative of Women (GPIW) in 2002, an organization chaired by a multi-faith group of women spiritual leaders. In 2008, Ms. Merriam was one of the founding members of the Contemplative Alliance, which later became a GPIW program. The purpose of the Alliance is to bring together meditation teachers and practitioners in a collective effort to uplift and transform society while caring for and honoring our Mother Earth. For over 40 years, Dena Merriam has been a Paramahansa Yogananda student and a Kriya Yoga meditation practitioner. She is also a long-time student of the great texts of the Vedic tradition. Ms. Merriam received her master’s degree from Columbia University and has served on numerous boards. She is currently the Chair of the International Advisory Council of the Auroville Foundation in India. In 2014, she received the Niwano Peace Prize for her interfaith peace efforts and holds an Honorary Doctorate in Peace Studies from Mahachulalongkornvajravidyadara University (MCU) in Thailand. She is the author of My Journey Through Time, The Untold Story of Sita, the Ommie Award-winning When the Bright Moon Rises, Rukmini and the Turning of Time, and To Dance with Dakinis.
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