My book is birthed
- mariakefalogianni
- Jun 25
- 6 min read
My book anthology is OUT. Honey and Ash: Mothers’ Alchemy of Burn and Bloom.
It emerged— from the ashes of all that I became. It emerged as another current stirred by the One Breath that breathes us all.
This isn’t a book that asks for a crown on my head , only the rippling recognition that it’s Source birthing Itself through form.
The flames of THIS Love , consumed any hint of my separation in me during its emergence and bearing witness to the Genocide in Gaza. The journey continues to deepen.
Redemptive LovE revealed itself as the substance of ALL during the acute grief of separation on a collective scale, I also experienced Unity consciousness and deep Samadhi for over a year , with a series of heart awakenings and expansive states of consciousness in my ordinary mama life🙂 whicj continue to unfold as the mystery in me./ as me.
I have written a bit more about the process here
This book is both a lamentation and a celebration, as well as an invocation .
In bearing witness Of Gaza’s cries , It felt I became the throat of the Divine Mother , singing Her endless lamentation through my form AND Joy of what it means to be a fully fleshed Human.. I was given embodied visions , of collective unfolding a ncestor visitations far too many synchronicities to share now and anabiding reverence into the mystery of ME/ US.
And yet , all my tears aren’t a single tear drop to the pain of our forgetting , the reason why we go to war with each other.
This book felt like a seamless tapestry— blood, ash, and prayer— woven in the loom of HER womb. It particularly share la the divine feminine fire of purification -Shakti/ and a calling through my poems for MOTHERS who walk the spiritual path. Motherhood has never been seen by traditional models of spirituality as the deepest catalyst to spiritual awakening.
Our time is now.
As Mothers and Women, but Humaniry on the Whole to truly awaken the Deep Hesrt of existence that pulses through our very marrow in our bones- that do NOT separate but unite. And to embody THIS Heart Is the path of embodied awakening.
My Mission feels somewhat clear. Crystal clarity is only for the fools.
To ripple AS the ocean softening the edges of the belief that we a re separate from LIFE, To write and be in service FOR Life ,
until WE remember: we are the wave ANDthe oceanic depth.
Until all Division Melts like candle wax on the lap of HER majesty/ God/ Creator. Until we Remember…who we ARE.
Which is nothing but unconditional love.
No doer inhabits these hands.
No writer pens these words. a fractal of the Infinite Heart pulsed in my chest, unfolding as devotion’s geometry—and it has been TOUGH.. to find a way to softens the edges that sing nothing but a most rnchanted Hallelujia for our Life our Earth.
The longing for co-creation is our co-creation.
Worlds bloom where the mirage of “my” “mine” “out” dissolves, into the perfume of the One inhalation-exhalation;
we have always been. HERE. The place we leave to find us( a paradox). As a westerner I’m feeling deepest gratitude for the civilisations that have known this to be the reality and cosmos we always longed for.
Let us now remember together .
Let us LOVE together and compost all grief rage and shadow into gold- like the alchemists we are . There s no more separation from our shadows as they hold our deepest light. It takes courage to sit in the fire of this inner cauldron in deep faith and trust and learn to alchemise these , it takes a brave heart and often a village to hold us .
The link for the book is here .
Profits will go towards supporting Jael’s studies for becoming a Nurse and teaching others in her community. I support Jael by supporting the Charity One woman at a time
ANY excess profit will go towards Palestinian causes (I’m yet to decide where).
Any profit goes towards the mending of the cracks WE have brought upon ourselves .
THIS is what s being asked of us now.
Buy here 👇 please SHARE the ripples of this book to mothers women and anyone interested in inner alchemy. It will supportJael for her dream of Life to become a nurse🙏
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Honey-Ash-Mothers-Alchemy-Bloom/dp/B0FD8S2QBB/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0
Kindle version available for low price for some time, in kind request for reviews . Please share your heartfelt words it means a world to me to know how my poetry touches you.
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I’m beyond thankful to Spirit and my ancestors for weaving Rashani Réa in my life in the most miraculous ways possible, my ancestors brought her to me. She reached out to me out of nowhere asking me to endorse one of her books “Anoint Everything”. I didn’t know if her before that moment, only as a name through a shared Facebook connection.
But this isn’t why the story is relevant but more in the How .
I was sat in my garden one morning , feeling deeply in the trembling of the human being asked to surrender deeply to life’s plan for me.
I did want a foreward by someone but I was asked to sacrifice it on the altar of life. With tears in my eye I felt a deep gravitas, wash over me. This is signalling usually for me an embodied sense of surrender that isn’t always so bodily here. I heard the word “ Trust”, and my maternal grandmother came to mind, before I saw my phone to see Rashani’s message.
What struck me in that moment wasn’t this but how much she is an acute resemblance to my own maternal grandmother . There was no reaction upon receiving her message. A pure embodied gnosis.
This is the precision of clarity of the mystery embodied. The way it weaves us all.
Rashani also happened to have also lived in Crete in her childhood years and we begun conversing about her experiences there. Through another round of synchronistic sequences of events it became clear she was meant to write the foreward.
Rashani has been ordained by Thich Nhat Hahn and it was a big blessing for me to receice her incredible words. I am still in pure awe of this blessing and in many ways feels too huge to let in, fully, .
Thich Nhat Hahn has been one of my biggest influences on the spiritual path- at the time o( his funeral I felt ONE with his Heart .
This moment of Rashani reaching out was abeautiful “proof” we are being led by the creator in the most magnificent ways.
You can find her work here
Im also grateful spirit weaved me with my soul sister (in a nother miraculous manner , another story for another time) and teacher Lucy Grace and her words of love; . I’m also thankful to the other poets I admire and thank them for their endorsements : Fred LaMotte and Chelan Harkin and Scott Thurston.
Lastly to the amazing creator Kirsti Danielle and incredible editor Sara Priestley for their immaculate work and heart and committment to this book’s birth. You have all helped midwife it to the world.
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To express interest for any of my Heart Inquiry Alchemy sangha groups: visit my website . I will be starting a group soon to begin weaving the threads of our new world of mending ( already complete ) together ; to Root in the Mystery of us.
https://www.presencecenteredpsychotherapy.com/services
If you want to stay in touch with my writing; subscribe on my substack I’ll be slowly immigrating there , in ONE place ! Gathering my scattered bones slowly from a place of wholeness.
In love and gratitude ,
holding ever so tenderly the butterfly as a symbol of transformation, both mine and those of whom I work.
A chrysalis bleeds itself to Her Rebirth.
This is my duty,
to be the palm unclenched , upon which you open your wings and fly in freedom and service , of US.
For the Whole.
For the world of our deepest longing
Maria
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