Book Signing with Bruce Manaka

Bruce Manaka is a local artist, author and musician. After living a life of contemplation as a monk for 19 years, Bruce was led to leave the monastary and continue his spiritual quest in the "real world." His 2 books, "Flight's of a Runaway Monk" and "The Alchemy of Bliss," explore his journey to finding the spiritual realms and practices he has found most transformational. His latest book, "The Alchemy of Bliss," is for those looking to connect with the Kundalini spinal energy of bliss. Bruce will also be playing his array of healing instruments while at Mountain Spirit!

"Flights of a Runaway Monk:"
"Bruce Manaka, a monk for 19 years, fled the hallowed grounds of his meditative lifestyle as he learned to decipher and embrace the messages brought to him by the voices of illness and confusion; and what he learned threatened to uproot and destroy every belief and notion that he had about God and the monastic lifestyle. Nearly crushed beneath the weight of this inner struggle, he found that his heart would not allow the rebuilding of a new life upon the rubble of old beliefs and assumptions. God-or perhaps the devil-was asking for the unthinkable and unspeakable: to walk away from the church and to relinquish the monastic life. Bruce's heart was inviting him to dance with the darkness within, to play with the desires most avoided as a monk, and to create with the finest listening all that wished to be expressed and loved. Delusion or not, he made the choice to walk the path of dark mystery, trusting the guidance within that the bridge over the ocean of suffering is created as we step out in faith, and not before." - Flights of a Runaway Monk description

"The Alchemy of Bliss:"
The Experience of Bliss is like liquid light flowing through the energetic field of the body. It is nectar-like and can be moved/pushed/pulled through the spine and the rest of the body. When its resonance reaches a certain stability in the bodily field, the consciousness shifts to accommodate the higher frequencies. How you experience the world then transforms radically, opening up worlds and dimensions beyond what you can now imagine.
The mind and body that is held in the Blissful Current of the awakening "Kundalini" becomes a conduit of the Divine Electricity and experiences the blissful resonance as though electrified, woven into the Infinite Fabric of Creation!
This book is for those who have reached a certain point in their spiritual practice and yet find the experience and connection with the Kundalini spinal and bodily currents (especially the bliss vibration) elusive. It is also for anyone who wants clarity regarding the gifts that they are meant to manifest in life using the focusing power that happens when the mind and body begin to resonate with the Bliss energy.