{"id":6535,"date":"2019-09-13T07:33:42","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T14:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/?p=6535"},"modified":"2019-09-13T07:33:43","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T14:33:43","slug":"dorothy-walters-buddha-at-the-gas-pump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/13\/dorothy-walters-buddha-at-the-gas-pump\/","title":{"rendered":"Dorothy Walters &#8211; Buddha at the Gas Pump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just recently the wonderful sage and poet Dorothy Walters did an extended interview with Buddha at the Gas Pump:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yUj3pqPVWcI\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Poetry Chaikhana publishes Dorothy\u2019s best-known collection of poetry, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&camp=1789&tag=poetrychaikha-20&creative=9325&path=ASIN\/0985467916\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marrow of Flame<\/a>.<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"13%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&camp=1789&tag=poetrychaikha-20&creative=9325&path=ASIN\/0985467916\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/images\/books\/1784.jpg\">  <\/a><\/td>\n<td width=\"87%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&camp=1789&tag=poetrychaikha-20&creative=9325&path=ASIN\/0985467916\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marrow of Flame: Poems of the Spiritual Journey<\/a><br \/>\nby Dorothy Walters<\/p>\n<p><small><a href=\"https:\/\/wordery.com\/9780985467913#oid=2035_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Also available through Wordery<\/a> <i>Free shipping anywhere in the world<\/i><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>She is also the author of a memoir, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&camp=1789&tag=poetrychaikha-20&creative=9325&path=ASIN\/1571743014\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Unmasking the Rose: A Record of Kundalini Initiation<\/a>, as well as several other excellent collections of poetry, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&camp=1789&tag=poetrychaikha-20&creative=9325&path=ASIN\/1944505288\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Some Kiss We Want: Poems Selected and New<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&camp=1789&tag=poetrychaikha-20&creative=9325&path=ASIN\/0999565826\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Kundalini Poems: Reflections of Radiance and Joy<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&camp=1789&tag=poetrychaikha-20&creative=9325&path=ASIN\/1435757769\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Cloth of Fine Gold: Poems of the Inner Journey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dorothy Walters is a personal friend and I can attest to the depth of her wisdom and genuineness. At the age of 91, she continues to inspire me with her energy and enthusiasm.<\/p>\n<p><b>Click here to read some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/Poets\/W\/WaltersDorot\/index.html\">poems by Dorothy Walters<\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>About Dorothy Walters<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Dorothy Walters, PHD, spent most of her early professional life as a professor of English literature in various Midwestern universities. She helped to found one of the first women\u2019s studies programs in this country and served as the director of this program for many years. After an extended residence in San Francisco, she now lives and writes in Colorado, where she has a close relationship with the mountains as well as various streams and canyons.<\/p>\n<p>She underwent major Kundalini awakening in 1981 (a phenomenon totally unfamiliar to her as well as to most of her contemporaries at the time); since then she has devoted her life to researching and writing about this subject and to witnessing the unfolding of this process within herself as well as assisting others on a similar path through writing and other means. As someone who made her extensive journey without the direction of any external leader or guru, church, or established order, she is a strong believer in the \u201cguru within,\u201d the inner guide rather than the external authority figure or institution.<\/p>\n<p>She feels that universal Kundalini awakening is the means for planetary and personal evolution of consciousness, and that evidence of planetary initiation is becoming more and more prevalent. Her Kundalini awakening and subsequent process of unfolding are described in her memoir <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&camp=1789&tag=poetrychaikha-20&creative=9325&path=ASIN\/1571743014\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Unmasking the Rose: A Record of Kundalini Initiation<\/a>.\u00a0 Her poems taken from her four previous volumes are published as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&camp=1789&tag=poetrychaikha-20&creative=9325&path=ASIN\/1944505288\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Some Kiss We Want: Poems Selected and New<\/a>. Her article on \u201cKundalini and the Mystic Path\u201d was included in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&camp=1789&tag=poetrychaikha-20&creative=9325&path=ASIN\/1591797284\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kundalini Rising<\/a>, an anthology from Sounds True Publications. Her poems, which have been included in many anthologies and journals, have been set to music and sung at the Royal Opera House in London as well as Harvard University, used as texts for sermons and read aloud in churches, included in doctoral projects, been frequently quoted, and have given inspiration to many.<\/p>\n<p>She often gives counsel and referral free of charge to those undergoing spontaneous Kundalini awakening and\/or spiritual transformation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just recently the wonderful sage and poet Dorothy Walters did an extended interview with Buddha at the Gas Pump: The Poetry Chaikhana publishes Dorothy\u2019s best-known collection of poetry, Marrow of Flame. Marrow of Flame: Poems of the Spiritual Journey by Dorothy Walters Also available through Wordery Free shipping anywhere in the world She is also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6535"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6540,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6535\/revisions\/6540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}