Maetreyii Ma Nolan

Maetreyii Ma Nolan, Ph.D., is an award-winning author, spiritual teacher, and psychologist, expert in consciousness and holistic healing. With a rich background in psychology and spirituality, her work has positively influenced many people's lives. Maetreyii Ma Nolan's wisdom and teachings garner recognition worldwide, making her a respected voice for inner transformation and spiritual awakening. She is trained as a licensed Psychologist, an Acharya or Ordained Minister of Yogic Meditation, a certified IAYT Yoga Therapist, and an EYRT 500-hour Yoga Teacher with many years of experience with deep meditation and yogic wisdom. ************************************************************************************************************************************ ABOUT MY EXPERIENCE, MY GURU AND THESE BOOKS by Maetreyii Ma The writings in my books are based on an intuitive connection that I experience to Divine Source. This is a brief story of how my connection to that Divine Source, which is the base of all of my writings, came to be. I first began to be aware of something transcendent as a young girl, perhaps around eleven or twelve. At that time, I began to feel the presence of a holy being near to me. I didn’t know about the concept of past lives, but I was sure I had known this presence before. It was distinctly male, clearly divine and seemed to be dressed in white, emanating waves of compassion and unconditional love. I immediately fell in love. He was my guide, my comfort in the storms of life. He healed me when I was hurt or in need and walked with me when I was alone. He was profoundly kind. How could anyone not love him? The years passed and I became involved with the normal social life of an American teen and forgot about these experiences until, in my early twenties, I learned meditation in an Eastern Yogic Tradition. After some months of doing regular meditation, I began to have experiences of non-ordinary states of consciousness and, again, this numinous divine presence came to me. This time, he talked to me and revealed more of his nature. In his every word, I experienced the emanations of perfect justice, divine love, and absolute beauty. Like the rays of the sun shining through a prism, his divine aspects revealed themselves. His nature, revealed before me, was shining with brilliant light that stunned my mind. The experience of waves of divine love washed through my being. For many years this inner manifestation taught me, sheltered me, held me in my darkest hours and revealed to me the bliss of divine love in which all is one unitary whole. When I first met this mysterious presence as a child, I thought he was Jesus and I cried that I had missed him and was here without him. Then later when he came in my twenties, he called himself Baba. I thought he was the inner expression of my guru, Shrii Shrii Anandamurti. Sometimes I saw him as Krishna and sometimes as Shiva. In yoga, they say Guru, God, and Self are one. He is, for me, most certainly that God Self, my beloved Guru deva, my Baba. When I met my physical guru, Shrii Shrii Anandamurti Baba, I felt the same blissful presence I did from my beloved Baba within. In darshan, Guru’s talks, often Anandamurti Baba would refer to things my inner Baba had told me and would explain them. Inner guru and outer guru became one and the same. The years passed and when, in 1990, my physical guru, Shrii Shrii Anandamurti, left his body, my inner Baba asked me to begin to share with others the teachings he had been giving to me for so long. I learned to sink into his flow of love and, melting into the Bhava, absorbed in this love, allow his words to be spoken through me as an expression of divine grace. This became the Baba Talks I have given ever since. These talks do not come from the rational mind. Often, I have no idea what will be said until halfway through the first sentence. The knowledge just flows from a deeper source. This is not channeling another person, but a manifestation of the grace that flows from the eternal One, from Guru, from God. As the years have gone on, I have come to realize that my beloved Baba, from whom these teachings flow, and my physical guru, Shrii Shrii Anandamurti Baba, are both expressions of the transcendent Self of all beings. An infinite source of love, knowledge, and bliss we can all melt back into. I have come to realize Baba is my guru and the Self of myself. By the grace of that One alone do I even exist, a dream in the mind of the great dreamer that, on occasion, ceases to be when absorbed in him. Many Blessings, Maetreyii Ma