My Karma Ran Over My Dogma: Lessons Learned by a Whistle-Blowing Minister Turned Mystic - Softcover

McDowell, Monica

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9781549951664: My Karma Ran Over My Dogma: Lessons Learned by a Whistle-Blowing Minister Turned Mystic

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ISBN 10: 1549951661 ISBN 13: 9781549951664

Publisher: Independently published, 2017

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The lighter side of being blacklisted... Do sexual harassment and angels, civil rights and auras, a precedent-setting federal ruling and mystical awakening even go together? They do in the Rev. Monica McDowell's riveting, stranger-than-fiction true story, My Karma Ran Over My Dogma. With a Master of Divinity degree from Princeton Theological Seminary in her back pocket, Monica lands her dream job at a Seattle Presbyterian church, only to find that within days, the senior minister is sexually harassing her. It all goes rapidly downhill from there, faster than you can spell l-a-w-s-u-i-t. But long before Monica is finally victorious as the first ordained minister in the country ever granted civil rights, her life takes another twisting turn -- this time towards the bizarre. Like a mangy dog draws fleas, Monica starts attracting unusual mystical experiences, convincing her she's about to win a one-way ticket to the local mental ward. From angels who take a keen interest in her on-going legal case to spontaneous healings that scare the bejeezus out of her but restore her stress-devastated body to health, Monica humorously tries to make sense of it all as she is catapulted into mystery beyond her wildest imaginings. With real-life drama that includes 9/11, the Nisqually Earthquake, and Julie from The Love Boat, Monica adeptly turns this dark tale of institutional injustice into lighthearted fare. Deeply challenging to conventional understandings of "the way things work," ultimately, this page-turning saga is an inspirational memoir of a truth so strong and a love so large, no one can be unchanged in the reading of it.

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Monica McDowell has the distinction of being the first ordained minister in the United States granted civil rights by a federal court. Her first book, My Karma Ran Over My Dogma: Lessons Learned by a Whistle-Blowing Minister Turned Mystic, is a narrative of her journey through these precedent-setting legal events into life-changing mysticism and a luminous spirituality. A dynamic and inspirational speaker, Monica regularly holds workshops, classes, and retreats for budding mystics and emergent healers. She earned her Master of Divinity degree from Princeton Theological Seminary with an emphasis in spiritual care and counseling, and she is the founder of Women's Sanctuary, offering inter-spirituality gatherings for women of all faiths. She has been a minister and mind/body/spirit energy healer for many years.

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