Little did Irina Tweedie know that her trip to India in 1959, at the age of fifty-two, would mysteriously lead her to a Sufi Master, and set her upon a journey to the "heart of hearts," the Sufi path of realization.Her teacher's first request of her was to keep a complete diary of her spiritual training—everything, all the difficult parts, even all the doubts. He predicted that one day it would become a book and would benefit people around the world.This diary spans five years, making up an amazing record of spiritual transformation ... the agonies, the resistance, the long and frightening bouts with the purifying forces of Kundalini, the perseverance, the movements towards surrender, the longing, and finally the all-consuming love.From a psychological viewpoint, the diary maps the process of ego dissolution, gradually unveiling the openness and love that reside beneath the surface of the personality.Mrs. Tweedie is the first Western woman to be trained in this ancient yogic lineage. Her story and experience testify that this teaching system can still be powerfully transformative today in our modern world.

Daughter of Fire is a unique account of a spiritual training with a Sufi Master and is the most detailed account of the relationship between disciple and teacher that exists in Western Literature.

“I hoped to get instruction in Yoga, expected wonderful teachings, but what the teacher did was mainly to force me to face the darkness within myself and it almost killed me.... I was beaten down in every sense until I had to come to terms with that in me which I kept rejecting all my life.” From the foreword by Irina Tweedie

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This book is a testimony for great courage and integrity.
—Marie Louise Von Franz

An engrossing personal story; a rare insight into the closed world of the Sufi. Far more, the spiritual path is revealed here as seldom before. The Guru-disciple relationship is detailed more thoroughly than in any other literature of any period ... a magnificent and great work
—Joseph Chilton Pearce

I am touched again and again by a constantly moving balance between powerful energies, of which one, the harder one, is truth, the other, the tender one, is love.
—Werner H. Engel

A log of self-discovery, striking in its blatant honesty... proof the eternal flame of the soul still can be awakened in people of the modern age, like it has been in others since the early beginning of consciousness.
—Sufism Journal

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