I read Chasm of Fire three times, I shall read Daughter of Fire, I expect, the rest of my life. There is no way to praise the book sufficiently. It ranks with the greatest of all spiritual literature. It is an engrossing personal story; an astonishing testament of faith; a rare insight into the closed world of the Sufi -- in this day of a broadside of counterfeits. Far more, the spiritual path is revealed here as seldom before. The Guru-disciple relationship is detailed more thoroughly than in any literature of any period, What a magnificent and great work Daughter of Fire is. What an overwhelming experience reading it has been. What gratitude I feel for the privilege of reading it. Words can convey grace! -- Joseph Chilton Pearce, author, The Magical Child Matures This book is a testimony for great courage and integrity. -- Marie Louise von Franz, Jungian psychologist 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, founder, C.G. Jung Center Clinic in New York 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. Bhai Sahib`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 fires 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 resides beneath the surface of 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. IRINA TWEEDIE was born in Russia in 1907 and educated in Vienna and Paris. Following World War II she married an English naval officer, whose death in 1954 led her on a spiritual quest. With a background in Theosophy, she traveled to India where she met a Sufi Master. She returned to England after his death in 1966.