Soul Naked

Love, Money, Power, and Awakening

Soul Naked is a fearless exploration of awakening—an unfiltered journey through heartbreak, devotion, and the hidden intelligence within even life’s most devastating moments.

What begins as a search for enlightenment evolves into something far more radical: a dismantling of everything we’ve been taught about where the Divine lives and how it is found. Set within a modern world saturated with desire, ambition, and intensity, Soul Naked challenges the idea that awakening requires withdrawal. Instead, it reveals a new era—one in which sex, money, and power are no longer obstacles to transcend but portals through it.

But this is not just a personal journey. Woven throughout is the work of guiding others—individuals standing in the wreckage of loss, betrayal, illness, and grief—and helping them uncover the spiritual curriculum embedded within their pain. Again and again, the same truth emerges: What breaks us open is often what calls us home.

Soul Naked offers a new paradigm for awakening—one that moves beyond caves, celibacy, and renunciation. This is a feminine, embodied path that honors the full spectrum of human experience, where nothing is excluded: not sex, not power, not money, not heartbreak, and not even the altered states that expand perception. Everything belongs. Everything is part of the initiation.

Raw, provocative, and deeply compassionate, Soul Naked invites readers to question everything they believe about suffering, grace, and transformation. It meets you in the moments where it’s hardest to believe in anything at all—and gently, relentlessly, asks you to say yes anyway.

Because awakening is not about transcending your life.

It is about becoming fully alive within it.

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ISBN: 979-8-89138-511-5
Imprint: Amplify Publishing
SKU: 18-1379-01
Categories:Amplify Publishing, Self-Help, Health, Medicine, and Wellness, Memoirs and Biographies

“Sylvia is what it looks like to bring spirituality out of the church, temple, or ceremony and into the boardroom. She is a walking, breathing prayer.”

—MIKE POSNER, Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter

“Throughout my life, I have had the privilege of traveling the world, meeting extraordinary people, and experiencing both remarkable highs and deeply humbling moments. If there is one lesson I’ve learned, it is that success, beauty, recognition, money, and achievement never tell the whole story. Beneath them all lives the soul—quietly asking to be seen, understood, and ultimately set free. In a world that often rewards perfection, choosing authenticity is one of the bravest things we can do. Soul Naked reminds us that love is our greatest teacher, that our relationship with money and power reflects our inner world, and that awakening is not a destination, but a lifelong journey of remembering who we truly are.”

—KAROLÍNA KURKOVÁ, supermodel and former Victoria’s Secret Angel

“I’ve spent my career on humanity’s biggest moonshots—space, AI, and longevity. Sylvia’s moonshot is awakening the human soul. Soul Naked takes a CIO’s rigor and a shaman’s depth and aims them at the same target: your Massively Transformative Purpose, minus the self-abandonment it sometimes costs to get there. This isn’t a retreat from ambition. It’s the upgrade ambition has been missing.”

—PETER H. DIAMANDIS, MD, founder and executive chairman, XPRIZE Foundation; cofounder, Singularity University

“Soul Naked offers profound and elegantly simple yet fierce exercises, suggestions, and examples for engaging with life’s greatest challenges such as heartbreak, war, money, sex, addiction, and death. Sylvia wisely reframes these challenges as initiations, focusing on lessons to be learned rather than pain to be avoided. Soul Naked is a result of Sylvia’s deeply honest engagement with her own and others’ suffering and pleasures, after a lifetime of apprenticeship with spiritual teachers, indigenous shamans, western scientists and therapists. Soul Naked’s message contains critical wisdom alchemized for our time, emphasizing radical acceptance, experiencing without reservation what comes our way, and withdrawing the projection of our shadow onto others. Read Soul Naked, and weep with sorrow and joy.”

—RICK DOBLIN, PHD, founder and president, Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)

“Desire has always fascinated me because it’s one of the clearest expressions of being fully alive. It’s not just about sexuality, it’s about curiosity, creativity, connection, and the willingness to feel deeply. In Soul Naked, Sylvia reminds us that spirituality isn’t about escaping our human experience; it’s about meeting it with openness. This is a thoughtful, beautifully written invitation to embrace every part of ourselves as a path to growth.”

—JENNIFER ZUCCARINI, founder and CEO, Fleur du Mal

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