About Linda Ruocco

 

Linda Ruocco is much like the mythic Phoenix, the legendary sacred firebird who dies in the fire to be reborn anew out of the ashes.  She has reinvented herself from a successful career in the fashion business — including having been a Vice President at Bloomingdale’s — to having her own licensed real estate brokerage business in Manhattan, NYC, and now at Douglas Elliman Real Estate Company — AND she is a spiritual teacher and coach.

Linda was raised Roman Catholic at her grandmother’s urging; her mother was a Southern Baptist with a Unity flair; her father was an agnostic.  While Linda attends her favorite catholic  church regularly, she considers her own faith as “eclectic spirituality” with a strong transformational flavor.   She is a student of “A Course in Miracles” and participates in transformation education at Landmark Education as a student and as a coach in the Wisdom Division.

In college, Linda majored in English Literature — with a specialty in Shakespeare! — and studied history of religions just because it fascinated her — and became intrigued with various different spiritual traditions.   Later, Linda was strongly influenced by mythical themes presented by noted mythologist, Joseph Campbell.  His work shifted what had previously lived for her as “religious” into a profoundly personal spiritual transformation.

She married a Jewish man and raised her own son, Joshua Feuer, in the Jewish religion.   She traveled to India to visit Sai Baba — and became entranced with the Hindu gods and goddesses, especially Ganesha, the Hindu god of New Beginnings and the Remover of Obstacles.   While in India, Linda had a mystical experience at the Taj Mahal that was life-altering — she considers it to be the turning point of her life and her faith.

A few years later, she went on to Cambodia and Thailand to fall in love with Buddhist thought and practice.   She has also been a practitioner of Transcendental Meditation for over 35 years.  She has studied the Gnostic Gospels, the Kabbalah and dipped into the Tao Te Ching.   She reads the Sufi poets, particularly Rumi and Hafiz, and also loves the Bengali poet, Rabindranath Tagore.

Not to leave her own heritage unexplored, she found her spiritual longing matched in the works of the Romantics: Thoreau, Emerson, Hawthorne, Whitman, and Melville.   And who doesn’t love the inherent transformational qualities of the works of Mark Twain?   Linda is Huck Finn at heart!   Isn’t everyone?

Linda is a great fan of Eckart Tolle, Wayne Dyer, Marianne Williamson, Deepak Chopra, Werner Erhard, and David Hawkins’ “Power vs. Force” Trilogy. She has a special affinity for some of the early 20th Century New Thought Movement Christians, particularly Emmett Fox and Christian Larsen. Two of her favorite books are Fox’s, “The Sermon on the Mount: The Key to Success in Life” and Larsen’s, “The Pathway of Roses.”

Linda has a promise to the world: “By 2025, I promise a world in which all people know themselves as lovable and precious, living inside a delicious relationship with the Divine, and their lives are filled with Miracles, Love, and Grace.

Linda is a spiritual minister and volunteered at the Armory in New York City after 9/11 to work with the victims’ families. She is a Reiki Master and an expert on Astrology and the Tarot

You can follow her on Twitter @Linda_Ruocco.  Or click on www.Twitter.com/Linda_Ruocco

If you would like to reach Linda personally, please email her at Linda@spiritualchocolate.com.  If you would like to reach her in her capacity as  a NYS Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker with Douglas Elliman in Manhattan, please email her at linda.ruocco@elliman.com.