The Spiral Path: Explorations Into Women's SpiritualityYes International Publishers, 1992 - 234 Seiten This treasure of diverse and visionary writings explores the sacredness of women's everyday lives. Twenty-two contemporary spiritual teachers'including Irina Tweedie, Brooke Medicine Eagle, Swami Radha, Bernadette Roberts, and Mary Giles'probe aspects of their lives from sexuality, work, and cooking, to relationships, prayer, and mysticism. A vision then emerges of women as extraordinary sacred beings, their lives sources of personal and community transformation. This book is a guide for those seeking a practical, workable spiritual life. |
Inhalt
First Steps to the Spiritual Life | 17 |
Coming Home to Our Bodies | 29 |
An Interview with | 41 |
Time of the New Dawning | 56 |
God the Father and Freud | 77 |
Archetypes and Biology | 91 |
Sexuality as Holiness | 102 |
Taking Each Other to Enlightenment | 119 |
Womens Words | 181 |
Women and Power | 195 |
Tools for Womens Spiritual Quest | 208 |
The Voice of Prophet Woman | 221 |
The Language of Love | 241 |
Women and Mysticism | 259 |
In the Footsteps of the Wise | 277 |
For all the Secret Dancers | 303 |
Revisiting the Marriage Covenant | 129 |
An Interview with | 157 |
The Gemini of Greatness | 169 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Adrienne Rich Anne Morrow Lindbergh aspect awareness beautiful become begin Bible birth bodhicitta body Buddhist child consciousness cooking create creative Cris Williamson culture darkness divine dream earth egoic emotions energy experience father fear feel female feminine gender give healing heart Hildegard of Bingen holy human inner Irina Tweedie Jewish journey lives look male marriage masculine means Mechtild of Magdeburg meditation mental prayer midwives mind mother mystery mystical nature nurturing one's oneself ourselves pain patriarchal peace person practice Pratimoksha pray prophet psyche psychological reality realize recognize relationship religion religious histories reveals sacred scriptures sense sexual society soul spiral spiritual growth spiritual path story suffering Sufi Swami Rama teaching temple Teresa Teresa of Avila Theravada things tradition transcendent transform true truth unconscious understand wisdom woman women words Yehoyah Yhvh zazen