![]() ![]() ![]() And who was the woman up front next to the stage wearing a wrap of bright orange? We were either busting with pent up emotion or flagging with the numbness of no feeling at all. I was among a group of 12 tired, road-weary writers who had just ended a year long retreat. Over in the back left corner, I sat quietly near Sean Murphy, who was manning the video camera, and Tania Casselle, writers I met in Taos at my first workshop in 2001. They had all come out to support Mirabai. On February 10 th, at the pre-book launch and benefit for SOMOS, the room at Mabel Dodge Luhan House where we had sat the week before in complete silence, had been transformed in 3 short hours to a crowded, way too hot, energetic bundle of Taosenos. The book was due to be released February 13th. ![]() Wordraw and I had stayed behind a day in Taos after the last retreat to hear Mirabai read from her new book, Teresa of Avila: The Book of My Life. I didn’t realize they had both written about Teresa.” “Isn’t that the same mystic the writer you saw in Taos wrote about?” “Did you know Caroline’s new book is about Teresa of Avila?” she asked. Supposedly she was the first to call him Mahatma, Great Soul.Īfter hours of research, Liz ran into Entering the Castle: An Inner Path to God and Your Soul, the latest book from Caroline Myss, archetype queen. ![]() She’s digging into early 1900’s new agers: Carl Jung, William James (brother of the writer, Henry James), Marion Woodman, and Annie Besant, who was close friends with George Bernard Shaw, a nd Gandhi. I’m thinking about her because Liz is sitting here researching subjects for a paper she has to write for her Psychology of Religion class. ![]()
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