Crossing to Avalon

A MIDLIFE QUEST FOR THE GRAIL AND THE GODDESS Dr Jean Shinoda Bolen''s extraordinary memoir celebrates the pilgrimage that heralded her spiritual awakening and leads readers down the path of self-discovery. In this account of her journey to Europe in search of the sacred feminine, she unveils the mythological significance of the midlife search for meaning and renewal. "[Bolen] charts a path that will lead many readers to the heart of their own emotional and spiritual pilgrimages." SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE BOOK REVIEW "This wise and challenging work, the most personal of Jean Shinoda Bolen''s books, is an absorbing often uncannily perceptive, and useful companion for the soul journeys of our time, which is ''The Time of the Goddess Returning."'' ALICE WALKER, author of ''The Color Purple'' "In ''Crossing to Avalon'', Jean Shinoda Bolen turns her acute and brilliant eye toward the interconnectedness of women''s mysteries, sacredness of the body, the effect of pilgrimage on soul, and deep feminine friendships." CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES, Ph.D., author of ''Women Who Run with the Wolves'' Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D., is a Jungian analyst and clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco. She is the author of ''Goddesses in Everywoman, Gods in Everyman,'' and ''The Tao of Psychology.''

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Jean Shinoda Bolen, Jean Shinoda Bolen
• Verlag: Harper Collins Usa
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 03.02.1995
• EAN: 9780062502728
• ISBN: 978-0-06-250272-8
• Seiten: 320
• Abmessung: 135 mm x 202 mm x 18 mm
• Themen: Reise > Reiseberichte, Reiseerzählungen > Welt, Arktis ,Antarktis; BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / General, Europe, TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, RELIGION / Spirituality, TRAVEL / Europe / General, Spirituality & religious experience, Alternative belief systems, Mind, Body, Spirit: thought & practice, Popular beliefs and controversial knowledge, Spirituality and religious experience, Mind, body, spirit: thought and practice, Shamanism, paganism and Druidry, Celtic religion and mythology, Religious aspects of sexuality, gender and relationships, Sex and sexuality: advice and issues, Ancient religions and Mythologies, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT: General, SELF-DISCOVERY; SPIRITUAL; SOUL; RENEWAL; EMOTION; PILGIMAGE