Caravan of No Despair: A Memoir of Loss and Transformation
10 best books like Caravan of No Despair: A Memoir of Loss and Transformation (Mirabai Starr): One Hour in Paris: A True Story of Rape and Recovery, Essential Mystics, Poets, Saints, and Sages: A Wisdom Treasury, The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd, Our World, Reflections of Mamie - A Story of Survival, Red Hot and Holy: A Heretic's Love Story, When the Drummers Were Women: A Spiritual History of Rhythm, As One Devil to Another, Unattended Sorrow: Recovering from Loss and Reviving the Heart, New Self, New World: Recovering Our Senses in the Twenty-First Century
One Hour in Paris: A True Story of Rape and Recovery
| Author | Karyn L. Freedman |
| ISBN | 1554811953 |
Winner of the 2015 BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction
A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of 2014
In this powerful memoir, philosopher Karyn L. Freedman travels back to a Paris night in 1990 when she was twenty-two and, in one violent hour, her life was changed forever by a brutal rape. One...
Essential Mystics, Poets, Saints, and Sages: A Wisdom Treasury
| Author | Richard Hooper |
| ISBN | 1571746935 |
The Essential Mystics, Poets, Saints, and Sages is a treasury of quotes and passages from the great Sufi mystics, Buddhists, Hindus, Taoists, Jews, and Christians throughout the centuries.
This collection, curated by religious scholar Richard Hooper, stresses the beauty of religious...
| Author | Mary Rose O'Reilley |
| ISBN | 1571312544 |
Transcendence can come in many forms. For Mary Rose O’Reilley a year tending sheep seemed a way to seek a spirituality based not on “climbing out of the body” but rather on existing fully in the world, at least if she could overlook some of its earthier aspects. The Barn at the End of the World follows...
| Author | Mary Oliver |
| ISBN | 0807068802 |
Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, is one of the most celebrated poets in America. Molly Malone Cook, who died in 2005, was Oliver's partner for many years, a pioneer gallery owner and photographer. Our World weaves forty-nine of Cook's photographs and selections from her journals...
Reflections of Mamie - A Story of Survival
| Author | Rosemary "Mamie" Adkins |
| ISBN | 1938686462 |
Reflections of Mamie-A Story of Survival is a sad and joyous personal account of growing up under the worst kind of adversity. It is a story of survival during times of extreme suffering and deprivation that will leave you feeling Mamie's anguish. A must read for anyone with a difficult childhood or anyone...
| Author | Sera Beak |
| ISBN | 1622030532 |
When one person dares to speak her truth, it challenges us all to live our own. With Red Hot and Holy, Sera Beak offers a provocative and intimate view of what it means to get up close and personal with the divine in modern times.
With a rare combination of audacious wit, scholarly acumen, and tender...
| Author | Layne Redmond |
| ISBN | 0609801287 |
Redmond's thesis is quite fascinating, and it is wonderful to see this area of oft-overlooked women's spirituality and religion come to light. However, I was a little disappointed in the writing of this book, finding it straying too far from the intended topic of the history of women's drumming practices....
| Author | Richard Platt |
| ISBN | 1414371667 |
"As One Devil to Another" is an astonishing debut work that C. S. Lewis's biographer and foremost Lewis authority Walter Hooper calls "a stunning achievement, the finest example of the genre of diabolical correspondence to appear since this genre was popularized by C. S. Lewis." Enter into this chilling...
| Author | Stephen Levine |
| ISBN | 1594863814 |
Unattended sorrow is unresolved grief that has never been given a chance to heal. This lovely, spiritual book from one of the nation's most trusted grief counselors offers a series of techniques to help heal this pain so readers can lead full and joyful lives. The book not only guides those who have experienced...
| Author | Philip Shepherd |
| ISBN | 1556439113 |
New Self, New World challenges the primary story of what it means to be human, the random and materialistic lifestyle that author Philip Shepherd calls our “shattered reality.” This reality encourages us to live in our heads, self-absorbed in our own anxieties. Drawing on diverse sources and...
| Author | Robert A. Johnson |
| ISBN | 0062515063 |
One of this century's most popular psychology scholars, Robert A.Johnson was among the first to present Carl Jung's rich but complex theories with simple elegance and grace,opening them to an entirely new and hungry audience. His masterful works--including the best selling He, She, Inner Work,...
| Author | Richard Lischer |
| ISBN | 0307960536 |
This poignant love story of a father for his son is at once funny, heartbreaking, and hopeful. In it a young man teaches his entire family “a new way to die” with wit, candor, and, always, remarkable grace. This emotionally riveting account probes the heart without sentimentality or self-pity....
Zen Under Fire: How I Found Peace in the Midst of War
| Author | Marianne Elliott |
| ISBN | 1402281110 |
I am about to be left in charge of the office.
I'm not sure I'm ready for the responsibility, so I double-check with my boss. He reassures me.
"You'll be fine, Marianne. As long as no one kills Amanullah Khan, you'll be fine."
By midday, Amanullah Khan is dead.
Marianne Elliot is a...
The Grace in Dying: A Message of Hope, Comfort and Spiritual Transformation
| Author | Kathleen Dowling Singh |
| ISBN | 0062515659 |
Unless you believe that when we die, we cease to exist (period, end of life), and whether or not you work with the terminally ill, this book is a must read. This book does not tell us other people's stories, nor is it for those who are dying, or dealing with the immediate death of a loved one. It is for the rest...
| Author | Sara Davidson |
| ISBN | 0062281747 |
In the tradition of Tuesdays with Morrie and The Last Lecture, New York Times bestselling author Sara Davidson met every Friday with 89-year-old Rabbi Zalman Shachter-Shalomi, the iconic founder of the Jewish Renewal movment, to discuss what he calls The December Project. "When you can feel in your...
| Author | Jacob Needleman |
| ISBN | 1585427403 |
In his most deeply personal work, religious scholar Needleman cuts a clear path through today?s clamorous debates over the existence of God, illuminating an entirely new way of approaching the question of how to understand a higher power.
I n this new book, philosopher Jacob Needleman? whose...
A Cat Named Darwin: Embracing the Bond Between Man and Pet
| Author | William Jordan |
| ISBN | 0618382283 |
In this endearing memoir, William Jordan's reluctant adoption of a stray cat leads to an unexpectedly deep bond, one that will be immediately recognizable to anyone who has ever fallen under the spell of a pet. When Jordan brings Darwin into his home, he is forced into a commitment more devoted and sincere...
The Geography of Loss: Embrace What Is, Honor What Was, Love What Will Be
| Author | Patti Digh |
| ISBN | 0762778946 |
This extraordinary book is borne of loss: the loss of love, of certainty and assuredness, of knowing where we are or who we are, of beauty and youth, of health, of life itself, of privacy, and of roles and of knowing.
When someone or something we love leaves us, we suddenly walk alone into new territory...
| Author | Floyd Skloot |
| ISBN | 0803293224 |
In December 1988 Floyd Skloot was stricken by a virus that targeted his brain, leaving him totally disabled and utterly changed. In the Shadow of Memory is an intimate picture of what it is like to find oneself possessed of a ravaged memory and unstable balance and confronted by wholesale changes in both...
| Author | Eve Joseph |
| ISBN | 1443426717 |
A journey into the land of death and dying seen through the lens of art and the imagination
Part memoir, part meditation on death itself, In the Slender Margin is an exploration of death from an “insider’s” point of view. Using the threads of her brother’s early death and her twenty years...
| Author | Christian Wiman |
| ISBN | 0374168466 |
A moving meditation on memory, oblivion, and eternity by one of our most celebrated poets
What is it we want when we can't stop wanting? And how do we make that hunger productive and vital rather than corrosive and destructive? These are the questions that animate Christian Wiman as he explores...
| Author | Thomas Merton |
| ISBN | 0374514445 |
The New Man shows Thomas Merton at the height of his powers and has as its theme the question of spiritual identity. What must we do to recover possession of our true selves? By way of an answer, Merton discusses how we have become strangers to ourselves by our depence on outward identity and success, while...
Birth, Breath, and Death: Meditations on Motherhood, Chaplaincy, and Life as a Doula
| Author | Amy Wright Glenn |
| ISBN | 1482079828 |
At the age of fourteen, Amy Wright Glenn began to question the Mormon faith of her family. She embarked on a life long personal and scholarly quest for truth. While teaching comparative religion and philosophy, Amy was drawn to the work of supporting women through labor and holding compassionate space...
Practical Guide to Qabalistic Symbolism
| Author | Gareth Knight |
| ISBN | 1578632471 |
In this groundbreaking book, Knight shows how the Qabalah and its basic diagram, the Tree of Life, is a system of relationships among mystical symbols that can be used to gain access to the hidden reaches of the mind. He also demonstrates how the Qabalah is applicable to all mystical traditions and religious...
| Author | Sri Aurobindo |
| ISBN | 0941524655 |
My review will be biased as this is personally my favorite book. I've been working through it as my primary study for almost 4 years. I can imagine the time when all 900 or so pages are memorized, not because that is the goal, but because that will naturally occur in the process of fully understanding the...
