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Longing for Darkness: Tara and the Black Madonna

10 best books like Longing for Darkness: Tara and the Black Madonna (China Galland): The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth, The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd, The Singular Pilgrim: Travels on Sacred Ground, Crossing to Avalon: A Woman's Midlife Quest for the Sacred Feminine, Enduring Grace: Living Portraits of Seven Women Mystics, The Feminine Face of God: The Unfolding of the Sacred in Women, The Woman's Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects, Looking for Mary: Or, the Blessed Mother and Me, The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe: Myths and Cult Images, Awakening to the Sacred: Creating a Personal Spiritual Life

The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth
AuthorMonica Sjöö
ISBN0062507915
This classic exploration of the Goddess through time and throughout the world draws on religious, cultural, and archaeological sources to recreate the Goddess religion that is humanity’s heritage.

Now, with a new introduction and full-color artwork, this passionate and important...
The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd
AuthorMary Rose O'Reilley
ISBN1571312544
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...
The Singular Pilgrim: Travels on Sacred Ground
AuthorRosemary Mahoney
ISBN0618446656
The Singular Pilgrim is a riveting account of one woman's personal quest to find the root of belief among modern religious pilgrims. The intrepid Rosemary Mahoney undertakes six extraordinary journeys: visiting an Anglican shrine to Saint Mary in Walsingham, England; walking the five-hundred-mile...
Crossing to Avalon: A Woman's Midlife Quest for the Sacred Feminine
AuthorJean Shinoda Bolen
ISBN0062502727
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...
Enduring Grace: Living Portraits of Seven Women Mystics
AuthorCarol Lee Flinders
ISBN0060626453
Astonishingly relevant portraits of the lives of seven women mystics Known to more than a million readers as the coauthor of the classic vegetarian cookbook Laurel's Kitchen, Carol Lee Flinders looks to the hunger of the spirit in Enduring Grace. In these striking and sustaining depictions of seven...
The Feminine Face of God: The Unfolding of the Sacred in Women
AuthorSherry Ruth Anderson
ISBN0553352660
For many contemporary women, the old patriarchal models of religion are no longer relevant, forming a need to look beyond the male-oriented past to a wider, more fulfilling spiritual horizon. In this fascinating and thought-provoking book, Sherry Anderson and Patricia Hopkins show how many women...
The Woman's Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects
AuthorBarbara G. Walker
ISBN0062509233
This fascinating guide to the history and mythology of woman-related symbols features:




Unique organization by shape of symbol or type of sacred object

21 different sections including Round and Oval Motifs, Sacred Objects, Secular-Sacred Objects, Rituals, Deities'...
Looking for Mary: Or, the Blessed Mother and Me
AuthorBeverly Donofrio
ISBN0140196277
Entering her fortieth year, Beverly Donofrio, a "lapsed Catholic," inexplicably begins collecting Virgin Mary memorabilia at yard sales. Her search for kitsch, however, soon becomes a spiritual quest, leading her to make a pilgrimage to the holy city of Medjugorje. There, she learns that Mary comes...
The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe: Myths and Cult Images
AuthorMarija Gimbutas
ISBN0520046552
European civilization between 6500 and 3500 BC - long before Greek or Judaeo-Christian civilizations flourished - was not a provincial reflection of neighboring Near Eastern cultures but a distinct culture with its own unique identity. The mythical imagery of this matrilinear era tells us much...
Awakening to the Sacred: Creating a Personal Spiritual Life
AuthorSurya Das
ISBN0767902750
Lama Surya Das, author of the bestselling Awakening the Buddha Within, is the most highly trained American lama in the Tibetan tradition. In this elegant, inspiring book, he integrates essential Buddhist practices with a variety of other spiritual philosophies and wisdom traditions, to show you...
The Fruitful Darkness: A Journey Through Buddhist Practice and Tribal Wisdom
AuthorJoan Halifax
ISBN0802140718
In this “masterwork of an authentic spirit person” (Thomas Berry), Buddhist teacher and anthropologist Joan Halifax Roshi delves into “the fruitful darkness”—the shadow side of being, found in the root truths of Native religions, the fecundity of nature, and the stillness of meditation....
Sophia: Goddess of Wisdom, Bride of God
AuthorCaitlín Matthews
ISBN0835608018
Anyone interested in the feminine face of God throughout the ages will find Sophia an illuminating experience. Caitlin Matthews' scholarship connects us to past, present, and future in the very depths of our femininity. ----Marion Woodman, Jungian analyst and author of Bone: Dying into Life. Sophia,...
Weaving the Visions: New Patterns in Feminist Spirituality
AuthorJudith Plaskow
ISBN0060613831
This book made my mind explode when I read it in the early 1990s. This book connected me to a history of women in religious life and to a more fuller and complex understanding of God's nature that I had ever previously thought possible. Would it hit someone with the same impact today? It depends upon your...
A Journey in Ladakh: Encounters with Buddhism
AuthorAndrew Harvey
ISBN0618056750
Now considered a classic among readers interested in Tibetan Buddhism and pilgrimages of the spirit of all kinds, A Journey in Ladakh is Andrew Harvey's spiritual travelogue of his arduous journey to one of the most remote parts of the world--the highest, least populated region in India, cut off by...
In Buddha's Kitchen : Cooking, Being Cooked, and Other Adventures at a Meditation Center
AuthorKimberley Snow
ISBN1590300475
Kimberley Snow offers an outrageously funny and honest account of her adventures as head cook at a Tibetan Buddhist retreat center. With her earthy sensibility and sharp sense of humor, the author shows this world in a light devoid of preciousness—while expressing with heart the integrity of the...
Embracing the Beloved: Relationship as a Path of Awakening
AuthorStephen Levine
ISBN0385425279
Stephen and Ondrea Levine devoted more than eighteen years to investigating the mind/body relationship, particularly as it relates to the states healing, dying, and grieving. Their work has affected healing and medical practices worldwide. In Embracing the Beloved, the Levines turn their attention...
Atheism Explained: From Folly to Philosophy
AuthorDavid Ramsay Steele
ISBN0812696379
Atheism Explained explores the claims made both for and against the existence of God. On the pro side: that the wonders of the world can only be explained by an intelligent creator; that the universe had to start somewhere; telepathy, out-of-body experiences, and other paranormal phenomena demonstrate...
Goddess of the Americas
AuthorAna Castillo
ISBN1573220299
Yhdistävä tekijä kirjan kolmellekymmenelle tekstille (esseitä, tarinoita, runoja, näytelmäteksti) on Meksikon suojeluspyhimys Guadalupen neitsyt (La Virgencita, La Morenita, Coatlalopeuh, Tonantzin...), jonka monimerkityksellistä ja synkretististä olemusta niissä tarkastellaan...
The Mantram Handbook: A Practical Guide to Choosing Your Mantram and Calming Your Mind
AuthorEknath Easwaran
ISBN1586380281
The mantram, or mantra, is a short, powerful, spiritual formula from the world’s great traditions, repeated silently in the mind, anytime, anywhere. Examples of mantrams are Rama, Rama, used by Gandhi, or My God and My All, repeated by St. Francis of Assisi, or Om Mani Padme Hum. Easwaran taught the...
In Search of Buddha's Daughters: A Modern Journey Down Ancient Roads
AuthorChristine Toomey
An award-winning journalist vividly reports her two-year, 60,000-mile global odyssey in the company of exceptional women who choose to dedicate their lives to Buddhism. In 2011, Christine Toomey met an unforgettable group of Tibetan Buddhist nuns. After hearing their stories of prison, extreme...
The Book of Knowing and Worth: A Channeled Text
AuthorPaul Selig
ISBN0399166106
The third in Paul Selig’s popular “I Am the Word” channeled literature series, this extraordinary psychological-spiritual guide addresses how to overcome low self-worth and claim our true purpose as individuals.

Winner of the 2014 Nautilus Award represents “Better Books for...
Sage-ing While Age-ing
AuthorShirley MacLaine
ISBN1416550410
""I've been a questioner all my life...""So begins bestselling author and award-winning actress Shirley MacLaine, as she invites readers to join her on the most powerful, provocative journey of her life. Over the years, Shirley has firmly established herself as a fearless, iconoclastic thinker...
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