Moonlit path : reflections on the dark feminine

Distrib. by Red Wheel Weiser.

Preface - Murray Stein. Introduction - Fred R. Gustafson. 1 The dark mother, the dark earth, and the loss of native soul - Fred R. Gustafson. 2 At the threshold of psycho-genesis/the mournful face of God - Cedrus N. Monte. 3 On the Black Madonna: an interview with Andrew Harvey - Andrew Harvey with Fred Gustafson. 4 Transformation through integration of the dark feminine - Carol B. Donnelly. 5 Lodestone - Meinrad Craighead. 6 The return of the Black Madonna: a sign of our times; or How the Black Madonna is shaking us up for the 21st century Matthew Fox. 7 Lilith - Jane Kamerling. 8 The dark Irish goddess Morrigan - Sylvia Brinton Perera. 9 Kali; the dark goddess - Ashok Bedi. 10 Guadalupe is a girl gang leader in heaven - Clarissa Pinkola Estes. 11 Dark bride: Magdalene as mystic - Annette M. Hulefeld. 12 At first: a journey with the Black Madonna into her initiatory playground--the unconscious mind - Toni G. Boehm. 13 Raise up those held down: a pilgrimage to the Black Madonna, mother of the excluded, Aparecida, Brazil - China Galland. 14 The underground stream - Edward Bilous. 15 The spiritual power of matter: excerpts - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. 16 The stroke--discovering the feminine: excerpts - Father Bede Griffiths

'In nurturing and celebrating the re-emergence of the feminine, we must be careful to focus not only on its light aspects, but be conscious and mindful of its darkness as well. Fred Gustafson has gathered in this book the thoughts of spiritual leaders, psychoanalysts, and artists on the various manifestations of the Dark Feminine in their personal lives and throughout history, especially in our time of global transformation....'

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