Devi: Mother of My Mind - Couverture souple

Ironbiter, Suzanne

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1890206938 ISBN 13 : 9781890206932

Editeur : Grantha Corporation, 2007

Synopsis

This is a creative interaction with India's Yoga, Shakta, and Tantra traditions. This book uses the epic literary genre to imagine the mind liberating struggle of these teachings. It combines academic study and translation with the meditative quest and questions of a woman and mother. The goddess Devi symbolises the wholeness of life, the vital continuum interconnecting body and spirit. She is also the Great Mother, the perennial gestator, birthgiver and nurturer. According to N N Bhattacharyva (A History of Shakta Religion, 1973), the goddess traditions of India preserve, develop, and practice the most completely female oriented system in the religious history of the world. Devi celebrates and proclaims this powerful counterbalance to dominant male oriented externalised systems. Internalised myths, philosophies, legends, songs, and rituals gradually move the narrator towards their inherent wholeness.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

As a poet, professor and scholar of comparative religion, mother, and practitioner of yoga for over thirty years, Suzanne Ironbiter writes to integrate literature, learning, and experience. She received her doctorate at Columbia University, where she specialised in the neo-Platonic mystical tradition under the guidance of Professor Paul Oskar Kristeller.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Grantha Corporation
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1890206938
• ISBN 13: 9781890206932
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 128
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• Personne responsable: non disponible