The Path of the Mother
A six-stage journey to union with the Great Mother, framced by Savitri Bess's own years of devotion to one of her most famous incarnations--the Hindu mystic Ammachi.
Interweaving Hindu myths with her own quest and those of other, Bess reveals this journey as an exodus from aloneness to the integration of love, worship, and service, into life's daily tasks.
The Path of the Mother Ballantine 2000
Offer Me a Flower
An award-winning novel in which a mysterious figure in white appears in the most unlikely places to guide the protagonist Luce. In a world of magic, sorcery and terror, Luce is drawn into events of mythic proportion, forever altering her relationship with her boyfriend, Sam.
"A magical, mystical, thriller that initiates the reader into the beauty of the dark and the light. Grounded in real-life drama, each page carries wisdom and guidance for the seeker. I couldn't put it down."
--Winter Robinson, author of Intuitions: Seeing with the Heart
The Sophia Secrets
Sixty-three-year-old Anne Demaree picks up stakes and moves to Maine. She's fed up with the way she's lived her life, never getting to the bottom of who she really is, and especially the cause of her wild temper that alienates her from friends.
One stormy day, with waves crashing against cliff, Anne meets an old woman with diamond blue eyes, white braids littered with lichen, and wearing old boots with laces missing.
The old woman keeps showing up in unexpected places, to teach Anne, in unusual ways--blending reality, dream and vision. Meanwhile, Anne falls in love with Adam and falls into trouble trying to help Adam's drug-addicted grandson.
Sudden Death, Sudden Life
Ten phases of attending to life-altering events on physical, psychological, and spiritual levels.
Though personal accounts and commentary, the author will trace the inspired leadership of the Indian holy woman, Amma, her immediate actions at the onset of the Asian tsunami: evacuation of 15,000 people, medical aid, providing shelter and food,consoling, mass cremation, clean-up, and later the rebuilding of homes and fishing boats, and the restoration of the human spirit.
The book will explore the ways calamity (or threat of it) can forever alter one's approach to life, with a look at the importance of local community and of self-inquery.
Stories and interviews expand on the various views of life and death, and life after death.
Prickly Pear Spirituality: Stories from the Southwest
A trance medium, a Sioux-Danish Medicine woman, a walk-in from another planet, are a few of the characters that will appear in these stories that range from light-hearted to poignant.
