Book description
Wild Mercy is essential reading for anyone ready to awaken the feminine mystic within and birth her loving, creative, and untamed power into the world.
"Mystical brilliance at its best." -Caroline Myss
"No one can take us into the fiery and tender depths of the sacred feminine with more skill,…
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1 author picked Wild Mercy as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Mirabai Starr weaves together the threads of feminine mysticism from many different spiritual traditions with a poetic sensibility, yet her feet are planted firmly on Mother Earth as she validates women's wisdom throughout the ages.
I was thrilled with the way this book shows that touching the earth—with all its human pain and suffering, death and loss, even the grief over losing a child as happened to Mirabai in her own journey—is a pathway to the divine, often moreso than meditation and breath work.
The women mystics proudly proclaim that everything is holy, and lead us into surrender to the…
From Parvati's list on The best books by Westerners on Eastern mysticism and the spiritual path.
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