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Meditation: The Complete Guide
Techniques from East and West to Calm the Mind, Heal the Body, and Enrich the Spirit
Patricia Monaghan(0)
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Uniquely comprehensive, this one-stop resource describes thirty-five distinct meditation practices, detailing their historical background and contemporary use, ways to begin, and additional resources. The what and why of meditation in general are discussed, with emphasis on helping readers discover what particular type of meditators they are. Disciplines grounded in Buddhism, Tantrism, Taoism, Judaism, and Islam are included, as are contemplative prayer, Quaker worship, and indigenous traditions. Drumming, trance dancing, yoga, mindfulness, labyrinth walking, gardening, and even needle crafts are explored in a spirit that invites and instructs novice, devotee, and healing professional alike. How to choose an approach? The authors ask questions that steer readers toward options that match their habits, preferences, and needs. Uniquely comprehensive, this one-stop resource describes thirty-?ve distinct meditation practices, detailing their historical background and contemporary use, ways to begin, and additional resources.
Patricia Monaghan, PhD (1946–2012), was a leader in the contemporary women's spirituality movement as well as an award-winning poet, scholar, activist, and mentor. In 1979, she published the first encyclopedia of female divinities, a book that has remained in print since then in various formats and that she later expanded into the current volume.
Eleanor G. (Teri) Viereck drove to Fairbanks, Alaska, from Massachusetts in 1954 and has never looked back. Since then, she has earned a PhD in ecology, married the forester and ecologist Leslie Viereck, raised three children, kept goats and horses, climbed mountains, played ice hockey, and raced with a cross-country ski team. Her book, Alaska's Wilderness Medicine, is the classic text on edible and medicinal plants of Alaska. She has practiced and taught yoga for more than forty years and has studied with Sufi, Buddhist, indigenous, and pagan teachers. She currently teaches courses in embodiment and awareness, sings in several choirs, plays classical piano, and explores authentic movement. "A wonderful source for the many ways of going-in, for the letting-go the soul longs for. You will go back to it, as to a spring, again and again, for fresh water."
Patricia Monaghan, PhD (1946–2012), was a leader in the contemporary women's spirituality movement as well as an award-winning poet, scholar, activist, and mentor. In 1979, she published the first encyclopedia of female divinities, a book that has remained in print since then in various formats and that she later expanded into the current volume.
Eleanor G. (Teri) Viereck drove to Fairbanks, Alaska, from Massachusetts in 1954 and has never looked back. Since then, she has earned a PhD in ecology, married the forester and ecologist Leslie Viereck, raised three children, kept goats and horses, climbed mountains, played ice hockey, and raced with a cross-country ski team. Her book, Alaska's Wilderness Medicine, is the classic text on edible and medicinal plants of Alaska. She has practiced and taught yoga for more than forty years and has studied with Sufi, Buddhist, indigenous, and pagan teachers. She currently teaches courses in embodiment and awareness, sings in several choirs, plays classical piano, and explores authentic movement. "A wonderful source for the many ways of going-in, for the letting-go the soul longs for. You will go back to it, as to a spring, again and again, for fresh water."