AUTHORING SELF

ISBN: 9780228810506 Géneros: Sinópsis: Is God a baptized Catholic What do we know before we are taught the right answers How does woman come to know her own instinctive wild feminine self within the constraints of a patriarchal culture that defines her as flawed from birth This is the second in a threepart series of one woman39s independent and courageous journey to heal clinical depression and weave body mind and soul into wholeness Pearl speaks in her own voice through many dreams that offer deep insights over years of writing Eventually she begins to recognize vestiges of the Sumerian goddess Inanna Queen of Heaven as strange weird symbols emerge from the depths of her psyche In Authoring Self A Journey through Dreams to the Feminine Pearl struggles to the edges of consciousness to uproot and heal deeply embedded unconscious beliefs in a vengeful punishing Old Testament God Authoring Self begins in Maryknoll Center Ossining New York 4000 miles from her Alberta farm home where she experiences deep archetypal dreams and visions and learns about the transpersonal In search of her self Pearl must learn a whole new language and excavate the many layers of embedded patriarchy to become her own authority Many Jungian thinkers such as Sylvia Perera identify these patterns as the emergence of the sacred feminine Pearl Gregor was born and raised in northern Alberta She became an educator administrator provincial government consultant and along the way a radical feminist She came to writing late in life At age 43 in a desperate search to heal clincial depression Pearl found the inner world of meditation and dreams The story begins in Book I in the Dreams Along the Way series I the Woman Planted the Tree A Journey through Dreams to the feminine which was published in December 2018 Now healing the aftermath of repressed trauma takes Pearl even deeper into the uncharted territory of psyche Authoring Self A Journey through Dreams to the Feminine is the nex