Description: Servants of the Sacred Dream explores the rebirth of the feminine into individual and collective consciousness, and its importance to women at a time when the unquestionable power and authority of the patriarchy is on the wane.
Brief description: Linda Hartley is author of Wisdom of the Body Moving, and works as a body-oriented therapist, teacher, and trainer. She runs training programmes in Integrative Bodywork & Movement Therapy in England and Germany, and a series of workshops and retreats for women - Woman, Body, Earth and Spirit - which explore the 'deep feminine' through movement, bodywork, and myth. At home in England, she runs a private practice offering body-oriented therapy and Authentic Movement to individuals and groups.
Review Quotes:
A masterpiece in the genre of spiritual autobiography, this book gently and fearlessly speaks to our current dis-eased times, weaving together into a luminous whole the personal, psychological, mythic, historical, and spiritual dimensions of embodied experience. In this magnificent exposition of the emerging Deep Feminine, the reader will find clarity, compassion and a tender reflection of his or her own soul. Servants of the Sacred Dream not only describes a healing process but evokes it.
--Melanie Reinhart, author of Chiron and the Healing Journey
In Servants of the Sacred Dream, Linda Hartley has undertaken the timeless quest of wrestling meaning from psycho-spiritual crisis. Using her own descent into the dark night of the soul, she shows how this nekyia, as the Greeks called it, brings forth treasures, the gifts of the underworld journey. She brings a new depth and perspective to the feminine face of God, and reaffirms how the loss of the feminine spirit leads us to lopsidedness and catastrophe. This is a book that affirms the human ability to grow from suffering and walk the ancient shamanic paths once more, with beauty and dignity.
--Stephen Larsen, author of The Shaman's Doorway, and co-author with Robin Larsen of A Fire in the Mind: The Life of Joseph Campbell, and The Fashioning of Angels: Partnership as Spiritual Practice
With generosity and brave truthfulness, Linda Hartley guides us through a comprehensive and timely exploration of the terrible and essential steps towards wholeness within the great challenges of the development of the feminine in our contemporary world.
--Janet Adler, author of Arching Backward: The Mystical Initiation of a Contemporary Woman