Thank you to my husband, my writing partners, and my mentees for providing insightful feedback on this website. Thank you also to Susan Sezgin for her flexible, skillful, and patient webdesign.
Photography
I’m grateful to have had access to the artwork of the gifted photographer, Nirvana Hope, whose pictures help bring my words to life. Her photographs may be viewed at Earth Rhythms Photography. The river image that provides the background for this website is the work of Matthew Hillier. I found this photo on Flickr Creative Commons.
Written Resources
Below you’ll find an informal list of the authors whose written works helped me to create this website.
Home Page
Epigraph:
Rilke, Rainer Maria, “Turning Point,” translation quoted in Sylvia Shaw Judson (Selections and Introduction), The Quiet Eye: A Way of Looking at Pictures. Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1954.
About Page
(Tria)
Epigraph:
Kidd, Sue Monk, The Book of Longings. New York: Viking, 2020.
About Page
(Contact)
Epigraph:
Henri, Robert, The Art Spirit. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1923. Basic Books edition, 2007.
Overview Page
Epigraph:
Shaw, George Bernard, Back to Metuselah. New York: Brentano’s,1921. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016.
Art of Surrender Page
(Introduction)
Epigraph:
Mechthild of Magdeburg, The Revelations of Mechthild of Magdeburg or The Flowing Light of the Godhead, trans. Lucy Menzies. London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1953.
The Divine Exchange:
New American Standard Bible. Anaheim: Lockman Foundation, 1995.
Mechthild of Magdeburg, The Revelations of Mechthild of Magdeburg or The Flowing Light of the Godhead, trans. Lucy Menzies. London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1953.
Corbin, Henry, The Man of Light in Iranian Sufism, trans. Nancy Pearson, 1971. Boulder, Colorado: Shambhala Publications, 1978.
Alston, A.J., The Devotional Poems of Mirabai. Delhi, India: Motilal Banarsidass, 1980.
Maharshi, Ramana, Five Hymns to Arunachala and Other Poems, trans. K. Swainathan. Tiruvannamalai, India: Kanvashrama Trust, 1988.
Boyd, Doug, Mad Bear: Spirit, Healing, and the Sacred in the Life of a Native American Medicine Man. New York: Simon and Schuster (Touchstone), 1994.
Mystical Marriage:
Washburn, Michael, The Ego and the Dynamic Ground: A Transpersonal Theory of Human Development. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1988.
Keating, Thomas, The Contemplative Journey, Volume Two. Boulder, Colorado: Sounds True, 1997.
The Holy Bible, King James Version. Cleveland, Ohio: The World Publishing Company.
Saint Teresa of Avila, The Interior Castle, trans. Mirabai Starr. New York: Riverhead Books, 2003.
Maharshi, Ramana, Five Hymns to Arunachala and Other Poems, trans. K. Swainathan. Tiruvannamalai, India: Kanvashrama Trust, 1988.
Massignon, Louis, The Passion of al-Hallaj, Mystic and Martyr of Islam, Volume 3, trans. Herbert Mason. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1982.
St. John of the Cross, Dark Night of the Soul, trans. E. Allison Peers. Garden City, New York: Image Books, 1959.
Word Weavers Page
Epigraph:
Rumi, Jelaluddin, The Essential Rumi, trans. Coleman Barks with John Moyne. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1995.
Poems as Portals:
Rumi, Jelaluddin, “Wax” in The Essential Rumi, trans. Coleman Barks with John Moyne. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1995.
Contemplative Reading:
Bourgeault, Cynthia, “Lectio Divina” (Chapter 13) in The Wisdom Jesus: Transforming Heart and Mind—a New Perspective on Christ and his Message. Boston: Shambhala, 2008.
Rumi, Jelaluddin, The Essential Rumi, trans. Coleman Barks with John Moyne. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1995.
Heart Gallery:
Rumi, Jelaluddin, The Essential Rumi, trans. Coleman Barks with John Moyne. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1995.
Community Page
Epigraph:
Dogen Zengi (1200-1253, Buddhist priest, writer, poet and founder of the Soto school of Zen in Japan). Original source unknown.
A Perennial Wisdom:
Huxley, Aldous, The Perennial Philosophy. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1945. HarperPerennial Modern Classics, 2009.
Shapiro, Rami, Perennial Wisdom for the Spiritually Independent. Woodstock, Vermont: SkyLight Paths Publishing, 2013.
Communitas:
Turner, Victor, The Forest of Symbols: Aspects of Ndembu Ritual. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1967.
__________, The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure, 1969. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Aldine Transaction, 2008.