Crossing to Avalon
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Crossing to Avalon
By (Author) Jean Shinoda Bolen
HarperCollins Publishers
HarperSanFrancisco
12th October 1995
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Mind, body, spirit: thought and practice
Spirituality and religious experience
291.4
Physical Properties
Paperback
320
Width 135mm, Height 204mm, Spine 20mm
275g
Description
A MIDLIFE QUEST FOR THE GRAIL AND THE GODDESS
Dr Jean Shinoda Bolen's extraordinary memoir celebrates the pilgrimage that heralded her spiritual awakening and leads readers down the path of self-discovery. In this account of her journey to Europe in search of the sacred feminine, she unveils the mythological significance of the midlife search for meaning and renewal.
"[Bolen] charts a path that will lead many readers to the heart of their own emotional and spiritual pilgrimages."
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE BOOK REVIEW
"This wise and challenging work, the most personal of Jean Shinoda Bolen's books, is an absorbing often uncannily perceptive, and useful companion for the soul journeys of our time, which is 'The Time of the Goddess Returning."'
ALICE WALKER, author of 'The Color Purple'
"In 'Crossing to Avalon', Jean Shinoda Bolen turns her acute and brilliant eye toward the interconnectedness of women's mysteries, sacredness of the body, the effect of pilgrimage on soul, and deep feminine friendships."
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES, Ph.D., author of 'Women Who Run with the Wolves'
Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D., is a Jungian analyst and clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco. She is the author of 'Goddesses in Everywoman, Gods in Everyman,' and 'The Tao of Psychology.'
Reviews
"[W]ise and challenging...an absorbing, often uncannily perceptive, and useful companion for the soul journeys of our time." -- --Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple
"[Bolen] charts a path that will lead many readers to the heart of their own emotional and spiritual pilgrimages." -- San Francisco Chronicle
Author Bio
Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D., is an internationally known Jungian analyst, clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California at San Francisco, and a former member of the board of the Ms. Foundation for Women. She lives in Mill Valley, California. Contact jean Bolen at www.jeanbolen.com.
