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... mystic experience spirituality of compassion light ...

... Tells the story of feeling what Rosemarie calls “the Light” entering her as a young woman—a sensitivity/sensibility that she felt led her toward spirituality and sustained her throughout her life. mystic experience spirituality of compassion light ...

...? In the tradition of Islamic life writing, can the gap between the miraculous and the mundane be breached to understand the mystical experience charted here as a kind of autobiography? Even from the rationalist’s perspective, should not the life of the imagination still be considered part of the life? Bhakti...

... be breached to understand the mystical experience charted here as a kind of autobiography? Even from the rationalist’s perspective, should not the life of the imagination still be considered part of the life? Bhakti Raihana Tyabji Gandhi self-representation gopi tradition Drawing...

... In 1995 Richard Yarde (1939–2011) made a significant shift in the content of his large-scale watercolor drawings, which for the preceding three decades were reflections on the cultural and political history of the twentieth-century diasporic African experience. He had painted culturally resonant...

... faced, and tells the story of a particular experience in El Salvador when Rosemarie was harassed by the military and suspected that one of her meals was poisoned. Martin Luther King Jr. hope spiritual appetite “Spirit and Struggle” retreats El Salvador ...

... the women to speak for a larger feminine self beyond personal experience that is, in a sense, more poignant, as the individual self cannot exist outside history, particularly at its most intensely violent moment in the subcontinent. And yet the violence is not the driving emotional force of the writing...

... explain the origins of the mystic and healing traditions in the family, and draws parallels between Grandma Rye and Rosemarie’s own mother, Mama Freeney. Through Grandma Rye’s story, the chapter also speculates about the transformation from the practice of African religions to the acceptance...

... experiences in elementary school, the special care she received as the baby of the family, her love of movies and dance, her parents’ wisdom about how to end a dispute between Rosemarie and a neighbor friend, and the suspicious drowning death of a cousin. Woodlawn neighborhood Chicago Illinois...

... sculpture poetry race abstraction In 1995 Richard Yarde (1939–2011) made a significant shift in the content of his large-scale watercolor drawings, which for the preceding three decades were reflections on the cultural and political history of the twentieth-century diasporic African experience. He...

... of Teoponte, in 1970, taking the nom de guerre “Francisco,” after the radical mendicant from Assisi who had rejected all worldly and ecclesiastical comforts. The Teoponte experience was for a long time seen as an isolated local effort by idealistic university students of the middle class, especially radical...