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At the Root of This Longing Reconciling a Spirit
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Rating: 4.38/5 from 13 reviews At the Root of this LongingA wonderful and thought-provoking book full of insight. A must read for anyone with intelligent questions about spirituality, feminism and religion. As a Jewish woman, I found I could relate to this book and I would recommend it highly. I was able to use information from this book to find my path in feminism and Judaism. Thank you to Carol Lee Flinders! YES!I found myself saying "YES!" to many moments in Flinders' "At the Root of This Longing." The book has been wholely transformative for me and I will read it again and again. I have bought copies of it for my all female friends. Flinders, a deeply spiritual person rooted in the Christian mystical tradition and a practioner of Eastern meditation, finds her faith at odds with her feminism. Whereas her faith urges her to give up worldy attachments, cultivate mindful silence, and serve others-- her experience as a woman and a feminist rages against these practices and urges her to embrace her physical self, be heard, and start serving and honoring herself. Flinders' attempts a life that integrates feminism and spirituality and looks forward to a time when others embrace this infusion and proactively affect the world. I found this book to be thoroughly inspirational and offered much support to me. I highly recommend it, no matter what your faith, path, practice, or persuasion be! Couldn't get past the first few chapters.......The author is certainly writing for a target audience.......as one other reviewer said, white, upper-middle-class, female would-be mystics. I found the stories of life on the commune mind-numbing (then again, I was born in Berkeley in 1970, so that hippie commune kumbayah stuff reminds me of eating carob when I was a kid) and the rest of what I did manage to read alienating.......zzzzzzzzzzzz.......I am not saying this is a bad book at all, just that it's focus was so narrow that it completely lost my interest. The language was so fuzzy and woo-woo that it just irritated my Gen X (for lack of a better word) postpunk sensibility. It's a shame, too, as I was really looking forward to this book and hoping it would assist me in reconciling my own struggle between feminism and spirituality. C'est la vie. | ||||||||||||||||||||
