Odyssey To My Daughter: Discovering motherhood in an ancient culture.A girl, who dreams of being an ancient warrior, finds it difficult to meet cultural expectations in California. Lacking her mother's understanding and affection, she finds no model for womanhood and mothering that she can relate to. Her attempt at marriage fails and, in her confusion, she manages to lose custody of her daughter.Thus begins an odyssey away from the modern world and into an ancient way of life where the author slowly learns to embrace and understand the woman and mother within her. On her odyssey she encounters women who treat her as a daughter and she enters into a world of archaic beliefs and social mores. She works in the fields, participates in the cycles of living and dying, and develops a deep love for the people in the village where she lives, and the wild and rocky splendor of Inner Mani surrounding it.. The myths and stories she has absorbed since childhood come alive there, people named after mythical heroines, and the poetry of lamentations that hark back to the fall of Troy. Not far from where she harvests olives in the groves lies the entrance to the Underworld described by Homer in the Odyssey. It is a world that merges the echoes of her youth with a new confidence in her womanhood. When news comes of her father's immanent death, she is torn between wanting to stay where she is and returning to California to see her daughter and her dying father.

Odyssey To My Daughter

Biographies & Memoirs

Valborg, Helen

Memoirs

Floating Island Publications

Entertaining symbolic thoughts raises the mind to another plane of perception, and therefore, to another plane of reality. The structured discipline of symbolic thinking relies upon the awakening of our spiritual faculties: of Buddhi, spiritual intuition, which immediately apprehends the unity behind an apparent diversity, and of Higher Manas, which can grasp the complex relationships between corresponding facets of the universe. Attaining such a state of heightened spiritual consciousness (Manas-Taijasi) is integral to treading the Path of self-conscious immortality. Universal symbols are not just accidental mental constructs but are living realities that both point to spiritual dimensions far beyond themselves and profoundly embody those spiritual realities. Learning to see the world around us afresh in the light of its spiritual dimension reorients us to taking up again the age-old task of treading the Path and aids us in activating our higher spiritual capacities which, when awakened, shed the pristine light of universal Theosophy on the path of spiritual self-regeneration in the service of humanity. The 28 wide-ranging articles in this volume span a wide spectrum of human thought. These essays reveal the fundamental religious, philosophical, and scientific aspects to the most mundane and refined realities of our common, everyday world. Both the serious reflection upon and casual reading of these essays is a joyous expedition through the all-too-common truncated perceptions we have of our world to a higher level of awareness of the myriad ways in which the life of the universal Spirit is made manifest.

Symbols of the Eternal Doctrine: From Shamballa to Paradise

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

iUniverse, Inc.

The remarkable essays in this volume were written for the expressed purpose of helping both the newcomer to spiritual thinking as well as the skilled practitioner to see the everyday objects - from the wind and ships to deserts and lakes - and subjects - from dogs and ravens to dolphins and whales - surrounding us as concrete embodiments and living symbols of the fundamental spiritual Essence from which everything has evolved. These universal symbols are not just accidental mental constructs but are living realities that not only point to spiritual dimensions far beyond themselves but profoundly embody those spiritual realities. Learning to see the world around us afresh in the light of its spiritual dimension reorients us to taking up again the age-old task of treading the Path and aids us in activating our higher spiritual capacities which, when awakened, shed the pristine light of universal Theosophy on the path of spiritual self-regeneration in the service of humanity. The 28 wide-ranging articles in this volume span a wide spectrum of human thought: from the Tetraktys to the Cross, from the Altar to the Mirror, from the Pentagram to the Dodecahedron, from the Dog to the Dwarf, from the Heart to the Fool; indeed, from Shamballa to Paradise. These essays reveal the fundamental religious, philosophical, and scientific aspects to the most mundane and most refined realities of our common, everyday world. Both the serious reflection upon and casual reading of these essays is a joyous expedition through the all-too-common truncated perceptions we have of our world to a higher level of awareness of the myriad ways in which the life of the universal Spirit is made manifest.

Theosophy Trust Books

Astrology includes many things, has many forms, and serves multiple purposes. Taking just three common examples, typical astrological charts show the positions and relations of the planets at the moment and location of birth. Progressed astrology maps the return of planets to their birth positions as well as the times and ways they cross and relate to those original positions and to one another. And horary astrology looks at the positions of the planets in the zodiac at a given moment when some decision is to be made (e.g., when to lay the foundation stone of a temple). And then there is the astrology once commonly found in newspapers, where planets were taken in conjunction with the signs of the zodiac to give general indications of what to expect for the day, given one's birth sign. This latter was never taken seriously by knowledgeable astrologers, being rather like the sentiments found in fortune cookies ending meals in Chinese restaurants. "People admire your attitude," for example, can apply to anyone's self-image, and so it "works." But such messages are random, and the newspaper's astrological messages each have to be general enough to cover about 1/12 the population, because there are 12 signs in the zodiac. There is much more to any system of astrology than the mechanisms for casting a chart or giving naïve interpretations, as, for example, Mars means conflict, Jupiter wealth or generosity, Mercury intelligence, and so on. Like all sciences, astrology is a complex of symbols and principles of interrelationships. And like all science, astrology is also based on experience and observation. In some ways, astrology is more like medical science than physics, since its variables are often multivalent and context-dependent. And like all sciences, astrology is based on assumptions about the nature of reality and the universe. It shares with all sciences the assumption that there are discoverable laws of nature that are invariant, at least over long periods of time. It shares the assumption that nature and the universe is intelligible to a reasoning, observing consciousness.

Theosophical Astrology (The Wisdom and Practice Series)

JUDGE, WILLIAM Q.

Blavatsky, Helena P.

Iyer, Raghavan N.

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