Relates the Catholic background and Southern heritage of the twentieth-century American author to the irony, paradoxes, and dualities of her writings

Flannery O'Connor (Twayne's United States Authors)

Literature & Fiction

Walters, Dorothy

History & Criticism

Twayne Pub

This collection of 105 poems was initiated by Dorothy Walter's sense of a spiritual awakening in which she realized that spirit and flesh are one, matter and the transcendent are but differing faces of a single essence.

Marrow of Flame : Poems of the Spiritual Journey

Poetry

Hohm Press

Synergists

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Frederick Fell Pub.

This beloved collection of poetry by Dorothy Walters explores the spiritual journey through its ecstasies, struggles, and vistas. Each step is observed with the keen insight and clear voice of a modern woman who is both a skilled poet and genuine mystic. Dorothy Walters’s poems are immediate and inviting, transcendent and often playful. Many of these poems are in dialog, with Rumi and Rilke, Denise Levertov and Lalla, each poem contributing its own wisdom and humor to the ongoing conversation that passes between visionaries and sages through history and across cultures. Marrow of Flame has already become a modern classic among spiritual seekers. Now available in this updated and revised edition, with a new introduction by Andrew Harvey. Praise for Marrow of Flame "This re-issue of Dorothy Walters's mystical masterpiece Marrow of Flame is a great literary and spiritual event. I don’t know of any other poet currently writing in English who expresses so simply and nobly and with such authority the ordeals, ecstasies and revelations of the path..." ~ ANDREW HARVEY from the Introduction "What if there were a modern Rumi or Kabir, Dante Alighieri or John Donne writing of mystical longing, ecstasies and despair? What if she were a woman? What if she were Dorothy Walters weaving her passionate songs into a priceless prayer shawl? Beware: Who holds up this scarf is swept in the arms of the Lover on the path from which no one returns the same." ~ SOPHY BURNHAM, author, The Ecstatic Journey: Walking the Mystical Path in Everyday Life "These poems make me gasp. I thought all the great mystics had been gone for centuries… Dorothy Walters--part buddha, part elf--weaves mythic literacy with subversive compassion." ~ MIRABAI STARR, author of Saint Teresa of Avila and God of Love

Marrow of Flame: Poems of the Spiritual Journey (2nd ed.)

Poetry Chaikhana

SOME KISS WE WANT:Here within the pages of Some Kiss We Want are spiritual, mystical, and prophetic poems. Dorothy Walters’ poetic pilgrimage has taken her into the realms of the Christian Mystics, Hinduism, Taoism, Buddhism, and the Abrahamic traditions. Drawing from all of these, she has created a realm of her own that is at once sacred, sensual, and meditative. These are poems that reviewers have hailed as “beautiful and profound; rich with wisdom and insight, impassioned and powerfully engaging.”Rumi, Krishnamurti, and Hildegard of Bingen would have all been welcomed at Dorothy Walters' table. Some Kiss We Want is sure to please not only lovers of poetry, but mystics, pilgrims, seekers, and anyone wedded to beauty of the ecstatic tradition.The poems in Some Kiss We Want distill a lifetime of allegiance to the Beloved Within in an alchemy of words reminiscent of Rumi, Hafiz, Kabir and others of that enduring tribe devoted to sacred poetry. These poems are transparent in construction, guiding the reader through the many stages of the mystic journey via the compelling voice of a contemporary poet. (Dorothy Walters Some Kiss We Want)

Some Kiss We Want: Poems Selected and New

Smooth Stones Press

Dorothy Walters is widely recognized as one of today’s most ecstatic and illumined kundalini poets, which inspired the mystic Andrew Harvey to say about her, ""Of all modern visionary poets, Dorothy Walters is, to my mind, by far the wisest and most radiant." Her work is simultaneously authoritative and abandoned, with the power to uplift, transport, and even awaken readers to the extraordinary splendor of the Divine. In this volume, she shares the work of her lifetime of contemplation, offering an extensive set of poems that, as she describes, arrives in a special way, “pouring forth from the Divine Source over a short period of time” during which she became simply the vessel in which they were received. Walters is convinced that universal awakening is possible and indeed is now occurring over the globe through similar transformations. It is her wish that the poems in this volume will provide inspiration and guidance to all whose hearts are opening to divine love as well as those who long for such experience."This is a magnificent book written by our wisest and most mature mystical poet. Anyone who cherishes the mystical path and who pursues with awe and humility the way of divination will find in Dorothy Walters’ poems not only radical inspiration but profound encouragement and abiding wisdom born out of the deepest experience of divine love." Andrew Harvey, author of Turn Me to Gold, Translations of Kabir. "Dorothy Walters, PhD, a former English professor, has brought her rare qualities of a penetrating intellect and a writer’s disciplined mind to the mystic’s path of unbounded Love, which has unfolded for her by the Divine’s power of grace and transformation, known as Kundalini in the yogic tradition. Kundalini bestows the gift of directly experiencing the Infinite, the Divine, as our true nature and the nature of all we see. For Dorothy, this exploded the conventions of her ordinary heart and mind, allowing the cascades of light to flow through as her radiant poetry. Repeatedly bathe yourself in the warmth, humor, insight, devotion, irreverence, and power of the inspired poetry that flows from Dorothy’s heart of hearts. You will see longed-for reflections of the truth of who you are."Lawrence Edwards, PhD Author of Awakening Kundalini: The Path To Radical Freedom“Dorothy Walters’ luminous poems are literal transmissions of the possible for every soul who braves the peaks and valleys of the Path Within. We are extraordinarily blessed to have them. Actually, one does not read these poems. They are taken directly through the heart. Dorothy has delivered us to the gate of bliss and welcomes us home.”Claudia Helade, Ph.D. Transpersonal Psychotherapist and artist

The Kundalini Poems: Reflections of Radiance and Joy (Kundalini Awakening)

Emergence Education

This is a mature and indispensable mystical masterpiece by our most resplendent mystical poet. — Andrew Harvey, Author of Turn Me to Gold: 108 Poems of KabirThe poetry of Dorothy Walters is rich with wisdom and heart and the wordsmith’s skill, but most importantly it has presence. Each poem rings in the mind and works a strange alchemy in the soul, leaving us giddy and hungry for the secret contact of spirit and body. Some kiss indeed! — Ivan Granger, editor, Poetry Chaikhana, Real Thirst, Poetry of the Spiritual Journey: The Longing In Between, Sacred Poetry from Around the WorldDorothy Walters has the heart and vision of a mystic and is rooted firmly in the ecstatic tradition, where the divine overflows into daily life. Her poems invite us into this holy mystery, kindling deep joy and love in her readers. Reading her poems becomes and act of prayer itself, inviting us to slow down and savor what is already within. — Christine Valters Paintner, PHD, author of 7 books on spirituality and the artsDorothy Walters’ poetry is inspired, arising from a deep immersion in her own awakened heart. Let her words resonate with your own heart. — Sally Kempton, author, Meditation for the Love of It; Awakening Shakti

Some Kiss We Want: Poems Selected and New (Kundalini Awakening)

These poems trace the spiritual journey, including its many stages of yearning, awakening, the dark night, and ecstatic union. Lovers of Rumi and Hafiz, Mary Oliver and Mirabai, will be drawn to these carefully crafted and heart felt verses, for they speak to deepest desires of the human spirit. Dorothy's first book of poems ("Marrow of Flame, Poems of the Spiritual Journey") was enthusiastically received:"A massively experienced and authentic spiritual 'autobiography.' the record shameless but unhysterical of an extreme love affair with the Divine." (Andrew Harvey, renowned author and spiritual teacher))

A Cloth of Fine Gold, Poems of the Inner Journey

Religion & Spirituality

lulu.com

But with poetry as luminous and embracing as Dorothy Walters' works, we can be forgiven for lingering and appreciating its delicacy and power. In this, her latest volume of poetry, she unfolds the mysteries of the divine feminine, the great Goddess who delights in creating all forms, as well as delighting in dissolving all forms into the fathomless abyss of dark silence, which to even approach overwhelms one with ecstasy. Dorothy's words are like radiant sparks emerging from that darkness, birthed by the womb of the universe Herself, and always pointing back to their Source. True seekers and lovers of the Divine from all traditions will delight in what issues forth through Dorothy's inspired pen. That Dorothy can give expression to these divine gifts is a testament to her many, many years of being worked on by the hands of the Divine. I deeply appreciate what she pours forth for all of us to imbibe. Lawrence Edwards, PhD, Author of "The Soul's Journey: Guidance From The Divine Within" and "Kali's Bazaar." Founder & Director of The Anam Cara Foundation. www.thesoulsjourny.com

The Ley Lines of the Soul: Poems of Ecstasy and Ascension

Xlibris

When she was in her early fifties, Dorothy Walters, a Midwestern college professor, had a profound experience that took her ten years to fully assimilate. She didn't almost die and come back; she didn't get abducted by black-eyed aliens; and she didn't float out of her body to visit other dimensions. No, she had a mystical experience that spontaneously unfolded right in her own body. Her kundalini awoke.
Kundalini is well-known in the East as the basic life force energy that normally sleeps in most people but can suddenly stir and start to radically transform everything in one's life, restructuring the self at the deepest level. When kundalini stirs-and this especially can happen at midlife--potentially all of consciousness gets illumined by its dazzling light. As Walters reveals, awakening kundalini can be a joyous and tumultuous ride until the body and psyche settle down. For her, it was an experience characterized by unimaginable bliss and bodily ecstasy as well as periods of intense pain and suffering.
"After years of avoiding psychic or intense spiritual encounters, I was singled out and captured by a new spiritual energy, one that appeared to originate within my body. My awakening was abrupt and unforeseen, my life transformed in a single instant of grace."
Unmasking the Rose is Dorothy Walters's frank and personal narrative of that ten-year ride on the kundalini wave, a unique day-by-day chronicle of her changes in which her only teacher was the inner guide, the solitary voice within.
For Walters, the process was well worth the extremes, for it opened for her a path of authentic union with the divine, with the "Beloved Within."

Unmasking the Rose: A Record of a Kundalini Initiation

Alternative Medicine

Hampton Roads Publishing

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