Path of Lightning (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781936671113)

Author and poet Barbara Schmitz offers a heartful, funny, and deeply moving "spiritual autobiography" that brings the reader along on each stage of her fervent inner quest for mystical experience. Beginning with a Catholic girlhood in Nebraska, she graduates to an unlikely apprenticeship with Allen Ginsberg at the Naropa Institute; a dedicated transcendental meditation practice; and finally to thirty years of joys and struggles with a Sufi teacher (Shahabuddin Less) with whom she travels to Bali, Turkey, India, Kashmir, and the Holy Land. Incisive as lightning-the meaning of her Sufi name, Vajra-her questions and yearning are our own, and she doesn't let God, her teacher, or herself off the hook.

Author: Barbara Schmitz
ISBN-10: 1936671115
ISBN-13: 9781936671113
Publisher: Pinyon Publishing
Language: English
Published: 10/26/2012
Pages: 262
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d