The Flesh and the Fruit: Remembering Eve and the Power of Creative Transgression

Leilani PhD, Vanya

ISBN 10: 1910559962 / ISBN 13: 9781910559963

Verlag: Womancraft Publishing, 2024

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Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers mon0000218623

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Flesh and the Fruit: Remembering Eve and the Power of Creative Transgression
• Verlag: Womancraft Publishing
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1910559962
• ISBN-13: 9781910559963
• Einband: paperback
• Zustand: Good

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Inhaltsangabe

I have not been as electrified by a book since Women Who Run with the Wolves.
- Lisbeth Cheever-Gessaman, artist and illustrator of The Divine Feminine Oracle

In these pages you will encounter the archetypal Eve—not the literalized Eve that has for so long served as justification for horrific environmental and social injustices, but the mythic Eve who liberates. Weaving in her own lived experience of stepping beyond the boundaries of fundamentalist religion into deeper spiritual sovereignty, Dr. Leilani shows us the power of disobedience to set us free.

Part mythological exploration, part cultural commentary, and part personal memoir, The Flesh and the Fruit shows us the power of creative transgression as we move toward new ways of being and living. Dr. Leilani empowers us to find our own knowing, permission, and blessing as we walk out of the “shoulds” and into our own nature and wildness.

The Flesh and the Fruit is an invitation for us to step into the center of our own circles, to believe in our beauty and inherent worth rather than in the ancient poisonous tale of our fallenness and depravity. Dr. Leilani encourages readers to challenge the hierarchical systems of power that sever us from ourselves, from each other, and from the Earth and to live from our wild knowing.

If, after reading this book, your life hasn’t changed and you don’t feel renewed and awakened, read it again, more slowly.
- from the Foreword by Thomas Moore, New York Times bestselling author of Care of the Soul

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Vanya Leilani is a depth psychologist, writer, teacher and storyteller. She has spent decades exploring the threshold where the external "shoulds" in our lives encounter our own wild knowing and un-knowing. She is passionate about helping us cultivate deeper friendship with our own lives as we learn to live from nature, rather than from obedience to the status quo and she devotes herself to this work through individual accompaniment, sacred gatherings, storytelling, teaching, and writing. Vanya holds a PhD in Depth Psychology with emphasis in Jungian and Archetypal Studies. She has also completed a certificate training intensive with Dr Clarissa Pinkola Estes and has served as an adjunct professor at Pacifica Graduate Institute teaching on the creative power of archetypes. Vanya was born and raised in southeastern Brazil and currently lives in the woods of the Pacific Northwest of the United States, where she tends to the land and many animals.