Crossing to Avalon: Woman's Midlife Pilgrimage, A » (Reprint)

Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D., is an internationally known Jungian analyst, clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California at San Francisco, and a former member of the board of the Ms. Foundation for Women. She lives in Mill Valley, California. Contact jean Bolen at www.jeanbolen.com.

A MIDLIFE QUEST FOR THE GRAIL AND THE GODDESS

Dr Jean Shinoda Bolen's extraordinary memoir celebrates the pilgrimage that heralded her spiritual awakening and leads readers down the path of self-discovery. In this account of her journey to Europe

San Francisco Chronicle

“[Bolen] charts a path that will lead many readers to the heart of their own emotional and spiritual pilgrimages.”

Preface 1.    Invitation: Pilgrimage
2.    Meeting: The Dalai Lama
3.    Quickening: Chartres Cathedral
4.    The Grail Legend: The Spiritual Journey
5.    Women's Mysteries and the Grail
6.    Pilgrimage to Glastonbury
7.    Sister Pilgrims: Glastonbury Tales
8.    Avalon: Otherworld and Motherworld
9.    In the Forest: Midlife Landscape
10.    The Wasteland: Depression and Despair
11.    Circumambulation: London
12.    The Greening of the Wasteland: Findhorn
13.    Musings: Iona and Other Sacred Places
14.    Holy Island: Mother Earth
15.    Down to Earth: Return
Acknowledgments
References
Index