Rating: 
Summary: THE most horrible book I've ever read!!
Review: This is THE most horrible book I've ever read.
The Blood of Jesus is something you just don't touch.
That is truly "sacred."
The author really steps across "sacred" boundaries
when she desecrates the blood of Jesus,
somehow putting it in the realm of a woman's
menstrual blood.
When the author stands before The Great White Throne,
where will the Dali Lama be?
We'll find out one of these Days, won't we?
Rating:
Summary: THE most horrible book I've ever read!!
Review: This is THE most horrible book I've ever read.
The Blood of Jesus is something you just don't touch.
That is truly "sacred."
The author really steps across "sacred" boundaries
when she desecrates the blood of Jesus,
somehow putting it in the realm of a woman's
menstrual blood.
When the author stands before The Great White Throne,
where will the Dali Lama be?
We'll find out one of these Days, won't we?
Rating: 
Summary: A Real-Life Pilgrimage to Sacred Places
Review: Three meaningful themes emerge in this account of one woman's midlife passage: the struggle for authenticity, the importance of naming experiences and sharing life stories, and the merging of masculine and feminine energies. Not only is her journey one of hard-won insight, it is also a description of a real-life pilgrimage to sacred places. Her pilgrimage experience creates an archetype for menopausal women. Standing barefoot on the High Altar at Glastonbury, she experiences the merging of God and Goddess--the divine flow of masculine and feminine. A year later she looks back and knows that at that moment she was experiencing her last bleed--it was her MOMENT of menopause. Her integration of the Grail story creates a work that should be just as meaningful to men as women, particularly the last half of the book. Powerful, comforting, loving. Each time I finish a book, I think of someone I know that would benefit from reading it. Crossing to Avalon goes on my list for &qu! ot;Everyone Over 40 and Nearly Everyone Else."
Rating:
Summary: Why am I not surprised?
Review: Womens' wisdom & ways of knowing are almost always discounted by the male-dominated world. The Kirkus Review says, "... quickly degenerates into pop psychology and pseudo-profundities." Why do supposedly intelligent people bother to negate what's profound for someone else? A simple statement that the profundity was lost on you would suffice.
That said, I found this to be a glorious book about a woman's pilgrimage in midlife that changed her deeply and will affect the rest of her life. Women need to hear womens' stories. It's what we've always done & hopefully will continue to do and benefit from. I found her descriptions of the places she visited absolutely lovely and enriching. Without her extremely intimate perspective, this book would only be an interesting travelogue - not something that inspired me to listen to myself and my body! To know that my perspective may help someone else clarify theirs is reason enough for me to say all women everywhere should read this one, and share it with the people in their lives. If you choose not to believe that women all over the world are reawakening to Goddess, that's fine. No one who reveres Goddess will try to change your mind. We simply understand there also was a time when most people thought Earth was flat.
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