In this lyrical and thought-provoking three-hour audio presentation, author, teacher, and scholar China Galland recounts her spiritual quest for the dark feminine. There is this aspect of the divine in all of us and it usually is associated with the earth, sensuousness, fruitfulness, nurturing, and intuition. On her journeys to India, Switzerland, Poland, Latin America, and Texas, she also discovered how the dark feminine is deeply linked with the "fierce compassion" that is aroused in the name of truth and justice.
Galland presents lively meditations upon Durga, the Hindu warrior goddess; the Black Madonna of Einsiedeln; Tara, the Buddhist goddess; and the Madonna of Czestochowa. On her pilgrimages to various shrines, the author draws upon her Zen Buddhist practices and is reconnected with her Christian roots in Catholicism. Whether reflecting on the Holocaust, the insights of the Dalai Lama, the Mothers of the Disappeared, or the practice of the rosary, Galland proves to be a wonderful scout into the territory of interreligious dialogue — or, even better, what Wayne Teasdale calls "interspirituality." Her books include Longing for Darkness, The Bond Between Women, and Women in the Wilderness.