In this accomplished book, Mary Kay Rummel spins words into mysticism and magic. "Not to be ordinary," she was drawn into the convent where she was forbidden to read fiction because the Superior didnt like it. In "Patterns of Obedience," she writes that she was able to leave when "words whispered in that wind/telling her to go forth and read, to never ask again." Set free, she read and wrote and traveled, visiting early Irish history and myth. Throughout her book, bells chime in celebration as her words become exquisite lyric poems.
-Jill Breckenridge, Poet, The Gravity of Flesh

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The Yoga Sutra is the great text on Yoga, cognized in ancient India by Maharishi Patanjali. Yoga means "union," and the Yoga Sutra describes the experience of unity, the complete settling of the activity of the mind. In 195 short sutras, this text illuminates the teaching of yoga and meditation, and gives a profound understanding of life in transcendence.

Joyces painting called "Bones of Zion" graces the cover of Mysterious Light. Her poems radiate beauty across the pages in "eddies of lemon and gold." "An aurora borealis shimmers" inside her past. A worldliness that began in childhood, living above a funeral parlor where "vacant mouths and cobwebbed hair," leapt from her imagination at night. Joyce enters into "a yellow flame of mystery," where the alchemy of her word paintings is so powerful as to actually absorb grief and transform it into a lush beauty.
-Lynne Barnes, poet

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In response to physical and emotional crises, Dr. Sylvest* became open to learning what is true and found the path to his own healing which he has shared in his practice bringing similar relief to many patients. Now in this imminently practical volume -combining personal experience with discoveries made in the laboratory, in clinical research and through the Spirit of Truth -Dr. Sylvest offers a simple, fresh perspective for understanding the cause of emotional distress and illness and the dynamics of healing. He has bridged the gaps separating medicine, psychology and mysticism for the...