DANCING WITH THE BELOVED:The sensual and sexual metaphor of Dancing with The Beloved may be challenging to accept as a metaphor for relating to the world and to your God. Yet this message of the sacred dance is a beautiful, poetic, and loving metaphor of relationship that can bring a personal revelation to those who are ready to receive it. It is the metaphor of profound relatedness found in the most traditional of Western mystical practices and one that can facilitate and catalyze a deeper, more sublime, and personal relationship with all those whom you love and, ultimately, with The Divine God. When The Divine is perceived as a lover or The Beloved instead of a stern, patriarchal Godhead, a new experience of intimacy and profound relatedness can be realized and unfolded in one's being, resulting in a deeper and more intimate relationship with the entire world -- with all of life.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Introduction
Chapter One: The Seed and the Word
Chapter Two: The Doorway to the Kingdom of God
Chapter Three: Better to Have Danced
Chapter Four: The Bride, the Groom, the Wedding Bed and the Holy Bonds of Matrimony
Chapter Five: The Exile of the Feminine and the Erection of a Phallusy
Chapter Six: Sex and the Single God
Epilogue: Resurrection of the Sensual
ISBN-10: 0-9776300-0-5 ISBN-13: 978-0-9776300-0-4
Binding: paperback (5.5x8.5) Page Count: 112 (Endnotes; Photos)
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Categories: Philosophy: Mind & Body; Body, Mind & Spirit; Religion: Sexuality & Gender Studies
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Patrick Donovan, ND, has over 30 years of patient care experience as a registered nurse (R.N.) and a naturopathic physician (N.D.) representing a wide range of settings from hospital-based surgical and intensive care to outpatient primary care. He received his doctorate degree in Naturopathic Medicine in 1985, from Bastyr University where he has been a member of the clinical and academic faculty. He has had a number of articles published in various medical journals and has contributed chapters to the Textbook of Natural Medicine.
In 1996, he was invited to join the medical staff of the first government-funded community health clinic project integrating alternative and conventional medicine at the King County Community Health Clinic in Kent, Washington. In 1997, he was one of the first two naturopathic physicians invited to join the medical team of the first fully integrated oncology clinic in the Northwest. This clinic, the Seattle Cancer Treatment and Wellness Center, established by the Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA), integrates the full spectrum of conventional oncology care with nutritional and naturopathic medicine, and acupuncture.
Most recently, Dr. Donovan was one of 23 physicians featured in Burton Goldberg’s book An Alternative Medicine Definitive Guide to Cancer. His areas of clinical interest include autoimmune inflammatory disorders, inflammatory bowel disease and digestive tract disorders. Currently, Dr. Donovan maintains a busy private practice as a licensed, naturopathic primary care physician at University Health Clinic in Seattle, Washington. He is a member of the editorial review board of the Alternative Medicine Review and continues his research, writing and lecturing in healing and spirituality. He is a board member of the Foundation for Return To Creativity. The Foundation is dedicated to the advancement of creative expression in the arts, sciences and humanities. He is also a member of the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians (AANP) and the Washington Association of Naturopathic Physicians (WANP).
He and his family reside in Shoreline, Washington. Learn more at
www.pdonovan.com.