Acknowledgments
Foreword by Joan Halifax
Prologue
1. Lying Down
2. Burning
3. Unraveling
4. Emptying
5. Pierced
6. Staying Open
7. Arching Backward
8. Merging
9. Searching
10. Ecstasy
11. Birthing
12. Union
13. Flaming World
14. Each One Burns
15. Suffering World
16. Dialogue
17. Returning
Epilogue
Janet Adler (1941–2023) held a Ph.D. in Mystical Studies, taught the discipline of Authentic Movement in the United States and Europe and was the founder and director of The Mary Starks Whitehouse Institute, the first school devoted to the study and practice of the discipline. She is the author of Arching Backward and of two films: Looking for Me, documenting her work with autistic children, and Still Looking, reflecting her work in the discipline of Authentic Movement. She was also a hospice chaplain.
"Arching Backward is an eloquent and lyrical prose poem, riveting
testimony from a modern mystic. Adler offers this narrative of her
extraordinary journey, traversing territory both intensely intimate
and primordial, luminous and transcendent. This is a heroine's
mythic journey, as fascinating as it is mysterious."
*Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence*
"Her numerous visions are spread out through the book like so many
Tarot cards or photographs with no explanation. The effect is akin
to walking through an abstract art gallery. One emerges with a
nebulous sense of nerve-jangling impressions, which may be just
what Adler, with her austere artistic temperament, intended."
*Shared Transformation*
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