Water & Its Spiritual Significance

by Henry-Blakemore, Virginia Gray; Lloyd-Sidle, Elena

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9781891785412
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Copyright: 2010-04-01
Publisher: Fons Vitae
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The Fans Vitae Festival Publication, Water: Its Spiritual Significance

Author Biography

Virginia Gray Henry-Blakemore is the director of the interfaith publishing houses Fons Vitae and Quinta Essentia, a contributing editor for Parabola magazine, a founding member of the Thomas Merton Foundation, and a film producer. Elena Lloyd-Sidle is a project director at Fons Vitae and has been involved in planning inter-religious festivals and congresses since 2005. They are the coproducers of the film Death and Transformation: The Personal Reflections of Huston Smith. They both live in Louisville, Kentucky. Virginia Gray Henry-Blakemore is the director of the interfaith publishing houses Fons Vitae and Quinta Essentia, a contributing editor for Parabola magazine, a founding member of the Thomas Merton Institute, and a film producer. Elena Lloyd-Sidle is a project director at Fons Vitae and has been involved in planning inter-religious festivals and congresses since 2005. They are the coproducers of the film Death and Transformation: The Personal Reflections of Huston Smith. They both live in Louisville, Kentucky.

Dedication	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
The Symbolism of Water	p. 1
Sabbaths 2006 III. The Book of Camp Branch	p. 7
Sabbaths 2006 V	p. 12
Sabbaths 2007 XIII	p. 13
Wandering Thoughts on Rumi, Water, Music, Love, and Identity	p. 15
The Quranic Symbolism of Water	p. 21
Sacred Waters: Thomas Merton's Thirst for Contemplation	p. 31
Rain and the Rhinoceros (1965)	p. 32
Song	p. 34
In the Rain and the Sun	p. 34
The Others in the Kingdom	p. 36
Wildflowers in the Dining Room	p. 37
Rain Light	p. 38
The Centrality of Water in the Hopi Tradition	p. 39
Walk on Water	p. 45
The Surface of the Waters	p. 46
The Feminine and Masculine Waters in the Teachings of the Baal Shem Tov	p. 55
"Shells upon the Shore"	p. 64
The Role and Significance of Water in the Islamic Garden	p. 67
Take Me To The River: The Koan of Kindness	p. 73
A Section of the Oconee Near Watkinsville	p. 78
As the Dew	p. 79
Sandpipers, Again	p. 80
For Mary Kane	p. 81
Water-Lines selections from Hafiz of Shiraz	p. 82
The Sea	p. 83
A Glass of Water	p. 89
The Flood in Hindu Tradition	p. 90
Traversing the Waters and the Reciprocal Blessing	p. 98
On Contemplating the Commissioned Portrait of a British Viceroy of India, Carrying the Caption "Served with Distinction, 1910-1932"	p. 107
On The Spiritual Significance of Tears by Martin Lings	p. 108
Returning to The Primordial: The Water Symbolism of Baptism	p. 110
Excerpts From The Gospel of Shri Ramakrishna	p. 135
Water as Healer	p. 138
The Death Throes of the River Jordan	p. 140
Pure Water. Pure Life	p. 147
Appendix: The Emerging Alliance of World Religions and Ecology	p. 151
A School Community Rises to the Challenge	p. 158
Biographies of the Contributors	p. 159
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