Wild Mercy

By Mirabai Starr,

Book cover of Wild Mercy: Living the Fierce and Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics

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Wild Mercy is essential reading for anyone ready to awaken the feminine mystic within and birth her loving, creative, and untamed power into the world.

"Mystical brilliance at its best." -Caroline Myss

"No one can take us into the fiery and tender depths of the sacred feminine with more skill,…

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1 author picked Wild Mercy as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Mirabai Starr weaves together the threads of feminine mysticism from many different spiritual traditions with a poetic sensibility, yet her feet are planted firmly on Mother Earth as she validates women's wisdom throughout the ages.

I was thrilled with the way this book shows that touching the earth—with all its human pain and suffering, death and loss, even the grief over losing a child as happened to Mirabai in her own journey—is a pathway to the divine, often moreso than meditation and breath work.

The women mystics proudly proclaim that everything is holy, and lead us into surrender to the…

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