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Turtle Was Gone a Long Time: Crossing the Kedron v. 1 [Hardcover]

John Moriarty (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 240 pages
  • Publisher: The Lilliput Press Ltd (18 April 1996)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1874675635
  • ISBN-13: 978-1874675631
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.5 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,344,134 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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This work describes a mystical quest or journey, from form to void and back, enacting a significant theme of European literature, that of paradise lost and paradise regained. In a centruy in which a human being first set foot on the moon, this seeking is an attempt to come ashore upon the Earth in its perennial first morning. The "Turtle" of the title derives from the diver myth found in Siberia and North America, in particular among the Maidu Indians of California. Diving to the floor of the abyss to find intuitions of the world to come ashore upon, "Crossing the Kedron" [John 18:1] offers a series of texts describing one individual's spiritual initiations and transformations, Gethsemane self-encounters and purifications. Prepared over 12 years, the work enacts a Dantesque, shamanic journey, a vast voyage across Hindu, Buddhist and Christian waters. It invites readers to plumb their own depths and emerge renewed.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A book which will transform you, in time!, 8 Jan 1999
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This review is from: Turtle Was Gone a Long Time: Crossing the Kedron v. 1 (Hardcover)
This is the first of three books in which the author enables the reader to take a journey. This journey leads to a transformation in mind-set. John refers to that transformation as a "movement essential." The philosophy underlying the trilogy is a universal one, thereby linking all traditions in this quest. The techniques, if one can use that word and I'm not sure that it is the right word, are a combination of stories, poems, quotes and repetition. The repetition is essential as cognitive change is a slow process, and one needs to be reminded, again and again, of important concepts. In this book, and in the other two volumes which make up this trilogy, one will find sincerity, inspiration, beauty, knowledge, wisdom, music, entertainment, laughter, St. John of the Cross, Buddha, Native American Indians, but above all "Beauty". By the time one has read and re-read the three volumes one is most dreadfully aware that "...the psyche is the blind, not the window."
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