Where the Spirit Speaks to its Own: The Passion of Spiritual Awakening

Where the Spirit Speaks to its Own is subtitled ‘The passion of spiritual awakening’ and describes Barry Long’s own story through the songs and verses he wrote in the early days of his self-realization. His commentary on the poems gives us enough autobiographical detail to place them in context. So we hear about his isolation in the Himalayas, his romance with the ‘bhagavati’, or divine woman, and the terrors of the disintegrating self. But the real ‘inner story’ is in the poems themselves. Profound but easy to read, sometimes even amusing, these songs and verses tell how a modern mystic was called to the divine. Their personal quality is revealing and moving. Their impersonal and mystical purpose is truly inspiring.