CONTENTS: Coming home to the body / Louise M. Pare -- Menarche ritual / Charlene Spretnak -- Moon Lodge / Brooke Medicine Eagle -- Body as temple of the holy spirit / Catharina J.M. Halkes -- Sexuality and spiritual growth / Joan Timmerman -- Making love / Brenda Patterson -- Tantric sex: the secret rite / Nik Douglas & Penny Slinger -- Sex and soul / Marianne Williamson -- Childbirth as spiritual experience / Jizo ceremony for aborted and miscarried children / Joan Snider -- Menopause / Lynn V. Andrews -- "The grandmother songs" / Linda Hogan -- Interdependence / Paula Gunn Allen -- Rape / Judith Ragir -- Opening the heart of the womb / Stephen Levine -- Good question / Children's Letters to God -- "Lilith" / Anonymous -- Shekhinah I / Sherry Ruth Anderson and Patricia Hopkins -- Shekhinah II / Marcia Falk -- Procession of women /Rachel Altman -- Personal accountability to God / Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Religion and contemporary feminist consciousness /Denise Lardner Carmody -- The womanspirit movement / Hallie Iglehart Austen -- The confession / Patricia Eagle -- On the Gnostic Gospels / Kimberley Snow -- Beyond God as male and female / Jann Aldredge Clanton -- Living as a nun in the west / Sylvia Wetzel -- Women and Islam / Riffat Hassan -- Changing of the gods / Naomi Goldenberg -- Articulating the vision / Eleanor Rae and Bernice Marie-Daly -- Christianity as compost / Emily Culpepper -- The Goddess envisioned / Kimberley Snow -- "Splendid moments" / Alma Luz Villanueva -- Why women need the goddess / Carol P. Christ -- Meditation on six Greek Goddesses / Jennifer and Roger Woolger -- Comfort at the hour of our death / Marina Warner -- The holy virgin / Stephan A. Hoeller -- Descending to the Goddess / Sylvia Perera -- Earth Goddess / Hallie Iglehart Austen -- Shaman woman / Joan Halifax -- Deepening spirituality through nature / Brooke Medicine Eagle -- Interview with a witch / a talk with Patricia Eagle -- What in heaven's name is going on over there? / Center for Non-Traditional Religions -- African Goddess Oya / Judith Gleason -- Isis healing meditation / Selena Fox -- Shakti / Kimberley Snow -- Kali / Ajit Mookerjee -- Hymn to Kali / Ramakrishna -- Kuan Yin /John Blofield -- The Dakini Principle / Tsultrim Allione -- Magic dance / Thinley Norbu -- Writing as meditation / Kimberley Snow -- Letter to God / Joan Melcher -- Blessings journal / Kimberley Snow -- Prayer / M. Lily Hodges -- A testament / Anthony de Mello -- Unbearable son / Thich Nhat Hanh -- Spiritual Diary / Kimberley Snow -- The tale of the sands / Idries Shah -- "The Innerbird" / Barry Spacks -- Contacting angels / Alma Daniel, Timohy Wylie, Andrew Ramer -- Computer exercise / Kimberley Snow -- Dreams / Karen Signell -- Dream yoga / Namkhai Norbu -- Messiness is next to Goddessness / John Boe -- Making a fetish / Vicki Noble -- Art and spirituality / a talk with Phyllis Glanville -- Meditation / Chagdud tulku -- Six practices -- Learning from cats / Deng Ming-Dao -- Observing intention / Joseph Goldstein and Jack Kornfield -- Mantra, protection of the mind / Joel and Michelle Levey -- The way of the pilgrim / Kimberley Snow -- Beginning meditation / Alan Watts -- Raja yoga / Dadi Janki -- Red Tara practice / Chagdud Tulku -- Twelve moons of meditation / Michelle Levey -- How God gives his senses to the soul that it may use them / Mechtild Von Hackborn -- The body remembers / a talk with Barbara Mearns -- "Remember" / Joy Harjo -- Awareness / A.L. Staveley -- Lectio Divina / Kimberley Snow -- Guided meditation at Lent / Mary Ann McGuire -- Nothing special / Ayya Khema -- Meditations -- Start where you are / Pema Chodron -- Rituals / Diane Mariechild -- Learning from the Amish / Sue Bender -- Homage to Ancestors / Luisah Teish -- Compassion in action / Ram Das and Mirabai Bush -- Random acts of kindness / Editors of Conari Press -- Community /Teresa of Calcutta -- "Selflessness" / Vimala McClure -- A reflection on fasting /Mary Collins -- The prophet on fasting /Shaykh Fadhlalla Haeri -- Kashrut / Judith Plaskow -- Shojin cooking / Abbess Koei Hoshino -- Harmony through Macrobiotics / a talk with Vivian Eggers -- Gardening / Louise Yeomans King -- Breaing the hold of bad habits and developing good ones / Kimberley Snow -- A Sufi teacher / Irina Tweedie -- Vedanta convents / Swami Swahananda -- Christian science healing / Christian Science Publishing Society -- Sweat lodge / Susanne Fairclough -- Peacekeeping / Dhyani Ywahoo -- Contemplating impermanence / Kimberley Snow -- Helping mother to die / Terry Tempest Williams -- Attend your own funeral / Kimberley Snow -- The Tao / Jean Shinoda Bolen -- "Immortal sister's poem" / Sun Bu-er -- The glade / Jean Liedloff -- The presences / Gloria Anzaldua -- Living in dreamtime / Johanna Lambert -- Arrival / Flora Courtois -- Seeing things as they are / Kathleen Raine -- The many and the one / Barbara Dean -- "A certain humming" / Pati Airey -- Angel flight / Anna Katharine Emmerich -- Spiritual emergency / Stanislav and Christina Grof -- Revelations, dated 1373 / Julian of Norwich -- The confessor confesses / Raimund of Capua -- Raben'ah: who marries? / Javad Nurbakhsh -- "Prayer of Adoration" / Sister Ruth SLG -- A Quaker's stillness / Patricia Robertson -- Path of silence / Bernadette Roberts.