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SEVEN MOVEMENTS, ONE SONG: Memoir as Metaphor
SEVEN MOVEMENTS, ONE SONG: Memoir as Metaphor
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  • Paperback
  • Jan.30.1991
  • 9780595398973
  • iUniverse, Inc.

Carolyn gives an overview of the book:

Using the Chakra system as a framework, Seven Movements, One Song is a telling of seven stories which reflect the quality and energy of each of the energy centers of the body. Physical survival, sexual attraction, transformation, bonding, communication, understanding and finally spiritual vision are explored metaphorically in seven stories from thye life of a woman of our time.   The stories are but seven movements of a single song - a single life - and like everyone's stories, they resonate to the ultimate sound of the cosmos.
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Using the Chakra system as a framework, Seven Movements, One Song is a telling of seven stories which reflect the quality and energy of each of the energy centers of the body. Physical survival, sexual attraction, transformation, bonding, communication, understanding and finally spiritual vision are explored metaphorically in seven stories from thye life of a woman of our time.

 

The stories are but seven movements of a single song - a single life - and like everyone's stories, they resonate to the ultimate sound of the cosmos.

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A shrill yelp of pain roused me from a dream: I have discovered another room in my house - a room for dancing, long with a polished floor and a roof open to the sky. I twirl round and round and the air swirls like wind around me, flowing in eddies about my arms, my legs, my face..

 

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This book was my first attempt to use my own personal stories as a way of describing universal truths. In my work as a healer I evoke the subtle energies of a person's body, where only an intuitive perceiving of the whole person can help to reveal where the congestion lies in their body. After trying to write a scholarly book about this, I realized

About Carolyn

Since a child growing up in Brooklyn, I have been a 'practical mystic.' This has led me to work as a midwife in India; a builder of strawbale houses; a classical musician and more recently, an improvisational singer for healing. For the last 50 years I have lived, with my...

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Author's Publishing Notes

This book, the second in my quartet of books, has been the most popular over the years. It took a full seven years to write. It was first published in 1991, and is now back in print.