Sister Clare’s Lover: A Romance of Catholic Tantra

Catholic Tantra? Can such a thing be?
Father Shalgry is a priest in... More > trouble with his Church - he has written a sympathetic book trying to understand the American Spiritualist movement. He is in trouble another way - his empathy, his sense of the energy of people and situations, is so strong that he must take medications to mute it.

His bishop surprisingly sends him to find the origin of an intensely sexual tantra-like devotion to Jesus that has grown up in the convents. His journey will lead him through trying to understand, through service and friendship and experiencing the movement of energy, to falling irresistibly in love with a French-Indian woman. And then he must choose...

Birrell Walsh, Ph.D., earned his doctorate in comparative religion in 1999. In 2003 Crossroad Publishing published his Praying for Others. A sequel to Sister Clare, ILLUMINATING FOUR CITIES, is also published by lulu.com < Less

Father Shalgry has loved a woman honorably, and she is gone. Now he must find meaning for what has happened. His best... More > friend, ex-Sister Marta Vasquez, owns a tavern. In one long night of storytelling there, he recounts visions of other worlds and his connections with his beloved there. Then, at a fire on the longest winter night, it is time to bring those visions into this world. < Less

YOU CAN HEAR SEVERAL OF THESE POEMS AT http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=2217241E5367EB2A

FOLDING

In my evening
I... More > am folding a package
of palm leaves

so that in your morning
you can unfold them
and find the sun



MOVING HANDS ABOVE SOMEONE BELOVED

It is a craft
we learned in that school:
moving hands above someone beloved
feeling the energy rise from them
and (instead of letting it gather,
to become either desire or movement)
spreading it softly
through the body-aura
as combing hair
spreads the oil of the skin
to all of the long strands.

Done right it lets the recipient
sleep, but sleep
refilled, untangled,
and wake alive and glad -
so they taught us in that school
where we learned this craft. < Less

In my evening I am folding a package of palm leaves so that in your morning you can unfold them and find the sun MOVING... More > HANDS ABOVE SOMEONE BELOVED It is a craft we learned in that school: moving hands above someone beloved feeling the energy rise from them and (instead of letting it gather, to become either desire or movement) spreading it softly through the body-aura as combing hair spreads the oil of the skin to all of the long strands. Done right it lets the recipient sleep, but sleep refilled, untangled, and wake alive and glad - so they taught us in that school where we learned this craft. < Less

Sister Clare’s Lover: A Romance of Catholic Tantra

Catholic Tantra? Can such a thing be?
Father Shalgry is a priest in... More > trouble with his Church - he has written a sympathetic book trying to understand the American Spiritualist movement. He is in trouble another way - his empathy, his sense of the energy of people and situations, is so strong that he must take medications to mute it.

His bishop surprisingly sends him to find the origin of an intensely sexual tantra-like devotion to Jesus that has grown up in the convents. His journey will lead him through trying to understand, through service and friendship and experiencing the movement of energy, to falling irresistibly in love with a French-Indian woman. And then he must choose...

Birrell Walsh, Ph.D., earned his doctorate in comparative religion in 1999. In 2003 Crossroad Publishing published his Praying for Others. A sequel to Sister Clare, ILLUMINATING FOUR CITIES, is also published by lulu.com < Less

Father Shalgry has loved a woman honorably, and she is gone. Now he must find meaning for what has happened. His best... More > friend, ex-Sister Marta Vasquez, owns a tavern. In one long night of storytelling there, he recounts visions of other worlds and his connections with his beloved there. Then, at a fire on the longest winter night, it is time to bring those visions into this world. < Less

YOU CAN HEAR SEVERAL OF THESE POEMS AT http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=2217241E5367EB2A

FOLDING

In my evening
I... More > am folding a package
of palm leaves

so that in your morning
you can unfold them
and find the sun



MOVING HANDS ABOVE SOMEONE BELOVED

It is a craft
we learned in that school:
moving hands above someone beloved
feeling the energy rise from them
and (instead of letting it gather,
to become either desire or movement)
spreading it softly
through the body-aura
as combing hair
spreads the oil of the skin
to all of the long strands.

Done right it lets the recipient
sleep, but sleep
refilled, untangled,
and wake alive and glad -
so they taught us in that school
where we learned this craft. < Less