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Published as:
- Cartas
Para Minha Filha, a Mulher do Futuro (Edit. Ground,
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This, the
fifth book by Zulma Reyo, stands apart. Written in poetic
prose with mystical overlays, in a tone of soft,
unexpected but wholly acceptable complicity, it dwells
upon the experience of the feminine within every woman.
Inspired on the dualistic Western women models of the
Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus, and Mary Magdalene, the
archetypical enlightened Woman of the World, the pages
of this book transcend time and culture to bring the
reader into a direct, profound experience of a reality
which is non-linear, intuitive, majestic and ecstatic
beyond spaciousness itself. This is the world of Woman
who, transcending her involvements and preoccupations in
this very difficult world, penetrates into the mystery
of her Self.
Unlike most books for or about women on the market, this
one does not pretend to explain problems or offer
solutions to the many harrowing, frightening and mostly
bewildering experiences facing women in our world.
Rather it seeks to point woman beyond herself into her
Self. The prescribed way is love, silence and much
direct observation. The layout of the book includes
three parts: The Letters, The Exercises, and The
Meditations. The Letters is a device to pierce within
and into the heart of the questions, in the kind of
intimacy and softness known only in the epistolary genre.
The Exercises are visualizations and general suggestions
given to elicit the experience which will strengthen the
individual woman enough to discover the answer within
herself. Finally, The Meditations are evocative journeys
of transcendent realms of beauty and power both within
and beyond the experience of immediate reality.
In this book Zulma Reyo evokes issues surrounding
essential identity, the nature of feelings and the
extreme sensitivity surrounding the emotional life of
woman. She also focuses upon the nature of intention and
the enormous power of woman, how women’s thinking
differs from men’s, and the role played by psychology in
her life. The feelings of fear and attraction connected
to sensuality or sexuality, homosexuality,
heterosexuality and asexuality are treated with delicate
gracefulness, linking the pleasure of flesh and soul
with the experience of purity and fullness. Finally the
subject of the female warrior and women’s fundamental
and imminently important role in this world at this time
is laid bare. Only the female sage remains now, unveiled
and utterly majestic.
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