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"Eternal feminine wisdom synchronizes the human heartbeat with the heartbeat of the universe. The Dalai Lama famously proclaimed that Western Women can save the world. But many modern women (and men) are painfully dissociated from Sophia, their inner spring of feminine wisdom and the primal source of their power and nurturance. Western women from around the globe have deep archetypal roots that have lain dormant after millennia of patriarchal control. Sophia awaits collective rebirth and her portal for rebirth is through the heart. Sophia, who the ancient Greeks regarded as the goddess of wisdom, represents a threshold through which we can access the deep reserves of archetypal wisdom veiled within our hearts. ""The eternal feminine hithers us on"" Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust II To reveal this wisdom, we must open ourselves to methods beyond logos, the masculine principle of logic and structure that underlies the scientific approaches characteristic of our ""enlightened"" age. Paradoxically, as we begin to lift Sophia's veil, we encounter scientific profundity, proving that masculine and feminine are not fundamentally at odds. Sophia does not replace logos but instead offers a balancing perspective, a wisdom beyond sense perceptions. Through Sophia, the wisdom of the heart accelerates the evolution of humanity from one-sided logos to incorporate new forms of awareness -and through our collective evolution we also heal the soul of the world, anima mundi."

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Taylor's Sophia is truly a book to be read by medics and psychotherapists as well as anybody with a heart condition. It offers a competent, intelligent, sensitive passage through the quarrels of our time by addressing the complexities of the multiple forms of connection between body and soul that is responsible for heart coherence. Taylor draws upon a wealth of scholarship and clinical experience to capture the essence of what heals, and what kills the human heart. She captures the transcendent dimension that has never been explored with such thought-provoking arguments and elegant style. After reading this book, the healer as well as the patient will understand why the actual emphasis on diet, medicine, exercise, is radically insufficient to grasp why some hearts heal and some don't. As many many wisdom traditions have repeatedly taught, the heart has intelligence unknown to the brain; it is urgent that we learn from it. Ginette Paris, Ph.D. author of Depth Psychology after Neuroscience (Routledge).

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Dr. Anne Elizabeth Taylor works at the intersection of Neurobiology, Mythology, and Wisdom Traditions. Her focus is on the heart and its transformational role in healing psyche, soma, and anima mundi (mind, body, and the soul of the earth). As a former Engineering Director for a Seattle-based heart monitoring company, Anne is well versed in the Western mechanistic view of the heart. And yet, she felt an inner calling to bear witness to the profound archetypal and spiritual potentials that lie within one's heart, and their broader significance for humanity. Anne holds a B.S. in Medical Biology from S.U.N.Y. and a Ph.D. in Mythological Studies with emphasis in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. She is a KRI certified Kundalini yoga teacher and a licensed HeartMath provider. Anne lives and works on an island off the coast of Washington State.

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