Untie The Strong Woman is a beautiful and poetic audio book about the Immaculate, Holy Mother.
Review: Untie the Strong Woman, Blessed Mother's Immaculate Love for the Wild Soul
Regardless of religious background or spiritual belief system, Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés, expresses the immaculate love and strength of the Blessed, Holy Mother in a very unorthodox, poetic way that resonates with so many in search and seeking Divine Love. Untie the Strong Woman (Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Sound True, February 22, 2011) is an invitation to join with and under the shelter of The Mother, in one of her many disguises and fashions. This is the author’s original adaptation of the Untie the Strong Woman manuscript, recorded live by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés.
"There is a promise Holy Mother, Our Lady makes to us," explains Dr. Estés, "that any soul needing comfort, vision, guidance, or strength can cry out to her, flee to her protection, and thus, Blessed Mother will immediately arrive with veils flying. She will place us under her mantle for refuge, and give us that one thing the world so longs toward: the warmth of The Mother's most compassionate touch, and strong guidance about how to and which way to go, by the soul's lights."
Blessed Mother's Protection
When I was a little girl I went to a Catholic grade school from kindergarten until eighth grade. I Loved it, I really did. I Loved the safety in faith, the protection the small cross I wore around my neck gave me, the innocence that I felt not knowing that I was truly blessed in my ignorance.
What a beautiful place, those Holy Catholic School memories I have, praying for the honer roll and good health for my family. Oh and there was, of course, that one time, that one summer when I prayed for some roller blades, and someone to roller blade with. Funny how it manifested in the fall, when school began and we had some new students in the class. Funny how things happen like that, as though people make wishes simultaneously at the same time and life brings them together. That year I had so much fun, with the new girl, whose innocence matched mine and whose heart was also on fire.
This audio story takes me back to the purity I felt in those younger years, from nuns and priests and teachers who also practiced and had great faith. My rebellion from the spoon-fed Christianity in search for something deeper, the true seed of spirituality came later during my adolescent years, when I began to see the contradictions in the teachings of my cherished Catholic School Upbringing.
"No demure little cabbage, that woman. No paltry, well-behaved carbon dot. No follower of worldly orders. Quite the contrary. Our exemplar.", Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés.
Who is Clarissa Pinkola Estés, PhD?
Clarissa Pinkola Estés (born 27 January 1945) is the author of the bestselling Book Women Who Run With the Wolves, along with over a dozen audio programs from Sounds True. A Jungian psychoanalyst, American poet, post-trauma specialist and a cantadora (keeper of the old stories in the Latina tradition), Dr Pinkola was once a mother on welfare. She is currently the Deputy Managing Editor and columnist writing on politics, spirituality and culture at the news blog TheModerateVoice.com and a columnist at The National Catholic Reporter.
The recipient of numerous awards for her life's work, Pinkola continues to inspire and channel the voice of divine grace. Estés is a spoken word artist in poetry, stories, blessings and psychoanalytic commentary. Her spokenword audios, including Untie the Strong Woman, Blessed Mother's Immaculate Love for the Wild Soul, are passionate, expressive, poetic and therapeutic. She is a voice of compassion, a heart you can trust to pick you up when you have fallen and are feeling lost, beaten and alone.
The Force Of Immaculate Love
“Holy Mother is not meant to be a fence,” writes Estes, “Holy Mother is a gate.”
Untie the Strong Woman is a blend of poetry, blessings, prayers and teachings in the form of story, all interwoven into a beautiful and heart touching expression of the divine Holy Mother. The Holy Mother whose grace and protection is only a call away, a heart beat's distance from her loving embrace.
With wild-hearted compassion, Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés encourages the reader to reveal her wild, true nature, her compassion and strength that is not always quiet and submissive as many would have the Holy Mother portrayed. She speaks out when necessary, she remains quiet when that is what is best. You cannot control her, you cannot manipulate her. Holy Mother is no puppet, nor is she ever absent. She is always with us. Where there is compassion you will find her. Where there is need she will sprout, in one of her guises, in one of her many forms, one of her many voices.
Estés reminds the reader that Blessed Mother cannot be tamed, cannot be silenced, cannot be shut into a wall or desecrated beyond existence. She cannot be destroyed. With the sweetness of the poetry of her words, her voice and her accent that speaks the language of "the people", oh ... the people ... The people whose hearts are broken, or in need, or suffering or impoverished somehow. That is where you will find this Immaculate Heart the most. An audio book so inspiring, it set my own heart aflame once again.
"I know, and I hope with deepest love that you do too, know the Mary, Maria, Mir-yam, Guadalupe of wilder heart, of long journeys with a blurred map, of night fires at the far encampment. Our Lady who, when all the apostles ran away ... she stayed. Blessed Mother, she who is renowned as the one able to wear the flaming, exploding fire lakes of the Sun.", Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés.
In Closing
Brilliant! I am hungry for more Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés. For more information, please visit Sounds True.
Sources:
- Untie the Strong Woman, Blessed Mother’s Immaculate Love for the Wild Soul
- Clarissa Pinkola Estes
- Spoken-Word Audio / AW01723D / 4 CDs / 4 hours
- Spirituality, Women’s Studies
- US $29.95
- ISBN-10: 1-60407-079-X
- ISBN-13: 978-1-60407-079-8
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