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The Sister From Below: When the Muse Gets Her Way<\/strong><\/em>
\nby Naomi Ruth Lowinsky<\/p>\n

Who is this Sister from Below? She\u2019s certainly not about the ordinary business of life: work, shopping, making dinner. She speaks from other realms. If you\u2019ll allow, She\u2019ll whisper in your ear, lead your thoughts astray, fill you with strange yearnings, get you hot and bothered, send you off on some wild goose chase of a daydream, eat up hours of your time. She\u2019s a siren, a seductress, a shape-shifter . . . Why listen to such a troublemaker? Because She is essential to the creative process: She holds the keys to the doors of our imaginations and deeper life\u2014the evolution of Soul.<\/p>\n

The Sister emerges out of reverie, dream, a fleeting memory, a difficult emotion\u2014she is the moment of inspiration\u2014the muse. Naomi Ruth Lowinsky writes of nine manifestations in which the muse visits her, stirring up creative ferment, filling her with ghosts, mysteries, erotic teachings, the old religion\u2014bringing forth her voice as a poet. Among these forms of the muse are the \u201cSister from Below,\u201d the inner poet who has spoken for the soul since language began. The muse also appears as the ghost of a grandmother Naomi never met, who died in the Shoah\u2014a grandmother with \u2018unfinished business.\u2019 She visits in the form of Old Mother India, whose culture Naomi visited as a young woman. She cracks open her Western mind, flooding her with many gods and goddesses. She appears as Sappho, the great lyric poet of the ancient world, who engages her in a lovely midlife fantasy. She comes as \u201cDie \u00dcr Naomi,\u201d an old woman from the biblical story for which Naomi was named, who insists on telling Her version of the Book of Ruth. And in the end, surprisingly, the muse appears in the form of a man, a long dead poet whom Naomi loved in her youth.The Sister from Below is a personal story, yet universal, of giving up a creative calling because of life\u2019s obligations, and being called back to it in later life. This Fisher King Press publication describes the intricate patterns of a rich inner life; it is a traveler\u2019s memoir, with outer journeys to Italy, India and a Neolithic cave in Bulgaria, and inward journeys to biblical Canaan and Sappho\u2019s Greece; it is filled with mythic experience, a poet\u2019s story told. The Sister conveys the lived experience of the creative life, a life in which active imagination\u2014the Jungian technique of engaging with inner figures\u2014is an essential practice.<\/p>\n

The Sister speaks to all those who want to cultivate an unlived promise\u2014those on a spiritual path, those interested in a Jungian approach to life, those who are filled with the urgency of poems that have to be written, paintings that must be painted, journeys that yearn to be taken\u2026<\/p>\n

In addition to The Sister from Below: When the Muse Gets Her Way and The Motherline: Every Woman\u2019s Journey to Find Her Female Roots<\/em>, Naomi Ruth Lowinsky is the author of numerous prose essays, many of which have been published in Psychological Perspectives<\/em> and The Jung Journal<\/em>. She has had poetry published in many literary magazines and anthologies, among them After Shocks: The Poetry of Recovery<\/em>, Weber Studies<\/em>, Rattle<\/em>, Atlanta Review<\/em>, Tiferet<\/em> and Runes<\/em>. Several of her poetry collections have\u00a0published by Scarlet Tanager Books and il piccolo editions. Naomi is a Jungian analyst in private practice and poetry and fiction editor of Psychological Perspectives.<\/p>\n

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\nThe Sister From Below: When the Muse Gets Her Way<\/em><\/strong>
\nPaperback: 248 pages
\nPublisher: Fisher King Press
\n1st edition
\nPublication Date: June 15, 2009
\nLanguage: English
\nISBN-10: 098103442X
\nISBN-13: 978-0981034423<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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