From Deepak Chopra, to M.K. Ghandi, to Dan Millman, we have had no shortage of male gurus. But for the first time in thousands of years, women are emerging as spritual leaders, writes local author Rita Robinson.
Robinson released her book "Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Wisdom: The Feminine Face of Awakening" on Sept. 23 and held a book signing in Telluride on Oct. 3. In her book she introduces a dozen female sages, while she chronicles her own spiritual journey.
Robinson has lived in the Telluride region for three-plus decades, working as a radio journalist, a real estate developer, and ultimately as a therapist and counselor. Her specialty as a therapist is with hospice care for terminally ill patients, and in her own search for enlightenment she has looked not just at mortality, but also studied shamanism, the occult, meditation, Buddhism, Satsang and various new age churches. It was during these studies that she encountered the unlikely heroines in her book.
The same gentle voice that guides her patients and that read the local news on KOTO for many years takes the reader along on a virtual voyage that ultimately ends within, and the honest spiritual examination is worth the trip.
