The Flesh and the Fruit: Remembering Eve and the Power of Creative Transgression

I have not been as electrified by a book since Women Who Run with the WolvesLisbeth Cheever-Gessaman, artist and illustrator of The Divine Feminine Oracle

In these pages you will encounter the archetypal Eve-not the literalized Eve that has for so long served as justification for horrific environmental and social injustices, but the mythic Eve who liberates. Weaving in her own lived experience of stepping beyond the boundaries of fundamentalist religion into deeper spiritual sovereignty, Dr. Leilani shows us the power of disobedience to set us free.

Part mythological exploration, part cultural commentary, and part personal memoir, The Flesh and the Fruit shows us the power of creative transgression as we move toward new ways of being and living. Dr. Leilani empowers us to find our own knowing, permission, and blessing as we walk out of the "shoulds" and into our own nature and wildness.

The Flesh and the Fruit is an invitation for us to step into the center of our own circles, to believe in our beauty and inherent worth rather than in the ancient poisonous tale of our fallenness and depravity. Dr. Leilani encourages readers to challenge the hierarchical systems of power that sever us from ourselves, from each other, and from the Earth and to live from our wild knowing.

If, after reading this book, your life hasn't changed and you don't feel renewed and awakened, read it again, more slowly.from the Foreword by Thomas Moore, New York Times bestselling author of Care of the Soul

Author: Vanya Leilani
Publisher: Womancraft Publishing
Published: 10/11/2024
Pages: 178
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.51h x 5.62w x 0.47d
ISBN13: 9781910559963
ISBN10: 1910559962
BISAC Categories:
- Self-Help | Spiritual
- Religion | Biblical Criticism & Interpretation | Old Testament
- Body, Mind & Spirit | Healing | Prayer & Spiritual

About the Author

Vanya Leilani is a depth psychologist, writer, teacher, and storyteller. She holds a PhD in depth psychology with emphasis in Jungian and archetypal studies, has completed a certificate training intensive with Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés, and served as adjunct professor at Pacifica Graduate Institute, teaching on the creative power of archetypes. She has spent decades exploring the threshold where the external "should" in our lives encounter our own wild knowing and un-knowing.

Vanya was born and raised in southeastern Brazil and currently lives in the woods of the Pacific Northwest of the United States.