Ep. 179 - The Power of Women Spiritual Teachers with Erica Bassani
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Ethan Nichtern discusses the significance of women spiritual teachers with Erica Bassani, exploring her new book and personal spiritual journey.
After a brief memorial to the late Tenzin Robert Thurman , Ethan welcomes author and seeker Erica Bassani to discuss her new book, Women in Love with the Divine . Erica's book explores what it means to be a woman committed to a relationship with the sacred in today's world. On a quest to answer this question for herself, Erica Bassani shares stories from her encounters with a dozen women spiritual teachers from Buddhist, Taoist, Hindu, Christian, Muslim, Jewish, and Nondual traditions. They discuss her own spiritual journey, beginning with the study of the earliest Buddhist teachings, and explore her encounters and interviews with women wisdom holders from a wide variety of traditions. Erica Bassani is a writer based in Italy, and the author of the recently released Women in Love with the Divine . A graduate of the Academy of Storytelling in Turin, she spent a year living in a Theravadan Buddhist monastery at the age of 23. Since then, she has turned to female spiritual teachers from diverse traditions to help her navigate her inner journey. She created the Women Awakening Project —an initiative that highlights the wisdom of female spiritual role models and explores spiritual…
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