Diaries of a Young Mystic

Lucy Oliver

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Lucy Oliver
27 March 2024

Autobiography: general; Memoirs; Mysticism; Gender studies: women; Mysticism, magic & ritual

"This unusual autobiography is an intimate first-person chronicle of emotional growth and spiritual search from the diaries of a young woman living and studying in Oxford in the late 1970's, interlaced with a contemporary commentary from herself fifty years later at the age of 72 when she rediscovered the forgotten diaries. As an older woman, in the pages of the diaries she was again immersed in the mellow beauty of the ancient university town, and the delights and despairs of her own youthful quest to find and articulate a meaningful framework for life and loving during six seminal years.

The wisdom of hindsight makes these diaries much more than just a trip down memory lane. Throughout the narrative, intertwining voices of Youth and Age create a profound and sometimes searing portrayal of love, loss and the quest for wisdom, catalysed by a combination of academic learning and direct perception.

Oxford itself, the ""town of dreaming spires"" is an evocative backdrop, and almost a protagonist in its own right in this fresh and poetic evocation before the sprawl of modern developments and the impact of mass tourism."

By: Lucy Oliver
Imprint: Lucy Oliver
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 133mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 308g
ISBN: 9798224268894
Pages: 270
Publication Date: 27 March 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

After leaving Australia in 1972, Lucy settled in Oxford and began an Ethnology diploma and three years D. Phil research in sacred symbolism and Zoroastrianism. Simultaneously she began esoteric studies and practice, and was a founder member of the Saros Foundation for the Perpetuation of Knowledge 1978-2001 and High Peak Meditation. Her first two books give details of this background. She teaches classic non-denominational meditation, and trained in a coaching method working with metaphor and symbol called Symbolic Encounters.

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Diaries of a Young Mystic

Lucy Oliver

$31.95 $28.97

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