Traditional biographies are written in third person, present the facts of their subjects' lives, and provide a critical analysis. Summoned is different. While I researched traditional sources, each woman in this book speaks in her own voice to tell her story. For the last one hundred years, science and technology have been the twin gods of the modern world and the focus has been on validating evidence produced by the experimental method. The natural feminine energies of intuition, vision, empathy, and creation have been regarded as unnecessary, sentimental and extraneous to the progress of the human race. As we enter the new millennium, these are the very energies needed to heal our society. Women must break free of the limiting stereotypes that have fettered them and get into action. Spiritual growth is a process, so let us begin.
Toni Ortner has had fourteen books published by fine small presses. She lives in Brattleboro, Vermont where she is a board member of Write Action, a nonprofit advocacy group that seeks to strength a community of writers in the tri state region of South Eastern Vermont. She hosts the Write Action Radio Show the fourth Sunday of each month on 107.7 FM from 5-6 pm where she interviews writers and they read their work. The show can be streamed from www.wvew.org
Summoned by Goose River Press and Writing with Our Blood by Moon Publishing Company were published in 2012. In 2013 A White Page Demands Its Letters and Traveling, a Perspective will be published by unbound books.com
Her website is toniortner.com if you need more information about how to order her books as either soft cover or e books.
Spiritual Path, Famous Women, Saints, Trust, God, Divine, Inspiration, Faith
