Thousands of Years of Prayers - by Julie Dunlop (Paperback)

About the Book

"Has someplace faraway ever called to you relentlessly, beckoning you to explore? Journey across time and space with the poems in Thousands of Years of Prayers to India. Written as letters and invocations to River Gaçngåa, the poems in Thousands of Years of Prayers join an ancient tradition of poetry flowing from River Gaçngåa's grace. The journey that unfolds is both individual and universal as time and space dissolve in inexplicable ways in the abiding presence of River Gaçngåa. Flowing with pråaòna, the poems invite us into a sacred awareness of the ephemeral nature of life and the divinity that is born when we embrace each moment, each breath, each step of the journey as fully as possible with gratitude, surrender, and faith"--

Book Synopsis

Has someplace faraway ever called to you relentlessly, beckoning you to explore? Journey across time and space with the poems in Thousands of Years of Prayers to India. Written as letters and invocations to River Gaṅgā, the poems in Thousands of Years of Prayers join an ancient tradition of poetry flowing from River Gaṅgā's grace. The journey that unfolds is both individual and universal as time and space dissolve in inexplicable ways in the abiding presence of River Gaṅgā. Flowing with prāṇa, the poems invite us into a sacred awareness of the ephemeral nature of life and the divinity that is born when we embrace each moment, each breath, each step of the journey as fully as possible with gratitude, surrender, and faith.

Review Quotes

"A river is a constant continuous flow of eternity that is moving moment to moment in the eternal present. Thousands of Years of Prayers will unfold the journey of the inner river of life in the divine presence. This book of poetry is coming from the love of eternity and the river of moment to moment awareness where no thoughts or feelings can enter the mind. It is truly the river of no mind."

-Dr. Vasant Lad, BAM&S, MASc, founder and director of the Ayurvedic Institute in the United States and Vasanta Institute of Ayurveda (VIOA) in India; author of Strands of Eternity and the Textbook of Ayurveda series

"Julie Dunlop's poems in Thousands of Years of Prayers flow and change like the river itself, swirling with fresh impressions upon multiple readings. This illuminating collection of poems, composed as a series of letters or songs to India's River Ganga, displays a deeply profound awareness of the river's metaphysical and metaphoric powers inspired by the poet's experiences. The poems engage the reader with sensory imagery combining both raw and reverent sights, holy and horrific sounds, fragrant and decaying smells, and bitter and savory tastes, all resounding with holistically healing spiritual revelations that give pause for musing on the timeless harmony and equanimity of death and life personified in the mighty river's flow. Thousands of Years of Prayers synthesizes East with West, ancient with modern, art with science, and the physical world with metaphysical transcendence. Dunlop's exquisite meditations on body, mind, and spirit can be read over and over again as rejuvenating vehicles of healing.

-Patrick Houlihan, PhD, Professor Emeritus of English; poet and musician