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Meg Fortune McDonnell has worked as a writer and editor, international speaker, stage and film producer, schoolteacher, priest, war-time vigil correspondent, fine art photographic subject, event manager, dance teacher, personal assistant, legal aide, book indexer, caterer, and street performer.
Meg McDonnell

 
Tasting the Moon

Tasting the Moon: Adventures in the Meaning of Life

by Meg Fortune McDonnell

May 30, 2011
Dandelion Broadcasting
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This is the story of a "no holds barred” pathway through life — from the author’s eccentric childhood, through the tumult of the 1960’s, to the ashram of Adi Da Samraj, the spiritual teacher she encountered in the 70’s. With disarming and raw candor, Meg Fortune McDonnell recounts the ego-deaths and transformations she went through as she followed her unorthodox teacher around the globe — and to uncharted spiritual dimensions not located on the map. To connect her riveting confessions to current events, McDonnell draws on references from “Vanity Fair” to “The Buddhist Bible” and Alanis Morisette to Ramana Maharshi, deftly tracing the recent epoch of our collective spiritual quest along with her personal adventures. The three decades McDonnell spent under the tutelage of her enigmatic teacher were filled with sometimes hair-raising, sometimes hilarious, ultimately uplifting explorations of everything, including: what vampires tell us about the taboo against the spirit and what it really means to be “sexually liberated,” healing debilitating Oedipal wounds and thawing the icy character that freezes out love, uncovering new gender roles and empowering female strengths, dancing as tribal prayer for world peace, recurring and mysterious synchronicities, what true beauty is — in art, friends, & avatars, and blessing meant for everyone. A fascinating life, masterfully told. More here.

This book excels on many levels. Having been a lifelong, voracious reader of books (especially spiritual journeys), I have had my appetite fulfilled on many levels by Tasting the Moon . . . literally!!!

The author brings you into the room with her teacher, a 20th century holy man and crazy-wisdom adept. More astonishing to me, she writes her amazing story with her father as her editor and includes a moving chapter "Finding the Lost Treasure" about a deep healing with her mother.

Meg demonstrates a candid understanding of her flaws and expresses her lessons with Irish humor. She describes spiritual experiences that, to me, are astounding in any age but particularly in the 21st century. This book is a credit to her and honors the spiritual giant that she has devoted her life to.

This book is an extraordinary feat of storytelling and oedipal healing for a child raised in an Irish Catholic family of eight children. Read this book and be instructed, helped and supported in your own healing and spiritual exploration.

Hermes

I laughed and cried and was swept away in wonder . . . this will surely rank as one of the all-time great tributes to any spiritual teacher and to the process of transformation. . . a great gift to humanity.

—Hugh O’Doherty, Harvard JFK School of Government

Going well beyond the bestselling Eat Pray Love, Tasting The Moon tells the story of a “no holds barred” pathway through life — from the author’s eccentric childhood, through the tumultuous 60's, to the ashram of Adi Da Samraj, her spiritual Guru whom she discovered in the 70's.

To connect her riveting confessions to current events, McDonnell draws on diverse references from “Vanity Fair” to “The Buddhist Bible” and Alanis Morisette to Ramana Maharshi, deftly tracing the recent epoch of our collective spiritual quest along with her personal adventures.

The three decades McDonnell spent under the tutelage of her enigmatic master were filled with sometimes hair-raising, sometimes hilarious, ultimately uplifting explorations of everything, including: what vampires tell us about the taboo against the spirit and what it really means to be “sexually liberated,” healing debilitating Oedipal wounds and thawing the icy character that freezes out love, uncovering new gender roles and empowering female strengths, dancing as tribal prayer for world peace, recurring and mysterious synchronicities, what true beauty is — in art, friends, & avatars, and blessing meant for everyone.

A fascinating life, masterfully told.

—Lynnea Bylund, Catalyst House

Meg talks about her book in three series of video clips:

 


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