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English
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The Place of Knowing : A Spiritual Autobiography
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Bloomington, Indiana
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iUniverse
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[2011 Association for Mormon Letters Winner for Best Autobiography]
Here is urgent information in a world of doubt and a great fear of death. Having been to the place of knowing, Emma Lou Warner Thayne returns from death with a promise to make light as real as dark.
Her stories are alive with connection to the human spirit: with a Hindu monk in a lava temple and the first prophet of Mormonism in the Sacred Grove; with a Russian woman in a cemetery in Leningrad and a Muslim matron in her tent in Palestine; with a new baby meditating on a changing table and a grown grandson finding a Cadillac limousine on a high mountain; with a young painter friend dying of AIDS; sitting on all-male corporate boards and women-only steering committees; with a born-again Christian in a searching conversation on a train and a young captain on leave from the war in Iraq; or experiencing light and "Danny Boy" in an Irish cathedral--always with a transcendant expectation.