Rachel Greene

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Rachel Nora Greene is the author of the poem "Inanna and the Land of No Return."

Inanna and the Land of No Return, by Rachel Nora Greene

July 26, 2018By Rachel Greene

A child retells the legend of the Sumerian goddess Inanna and her descent to the Nether World.

In his heralded poem “Burnt Norton,” T.S. Eliot speaks of “The still point of the turning world,” a near perfect expression of Change and the Changeless. Eliot attended lectures in 1920s London by the Russian philosopher P.D. Ouspensky, featured in this Spring 2019 issue of Parabola; no surprise as the search for that still point is a perennial spiritual quest, one that has inspired seekers from the Buddha to Thoreau, Thomas Merton, and countless others including G.I. Gurdjieff, Ouspensky’s own teacher. Read more>

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Rachel Greene

About the Author

Inanna and the Land of No Return, by Rachel Nora Greene

Learning to Die, by Brother David Steindl-Rast

The Art of Cleaning, by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee and Hilary Hart

Marion Woodman and the Search for the Conscious Feminine, by Patty de Llosa

Hearing the Cries of the World, by Mark Nepo

To Go Beyond Thought, an Interview with Karen Armstrong