Cathedrals of the Spirit: The Messages of Sacred Places

In Cathedrals of the Spirit, T. C. McLuhan takes us on a pilgrimage to the spiritual centers of the earth – sacred sites both natural and man-made that hold deep mystical histories and can serve as focusing points in the quest for self-knowledge. Interspersing her own observations with the voices of philosophers, poets, writers, saints, and sinners from Buddha to Thoreau, McLuhan enters into both the geographical and metaphysical terrain of such sanctified places as the grand temples of the Yunkang caves in northern China, the ancient rock formations of the American Southwest, and the mysterious density of the tropical rain forests. Illustrated with sixty remarkable black-and-white photographs by Eliot Bowen, Cathedrals of the Spirit reveals the sacred landscapes that rest within both Nature and the human spirit.