The World is a Waiting Lover
by Trebbe Johnson
Foreword by Thomas Moore

1-57731-479-4
ISBN13/EAN 978-1577-31479-0
$14.95 (Canada Yes)
Trade Paper
256pp, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
Personal Growth/Psychology
SELF-HELP / Personal Growth/General
SEL031000
Published by the New World Library

"Trebbe Johnson has written a beautiful journey of love, desire, and inspiration, a spiritual search for the Beloved in the human heart."
-Judy Collins, singer, songwriter, author, and activist

Through a profound personal encounter, Trebbe Johnson discovered that erotic longing is often linked to a greater, more soulful longing, and that following that longing, which she calls the Beloved, can lead to a more compassionate - and passionate - engagement with the world.

Steeped in Western and Eastern myth, romantic imagery, and Jungian psychology, Johnson uses her own story to examine the shared human experience and to help readers understand the underlying meaning and purpose behind their own life choices and mysterious allurements. Though a personal story, the book weaves a modern myth of its own, about the different guises (and occasional disguises) of the Beloved and the obstacles, mirages, enchantments, and treasures encountered on the search for its elusive embrace.

With warmth and wisdom, Johnson shows how to overcome those obstacles, embrace the Beloved, and find new meaning at work, in relationships, and in life.

" Like all good books, this one is seductive... It entices you to fall into your own personal mystery, to let your spirit take flesh and to let your ordinary life find its spiritual core... Trebbe Johnson's writing is personal and mythic, social and mystical, concrete and confessional. It is honest and relentless in the prusuit of the winged Eros that hovers behind every momentary attraction and persistent obsession.."

From the foreward by Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul