Love and the Goddess by Mary Elizabeth Coen
Pearls of wisdom permeate Mary Elizabeth Coen's Love & the Goddess, available on Amazon . A story of self-discovery, groping, spiritual enlightenment, sensual pleasure, bad sex (from a poor choice of love match, rather than the style of writing - which is strong), great fashion sense, gay friends, and online dating that is often - as suggested here - funny, this book has a depth rarely found in similar novels. It's full of overt wisdom as Kate travels on her journey. But there are a number of subtextual pearls of wisdom too: Listen to the message and not the messenger. One of the many "gurus" the heroine encounters, in a Peruvian town, is scathing in his views of both Christianity and the locals who built their homes on flood-prone riverbanks. While he shows little by way of an enlightened spirit, he makes a cogent point about the masculinisation of the divine by the Abrahamic religions. The sacred-feminine aspects of humanity were more readily embraced by other...