PHOTOGRAPHY - Lisa Levart
Lisa Levart’s photographs have been published in Architectural Digest, Dance Magazine, Metropolitan Home, Modern Bride, New York Magazine, Oprah Magazine, Time Magazine, The Knot, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New York Post, and has been featured in numerous exhibitions word-wide including The Kiek de Kok Photography Museum, Tallin, Estonia; Gallery Verita, Tokyo, Japan; The Alternative Museum, New York City; The Burden Gallery, New York City; Art in General, New York City; Edwin Zoller Gallery, Penn State University; Rockland Center for the Arts, Nyack, New York, The Brownson Gallery, Purchase, New York, The Hopper House, Nyack, New York and The Union Square Gallery, New York City.

Her work has been featured in many books, including: “Living with Art”, McGraw-Hill; “The Body In Question”, Aperture; “Out of Martha's House”, Guaraldi/Nuova Compagnia; “Crones Don’t Whine”, Conari Press; “Climbing The Mango Tree”, Knopf; and “Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women” Farrar, Strauss and Giroux.

TEXT - Betty De Shong
Betty De Shong Meador is a Jungian analyst, member and past president of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. She has served on the faculties of the California Institute of Integral Studies and New College, both in San Francisco, and California School of Professional Psychology in San Diego. She is currently adjunct faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara.

Dr Meador’s translations of Sumerian myth and poetry appear in her book “Uncursing the Dark”, Chiron Publications, 1992, “Inanna - Lady of Largest Heart”, University of Texas Press, 2000, and the forthcoming “On Your Radiant Site - The Sumerian Temple Hymns of Enheduanna”, University of Texas Press

She directed a performance piece of sacred marriage texts from Sumer, presented in several California cities, and has read and performed with actor and director Olympia Dukakis in an on-going collaboration of the ancient poems and myths of the Sumerian goddess Inanna.

FOREWORD - Jean Shinoda Bolen
Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D. is a psychiatrist, Jungian analyst in private practice, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of California Medical Center, and an internationally known lecturer. She is the author of “Crones Don't Whine”, “Goddesses in Older Women”, “The Millionth Circle”, “ The Tao of Psychology”, “Goddesses in Everywoman”, “ Gods in Everyman”, “Ring of Power”, “Crossing to Avalon”, and “Close to the Bone”.