Geraint ap Iorwerth
Jesus the Shaman
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Geraint ap Iorwerth describes himself as ‘an Anglican priest with heretical leanings for over 30 years’.
In 1987 he co-founded the Order of Sancta Sophia, and is currently Director of Hagia Soffia Ashram in Southern Snowdonia, Wales – one of the few inter-faith ashrams in the UK (see www.spiritualitywales.co.uk).
A life-time student, scholar and devotee of Sophiology and Sophia respectively, he has always endeavoured to balance the academic and experiential. He holds an M. Phil. from the University of Wales following his research in theology and psychology, as well as a BA from the Open University with distinction in the study of World Religions, plus a Theology Diploma in Pastoral Studies.
Geraint is not only a regular contributor to TV and Radio in Wales but also regularly appears in the press.
His previously published book, Honest to Goddess (Crescent Books) appeared in 1998.
In addition to his academic pursuits, he works as a spiritual guide, professional masseur and healer.
Jesus the Shaman is a scholarly yet experiential Grail Quest after the author’s understanding of the Grail Myth.
In telling the story of how Sophia is challenging and empowering individuals to create a more spacious and all-embracing kind of spirituality for the 21st century, it offers a different perspective on ‘the goddess’, or divine feminine, and Christianity.
A bridging book, it sets out to ground and substantiate the union-of-opposites in our lives. As such it has an important contribution to make to the alternative spirituality emerging in the West.
In this respect, it is important to place the da Vinci Code phenomenon within its historical context. It mirrors many features common to the emergence of the original Grail Myth in the 12th and 13th Centuries, where an image and core idea were taken from the apocryphal gospels, then adapted and developed by different authors, each putting his own fictitious slant on the tale. As pseudo-scholars and ‘the public’ demanded ever more fantastic tales, these myths were further embellished.
Eventually the Church used the phenomenon to write its own version of the story – witness the Vulgate or monastic version of the Grail Quest.
This book offers a middle path between a traditional Goddess response and a traditional Christian one.
