![]() ![]() Unable to love or to accept love, I had become less than human. Instead of being full of courage, fearless, active, and protective of others, like the initiate of a tribal rite of passage, I was scared stiff. I felt as though I had entered a twilight zone between life and death, and that instead of being transfigured, as I had hoped, I had got the worst of all worlds. “Now it seemed to me that I had indeed died, but I was certainly not bringing forth much fruit. ![]() Instead, in her words, she found the following: “The Spiral Staircase” is an autobiographical account of Karen Armstrong’s journey from seven years in a convent, to her adjustment to the outside world, to her becoming a bestselling author beginning with the book “A History of God.”Īt age seventeen Armstrong entered a convent where she hoped to find religious ecstasy, transcendence and God. ![]()
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