Hildegard of Bingen and her vision of the feminine

Abstract

This new vision of mind-body healing continues The Eternal Quest, which introduced this issue of Psychological Perspectives. In this survey of quotations we will trace the rise of current ideas about the role of our hourly (ultradian) and daily (circadian) rhythms of activity and rest, creativity and depression, rejuvenation and illness. These quotations suggest that we are in an exciting period of convergence in which the traditional practices of yoga, meditation, and psychotherapy are intersecting current research at the molecular-genetic level. We will end this survey with some suggestions about the practical application of this new “Yoga of the West.”