Praise for Avalon Within

Mystics and activists, scholars and spiritual leaders across the earth are seeking today to rediscover the wisdom of indigenous ways of knowing. In the context of that yearning, Jhenah Telyndru invites us to remember and reclaim the legacy of Avalon, sacred landscape to which women once came—and now come again—to take full possession of their own divine power and wisdom, too long buried beneath the weight of religious traditions crafted without their insight or participation as bearers of holy memory. Reading of Avalon, of her Goddesses, her priestesses, awakens the desire to know again the ancient mysteries. Jhenah Telyndru interweaves her careful Celtic scholarship with illumination born of having guided many, many women through the mists that had hidden from them their birthright. This is both a reference book and a sacred resource, a well of information and of inspiration.

- Rev. Elizabeth Davenport, Ph.D.
Associate Dean of Religious Life - University of Southern California

The Arthurian legends, dense with symbols evocative to western minds, like the search for the Holy Grail, are perhaps the greatest story of indigenous European mythology; they have been told and retold through the centuries, in our time fascinating creative scholars like Carl Jung, Marion Zimmer Bradley, and Joseph Campbell. In Avalon Within, Jhenah Telyndru, continues this tradition, traversing the borders of depth psychology and spiritual formation to provide the practices and theoretical formulations which can empower women whose hearts have been awakened by the archetypal pattern of the ancient Priestesses of Avalon. If, in some ancient day, woman gave the apple of Avalon to man, in this book she may begin to learn how to bring it home again, recreating her self-sovereignty and restoring balance to human cultures and to the earth herself. And, in this real contemporary quest, we women may find ourselves once again the sovereigns of own bodies and our own souls, enlivening our own lands.

- Anne Benvenuti, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology, Philosophy, and Religious Studies - Cerro Coso College
Affiliated Scholar, Center for Feminist Research, USC

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