Sophia Sutras

In her latest work, Parrish-Harra anticipates the current fascination with Sophia (The Da Vinci Code, etc.) as she distills centuries-worth of spiritual wisdom into one remarkable, accessible volume. Three years in the making, Sophia Sutras is the culmination of a lifetime of experience living, studying, and teaching students how to access the divine feminine. Drawing on the insight of a multiplicity of thinkers and traditions, Rev. Parrish-Harra succeeds in tying them together with the thread of their origins: Sophia herself.

Excerpts from reviews:
• "Sophia Sutras: Introducing Mother Wisdom is one of the few books of lasting value in this genre. It goes beyond the familiar litany of biblical and other passages referring to Chokmah/Sophia to explore Sophia’s presence in–and impact on–humanity and the world. This presence is depicted as the softer healing, transformative, enlightening force that complements the harder force of rational knowledge that has dominated western civilization. Sophia’s presence is sensed in “’creativity,’ ‘intuition,’ ‘impulses,’ ‘hunches,’ ‘gut feelings,’ or ‘inner knowing’” [p.22].
  
  "Carol Parrish-Harra does not invoke Sophia as an alternative to the divine images and symbols of Christianity, as a goddess to satisfy the needs of feminists who have rejected Christian patriarchy. Rather she presents Sophia as a necessary complement to those images and symbols, without which we miss essential elements of the message of Christ. In writing this excellent book Parrish-Harra draws both on her extensive knowledge of esotericism and on her own insights–demonstrative in a powerful, evocative way the creative potential that springs from the synthesis of Logos and Sophia.”
  –from review in The Esoteric Quarterly, Winter 2007