The Mystic Heart of Easter: A Four-Day Journey Through Love, Death, and Rebirth

#1 New Release in Mysticism, now expanded in a Second Edition.Easter is a map of how transformation moves through every human life: love, death, the unbearable silence of not-knowing, and something rising that could not have been predicted from inside the dark.The Mystic Heart of Easter guides you through the four most charged days of the Christian year - Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday - as a living practice rather than distant history. Drawing on Christian mysticism, Tantra, depth psychology, and contemplative practice, Christine Marie Mason walks beside you through each threshold with meditations, embodied practices, and the voices of fellow travelers.New in the Second Edition: The Passion Walk - a walking meditation through all fourteen Stations of the Cross, each read through four lenses: moral, political, esoteric and Tantric, and depth psychology. A portable pilgrimage for Holy Week or any season of loss.Pentecost: The Overlooked 50-Day Map - a complete new chapter on integrating shattering experience, tracing the six movements the tradition gives us for moving from the locked room to the open street. For anyone metabolizing grief, ending, or awakening.Also new: an editorial preface on the author's forty-year journey through the tradition, refinements throughout, and larger print for comfortable reading.For readers with Christian roots seeking deeper meaning, practitioners of yoga and meditation curious about the Christian mysteries, and anyone navigating loss, uncertainty, or rebirth. Book One of the Mystic Heart Series.