Michael Henry Dunn's spiritual journey began with heartbreak and a call to monastic life. But a deep conviction that one can be in love with the Divine - passionately, romantically in love - and still find sweet and fulfilling human love as well, led him to seek and find intimacy with the ultimate Soul Mate.
Romancing the Divine is Dunn's deeply moving, intensely personal account of a love affair with the Source of Life: the Goddess who is also God. With honesty and humor, Dunn reveals the personal crisis that led to his spiritual awakening, his experiences meditating and chanting in the company of saints and illuminated souls, and the paths and techniques you can use to share in his love.
What Dunn experienced (and continues to experience) transcends any one religion. He found commonality in his divine love with Indian yogis and Western nuns and discovered inspiration from Christian monastics and the chants of the kirtan yogic tradition. His is an unabashedly romantic love story centered on the Divine Feminine and filled with joy, passion, and a spiritualized and purified erotic energy.
To love the Divine is to discover a lover who, according to Dunn, is "seductive beyond thought of competition." It's a love we all deserve.
About the Author: After training as a classical actor at Juilliard and the University of Illinois, Michael Henry Dunn enjoyed a fifteen-year stage career in his hometown of Chicago, Illinois, until his early thirties, when he answered a deeply personal spiritual call.
Immersing himself in the ashrams of Paramahansa Yogananda, Dunn spent three years as a vegetarian cook at the Lake Shrine Meditation Gardens in Pacific Palisades. For sixteen years, Dunn served as chant and meditation leader at the Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine Temple. He attended the fabled Kumbha Mela spiritual gathering while on pilgrimage in India and was a student of kirtan chanting in the Himalayas.
A leader in the interfaith movement, Dunn has recorded several albums of devotional chanting. He is also a leader in the movement to restore chivalry as a moral force and serves on the council of the lineally restored Order of the Knights Templar. He is a leading spokesman for the Sovereign Court of International Justice, and co-founder of Justice4Humanity.
