I was first introduced to the poetry of Mirabai (a 16th century illuminated woman) ten years ago when I set one of her love poems to music (“To Have This” on my Pouring Light CD is available on ITunes). Mirabai won her authenticity by non-conventional and non-institutionalized means. She refused to be governed by no

A thumbnail sketch of the old fight: men vs. women and the inevitable and necessary rise of feminism; the battle of the sexes. But now . . . the new fight, which is actually the ancient and deeper battle: both men and woman must strive for authenticity beyond convention and its constraints to attain inner [...]