Love-Fire - A Living Odyssey Into The Mysteries Of Love (Paperback)

Rose de la Hunt is a lover of beauty, word and symbol, and an artist of life. A mother, foster-mother, grandmother, lover, listener and friend. A lifelong seeker, spiritual explorer, ‘quiet revolutionary’ and pioneer, her magical, challenging, at times painful, life-odyssey, and impassioned Love-quest has led her ever deeper into her own heart-knowing, and into the heart of the mysteries of Love.

A social science graduate from the University of Cape Town, for ten intensive years she became involved in overseeing and co-ordinating the services provided by a large 24-hour crisis counselling centre in the city. Then she initiated a small experimental centre that rapidly expanded into the Wellstead: a unique, groundbreaking, inclusive, vibrant, dynamic, multi-faceted venture and venue, networking and resource centre – its open doors welcoming, embracing and serving a great new wave of seekers and explorers during an exhilarating period of awakening consciousness and transition in South Africa and the world. For seventeen years she simultaneously served as editor of Odyssey magazine, South Africa’s first national pioneering, holistic and universal journal – a magazine with soul.

Her own experiential living odyssey was deepened and greatly enriched by her unexpected involvement in two different ‘mystery schools’, at different times, learning from the masters of universal wisdom and being set alight by their living Love-Fire. When a health crisis halted her active service-work in the outer world, she became a free-spirited, creative and contemplative mystic, often at her cottage in the garden of Temenos in McGregor, later befriending cancer; being drawn yet deeper into the heart of Love, its mysteries and dazzling revelations; and experiencing directly for herself the reality, wonder and ecstasy of immersion in Love’s sacred Fire.

She writes openly of the unfolding adventure of her personal, intimate and sacred Love-odyssey; of the interplay between her inner and outer life and experiences; and of the hidden treasures unveiled and revealed in this book which have been described as “extraordinary and profound”