Download or read book Sister Clare's Lover written by Birrell Walsh and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-12-14 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sister Clare's Lover: A Romance of Catholic TantraCatholic Tantra? Can such a thing be?Father Shalgry is a priest in trouble with his Church - he has written a sympathetic book trying to understand the American Spiritualist movement. He is in trouble another way - his empathy, his sense of the energy of people and situations, is so strong that he must take medications to mute it.His bishop surprisingly sends him to find the origin of an intensely sexual tantra-like devotion to Jesus that has grown up in the convents. His journey will lead him through trying to understand, through service and friendship and experiencing the movement of energy, to falling irresistibly in love with a French-Indian woman. And then he must choose...Birrell Walsh, Ph.D., earned his doctorate in comparative religion in 1999. In 2003 Crossroad Publishing published his Praying for Others. A sequel to Sister Clare, ILLUMINATING FOUR CITIES, is also published by lulu.com