by Stephen Levine · Los Libros del Comienzo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788487598388
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In 'Encounters at the Edge,' Stephen Levine invites us to explore the deepest aspects of life and death. Through three years of telephone conversations with people facing the unknown, Levine captures emotions and problems, inviting us to recognize our own resistances. This book integrates death into the context of life, offering a magical and transformative perspective, according to Elisabeth Kübler-Ross.
Stephen Levine was an American poet, author and teacher best known for his work on death and dying. He is one of a generation of pioneering teachers who, along with Jack Kornfield, Joseph Goldstein and Sharon Salzberg, have made the teachings of Theravada Buddhism more widely available to students in the West. Like the writings of his colleague and close friend, Ram Dass, Stephen's work is also flavoured by the devotional practices and teachings of the Hindu Guru Neem Karoli Baba. This aspect of his teaching may be considered one way in which his work differs from that of the more purely Buddhist oriented teachers named above. Allusions in his teachings to a creator, which he variously terms God, The Beloved, The One and 'Uugghh', further distinguish his work from that of other contemporary Buddhist writers.
