Charlene Spretnak

Charlene Spretnak is a cultural historian and ecophilosopher. She is a cofounder of the Green Party in the US and of two branches of the feminist movement: ecofeminism and women's spirituality. She is the author of 8 books: _Lost Goddesses of Early Greece_, _Green Politics_, _The Spiritual Dimension of Green Politics_, _States of Grace_ (chapter on "Embracing the Body"), _The Resurgence of the Real_,_ Missing Mary _(chapter on "Her Mystical Body of Grace"), _Relational Reality_, and _ The Spiritual Dynamic in Modern Art. _She also author of the article "Radical Nonduality in Ecofeminist Philosophy" and edited an anthology: _The Politics of Women's Spirituality _(which includes her concept of body parables). All of her books are concerned with dynamic interrelatedness, with the embedded embodiment of all beings. She lives in Ojai, California, with her husband.