During my staycation I read The Wisdom of Wilderness, by Gerald May. I highly recommend it. Gerald May was a psychiatrist and a senior fellow in contemplative theology and psychology at the Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation in Bethesda, Maryland. He wrote many books and articles blending spirituality and psychology. He writes of his experiences camping solo in the wilderness of the Allegheny mountains. He says he was called into wilderness and guided by a Presence that he names “The Power of the Slowing.” He equates this Presence and its guidance with Wisdom. I was captured by his experience and …
