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Books by Carol Lee Flinders
"Nobody navigates the intersection of the spiritual and political like Carol Lee Flinders."
– Sue Monk Kidd
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About Us
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Carol Lee Flinders received a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California at Berkeley, specializing in medieval studies. She then spent fifteen years writing about natural foods, co-authoring the popular Laurel's Kitchen cookbooks and writing a weekly syndicated newspaper column.
In 1990 Carol returned to her field of study and wrote Enduring Grace: Living Portraits of Seven Women Mystics. Subsequent books include At the Root of This Longing: Reconciling a Spiritual Hunger and a Feminist Thirst, Rebalancing the World, and Enduring Lives. She has taught courses in mystical literature at UC, Berkeley, and at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley.
Carol is a Fellow of the Spirituality and Health Institute, Santa Clara University, and serves on the Board of Advisors for the REVEAL conference. She is currently adjunct faculty at the Sophia Center in Culture and Spirituality, Holy Names University, Oakland, CA, where she teaches courses on mysticism and contemplative spirituality.
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Tim Flinders, MA, studied English and Sanskrit literature at the University of California, Berkeley and holds a masters degree in Culture and Spirituality. An educator and writer, he has written about meditation, health and spirituality, and Gandhian nonviolence.
He is the author of Sacred Surround: The Thought & Spirituality of Thomas Berry; The RISE Response: Illness, Wellness and Spirituality; and co-author, with Carol, of The Making of a Teacher.His writings on nonviolence appear in Gandhi the Man and Nonviolent Soldier of Islam.
Tim lectures on contemplative spiritualty at the Sophia Center, Holy Names University, Oakland, CA, and is a research fellow at the Spirituality and Health Institute, Santa Clara University, where he has taught courses on meditation and studied its health benefits among college students. He has published numerous scientific articles on meditation and health.
Both Carol and Tim are longtime students of Sri Eknath Easwaran and practitioners of his Eight Point Program of Passage Meditation.
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About Two Rock
MISTAKENLY TRANSLATED by early settlers as "Two Rock," from the Spanish "Dos Piedras," these twin granite outcroppings mark a real place, north of San Francisco, near where we have lived in community for the past forty years.
THE LOCAL MIWOK INDIANS passed between them on their foraging treks between the coastal lowlands and the Sierra foothills. Today there’s a volunteer fire department where the road passes just below the knoll, and dairy cows graze the hillside.
WE LIKE TO THINK that Two Rock was sacred to the Miwok who inhabited the valley below for more than three millennia, presiding over the grasslands that surround it. We made Two Rock the name of our institute because of this sense of a sacred history – a real place, peopled and loved.
IT'S OUR BELIEF that if everyday life is to become sacred, then the places we inhabit must be lived in with commitment and reverence. Medieval European monastics believed this very thing, and took a vow of stabilitas, to stay put. We take no vows ourselves, but we have indeed stayed put.
THE INSTITUTE EXISTS only here, on the web, a virtual but real interchange between like-minded folks who are working for a more peaceable and sustainable future for their children.
Thanks for visiting . . . .
Carol & Tim Flinders
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