In The Shadow Of The Flame

These Three Journeys Take Theater Critic Margaret Croyden To A Polish Forest Retreat Devised By Experimental Theater Director Jerzy Grotowski, Through Intensive Sessions At A Catskills Ashram With Hindu Guru Baba Muktananda, And, Finally, To A Spiritual Teacher In An Israel Divided By Both The Metaphor And The Reality Of War. Each Experience, Powerfully Evoked, Arouses Memories Of Croydens Past - Her Long Forgotten Childhood With Her Jewish Family In Brooklyn, Her Youthful Dreams And Aspirations, And Her Adult Search For Fulfillment And Spiritual Transendence. Each Experience Brings Her Closer To Her Identity As A Woman, A Jew, And A Writer.