By Hadley Meares — 2016
Hildegard of Bingen fought the patriarchy from her cloister.
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CLEAR ALL
During our weekly meetings in the Sun office, editor Sy Safransky and I occasionally stray into philosophical territory. One day, knowing that I’d once studied meditation at a Buddhist monastery in Thailand, Sy handed me a couple of videos of talks by the spiritual teacher Adyashanti.