Maryanne Bilham

Divine Eros originally began as an attempt to better understand the direct relationship women mystics of the past millennium have had with the Divine.  As we explored these women’s stories, we began to discover a common thread connecting them regardless of the culture or time period in which each woman lived. This discovery was quite simple yet profound. Each of these women’s lives and teachings focused upon qualities of the heart. This heart wisdom is often hidden in our culture today behind the face of technology and the arm of reason. In Divine Eros we look to these women’s stories to remind us of this heart wisdom and to prompt us to question what role these qualities play in our own lives. Finally, these stories remind us that the heart is the doorway to our own direct connection with the divine and to our own capacity as mystic.

Photographer, Maryanne Bilham, began her photographic career in Auckland, New Zealand. She had her first solo show Ancient Dreams in Hong Kong where she lived for 9 years. Maryanne and partner Robert Knight have photographic installations on the outside of 100 guitar centers throughout the U.S. Her work has also been on display at the Grammy Art of Music exhibit at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas and the Kodak Rock X-posed exhibit at the Rio Las Vegas. Maryanne was also recently part of an exhibition of Album Art at the San Francisco Art Exchange. In 2003 she received 2nd place in the International Photography Awards’ “Underwater Category” for Christina the Astonishing. 

Writer, Dawn Thompson, has a BA in Journalism from the University of Oregon and a MA in Creation Spirituality from Naropa University. She also studied psychology in Switzerland, where she resided for many years. She currently lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband where she is the “Positive Directions Coordinator” for Cascade AIDS Project, an organization that serves individuals living with HIV/AIDS. Dawn is the author of Light Looking at Itself and is currently working on a book of poetry entitled The Physics of Thought.  

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