My friend Rabia Erduman's VEILS OF SEPARATION is a journey through the landscapes of the inner life. She calls it a fairy tale, though it seems to me not so much a fairy tale as an allegory, a modern, female Pilgrim?s Progress. But unlike Christian's journey to salvation, Rabia's is a tantric journey to an integrated self. By the end of the book, all the disparate elements of the self have merged into a sense of spiritual wholeness. - from the Foreword by Stephen Mitchell.