Descent into Light

Written by someone suffering from an incurable physical disability from birth, this spiritual testimony tells how Dorothy Fielding has progressed, untutored, into the heights or depths, of contemplative prayer through a series of remarkable "prayer pictures". She later learned to associate these pictures with the Ignatian tradition and, in the form of tapes, these are helping a widening circle of people. After an autobiographical introductory section, edited versions of these tapes make up the bulk of the book. She is, as one reader of the manuscript wrote, "the mystic we all could be".