Il sentiero delle cinque pietre

Una baby boomer italoamericana, combattuta tra i rigori del protestantesimo e l’indulgenza del cattolicesimo, racconta uno scorcio d’America e d’Italia dal dopoguerra fino a oggi. È nell’area della Baia di San Francisco, nella Silicon Valley del business frenetico, che inizia il suo viaggio guidato dalle cinque pietre, che la mano di Dio le mostra in sogno. La sua singolare carriera professionale si intreccia alla ricerca spirituale: dalla Apple computer a un campo-scuola buddista, dai bambini malati terminali all’orientamento pastorale in un carcere femminile federale. La prova più importante arriva con la diagnosi di tumore. Dopo la guarigione, si è ritirata in un borgo italiano. An Italian-American baby boomer, raised with the rigors of evangelical Protestantism, relates of her experiences in the United States and Italy from the 1960’s up to current times. Her search for meaning led her to the mecca of her generation: California. Here she was awakened to her spiritual life guided by five stones that God had shown her in a dream. While pursuing her career at Apple computer, she attended workshops at a Zen Buddhist School in New Mexico. She was able to care for terminally ill children and work as a chaplain at a women’s federal prison. Her most important spiritual test came with the diagnosis of cancer. After healing, she retired in an Italian village. Susan Pohl è una consulente manageriale per Kaiser Permanente e Stanford University. Ha un Master in Psicologia dell’Università del Tennessee, un Master of Divinity della Pacific School of Religion di Berkeley, California, e il titolo di Doctor of Ministry del San Francisco Theological Seminary di San Anselmo, California. Oggi vive con il marito a Umbertide, in Italia. Susan Pohl is an executive management consultant for Kaiser Permanente and Stanford University. She has a Master of Science in Psychology from the University of Tennessee, a Master of Divinity from Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, CA and a Doctor of Ministry from San Francisco Theological Seminary in San Anselmo, CA. She currently lives with her husband in Umbertide, Italy.