The Red Thread

This book is a collection of stories, that describe the paths that people chose to heal their lives, bodies, and relationships. It also describes the accidents on a social, Physical, and emotional level that people experience and which cause the need for healing. The stories were experienced and collected at a Muslim Pilgrimage center of a Sufi (Suhrawardi) order in Gujarat. The field trips during which this material was coll3ected took place between 1979 and 1982. Financial support came from the German research Association and the university of Hamburg. For the German version of this book the author was a awarded the Rabindranath Tagore Price of the German-Indo Society in 1996.