About the Website Author
Linda Brown Holt is an independent scholar in the field of comparative religious literature, and graduate faculty mentor and capstone coordinator with Thomas Edison State College. Author of the book Viewing Meister Eckhart through the Bhagavad Gita, Holt has written articles that appeared in The New York Times, Qi Journal, Yoga Journal, Liberal Education, The Empty Vessel and other publications. She is the author of chapters in the books Letting Go: Living without a Net and Seeing through Symbols: Insights into Spirit, both published by Swedenborg Foundation Publishers. She has lectured on distance learning and communicating with adult students at the University of Vienna, Charles University in Prague and the University of Innsbruck. Author of The Lilac Thief, a collection of poetry, she has published two novels under a penname, one of which has been translated into Spanish (search "Tigre Blanco") and published by Ediciones La Llave (http://www.edicioneslallave.com/). She holds an earned Doctor of Letters degree focusing on comparative religious literature from Drew University, an M.A. from California State University-Dominguez Hills and a B.A. with honors from Rider University. She is a liberal Christian by religion, a Western Daoist by inclination and a student of classical Yoga and Vedanta for more than 40 years, and is a huge fan of H.D. Thoreau.
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