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THE LIVING SPIRIT OF THE CRONE: TURNING AGING INSIDE OUT. Sally Palmer Thomason. Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Fortress, 2000. Pp. 154 + x, pb, $16.95. Reviewed by J. Harold Ellens. Like How To Manuals on everything under the sun, books on the stages human development, being of a certain geriatric care, and the like, seem to have proliferated over the last decades. Most How To Manuals are worse than useless because they tend to be built on hot air and have no effect except to make the reader feel more hopeless at not being able to get the results predicted by the book, just as the prevaricating writer was not able to do either. However, some books on the stages the unfolding human life have been really useful. James Fowler's Stages Faith is permanent value, Robert Fuller's Religion and the Life Cycle was probably the most illuminating book I have ever read, and the work Piaget, Kohlberg, and Erikson is, course, quintessential revelation. In rank with these masterpieces, and consummately operational practicality, is this work S. P. Thomason. Former dean the Meeman Center for Special Studies at Rhodes College in Memphis, she has written and taught much on the issue women aging. book is her best, both scientifically and in terms its applied It is highly readable, wisely organized, and gratifyingly illustrated. She rescues the sacred status and wisdom from a culture that fears, avoids, denies, degrades, and demeans people as they age. In this passionate and insightful view women aging, she traces our culture's cult youth and its distorted views to modern science, modern medicine, and modern merchandising. These tend to treat as pathology rather than as natural progression and as opportunity for deeper, fuller, wiser, more contented living. Using personal experiences and stories from dozens women she interviewed, Thomason proposes aging from the inside out, creatively embracing the spiritual, relational, and physical renewal that can come with it. She suggests that the living spirit the healthy human is the spirit wisdom and gratification-of completing oneself. Larry Dossey, a physician who wrote The Extraordinary Healing Power Ordinary Things, said Thomason's book, Denying the process puts us in opposition to nature, which is always a guarantee for failure ... Thomason gives us a view that is sane, scientific, and sensible. In our youth-possessed age, we would do well to listen to her wisdom. Phyllis Tickle, The Graces We Remember, declares that This book really does deliver what its title promises.... Those us who have been granted long life will find in these generous pages the confirmation our own experiences ... those who have not attained ... maturity will find ... an informing prophet and welcome guide. …
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