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Abstract:
On how intimacy in the Bahá'í community can be created, using Bahá’í scriptures as guideline. We hunger for intimacy, which is a prerequisite for friendship and a key principle in teaching. Cases drawn from experiences of people who feel psychically hurt.
Notes:
Published with permission of the author. This is a draft version that was later expanded and published as a book, Seeking Intimacy in a Diverse Community (George Ronald, 2013). Also available in Dutch translation.

See also the author's Healing the Wounded Soul (US Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 2005).

Also available in Dutch.


Creating Intimacy:
In the Community and With the Seeker

by Phyllis K. Peterson

1998
Download: peterson_creating_intimacy.pdf.
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