The Butterfly Book
The Inner Journey to the Beloved
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What follows is a love story that also happens to be true. Every day for over a month, I was inspired to write letters to someone that I had never met. In fact, when I started, I wasn’t even sure that he existed. This someone was my “unknown Beloved” and I wrote to him because I wanted to believe in him, forge a connection with him, and ultimately, attract the flesh-and-bones realness of him into my life. All of this happened. He became real to me and I fell in love with him. And then, one day, he showed up. Over twelve years later, we are still and gratefully together. Although our “happily ever after” has not always been easy (this is, after all, a true story and not a fairy tale), our life together keeps getting better. And our love for each other is in depth and breadth and beauty beyond what I could have imagined.
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“In highly sensual and flowing poetic prose, Elizabeth’s love story will inspire the reader towards deeper, more honest and authentic ways of loving.”
- Renelle West, Author of Life with a Buckskinner
Each day for more than a month, Elizabeth wrote letters to someone she’d never met, and wasn’t even sure existed. The Butterfly Book tells her story of falling in love with this beloved stranger first through the letters and the heart’s privileged entry to the realm of imagination—and then meeting him in “real time,” where together they could explore love and passion face-to-face.
This book is for those called to the spiritual path—the yoga of embodied love. It is for anyone who has ever longed for a relationship in which you could love freely, fully, and fearlessly. If you have not yet met your beloved, this book will offer tools and inspiration for bringing joyful, wholehearted intimacy into your life. And for those who have already met the Beloved—may you find in these pages inspiration and encouragement to forever deepen your capacity for love.
About the Author
Elizabeth Hess Stamper is a psychotherapist, retreat leader and Interfaith minister. Her other work includes Believing in Love: Sexuality and Healing in Spiritual Relationship, and the poetry anthology For God and Other Lovers. She lives in a small beach town in Florida where she happily shares her life with a large, loving family and spiritual community.