Melanie Landau's story is a gripping illustration of what she now teaches as an intimacy coach, spiritual teacher, and group facilitator: how to approach "life as a constant opening and deepening to the presence of the existence of what is." From a deeply traditional, patriarchal upbringing in Australia to a life in Jerusalem embedded in the rhythms of religious ritual, spiritual growth, and political engagement as a group facilitator of "Deep Listening" around the Israel/Palestine conflict--Melanie feels into the importance of accessing freedom by going to the places we fear most, accessing the body's natural capacity to "transmute pain to power and release terror," and "bringing our power to let the divine shine through us" to bear on our deepest social and political conflicts.