Acutely aware that his own relationships with women always ended in disaster, Tim Ward decided to seek out the Goddess to find out whether she could change his life for the better; both his spiritual life and his relationship.
His quest took him to the ruined temples and shrines of the goddess in the cradles of Western Civilization – to Greece, Turkey, Israel, Malta, Cyprus, France and the Balkans. In Savage Breast he recreates the experiences of ancient believers: the Eleusinian Mysteries of Demeter, the sexual rites of the priestesses of Aphrodite, and a human sacrifice on a mountaintop shrine in Crete. And in Turkey he sits at the feet of the many-breasted Artemis of Ephesus, whose rioting followers once threatened to kill the Apostle Paul.
Facing the Goddess unleashes turbulent emotions for Ward. With brutal honesty he describes the traumas that erupt in his relationship with the woman he loves, who accompanied him on many of his journeys. He discovers what drove him to sabotage all his previous relationships, and has a spiritual revelation that blindsides him.
Ward’s story weaves travelogue, archaeology, myth, history, art and autobiography into a fascinating and gripping journey through the depths of our history and minds. His work will help men give up their delusions about women and learn to see them for who they really are, and will help women better understand what it is that men are really afraid of.
