JOAN OHANNESON is an author, producer, teacher, and international lecturer.

She has worked extensively in the field of human liberation, focusing on issues of spirituality and sexuality and women's gifts in church and society. These themes unite in her third book,

SCARLET MUSIC - A Life of Hildegard of Bingen,

a fictionalized biography of the extraordinary 12th c. abbess and visionary whose prophecies foretold such current events as our ecological crisis and the rise of the Feminine Divine. A medical intuitive, her writings pre-date in the fields of depth psychology and holistic healing. Her 9 books have been reclaimed by scholars in 40 countries while her Gregorian chants are international best sellers.