April 2005 Books
The Way of Wyrd ; What Animals Can Teach Us About Spirituality; Jun Q’Anil; Connections with Spirit
The Way of WyrdTales of an Anglo-Saxon Sorcerer
Grab your coat! We're embarking on a journey to Middle Earth for as authentic a glimpse into the spirit world of an Anglo-Saxon mystic as could be had in our day.
We travel in the person of Wat Brand, a Christian scribe dispatched to a Saxon kingdom to cull and bring back knowledge of their pagan spirituality in preparation for the establishment of a Christian mission there.
We know the Saxon king has something up his sleeve as he sneers his assent, granting our scribe a guide. Wulf, a mystic sorcerer, leads Brand through the English countryside, initiating him into a world teeming with terrors beyond his wildest imaginings. Learning to work with magical runes and plants of power and to pay attention to omens from the animal kingdom, Brand clutches the cross around his neck in a desperate attempt to hold on to sanity. But the gods here are strange, and there is no avoiding the journey to the spirit world in quest for his own soul.
What Animals Can Teach Us About Spiritulity
Inspiring lessons from Wild and Tame Creatures
Since ancient times, humankind has understood that animals serve as a link to the intuitive and to the Divine. The fast pace of today's world often distorts or obliterates this connection, and can leave us feeling desperately separate from our soul. In What Animals Can Teach Us about Spirituality, respected animal behaviorist and therapist Diana Guerrero offers us a way to tap into our spiritual connection by way of the animal kingdom.
“You cannot be around animals for any amount of time and not learn something,” Guerrero asserts. Not just about animals, but about our own spiritual growth. Viewing spiritual maturation as climbing a spiritual ladder, each rung of which contains its own lessons, she leads us up seven archetypal rungs via personal experiences (her own and others') with a variety of animal species.
The first chapter brings to life lessons about relationship, responsibility, balance, fairness, integrity, power, loyalty and justice that we can learn from dogs, elephants, sea lions, musk oxen, and cats. Living in the now? Animals do it all the
Jun Q’AnilOne Who Walks The Way
Ever thought about leaving it all behind and heading for the jungle somewhere?
Psychotherapist Jessica Nagler did just that. Inspired by a spiritual counselor who suggested she shelve all her definitions of what life should be and go discover what it could be, she broke up with her fiancé, put her career on hold, and took off in search of true meaning and purpose…
To Costa Rica, with only the barest hint of a plan! A bus would take her from San Jose to Talamanca. It read fine on paper, but suddenly there she was, alone in vastly unfamiliar territory.
Moving from one serendipitous encounter to another, she wandered until a Mayan shaman recognized her as a true seeker and took her under his wing. Initiations followed, and battles with her doubts. The question arose: would she make the commitment to become a Mayan priest?
The story is rich with encounters with healers, filled with adventure and soul-searching honesty. Did she stay? No. She followed her truth and came back to write about it. Good thing! Because it makes a good read.
—Chiwah
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Connections with SpiritA Book of Poetry and a CD
I've got to be honest here. If I had never met Gloria Lindsay, I probably would never have picked up Connections with Spirit . But I knew Gloria, just a little— enough to have felt her earthiness, to have basked in the calm waters of her soul. So it must be true: it's who you know that counts!
Connections with Spirit reaches from feet firmly planted in the earth to soar in the realms of Spirit. Gloria has a talent for serving up real, everyday life with a twist of insight.
One of my favorites, “Illusion vs. Reality,” is a good example: “There are at least two worlds that exist side by side: the world of illusion and the world of reality. Reality connects just briefly when we meditate… pops in and out with stirrings deep within us….” Illusion, on the other hand, “pops in and out too. For just as we're about to soulsearch, to unwind, the mind generates excitement and chaos….”
Gloria's life must be my life. And perhaps yours? In “Peace Came Calling,” she writes, “Peace came calling today, and I was not ready!” I could have said the same of love. Wait! I'm not ready! I still have my buts !
Gloria's uplifting poetry helps us cope with the mundane by putting us in touch with the glory within. “Each of us is a poet,” she tells us. “This book will encourage you to honor yourself by nourishing your creative potential. Each poem is a separate meditation, which can be used as a vehicle for connecting with the divine within. You can transform each poem into your own intimate meditative soliloquy….”
If listening is your preference, the CD features ten poems nestled against a lush backdrop of Gloria's daughter Jennifer's instrumental and vocal music.
I'm glad I had glimpsed the depth of this soul. Her poetry is a treat. —Chiwah
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