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Away From Hannah’s Castle by Eileen “Ike” West

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/ July 2, 2010 / 1 Comment

I don’t sit around reading my own book, but I would be remiss if I didn’t recommend it to others. Away from Hannah’s Castle is a fantasy-romance. If you like fantasy (and spirituality) I recommend that you read the whole thing. If you prefer romance just read the parts of...
Yann Martel’s The Life of Pi

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/ July 2, 2010 / Leave a comment

A cult following of millions developed immediately for The Life of Pi, and no wonder; it is such a compelling story. Pi is a fantasy so grounded in reality (one to which most of us have never been exposed) that at times the prose sails into consciousness and storms whatever...
A Crack in the Cosmic Egg by Joseph Chilton Pearce

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/ July 2, 2010 / Leave a comment

This non-fiction work is read with one purpose: consciousness-raising. If you don’t want your mind bent, twisted and turned inside out, then leave this book on the shelf. On the other hand, should you recognize the world is going to hell-in-a-hand-basket and you think the basket might soon sink into...
The Reluctant Shaman by Kay Cordell Whitaker

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/ July 2, 2010 / Leave a comment

A story about a California woman who ‘wakes up’ from an everyday life to a spiritual one, and chronicles the sequence of events with some darned astute insights into what went on in the process. If you are one who likes to compare your own unfolding awareness and gauge it...
Agartha: A Journey to the Stars by Meredith Young-Sowers

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/ July 2, 2010 / Leave a comment

Here’s another one of those books that chronicles a woman’s awakening to spirit. This time the author begins more than a little resistant, always checking under her bed to see who might be tricking her. Over time, she becomes convinced these living spirits are real, and ever so slowly gets...
Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees

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/ July 2, 2010 / Leave a comment

Such a sweet, tenderly-written book. Not only do bees have a secret life, but so do the many characters that fly into your heart as quick as, well, bees fly to flowers. The reader cries, laughs, and may howl a few times with the women, young, old and even dead,...
Of Water and the Spirit by Malidoma Patrice Some

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/ July 2, 2010 / Leave a comment

Although this autobiographical account is written by (and therefore about) an African, it is really the story of every person around the world, who ends up oppressed by church and state. The reader sees into the psyche of a child whose resistance to the physical, mental and emotional abuse stems...
Maya Cosmogenesis 2012 by John Major Jenkins

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/ July 2, 2010 / Leave a comment

One of the new paradigm thinkers, Jenkins offers an in depth look at the Maya and their predictions for Earth changes in the years ahead. Although more mathematical and sensational than spiritual (and therefore leaving significant gaps in understanding), this book helps give readers a basic overview of the science...
Wokini by Billy Mills

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/ July 2, 2010 / Leave a comment

Billy Mills was a friend of my husband in the Tribe. As a young man Billy won an Olympic gold medal for long distance running. He grew up poor and had to borrow running shoes even to compete. All of his adult life he has been successful. He now helps...
Letters to a Dying Friend by Anton Grosz

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/ July 2, 2010 / Leave a comment

A thin book, it’s one the Grosz wrote to a friend. Both men were scientists, the one who is dying refuses to believe in spirits while the Grosz embraced the idea. The book was not finished before the friend died. At first, the author threw it aside, but the spirit...