Tamed By a Bear: Coming Home to Nature-Spirit-Self
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| Rating | : | 4.21 (536 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01NAGYN4Z |
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| Number of Pages | : | 427 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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Rather, it is a love story between two very real beingsStuckey and Bearwho together will open both your heart and mind." Betsy Perluss, PhD, Wilderness Guide, School of Lost Borders "In Tamed by a Bear, Priscilla Stuckey chronicles her journey into the heart of this numinous living world, guided by a stunningly wise and delightfully down-to-earth bear spirit. And her beautiful writing both warms my heart and brings shivers of heartache and understanding.” Stephen Jones, coauthor of Peterson Field Guide to the North American Prairie, Colorado Nature Almanac, Butterflies of the Colorado Front Range, and Wild Boulder County. Nor is it an abstract discussion about the value of invisible realities. Whether we're eavesdropping on Arjuna and Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita,
Nudged by a Bear Towards Transformation Priscilla Stuckey is a woman who trusts nature but doubts her own inner knowing. She has a PhD in religious studies, but she is suspicious of any guru or path that professes to be the way with the answers and the correct path to follow. She's comfortable with intellect; she's at home in the natural world. What she is not comfortable or at home w
Over the course of a year, she wrestles with her own resistance, she develops her ability to listen accurately, and she learns to trust her own perception more deeply.In simple, down-to-earth language that eschews the jargon often permeating—and indeed insulating—New Age writing, Priscilla shows how a spiritual path of relationship with Earth can unfold for those who are willing to listen. Though she enjoys communing with trees and birds and the land, she intellectually knows better than to try talking directly with spirit. Yet searching for the truth of her own identity leads her directly toward what she is most skeptical of. Tamed by a Bear shows one person responding to the call of her heart, which is also the call of Earth to all human beings today: to listen to a more-than-human wisdom so people can address the social and environmental crises facing the world.At this moment when the future of life on Earth as we know it hangs in th
Her first book, Kissed by a Fox: And Other Stories of Friendship in Nature, won the 2013 WILLA Award in Creative Nonfiction. A longtime book editor and writing coach, Stuckey has worked with major publishing houses and writers in North America and abroad. Priscilla Stuckey is a writer and spi