Books by Lynn V. Andrews

Internationally acclaimed author Lynn Andrews has written 18 books, currently published in 12 languages. Her books include Medicine Woman (now in its 39th printing), Jaguar Woman, Woman at the Edge of Two Worlds: The Spiritual Journey Through Menopause and Dark Sister: A Sorcerer's Love Story. She is also the author of The Power Deck: The Cards of Wisdom, a series of self-affirming meditation cards, ...read more about Lynn

Medicine Woman

A yellow moon had risen over the hills in the distance. The sky was beautiful and immense and somewhere the coyotes were singing their mournful song.

I was sitting before an open fire with an old Indian woman. Her face was creased like that of an apple doll. Her cheekbones were high, and her braids fell well below her shoulders. She wore a beaded medicine necklace over her green plaid Pendleton shirt.

"Your life is a path." she said, her thick accent at first difficult to understand. "Knowingly or unknowingly you have been on a vision quest. It is good to have a vision, a dream."

There was something compelling about her. Her personality seemed to change from moment to moment. Although she had difficulty expressing the simplest thoughts in English, she was as erudite as anyone I have ever known, and she had great dignity.

"Woman is the ultimate," she said. "Mother earth belongs to woman, not man. She carries the void."

These were her words to me before I became her apprentice. She is a heyoka medicine woman. I was destined to follow in her path for seven years. This book is a record of my journey into her strange and beautiful realm--a celebration of the power of woman--as she made me see that power.

Spirit Woman

Previously published as Flight of the Seventh Moon -Softcover Edition

Now her story continues as she learns to protect the powers she has gained from the sorcerer Red Dog. With the help of her teacher, the Native American woman, Agnes Whistling Elk, Andrews learns that the path to protection lies in self-realization.

Flight describes how Agnes initiated Lynn into her womanliness and selfhood. Through a series of visions and ceremonies, she took Lynn around a circle of learning, and gave her a working mandala, a shield. Each level of self-discovery is represented by a shield -- a physical reminder of her new awareness. The shields, taken all together, represent Andrews as a complete woman. Within these experiences of Lynn's rite of passage we discover the ancient wisdom of woman within ourselves.

Jaguar Woman

As we begin, the butterfly becomes a central symbol of the story and she is led from her Southern California home to Canada in search of her shaman-mentor Agnes Whistling Elk. She has a visionary experience at the butterfly tree to which Agnes has directed her. What she discovers here sets her firmly on an adventurous, sometimes dangerous journey into the Yucatan jungle to gain vital new spiritual insights.
 

In a crumbling, ancient Mayan temple in the midst of a Yucatan jungle, Lynn Andrews is met by two Amazon women, blindfolded and led to a great power place where conflicting energies challenge and battle each other in the ceremony of "la ultima madre"-- the final mother. Here she encounters the personification of the four hoops of female energy who embody the spirit of nurturance, insanity, inspiration and death. She is told, "you must realize la ultima madre, realize who you are, and become who you are."
 

Jaguar Woman retells Lynn's journey to the Yucatan, where she meets Zoila Guiterrez, a healer and teacher who helps her learn ancient rites, rituals and lore including the profound secret of Jaguar Woman and the "mask of the Earth." with Zoila and Agnes as her constant companions and guides, she learns the ancient Mayan ways and is more deeply initiated into the Sisterhood of the Shield, an order of women who guard and cherish the powers of womanhood.

Star Woman

We Are Made from Stars and to the Stars We Must Return

You are invited to walk with Lynn into the wilderness, to seek selfhood with her in the depths of your own heart, and to soar with her on a magic white horse on a rainbow to the stars...

Working closely with her two Native teachers, Agnes Whistling Elk and Ruby Plenty Chiefs, Lynn continues her quest for ancient knowledge and to serve as the bridge between two different worlds, the primal mind and white consciousness. In this book, her quest leads her into the most frightening and difficult place of all...the dark side of her own spirit, where she must confront and conquer her secret weaknesses and deepest fears.

Guided by a white stallion which she rides into a world of illuminating visions and Twin Dreamers, a Native shamaness and shape-shifter eons old, who reveals through ancient ritual and magic the essential oneness of all time, all life, and all space--and the importance and centrality of woman.

Lynn must reach out, and reach in, to the very core of her bring. And now, in this dazzling, deeply personal book that challenges our traditional western beliefs and basic premises, she shows us, too, how to unravel the final mystery of self--and tap the extraordinary powers within the grasp of us all.

Crystal Woman

The Sisters of the Dreamtime

On a quest to discover the untapped energies within, Lynn takes us where no Westerner has ever been... through the secret initiation ceremony of an ancient Australian society and into the iridescent depths of crystals that can heal the body and soul.

Through her real-life experience in the wilderness of central Australia, not far from mysterious Ayers Rock, this extraordinary woman begins a new cycle in her search for selfhood that began in Medicine Woman, the first book in her chronicle of the spirit, then continued in Flight of the Seventh Moon and her bestsellers Jaguar Woman and Star Woman.

Now with her American Indian mentor, Agnes Whistling Elk, Lynn meets the Australian aborigine, Ginevee. Using crystals as energy links and psychic amplifiers, Ginevee becomes Lynn's guide as she enters the legendary Dreamtime of the aborigines. In this mystic state, Lynn visits the hidden places of the psyche--where terror lurks in the conflict between male and female selves, where her healing powers are called upon in a battle between the forces of life and death... and where with bright crystal clarity she discovers the knowledge of becoming a whole person that is essential to us all.