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25th Anniversary edition pub. 2006 by Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin Books. First in the internationally best selling Medicine Woman series which chronicle Lynn Andrews’ 30 years of study and adventure with native women healers on three different continents. A yellow moon had risen over the hills. 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 creased like that of an apple doll. She wore a beaded medicine wheel necklace over her green plaid Pendleton shirt. When first I became an apprentice of Agnes Whistling Elk, she told me that I was not to speak of our work together to anyone. Although spirit had told her I was coming, I was as foreign and unknown to her as she was to me. Later, when I was fully initiated into her magnificent circle of shaman women known as the Sisterhood of the Shields, it became clear to me, as the only non-native member, that I had a special destiny with them. Agnes then asked me to write about our life and teaching together, ‘to let the eagle fly.’ She said that we live in a time of vision, a time when the people of Mother Earth are eager for a new and more balanced way of life. “First we must heal the body of Mother Earth with a renewed understanding of feminine consciousness,” Agnes said to me with tears in her eyes. From that day forward, I have worked with this beautiful circle of women on my process of evolving, sharing their teachings with all of you as they relate to 21st century life, and this is my greatest honor and passion in life. What the critics say about Medicine Woman: San Francisco Chronicle: “First-class…. A remarkable adventure into the world of the spirit that makes one realize how much there is yet to know.” San Francisco Review of Books: “One wonders if Carlos Castaneda and Lynn Andrews have not initiated a new genre of contemporary literature: Visionary Autobiography.” The Santa Fe Reporter: “There is much wisdom here…. What sometimes appears as madness may contain its own wisdom; and what may sometimes sound like wisdom may be madness. It is precisely this intricate balance that the medicine woman must learn to keep.” Los Angeles Times: Medicine Woman has to do with the meaning of life, the role of women, and the wrestling of power away from the forces of evil that hold it.” New Woman’s Times: “Thought-provoking and absorbing.” Sojourner: “A statement of what is called for and possible in all of us.” The Guardian, London: “A powerful and beautiful story.” WomanSpirit: “Her
story tells and reminds us of ancient wisdom that we can take with us on our own unique journeys through life no matter what
heartfelt path we are on.” (Right: Earlier cover of Medicine Woman)
Available format: Book (soft cover), Tape, Book on cassette tape, Book on CD Note: The book on Tape and the book on CD are abridged versions. |
