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Shakkai:
Woman of the Sacred Garden
Lynn taps into the mystical powers of
Japan's sacred captured gardens and offers its secrets to all women
who seek its magical wisdom and power.
Building on the wisdom she has gained
through her many journeys into self-discovery, Lynn now moves to an
altogether new and remarkable dimension. The place is Japan in the
future, but her journey there is truly timeless. Agnes Whistling Elk
and Ruby Plenty Chiefs, Andrews's Native American spiritual guides,
reveal to her that in order to become a genuinely enlightened being,
she must gain complete knowledge of her own personal power--not just
in her past life, as described in The
Woman of Wyrrd, but in her future life as well. Thus
begins her adventure, and her meeting with the old woman Shakkai, who
will teach her the secrets of the sacred gardens and their larger
symbolism in the sacred world of magic and power.
Andrews shows modern women how the
principle of the captured landscape--a finite place that contains the
infinite mysteries and power of nature within it--can speak to all
women who seek to find within themselves the abundance, tranquility,
and peace of nature. She guides women to understand that the yearning
we all have to return to the wilderness is really a search for the
wilderness of our own souls, and the powerful harmony of Mother Earth.
And just as Shakkai's timeless
knowledge can be used to heal the individual spirit, Andrews discovers
how it can also help us to heal the earth. Now, more than ever,
Andrews believes, the natural world is in great jeopardy--because
human beings have unleashed such power through our technology, that we
are like children given an unsheathed sword. Shakkai offers the potent
knowledge that our power does not have to hurt ourselves and
others--power can be transformed when we gain a spiritual
understanding of ourselves. Ultimately, Shakkai leads the way to this
understanding--teaching the essential balance of mind and heart.
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