Windhorse
Woman
A
Marriage of Spirit
Outside
of Katmandu where the majestic Himalayas thrust
their jagged peaks into Nepal's azure sky, Lynn
begins a new journey. This odyssey of the spirit
will take her to an ending and a beginning: the
completion of the circle of learning first
described in Medicine Woman, and the start of
another quest for the truth only reached through
struggle on the human path.
Now a dream guides her, along with Anges and Ruby,
to a remote valley high in the Himalayas. She
carries with her a magical gift, a key to help the
Sisterhood unlock the knowledge of women that has
been hidden for the last 3,000 years.
But waiting for Lynn is an even more precious kind
of gift, a marriage to a man who is both spirit
and flesh, herself and yet not herself. Before
this, some male energies have been her mortal
enemies, like Red Dog, the sorcerer who has tried
again and again to destroy her. Now a new male
force, Windhorse, is joined in a ceremony of love
and passion to the female, Windhorse Woman. This
oneness carries with it important lessons for us
all: "To fall in love, one must not be afraid
to die." "If you are afraid of death,
you will not live your life." These thoughts
and many more wise, moving, and often haunting
mind images of desire, death, and rebirth fill the
reader with their immediacy and raw power. So join
her on the roof of the world as Lynn exposes the
depths of our vision... our destinies... and our
souls. Book
Introduction I
became an apprentice of Agnes Whistling Elk
fifteen years ago. When I as subsequently
initiated into the Sisterhood of the Shields, it
because clear to me, as the only non-native woman,
that I had a special destiny with them.
Agnes asked me to write about our life and
teaching together. She said that we live in
a time of vision, a more balanced way of
life. "First we must heal the body of
mother earth with a renewed understanding of
feminine consciousness. We must move out
into the world to experience what is
missing. What is missing is an understanding
and incorporation of the primal woman," Agnes
said to me with tears in her eyes. From
that day on, I have been working with different
members of the Sisterhood on my process of
evolvement. I have been sharing my
experiences as that process relates to
twentieth-century life and survival. Every
fifty years the Sisterhood of the Shields meets in
the Valley of Luktang in Tibet. For years I
was told of this extraordinary gathering. Windhorse
Woman is about our journey into Nepal and
Tibet. I
have changed the names and places of all those
involved. This has been done in all my books
to protect their privacy. I am not writing
as an anthropologist, but as a woman in search of
truth. This book does not illustrate
traditional shamanic traditions from Nepal or
Tibet. The ceremonies that we perform in all
of my books are for a non-native woman and they
relate to my specific needs as an apprentice on
the path of heart.
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ISBN
: 0446513903
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Language
: English
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Pages
: 210
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Publisher
: Warner Books, Inc.
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Type
: Hardback
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Product
Dimensions : 9.3 x 6.3 x 0.8 inches
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Shipping
Weight : 1 lb 2 ounces
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Illustrator
: Fanny Zucchiatti
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Book
Design : Nick Mazzella
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Copyright
: 1989 Lynn V. Andrews
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