A selection of recorded music and heartful books intended to inform, inspire and excite our enlivened, seeking selves. Donations are suggested- and much needed- but never required. Signed copies available on request. Order direct from: | ||||||
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Presenting a CD of music: GaiaTribe | |||
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THE ENCHANTMENT "powerfully brings us into the presence of our animal elders, reawakening us to the lessons they have to teach us in the recovery of our own instincts and aliveness. Fiery... passionate.... Produced to further the work of the Earthen Spirituality Project & Sweet Medicine Women’s Center, The Enchantment is a magical collection of songs weaving together original and traditional music from around the world with entrancing female vocals, nature soundscapes, tribal and global chant, and the powerful spoken wizardry of Jesse Wolf Hardin. Contributing to this special mix are the enthralling Loba, the acclaimed Jenny Bird from Taos, Ricardo Mendoza and Carlos Lomas on Middle Eastern oud, Joanne Rand from N. California, and the blessings of a 93 year old Indian medicine man. Interspersed are a Kokopelli drum jam, bamboo flute and Buddhist chant. From a Syrian love song to the rockin’ Spanish-flavored dance piece “DragonFlight,” the overall effect “creates an opening to wholeness” (Ralph Metzner), a musical celebration of personal and planetary connectedness. Wolf is one of a handful of pre-rap poets who set their powerfully spoken words to music, a group that has over the years included such notables as Jack Kerouac, Joy Harjo and John Trudell. But unlike others, his invocations are dedicated to increasing sentient awareness, mindfulness and magical intent, and the honoring of the natural world. Loba’s angelic voice is born of the enchanted river canyon she inhabits, serves and celebrates. The world musicians each contributed their heart and souls to this, a project they could believe in. Free copies will be provided to any radio stations or programs, educational organizations, editors or reviewers requesting. $10-20. suggested donation Your help recommending this title to your friends and local stores, would be most appreciated! | |
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Presenting Jesse Wolf Hardin's latest book: Gaia Eros: | ||||
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“Jesse Wolf Hardin has a true understanding of embodied spirituality- the sacred spirit in nature and in human beings as natural, erotic, animal life forms on a living planet. Gaia Eros is a must-read for those who want to know nature not as an abstraction but in ways sensual, practical, and transformative.” Herein are the tools and secrets for: Richly illustrated with over thirty examples of Wolf’s acclaimed mystical artwork, Gaia Eros effectively draws the reader out of the ordinary and mundane..... welcoming them home to the intense reality of authentic self, deep feeling, magical mission and inspirited place. It’s poetic power and literary quality should guarantee it becomes a primary text for the Seekers and practitioners of future generations. “Gaia Eros calls us back to the Mother with honor, respect, integrity, mindfulness, and gratitude as essential guides for our re-awakening." “Gaia Eros is a wild ride through the canyons of heart and mind of a modern earth warrior who has planted himself deeply in his place. Jesse Wolf Hardin writes from the place of true authenticity in an age of superficiality from his experience and from his soul. I recommend this book to any and all who wish to understand the marriage of magic, activism, spirituality and service.” “Wolf’s loving, erotic sensibility allows him to play on ancient harmonies. He sings us into magician morning, calling us to re-enter primal states of being-in-the-world. He seduces us away from the madness of modern, urban based civilizations and draws us into the “great silence,” the way things really are, the Tao. He opens the door of our consciousness and asks us to step out into the fields and mountains. If we are really quiet, Pan comes out of hiding and teaches us the will-of-the-land.” $25 Suggested Donation | ||
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Presenting the book of Earth and Spirit Kindred Spirits | |||
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Kindred Spirits is the most powerful of Hardin's early books, and is filled with stunning illustrations by its author. Hardin leads us back to the very depths of our hungering souls- and back into contact with the grace and will of our living planet home! His moving stories trace his evolving communion with the powerful plant and animal teachers that both informed and inspired him: first as an adventurous young boy, then as an artist and controversial activist, and now as wilderness-based spiritual teacher and revered Gaian ecosopher. This book invites us to draw energy and insight through our still-wild roots, employing a series of practical, sensory-embodied exercises, helping us to reclaim our native mindfulness, personal “response-ability” and sense of place: the intensity, enchantment and delight of fully lived life! Click here to read selected excerptes from Kindred Spirits. From the Foreword by renowned ecopsychologist Ralph Metzner, author of The Well Of Remembrance: The intellectually accepted scientific fact that we humans are an animal species --bipedal mammals-- yet conceals one of the profoundest and saddest contradictions of our existence. Most people don’t experience themselves as animals, and in fact devote considerable psychic energy to supporting a self-image of superiority. To call someone “an animal” is to denigrate them, to distance oneself. We barely notice the self-alienation this produces, as we strive to assert our humanity over our animal nature. Yet it was not always so, among our animistic ancestors, and it is not so now, among still-surviving shamanic, indigenous societies. Wolf Hardin is one who has rediscovered with exuberant joy the great lessons in living that are the gift of our Animal Teachers. He tells of his own experiences encountering with awe the howling of wolves, the elusive puma, the owl “stare in the darkness,” the “gifting cycle” of salmon, the prophetic silence of amphibians, the “heavy presence” of Bear, the interdependence of Native Americans and buffalo, the bird-warrrior hummingbird and others, in which animal teachers shared with him their knowledge and meta-human consciousness. His voice is like that of the “wolf-skin” hunters and shamans of his Nordic ancestors— it reminds us of the myriad living relationships we have with the creatures of the natural world, relationships that though threatened, yet hold the potential for saving our souls. Totemism arose out of shamanism, out of the shaman’s relationship with animal guides and teachers. These are relationships based on experiences of healing, of teaching, of inspiration, of communication received and exchanged between humans and animals. Many such experiences take place in the inner worlds, the psychic and spiritual planes, or “non-ordinary reality” as some call it; but they also take place in the very physical, ecological world. Wolf’s stories provide many fine examples of the kinds of synchronistic and numinous interactions that can occur, when human perception is freed from the distorting biases of humanist arrogance. Besides the lyrical and moving stories of animal encounters, Wolf’s book includes eloquent essays on a number of related themes: on the importance of walking alone on wilderness quest, on real world outdoor education and survival skills, on our charged relationship with snakes as reflected in mythology and religion, on the Green Man and other expressions of our symbiotic relationship with the plant kingdom. One could describe these as essays in “ecopsychology,” as Theodore Roszak has used that term to describe the necessary blending of psychology and ecology. One could also see them as examples of what Gary Snyder has called the “practice of the wild,” where being in wilderness with an open heart and unprejudiced sense perception becomes a spiritual practice, a practice of self-transformation. They express a mind-set that some have called “future primitive”— articulating the values and attitudes of Paleolithic gathering-hunting societies as a salutary corrective to the pathological alienations of modernity. Along with the bioregionalists, and following the lead of indigenous peoples, we need to learn to reinhabit, to really dwell in the place where we live, in ecstatic, sensuous communion with the entire community of living beings. “Wild cultures are native,” as Wolf says, “speaking to the needs of the natural human inseparable from the natural Earth. They are place-based, and their cultures are reflections of and servants to the character of the land and community of life.” To this worthy and timely project, the rewilding of alienated humanity, Wolf Hardin has provided a most eloquent and passionate contribution. The high-spirited and soulful voices of the animals, and of the Earth herself, speak and sing through him, reminding us of our ancient heritage of sacred wildness $25 Suggesed Donation. | |||
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SPIRAL-BOUND BOOKS Home: ReBecoming Native, Recovering Sense of Place (self produced) The Kokopelli Seed: A Novel of Earthen Spirituality (self produced) The Canyon Testament: Earth-Informed Insights & Remembered Wisdom (self produced)
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