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The feminine mystic is one who gathers the pain of the world into her arms and transmutes it with "wild mercy" - a merging of fierce courage with the unstoppable forces of forgiveness, compassion, and love. And she is needed now more than ever. "Women across cultural boundaries are rising with our echoing yes in response to the collective call to step up and repair the broken world", writes Mirabai Starr. With Wild Mercy, Starr inspires you to awaken your own inner mystic as you immerse yourself in the guidance of many sages....
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Loved it!
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As the climate veers toward catastrophe, the innumerable losses cascading through the biosphere make vividly evident the need for a metamorphosis in our relation to the living land. For too long we've inured ourselves to the wild intelligence of our muscled flesh, taking our primary truths from technologies that hold the living world at a distance. This audiobook subverts that distance, drawing listeners ever deeper into their animal senses in order to explore, from within, the elemental kinship between the body and the breathing Earth.
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"Each one of us is a triumvirate being - at once the union of the body, soul, and all that lies within." For any that exprience disharmony amongst these three vital aspects, Dr. Clarissa Estes reveals a path back to wholeness. Join her with the Joyous Body for the third volume of her masterwork on the Wise Woman archetype. This empowering six-session program shares original and old family stories, poems and psychological commentary on the challenges, remedies and ancient knowings of the female body, "that which is not a dumb servant but a divine human traveler and consort."
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Deep, Wise, Healing!
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5 out of 5 stars
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Come of Age
- The Case for Elderhood in a Time of Trouble
- By: Stephen Jenkinson, Charles Eisenstein - foreword
- Narrated by: Stephen Jenkinson
- Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 30
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Stephen Jenkinson explores the great paradox of elderhood in North America: how we are awash in the aged and yet somehow lacking in wisdom; how we relegate senior citizens to the corner of the house while simultaneously heralding them as sage elders simply by virtue of their age. Our own unreconciled relationship with what it means to be an elder has yielded a culture nearly bereft of them. Taking on the sacred cow of the family, Jenkinson argues that elderhood is a function rather than an identity.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A book I am truly thankful for.
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Dangerous Old Woman
- Myths and Stories of the Wise Woman Archetype
- By: Clarissa Pinkola Estes
- Narrated by: Clarissa Pinkola Estes
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 389
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 330
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Story5 out of 5 stars 325
Dr. Estes asks, "Did you know, you were born as the first and the last and the best and the only one of your kind and that eccentricity is the first sign of giftedness? Those are two of the crone truths I have to offer you." If you have any doubt, come join us at the fireside of the "Dangerous Old Woman" for the soul-healing wisdom that will ignite your creativity and support your highest calling in life - to become a dangerous old woman of wisdom yourself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Nature and the Human Soul
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- By: Bill Plotkin PhD
- Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
- Length: 25 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 34
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 30
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Addressing the pervasive longing for meaning and fulfillment in this time of crisis, Nature and the Human Soul introduces a visionary ecopsychology of human development that reveals how fully and creatively we can mature when soul and wild nature guide us. Depth psychologist and wilderness guide Bill Plotkin presents a model for a human life span rooted in the cycles and qualities of the natural world, a blueprint for individual development that ultimately yields a strategy for cultural transformation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow. My worldview is transformed.
- By Robert on 08-11-18
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Sitting by the Well
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- By: Marion Woodman
- Narrated by: Marion Woodman
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 128
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In Sitting by the Well, this acclaimed Jungian analyst and author uses dreams, symbols, and body imagery to reach into the shadows of the unconscious mind and cast light on our everyday lives. Here is a poetic culmination of Woodman's many years of work with the psychological impact of patriarchy on men's and women's lives - from distorted body image and addiction to sexual trauma and relationships to our ultimate connection with the Great Mother (matter) and Great Father (spirit).
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incredible & deeply moving
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The Spell of the Sensuous
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- By: David Abram
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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For a thousand generations, human beings viewed themselves as part of the wider community of nature, and they carried on active relationships not only with other people but with other animals, plants, and natural objects (including mountains, rivers, winds, and weather patterns) that we have only lately come to think of as "inanimate". How, then, did humans come to sever their ancient reciprocity with the natural world?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Stellar introduction to a revolutionary approach to language, nature and the human embedded in the natural world.
- By Dick on 01-25-18
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The Spirit of Healing
- Stories, Wisdom, and Practices from Native America
- By: Lewis Mehl-Medrona
- Narrated by: Lewis Mehl-Medrona
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 177
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 159
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A Lakota prophecy tells of a day when Westeners will join Native wisdom-keepers to create a new, integrated vision of healing. Dr. Lewis Mehl-Madrona believes that day has arrived. With The Spirit of Healing, this physician and lifelong student of Native American spirituality invites you to discover healing practices informed by both modern medical and psychiatric knowledge, and the "narrative medicine" of tradtional healers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Blessings & Wisdom abound
- By OM on 03-19-15
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Die Wise
- A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul
- By: Stephen Jenkinson
- Narrated by: Stephen Jenkinson
- Length: 18 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 122
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 114
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Story5 out of 5 stars 113
Die Wise does not offer seven steps for coping with death. It does not suggest ways to make dying easier. It pours no honey to make the medicine go down. Instead, with lyrical prose, deep wisdom, and stories from his two decades of working with dying people and their families, Stephen Jenkinson places death at the center of the discussion and asks us to behold it in all its painful beauty. Die Wise teaches the skills of dying, skills that have to be learned in the course of living deeply and well.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful book!
- By Kate on 12-22-16
Publisher's Summary
This is the second edition of a uniquely empowering, international word-of-mouth best seller about wild landscapes, female mythology, and the challenges facing modern women. It is a book for any woman who has ever lost her way and who sees a wasteland at the heart of modern existence and longs to live a more authentic, rooted life once again.
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- Bridy Cappo
- 12-25-17
Please re-record this incredible book.
I really want to listen to this audio book, but I find the cadence of the speaker almost intolerable. It feels cold and disengaged, as if she is reading off a checklist. It is not the voice we need.
I rarely leave a negative review, but because I feel this content is of such immense importance, I feel compelled to leave a review, imploring the author to re-record the audible version of this book.
39 of 39 people found this review helpful
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- Denise G.
- 04-28-18
Beautiful book! Narrator rushes the story...
This is a gorgeous book!! The words and messages are to be savored. Unfortunately, the narrator rushes the delivery of the narrative; thus, she doesn't match the needed pace for dwelling and lingering as the story unfolds. Just a bit slower delivery would have made all the difference! I would still recommend the book in that it holds such an important message for women as we find ourselves coming back into and tending what matters most to us.
20 of 20 people found this review helpful
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- Emily Bessemer
- 05-11-18
Please Record Again!!
I would love to listen to this but the narrator is just awful! This is one of my favorite books and it’s a shame ... I tried to listen but could only make it through the first hour before I gave up. Please re-record!
12 of 12 people found this review helpful
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- i can,t buy it
- 05-22-18
Boring narrator
I find the content and story in this book to be powerful and interesting. However the narrator ends every sentence in the exact same sing song voice throughout the entire book. It is tiresome and was very irritating to me. This book deserves a new redo with another reader, one who interesting and not monotonous. Not sure if I can complete this book with this narrator.
10 of 10 people found this review helpful
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- agilityfan
- 07-22-18
had to turn it off
i go this book based on recommendation of content - as an avid audible listener i purchased this book - to my horror the narration made it unbearable to listen.... please re record.. its a lovely book!
9 of 9 people found this review helpful
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- SaraC
- 12-21-18
Awful narration
I literally could listen to this. The most repetitive narrative intonation—I almost cant believe it. It’s almost a caricature of narration. Bad bad bad
4 of 4 people found this review helpful
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- Karen
- 12-31-18
Life affirming and altering!
Brilliant, inspiring, and motivating...THIS is what I've needed for so many years! THIS is what I will share with my teenage daughter now so that her children can start hearing, seeing, and learning it at birth. Deeply grateful to have stumbled across this book!!
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
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- sierra
- 10-02-18
This book changed my life.
I first read this book a year ago. It was unlike anything I had come across. It is a powerful shift in the way a book is made. This is an inspirational way to be on the planet, to move through the world and a powerful story to accompany you on your own journey. Sharon Blackie quickly became a heroine of mine. A particular and different kind of book. but WOW it blew me away... can carried me away on the wind, on the river and into the magical world. READ THIS.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
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- Amana
- 05-31-18
LOVE LOVE LOVE
Would be a great book to read as a book club, or with a friend or two and talk through it and explore our own self discoveries. Beautiful book! I just finished it for the first time and am excited to read it cover to cover once more!
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- Arianne
- 01-03-18
Tired so hard to like this book
This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?
If you like folklore you will like this book, but it is far from a self-help book that the title suggests. The author talks and talks going on and on an saying nothing of relevance just describing every detail of nature. I like descriptions but not when the story line gets lost
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Did Heather Wilds do a good job differentiating all the characters? How?
only in the Celtic folk stories but not the ones which the author met in real life.
What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?
Sadness- bc I identified with how the author felt, disappointment the story was going nowhere, and annoyance that instead of just stating her feminist anti-piratical opinions she tried to ram then down your throat
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- Elena Harris
- 12-16-17
Terrible narrator
The book is actually wonderful but is entirely let down bu the wierd and emotionless narrator. For a book like this, there is no warmth or rhythm to the narrators voice. I really don't understand why they chose this narrator. I endured the first chapter and could go no further.
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- JulieGibbons
- 12-03-17
Bad narration makes this impossible to complete
I’ve had this on my bookshelf for ages without yet finding time to read, so I was excited to see it here in Audible. Finally, I’ll get to ‘read’ it, I thought!
Alas, after an hour or so of trying hard to listen, I admit defeat.
This is nothing to do with content and everything to do with narration.
It’s simply impossible to follow or make sense of due to the narrator’s weirdly stilted style.
Not recommended unless it’s rereleased with a competent narrator.
16 of 17 people found this review helpful
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- A W.
- 11-08-18
Narrator is so bad
I was looking forward to hearing this but the narrator's stilted and choppy style is making it impossible. Waste of a credit. I will just have to buy the book and read it myself. Disappointed!
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- gypsywandering
- 10-28-18
Terrible awful narration
I’m so disappointed, and a total waste of a credit. I think the company has let the author down badly with this choice of narrator. I can’t bear to listen! The book seems lovely but the voice has killed it. I’m asking for my credit back. It is the first truly unlistenable audiobook I’ve come across. What were they thinking??? I’d rather have root canal treatment than listen to this pretentious, unsympathetic, unnatural reading.
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- Reinet
- 03-08-19
Don’t buy the audible negation of this book!
I am sure this is a good book but I would not recommend the audible narration. It is monotonous and irritating. It sounds like the text is converted to audio via computer and not read by a person. Very unnatural and monotonous speech. A waste of money! As a result I could not progress past the first page.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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Performance1 out of 5 stars
- Mia Maitland
- 10-25-18
dreadful reader. I'm sending this straight back
the reader is completely not in touch with the feeling of the words. I only survived a few minutes of her heartless and repetitive voice. the prose is evidently beautiful, I'll buy the paper copy and read it.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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Story5 out of 5 stars
- annabelle
- 04-10-18
Incredible.
What a book!!!!
I had this book in my wish list for a while, I hesitated because of other reviews criticism of the narrator.
I AM SO GLAD I IGNORED THEM!!
This is one of the most profound and immersive and transformational books I have listened to.
I felt every word.
Beautifully written and clearly read. Maybe because I am British I didn’t mind the narrators voice, but the power of the words would have moved me no matter who read it.
This book has changed me forever.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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Performance1 out of 5 stars
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Story5 out of 5 stars
- Elizabeth G
- 03-11-19
The narrator sounds like a robot
Amazing book. Awful narrator. No emotion, expression. I think she is a robot. What a shame for such an incredible book.
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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Performance1 out of 5 stars
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Story2 out of 5 stars
- Susan
- 01-09-19
Flat Presentation
I wanted to love this and get totally wrapped up in it, and although I was able to relate to the overall message of the book the flat verbal presentation plus the overly repetitive story thread through the book stopped me dead around chapter 4. Just couldn't go back to it after that.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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Performance4 out of 5 stars
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Story5 out of 5 stars
- Amazon Customer
- 07-29-18
An authentic journey seeking sense in place
I thoroughly enjoyed this telling; easy on the ears and satisfying for the heart. It has helped to clarify many unspoken feelings.
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
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Performance1 out of 5 stars
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-29-18
So disappointed
This is the first review I've ever written and I just had to share. I was so excited to listen to this book having seen it recommended and based on something close to my heart. So, I got into my car after downloading it yesterday full of expectation and excitement only to turn it off after just 3 minutes. I couldn't stand it! The narrator's voice was incredibly monotonous and sounded like she was reading off a shopping list with the same upward tone at the end of each sentence and sounded bored and rushed. So disappointed and will be asking for a refund.
I'm putting out for another narrator sometime soon...
4 of 4 people found this review helpful
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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Story5 out of 5 stars
- Anonymous User
- 03-09-19
A wonderful journey
Loved this sweeping journey of reconnection to my Celtic roots & the sacredness of the women's journey.... so much so I have bought the book to read through sections again.... highly recommend especially those with Celtic ancestry
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