Hal Zina Bennett offers his book Spirit Animals And The Wheel of Life in hopes of showing his readers a way to reclaim their own Ecospiritual connection with the planet both spiritually and practically.
The two main focuses of this text are:
Instruction helps are given on how to go about working the wheel and connecting with the various animal teachers through meditation and quiet contemplation. Six of the seven animals are the same for each of us: the eagle, the mole, the bear, the badger, the mountain lion, and the wolf. The power animal is unique to each individual. Bennett offers help in meeting and understanding your personal power animal.
- On the wheel or circle of life in the form of the sacred circle, labyrinth or a medicine wheel.
- Observance and study of animals as our spiritual teachers.
Instruction helps are given on how to go about working the wheel and connecting with the various animal teachers through meditation and quiet contemplation. Six of the seven animals are the same for each of us: the eagle, the mole, the bear, the badger, the mountain lion, and the wolf. The power animal is unique to each individual. Bennett offers help in meeting and understanding your personal power animal.
Shamanism - as defined by Hal Zina Bennett:
- Shamanism, as we understand it today, is simply another way of seeing, another way of looking at the world. As a process for observing and making sense of our lives, it is different from science, technology, philosophy, and even modern theology... If there is a definition that I feel comes even close to telling us anything useful, it would be that shamanism is a system of knowing that honors our own life experience, without mistaking it for the truth. And it is a way to embrace those invisible teachers who help us find grace in our dance between the seen and unseen worlds.
Chapters
1) An Ecospiritual Journey into Space
2) Recognizing Animal Wisdom
3) Seeking a Different Path
4) The Ecospiritual Wheel
5) Personal Power Animals
6) Prophecy and Divination at the Edge
7) The Metaphysics of the Wheel of Life
8) Daily Practice
About the Author
Hal Zina Bennett has followed a pathway of Shamanism and nature-based spirituality after a near-death experience having contacted tularemia ( Rabbit fever) in 1952. Spirit Animals And The Wheel of Life is his fifth published book. Bennett and his wife Susan J. Sparrow teach workshops on spirituality, write, coach writers, and run their own publishing company, Tenacity Press.
ISBN: 1571742166
Publisher: Hampton Roads
