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(More customer reviews)This is one of the most extraordinary books I have ever read. Each page invites its own kind of gnosis, its own kind of translucent dialing-in to the many menus of the self: social, psychological, spiritual. Feeling myself sweetly pulled into a succession of altered states, I also found myself reading it slowly and more slowly, seeping into colors, vistas, moments of existential confrontation and resolution. Deena Metzger, already an experienced psychotherapist, mythologist and genuine seeker after truth, by coaxing a wild girl out of a tree, goes on a shamanic quest, not just for knowledge, but for a new way of being. Experience confronts innocence, and finds it experienced in ways the "wise old woman" herself is innocent. She can only teach the girl through transparency, since the girl seems clairvoyant
The woman and the girl, Tecolote ("Owl Woman") and Azul ("Blue"), are strangers to begin with, but an invisible magnetism pulls them into a mutually gnostic enterprise. This involves indwelling the minds of animals (also plants and nature, places, and probably times, as the adventure seems to take place in kairos, sacred time, rather than chronos, clock time.) There is also mutual dreaming, and the curious act of walking or flying, through the others' dreamscape; sharing predicaments, running from the same dark nemesis: the "Hunter," or the predatory spirit of modern mankind (gender pronoun intended). In fact the shadow is never avoided in these pages, which gives it also a much greater access to the light, a more nuanced truthfulness--and ultimately an optimism about what it means to be alive.
Don't read this book unless you are prepared to add some new growth-rings beneath the bark.
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FeralThis novel, based on a true story, is one woman s journey out of the strictures of cultural mores and societal values of what is sane, judicious, and appropriate and into the world of the primal intelligences that churn within all of us. A girl is found in a tree, alone, seemingly frightened and unwilling to communicate with anyone. And yet she displays a certain intelligence that beckons to the woman, intrigues her with its innate and often hidden language. The woman finds herself drawn into a world of beauty and fear, intensity and passion, that eventually brings her to a new awareness of what is missing in the left-brain intelligence that so dominates our assumptions of reality. This brilliant work will bring you to the edge of what you know to be true, challenging the very tenets of your existence and opening the door to what is missing in all our lives: the awakened animal consciousness whose wild intelligence renews our passion for life, for nature, and completes our sensibilities so that we can live as equals in the web of all life as human animals, alive to the very core of our being.
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