Wild Earth, Wild Soul (2nd Edition)

A Manual for an Ecstatic Culture

by Sky Otter

Humankind has the capacity and know-how to create Earth-honoring cultures in a new way for new times. By tapping into ancestral memories, taking what’s best from the human potential movement, and collaborating with present-day indigenous peoples, we can find our way home. Practicing the key ingredients of a lasting culture is an ecstatic way to live. This book shows you how.

REVIEW

5 out of 5

Overall, this is a powerful book – part guide, part call-to-action, part wake-up call in a world that’s gotten increasingly self-centered and consumerist. Don’t let what I’m about to say put you off reading this, if anything, it should make you want to read it more. This is not a light read, I highly suggest taking a few days to read it, even if you’re a fast reader like me, just so you can absorb it all. Even though it covers some heavy, and important topics, it’s extremely accessible, I just think it’s important to let it all marinate and turn over some of the concepts in your mind, especially if they’re new to you. Personally, I’ve always felt called to nature. My husband always jokes he somehow managed to marry a millennial hippie. But even I have to admit I’ve lost my connection with nature in recent years, and I can’t quite point to when or how it happened, it was more of a gradual shift than anything. This book crossing my path feels like a calling to get back on track, and although I don’t think I’ll be taking on a leadership role anytime soon, I can still work on cultivating a spiritual permaculture in my own life and home. The chapters cover everything in enough depth that you could easily lead your own small spiritual retreats, and help those in your own community reconnect with nature, the way we as humans used to in a much broader way, and were truly meant to. I cannot stress enough that even if you don’t feel ready to lead or attend a group event, doing small things to reconnect or do further research on your own using the bibliography is a huge step in the right direction. The planet needs us to reconnect with it – on a spiritual, and practical, level.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sky Otter, formerly Bill Pfeiffer, is a maverick deep ecologist, spiritual coach, and shamanic guide. In 1990, he founded Sacred Earth Network (SEN), a visionary not-for-profit environmental advocacy group. With SEN he traveled extensively in Siberia and North America collaborating with indigenous elders and shamans on a wide variety of issues. He kept asking the question: “How can people live differently so we stop destroying the Earth?” Whenever he returned to his forest base in central Massachusetts he led numerous shamanic, “culture repair” workshops attempting to answer that question. He brought decades of counseling and meditation experience into the mix, and the results–evidenced by the glowing testimonials of the participants–were remarkable. Their tremendously positive experience was the catalyst for this book. Sky recently moved to a new forest base in Vermont.

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