Eyes of the Wild: Journeys of Transformation with the Animal Powers

by Eleanor O'Hanlon

Overview

From Baja California to the Arctic pack ice, Eyes of the Wild takes the reader on an epic, personal journey to meet whales and wolves, bears and wild horses, guided by outstanding biologists and other observers who are renewing an ancient way of connection with the wild. Their scientific research meets the indigenous wisdom which understands the animals as guides to deeper relationship with life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781846949586
Publisher:	Earth Books
Publication date:	12/06/2012
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	275
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Eleanor O'Hanlon is an conservationist and writer. She has worked as a field researcher for leading international conservation groups and her articles on wildlife and wilderness have appeared in magazines in Europe and the US. She lives in France.

Table of Contents

The Book of Whale

1 The Opening 1

2 The Journey North 14

3 Sedna's Story 60

4 The Shaman's Journey 67

The Book of Wolf

1 The Man Who Lived among Wolves: The Story of Jason Badridze 72

2 Attention is the Natural Prayer of the Soul 84

3 A Pasture for Gazelles 89

4 The Wolf's Road 107

5 The Woman Who Walked Away 122

The Book of Bear

Part I Earth

1 The Story of Valentine and Svetlana Pazhetnov 134

2 Following the Bear's Path: Into the Sacred Cave 155

3 The Story of the Young Man and Skeleton Woman 164

4 Words and Bones 172

Part II Ice

5 In the Circle of the Sun 176

6 The Story of the Woman Who Spoke with a Bear 202

7 Ice and Light 207

The Book of Horse

1 White Horses from the Sea 209

2 The Wild Horses are Our Sacred Places: The Story of Maureen Enns 217

3 The Friend of the Soul 229

The Book of Whale

1 The Story of Francisco "Pachico" Mayoral 237

2 Epilogue: The Community of Sound 253

Author's Thanks 256

Selected Bibliography 258

Other Resources 262