Calling Our Spirits Home: Gateways to Full Consciousness [Paperback]

Carla Woody (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1, 2000

As people increasingly search for something more in our times, awakening toward spiritual consciousness has become prevalent. In the sparking, seekers often find themselves in the middle of something that turns their lives upside down with few people to turn toward for guidance through an often ecstatic, albeit confusing maze of possibilities. This book provides a look at the process that typically emerges in that unfolding. Uniquely blending real-life examples, storytelling, mythology, world spiritual traditions and transformational modalities, it provides insights and tools for every phase of the journey.

Editorial Reviews

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Calling Our Spirits Home is truly an enlightening guidebook for anyone looking for directions and tools for expansion, growth and transformation. Carla's gentle words invite everyone on a journey of complete healing and fulfillment. Help yourself with this book and you will find your way home. --Malidoma Somé, Author of Of Water and the Spirit

This is a pleasing and easily read story that tells what we must know and what we need to become to live in this new millennium. It is a spiritual map that offers paths to success in life. Take this book as your map and you will find the way that is right for you --Gay Luce, Founder, Nine Gates Mystery School

Calling Our Spirits Home is a beautiful spirit song that gently gathers the dis-integrated, frightened parts of ourselves into the warm unconditionally loving wholeness of a mother s embrace - a celebration of life, mysticism and magic emerging as a blossom from the consciousness of humanity after centuries of growing beneath the compost of an unbalanced, materialist world. --Matthew Pallamary, Author of Land Without Evil

About the Author

Carla Woody is the author of Calling Our Spirit Home and Standing Stark plus numerous articles on advocacy of Native cultures that are experiencing decimation, spirituality, and whole health. She founded Kenosis in 1999 to provide psycho-spiritually based programs to guide people in life direction and healing. In 2007 Carla founded Kenosis Spirit Keepers, the nonprofit extension of Kenosis, whose mission is to help preserve sacred Indigenous traditions. She sponsors spiritual travel programs and has many years' direct experience with Quechua, Maya and Hopi peoples. She leads retreats internationally sharing an integration of NLP, subtle energy work and world sacred traditions, with a special emphasis on the mysticism of the Andes. Carla is the developer of The Re-Membering Process, a model for spiritual growth, and works with individuals and groups in areas of transition, relationships, spirituality and whole health. Carla has lived and traveled widely in the United States, Europe, Mexico, Peru and Middle East. Her studies of world traditions and spiritual practices have also taken her to various sites in North Africa, India and Central America. These influences color not only her writing, but also her work with others.

Product Details

• Paperback: 217 pages
• Publisher: Kenosis, LLC (May 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1930192002
• ISBN-13: 978-1930192003
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,506,940 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Helping Hand for Each Other., July 12, 2000

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Edward Lee - See all my reviews

This review is from: Calling Our Spirits Home: Gateways to Full Consciousness (Paperback)

I had bought Carla's book for a friend in the midst of changing careers in hopes of influencing her to follow her soul's intention with greater self-confidence. I read the book myself in order to have better discussions that I know would arise as she employs the book in her life. Well, I in for a surprise...

As a guy who has spent the past half-decade working through personal, emotional pain, feeling I now have a better understand my life (in work, relationship, etc.) I still discovered for myself new paradigms for approaching Life in Calling Our Spirits Home: new ways of looking at the pain and frustrations I still harbor as positive guides toward understanding in relationships, overcoming fears of inadequacy that yet hinder my life's work. In short, I feel I was led to this book through my good intentions to help a friend and was rewarded in kind.

The book is simply written and easily understood. Always pertinent, potentially difficult concepts are wonderfully illustrated through examples of many Individuals' struggles and their interpretations leading to eventual understanding and changes for the better. I found the stories easy to relate to since they often pertain to my own life's experiences, and almost always add a new dimension.

I know this book will do wonders for my friend as it has already helped me in my Life-Work. I hope it will also help you.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awakening Toward Spiritual Consciousness, May 9, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Calling Our Spirits Home: Gateways to Full Consciousness (Paperback)

The path of transformation and growth toward wholeness can be a lonely, confusing and sometimes frustrating process. What I got from reading Carla's book was validation that my search, albeit eclectic, was not unusual. The path of spiritual consciousness or return to Source has not felt linear, rational, or logical to me. It has been more like as written on the back of this book, "a maze of possibilities," with numerous stops and starts; blazing new trails where it feels like no one else has gone before, and then often retracing my steps to just start all over again. After turning the last page of the book I had a feeling of being nurtured and validated for my "out of the box" way of searching, and a deep sense of compassion for my personal struggles in answering the Call.

This is a book rich with references and resources from others who have traveled this road, a wonderful amalgamation of spiritual wisdom for which I am grateful to have as a "flashlight" to illuminate the course on those dark nights seeking wisdom and guidance.

While this book didn't give me the answers to all the questions I've been asking, it did remind me and suggest ways to "live" the questions. And how to live the questions feels more important to me at this stage than the answers.

I recommend this book to anyone looking for inspiration and/or guidance while trekking the evolutionary path of the soul.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Calling Our Spirits Home:Gateways to Full Consciousness, May 25, 2000

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Susan S. Boyd (Fairborn, Ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Calling Our Spirits Home: Gateways to Full Consciousness (Paperback)

I have really enjoyed reading "Calling Our Spirits Home:Gateways to Full Consciousness" by Carla Woody

I have been on a self-improvement/self-awareness path for the last few years. All things that I have done seem to lead to spirituality.

What I have really enjoyed about Carla's book is that it helped me realize that you can have spirituality on your terms. There is no right and wrong. It doesn't matter which path your life has taken you can still improve on it and create the life that was meant to be yours. It was particularly exciting for me because I live in Ohio and enjoyed the Ohio references.