Like the Tarot or the I Ching, Soul Seeds can be used as an inter-active oracular tool by posing a question, then opening the book to see what fresh insight may be gleaned. As Laura Huxley says in her Foreword, Not only are you reading richly imagined poetry, but if you apply any of these 'soul seeds' you will have a deep awakening... Experience these 'soul seeds' as psycho-spiritual meditations and they may bring about a transformation greater than many hours of therapy. Chungliang Al Huang adds that this book opens portal after portal to the deeply intuitive wisdom of the Tao Mystery.
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Carolyn Kleefeld is a poet, and uses words as a poet each one has its exact place and weight in her wise aphorisms. She succeeds in distilling something we knew but did not know we knew. The ink drawings are beautiful. They will make you wonder whether they are a complement to the text, or the main subject in the book. --Piero Ferrucci, author, The Power of Kindness
Reading the soul seeds from Carolyn Mary Kleefeld s latest book gives me the joy of opening, portal after portal, to the deeply intuitive wisdom of the Tao Mystery described by Lao Tzu in the first verse of Tao Te Ching. These simple, yet profoundly beautiful vignettes of intuitive thought patterns can only be channeled, spontaneously unimpeded, through a mind and heart from an authentic and creative artist. Bravo! --Chungliang Al Huang, president, Living Tao Foundation, author, Embrace Tiger, Return to Mountain, co-author, Tao: The Watercourse Way
The underlying unity of our universe is portrayed by Carolyn so poetically. Her deep experiences and wisdom come alive in Soul Seeds. Our turbulent world needs her message of oneness more than ever. --Dr. Mani Bhaumik, Physicist, author of the international best seller, Code Name God
The underlying unity of our universe is portrayed by Carolyn so poetically. Her deep experiences and wisdom come alive in Soul Seeds. Our turbulent world needs her message of oneness more than ever. --Dr. Mani Bhaumik, Physicist, author of the international best seller, Code Name God
Reading the soul seeds from Carolyn Mary Kleefeld s latest book gives me the joy of opening, portal after portal, to the deeply intuitive wisdom of the Tao Mystery described by Lao Tzu in the first verse of Tao Te Ching. These simple, yet profoundly beautiful vignettes of intuitive thought patterns can only be channeled, spontaneously unimpeded, through a mind and heart from an authentic and creative artist. Bravo! --Chungliang Al Huang, president, Living Tao Foundation, author, Embrace Tiger, Return to Mountain, co-author, Tao: The Watercourse Way
Reading the soul seeds from Carolyn Mary Kleefeld s latest book gives me the joy of opening, portal after portal, to the deeply intuitive wisdom of the Tao Mystery described by Lao Tzu in the first verse of Tao Te Ching. These simple, yet profoundly beautiful vignettes of intuitive thought patterns can only be channeled, spontaneously unimpeded, through a mind and heart from an authentic and creative artist. Bravo! --Chungliang Al Huang, president, Living Tao Foundation, author, Embrace Tiger, Return to Mountain, co-author, Tao: The Watercourse Way
The underlying unity of our universe is portrayed by Carolyn so poetically. Her deep experiences and wisdom come alive in Soul Seeds. Our turbulent world needs her message of oneness more than ever. --Dr. Mani Bhaumik, Physicist, author of the international best seller, Code Name God
The underlying unity of our universe is portrayed by Carolyn so poetically. Her deep experiences and wisdom come alive in Soul Seeds. Our turbulent world needs her message of oneness more than ever. --Dr. Mani Bhaumik, Physicist, author of the international best seller, Code Name God
Reading the soul seeds from Carolyn Mary Kleefeld s latest book gives me the joy of opening, portal after portal, to the deeply intuitive wisdom of the Tao Mystery described by Lao Tzu in the first verse of Tao Te Ching. These simple, yet profoundly beautiful vignettes of intuitive thought patterns can only be channeled, spontaneously unimpeded, through a mind and heart from an authentic and creative artist. Bravo! --Chungliang Al Huang, president, Living Tao Foundation, author, Embrace Tiger, Return to Mountain, co-author, Tao: The Watercourse Way
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Over the past two decades, Ms. Kleefeld has created an extensive and diverse body of drawings and paintings, ranging in style from romantic figurative to abstract. In her language of poetic imagery, Ms. Kleefeld expresses the passions of the human heart and a pantheistic reverence for the Big Sur wilderness she inhabits. In addition to being featured in art magazines and textbooks, her award-winning art can be found in the personal collections of Ted Turner, Laura Archera Huxley, and many others, as well as at the United Nations, and in hospitals, galleries and museums nationwide.
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CAROLYN MARY KLEEFELD
Born in England, philosopher, poet, prose-writer and visual artist Carolyn Mary Kleefeld grew up in Southern California and studied art and psychology at UCLA. Her innovative writing and artwork have been used for over twenty-five years in the fields of human consciousness and creativity. A visionary pioneer, Ms. Kleefeld has the rare ability to convey through lyrical language, metaphor and symbolic image, the spiritual potential of human beings.
Fueled by a need for creative expression and a lifelong fascination with psychological and spiritual transformation, Ms. Kleefeld is the author of four poetry books that explore these archetypal themes. These books have been used as texts in university courses and have been translated into Braille by the Library of Congress.
Ms. Kleefeld's book, The Alchemy of Possibility: Reinventing Your Personal Mythology (Merrill-West Publishing 1998), with an introduction by Laura Archera Huxley, combines her visual art, philosophical prose and poetry, and includes corresponding quotes from the I Ching and the Tarot. Healers as well as professors of art and psychology have also used "Alchemy" as an inspirational text and oracular guidebook.
An interview with Ms. Kleefeld is included in the anthology Mavericks of the Mind: Conversations for the New Millennium (Crossing Press 1993), as are interviews with Alan Ginsberg, Terence McKenna, Dr. Timothy Leary and other cutting-edge thinkers of our time. Kissing Darkness: Love Poems and Art, a lovers' dialogue in poetry written in collaboration with David Wayne Dunn, was published in 2003 by Riverwood Books, an imprint of White Cloud Press (publishers of Kahlil Gibran). Soul Seeds: Revelations and Drawings, a collection of Ms. Kleefeld's philosophical aphorisms, published by Cross-Cultural Communications in 2008, was nominated for the 2008 Pushcart Prize. Ms. Kleefeld's latest poetry book, Vagabond Dawns was published by Cross Cultural Communications in 2009.
Over the past two decades, Ms. Kleefeld has created an extensive and diverse body of paintings and drawings, ranging in style from romantic figurative to abstract. In her language of poetic imagery, Ms. Kleefeld expresses the passions of the human heart and a pantheistic reverence for the Big Sur wilderness she inhabits. The Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art at Pepperdine University exhibited a retrospective of Ms. Kleefeld's paintings and drawings in 2008 and published an exhibition catalog, Carolyn Mary Kleefeld: Visions from Big Sur, with art from the exhibit and a commentary by museum curator and director, Michael Zakian, PhD. In addition to being featured in art magazines and textbooks, Ms. Kleefeld's award-winning art can be found in the personal collections of Ted Turner, the estate of Laura Archera Huxley, and many others, as well as at the United Nations, and in hospitals, galleries and museums nationwide.
Born in England, philosopher, poet, prose-writer and visual artist Carolyn Mary Kleefeld grew up in Southern California and studied art and psychology at UCLA. Her innovative writing and artwork have been used for over twenty-five years in the fields of human consciousness and creativity. A visionary pioneer, Ms. Kleefeld has the rare ability to convey through lyrical language, metaphor and symbolic image, the spiritual potential of human beings.
Fueled by a need for creative expression and a lifelong fascination with psychological and spiritual transformation, Ms. Kleefeld is the author of four poetry books that explore these archetypal themes. These books have been used as texts in university courses and have been translated into Braille by the Library of Congress.
Ms. Kleefeld's book, The Alchemy of Possibility: Reinventing Your Personal Mythology (Merrill-West Publishing 1998), with an introduction by Laura Archera Huxley, combines her visual art, philosophical prose and poetry, and includes corresponding quotes from the I Ching and the Tarot. Healers as well as professors of art and psychology have also used "Alchemy" as an inspirational text and oracular guidebook.
An interview with Ms. Kleefeld is included in the anthology Mavericks of the Mind: Conversations for the New Millennium (Crossing Press 1993), as are interviews with Alan Ginsberg, Terence McKenna, Dr. Timothy Leary and other cutting-edge thinkers of our time. Kissing Darkness: Love Poems and Art, a lovers' dialogue in poetry written in collaboration with David Wayne Dunn, was published in 2003 by Riverwood Books, an imprint of White Cloud Press (publishers of Kahlil Gibran). Soul Seeds: Revelations and Drawings, a collection of Ms. Kleefeld's philosophical aphorisms, published by Cross-Cultural Communications in 2008, was nominated for the 2008 Pushcart Prize. Ms. Kleefeld's latest poetry book, Vagabond Dawns was published by Cross Cultural Communications in 2009.
Over the past two decades, Ms. Kleefeld has created an extensive and diverse body of paintings and drawings, ranging in style from romantic figurative to abstract. In her language of poetic imagery, Ms. Kleefeld expresses the passions of the human heart and a pantheistic reverence for the Big Sur wilderness she inhabits. The Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art at Pepperdine University exhibited a retrospective of Ms. Kleefeld's paintings and drawings in 2008 and published an exhibition catalog, Carolyn Mary Kleefeld: Visions from Big Sur, with art from the exhibit and a commentary by museum curator and director, Michael Zakian, PhD. In addition to being featured in art magazines and textbooks, Ms. Kleefeld's award-winning art can be found in the personal collections of Ted Turner, the estate of Laura Archera Huxley, and many others, as well as at the United Nations, and in hospitals, galleries and museums nationwide.
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In these troubled times it is so refreshing to have discovered this jewel of a book by Carolyn Mary Kleefeld. Soul Seeds sits beside my bed, where I turn to its pages daily taking in the seeds of wisdom and find guidance in Kleefeld's chapters. I have found that using the book as an oracle by asking a question of the book and then turning to a page as I meditate on the question there have been surprising results! I recommend this book which is priced right for these financially strapped times, as a perfect gift for yourself or those you love.
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I totally loved this book! I enjoyed Soul Seeds immensely and refer to it regularly for spiritual guidance, insight, and inspiration. I've found this enchanted volume to be an absolute delight to simply open at random with a question in mind, and read wherever my eyes first land. In this sense, Soul Seeds works as an oracular or divinatory tool, like the Tarot or the I Ching, and will often synchronistically provide me with the exact nugget of deep truth or soul-reaching inspiration that I need to hear in the moment. It's like magic. I discover new personal and universal insights every time I journey into this book, and I recently learned that a chapter from the book--"Dimensional Perspectives"--was nominated for the prestigious Pushcart Prize.Soul Seeds is more than just a portal into the higher dimensions; it's also a companion--a teacher, a friend, and a lover--who holds my hand, and helps me to cultivate a sense of inner peace, as I travel into the mysterious realms deep within. The illustrations in this collection are also wonderfully otherworldly, and sometimes when I open the book at random with a question, my eyes first land on one of these whimsical and enigmatic drawings, which carry as much potential for inspiration and insight as Ms. Kleefeld's masterfully chosen words.
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