The Spirit of Place: A Workbook for Sacred Alignment [Paperback]

Loren Cruden (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 1995

All of Earth’s life is interconnected and sacred. An awareness of that sacred relationship opens a direct path to spiritual understanding. These powerful techniques join mind, will, spirit, and intuition to the plants, animals, and minerals sharing our world, aligning the practitioner in a deeper relationship with life’s sacred matrix.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Each season of the year brings its own teachings and gifts and by forging a partnership of mind, heart, spirit, and body, the seeker may receive those gifts and awaken to a spirit of place that is indigenous to the land and accessible to all. Arranged to follow the four seasons of the year, The Spirit of Place offers an annual cycle of ideas and ceremonies for integrating all aspects of awareness. Visualizations and prayers focus the mind; acknowledging totems and allies strengthens the will; meditations centers the spirit; and heightened intuition opens the heart to change and acceptance. The practices suggested here, brought into daily application, align the reader in a deeper relationship with life's sacred matrix of plants, animals, and minerals sharing our world. A resource guide, with its extensive descriptions of birds, stones, animals, herbs, and trees, offers unique and practical information and advice for strengthening alliances with nature's totems. Respectful of Native American ways, the author draws on those and other earth-oriented traditions to create an eclectic yet truly authentic spiritual practice that relies on a direct experience of the interrelatedness of all life. -- Midwest Book Review

About the Author

Loren Cruden, midwife and herbal healer, lives on a mountain in Washington State in a house that she and her son built. Following spiritual studies in Europe, Asia, and Africa, her six years of work with Lewis Sawaquat, a Potawatomie pipe carrier, deepened her engagement with the spirituality that is native to the land. Respectful of the integrity of Native American ways, she draws carefully on those and other Earth-oriented traditions to create an eclectic yet authentic spiritual practice that relies on a direct experience of the interrelatedness of all life. She is the author of  Love Is Green: An Herbal for Parents, The Living Earth Tarot Deck, and Coyote's Council Fire.

Product Details

• Paperback: 232 pages
• Publisher: Destiny Books (September 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0892815116
• ISBN-13: 978-0892815111
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.8 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #57,605 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #42 in Books > Religion & Spirituality > New Age > Reference

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Love this book and use it year after year, November 28, 2001

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Lucy Freedman (Los Gatos, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Spirit of Place: A Workbook for Sacred Alignment (Paperback)

This book helps everyone find her or his native place and live sacredly in it. It follows the cycle of the year and so revives itself in my life with each set of changing seasons. Good information and helpful attitudes for living on the planet consciously.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Spirit os Place, March 11, 2006

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James M. Mccorkle (Pueblo, CO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Spirit of Place: A Workbook for Sacred Alignment (Paperback)

Another Beautiful book well put together.

I am reading it by weekly chapters and studying it. It will take a year to read the book this way and I have only had it eight weeks. So far I am enthralled by it.

I fully expect to feel it's rating should be five stars, we will see. JMM

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Trustworthy Companion, February 5, 2012

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Kelly Salasin "Lifelong Educator" (Southern Vermont) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Spirit of Place: A Workbook for Sacred Alignment (Paperback)

I picked this book up at the library over a decade ago and kept checking it out from time to time until I could afford my own copy. This purchase was an investment--in myself, in my connection to the Earth, and in my understanding of what it means to be connected. For years it's been my bible of place.

In recent years, I've shared excerpts from this rich volume on my blog, in my YogaDance classes, and in retreats. Now I'm ready to order another book by Loren Cruden, Compass of the Heart: Embodying Medicine Wheel Teachings to satisfy a deeper longing for connection to the Wheel of Life . No doubt this title will become just as much a trustworthy companion as the Spirit of Place has been for so long.