Voices of the Earth: The Path of Green Spirituality [Paperback]

Clea Danaan (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 8, 2009

Awaken your psychic powers, talk to nature, and hear her reply. Nature intuitive Clea Danaan gives lessons in building psychic awareness and communicating with plants, trees, and nature spirits. This rewarding connection with nature offers healing, renewal, knowledge of your life purpose, and a spiritual oasis in a chaotic world.

Each chapter features meditations, journal exercises, and hands-on projects to help you strengthen your ties to the earth and deepen your spiritual practice. From gardening to herb work to water conservation, this book explores many ways to apply and incorporate nature's wisdom into daily life. Danaan's personal anecdotes also illuminate how green spirituality can be translated into a fulfilling, holistic lifestyle that supports the earth and your spirit.

Praise for Clea Danaan's Sacred Land:

"An informative book filled with fascinating and useful ideas."
—PanGaia

2008 Independent Publisher Book Award for
"Most Likely to Save the Planet" Bronze Medal Winner

 

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Danaan, environmental activist and author of Sacred Land, invites readers to cultivate an awareness of the natural world and become an earth ally. Individual chapters describe the author's experiences of discovering harmony between body and Earth, the sacredness of land, controlled use of psychotropic plants and a sense of belonging in nature. Each chapter also devotes considerable space to directed meditation and practical exercises so that readers can gain such insights themselves. A nature intuitive, Danaan writes of her ability to talk to nonhuman natural items, animals and elements, and coaxes readers to learn to do the same. In the process, she assures readers that they will enjoy the comfort of connection, a keener sense of vitality and supportive collaboration from a totem animal. Danaan notes that results benefit the earth, too, and contribute to its healing. This book isn't for hardened skeptics. But the author's gentle optimism about human relationship to the Earth and earnest care for the planet in all its particularity is a welcome contribution to environmental advocacy. (Mar.)
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About the Author

Clea Danaan (Colorado) has been gardening organically for over fifteen years. Her articles on gardening and environmental activism have appeared in Sage Woman and Organic Family. She lives near Denver with her husband and daughter.

Product Details

• Paperback: 216 pages
• Publisher: Llewellyn Publications; 1 edition (March 8, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0738714658
• ISBN-13: 978-0738714653
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #537,009 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #52 in Books > Religion & Spirituality > Earth-Based Religions > Gaia

More About the Author

When Clea was born, her family lived in a three-room cabin on Vashon Island in Puget Sound. She was almost born on the ferry, but they made it into the city just in time. Homesteading, salt water, and natural living is in her blood, and it is about these topics that she writes. She is the author of Sacred Land: Intuitive Gardening for Personal, Political & Environmental Change (Llewellyn, 2005), Voices of the Earth: The Path of Green Spirituality (Llewellyn, 2009), and Magical Bride: Crafting an Interfaith Wedding for a Goddess (Wyrdwood Ebook, 2009). She lives near Denver with her family, garden, and four chickens.

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lovely Book re Nature and Spirit, April 3, 2010

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This review is from: Voices of the Earth: The Path of Green Spirituality (Paperback)

What a great book. It reminds me a bit of a modern Walden in some ways, but more down to earth (no pun intended) with a very practical, yet insightful and spiritual approach. It's like a true environmentalist and nature-lover meets natural spirituality. Inspiring, great read.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beyond 'Sacred Land', December 31, 2010

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Wanda, Pittsfield MA - See all my reviews

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With 'Voices of the Earth: The Path of Green Spirituality,' Clea Danaan delves more deeply into how we can each form a true relationship with our immediate environment. Of course Danaan's environment is the natural world, but I feel the connection, the slowing down, the developing of all our senses to 'read' what's around us can be used wherever there is life (even the stone in buildings and sidewalks contains life).

I highly recommend this book not so much as a how-to book (as 'Sacred Land' was, relating to gardening, plants, and soils) but as a book that teases us out of a passive relationship with our environment, inspiring curiosity, and that shows us what we can do to follow up on that curiosity. Shamanic students will appreciate the approach Danaan has to fellow life forms (always asking permission, always having respect).