Frank MacEowen - The Spiral of Memory and Belonging: A Celtic Path of Soul and Kinship

The Spiral of Memory and Belonging dips deeply into the well of Celtic and pre-Celtic spirituality, exploring a fascinating premise: that the empowering spirit of Dana, the primordial life-force itself, is re-emerging in our time, heralding the beginning of the next cycle of ages, in which the limiting labels of culture and religion will be transcended a time in which our souls will be brought into a new relationship with the energies of the earth, the spirit world, and the ancestors who care for us. Frank MacEowen is to be commended, as he has created very good medicine indeed.

For those who are exploring Celtic mysticism or shamanic spirituality, Frank MacEowens The Spiral of Memory and Belonging is an imaginative map of one wanderers journey through the kaleidoscopic realms of nonordinary states and personal mysteries.

The power of personal experience to enlighten, guide, and activate resonates undeniably throughout Frank MacEowens The Mist-Filled Path. Peer within these pages into the mists of your own connection to our world and the divine. May this book guide you into heartfelt conscious action on behalf of all that is sacred.

A rich and poetic book that seems to bring together the very best aspects of the Celtic vision of the world. Warm, personal, and adventurous, this is a book which should be read by everyone remotely interested in the human spirit.

The Mist-Filled Path reads like a memoir but with a call to action on every page.... As presented here, Celtic spirituality is not a romanticized artifact or an atavistic throwback but a modern ethos.

A distinctive and evocative book that makes a worthy contribution to our understanding of Celtic tradition and, best of all, inspires us to participate in Celtic consciousness.

The path that Frank MacEowen speaks of is one that is deeply personal and not at all fit for the sleepwalkers that many of us have become. Most of the lessons imparted in this book are timeless but well worth repeating and remembering.

The Mist-Filled Path is a beautiful and passionate description of a soul journey along the old Celtic roads between earth and sky. It is also a spirited invitation to collective soul recovery, inviting us to reclaim ways of being and seeing that were shared by our ancestors. To read Frank MacEowen is to go hillwalking with a friend who speaks the language of trees and birds, and knows the thin places where we can slip into the Otherworld for adventure and initiation. This book is a gift and a delight.

Frank MacEowen is an astute learner, a visionary teacher, and a sensual storyteller. In an era when shamanism has become one of the most popular topics in bookstores, at newsstands, and on television, this refreshingly pragmatic literary sojourn into the perennial Mist-Filled Path of Celtic wisdom is a timely, heartfelt gift to the world. An illuminating and important work. I recommend it highly!

New World Library
Novato, California

Copyright 2004 by Frank MacEowen

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Cover design by Mary Ann Casler
Text design and typography by Tona Pearce Myers
Front cover and page v photographs by Stu Jenks

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

MacEowen, Frank Henderson,

The spiral of memory and belonging : a Celtic path of soul and kinship / Frank MacEowen.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 1-57731-423-9 (pbk. : alk. paper)

1. CeltsIreland-ReligionMiscellanea. 2. ShamanismIrelandMiscellanea. 3. Spiritual life. I. Title.

BL980.I7M23 2004

299'.16dc22

First Printing, May 2004

ISBN 1-57731-423-9

Printed in Canada on 100% postconsumer waste recycled paper

Distributed to the trade by Publishers Group West

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