Karen Sawyer - Soul Companions: Conversations with Contemporary Wisdom Keepers

FIRST PUBLISHED BY O-BOOKS, 2008
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Text copyright: Karen Sawyer 2008
ISBN: 978 1 84694 050 6
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Soul Companions is a stunning book. It assembles an amazing collection of interviews with some of the finest and most unusual people from the worlds of alternative thinking and teaching. For anyone interested in the future of human growth and development this is an absolute must read.

~ John Matthews: author of Walkers Between Worlds

An extraordinarily ambitious project reaching to the ends of the Earth and into the realms beyond. Dip into this compendium of accounts of spirit guides from every Earth culture, and you enter a slipstream of consciousness that leaves the real world looking flat and crumpled as a cardboard cutout. Soul Companions is truly a gift and a source of nourishment for the soul.

~ CAROLYN BURDET: KINDRED SPIRIT MAGAZINE

Soul Companions is an amazing and enlightening anthology of profound experiences shared between some of the worlds most revered wisdom keepers and their spirit guides. Inspiring and empowering, it lights a path for all of us to follow.

~ John Perkins: New York Times bestselling author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man and The Secret History of the American Empire.

I would like to express my deep admiration and gratitude to Karen Sawyer for this truly remarkable and satisfying book. That it will, in generations to come, survive as a much loved, battered and dog-eared treasure attests to the fact that it is both timeless and timely no matter which century one happens to be reading it in. This book will flick switches.

~ Ellis Taylor: author of In These Signs Conquer ~ Revealing the Secret Signs an Age has Obscured.

The world of the spirits is completely normal for many cultures and normal for our culture, if we dare to admit it. Soul Companions reinforces this reality, and affirms our own deep connection to the unseen dare you not accept it?

~ SACRED HOOP MAGAZINE

The word acknowledge means to accept, admit or recognize the truth or existence of something. It also has the word knowledge in it, which is apt as, first and foremost, I wish to thank all those who so generously shared their knowledge and wisdom within these pages, and who taught me so much during the writing of this book.

Special thanks to: Llyn Roberts, fellow O-Books author and kindred spirit, for her friendship and support. Simon Buxton who has been my mentor throughout a truly fine fellow. My dear friend Kristina Solbakken Ashdown for her dedicated translation of Sami shaman Ailo Gaups story from Norwegian into English.

Thanks to the invisibles behind the scenes: First and foremost my publisher John Hunt, and all at O Books. The head of The Foundation for Shamanic Studies in Europe, Paul Uccusic, for his help. Vicki from Malidoma Soms office for her endeavors (although it wasnt to be, your efforts are sincerely appreciated). Diane Marshall, who arranged my interview with Uncle Angaangaq. Judi Sion who arranged my interview with Tom Kenyon. Sue Morris from the Botkalo office and to all those who pointed me in the right direction.

Thanks also to: Joel and Debby Kaplan for their mountain magic, Mel (you know what for), the gifted spirit artist Angela George for her insights and inspiration and Pat Reynolds, for her Orgonite and superb editorial skills.

Ultimately, I wish to acknowledge my family. Deep gratitude to: my parents, Hugh and Glenys Sawyer for their consistent love and encouragement. To my sister and brother Bean and Ian Moore for their infectious enthusiasm and for holding the vision every step of the way, and to my niece, Mya Le Moore, with her awesome poetry respect! To my Auntie Gill at the Forge Wellbeing Centre in Corsham, Wiltshire. To my soul companion, the circle-building Vince without you, this book would not be what it is. To my children Loren Ash Campbell Sawyer, Pixie Morning Sky Reeve-Pereczes, and Eocha Elen Pereczes a BIG thank you for reminding me to play.

Finally, I wish to thank the Soul Companions who have inspired and helped me to write. For without you, there would be no book.

: Synchronicities, Signs & Messages

: Dreams, Journeys & Visions

: The Artists Waw

: Healing The Soul

: Your Past, Present & Future Selves

: Animal Magic

: Nature & Elemental Beings

: The Angelic Realms

: The Ancestors

: Star Nations

: Working With Your Soul Companions

TO LOREN, PIXIE AND EOCHA.
And to all my soul companions.

And I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts;
a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused,
whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,
and the round ocean and the living air and the blue sky, and in the mind of man;
A motion and a spirit, that impels all thinking things, all objects of all thought,
And rolls through all things.

~ William Wordsworth (1770 1850), from Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting The Banks Of The Wye During A Tour. July 13, 1798.

The isolation of life as we perceive it to be is an illusion. Whether we are conscious of it or not, there are many dimensions of existence overlapping and permeating the world as we know it. It is part of us and we are part of it we are never alone because we are all-one. Every one of us whatever nation, race, religion or belief has spirit helpers that guide us on our journey through life.

Most of us are content to live our whole lives unaware of, or ignoring the presence of, these guides too ensconced in the routine of earthly life to think much about it. It is undoubtedly more comfortable to go through life ignoring what cannot be proven or explained with the logical mind, rejecting many ideas that may challenge conscious reality and thus change our lives. Stepping outside this comfort-zone is not difficult it requires only our intent and desire to do so and is well worth the effort. Living a life awake and alert to the gentle nudges from our spirit allies can enrich our lives, enabling us to reach our full potential and stretch our capabilities beyond what we thought were ever possible.

We are alive at a fascinating time in human history. I believe that the veil between the worlds is being drawn aside like curtains. Our perception of the world is expanding to encompass other energies in alternative dimensions. Daily interaction with the no-longer-invisible realms of Spirit will soon become the norm.