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Spirit Animals and the Wheel of Life
Earth-Centered Practices for Daily Living
by: Hal Zina Bennett
Many thousands of years ago, our ancestors observed and recorded in detail the complexities of their natural world. But as we have gone on to explore the boundaries of our world, and even outer space we have increasingly lost touch with the rhythms of nature and, in turn, our own inner space. Today’s exploding technology and rampant environmental destruction have caused many to seek a return to Earth-wise spirituality. Hal Zina Bennett, whose study of nature-based spiritual traditions spans four decades, believes animals are the perfect guides to the understanding that we need to restore health and balance within ourselves and in our relationship to planet Earth.
Spirit Animals and the Wheel of Life is Hal Zina Bennett’s fifth book based on shamanism and nature-based spirituality. The author continues to explore his belief that animals are the perfect guides to the understanding that we need to restore health and balance within ourselves and in our relationship to planet Earth. This is practical spirituality at its best, providing a specific format for helping each reader find answers to the daily challenges of their lives.
Believing that modern psychology has overlooked our relationship with Mother Earth and all of her inhabitants, Bennett presents the Ecospiritual Wheel, describing seven developmental cycles aimed at reconciling man with the natural world. At each of these positions is an animal spirit, or guardian, which both characterizes the principles of its direction and guides the person in the respective teachings. Mole, eagle, badger, wolf, bear, mountain lion—each animal has its place on the sacred medicine wheel with knowledge vital to the future of our Earth and to rediscovering our rightful place in it. Based on sacred teachings that pre-date all modern organized religions it provides tools for understanding our own lives and finding spiritual guidance that is as grounded as the earth itself.
February, 2001, ISBN 1-57174-216-6, Trade paper, $13.95