Michael Roads had always been close to nature, but when a river started talking to him, he began to doubt his sanity. A series of encounters with the natural world followed, and Roads began to listen and let go. He found himself led stage by stage to a final wisdom, remarkable in its simplicity and in its message of hope for humanity. This book, a bind-up of his two best-known works, beautifully articulates that message.

Having passed the initiations posed by Pan, Michael Roads has earned the right to enter into the non-physical realms. "When I stepped through those Doors, linear time and a normal reality abruptly ended. Everything of the known was abruptly replaced by the vast unknown. Time, if it had any meaning at all, was spherical, so that all points of a sphere were the same time – always."Michael finds himself in his Light-body. Catapulted through one spiritual doorway after another, he meets...

Over twenty years have passed since Michael Roads has written the two best-selling books Talking with Nature and Journey Into Nature. Since then, many people have asked, "What happened? Why have we heard nothing more about your metaphysical experiences in Nature? You have written several other books, but whatever happened to your Nature connection?""I am going to show you life in farms and fields, in trees and forests, in mountains and hills, in towns and villages, in houses and ho...

In his latest Book Two Michael breaks new frontiers in his journeys with Pan as he leads the reader to the cutting edge of metaphysical writings of this time."This is an eye-opening book. It is a heart- opening book. It is food for the soul. I have explained Pan as fully as possible. Put simply, Pan is the Spirit of Nature. He presents an opportunity to open yourself to a greater reality.This book involves my metaphysical journeys into realms and realities that have for a l...

This is a breathtaking roller coaster of a book, taking the reader to places beyond imagining as my extraordinary metaphysical journeys continue ever deeper into Mystery. As ever, Pan is my teacher; the enigmatic Spirit of Nature.In this book I visit the Buddha, a Buddha beyond anything I ever expected. I visit the mysterious Serpent Mound in Ohio, watching its very construction, and I visit a sacred mountain in Japan where I converse with two very different Gods, and a Goddess. Fa...

I often gasp at the sheer diversity and abundance of life that is so far beyond the normal human framework of reference. Like a goldfish in its glass bowl, we live enclosed in our personal realities. Beyond all our many personal, physical realities is the vastness of the greater, metaphysical reality. Over my lifetime I have learned that it is possible to move into my metaphysical Light-body and access that greater reality. I step . . . Between . . . realities.In this book I visit ...

**A New York Times Notable BookFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle AwardA personal, lyrical narrative about storytelling and empathy, from the author of Orwell's Roses**Apricots. Her mother's disintegrating memory. An invitation to Iceland. Illness. These are Rebecca Solnit's raw materials, but The Faraway Nearby goes beyond her own life, as she spirals out into the stories she heard and read—from fairy tales to Mary Shelley's

In every moment the universe is whispering to you. Even ordinary events in your life carry communications from the realm of the Spirit. . . .Whether we are conscious of it or not, the universe is communicating to us through signs. In this mind-opening book, renowned healer and author Denise Linn shows that coincidence, synchronicity, and those premonitions we've all experienced are never accidents but a kindly world's way of trying to nudge us in the right direction.Drawing o...

David Abram’s first book, The Spell of the Sensuous has become a classic of environmental literature. Now he returns with a startling exploration of our human entanglement with the rest of nature.As the climate veers toward catastrophe, the innumerable losses cascading through the biosphere make vividly evident the need for a metamorphosis in our relation to the living land. For too long we’ve ignored the wild intelligence of our bodies, taking our primary truths from tech...

A celebrated storyteller-poet-naturalist explores a year of dawns in her most personal book to date.In an eye-opening sequence of personal meditations through the cycle of seasons, Diane Ackerman awakens us to the world at dawn—drawing on sources as diverse as meteorology, world religion, etymology, art history, poetry, organic farming, and beekeeping. As a patient and learned observer of animal and human physiology and behavior, she introduces us to varieties of b...

Author and illustrator Martín Prechtel is internationally known for his explorations of ancient folklore and uncovering the lessons therein for modern readers. In The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun, he revives a hitherto unknown Guatemalan Tzutujil Mayan tale of the beginnings of the world with a poetic retelling of the story, 28 evocative drawings, and a critical analysis that both enlightens and entertains. Having lived with the Mayans and learned their language, Precht...

Ten essays on nature, ritual, and philosophy "that are so point-blank vital you nearly need to put the book down to settle yourself" ( San Francisco Chronicle).Gretel Ehrlich's world is one of solitude and wonder, pain and beauty, and these elements give life to her stunning prose. Ever since her acclaimed debut, The Solace of Open Spaces, she has illuminated the particular qualities of nature and the self with graceful precision.In Isl...