MEDICINE WOMAN

Häftad bok. ROUTLEDGE & KEGAN PAUL. 1984. 204 sidor.

Gott skick. Understrykningar i blyerts förekommmer /// Förlagets beskrivning: This is the remarkable account of ono woman's daring search for her own identity in an alien, primitive culture, a visionary autobiography as astonishing as Carlos Castaneda's adventures with Don Juan. Haunted by by midnight dream vision, Lynn Andrews leaves her home in California to begin a lifetransforming apprenticeship in Canada with a Cree medicine woman. Agnes Whistling Elk. Under Agnes's instructions, and through a series of rites of passage, she overcomes her own doubts, weaknesses and fear to reach a moment of mystical insight. In that moment, she realises her share in 'a power the world has forgotten' — the essential power of her womanhood. Medicine Woman is a spiritual thriller: it celebrates the power of female spirituality, and is the record of Lynn Andrews's often terrifying journey into the wilderness of Manitoba, where inexplicable events and dangerous encounters serve as testing grounds on her spiritual quest. At the heart of the book is Lynn Andrews's search for the 'marriage basket,' a magical symbol woven from the dreams of many women.' This sacred object has fallen into the hands of the formidable and treacherous male sorcerer. Red Dog, and it is the climactic battle for its possession that brings the book to its powerful conclusion.
The Author Lynn Andrews lives in southern California and devotes her time to writing, lecturing and teaching on the medicine way. She has written a sequel to Medicine Woman, entitled The Flight of the Seventh Moon