Lovely, interesting book! It's packed with information, but written in such a comfortable style that it's a pleasure to read. The writing is so clear. Strong has great respect for and love of the loon. I can't say enough about Strong's obvious integrity and appreciation for nature. You will want to own this! The selected reading list in the back gives info for those who would like to read even more. I bought two to give as gifts. (take a look at his "Wild Moose Country" book too!)

In 1949, years before Joseph Campbell became a popular hero for our meaning-hungry age, the great scholar and mythographer published "The Hero with a Thousand Faces," the book that made his academic reputation and helped to launch a new appreciation of the universal relevance of mythology to contemporary experience.

For actor/director and therapist Paul Rebillot, author of "The Call to Adventure," Campbell's work provides a context that he uses to create a ritual structure designed to bring the archetypal hero story into direct contact with here-and-now experience. Propelled by a period of intense personal crisis in the late '60s when he lost touch with ordinary reality, Rebillot discovered firsthand the demons one must face in the quest for wholeness and integration. He is convinced that it is the lack of meaningful rituals of transition and initiation that creates much of the spiritual emptiness of our acquisitive consumer society. In a world currently dominated by biochemical experts who give Prozac to record numbers of patients as part of an enormous medical bureaucracy, he has turned his fascination with the roots of theater, his training in Gestalt psychology, and 25 years as a group leader at Big Sur's Esalen Institute and in Europe into an experiential process that he calls "The Hero's Journey."

The book itself is a combination of Rebillot's story of his development of the process and clear instructions on how to use it. It has been designed as a guidebook either for an individual ritual of self-discoveryor use with a group. Readers of Herman Hesse's Steppenwolf may remember the Magic Theater visited by its protaganist; Rebillot's connected exercises can take a willing reader into an imaginal place as deep and vivid as that.And it's as much fun as you had as a child at play---though this game is one that's been told and played since the childhood of the human race!

Included are beautiful meditations for centering, grounding, and group-bonding as well as a wealth of insights from an artist and healer who has made transformation into a life's work.

I bought ten copies to pass around our local diocese. Here is a clean authoritative look at the Catholic Charismatic Renewal. Find out what the Church's real position is...

In sixteenth century Terra Florida, there exists a balance of power between two rival tribes, the Timucua and the Coosa. However, with the incursion of the Europeans, an arms race has ensued. The Timucua led by Mantua obtain the help of a Spanish slaver, Avila, who provides them with shooting sticks in exchange for slaves. Mantua has even sold his own people into bondage for the weapons provided by Avila. ...... Calling Crow, a Coosa leader, has to make a decision that could change the way his people live. He realizes that his people's weapons, bows and arrows, are primitive to what Mantua and his band use. The Spanish rivals and hated enemies in the Southeast are the English, represented by the Newman family and their crew. The English meet Calling Crow and offer to help his tribe in the upcoming battle with Mantua and Avila. Calling Crow has an extremely difficult decision to make. If Calling Crow accepts the English offer, is he replacing one serpent with another? If he rejects the offer, has he doomed his people to death and slavery when they struggle to survive the onslaught? ...... CALLING CROW NATION is an action-packed historical fiction that brings the native and European cultures in picturesque color. Calling Crow is one of the great characters ever to grace a historical novel and the secondary characters add plenty of realism. This tale should be recognized as one of the most exciting novels of the year. This reviewer plans to read the two previous books (CALLING CROW and FLIGHT OF THE CROW) in this brilliant trilogy. .......Harriet Klausner

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Paul Helm has written a demanding little book, one which, is "bigger on the inside than on the outside."

Helm gives the most lucid, tightly-integrated and compelling treatment to the complicated matter of one's calling that I've seen. I find it difficult to imagine anyone doing a better job.

"The Callings" deals skillfully with matters which have languished in confusion lately, particularly the misguided (though old) notion that there is such a thing as "full-time Christian calling" as opposed to the calling placed upon everyone else. He also deals with the idea of multiple callings, not as fancies which we choose and reject, but as being placed upon all men and women (Christian or not) by God, and as crucual matters which we must discover and understand.

Helm is a philosopher, which perhaps explains why no words are wasted in his arguments. Those used to the fluff which is found in many popular writings directed to the Christian community will find him difficult, but immensely satisfying. He forces necessary thought about critial issues.

This book has the potential to change the way one looks at one's life, from mowing the yard and doing dishes to works of benevolence. Helm helps one to see that our lives are really seamless wholes, no matter how used to seeing them otherwise we may be.

This book, in my opinion, is a must read. Get two copies. You'll want to loan one out. His two other popular books, "The Beginnings" and "The Last Things" are equally well-written and worthwhile.

...a book on meditation without the Eastern mysticism nonesense. An excellent read! Meditation, combined with regular exercise and good diet, can make for a low stress life.

Absolutely wonderful book. I have been looking ever so long for a book on how to make candles. Now I have found it. Everything I wanted to know and even pictures too. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in making candles.

Thank you so much!

To cover the work of Billy Graham's 60 year ministry is a formidable task. The author in his presentation examines Billy Graham's work from the historical perspective, going back to the first chapter of Genesis and giving a survey of evangelism from that time on. He is a serious student of the Bible and stresses memorizing scripture. Prayer is a vital part of Billy Graham's life. No other man has preached to as many people as Graham has but the author is quick to point out that Grahm works in a context of support provided by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Assoc (BGEA). Graham has been the intimate confident of presidents ane other leaders. Interesting little known facts are also to be found.

The book provides detailed information about Billy Graham, his methods, his message, and his day-to-day practice of his faith from his perspective.

Not only does this guide have tons of strategy for each and every character, but it also has several pages of artwork that is just gorgeous! Definately pick up this guide if you are a fighting game fanatic!!

This is a wonderful, and historically accurate children's book, that children of many ages--and adults--would enjoy. Although it's about a particular lighthouse on Cape Cod, in days gone by, the material is interesting and relevant to other parts of the world with lighthouses, as well. It makes an interesting story, told well about days gone by when lighthouses and the people who lived in them were a vital part of keeping people safe who went to sea.

The highlight of this durable-looking book are its gorgeous illustrations. Paul Giambarba is a phenomenally talented, master illustrator, and many of the intricate, beautifully drawn and colored scenes in this book would make wonderful prints in their own right. Watercolors of various scenes, washed in characteristic Cape Cod light, are particularly striking, as his almost scientific attention to nautical and historical detail.

Giambarba published many beautiful children's books about Cape Cod (with an audience of adults as well) back in the '70s, this one has made a reappearance in a revamped, beautiful edition that is sure to delight children, adults and gift-givers wanting to savor one more beautiful thing about Cape Cod and its important seafaring past.