Overview of Trailing Sky Six Feathers
from the Publisher, Xlibris
The author is a Zen teacher, Poet, Professor Emeritus, Founder of Friends for Peace, Spiritual Warrior for Planetary Care and
Social Justice. In this book he navigates past and present life experiences from brutal raids on Indian settlements in 18th
century Arizona, insane sea voyages off the Scottish Hebrides in the 20th century to surrender to The Muse in the 21st
century. These screenplay epics weave together to create inspiration for a wide range of spiritual seekers, environmentalists, educators,
Generation X and Y, feminists, students and academics alike.
We are staring into the abyss: climate change, ecosystem and financial collapse, nuclear breakdown, terrorism and anarchy.
Instead of being eaten up by the abyss "Awaken Spiritually" for that transforms everything. Our world has become an unpredictable beast.
We fail to work with it intelligently. We must take back control of ourselves and this is a spiritual matter.
An exciting Hero's Journey, as we follow his journey to accept The Muse capable of transforming his karma. The story has the author stumbling
through the first part of life, then standing strong in his own sovereignty in the latter part. In India, Arizona, France and Canada's
wilderness, he goes to extraordinary lengths to transform four centuries of karma.
Readers will travel the pages with Ian as he learns to embrace The Muse —
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— his South Western Native American wife and medicine woman in whose arms he died in 1777.
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vows to find Ian (then known as Eagle Speaker) in a future time, to help him complete his purpose despite resistance from Ian's intellectual and
logical mind to remember that pledge in this lifetime.
Over a period of thirty years, four extraordinary medicine people enhance his process of remembering, while Trailing Sky waits patiently
from the distant past. Ian learns how to reconfigure his understanding of time, place, consciousness and even Carl Jung's psychology, where
he chose to listen to the feminine voice of Earth Wisdom rather than to the multitude of competing voices in his deep unconscious.
Readers will be inspired as they watch Ian's intention and strength of purpose transcend the patterns he had carried since childhood.
Past life memories finally collide head on with the present, all thanks to the persistence of
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who refused to give up. Karma is reversed and the internal battles are over, as Ian begins to live his life as a Meditation for Gaia. The relentless
shadowing of this engaging Muse brings understanding not only to Ian, but to anyone engaged in overcoming the darkness of their past.
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caps the author's long-term fascination with consciousness. As a Professor of Anthropology and Religion he has taught courses on Ecology, Symbols, Engaged Buddhism
and Meditation Systems. He is a healer, mentor and educator, able to encourage people through example to find their true nature so that humanity and the world may
be renewed. Ian's story is offered as a gift to our planet, as his purpose in life is to share his wealth of experience on how to live in harmony not just with
ourselves but with the place we call home… earth.
In 2010, after an intense internal dialogue with his Muse,
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Ian asked her if he should write her story. There was a long silence that stretched into infinity until he finally heard her affirmation. Ian stood up and reached
for his backpack and took out a writing pad. There was a gold plated fountain pen in the pack, though he used it rarely. This story had to be hand written. He
inserted an ink cartridge into the pen and sat in a chair overlooking the sea and mountains on the west coast of British Columbia. Putting his pen to paper he
started to write the first line of this book:
"Put down your weapons, my husband," she said quietly with steely insistence.
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