Transformation and Healing from the Sacred Yew Tree

 “Soul Companions is a stunning book. It assembles an amazing collection of interviews with some of the finest and most unusual people from the worlds of alternative thinking and teaching. For anyone interested in the future of human growth and development this is an absolute ‘must read’.”  
                                                ~ John Matthews: author of 'Walkers Between Worlds'
 
“An extraordinarily ambitious project reaching to 'the ends of the Earth' and into the realms beyond, with sublime grace this book modestly slips 45 authors and teachers of ancient and far-reaching wisdom through this one portal, under the guise of encounters with spirit guides. Dip into this compendium of accounts of spirit guides from every Earth culture, and you enter a slipstream of consciousness that leaves 'the real world' looking flat and crumpled as a cardboard cutout. Enter it and expand
your understanding of the world beyond ordinary reality. Taste exquisite magical elixirs of metaphorical and metaphysical knowledge, embrace the heartfelt depth of the earthy wisdom of the ancestors, let your mind glitter with insights of the star nations, and be enchanted by the elementals and rejuvenated by the aliveness of reality in the realm of the Shining Ones.
An Eskimo-Kalaallit Elder from Greenland says appreciation of our gifts is “food for your soul” and singing is “food for the spirit”… Soul Companions is truly a gift and a source of nourishment for the soul.”
                                                     ~ Carolyn Burdet: Kindred Spirit Magazine
 
“Karen Sawyer's Soul Companions is an amazing and enlightening anthology of profound experiences shared between some of the world's most revered wisdom keepers and their spirit guides. Inspiring and empowering, it lights a path for all of us to follow.”
~ John Perkins: New York Times bestselling author of 'Confessions of an Economic Hit Man' and 'The Secret History of the American Empire'.
 
“Reading some of the stories told in Soul Companions, I suddenly realised that I was accompanying the interviewee, walking with them through the outlands and innerworlds. There are matters and incidents within every interview that I can easily relate to. Others will too.
I would like to express my deep admiration and gratitude to Karen Sawyer for this truly remarkable and satisfying book. That it will, in generations to come, survive as a much loved, battered and dog-eared treasure attests to the fact that it is both timeless and timely no matter which century one happens to be reading it in. This book will flick switches.”
                          ~ Ellis Taylor: author of  ‘In These Signs Conquer ~ Revealing the Secret Signs an Age has Obscured’.
 
“The world of the spirits is completely normal for many cultures and normal for our culture, if we dare to admit it. Karen's book reinforces this reality, and affirms our own deep connection to the unseen – dare you not accept it?”
                                                                                     ~ Sacred Hoop Magazine


Soul Companions

I am very excited to have contributed a chapter to the recently published book, Soul Companions, Conversations With Contemporary Wisdom Keepers – A Collection of Encounters With Spirit. " Ten years Under The Yew Tree" tells the story of how I was inexorably drawn to the yew tree during a period of serious illness.  The story also describes some of the initiatory experiences at the tree that led to my eventual recovery and renewal, and to my ongoing work as a shaman.  My writing is included alongside the work of Sandra Ingerman, Tom Kenyon, R.J. Stewart, and many others.  The book is authored by Karen Sawyer, published by O-Books and available at Amazon.com.   I am currently working on a large - scale writing project and a series of drawings that aims to describe my experiences at the yew  tree in much more depth.  I will be looking for a publisher in the near future.  Many thanks to Karen Sawyer for inviting me to write for her wonderful book, and for her superb editing abilities and ideas.



To read the first chapter of my story on this website shamanic initiation


To learn more about the book  www.soulcompanions.org


To view a list of contributors to the book  www.soulcompanions.org/index.php?pr=Wisdom-Keepers 


To read an excerpt from my story at Amazon.com www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks%3Arelevance-above&field-keywords=michael+dunning+soul+companions&x=0&y=0