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In an age of materialism, language of spirit or spirits seems at best suspect and at worst alien or nave. When Priscilla Stuckey begins hearing Bear's voice, she is a writer and religious studies professor in her fifties. Though she enjoys communing with trees and birds and the land, she intellectually knows better than to try talking directly with spirit. Yet searching for the truth of her own identity leads her directly toward what she is most skeptical of. As Priscilla opens to her spirit animal helper and his affectionate, jovial wisdom, she begins to realize the slow dawning of faith. Tamed by a Bear shows one person responding to the call of her heart, which is also the call of Earth to all human beings today: to listen to a more-than-human wisdom so people can address the social and environmental crises facing the world.
About the Author
Priscilla Stuckey is passionate about reconnecting people with nature. Her memoir, Kissed by a Fox: And Other Stories of Friendship in Nature (Counterpoint Press) , combines heart-opening personal stories of connecting with a tree or a bird or a cat with reflections on ecology and spirituality to celebrate a living Earth. Publisher's Weekly calls it an "entertaining and emotionally resonant book." She has taught in the graduate programs of Naropa University (Boulder, CO) and Prescott College (Prescott, AZ) . Her PhD is from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley (CA) . She is an Earth-advocate, founding a pocket-park land trust in Oakland (CA) and now working in the worldwide movement to recognize the legal rights of nature. From her home area in Santa Fe (NM) she consults with those wishing to deepen their nature spirituality and their connection to their own truest wisdom.
