The Mist-Filled Path: Celtic Wisdom for Exiles, Wanderers, and Seekers

by Frank MacEowen, Tom Cowan (Foreword by)

Overview

In The Mist-Filled Path, Frank MacEowen, a preeminent teacher of Celtic spirituality, shows how embracing the indigenous wisdom of Scotland and Ireland can lead to healing and transcendence. Using his own travels and teachings along with Celtic stories and myths, he explores ancient traditions, eco-psychology, the ancient mother, altars and hearths, Oran Mor (the Great Song), contemplation, and mysticism. The book tells how to draw on ancestral roots to find a personal spirituality that also works for the greater good.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781577312116
Publisher:	New World Library
Publication date:	04/09/2002
Pages:	272
Sales rank:	826,499
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Frank MacEowen, MA, is the author of three books on Celtic spirituality: The Mist Filled Path, The Spiral of Memory and Belonging, and The Celtic Way of Seeing: Meditations on the Irish Spirit Wheel. After years of facilitating group retreats and overseas travel journeys exploring Celtic spirituality and ecopsychology, Frank turned inward and spent a decade studying East Asian hermit poetry and solitary contemplative Nature spirituality with a wisewoman in New Mexico. He continues to explore and integrate these many themes, East and West, in his work as a poet, publishing poetry under the name Frank LaRue Owen / Hawk of the Pines.

Table of Contents

	Foreword	ix
	Acknowledgments	xv
	Introduction: Waking Up in the Land of Sleepwalkers	xix
Chapter 1	The Threshold of the Mist	3
Chapter 2	People of the Shapes, Children of the Mist	25
Chapter 3	The Spirit of Longing	49
Chapter 4	Riding the Wind	67
Chapter 5	Dancing the Sun	89
Chapter 6	The Shape of the Sacred World	113
Chapter 7	The Great Song	131
Chapter 8	The Mothering Heart of God	155
Chapter 9	The Body as Holy	175
Chapter 10	The Hearth Way	187
Chapter 11	The Way of the Heart	205
Chapter 12	The Way of Earth	229
	Conclusion: Working with the Great Mirror	239
	Glossary	253
	Resources	259
	Index	261
	About the Author	269

Editorial Reviews

As part of his practice in shamanism, dreamwork, and similar pursuits, Mississippi-born Scottish-Irish American poet and teacher finds inspiring passages from mainly Irish and Scottish traditional literature. His glossary includes guides to pronunciation. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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