{"product_id":"tamed-by-a-bear-coming-home-to-nature-spirit-self-9781640090460","title":"Tamed by a Bear: Coming Home to Nature-Spirit-Self","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Priscilla Stuckey shines a brilliant light on the relationship we long to cultivate with the deepest wellsprings of our wisdom and love . . . This is a groundbreaking book, written with extraordinary clarity, beauty, and radical honesty.\" --Gail D. Storey, author of \u003ci\u003eI Promise Not to Suffer: A Fool for Love Hikes the Pacific Crest Trail\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the National Outdoor Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn an age of materialism, language of spirit or spirits seems at best suspect and at worst alien or naïve. 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 Stuckey opens to her spirit animal helper and his affectionate, jovial wisdom, she begins to realize the slow dawning of faith. \u003ci\u003eTamed by a Bear\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt this moment, when the future of life on Earth as we know it hangs in the balance--threatened by climate change, species extinctions, and extreme economic inequality--the key to survival is found in answering one question: How can humans live more peaceably and sustainably with the rest of nature? The heart-opening conversations between Bear and Stuckey suggest a reinvigorating of nature-spirituality in everyday life. Their dialogues show an educated, thoughtful person grappling with her skepticism about Earth spirits and gradually saying yes to a call from beyond her intellectual understanding.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Counterpoint LLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/10\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781640090460\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 236\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.70d","brand":"Priscilla Stuckey","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43291204157621,"sku":"9781640090460","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_5dd8f556-849a-4395-9a3d-adcb9d04bf1d.jpg?v=1700542155","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/tamed-by-a-bear-coming-home-to-nature-spirit-self-9781640090460","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}