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. In this book, MacEowen, a teacher of the spiritual traditions of Scotland and Ireland, issues a call to readers longing to live a more authentic life to wake up from "the land of sleepwalkers." "Too many of us squander our lives," he writes, "filling our minds with a crazed habitual raciness that is hard to throw off." MacEowen’s purpose is to show us how to break free of our unconscious habits to place our awareness where it matters, living from the perspective of our inner senses and informed by our souls. The "Mist" he speaks of is a metaphor for spirituality used by Celtic peoples. Drawing on his own personal experiences and myths and poems of the Celts and Druids, MacEowen introduces readers conditioned by modern Western society to a world of mystery and meaning that is ours to enter into at any time, were we only to become more aware of it. Throughout the book, he also shares various exercises to help us further that awareness, and in the process he makes a compelling argument that the "good life" that all of us yearn for can only be found when we live each day with a sense of "wonderment and wakeful purpose" that is in tune with our divine birthright. With The Mist-Filled Path , MacEowen joins writers such as John O’Donahue ( Anam Cara ) and Caitlin Mathews ( The Encyclopedia of Celtic Wisdom ) in introducing readers to the ancient spiritual traditions of "the misty green isles" of Ireland and Scotland that gave meaning to their inhabitants for many centuries, and which still hold value for us here in the 21st century. ...a distinctive book that inspires us to participate in Celtic consciousness. -- R.J. Stewart, author of Earth Light ...brings together the very best aspects of the Celtic vision of the world. -- John and Caitlin Matthews Frank is a brother of the Otherworld, who has learned the importance of listening to the ancestors. -- Malidoma Some May this book guide you into heartfelt conscious action on behalf of all that is saced. -- Julia Butterfly Hill To read Frank MacEowen is to go hillwalking with a friend who knows the 'thin places' -- Robert Moss The Mist-Filled Path is an engaging, lyrically written account of old Celtic ways and a challenging manifesto to live them in this new world of twenty-first century. You may not be Celtic or even Western, but to read this book is to study with a teacher who can reanimate the wisdom of the past so that it sings in your modern heart. The content within The Mist-Filled Path represents an amalgam of personal experiences I have had; initiatory experiences that have opened me to the deeper flow of energy in the universe, and an expansive vision for an integrative human spirituality that celebrates the living earth. Although partially rooted in the ancient cosmologies of my Scottish Highland and Irish ancestors, I have written The Mist-Filled Path from a broader, interfaith, ecumenical, and integrative perspective. When one penetrates to the heart of mystical practice we find a core of teaching and practice shared by many wisdom traditions. The Mist-Filled Path is one expression of this. 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. Product Overview: Detailed Description Further Details