The woman of Wyrrd : the arousal of the inner fire

272 Pages·1991·29.34 MB·English

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The Arousal of the Inner Fire
THE
WOMAN
OF
WYRRD
Also by Lynn V. Andrews
Medicine Woman
Flight of the Seventh Moon
Jaguar Woman
Star Woman
Crystal Woman
Windhorse Woman
Teachings Around the Sacred Wheel
THE
WOMAN
OF
WYRRD
The Arousal of the Inner Fire
LYNN V. ANDREWS
Harper Perennial
A Division o/HarperCoWinsPublishers
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All poetry copyright © 1990 by Jack Crimmins. Reprinted by permission.
A hardcover edition of this book was published in 1990 by HarperSanFrancisco, a
division of HarperCollins Publishers.
THE WOMAN OF WYRRD: THE AROUSAL OF THE INNER FIRE. Copyright © 1990 by
Lynn Andrews Productions, Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States
of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner what­
soever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied
in critical articles and reviews. For information address HarperCollins Publishers,
10 East 53 rd Street, New York, NY 10022.
First HarperPerennial edition published 1991
Text design by Irene lmfeld
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Andrews, Lynn V.
The woman of Wyrrd : the arousal of the inner fire / Lynn V. Andrews. —
1 st HarperPerennial ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-06-097410-9
1. Andrews, Lynn V. 2. Women—Religious life. }. Magic,'Anglo-
Saxon. 4. Goddess religion. I. Title.
[BL625.7.A54 1991]
z99 -93 — dc2o 90-56420
96 97 98 99 RRD 10
For my mother,
Rosalyn Staples,
who is teaching
me to remember
breaking the silence
that turns around
the double edge of seeing.
I have called you
into the night moon
because we have come
to learn the end of waiting.
j.c.
CONTENTS
Preface • ix
1 • Finding a Distant Reality • i
2 • The Sacred Dreamlodge • 13
} • The Lady in the Mist • 25
4 • Descending the Dream • 3 1
5 • Fear of the Unknowable • 39
6 • The Awakening of a Friend • 47
7 • A Mirror of Power • 61
8 • The Shadow World • 69
9 • Living in Life Force • 85
10 • Language of the Plants • 97
11 • Plants of Power • 111
12 • Fibers of Power • 119
1} • Spirit Flight • 127
14 • The Presence of Lifetimes • 159
15 • The Abyss • 149
16 • Spirit Circle • 161
17 • Masquerade of a Light Being • 179
18 • Return of Windhorse ’19}
19 • The Labyrinth • 207
20 • A Circle of Enchantment • 221
21 • Sacred Dream ‘231
22 • The Sisters of Wvrrd • 239
23 • The Woman of Wyrrd • 249
This is a true story.
Some of the names and the places in
this book have been changed to
protect the privacy of those involved.
PREFACE
H
aVE YOU EVER WONDERED what you ate do-
ing on this earth, why you are alive, and what meaning there is to
the pain that we all experience?
When I was in Nepal and Tibet in the spring of 1988. I asked
these questions of my teacher, Agnes Whistling Elk. We were sit­
ting on top of a mountain in the foothills of the Annapurna Himal.
Agnes chuckled a little at my questions. She pointed her knobby
brown finger at the face of Annapurna, whose crown was obscured
by fluffy white clouds.
‘Were like that mountain," she said. "The extent of her power
and beautv is hidden from view; at the top she is lost in a dream.
Before we are born onto this earth walk, we wait for a great bless­
ing—our chance to be born onto earth. We know that we come
here to be enlightened. When we are born, the dream begins. Like
the cloud hiding the mountaintop, the dream obscures our true vi­
sion. We must gather a strong wind to blow away the clouds. Then
we can see, truly see, the whole of our being —the silent mountain
that we are. That is what life is all about: waking up from the
dream. We have come here to become enlightened, yet it is the one
thing that we are most afraid of.
"To be initiated is to have the veils of ignorance torn away. That
is what our work together is about. For you to be initiated into our
circle, the Sisterhood of the Shields, one of our members must first
pass on to the other side. There was a great woman, the old, wise
one among us, who held great power and had memorized all the old
ways. She chose her death so that you could become initiated. Old
* ix •