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The Four Shields: The Initiatory Seasons of Human Nature

Religion & Spirituality

Steven Foster

Meredith Little

Worship & Devotion

Lost Borders Press

Nearing the end of a full life as a teacher, husband, father, eco-therapist, and vision fast guide, Steven Foster calls on the coyote-wisdom of ancestral and morphogenetic memory to enliven the mysteries of great and small, love and death, reality and illusion, truth and imagination, sacred and profane, nature and human. Having given his life to initiatory experience in the wilderness, he speaks from a uniquely human perspective of solitude and the love of desert places.

We Who Have Gone Before: Memory and an Old Wilderness Midwife

Foster, Steven

Bound for the Craigs of Ithaka: A Romance for Men Going Home

A handbook introducing young people rites of passage - their cultural birthright, and social and ecological responsibility.

Rites and Responsibilities: A Guide to Growing Up

Ottey, Darcy

Zen masters describe "Beginner's Mind" as the mental state that can help us face the most severe challenges with flexibility, courage, and integrity. Since we are all destined to be beginners at dying, long-time hospice physician Patrick Clary invites us to embrace the virtues of this status in his new book of poetry, Dying for Beginners. Entering this aspect of our inner lives may help us as we seek to be present to others, to fully inhabit ourselves, and to make our own choices as we die. 
A conscientious objector during the Vietnam War, Patrick Clary first faced issues of death and dying as a medic in an infantry unity. Dying for Beginners is not just a collection of poems, but a lyrical memoir of love, life and death in our time, from the Nevada desert to Southeast Asia, from Jonestown, Guyana to big city ER. Through more than 20 years of caring for gravely ill patients and their families Dr. Clary has come to believe that death can be as miraculous as birth, and that living fully is the best preparation for dying well. This is a book of poetry that can help you change your life.

Dying for Beginners

Literature & Fiction

Patrick Clary

Poetry

This book from Lost Borders Press is the story of two worlds meeting, told on both a personal and an historical scale. The personal account recalls "the final crossing" of Steven Foster - one of the pioneers of modern-day wilderness rites of passage - from the perspective of the hospice physician who helped ferry him across. Interspersed with Steven and Scott's story is a more sweeping historical view of how the rites of passage movement and the hospice movement have converged. "This is an extraordinarily wise and compassionate book written by a physician of the body and the heart. In this beautifully written account of the death of his beloved teacher and friend we can discover the great mystery of meeting death as a teacher and friend. This book is for all of us. Its depths plumb ours, its wisdom opens ours, and the compassion of its author reminds us that this quality resides in all of us." - Joan Halifax Roshi, Abbot of Upaya Zen Center, founder of the Project on Being with Dying, and author of The Fruitful Darkness.

The Final Crossing: Learning to Die in Order to Live

Scott Eberle

Health, Fitness & Dieting

At a time when the process of dying is often medicalized and hidden from social view, there is considerable renewed interest in the benefits of contemplative practice in end-of-life care. In Dying in the Land of Enchantment: A Doctor's Journey, Gordon Giddings undertakes a quest to more completely understand the 'final crossing' by retreating to a Buddhist monastery in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains with other practitioners of end-of-life care. While there, he is introduced to a Zen priest who would change the way he views life, death and the practice of medicine. In the process, he gives a glimpse into the experiences of patients and families at crucial points along the fine line between life and death, and on the benefits of contemplative medicine in a world of presecriptive medicine. Artfully interwoven with poetic verse, his narrative is a tribute to the most essential yet sometimes discounted side of medicine - the human side.

Dying in the Land of Enchantment: A Doctor's Journey

Gordon Giddings

The School of Lost Borders: A Love Story

Meredith Little Foster

Rites & Responsibilities

Darcy Ottey

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