The Way of Wyrd: Tales of an Anglo-Saxon Sorcerer - Hardcover

Bates, Brian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0062500406 ISBN 13: 9780062500403

Publisher: Harper & Row, 1983

Synopsis

Here is a unique dramatization of man's search for knowledge and inner peace. In England's Dark Ages, a young monk is initiated into the mysteries of "Wyrd"--the unity of physical and spiritual life. The monk's teacher reveals a stunning world of imagination and insight.

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Review:

Professor Bates tells the original story of a devout Catholic priest becoming friends with a Shamanic elder and creates a modern masterpiece of tolerance and coexistence. By looking into the past he has planted a seed for a better world in the present and beyond. If you can develop your awareness of the nature that surrounds you and are open and unafraid to listen to your dreams, you may find that the magic described in this book works like yeast to the imagination and can be utilized in any art form. (Nicolas Cage)

'Reads like a fusion of Carlos Castaneda ... and Tolkien.' (Time Out)

'Brilliant, vivid, entertaining ... it deserves a place on our bookshelves along with Carlos Castaneda.' R. D. Laing

An essential aid. In our overly Keltically obsessed British mind set, this magnificent book completely restores the unfairly neglected Scandinavian and Germanic side of our psyche. (Julian Cope)

As a way of psychological and spiritual exploration, The Way of Wyrd offers not just uncanny similarities with some of our present thinking but notions which we seem only now to be rediscovering (The Guardian)

About the Author:

Brian Bates is the author of The Real Middle Earth and co-author of two books with John Cleese. He lectures worldwide and is currently Professor of Shamanic Consciousness at Brighton University and the Anglo-Saxon representative of The Indigenous World Network.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper & Row
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0062500406
• ISBN 13: 9780062500403
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1