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• Amazon Sales Rank: #71591 in Books
• Published on: 2002-04-09
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

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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.

R.J. Stewart, author of Earth Light
...a distinctive book that inspires us to participate in Celtic consciousness.

Julia Butterfly Hill
May this book guide you into heartfelt conscious action on behalf of all that is saced.

Customer Reviews

If God Had a Voice it would be Frank MacEowens.
And if I could have a dying wish, it would be to walk through the Mist with this magic man. His words reflect a wisdom transcending the lower mind and embracing a larger vision which most of this world has not seen for eons.
When a mans's words speak of compassion and gentleness, and embrace all of life, these are words expressing the greater vision of God itself....it can be nothing less than of a higher intelligence and love.
As another said, I could also feel myself breathing deeper and deeper when I am reading the words of an ineffable beauty such as Franks. Whenever I need to breathe or forget how, I pick up this book. I have shared it with another who needs these mists of magic as an experience in our urban life.
Anyone who speaks angrily of this man or his words have not the vision or greater intelligence to see the grandisosity of his beauty. They are mere, and small and have nothing else to do but express negative emotionality at their own frustrations....this is in direct reponse to a couple of the reviews here.

I wish every man I could meet would speak as he does....or feel his feelings....the world would be so much more alive and vibrant for it.
Frank MacEowen, I love you as an ancient and eternal spirit! I have a dying wish to walk the mist with you at least once.......
Walk in Beauty,
Serena.

Taking Issue With Racist Review
I am the author of the book in question. I take issue with the individual's assertion that I am "weak minded" simply because I am willing to look starkly into the face of the shadow-side of my ancestral culture(s) as part of my process of self-exploration. One of the perspectives I present in the book is that *ALL* cultures have a residual shadow. Whatever energies are there that are not brought to consciousness and transformed continue to influence us. This same perspective--although worked with differently in practice--is something that the late Swiss psychoanalyst C.G. Jung asserted vehemently. He once remarked, "Whatever is avoided in the shadow is lived out as fate." I would ask you: What is weak minded? Not wanting to look at the reality of these things, or being willing to step into the thick of it. Am I willing to openly embrace the fact that some of my ancestors were involved in oppressing others? Yes. And in acknowledging that and embracing that as one sliver that comprises the legacy of my ancestors (others were freedom-fighters for the downtrodden), I am able to learn from their journey. By being willing to own up to the fact that *some* of my "White" ancestors oppressed others I am able to transform that energy to become something else and to work toward creating a different kind of world. Does this make me "PC"? I think not. It makes me awake. "PC" would imply that such an orientation toward unbridled love and human equality is only being portrayed for some measure of gain. The only gain worth gaining is freedom. The inner work I describe in my books is done so to help facilitate some individuals in becoming truly free. Are you?

A weak book by a weakminded man.
The mist filled path is filled with selfloathing White discriminatory politically correct idiocy.

If one is writing a Celtic book then By the Gods be true to the Celts, Frank is not true to the Celts his "supposed" people.

To sell out ones own people by shifting the blame of all the worlds ills upon them is the greatest of sins.

He should maybe stop writing books and start working at the salvation army instead, perhaps he can then feel justified in being White.