Sacred Animals: new book

Sacred Animals: 

reconnecting with the natural world

 

Gordon MacLellan

ISBN 978-1-915580-07-8

Green Magic Publishing, https://greenmagicpublishing.com/

 

GET A COPY NOW AND BE READY FOR AN ANIMAL-RICH SUMMER!

TO ORDER:

Sacred Animals: 1 copy, £15:00 includes postage

Sacred Animals + 2 Creeping Toad postcards: £16:00, includes postage

Email: creepingtoad@btinternet.com

FACEBOOK:  Gordon MacLellan or Creeping Toad 

DETAIL: your name, address, email and how many copies

PAYMENT:

PAYPAL: creepingtoad@btinternet.com

BACS: I can email details

CHEQUES: to Creeping Toad, 51-d West, Rd, Buxton, SK17 6HQ

 

BULK ORDERS through your own book distributors 

INTERNATIONAL ORDERS: contact me directly or go a local bookseller

EBAY: Sacred Animals will shortly be available through ebay and the (new, when I get it sorted) shop on the Creeping Toad website

PUBLISHER: Green Magic Publishing website

 

WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT?

How do we refresh, renew, replenish, revitalise our connections with the animal worlds?  

Or how do we simply recognise our relationships with the world around us?

 

Sacred Animals is a book about inspiration and exploration, inviting readers to reflect upon their relationships with animals and explore that relationship creatively and practically. Written from an animist perspective (Gordon is an animist, an artist and a zoologist), this is a book about personal spirituality that encourages readers to find their own language to express their connections with animals. Activities are designed to challenge and be flexible: from simply sitting and watching the world around us to writing our own poems, designing our own ceremonies, or committing to action on behalf of particular species, Sacred Animals offers no ready-made totem-packages or guaranteed spells, prayers or enchantments.

 

Readers can adapt activities to suit their own philosophical stance. Those animist principles of shared consciousness and ceremony run through the book but there is no assumption that this should be how the reader uses the book: activities should suit you whether you follow a pagan practice, belong to an organised religion or encounter the world through a faith-free stance. It would work just as well for the animal-lover who simply wants to look at different ways of expressing their feelings for the animals they care about.

 

Sacred Animals asks us to look at the animals we care about, to deepen those relationships, and to find new ways of supporting those animals and through our connections with them, the wider world we all live in. A book that mixes creativity, spirituality and environmental commitment. A book to keep you busy….

 

This is a new edition of Sacred Animals first published in 1997 by Capall Bann

Chapters and topics include

• Hop, crawl, slither, fly and swim
• Trees of the First Forest
• Totems and etiquette
• Asking permission
• The importance of integrity
• Becoming active
• Shaping a ceremony

IMAGES

• front cover
• line drawings are illustrations by G MacLellan from within the Sacred Animals text