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Raised in the Tzutujil Maya shamanic tradition, he has dedicated his life to the preservation and promulgation of indigenous spirituality. \u003ci\u003eRescuing the Light\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of Prechtel's quotes and sayings spanning the course of fifteen years, and recorded at Bolad's Kitchen, a four-year course in New Mexico where students from all walks of life gather to receive hands-on training in language, history, cooking, farming, and crafts. An artist, musician, and storyteller, Prechtel teaches and initiates with passion and eloquence, awakening his students to the sacred realities present everywhere and at all times. The quotes of wisdom and inspiration collected in these pages are earth-centric and animist. Divided into thematic sections, they range from the poetic and witty to the serious and direct. 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This third book in the trilogy brings the story far away from all those troubled times, ins and outs, and hardships and betrayals involved in the author's effort to gather up those old style Indian Ponies of his youth, and heads us back out into the wild land and the beauty of ranchito New Mexico, where as an integral part of the lives of his new family, their family herd of rare Spanish\/Native New Mexico horses play out a series of unexpected peculiarities and surprising horse antics that push the envelope of what mainstream culture has come to assume defines horses and the people that have them. If the first book, \u003ci\u003eThe Mare and the Mouse\u003c\/i\u003e, is like finding a closed treasure chest, and the second book, \u003ci\u003eThe Wild Rose\u003c\/i\u003e, is the retrieval of the lost keys to that chest, then \u003ci\u003eThe Canyon Wren\u003c\/i\u003eis the treasure itself. 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Prechtel expands this archetypal story with five layers of commentary, each teasing out a different wisdom and revealing its relevance to the world today.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49804661653777,"sku":"CIN1556436009G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50684543140113,"sku":"CIN1556436009VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50952211923217,"sku":"GOR002145075","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51037381656849,"sku":"NIN9781556436000","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1556436009.jpg?v=1750925623"},{"product_id":"long-life-honey-in-the-heart-book-martin-prechtel-9781556435386","title":"Long Life, Honey in the Heart","description":"Mart n Prechtel continues the narrative of his unique life in Santiago, Atitlan in \u003ci\u003eLong Life, Honey in the Heart, \u003c\/i\u003e an eloquent memoir replete with the subtle intelligence and sophistication of Mayan culture. 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