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The Raven's Gift
Jon Turk
St. Martin's Griffin
November 2011
On Sale: November 8, 2011
336 pages
ISBN: 0312611773
EAN: 9780312611774
Kindle: B005FWPN1Y
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Non-Fiction
Jon Turk has kayaked around Cape Horn, traversed the
Northwest Passage and paddled across the Pacific Rim. But,
the strangest trip he ever took was the journey he made as a
man of science into the realm of the spiritual. In 2000, in
the remote Siberian village of Vyvenka, Jon Turk met an
elderly woman named Moolynaut, a Koryak shaman, and learned
about her voyages to the spirit world. A year later,
Moolynaut entreated the spirit of a great, black raven to
help mend his pelvis, which had been previously fractured in
a mountaineering accident. When the healing was complete, Turk was able to walk without
pain. Turk, a scientist, could find no rational explanation
for the healing and the experience changed his life,
irrevocably altering his view of the connectivity between
the natural and spiritual worlds. Searching for the spirit
raven, he traversed the frozen tundra where Moolynaut was
born, camping with bands of reindeer herders, and recording
stories of their lives and spirituality. Framed by high
adventure across the vast and forbidding Siberian landscape,
The Raven's Gift is a life-altering vision of the ties
between the natural and spiritual realms, informed by one
man’s awakening and guided by the ancient spirit bird with
wide black wings and the power to heal.
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