Bøker av Patsy Stanley

"An Older Wine" is a collection of short stories starring a cast of memorable, eccentric characters. Prepare to dive deep into unexpected developments and heartwarming humor in the undaunted, endearing snapshots of life in this endearing book. In "Blackberry Beach" and "Randy Purvis" a modest, homespun, homesick woman sends inspiration to her faraway family in the form of homemade blackberry jam, and attends a concert under the stars. Join her in picking the blackberries and in the kitchen while she makes the jam and while she dances on the bleachers under the stars. In "Thanksgiving Dinner at the Car Parts Factory", an older woman recalls the turkey dinner that changed her life when she was the youngest employee on the third floor of a car parts factory, with big troubles at home. In "Charlie's Big Fish Story" a bunch of advertising guys play a fish prank on their too solemn boss with unexpectedly confusing and hilarious results. Lending a fresh perspective to handling life's situations, this collection of short stories is plainly human, without any frills, always surprising, and sometimes hilarious. The stories in "An Older Wine" book are emotional, humorous, sympathetic, intense reads.

Red Leaf is a young Native American boy whose grandfather is teaching him the traditions of the sacred path their ancestors walked. First, Red Leaf learns to be a Fire Keeper. Then he goes in the sweat lodge and then out on vision quest. Later, he dances and his family holds a giveaway feast for him. The Rituals are honored and powerful and purposeful. The preparations and traditional rituals described in this charming, coming of age story were practiced long ago, and are still practiced today.    

An isolated, high mountain village of indigenous people called the Mokie lose their Shaman. With no Shaman to guide them, the Mokie abandon their old traditional ways. The young Mokie grow up with no spiritual traditions to help them understand their home and hold them there. Their roots loose, they seek new places and begin to cross the Green Mountains and settle into the cities on the other side. The older Mokie mourn the loss of their traditions and their young people. They grow more and more hopeless until one day, a strong winter storm blows a large noisy black crow and an oddly dressed newcomer into their village. Is the stranger the Shaman they need to save their old traditions and make their way of life better again?   

The mental body energies lie between the astral body energies and the lower sub-planes of the soul body. This book offers a brief metaphysical explanation of how the mental body utilizes the energies of four basic time frames - from past lives through this lifetime, now,and into to the future - to direct its workings.

  This book combines a philosophical, scientific, and metaphysical view on life and the Matter that exists in all of life.When developing a spiritual understanding of the five basic elemental energies, fire, air, earth, water, and ether, one comes to understand the feminine nature of life, its magnetism, organization, responsibilities, and how everything connects.This book is about understanding the larger, universal, spiritual nature of women. It offers a brief explanation of the spiritual nature of the elements, their power and organic spirituality, and its spiritual practitioners. From there, the character of hue-mans, their environment, including the universe, can be intuited and re-organized. Approximately 85 pages.