Take Back the Magic
Conversations with the Unseen World
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Renowned spiritual teacher and co-founder of The Way of the Rose Perdita Finn teaches the art and healing power of connecting with the dead, as she guides readers through the magical process of conversing with the unseen world.
"Finn weaves a spellbinding meditation ... an affecting ode to the power of the unseen." —Publisher's Weekly
What if you could live in a world where the guidance of those who were gone was available, right at your very fingertips? It's possible, if we are open to it. Anyone can reclaim the forgotten guidance of the dead, and anyone can return to the realm of magic and miracles. In Take Back the Magic: Conversations with the Unseen World, author, spiritual teacher, and co-founder of The Way of the Rose Perdita Finn reveals that life is beginningless, love is endless, and those who have passed don’t truly go anywhere when they die. Weaving together memoir, history, and a non-denominational spirituality based in ecology, Finn invites readers to live the experience that the stories of our lives are much older, bigger, and more merciful than we have been led to believe.
Take Back the Magic takes the reader on a journey of healing, possibility, and love, as the story of how Finn healed her relationship with her bitter, patriarchal father long after his death unfolds over the course of thirteen moving chapters. Along the way, readers will learn how they, too, can reconnect with the generous guidance of the soul’s long story through deep time, recovering their lost relationships with their ancestors and the Earth itself. Throughout, Finn shares guidance, tips, and practical advice that will aid readers in forging their own relationships with those who have passed, as she invites every reader to reconnect with their own inner knowing and to call forth magic from the most ancient parts of humanity.
An inspiring invitation to healing in this life, and to experience that we are never alone, Take Back the Magic shows that the whole world is simply souls reaching out to and finding each other—and no one is ever truly lost to us, if we allow ourselves to begin our own conversations with the unseen world.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Finn (coauthor of The Way of the Rose), cofounder of the Way of the Rose ecofeminist community, explains in this fine-grained account how she repaired her fraught relationship with her brilliant and sullen father after his death. While the bond between the two had never been easy ("I learned early on not to ask my father for anything"), when the author received an enigmatic bequest after his death—a rock "girded by twisted iron rods"—she embarked on a quest to understand the man he'd been. But it soon became clear to Finn that defining "a single life without a glimpse of the long story of our souls would be like trying to decipher a sentence from a single word." As she meditated on the fate of the soul after death, she began to view her father not as a "failed parent, a frustrated artist, a capable doctor, a cruel commander," and told his spirit, "You hold within you so much more." Mixing vivid memories of her own spiritual journey, open letters to her father, and advice to help readers commune with their ancestors' spirits (such as creating an altar dedicated to the dead), Finn weaves a spellbinding meditation on how time never runs out for the deceased in prose that alternately enchants and haunts ("Were all of us, the living and the dead, hungry ghosts, prowling the Earth with mouths too small to ever fill our hearts with enough?"). It's an affecting ode to the power of the unseen.
