About
Ana Cortez is co-creator and author of The Playing Card Oracles, A Source Book for Divination, published by US Games Systems, and The Teacher Within, Enraptured Ranting and Other Tales. She has been practicing and studying various systems of divination and self-knowledge for 30 years. Ana has studied energy healing from the shamanic traditions as well as with Dr. Eric Pearl. She writes a blog, teaches Oracle Reading and dreams of her next visit to the Brazilian jungle. Her website is http://www.anacortez.com
Description
<p>A mythical jewel of a story… A true story told on a beach in Yucatan, A Shadow tells Stephanie's story but it was also the story of the golden time. Its nostalgia sings like cicadas in the heat.</p><p>An American ‘Under Milkwood’, this distilled novel of the Sixties evokes the sounds, music and optimism on the free-wheelin streets and parks of Coconut Grove. You can hear Bob Dylan still strumming acoustic; smoke a joint with Fred Neil; and Everybody’s Talkin is carried on the wind.</p><p>Stephanie, a young hairdresser living in lodgings finds herself pregnant. Refused help from her hard Catholic mother in New York, unable to abort her baby, she accepts the kindness of Miriam, her Jewish landlady, whose own barren life spills into compassionate assistance for the daughter she never had.</p><p>The poignancy of its ending, its generosity and acceptance, echoes the bitter disappointment of those of us who hoped for so much more, but who remember its joy, and its promise, as though untarnished by time.</p>
Story Behind The Book
This book came about as a result of my experiences in the jungles of Brazil. Deep in Shamanic ceremony, I met my own Inner Teacher in a dramatic encounter. I was able to ask many questions and clarify much of what had previously perplexed me in my life. The best part is, this Inner Teacher instructed me on how to keep this connection to my own higher knowing for use in day to day living. Also communicated was that this book (The Teacher Within) needed to be written and that "I" would not decide what to write but, by maintaining connection to my own Inner Teacher as taught, the book would be written by this greater intelligence.
Reviews
With great humility, presence, humor and a poet's paintbrush- Ana Cortez<br />
invites us into the very intimate life of the Soul. For both beginners and<br />
seasoned travelers alike, 'The Teacher Within' is a delightful and very<br />
creative illumination of the great and beautiful Journey we are each called<br />
to. I found it a joy and a balm.<br /><br />
Rev. Jenni Walker<br />
Interfaith Minister and Spiritual Director
