The Dream of Vixen Tor
The Dream of the Vixen Torreads like the waking dream that inspired it. As Ken Eagle Feather (Tracking Freedom,A Toltec Path) drifts through his fables and teachings, one senses there is no left brain at work--only the meandering of the right brain as it delves into the unconscious world. Like a modern-day Carlos Castaneda, Eagle Feather works from the Toltec traditions and produces writing that is often ethereal and unconventional.Eagle Feather begins by telling a mystical tale about a ranger's quest to restore the crown of King Arthur. (By this he means restoring the relationship between humans and the "spirit of all things goods and whole.") The old-fashioned tale is thick with symbolism--including a waif, an evil shape-shifting vixen, coachmen, and a hidden cave. After the fable ends, Eagle Feather explains the story within the story--how it grew from a real-life waking dream he had on a tor (a natural rock formation on the top of a hill) in England. Finally, the ethereal prose shifts into a series of concise, step-by-step guided meditations on how to live more in the realm of imagination and how to bring the dream world into the waking world, and vice versa.What's the payoff? "Remember, heightened awareness is often called dreaming-awake, as your environment takes on a dreamlike quality," he writes. "Colors are clearer, sharper. You feel connected. You feel more capable. You feel like you're not at the mercy of the world, and that you can actively shape your dream... your life."--Gail Hudson