EMERALD RIVER OF COMPASSION

The Old Earth

By Rowena Pattee Kryder

A mesmerizing visionary novel exploring Earth's reality through a kaleidoscope of individual human stories. Mythologist and master storyteller Rowena Pattee Kryder takes us on a guided tour of Gaia and weaves a tale of all people and all time. Deep and hypnotic, this is a brilliant representation of the multidimensional richness that we all participate in.

The Emerald River of Compassion is a work of fictions that is true. The Old Earth is being digested, and it has to be thoroughly digested for the New Earth to emerge. In this volume of the Old Earth there are many juxtopostions of Light and Dark through 40 characters of different cultures, seeking their soul purpose. Each chapter (representing 64 symbols of the Old Earth in the Gaia Matrix Oracle) can be read by itself and then read in sequence so that the true multii-dimensionality of our lives can be experienced through the archetypal characters.

"A mammoth chronicle of the spiritual history of the world"

- Library Journal

"May be the Celestine Prophecy's New Age match."

- Publisher's Weekly

"Catapults us beyond the customary one-dimensional view of Earth history. Kryder displays a keen knowledge of, and sensitivity to, the vast cultural diversity of the human family. Both a literary feast and an initiatory experience."

- Richard Heinberg, author of Memories and Visions of Paradise

The main storyline weaves together the generative forces of masculine and feminine in their unending dance of creation; juxtaposed are stories of humans of many different cultures in the process of coming to consciousness.

Kryder reveals a deep understanding of the spiritual fundamentals of the cultures she includes, from Hopi and Ancient Chinese to Egyptian, African, Russian, and many others. In each culture, the spiritual connection to the Earth and its continuing evolution is highlighted and connected with other cultural traditions. Lively, warm, and hopeful, this book will have readers eagerly waiting for the next." -NAPRA Trade Journal

Published in 1994, 468 pages - hardbound

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