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Attars
Meet the essence gatherer. Living in solitude in a driftwood cabin in the dunes, she enters the magic transformation of mythopoetic experience, and is shown the way to compile a personal Book of Secrets. But when imagination and intuition meet in the dunes, things aren’t always as they seem. Drifting sands cover and uncover events, treasures, and memories. She is challenged by her history and grasps for balance in the “live and let live” world of the California Dunites. Metaphysics, alchemy, poetics and mysticism all play together in her private imaginaire, as life opens to a far wider horizon. With support from her friend Cath, and inspiration from Ella and Gwyneth, the essence gatherer soon finds a personal path that is for her alone. ATTARS is an account of liminal events happening behind the scenes when a collector of essences writes her initiatory Book of Secrets. “As I read through Carol Sill’s new book, I became deeply intrigued with the downright originality of Attars. I couldn’t stop thinking about it long after it was done. You won’t have read anything quite like it before. It is brilliant and wise.” Ann Mortifee
218 pages, Paperback
Published August 10, 2017
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Carol Sill
14 books4 followersCarol Sill is a writer, editor, and publisher living in Vancouver, BC, with the abstract artist James K-M and their beagle, B.
A grandmother of two, she has been engaged in the practical application of ancient spiritual wisdom for over four decades. Her other books include Human Ecology: Notes on the Sacred Element Work, Documentary Print, and Letters: Shamcher Beorse and Carol Sill.
Carol was the editor of Ann Mortifee’s acclaimed best-seller, In Love with the Mystery. In addition, she has republished several books by her Sufi teacher, Shamcher Beorse, including Fairy Tales are True, Every Willing Hand, and Planet Earth Demands. She currently manages the Shamcher Archives.
A grandmother of two, she has been engaged in the practical application of ancient spiritual wisdom for over four decades. Her other books include Human Ecology: Notes on the Sacred Element Work, Documentary Print, and Letters: Shamcher Beorse and Carol Sill.
Carol was the editor of Ann Mortifee’s acclaimed best-seller, In Love with the Mystery. In addition, she has republished several books by her Sufi teacher, Shamcher Beorse, including Fairy Tales are True, Every Willing Hand, and Planet Earth Demands. She currently manages the Shamcher Archives.
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March 20, 2018
I wanted to write an account of liminal events happening behind the scenes as a collector of essences writes her initiatory Book of Secrets. So I went to the California dunes, and wrote the story of an essence gatherer living in solitude in a driftwood cabin in the dunes.
The account follows her entrance into the magic transformation of mythopoetic experience, as she is shown the way to compile a personal Book of Secrets.
But when imagination and intuition meet in the dunes, things aren’t always as they seem. Drifting sands cover and uncover events, treasures, and memories. She is challenged by her history and grasps for balance in the “live and let live” world of the California Dunites.
Metaphysics, alchemy, poetics and mysticism all play together in her private imaginaire, as life opens to a far wider horizon. With support from her friend Cath, and inspiration from Ella and Gwyneth, the essence gatherer soon finds a personal path that is for her alone.
I wanted to write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading. A women's book about inner development and self-realization, but with an expression of meaning that occurs outside the private self. Connecting to my sufi training and experience, and locating the story in the California dunes gave a rich background to the narrative. Most of the book takes place in liminal space, looking for the essences that enrich life and bring it into meaning.
Originally I wanted to call it Itardan, as I see the book as a container for perfumes and attars, but no one had heard of an Itardan, so I went with the title, Attars. It is a word that has lovely resonance with the great sufi poet, Farid'uddin Attar, whose Conference of the Birds is still being read today.
The account follows her entrance into the magic transformation of mythopoetic experience, as she is shown the way to compile a personal Book of Secrets.
But when imagination and intuition meet in the dunes, things aren’t always as they seem. Drifting sands cover and uncover events, treasures, and memories. She is challenged by her history and grasps for balance in the “live and let live” world of the California Dunites.
Metaphysics, alchemy, poetics and mysticism all play together in her private imaginaire, as life opens to a far wider horizon. With support from her friend Cath, and inspiration from Ella and Gwyneth, the essence gatherer soon finds a personal path that is for her alone.
I wanted to write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading. A women's book about inner development and self-realization, but with an expression of meaning that occurs outside the private self. Connecting to my sufi training and experience, and locating the story in the California dunes gave a rich background to the narrative. Most of the book takes place in liminal space, looking for the essences that enrich life and bring it into meaning.
Originally I wanted to call it Itardan, as I see the book as a container for perfumes and attars, but no one had heard of an Itardan, so I went with the title, Attars. It is a word that has lovely resonance with the great sufi poet, Farid'uddin Attar, whose Conference of the Birds is still being read today.
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