Why Anything
or Anyone that Does Not
Bring you Alive is
Too Small for you
This statement may be personal, about a relationship, dead-end job, or some situation you feel you can’t get out of.
You live in a free country, but are you really free?
- Uncover the reasons why you feel insufficient, alone, and lacking
- Find greater fulfillment by seeking what is great and mysterious
- How to accept the losses of life
- How to not feel alone
- Understand your myths, your stories, your dreams
- How your comfort zones and security kill the spirit and what can you do about it
Your Soul wants to Play
The soul longs to experience life fully, to find wholeness, to become unfettered and free.
The truths that you’re about to discover by reading the book Letters to the River or by listening (audiobook version) will help you see the magic around you.
You will look at your life through a different lens. And will search your psyches for answers to questions too long ignored.
About the Author
Sparrow Hart has apprenticed himself to nature and the wild for over forty years, exploring inner and outer landscapes beyond the unexamined limits of consensual reality.
Seeking something deep and extraordinary, that “dream worth living,” his adventures have included:
- five-month solo in the wilderness
- travels to the Amazon
- over 30 personal vision quests
- treks to the mountains, forests, canyons, and deserts of Mexico and the United States
- apprenticeships with a wide variety of native and non-native medicine teachers
Through all this, Sparrow considers his greatest mentor to be the Earth itself.
Praise for Letters to the River
This book is a gem!
Sparrow Hart is a gifted storyteller. Dancing between the visible and invisible worlds, this book expands our perceptions, tells the truth of who we are, and shows us the beauty within our inner and outer landscapes.
Inspiring us to live in harmony with nature and all of life, reading Letters to the River is like being on a vision quest.
This book is a gem!
Uplifting
Letters to the River is an open-minded exploration of the unknown, an inspiring and fascinating meditation upon nature’s mysteries and magic. For a world struggling with overpopulation and ecological destruction, the instructions are practical and timely. They’re especially uplifting for those suffering the maladies of civilization — depression, anxiety, and disconnection. I recommend this book both to fellow seekers and to those who have yet to learn to seek.
A good story-teller
This is a generous book and from the heart. Artfully interfacing science, mythology, spirituality, shamanism, and earth wisdom, Sparrow Hart listens to and reveals the profound guidance from nature that elders have been passing on for generations. In the easy-to-read fashion of a good story-teller, he reminds us that life is holy, and we all have purpose and work to do. And the good news is we can do it, successfully, if we respond to the wisdom — the summons and the invitation — this book places before us.
A personal and cultural story
In Letters to the River, Sparrow Hart explores how to give birth to a personal and cultural story large enough to lead us into a healthier, more integrated world where humans and nature share one voice. He’s a poet listening to the muse of creation and the thrumming rhythms of the land, dipping into this fertile unified voice and transporting us to places of great beauty.”
A true shaman
Sparrow Hart loves what is most wild in the natural world and in the deeper landscape of the human heart. He is a keeper of myth, dream, and story, and in this collection of essays he shares observations and reflections that open us to the interconnected mysteries and miracles of the wilderness.
Gary Snyder writes that a shaman ‘speaks for wild animals, the spirits of plants, mountains, and watersheds… They sing through him.’ If a shaman is the healer who sings, then Sparrow Hart is a true shaman. Through these heart-opening essays we discover a profound listener to unspoken stories, a man of immense spirit, a singer with a wild and perceptive heart.
Start dreaming again
… an exceptional and important book for anyone interested in a better world and a more fulfilling life. Sparrow is a sage, brilliant thinker and teacher, and a beautiful writer. There is so much to say about this book, but I’ll leave you with the brief thought … “This book is a real wake up call to start dreaming again.”
Buy the book… Read it slowly… And pass it on.
Celebrating the “in-between spaces”
In Letters to the River, Sparrow Hart addresses the challenges facing humanity in these perilous times. He describes the strategies and transformations needed to cope with whole-system change, using a provocative manner that employs word-play, poetry, and insights from shamanic wisdom, Jungian psychology, and a host of other creative sources.
There are many fine books that confront the perils facing humankind in the 21st century, but none are as adroit in celebrating the “in-between spaces” where reason, emotion, and intuition produce a synthesis to help humanity continue its grand adventure.
Definitely on my reading list
I bought this book on the recommendation of Amazon and it is one of the most beautifully written books I have ever read. I am a Shamanic practitioner and — for anyone who is interested in being connected with the cosmos and the formless — I strongly recommend this book. Definitely on my reading list for clients.
Poetic and exquisite
From the wild terrains of Mother Nature to the realms of sacred transformation, Sparrow Hart guides us on the quest for a new story… a new dream where the timeless voice of the sacred Earth whispers, “You belong.” The language is poetic and exquisite. Like the sunrise that illuminates the dark and blesses us with a new day, this book’s shadow and light reveals a landscape in which we recognize our own wholeness and intimate partnerships with life.
Letters to the River is a fountain of wisdom, a gossamer thread of mystical content… a wellspring of natural beauty you can hold in your hands.
Nothing lasts. And nothing is lost.
Modern life suffers in spiritual poverty. Our purpose must be far grander than amassing, using, or owning material things.
Letters to the River will help you hear the call of a new dream. It’ll help you see that today, at this moment, miracles are happening all around you.
And you are meant to be used for greater things...
You will know how to say goodbye to what’s old and not working. And you’ll have proven steps you can take to experience a fulfilling journey in this lifetime. But you must act.