The Flowering Wand
Rewilding the Sacred Masculine
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• Reveals the restorative fungi archetype of Osiris, the Orphic mysteries as an underground mycelium linking forests and people, how Dionysus teaches us about invasive species and playful sexuality, and the ecology of Jesus as depicted in his nature-focused parables
• Liberates Tristan, Merlin, and the Grail legends from the bounds of Campbell’s hero’s journey and invites the masculine into more nuanced, complex ways of dealing with trauma, growth, and self-knowledge
Long before the sword-wielding heroes of legend readily cut down forests, slaughtered the old deities, and vanquished their enemies, there were playful gods, animal-headed kings, mischievous lovers, trickster harpists, and vegetal magicians with flowering wands. As eco-feminist scholar Sophie Strand discovered, these wilder, more magical modes of the masculine have always been hidden in plain sight.
Sharing the culmination of eight years of research into myth, folklore, and the history of religion, Strand leads us back into the forgotten landscapes and hidden secrets of familiar myths, revealing the beautiful range of the divine masculine, including expressions of male friendship, male intimacy, and male creative collaboration. In discussing Dionysus and Osiris, Strand encourages us to think like an ecosystem instead of like an individual. She connects dying, vegetal gods to the virtuous cycle of composting and decay, highlighting the ways in which mushrooms can restore soil and heal polluted landscapes. Exploring esoteric Christianity, the author celebrates the Gnostic Jesus of the Gospel of Thomas, imagining the ecology that the Rabbi Yeshua would have actually been referencing in his nature-focused parables. Strand frees Tristan, Merlin, and the Grail legends from the bounds of Campbell’s hero’s journey and invites the masculine into more nuanced, complex ways of dealing with trauma, growth, and self-knowledge.
Strand reseeds our minds with new visions of male identity and shows how each of us, regardless of gender, can develop a matured ecological empathy and witness a blossoming of sacred masculine powers that are soft, curious, connective, and celebratory.
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- Pixieface
- 13-12-22
Extraordinary, thought provoking book!
This book is astonishing! I found myself enthralled and deeply moved by this revisioning of masculine mythic figures. I didn’t agree with all of the author’s points but everything made me think in new and fertile ways like the very best of conversations with a beloved friend. Highly recommended!
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- tamara
- 20-02-23
A sensual contouring of the archetypes of men
Sophie Strand has created new territories for the way we relate, discuss and negate the masculine. She has done this in a way that morphs myth and magic, dedicating a perspective that messes the scale of what we think the gender, energy, history or role of the masculine is, and contoured it to find vitality in a wilder, honest and sensual knowing.
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- aliceruz
- 24-12-22
absolutely delightful
exactly the medicine we need for these times. thank you for the trip, I will come back to this often
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- Jeremy Le Fèvre
- 23-03-23
An astounding work. Thank you 🙏🏻
Beneath the shiny received narratives of our time lie strands of connection deep beyond the frames of our (cognitive) existence. Sophie weaves a deeply considered, reflective and questioning analysis of the dominant stories of these times drawing upon the mystical and mythical, narratives that have been co-opted, substituted and revised to fit the story of the victor. In offering a tapestry of references from contemporary soil biology, gut biome, quantum connection and mythology from the ancients, Sophie invites us to consider ourselves related in different ways to life, the stories that are told and the way we orientate our lives and to join in to re sense the magical awe of the living world and in doing so create abundant alternatives to crowd out the singularity.
There was times I was lost in her incredibly deep exposition, floundering in my own insecurities that someone could be so erudite. My advise is to let the words wash over you like a balm, let the energy of aliveness enfuse you and touch your heart deep inside. This is an astounding work.
Thank you 🙏🏻
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-01-23
The Flowering Wand
Sophie‘s writing is life changing. She reminds me that all life is a continuum, there is no end, death is ever present and alive
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- Adam L.
- 28-11-24
You'll either like it or you won't. I didn't.
I bought this book as i felt it would make an interesting companion piece to Serinity Young's "Women Who Fly: Goddesses, Witches, Mystics, and other Airborne Females", which I had enjoyed and found enlightening as a more academically-oriented non-fiction book. Unfortunately, Sophie Strand's book is very much not my cup of tea--just a bit too "airy fairy", grounded in tarot and a healthy dose of spiritualism, it is definitely oriented more toward hippie feminists. That's fine but just not my thing, I really couldn't make it more than a third of the way through. The prose is nice in places and the sentiments clearly come from a nice place but it's a bit insufferable if the style isn't your jam, and it isn't mine. No doubt many people will enjoy it more than I did, it's just a matter of personal taste. The audiobook is narrated by the author herself and I wasn't blown away by her delivery--she's a writer, not a voice actor. Again, personal preference.
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