Courage, compassion and near-death wisdom

A recent book, In the Eye of the Wild by Nastassja Martin, her experience with a bear in the far north as an anthropologist and amazingly courageous and compassionate human being is worth all the time it takes to read (maybe even 2x). Her compassionate and shamanistic experiences with the wild and humans were well described without being fantastical – which would have been so easy.

While accounts of shamanistic experiences from an observer or researcher would fill a small library, I have not found a book about such an experience from an academic’s (anthropologist) own personal experience. While I read an English translation, the storyline and language placed me intimately within her experience – both frightening and amazingly beautiful at the same time.

Her courage to both survive the experience and retell it remarkable; her compassion toward the people and the bear exemplary; and, the wisdom she found and shared priceless.

That she lived to tell her story … karma.

Here is the “Goodreads” link https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59110368-in-the-eye-of-the-wild