Gifts of Unknown Things Lyall Watson
Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company

Pen & ink, paint, print, film and installation. I have just woken up in Australia. 'We are all the eyes and ears of the Earth; and we think the world's thoughts.' (Lyall Watson biologist / anthropologist, Gifts of Unknown Things, 1976). It took me months to finish it. Earth Speaks – thoughts about the art of geomancy and storytelling. Coming home to family is wonderful. I feel disoriented, I left a little bit of me behind. As I have done a couple of times, I am re-publishing my editorial for my alumni newsletter “The Homepage”. Biologist Lyall Watson, in his book Gifts of Unknown Things, describes his meeting with an Indonesian shaman woman who was able to make a grove of trees vanish into thin air. Pulling from much of Henri Nouwen's writing, Chris writes about the ever important idea of identity as it pertains to community. It was inspired by the novel Gifts of Unknown Things by Lyall Watson, in which a young girl possesses the magical gift of seeing sounds in colour. Summer brings gifts of unknown things… Posted on September 16, 2011 | Leave a comment. I am inspired by the mysteries of the natural world. Enter the chapter I'm reading from Unexpected Gifts—the Unknown Self. I have a genuine passion to create through exploring the pathways and old coach roads that lead us to discovering the unknown. Not because it's a hard to read book, but because I feel the urge to understand every single words on it and jumped to a dictionary once I met new vocabulary. It seems unreal a couple of days ago I was in Abadiânia.