The Key: Live Contacts with Our Perceptive Planet

Kelly L. Green is a freelance writer living in Ajax, Ontario.

In this lucid, lustrous volume, Rutheen Taylor shares her vision of
Earth’s history, present stage, and future. A gifted, poetic writer,
Taylor transcribes a series of spiritual experiences and visions that
have helped her form her own “deep ecology,” a level of
consciousness that is both spiritual and practical. Drawing on the
mythology of Hinduism, Amerindian tradition, and the West, she vividly
describes her encounters, enveloping the reader in her spiritual drama.

But Taylor has a much more significant agenda than simply transcribing
and sharing her experiences. She aims for nothing less than the
spiritual awakening and transformation of the reader—of our entire
culture, in fact—in order that Earth may be preserved, maintained, and
allowed to flourish in its natural state. Taylor’s gift is her ability
to translate complex ecological relationships and problems into vivid
verbal pictures and stories rich in myth, poetry, and intellectual
challenge.

As the industrialized West is finally coming to realize, we ignore the
wisdom of the shaman and seer of traditional, indigenous civilizations
at great peril to ourselves and every other living thing on Earth.
Taylor is such a seer, and her work provides both spiritual inspiration
and practical, common-sense alternatives to materialism gone mad. Anyone
who cares about the future of the planet should take up the challenge of
this book. The publisher is to be commended for seeing it into print.
The daunting back-cover copy may turn off prospective readers, which is
unfortunate because it does not reflect the lively, accessible nature of
this work.