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Your Primal Nature: Connecting With the Power of the Earth
On Your Primal Nature, renowned medical intuitive Caroline Myss explores the natural energy of the earth, its awesome potential for transforming our lives, and our instinctual need to connect with it. Myss brings us face-to-face with our spiritual roots in the pagan past, and explores why our spirits long for the wild, sensual energy that only nature can provide. Without the cooperation of nature and its energy, she says, we can never integrate our instincts with our higher spiritual functions, such as intuition. Recorded deep in the Amazon rain forest, and including a guided visualization for connecting with the energy of the earth, Your Primal Nature is a welcome guide for harmonizing our spiritual lives with the phenomenal forces of the natural world.
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First published January 1, 2003
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Caroline Myss
176 books1,052 followersCaroline Myss was born on December 2, 1952 in Chicago, and grew up with her parents, and two brothers, one elder and one younger, in the Melrose Park, Illinois neighbourhood near Chicago. Caroline was raised a Catholic, and attended the Mother Guerin High School, River Grove, Illinois, run by the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. She completed her Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from the Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College in Indiana in 1974, and started her career in journalism in Chicago.
In the course of her career, she interviewed Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D., the author of the famous book, On Death and Dying, which inspired her to pursue a Master's degree in theology from Mundelein College, Chicago, which she completed in 1979. She also claims to hold a Ph.D in "intuition and energy medicine", but the degree was granted by Greenwich University, a now-defunct correspondence school that was never accredited to deliver higher education awards by any recognized government accreditation authority.
She started giving medical intuitive readings in 1982 and co-founded a small New Age publishing company, Stillpoint Publishing in Walpole, New Hampshire, where she also worked as an editor in 1983, next she began consulting with holistic doctors, which in 1984, led to her extensive collaboration with Dr. Norman Shealy, an M.D. schooled at Harvard, and the founder of the American Holistic Medical Association, with whom she later co-authored, "Aids: Passageway to Transformation," in 1987, followed by "The Creation of Health: The Emotional, Psychological, and Spiritual Responses that Promote Health and Healing," in 1988. Deriving from her practice as a medical intuitive, she started writing books, in the field of energy medicine, and healing, all of which became New York Times Best Sellers.[18] Starting with Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing (1996), which overlapped seven Christian sacraments with seven Hindu chakras and the Kabbalah's Tree of Life to create a map of the human "energy anatomy"; this was followed by Why People Don't Heal and How They Can (1998), which explored the reasons people do not heal through her concept of "woundology." Her next book, Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential (2002) dealt with the issue of finding "Life Purpose," while describing Sacred Contracts as "a set of assignments that our soul had formed around before incarnation". She has since appeared on the The Oprah Winfrey Show numerous times.
By 2000, she discontinued doing private medical intuitive readings, and instead started teaching it, through her workshops, seminars, radio shows and guided tours. She tours internationally as a speaker on spirituality and mysticism, and lives in Oak Park, Illinois, near Chicago. In 2003, she started the Caroline Myss Educational Institute, with Wisdom University in San Francisco.
Her 2007 book, "Entering the Castle" draws upon the writings of Saint Teresa of Ávila, a 16th century Carmelite nun, who wrote her most important work, The Interior Castle, towards the end of her life.
In the course of her career, she interviewed Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D., the author of the famous book, On Death and Dying, which inspired her to pursue a Master's degree in theology from Mundelein College, Chicago, which she completed in 1979. She also claims to hold a Ph.D in "intuition and energy medicine", but the degree was granted by Greenwich University, a now-defunct correspondence school that was never accredited to deliver higher education awards by any recognized government accreditation authority.
She started giving medical intuitive readings in 1982 and co-founded a small New Age publishing company, Stillpoint Publishing in Walpole, New Hampshire, where she also worked as an editor in 1983, next she began consulting with holistic doctors, which in 1984, led to her extensive collaboration with Dr. Norman Shealy, an M.D. schooled at Harvard, and the founder of the American Holistic Medical Association, with whom she later co-authored, "Aids: Passageway to Transformation," in 1987, followed by "The Creation of Health: The Emotional, Psychological, and Spiritual Responses that Promote Health and Healing," in 1988. Deriving from her practice as a medical intuitive, she started writing books, in the field of energy medicine, and healing, all of which became New York Times Best Sellers.[18] Starting with Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing (1996), which overlapped seven Christian sacraments with seven Hindu chakras and the Kabbalah's Tree of Life to create a map of the human "energy anatomy"; this was followed by Why People Don't Heal and How They Can (1998), which explored the reasons people do not heal through her concept of "woundology." Her next book, Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential (2002) dealt with the issue of finding "Life Purpose," while describing Sacred Contracts as "a set of assignments that our soul had formed around before incarnation". She has since appeared on the The Oprah Winfrey Show numerous times.
By 2000, she discontinued doing private medical intuitive readings, and instead started teaching it, through her workshops, seminars, radio shows and guided tours. She tours internationally as a speaker on spirituality and mysticism, and lives in Oak Park, Illinois, near Chicago. In 2003, she started the Caroline Myss Educational Institute, with Wisdom University in San Francisco.
Her 2007 book, "Entering the Castle" draws upon the writings of Saint Teresa of Ávila, a 16th century Carmelite nun, who wrote her most important work, The Interior Castle, towards the end of her life.
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July 6, 2017
A quick listen, just over an hour and 15 minutes. Myss discusses our spiritual/pagan roots and how the earth's natural energy can impact our lives for the better. I particularly liked the information on "power points" and why we're drawn to them. There's a spot in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, that I've always been drawn to, just makes me feel so much better being there. So, as I was listening to this, I was thinking, "Yeah, I get it!" This was recorded in the Amazon rainforest, and the sounds are lovely. I also enjoyed the guided meditation at the end.
February 22, 2020
This audiobook had a promising title and premise but was marred, for me, by poor execution. It was very short, only about an hour and fifteen minutes, so I spent some time re-downloading it, thinking I was missing something since it seemed incomplete. But from reading some reviews here, I realize that my library copy was indeed all there was. Sure am glad I didn't pay for it.
Based on the title and blurb, I expected this audio recording to be calming, peaceful, and inspiring, but I didn't get any of that. Right from the beginning it felt rushed, and I thought maybe I'd missed the prequel or something. It just wasn't professionally done like the audiobooks I am used to. I wanted more introductory and background material, proof of concept, and more practical tips, not just new age woo-woo. From the get-go, Myss immediately focuses in on the inner core of the body and sexuality (where did that come from?), and her accent was not soothing at all to me. Her narration seemed too fast and frenetic for the subject matter at hand, almost as if she were pissed off that others didn't see the "obvious" truths of what she was selling so she had to be loud and strident to get her point across. A better narrator with a gentler speaking style could have made a difference here, but to me the material was weak and underdeveloped.
Based on the title and blurb, I expected this audio recording to be calming, peaceful, and inspiring, but I didn't get any of that. Right from the beginning it felt rushed, and I thought maybe I'd missed the prequel or something. It just wasn't professionally done like the audiobooks I am used to. I wanted more introductory and background material, proof of concept, and more practical tips, not just new age woo-woo. From the get-go, Myss immediately focuses in on the inner core of the body and sexuality (where did that come from?), and her accent was not soothing at all to me. Her narration seemed too fast and frenetic for the subject matter at hand, almost as if she were pissed off that others didn't see the "obvious" truths of what she was selling so she had to be loud and strident to get her point across. A better narrator with a gentler speaking style could have made a difference here, but to me the material was weak and underdeveloped.
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August 20, 2025You need to understand the Chakras to grasp this book.
December 21, 2009
audiobook. Amazing insight into nature and human nature. Understanding nature is essential to understanding your human self, accepting yourself, and learning to love yourself as you are. This is, of course, essential to spiritual growth.
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May 24, 2007I did a seminar/tour with Caroline Myss in the Amazon rainforest - our group was her "studio audience" for this recording.
January 30, 2012
This is only an hour long and it's definitely "out there." It had a few good nuggets of info and the visualization at the end is good.
October 8, 2013
Short. Practical. Recorded in the Amazon. Includes a guided meditation.
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