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TAKE BACK THE MAGIC

Perdita Finn

Getting to Know the Dead

Perdita Finn has studied with Zen masters, priests, rabbis, shamans, and healers, although her greatest teachers have always been the dead themselves. In TAKE BACK THE MAGIC: Getting to Know the Dead, Finn reveals that life is beginningless, love is endless, and the dead don't go anywhere when they die.

Weaving together memoir, history, and a spirituality based in ecology, feminist Finn recounts how she healed her relationship with her bitter patriarchal father - after his death - and tells other stories of souls coming back to help the living. A ghost visits her infant from another life, a cat sacrifices himself for love of his owner, an aborted child returns to her mother at a better time, and the Virgin Mary makes an appearance. These journeys demonstrate that anyone can call upon the guidance of the dead and recover a relationship with the ancestors. As in her popular workshops, Perdita Finn offers explorations into the underworld to recover lost alliances and engage in healing conversations with those who have passed on. An inspiring invitation to healing in this life, and to experience that we are never alone, TAKE BACK THE MAGIC shows that the whole world is simply souls reaching out to and finding each other - and no one is ever lost to us. Perdita Finn is the co-founder, with her husband Clark Strand of the non-denominational international fellowship The Way of the Rose, a dynamic community devoted to the Earth and the Lady "by any name you want to call her." They are together the authors of The Way of the Rose: The Radical Path of the Divine Feminine Hidden in the Rosary (Spiegel & Grau, 2019). A former high school English teacher, Finn worked for many years writing curriculum, teacher guides, and middle grade books, including the time travel series Time Flyers (Scholastic, 2006-2008). Over the years Finn has studied with Zen masters, priests and rabbis, shamans and healers, although her greatest teachers have always been the dead themselves. She apprenticed with the psychic Susan Saxman with whom she wrote The Reluctant Psychic (St. Martins), which was optioned by Shonda Rhimes. She teaches popular workshops on Getting to Know the Dead whose participants are empowered to activate the magic in their own lives with the help of their ancestors. Finn lives with her family in the moss-filled shadows of the Catskill Mountains.

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Book Published 2023-09-12 by Running Press

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In TAKE BACK THE MAGIC, Perdita Finn offers practical, essential advice for those who are seeking deeper connections with their ancestors and the unseen world. Rather than something to be feared or avoided, Perdita demonstrates that the realm of spirit holds gifts for us all, and can be easily accessed when we trust our intuition and listen to the wisdom of the heart. Woven throughout with engaging, sometimes wrenching stories from Perdita's life experience, TAKE BACK THE MAGIC is a riveting read that will remain with you long after you finish it.

In TAKE BACK THE MAGIC, Perdita creates a portable threshold through which you can access the Otherworld and the long history of your soul. Part memoir, part field guide to the other side, this page-turning book will dilate your awareness of the unseen world and help you recognize the helpful presence of your ancestors in your life. Through her own life stories of astonishing synchronicities, karmic connections, and communication with the dead, Perdita shows us how extraordinary all our lives truly are - and how healing is at the root of deep time.

I have never read a book that creates a rapport with the dead with such skill and ease. What becomes clear early on in this wonderful book is that Perdita is a rare woman who has found a way to reside comfortably in the world of the living and the dead. This truly is a must-read book.

What I love about this book is the warm, practical, spirited way Perdita explores the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth. Hers is a wisdom devoid of preachiness, quickened by curiosity, overflowing with love. Beautifully written, luminous, and earthy, TAKE BACK THE MAGIC makes conversations with the unseen world feel obvious, accessible, and our best hope for thriving amid the turmoil of the current age.

Our lives are woven with everyday magic that most people overlook as coincidence. Spirits watch over us, guide us, and support us, and the divine speaks to us through symbols and signs, visions, and dreams! This is the magic you will find in the pages of TAKE BACK THE MAGIC. Perdita Finn proves herself to be both a fabulous storyteller and a word-witch, as she shares her own awakening to a magical life. Part memoir, part educational manual, this is a book meant to open hearts and minds - something very much needed in this time of global change.

Perdita Finn is a masterful storyteller who captivates her readers in tales of wonder, enlightenment, and magic. You're guaranteed to enjoy the adventure.

Perdita Finn's startling, exquisitely written memoir invites us to rethink our relationships with the dead and the invisible world that they inhabit. I picked up TAKE BACK THE MAGIC as a diehard agnostic regarding ghosts, spirits, and posthumous communication with the dearly departed. Finn's intelligence and integrity opened my eyes to the possibility that I've been mistaken. This book is a memento mori for the thinking classes, revelatory, poignant and lucidly observed. I recommend it highly to anyone interested in the mysteries of life and death, and what happens after we leave this world.

Finn weaves a spellbinding meditation on how time never runs out for the deceased in prose that alternately enchants and haunts... It's an affecting ode to the power of the unseen.

Lean in close as Perdita deftly weaves us back into relationship with what she calls the long story: the entangled, deep time community of the dead in intimate partnership with the living. TAKE BACK THE MAGIC is overflowing with miraculous stories and much-needed inspiration of why it is not just necessary, but urgent, for us to reach towards the invisible world for guidance in how to remember our place in the dance across aeons. When so many of us are fearful and confused in a world out of balance, TAKE BACK THE MAGIC puts solid ground under our feet and gently guides us home to trust the compass of our heart's desire.

Perdita Finn masterfully weaves a soulful tapestry of stories and reflections that help the reader to viscerally appreciate the grand love story we eternally participate in through many different lives, roles, and forms. Perdita holds up a timely and potent soul-mirror to remind us that the magic and mystery of Being is always accessible and available to us in every moment. This is a book I will cherish and read again and again.