The Book of Shrines

In Heyoka Merrifield's most recent book, The Book of Shrines, he uses prose, poetry and photographs to tell how his love of nature and the world's spiritual traditions awakened his artistic vision. He describes how he has been inspired to create shrines, in the tradition of our ancestors, to express the aspects of humanity's mythologies that we now require to restore harmony with Mother Earth and all our relations - for the next seven generations.Heyoka is a celebrated multi-media...
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In Heyoka Merrifield's most recent book, The Book of Shrines, he uses prose, poetry and photographs to tell how his love of nature and the world's spiritual traditions awakened his artistic vision. He describes how he has been inspired to create shrines, in the tradition of our ancestors, to express the aspects of humanity's mythologies that we now require to restore harmony with Mother Earth and all our relations - for the next seven generations.Heyoka is a celebrated multi-media artist, medicine man, and author living in western Montana. In The Book of Shrines also he relates how his search for the key to the radiance and power of ancient art pieces has led him on a lifelong quest of learning. Reconnecting to the sacred through his work has brought him international acclaim, and his pieces appear in private collections around the world including: Cher, Elton John, George Harrison, Joni Mitchell and Neil Diamond.