Mary Reynolds Thompson

Reclaiming the Wild Soul

This book will help you retrieve your wilder, deeper self

Beyond the chaos and stresses of our modern age, there lies a forgotten yet primal terrain rich in wisdom, healing, and wholeness. In Reclaiming the Wild Soul, Mary Reynolds Thompson takes us on a journey into Earth’s five great landscapes as aspects of our deeper, wilder selves.

This book will help you retrieve your wilder, deeper self

Beyond the chaos and stresses of our modern age, there lies a forgotten yet primal terrain rich in wisdom, healing, and wholeness. In Reclaiming the Wild Soul, Mary Reynolds Thompson takes us on a journey into Earth’s five great landscapes as aspects of our deeper, wilder selves.

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This book…

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Introduces a powerful model for transformation in the “soulscapes” that return us to a primal terrain rich in wisdom, healing, and wholeness

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Weaves personal story with poetry, imagery, and explorations to offer both self-help and inspire a courageous call to action.

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Reveals how rewilding our souls is an essential first step to rewilding the Earth.

Let this Book Video invite you into your wild soul

Sit back and experience the wonder we feel when we realize that the deserts, forests, oceans and rivers, mountains, and grasslands are there in the universe, and yet simultaneously, they are alive in the depths of our wild souls.

Clare Dubois, Founder, TreeSisters

"In the pages of Reclaiming the Wild Soul, the forests and mountains, the deserts and the oceans, the rivers and the grasslands find their voice. Once heard, we can never forget what they have to say. Nor do we want to. May we all follow the summons and embark on such a journey. Thompson's field guide illuminates the way."

Bill Plotkin, author of Wild Mind: A Field Guide to the Human Psyche and Soulcraft: Crossing into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche

"Woven with enchanting stories and wise counsel, Reclaiming the Wild Soul lavishly supports us, at this time of global crisis/opportunity, to return, emboldened, to Earth and to our own human wildness."
Once awakened, these “soulscapes” reveal the beauty and magnificence of our own true nature––and a path of personal transformation aligned with the healing of the wild Earth. Reclaiming the Wild Soul is simultaneously self-help and a courageous call to action for our times.

Notes from the author

Notes from the author

To feel the breath of wildness come into your body is to reclaim your natural wholeness. It is to be enfolded by fields of grasses and held by the mountains’ slow and steady strength. It is to hear in your own heartbeat the thunderous roar of the ocean, reminding you that your life still belongs to the wild Earth.

All you have to do is reach for her.

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  • "In moments of illumination our souls expand, affirming that we are part of something far more spacious than our separate selves. Mary Reynolds Thompson provides doorways to those experiences, when our lives are forever changed, and our alignment with the soul of nature is sealed forever."

    Ginny Anderson author of Circling San Francisco Bay

  • "Mary Reynolds Thompson explores 'the breath of wildness,' the reality of kinship that exists just beyond the reach of our senses -- or at least our most familiar senses. She has rolled up her sleeves and commenced what Thomas Berry called the Great Work of the 21st century:reconnecting to the rest of the natural world, for meaning. For soul."

    Richard Louv, The Nature Principle and Last Child in the Woods

  • "Reclaiming the Wild Soul leads us on a journey of exploration, through imagery, poetry, story and creative imagination, to connect back to the five archetypal landscapes in Nature, and reconnect to our own inherent Nature."

    Angeles Arrien, author of The Four Fold Way and Living with Gratitude

  • "The future of religion and of the planet's health are both connected integrally with our gaining a new sense of reverence for the Earth. Mary Reynolds Thompson's writing provides a creative, fresh approach to this spiritual task. Through language that connects our inner depths with nature's mysterious and challenging beauty, she invites us to deepen our allegiances to our own true nature, to nature itself, and to the source of both."

    The Rev. Fletcher Harper, executive director, GreenFaith

  • "Reclaiming the Wild Soul is a gateway into the great spiritual journey of our time: that of non dual consciousness, also called spiritual ecology. These moving stories and images and poetry of Reynolds Thompson will carry you into a fresh, though ancient, realization: the deserts and forests and mountains are there in the universe, and yet simultaneously, they are vibrantly alive in the depths of our souls."

    Brian Swimme, author of The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos and The Universe Story (with Thomas Berry)

  • "Reclaiming the Wild Soul is a must read for anyone on a joyous path to wholeness. Mary Reynolds Thompson's superb book takes us back to our deep roots in nature where our dreams and destiny intertwine. Her book ignites the soul with the earth's powerful wisdom and connects each of us to our deepest, wildest, wisest selves."

    Terry Laszlo-Gopadze, editor of The Spirit of a Woman

  • "Mary Reynolds Thompson asks simple yet profound questions in exploring our connection with nature, and helping us reclaim our wild soul. And reclaim that soul, we must, if we are to find a way towards an Earth that can sustain itself in the face of human consumption and population. She writes in a way that makes you care about this planet, see its beauty on deep levels, and revel in precious moments of discovery and mystery."

    Stephen Altschuler author of The Mindful Hiker

  • "Mary Reynolds Thompson has trekked the Himalayas, rafted rapids on the Klamath, backpacked the Grand Tetons, drifted down the Irrawaddy River in Burma. She has endured the blasting heat of the Badlands and the freezing winds of Patagonia! Reclaiming the Wild Soul is filled with her passion for the landscapes of the earth. As we face threats to our ecology that are so large we can hardly imagine them, Mary Reynolds Thompson invites us to slow down and connect more deeply with the earth so that we have a solid, rich, physical grounding to begin from. Reclaiming the Wild Soul should be required reading for all our politicians and policy makers."

    Ellen Bass, Award Winning Poet

  • "Reclaiming the Wild Soul touches on so much that makes us more deeply human. But even more, we are invited into a new way of being human. Mary Reynolds Thompson identifies the most powerful qualities of our Earth's great landscapes.She then magically guides us back into a nearly lost realm where we truly feel that our imagination, our inner lives, and our physical selves are an integral expression of the planet herself. To go to the Earth for guidance, we simultaneously go inward to our deeper self and outward to the Great Self of oceans, rivers, deserts, grasslands,mountains, and forests. Reclaiming the Wild Soul is a beautiful,passionate, and trustworthy handbook for deeper transformation."

    Lauren de Boer, executive editor, Earth Light, a magazine of ecology, cosmology, and spirituality