A Year on the Frontiers of Death

Acquainted With The Night

Allegra Taylor is a journalist and author of several books, including the best-selling, I Fly Out With Bright Feathers...The Quest Of A Novice Healer and Healing Hands. She was also, for many years, 
a freelance journalist for magazines such as Illustrated London News and The New Internationalist. 
Taylor is a popular speaker and workshop leader at such venues as The Nfind and Body and Spirit Festival and teaches courses in creative writing in England and in many parts of the world.

Death is the most predictable thing that will happen to any of us and one of the few experiences we share with every other human being, yet we hardly give it a thought. Most of us behave as if pretending it didn't exist gives is a measure of control over it. The traditional supports that used to cradle us in times of need are no longer there. 
 
Acquainted with the Night is the story of Allegra Taylor's year spent working in a hospice and training to become part of London Lighthouse, the support network for people with AIDS. 
 
Accessible, anecdotal and warmly personal, this is an important book. For it shows us that death is not the enemy; that it is possible to 'be there' for someone who is dying or bereaved, to grieve well in the face of death and, when the time comes, to die well ourselves.

The Quest of a Novice Healer

I Fly Out With Bright Feathers

A novice's guide to the powers of spiritual healing.

Allegra Taylor has journeyed throughout the world in a quest to understand how healing works. She chronicles her own gradual acquisition of healing skills as she explores a whole range methods and ideas. 
 
She discovers that the healer is essentially a catalyst, not a magician. That health is much more than mere absence of disease. That the power to heal is one face of the power to love. That anyone can do it.

Allegra Taylor

Women in Search of Spirituality

In many parts of the world there is a gathering groundswell of women seeking to reclaim their own direct experience of spiritual vision. The Goddess has become one of the most potent images of our time. Women are personally and collectively recovering their voices. 
 
Ladder to the Moon is a journey of discovery - meetings with women, like the author herself, who are asking, "What happened to the feminine aspect of the Divine? Was it ever there? If it was, can we reclaim it and come in from the cold? How can a woman, discouraged by the misogyny of most religions, begin to find a meaningful path?" 
 
The book is warmly personal and anecdotal - an Everywoman's search.

Allegra Taylor

Books by Allegra Taylor

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