Introduction

Tom Graves

Tom lives now in Victoria, Australia. Thanks to many hours' weaving by email he is one of my closest friends, and allies... I had the wonderful experience of being able to work with him on Wyrd Allies, providing feedback, anecdotal input and a bit of proof reading. How I got into that was a touch wyrd to say the least; simply put, I told him I needed the relationship book now, so he took a leap of faith and fed me the chapters as he wrote them!

Positively Wyrd

Positively Wyrd £8.95
ISBN 0-906362-27-X

Wyrd Positiv (Deutsche Übersetzung)
ISBN: 3-89060-141-5 (siehe unten)

This is a personal development book with a difference - quite literally a weird one. Starting with a new way of looking at an old word, it merges chaos theory with transpersonal psychology to create something that's highly practical and that gives new power and new direction to the everyday confusions of life.

In Nordic tradition the word "wyrd" or "weird" meant much the same as "fate". Like fate, it describes the fabric of our lives, yet we always have the choice, there's always a twist which changes each one into something we don't expect. It's those twists that give our wyrd its weirdness, yet the real weirdness is that those "messages from the wyrd" are always there to help us. We can ignore them, and wait passively, fatalisticallly, for life to change, which it probably never will. We can fight against them, try to wrest control of our life from the Fates, only to discover that control itself is nothing more than a myth. Or we can learn to work with life's weirdnesses - and use their help to weave the fabric of fate into a new form of our choosing. That's our choice, yet there's always that twist...

It might seem a weird way of working with the world, but unlike so many others it's one that does work. With common sense and clarity, with humour and humanity, and with a strong emphasis on practice and personal experience, this book shows how to develop an affinity for the natural weirdness of life - and to make life positively wyrd.

Wyrd Allies

No matter how hard we try, we can never control our relationships with others. Whether those relationships are personal, social or professional, there's always a hint of chaos and confusion. And sometimes it can seem that life goes in circles and cycles; the faces and places may be different but in some weird way a different relationship can seem very familiar.

Breaking down the complacent gender stereotyping which has developed over the last two decades, this book takes a refreshingly honest look at relationships and how these new stereotypes have, in fact, imprisoned us once again.

Merging ancient mythology and modern chaos theory with the subtle insights of transpersonal psychology, Wyrd Allies shows how we can work with the wyrd (weirdness) in our relationships with others, moving beyond the chaos of control and manipulation, to a way of relating that empowers everyone.

Here we learn how every person can be an ally, whatever it may seem like, and every relationship can be a way of finding out more about our wyrd purpose in life.

The third book in this series, Wyrd World, is temporarily on hold. It explores how we can use wyrd to build a better world for everyone.

How to obtain these books

For full details and to order, please visit the Wild Wyrd Products shop on Ravensmeet.

If you are in the UK, you might still be able to obtain copies from Gothic Image in Glastonbury, or through your local book shop. If you are in Australia or New Zealand, you might try Tom Graves himself: tom@wyrdsmiths.com.

In Deutschland und für Deutschsprechende:

Wyrd Positiv ist in 1997 veröffentlicht worden und ist die ins Deutsche übersetzte Ausgabe von Positively Wyrd. Sie können es durch Ihre lokale Buchhandlung bestellen:

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