Robin Lysne's Books
Until 2021 she has focused on energy medicine, poetry and creating personal rituals in most of her publications. This year in 2021 she is launching her new Ancestral Women's Series of novels that she is writing for a larger audience. These books will uncover the strong and self-determined lives of ancestors who lived extraordinary lives. The first book in that series is The Legend of Randine: Entering the Sisterhood. Book Launch was on November 9th, 2021. Listen to the book launch here: https://youtu.be/IbKEKntIzlw There is a fantastic review by Elizabeth McKenzie (author of the Portable Veblen, and Stop that Girl and editor of Catamaran, and Chicago Quarterly Review) and a exciting dialog about the first two books.
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Endorsements for The Legendary Ancestor
Series: Book One
The Legend of Randine, Entering the Sisterhood:
Robin Lysne transports us to nineteenth century
Norway in this beautifully written story of the spirited midwife Randine. I
admired this atmospheric and carefully researched historical novel immensely.
Elizabeth McKenzie
author of The Portable Veblen
Santa Cruz, CA
The Legend of Randine is
filled with surprising discoveries. Through the multiple uncertainties of
Norway in transition, Randine finds her survival and acceptance tied with a
sisterhood of midwives who assist women through the dangers and joys of
childbirth using time-honored skills and caring. Randine’s life story could be
that of many women of early 1800’s Norway. Losses, chance and unlikely
opportunities coincide with complex people in her life to engage the reader
through a rich landscape of a time otherwise hidden to us.
Ralph Knudson, M.D. and Musician
LaCrosse, WI
My own Norwegian ancestry initially drew
me to The Legend of Randine,
and I was quickly engaged by the story of Randine. I highly recommend this
beautifully written novel, not only for its compelling characters, but also for
its previously untold drama of the development of midwifery in rural
Norway.
Ruth Olsen Saxton
Professor Emerita of English
Mills College
Oakland, CA
The
Legend of Randine: Entering the Sisterhood begins the
fascinating life of a young woman, called to be a midwife in the first half of
the 1800's. It's accurate detail and pace sweeps one along in a stirring
story based on historical fact with a gripping narrative.
Nan Heerens-Knudson, M.A., P.A.
Playwright, Actress and Artist
LaCrosse, WI
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NEW! The Legend of Randine: Entering the Sisterhood
Based
on a true story, set in Bergen, Norway in the 1820’s, this warm-hearted work of
historical fiction traces the life of Randine, a young, pregnant girl abandon by her family
and church. She encounters terrible loss and rejection, only to find herself
under the wing of her midwife and mentor, Ursula. Ursula helps to bring Randine
through her grief and into the knowledge of midwifery, where she finds her
life’s work in support of others like herself.
As her story unfolds, Randine
becomes stronger through her inner revelations rather than placing her faith in
the local church. Ursula helps interpret and guide Randine
as she experiences dreams and visions of the ancient Norse tradition, the
Sisterhood of Freya. The Sisterhood is a supportive group of women, in the
Viking tradition, who help other women step into their authentic selves. Her initiation into the
Sisterhood changes Randine’s life. Along the way, Randine opens her
heart to love again.
Randine
becomes one of many midwifes who were part of a population boom in the early
part of the 19th century. The Legend of Randine tells the story of how one young
woman grew and matured, despite social norms and restrictions, to move into
service and healing for others in the same predicament.
The author shares this story of her
great-great-great-great Grandmother, Randine, honoring an everyday hero of
healing and service. This is the first book in the author’s new Ancestral
Woman’s Series. The second book in this series shares the exciting next
chapters in Randine life as she builds a career and discovers new love among
the fields and fjords of Laerdal, a tiny village 150 miles inland in the backwater of the Sogn og Fjordane of
Western Norway.
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Book Launch for the Legend of Randine:
Join Elizabeth McKenzie and Robin Lysne for her launch of her new book: The Legend of Randine, Entering the Sisterhood.
Elizabeth McKenzie is the author of several novels including The Portable Veblen, which was on the NY Times bestseller list. Robin Lysne studied with Elizabeth at the Catamaran Literary Conference in 2015, where she encouraged Robin to keep going. Now that the novel is complete, we are happy to host the launch of The Legend of Randine: Entering the Sisterhood!
Listen now to the November 9, 2021 book launch by clicking the link below.
https://youtu.be/IbKEKntIzlw
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More Books by Robin Lysne Dancing Up the Moon, and Living a Sacred Life, were published by Conari Press, Berkeley, CA. While these are out of print, Ceremonies from the Heart is a revised edition of these two books with additional chapters on boys, men, and how we can listen to and help the Mother Earth. All other books are available by clicking on the links below.
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Ceremonies from the Heart, for Children, Adults and the Earth
Ceremonies from the Heart teaches you how to create meaningful passages for any occasion, including birthdays, adolescent rites of passage, marriage, injuries, surgery, natural disasters, respecting elders, death, and more. A total of thirty-seven actual ceremonies are included in the book along with the tools for each of us to use for various life changing circumstances.
What people are saying:
"We
must all be thankful that Robin Lysne, drawing on her sensibility as a
poet and her wisdom as a mystic, has given us (in her books) the
practical and spiritual guidance necessary to sustain the energies of
the creative person of our era."
Brian Swimme, Ph.D. Professor at California Institiude of Integral Studies, author of the The Universe Story with Thomas Berry, and many other.
"This
heartfelt book offers simple solutions and effective ways to experience
the power of your connections and enrich your daily life."
Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D. author of Kitchen Table Wisdom, Former Medical Director, Commonweal Cancer Help Program.
"A
Celebratory Book of Days which, with skill and verve, leads the reader
to transform daily life into sacred time, sacred space-- routine becomes
rarified, and life moves from mundane to mystery."
Jean Houston, Ph.D. author of The Possible Human and many others.
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Heart Path Handbook, for Therapists and Healers
Heart
Path Handbook offers the reader ways to love themselves without limits.
It teaches Therapists and Healers how to use Heart Path, a process the
author teachers in workshop and seminars. Details include illustrations
of how people present various configurations in their energy fields,
such as getting "twisted around themselves", or aligning with their
light as well as illustrations of the aura, chakras and how we function
metaphysically. The
book is a treasure for anyone interested in letting go of
"victim/perpetrator" patterns, or other negative patterns that hold us
back. It gives the reader lessons, guided imagery, and support through
it's workbook 81/2" x 11" format. Like Heart Path, Learning to Love Yourself and Listening to Your Guides, Heart Path Handbook contains channeled information from Dr. Lysne's guidance, though most of this book is written by the author. authors such as Louise Hay, Carl Jung, and the Dalai Lama XVI all concur that Self love is a critical area of the human psyche that needs to be addressed.
"Love is the greatest miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives." Louise Hay, Heal your Body "The most terrifying thing is accept oneself completely." C.G. Jung "Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive." Dalai Lama XVI, The Art of Happiness.
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Heart Path, Learning to Love Yourself and Listening To your Guides
Heart Path
is a book for everyone interested in understanding that self love can
lead to Self Love. In fact learning to love the self is the essential
link standing between us and our authentic spirit. Full of guided imagery inspired by
the author's guidance, Heart Path is a process based on Boddichitta form
of Tibetian Buddhist meditation. However the meditation as experienced
in Heart Path,
supports a recognition of the various aspects within a person that need
the love of our higher and wiser selves. Dr. Lysne outlines five
aspects that are essential in a whole person, and gives the reader ways
to become more aware of them within the self. Eventually these aspects
spontaneously help the reader understand the self, once contact is made
inside the "heart garden." This book gives people a way to literally
return to their own gardens. The book also gives the
reader the ways to connect with their divine guidance. Based on classes
taught by the author over a six year period, the book reveals answers
to metaphysical questions answered by Dr. Lysne's Guides and transcribed
by the author to support each person's healing and growth. Heart Path
is a book for anyone wanting to grow and know their Divine Source more thoroughly. $20 plus $5 shipping and handling.
"LEARNING
TO LOVE YOURSELF IS SOMETHING EVERYONE NEEDS TO LEARN. HEART PATH
OFFERS READERS A WAY TO LOVE THEMSELVES WITHOUT LIMITS." John Gray,
Ph.D. author of: Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus
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Mosaic, New and Collected Poems,
is a collection of 30 years of poetry from the author's life. Lysne
explores this world and the spirit world and her own process capturing
moments of time passing and evolving. Poet Laureate of Cupertino, Dave
Denny says of Mosaic:
Robin White Turtle Lysne's Mosaic
is a book of tenderness, awe, and depth. Lysne explores the natural
world in the manner of the mystic. With a keen eye and open heart, she
communes with wolf, owl, raven, and cat. Her poems reach deeply into
relationships between family members, friends, and lovers. Throughout
this vast collection, Lysne's brave poems explore the joys of a life
richly lived and challenge us to do the same.
--David Denny, author of Some Divine Commotion and Fool in the Attic
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265 pages
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Poems for the Lost Deer offers
a lament for Nature and what we are doing to our Mother Earth. The news articles
and interviews of an actual event in 2008 are documented in the poems. Native Wisdom in harmony with nature is
contrasted with Western-based capitalism. The book addresses women's
issues, emigration, and what patriarchy assumes it can do in our own
National Park Service.
Here is what others are saying about this book:
"Poems for the Lost Deer
is much more than poems. It is a tract that is, at once, lamentation
and praise song, dirge and testament and manifestation. And an inquiry
into values and hierarchy and a series of addresses to the faces of
power. …"
C.S. Giscombe
Author of Into and Out of Dislocation, and others
"This (book) is passionate, compassionate, skillful, meticulous, graceful, vital, and heartbreaking. …"
Heather Nagami, Author, Editor
Echoing Blake’s
Songs of Innocence and Experience, Robin Lysne’s Poems for the Lost Deer
documents the recent systematic slaughter of “non-native” Axis and
Fallow deer from the Point Reyes National Seashore. Presenting “what
happened” in an assemblage of overlapping voices -- factual “evidence”. …Robin Lysne has given us, one whose time has come not a moment too soon.
Stephen Ratcliffe. Author of Real, Portraits and Repitition, and over 20 books of poetry and criticism, and is a long time Professor at Mills College.
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