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| Animated Earth: A Story of Peruvian Whistles and Transformation | 
 enlarge | Author: Daniel Statnekov
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Category: Book
List Price: $15.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 956239
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2 Sub
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 208
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.6 x 0.5
ISBN: 1556434634
Dewey Decimal Number: 001.94
EAN: 9781556434631
ASIN: 1556434634
Publication Date: April 2003
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Condition: New copy.
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At a Pennsylvania country auction, Daniel Statnekov impulsively purchases a Peruvian whistling vessel. His personal and professional life is in shambles, and Daniel wonders what he is doing with his life. All that changes when he blows into the whistle: what might otherwise have been nothing more than another antique on his shelf becomes the gateway to a transcendent spiritual journey. A few of the whistle's hollow notes, and Daniel literally flies into a totally unexpected out-of-body experience. Leaving everything behind, Daniel sets out to research the mysterious vessels and their psycho-acoustic effects. Seven years later, at Machu Picchu, he comes to a culminating, elemental understanding of the great ruins and whistling vessels, but most of all, of humanity as nothing less—and nothing more—than animated earth.
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Interesting material and well written. January 19, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is an interesting little book, written in a very believable and likable voice. A great read.
Fascinating transformation August 28, 2006
I could hardly put this book down, of particular interest to me because the author went to Friends School, just a mile or so away from me. He had a great interest in American antiques, and began hanging around a popular tavern in a historic area in the hope of meeting a wealthy woman. He hit the jackpot and
married a descendant of Benjamin Franklin who lived in a 200-year old historic house, and they continued to accumulate appropriate antiques.
At one antique auction, he picked up a little Peruvian whimsical-looking clay pot, and blew into the spout, which
emitted a whistle. Embarrassed, he set it back down, but for
some unknown reason, was compelled to buy it. At home, he sat
down and blew into it, and immediately had a terrifying out-of-body experience.
This led to a long odyssey of becoming an expert on these pots
(not just whimsical curiosities, but used harmonically in consciousness-expanding rites), exploring the Peruvian and other native cultures, and he was able to advise the Smithsonian about their collection. It ended his marriage as well.
It's interesting to speculate what triggered this experience. His background is Eastern European, no Peruvian roots.
Shakespeare had it right - "there are more things on heaven and earth than are dreamed of in your philosophy" (Hamlet)
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