Welcome to another episode of Getting Social with Miriam. I am delighted to be interviewing a brilliant spiritual author today who received a Finalist Award for New Age Fiction, TD Austin.

Following a Career in academia, Austin's recent spiritual awakening has sparked a creative outpouring in the form of a series of channeled novels entitled: Periplus of the Sea of Souls, of which People of the Bear Mother is the first.  Austin uses the device of distinctive eye characteristics or colors so that readers can identify the avatars of the narrator and other members of a “soul group” who appears and re­appears in various lifetimes, hence the use of Austin's “cat­eye” instead of a face photo.

 Inspired by the work of Joseph Campbell and the artwork of France's 37,000 ­year ­old Chauvet Cave, the novel takes a fresh look at, and is a new take on, the life­ways, interior life and religion of our earliest ancestors through a young female cave artist's encounters with shamans, hunters, avatars and painted caves. This story reveals that the spiritual messages hidden within this magnificent, incredibly ancient art are the same metaphysical beliefs of the New Age and the same universal human truths at the heart of every world religion and mystical philosophy.

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