New in February, 2016, is my latest book, from Bear & Company,
Earth Acupuncture: Healing the Living Landscape
“Gifted storyteller Gail Rex follows the wisdom threads of her own deep longing into the heart of nature’s mystery—making it clear that we and the Earth are one. The nature within and around you will come alive as you follow her steps to restore sacred relationship, healing yourself as you bring harmony to the Earth.”
—Llyn Roberts, award-winning author of Shapeshifting into Higher Consciousness and coauthor of Speaking with Nature
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The book tells the story of my learning how to heal a mountain and a river near a nuclear power plant just outside New York City. Reviving the ancient skills of listening to the landscape, and combining these skills with my knowledge of acupuncture, I was able to diagnose specific imbalances in the landscape and provide earth acupuncture treatment to address those imbalances.
In October of 2002, I had a vision. I was sitting in a meditation class when I began to see clear images in my mind. From a bird’s-eye view, I saw the Hudson River—the section near Peekskill, New York, where three big curves mark a zigzag passage at the southern end of the Hudson Highlands. Like a movie projected on a screen in my head, I saw sparks from the Indian Point nuclear power plant, which sits on the Eastern shore of the river on a spit of land that was once an amusement park, and long before that a gathering place for the area’s indigenous people. The sparks looked like lightning bolts arcing continuously from the plant into the river. They also seeped into the ground, and stretched lava-like tongues of fire into the riverbed in all directions. My vision zoomed in, focusing on these crackling fires that pulsed through the riverbed, and I felt a whirl of sensations: a kind of nausea, a choking feeling, and something like disbelief. The power plant was leaking poison into the earth, and the river was showing me its injuries. This display made my heart ache, and then the images began to fade. A voice spoke in my head, saying “What you are given to see, you can heal. Work with the hills.”
My attention came back to the room I was sitting in. I was stunned, and fought to concentrate on what was going on around me. “Work with the hills,” the voice had said. What could that even mean?
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