On My Altar
By Jo Ellen Thompson

On My Altar: The Place of Soul Medicine by Jo Ellen Thompson shares exact details of how she creates her sacred spaces to find a pathway to inspiration, insight, balance, and inner peace using treasured symbolic images, relics, photos, and other memorabilia from beyond a traditional Judeo-Christian background to include not only teachings and traditions from American Indians but also those of Buddhism, Sufism, and Shamanism.

Thompson dedicates herself daily to her soul practice, for she believes that over time when exposed to traumatic and overwhelming experiences, the soul can become fragmented. She trusts that soul practice can help to heal the fragmentation and restore dignity, grace, and peace.

The designer can add the price, readable to the average reader, to the bar code, and the editor can correct with ease the inadvertent misspelling of the word "fluorescent" (p. 6) in forthcoming revisions. These modest modifications can satisfy the language purist and prevent distraction from Thompson's mission to awaken readers to recognize altars that they may have in progress all around them in their own environments and to encourage them to create their own sacred spaces, for as she says, "altar building and soul practice will starkly remind you [that you are enough and can enhance your good health in both mind and body]" (p. 79) and "awaken [you] to the wonder, beauty, and blessings of your [souls]" (p. 83).

Linda Davis Kyle, Reviewer

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