Mikaya Heart

This is the true story of one woman's search for truth, her personal evolution from anger to joy, her determination to walk her own walk, and her spiritual awakening. Growing up in conservative Scotland in the sixties, she escaped her family, and against all odds became a barefoot hippie, a radical activist, a lesbian, and an outspoken feminist always on the cutting edge of radical thought. Turning to Nature for solace, she moved to rural California, where she worked as a jill-of-all-trades, and engaged in healing work centered around her sexuality. Facing her fears and finding love, she experienced many varied and mind-expanding adventures. This is a book about growing up and waking up. The path Mikaya Heart has forged through the jungle of life is an inspiration to anyone looking for the true meaning of love in our changing world.

This is the true story of one woman's search for truth, her personal evolution from anger to joy, her determination to walk her own walk, and her spiritual awakening. Growing up in conservative Scotland in the sixties, she escaped her family, and against all odds became a barefoot hippie, a radical activist, a lesbian, and an outspoken feminist always on the cutting edge of radical thought. Turning to Nature for solace, she moved to rural California, where she worked as a jill-of-all-trades, and engaged in healing work centered around her sexuality. Facing her fears and finding love, she experienced many varied and mind-expanding adventures. This is a book about growing up and waking up. The path Mikaya Heart has forged through the jungle of life is an inspiration to anyone looking for the true meaning of love in our changing world.

Travel with Mikaya as she visits crocodiles and penguins in Australia, learns to kitesurf in various places all over the world, gets her vehicle stuck on muddy roads in remote parts of Brazil, loses her kayak in a flash flood in Texas, pets tigers n Thailand, rafts the Copper River In Alaska, and visits an active volcano spewing hot lava in Hawaii. Written with candor and humor, the details and descriptions in this book will expand your ideas of what is possible and keep you enthralled from beginning to end.

This book received a Golden Crown Literary Award in 2010, and was described as "soul-refreshment of the highest order" in Edge Magazine. This is a story about crossing the lines of gender and class, refusing to be anything but absolutely free. Chris, youngest daughter of an impoverished aristocratic family in Scotland, cannot be contained within the confines of her upbringing. At first a rebellious tomboy, she becomes a promiscuous teenager, a barefoot hippy, a political activist, a radical lesbian, a car mechanic, a hog farmer, and a builder. Always a truth-teller and an intrepid explorer, she investigates inner and outer worlds alike. Finally, dabbling in mysticism and miracles, Chris finds what she has been looking for: vast, unconditional, unlimited love.