Invoking the Wild Soul of Music - by Hélène Grimaud (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Profound insights on the connections between music, nature, and spirituality

- Shares lessons on music and life purpose the author has received from nature since childhood, including through her work in wolf conservation

- Shows how connecting with nature can help you discover your true calling, release your hidden talents, and lead to spiritual growth

- Explores how music and the harmonies of nature offer powerful means for fostering communication between souls

Internationally acclaimed piano virtuoso and founder of the Wolf Conservation Center, Hélène Grimaud shares her musical life's journey and inspiring insights on the connections between music, nature, and spirituality.

In this book, Hélène offers the lessons she has learned about music and her life purpose from having direct contact with nature since childhood. She shares her concept of parent prodigies, such as her own, who can recognize the innate power and talents in their children and help guide them to self-realization, often by facilitating encounters with nature. And she shows that connecting with nature spirits can help reveal your true calling.

She reveals how her work protecting wolves teaches her about being human, and how it connects her to our hunter-gatherer ancestors. Hélène also explores how people create art to communicate the full spectrum of emotions. Self-knowledge and the understanding of any vocation is a vehicle for profound spiritual growth. From Lie Yukou's True Classic of Perfect Emptiness and the compositions of Hildegard von Bingen, to the poetry of Novalis and Rimbaud, she details classics of spirituality, works of rebel poets, and the wisdom of shamans that serve as guides on her journey. These works and teachings reveal the connections between music and nature, including how music and the harmonies of nature offer powerful means for fostering the communication of souls.

Invoking the Wild Soul of Music reveals paths to rebirth, spiritual growth, and the re-enchantment of life. This memoir shows how to honor the call of the wild even in the heart of civilized modernity.

Review Quotes

"As a child, piano virtuoso Hélène Grimaud heard her first concerts in the sounds of Nature. It was here, in Nature, that music came alive and her life's path was forged. Her memoir, Invoking the Wild Soul of Music, is a testament to the profound impact Nature can have on one's life, starting with passion, leading to profession, and ultimately finding purpose."-- "PAM MONTGOMERY, author of Plant Spirit Healing and Co-Creating with Nature"

"Hélène Grimaud is a phenomenon! A world-renowned pianist, a gifted author, and an effective advocate of nature's wilderness, she embodies what we all could aspire to--being our best selves. This book is incredibly inspiring, revealing, and intelligent."-- "THOMAS MOORE, psychotherapist, teacher, musician, and author of the New York Times bestseller Care o"

About the Author

Hélène Grimaud is an internationally acclaimed virtuoso pianist with more than a million records sold. A human rights activist and wildlife conservationist, she is the founder of the Wolf Conservation Center in New York State. The author of several books in French, she lives in Westchester, New York.