Books to Inspire You

The Isle of Is: A Guide to Awakening

Enjoy the experience of this interactive journey! Immerse yourself in The Isle of Is with story-tellng, audio guidance, exercises, and a map of the island. Set on a mythical island, this book + CD charts a journey of discovery in which you are the main character in the story of your own awakening. On the island, Spirit, nature, and your intuition lead you ever deeper into a place of peace, joy, and connection to all things.

Your discovery of an ancient parchment map and a ring of keys leads you to experience what sages and mystics have talked about from time immemorial: the existence of Divine Presence within you and within every thing.

Love Changes Things, even in the World of Politics -- a memoir

Caroline was recovering from her 32-year-old sister's untimely death and writing her sister's story when she felt she was struck by lightning. Its message? Develop a relationship with Al Gore, Jr., then a US congressman, for the purpose of ending the threat of nuclear war. Uncertain if anyone would listen to her, she wrote a letter to Rep. Gore, and guided by Spirit, worked with Members of Congress based on kindness, compassion, and love. 

In an era when the US and Soviet Union had 50,000 nuclear weapons between them, love changed what seemed impossible to change: the escalating nuclear arms race.  Millions of people worked to end nuclear testing, but it was love that made the difference.

Asylum (Main Street Rag)

Beautiful, spare poems describe the landscape of West Tennessee and follow the poet’s family from sharecropping on the Mississippi flood plain to Texas and California, as her mother, her sister, and the poet herself struggle to overcome a pattern of generational abuse. 

The poems also recount patriarchal violence and its direct connection to the frequency of institutionalization of women in the 1800's and early 1900’s. Poems such as "Asylum I" and "Daddy's Suitcase" link the historical mistreatment of women to the present day.

Coming Soon . . . Passage to Fiji   

A poetry collection about the years the poet spent living on a remote island in Fiji, and the spiritual deepening she experienced listening to nature and the night skies.                                                                                              Read about it here. . .

Books by author and poet Caroline Cottom offer inspiration and spiritual guidance on how to live more deeply at peace, better able to make positive change in our personal lives and in the world around us.