The Cottage Woman is a human story, a daring, and true story. This ancient, spirit woman invites the reader to take an unusual and beautifully empowering adventure. New freedoms await. She invites them to see further, to climb the mountain higher. Like a telescope that sees into the heavens, just when they thought they had seen it all the lenses updated, she replaced the old with the new and they were asked to go further. She stretches them beyond their limits, their one-dimensional knowing to discover physical reality is not the total reality. A bigger story exists under and beyond us.

The book recounts how the author and a small group of friends unexpectedly encountered an ancient, spirit woman who visited them in a cottage on the sea coast of the North Atlantic. Their adventure started in the 1980s, and a special friendship developed. Over five years, this ancient woman, whom they called the cottage woman, became a guide, a therapist, and a friend. She helped the group navigate relationships, health crises, and coming-of-age moments – personal and spiritual.

She life-coached them by an old woodstove, and showed them that “Miracles are merely undiscovered realities.” At the same time, she introduced them to a multi-dimensional reality: her life on the other side, which she explained “is very much like your own“, spirit guides, yet she did not consider herself one, and death, as she informed them “is not the word we use.“

On her first visit, the cottage woman said, she came to teach love and was indeed a woman of her word. She also introduced them to different streams of consciousness that permeated their ordinary lives. She taught them how to access a love place, a wisdom place that was much larger than any of them had known. She told them about the invisible and they tested it. It became their personal experience as her reality walked with them in the ordinary events of their day. And, as she wisely counseled, “Just because you can’t see oxygen, it doesn’t mean it isn’t there.”

And those who visited were stretched, awakened, and left wanting more. These were uncharted waters. She was talking soul and we listened. It was not so much what she said but that she was sitting there in front of us to say it. When meeting enlightened beings, one is left different.

This book relates one of the most important, and most unusual adventures in my long life. The growing friendship with this ancient woman changed me and those who met her and has taken me over three decades to gather the courage to make it public.