In SPIRITUAL SAMPLER Ellen Dionna holds the flame that guides the pilgrim to ever deepening encounter with the Divine. She uses her experience as an interfaith spiritual director, workshop leader, and psychotherapist to create a profound manual for spiritual discovery and development. The work is sensitively informed by her unique personal journey, most notably living for many years "off the grid" in wilderness Vermont where the physical labor necessary to the backwoods lifestyle and the inherent solitude and intimacy with the natural world honed and deepened her spiritual awareness, enhanced her intuitive abilities, and reawakened her communion with Guides, Angels and the spirits of Nature. With subtlety and gentle radiance Dionna reveals the context of the spiritual journey and provides the reader tools with which to travel its terrain lightly, with awareness and grace. Dionna makes the gems of spiritual practice and conscious living accessible, and her approach honors the universality of human spiritual experience. Her prose shines from the pages, inspiring the novice to explore, and the spiritually seasoned reader to enriched mystical practice. Each facet of spiritual life shimmers with authenticity and clarity as one answers Dionna's invitation to savor the splendor of the soul.