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Songs from the Labyrinth is a treasure chest of poetry, stories, essays and roadmaps. These Songs are offered from the heart for fellow travelers embarked on the rigorous journey out of bondage into a human renaissance. The impending rebirth is both individual and collective. These Songs are like breadcrumbs that lead through a thick, bewildering forest, or like a strand of Ariadne's Thread leading out of the ancient Minotaur's maze. So many of our fellow travelers feel, sense, and recognize that the old world is passing away. Faintly, the outlines of a possible new world come into focus. What is it-living and growing inside us-that gives substance and shape to a new humanity? And how do we get there together?

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Charles Fox, An award-winning writer, producer and media executive known for transforming dysfunctional organizations into highly productive teams --- Debra Oliver's ""Songs from the Labyrinth"" is no linear experience. Intrigued by her acute observations, I found myself back tracking through her garden of metaphors to bask in an earlier contemplation. A scientist recently shared that poetry is a language with which she could express what science cannot. While Ms. Oliver places our daily existence beneath the microscopic lens of a poet's eye, the way her songs make the intangible tangible leaves me in delightful wonder Moyra Irving, author of Amelie Trott and the Earth Watchers and Amelie Trott and the Mark of Triandor --- Debra Oliver has fast become one of my favorite authors, one whose literary gifts embrace not only screenwriting but poetry, essays, and so much more. Here, beneath one beautiful cover, she offers her reader a real gift of hope, and just when we need it the most. Debra recognizes our collective struggle to let go of the old ways of the world and lend ourselves to something so much better. Songs from the Labyrinth is a very timely read and one of immense service to humanity. It is the result of a lifetime of study, reflection, and dedication to others. This new world is something that can only be achieved by knowing ourselves as One with all creation. Regardless of many serious themes, Debra Oliver's writing is full of contrasts. Her style is ever vibrant, often playful and witty. She delights in the unexpected. I especially loved her depiction of a single daisy speaking truth to the towering monoliths of New York City or her whimsical musings on humanity's true place within the global food chain. Songs from the Labyrinth has much to offer us all - whether we count ourselves as spiritual seekers, visionaries, healers, activists, or just human beings trying to create a better, more sustainable world. It is such an unforgettable collection that fragments of it remain long after the book has been read from cover to cover.

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Debra Oliver was born in Southern California to a family in show business. After attending Juilliard School for the Performing Arts in the inaugural class of the Drama Division, she returned to the West Coast and launched her own method of actor training. Later, she founded a theater company in San Francisco and began to write screenplays. When her beloved son, Jove Oliver, was two years old, she and Jove relocated to Sedona, Arizona to study with Torkom Saraydarian.There she met Diane Harvey, the artist whose work graces the pages of Debra's new book, Songs from the Labyrinth. In Sedona, Debra began her career as a mediator, working with the Arizona Attorney General's Civil Rights Unit. She has been a mediator, facilitator, and trainer in conflict resolution since 1989. She has written scores of training manuals in the field of conflict resolution, along with essays, screenplays and poetry.Debra put down permanent roots in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1997, where she founded the company, Common Ground Mediation Services. She is a life-long student of several facets of ancient wisdom and is now a teacher of applied wisdom. See www.applied-wisdom-teachings.org

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