We Publish Books Releases the Book "Healing the Fisher King: A Fly Fishers Quest" Written by G. Scott Sparrow - Photos Included

A powerful true story of one mans spiritual and emotional healing on the home waters of his childhood. Lured by the dream of catching a great fish in the middle years of his life, the author is drawn into an initiation in which he must decide to live fully or to die.

(PRWEB) May 15, 2005 -- In the tradition of A River Runs Through It, the book, Healing the Fisher King: A Fly Fishers Quest, is the story of one mans journey to the familiar waters of his childhood - the Lower Laguna Madre of deep south Texas.

Lured by a desire to catch a giant spotted seatrout - but directed by a dream that points to the Laguna Madre as the setting for healing and transformation - Sparrow takes his boat and his eight-year-old son on a journey from Virginia to south Texas that proves more difficult than he imagines.

He discovers that the unresolved pain in his life - stemming, in part, from his parents divorce and now his own - is also alive in his son. As they spend the first days fishing together, Sparrow and his son spiral into a dark place that is confusing and disturbing. The author draws upon the legend of the Fisher King and the Holy Grail in order to arrive at a way to address his sons needs, as well as his own.

As he begins his fly fishing search for the mysterious fish so aptly named cynoscion nebulosis - starry nebulae" - he soon discovers that his quest for a great fish mirrors his lifelong yearning for communion with God. He is led throughout by radiant dreams, his knowledge of spiritual traditions, and a willingness to face his own past with ruthless honesty.

Against a backdrop largely failed fly fishing experiences, Sparrow makes progress toward understanding his lifelong resistance to living from his heart. This resistance sets the stage for an eventual encounter with death through the agency of a stingrays painful wound. Becoming infected with Vibrio vulnificus, a deadly bacteria, he eventually realizes that he has a choice - to live fully, or to die.

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