The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You: Amazon.ca: Dorothy Bryant: Books

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art love story, part utopian fantasy, part spiritual fable, The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You is "a beautiful, symbolic journey of the soul" (Berkeley Monthly). Into the world of the Ata comes a desperate man, running from a fast life of fame and fortune, drugs and crime. He is led by the kin of Ata on a spiritual journey that, sooner or later, we all must take.

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A car crash causes a young writer to journey into a dream world, where, for three weeks, he encounters people from the island of Ata and embarks on a series of adventures, accompanied by a woman seeking spiritual and sexual enlightenment. Reprint.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The absolute best!, April 12 2004

By	Moonstone7 (Reading, PA USA) - See all my reviews

I have to second the words of ahpost3: magical, fascinating, enlightening, can't-put-it down; didn't want it to end. A glorious vision of how life could be. I read it more than 25 years ago and it still powerfully lingers in the mind. Thank you, Dorothy Bryant, for this gift. I have recommended it to many over the years! To all of you who are interested in the interconnectedness of our dreams and our pysches, read this book!

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4.0 out of 5 stars utopian wanderings & dreaming the dreamers, Dec 31 2003

By	Michael J. Cowan "Sandra Zickefoose" (Pacific Northwest) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I wonder if utopian fiction appeals to us because in our hearts we know that we, humans, are capable of being so very much more than we have been able to manifest so far during out stay on earth. Obviously one of the problems with 'being so much more' is knowing what that "much more" would look like and how we could find our way there if we did know where we wanted to go. Well Dorothy Bryant has some ideas about that. First she gives us a character that obviously doesn't have a clue what a life worth living might look like. He is a mess...possibly a 'success' by some cultural standards, but a failure as a worthwhile person. And, for most of the book he goes on doing ugly outrageous things.

Meanwhile we are introduced to another way that is tied to dreaming, sharing dreams, living in accordance with dreams. Behavior that leads to success is tied to respect, to concern but not judgment, to honesty: and maybe most important even to acceptance of a jerk like our protagonist as having a purpose. This may all sound simple. It is...but it's not. That is part of the beauty of this book. It folds layer upon layer of complexity into the pages. It gives you plenty to think about. It is not an action packed book. It is an idea book. But it is also a mystery. Then again it is science fiction and it is philosophy. It is certainly worth reading. It stays with you.

Has Bryant got good ideas or not? Probably she does -- but in line with her thinking you would have to consider it yourself and then talk it over with others to answer that question. In part, she seems to believe the everyone has something that s/he is suppose to do with his/her life and finding that will give a person's life the meaning it is meant to have--and that if each of us, working together, could get that piece in place we would discover a social order that might be said to be better than any we've created so far. But then, in the end, you are left to ask how much of the story --and how many of her ideas-- are a dream.

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5.0 out of 5 stars penetrating truth, Dec 19 2003

By	Krista Barry (California) - See all my reviews

I read this book in my "mysticism, meditation, and madness" class. It was the beginning of my spiritual rebirth. The truth is hard to dispute and Bryant delivers it in such a way as to entertain and continue to penetrate my ideas. loved it.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You
the Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You it iz a very special book that "luckasa" lucas kolasa (seek him or me) showed me in 1995-i read it every fall!! Read more

Published on Dec 8 2003 by sam long

5.0 out of 5 stars Years later, still profoundly influencing me
This was a magical, powerful, can't-put-down read, yet I was so sad when I finished reading it because I wanted to keep on enjoying the experience. Read more

Published on Nov 28 2003 by Dream Reader

5.0 out of 5 stars Have you read this Berkeley author yet? You must.
Dorothy Bryant, who hales from the planet Berkeley, has written several novels that are so startlingly different from each other than it makes you wonder how one person could have... Read more

Published on Sep 18 2003 by Peggy Vincent

5.0 out of 5 stars timeless classic
I read this book over a year ago and still think about it almost every day. It is written in a style that grabs you from the start and keeps you interested all the way through... Read more

Published on Jun 19 2002 by cyclom