After travelling through South and Central America, I returned home with more questions than answers.

Could there be another way to live?

Over the course of a year, following the eight festivals of the traditional Wheel of the Year, I set out to meet people whose lives were shaped by a different relationship with nature, creativity, ritual and community.

Artists. Healers. Craftspeople. Storytellers. Animal communicators. Spiritual practitioners.

Each opened a window onto a world I had never imagined.

One practitioner accompanied her dying father as he prepared for death. Another listened to the language of a horse. A third explored the wisdom of ancient runes, sacred landscapes and seasonal rituals. Again and again, I found myself listening to experiences that challenged the assumptions I had carried for most of my life.

No one claimed to have all the answers.

Yet each encounter offered another piece of the puzzle.

Together they suggested that meaning is not something we simply think about, but something we create through attention, relationship and the stories we choose to live.

Enchanted Beings is a book about curiosity, wonder and the people who quietly live outside the ordinary.

It is the second book in the five-book journey, where the search for understanding begins to move beyond places and into relationships, opening the way for the deeply personal discoveries that follow in Sin-eater and Once the Fair Goes.