About
Nicanthiel Hrafnhild is a lover of Earth. Blessed to live and have lived in some of the most beautiful country on the Eastern US seaboard, he has been working to encapsulate a religious experience that captures the wonder and beauty he's encountered in his lifetime. The result of this work is the Waincraft model, a spiritual framework for reconnecting religion/spirituality with each person's environment and bioregion.
His journey has been influenced greatly by the fields of deep ecology, ecopsychology, and transpersonal psychology, and by such writers as Bill Plotkin, David Abram, Theodore Roszak, Rainer Maria Rilke, Joanna Macy and Brian Swimme. He also ascribes to the concepts and ideas of New Animism, Soulcraft, and Bioregionalism, among other influences.
A lifelong Libra (with plenty of other things tossed in the mix) and INFP, he has always been drawn to the more natural side of religion and spirituality. As such, he finds himself a natural storyteller, poet, singer, calligrapher, and generally artsy person. Several of his essays and poems appear in Visions of Vanaheim, an anthology on the Vanir compiled by Svartesól (Gullinbursti Press, 2009), and he is the author of Boar, Birch, and Bog, a devotional work to the Germanic earth-mother Nerthus, available through Lulu, and Sea Sky Soil: An Introduction to Waincraft, also available through Lulu, Amazon and Ravens Hall Press.
He lives currently in the Mid-Hudson valley on the feet of the Catskill Mountains with his partner and three fur-kids, one deceased.
He can be contacted at mailto:[email protected]
His journey has been influenced greatly by the fields of deep ecology, ecopsychology, and transpersonal psychology, and by such writers as Bill Plotkin, David Abram, Theodore Roszak, Rainer Maria Rilke, Joanna Macy and Brian Swimme. He also ascribes to the concepts and ideas of New Animism, Soulcraft, and Bioregionalism, among other influences.
A lifelong Libra (with plenty of other things tossed in the mix) and INFP, he has always been drawn to the more natural side of religion and spirituality. As such, he finds himself a natural storyteller, poet, singer, calligrapher, and generally artsy person. Several of his essays and poems appear in Visions of Vanaheim, an anthology on the Vanir compiled by Svartesól (Gullinbursti Press, 2009), and he is the author of Boar, Birch, and Bog, a devotional work to the Germanic earth-mother Nerthus, available through Lulu, and Sea Sky Soil: An Introduction to Waincraft, also available through Lulu, Amazon and Ravens Hall Press.
He lives currently in the Mid-Hudson valley on the feet of the Catskill Mountains with his partner and three fur-kids, one deceased.
He can be contacted at mailto:[email protected]
