Jesse Wolf Hardin

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Jesse Wolf Hardin (also known as Lone Wolf Circles) is an American author, poet, musician, historian and wildlife sanctuary director. He is the author of over 500 published articles and 9 books. He is the founder of Animá and the Animá Sanctuary.

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[edit] Writing career

Hardin began his writing career as a young runaway from military school in the 1960’s, publishing short pieces and poems in alternative periodicals including Win, The Guardian and Communities. For the first 30 years his work was mostly of a self help, alternative spirituality, nature and environment oriented, in publications of various kinds and qualities including Lapis Journal, Mother Earth News, The Trumpeter, Circle Quarterly, Magical Blend, PanGaia, Talking Leaves, EarthLight, Green Egg, Sowell Review, Sentient Times, and Natural Beauty & Health. In 1990 he began shifting his efforts to reaching mainstream markets and a larger audience, beginning with literary works for the esteemed Gray's Sporting Journal, and philosophic/inspirational or historic pieces for International Militaria Collector, Backpacker Magazine and even culinary and firearms magazines.

Hardin's work has been praised by a number of writers and thinkers from Edward Abbey to Terry Tempest Williams, Gary Snyder, Roderick Nash, Jerry Mander and Joanna Macy. He has won praise from the likes of Oberon Zell Ravenheart, Gary Snyder[1] and Ralph Metzner.[2] Edward Abbey, a friend and supporter of Hardin's until his death, mentions him in his novel Hayduke Lives! Terry Tempest Williams writes that "Jesse inspires our passion to take us further seeing the world whole, even holy."[3]

[edit] Lecturer

Hardin teaches workshops on a variety of subjects and has appeared at many Neopagan community events. He resides at and co-directs the Animá Center, a wildlife sanctuary and wilderness restoration project in New Mexico’s Gila National Forest, where he and his partners Kiva Rose and Loba host workshops, quests, and wilderness retreats.

[edit] Bibliography

Self-Published
  • The Canyon Testament (Earthen Spirituality)
  • Chanting Home: Recovering Sense of Place [1]
  • Home [2]
  • Kokopelli Seed: A Novel of Magic, Earthen Insight, and Gaian Awakening [3]
  • The Way of Animá
Old West Legends
  • "Ben Lilly: Bears, Blades & Contradictions" [4]
  • "John Wesley Hardin & The Shootist Archetype" [5]
Collections/contributions

[edit] Discography

  • 1994 - Oikos: Songs for the Living Earth - Lone Wolf Circles & Friends (Lonely Dice) Music CD
  • 2004 - GaiaTribe: The Enchantment - Music CD
  • 2005 - Rediscovering Our Own Wildness - Lecture CD & cassette

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ "A surprising experience-archaic, fresh, futuristic, wild, refined, all at once. Which should be no surprise-that's how the real world is. My respects to Wolf Hardin." -Gary Snyder, Pulitzer Prize winning author (on the back cover of Gaia Eros)
  2. ^ "Wolf's word and voice is the ecstatic song of a man intoxicated with the beauty and diversity of life. The high-spirited and soulful voices of the animals, and of the Earth herself, speak and sing through him, reminding us of our ancient heritage of sacred wildness." -Ralph Metzner, author of Green Psychology (on the back cover of Gaia Eros)
  3. ^ Animá Center. Your Guides

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