Duncan Williamson

Linda Williamson

Folktales of the Scottish Travelling People

A Thorn in the King's Foot

Marion Williamson

Warning... this book has not been written by a monk and you don't have to be interested in clean-living, mantras or attaining oneness with the Universe to find it helpful. This is a simple, easy to follow and sometimes funny non-confrontational book on how you can use meditation to help you be aware of the present moment. The more aware you become of your repetitive internal gibberish, the easier it will become to spot unhelpful thoughts, drop them, or replace them with kinder ones. This applies to anyone's mind. What this book is... Everything you need to know about meditation without being too po-faced. Squishes the popular myths and tells you like it is. Shows you how to manage your preposterously messy brain, making you feel a bit happier and more in control. Shows you how to tackle all your wriggly excuses. What this book isn't... A spiritual journey. It will not provide you with a complete guide on how to control your thoughts and feelings - having a chaotic mind is just an annoying part of being human. There's nothing religious in it. It won't make you better at Kung Fu. Written by two sturdy-legged, chip eating meditating sisters from Scotland, My Mind Won't Shut Up is the book they looked for to give to friends, but couldn't find... so they wrote this for you.

Meditation for People Who Don't Meditate

My Mind Won't Shut Up!

The ghosts Linda Williamson writes about in this book are not misty phantoms. She prefers to call them earthbound spirits, because that is just what they are - ordinary men and women who, instead of passing into the spirit world when they died, have remained trapped and bound to this world. As a medium, Linda encounters many such spirits. Very few are evil, most are lost and confused. Some do not even realise that they have died. With love and compassion they can be released, so that they can move forward to the place where they belong. If you have ever sensed a presence in your house, glimpsed a shadow out of the corner of your eye, or heard inexplicable noises, it may be that you are sharing your home with an earthbound spirit. Linda explains what to do in these situations and gives a fascinating insight into what it is like to be an earthbound spirit.

Ghosts and Earthbound Spirits

The telling of tales and the oral tradition in Scotland has a long and honourable history, both in the annals of the folk and in the more formal pages of literary publication. Writers as different as Hogg, Scott, Stevenson, Cunninghame Graham, Buchan, Grassic Gibbon and Alasdair Gray have all drawn on the form or the voice or the features of the folk tale. Duncan Williamson, arguably the greatest traditional tale teller in modern times, is a master of this spellbinding art, and here in a single volume Linda Williamson has gathered together some of the most memorable tales in his repertoire. Transcribed from recorded sessions for the sound archives of the School of Scottish Studies, these twenty-six stories give us privileged access to the travellers' fireside with stories of talking animals; of the broonie, selkies and fairies; of cunning Jack's adventures; of kings and giants in long tales for the winter nights.

Linda Williamson

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