Cindy Spring is an author, social activist, and explorer of the unconventional. She authored Wisdom Circles: A Guide to Self-Discovery and Community Building in Small Groups (Hyperion, 1998), and co-authored with Charles Garfield Sometimes My Heart Goes Numb: Love and Caregiving in a Time of AIDS (Jossey-Bass, 1995). She co-edited the anthology Earthlight: Spiritual Wisdom for an Ecological Age (Friends Bulletin, 2007). She was also a national producer of over one hundred nonfiction audiobooks. Since the mid-1990s, she has been active in local ecology in the San Francisco area, co-founding two ecology nonprofits, EarthTeam and Close to Home: Exploring Nature in the East Bay, as well as serving as coordinator for Earth Day 2000 for the Bay Area. Her explorations have been in the fields of spirituality, transpersonal psychology, and personal growth. She lives in Northern California with her husband Charlie and two cats, Bella and Layla.
"Among the many books on death and dying that have poured into our culture in the past 30 years The Wave and The Drop is unique. In this breathtaking and profound collection of wisdom stories about death drawn from many diverse human traditions. Cindy Spring offers us the whole of human wisdom on the journey to the edge of life and beyond." Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D., Author, Kitchen Table Wisdom and My Grandfather's Blessings"Touching, helpful, healing and wise! These are the words that well up as I read Cindy Spring's moving gift of the world's wisdom stories that millions of people have used to guide their lives and ease their deaths. This is a book that will enrich anyone who wants to live fully and all of us who may someday die. " Roger Walsh, M.D, Ph.D, Professor of psychiatry, University of California; Author, Essential Spirituality: The Seven Central Practices "In my experience, what we believe about what happens after death may shape the way in which we die and even the way in which we live our lives. The Wave and The Drop engages us in a profound inquiry into this Mystery." Frank Ostaseski. Author, The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully; Founder, Metta Institute"Cindy Spring has harnessed the power of stories that bring solace to the soul as we face the inevitable transitions of life. Whether in the loss of a loved one or in preparation for our own inevitable death, these stories can help us befriend the great mystery of existence. Don't wait! There is something for everyone in this book." Frances Vaughan, Ph.D., Author, Shadows of the Sacred: Seeing through Spiritual Illusions."This short, easy to read, extensively researched collection of stories is itself a story. It is the story of humanity needing to make meaning out of human existence. Those looking for comfort will find it not only in the convergence of understandings of the nature of death, but in the examples of how many have faced it in ways that brought acceptance and fulfillment." Leonard Joy, Quaker Institute for the Future Board of Trustees"In a short, clear and concentrated book, Cindy Spring gives us many gifts: important stories, deep quotes and poetry, insights into many spiritual traditions and many delicious, if challenging, concepts about death to consider. It's a treasure trove of heart and information, food for living and elixir for dying." Kate Munger, Founder, Threshold Choir
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