Books

Cover of Journey of a Mystic ArtistJourney of a Mystic Artist

Available Soon!.

Merina Rael's Journey of a Mystic Artist is the entertaining travelogue book of a middle-aged adventurer.

Guided by messages from Spirit through meditation and pendulum, she embarks on a voyage of self-discovery through her mystical art quest. Sketch book in hand she travels to sacred sites in Peru, Mexico, New Mexico, Greece and Thailand.

Searching for images of the Divine Feminine, she is guided to a shrine for Kuan Yin, Goddess of Compassion, on the Island of Ko Phangan, Thailand. At Peru's sacred Lake Titicaca she sketches her telepathic vision from the heart of the lake.

Beautifully illustrated her images will transport you there.

Merina's philosophy is "Follow your heart and you will be guided by spirit. Your creativity is a doorway to your soul and the hidden world around you."

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Reflections: Art and Poetry by Merina Rael Reflections: Art and Poetry by Merina Rael

"In Reflections, poet and artist Merina Rael shares inner her journey at mid-life: fears, dreams, hopes, and a deep, healing connection to Mother Earth in all her Goddess forms. Rael's Reflections are deeply personal, yet they speak to the universal Woman in all of us. This is a book rich with artistic and poetic contemplations, to be treasured and dipped into again and again."

Helen Rezanowich, Program Assistant,
Women's Studies Department, University of Victoria


Reflections is a book that celebrates womanhood. Its focus is on personal growth, self-definition and mid-life renewal showing us how art and poetry may be used as a transformational tool for healing.

Included are India ink portraits of women, pastel self-portraits and photography which was converted into black and white for printing purposes.

Using female images she creates beauty that inspires us. Merina follows in the footsteps of women who have lived their passions, shared their truth and expressed it in their art.

Reflections Art and Poetry $14.95 (CDN) + postage or to order email: merinamrael@shaw.ca

Poem sample

My Temple Within

As I sit with you in my temple of peace
I feel the core of the universe flow through me,
the pulse of myself
seeking to express itself
through my art and poetry.
As the world speeds up
with people, places, and distractions
where I searched so many years
in vain of finding myself
many said, "Look to God,"
up and out- in the clouds maybe?
All fingers pointing away from myself,
my core, my womb,
my chalice of wisdom,
with self doubts wailing
in my head.
How can that be
my answers within?
As trauma films blaze on,
television mirrors of roller coaster rides to hell
in New York and around the world
I wrap around my staff of life,
bridging heaven and earth.
My earth mother holding me tight.
I uncoil
like a silver cobra with its head
held high, Sacred Feminine rose
blossoms upon my lips.
Pharaoh, Queen of the Rivers, purified
my chalice filled to the brim,
no longer out on a limb,
giving myself away.


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Merina Rael
Raelstudios.com

Travel films of some of my trips are also available.

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