Following a Thread of Gold

Caroline Sherwood holds a BA in drama from Bristol. Following a seven year intensive training in mindfulness-insight, she taught meditative and spiritual life skills for 40 years. Alongside bread-and-butter jobs (with many years as a residential carer for elderly people), she contributed numerous articles to magazines (including a regular dance column for Somerset Life), and chapters to two books about Chalice Well in Glastonbury where she lived for 12 years. Now based in Cheltenham, she has co-founded Clean Air Cheltenham, and a 'fruit loop' to encourage the sharing of locally grown produce. Caroline is the author of Following a Thread of Gold, Naming: Choosing a Meaningful Name, and Making Friends with Ourselves: Introducing Children to Meditation which has been translated into Hungarian and Romanian.

"A deeply textured, well written, no-holds-barred spiritual odyssey that tells it as it really is, and then some. No fairy-gloss here, just the unadulterated facts of a journey through light and darkness that has resulted in a work of extraordinary exploratory power and penetration" Douglas Lockhart, author of The Dark Side of God and The Mar Saba Codex; "Fluid and articulate and deeply thoughtful" Philip Carr-Gomm, former head of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids; "Reading the book you're taken by the hand and come to discover what it means to embark on a journey that leads to a deeper and deeper understanding of our real nature" Johanna van der Schaft, Astrologer and Teacher