Elizabeth Bodien
Elizabeth Bodien is the author
of two books of poetry: Blood,
Metal, Fiber, Rock and Oblique
Music: A Book of Hours. Her
poems, essays, and book
reviews have appeared in
Cimarron Review, Crannóg, and
Parabola, among many other
publications. Bodien holds
degrees in cultural
anthropology, consciousness
studies, religions, and poetry.
She grew up in the “burnedover”
district of Western New
York but now lives near Hawk
Mountain, Pennsylvania.Pennsylvania.
Works

Journeys with Fortune: A Tale of Other Lives
Trained in cultural anthropology, Elizabeth Bodien was at
first skeptical that past lives even existed, much less that
exploring them could heal present-life troubles. However, the
first time she was professionally regressed, she immediately
experienced a clear and complete life as Rita, a Mexican
woman in the 1700s. There was a deeply emotional resonance
there and Bodien began to feel she could very well have been
Rita of 18th-century rural Mexico, as well as any number of
other people.
In Journeys with Fortune: A Tale of Other Lives, Bodien
chronicles nine of the most fascinating and relevant of her
past lives, including lives as an abandoned child raised in a
nunnery in Helvetia, a male sandal-maker in Ancient Greece,
a German calligrapher who speaks with the dead, an
Atlantean priestess-in-training, and even a future life.
These experiences are presented with the author’s careful
attention at each stage: resistance, fascination, doubt, and
renewed openness. And she might not have been able to
continue if it weren’t for her spirit guide, Fortune, a
mysterious stone spirit who guided her progress and led her
to become a writer of the “mysteries of life.”