In 1991, when her daughter’s rare, hand-carved harp was stolen, Elizabeth Mayer’s familiar world of science and rational thinking turned upside down. After the police failed to turn up any leads, a friend suggested she call a dowser–a man who specialized in finding lost objects. With nothing to lose-and almost as a joke-Dr. Mayer (a prominent clinical psychologist at Berkeley) agreed. Within two days, and without leaving his Arkansas home, with only a photograph of the harp and a map of San Francisco, dowser Harold McCoy located the exact California street coordinates where the harp was found.

A Call to Power: The Grandmothers Speak by Sharon McErlane is a fascinating narration of the author’s experience with a group of divine beings called the Council of Grandmothers. It includes the teachings given to Sharon McErlane over the last ten years as well as practical exercises for how to balance the Yin energy in [...]