Product reviews for The Salmon of Knowledge

In 2001 Nick Owen brought out THE MAGIC OF METAPHOR with Crown Publishing and three years later MORE MAGIC OF METAPHOR. This year, 2009, sees Nick offering us THE SALMON OF KNOWLEDGE and to quote his own words ” one hundred stories on the themes of wholeness, integration, connection, awareness,oneness, wakefulness-¦....”

Nick is a teacher educator and a business trainer and uses metaphor and stories in his day-to-day work. My feeling is that his voice has changed over the nine years that these three books have taken to produce. The nimble-footed, brilliant and yes, partly narcissistic younger man has given way to the Nick of today whose voice in THE SALMON OF KNOWLEDGE is deeper, more vibrant and I feel that in this last book much older in the best sense of the word.
Somehow Nick seems to have found the right voice for re-telling these wisdom tales from deep within them and I think I fully understand what he means when he writes: ” wisdom stories offer us a remote vantage point from which to observe, evaluate and engage with the world of human interaction.