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Nautilus Book Awards – Gold & Silver Medals!

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Our most recent two books were both chosen for Nautilus Book Awards! Due to the pandemic, books published in 2020 and 2021 were eligible for entry.

Becoming Medicine: Pathways of Initiation into a Living Spirituality (2020) by David R. Kopacz, MD & Joseph Rael (Beautiful Painted Arrow) was awarded a Gold Nautilus Award in category 24 C “Religions/Spirituality of Other Traditions.” This book is available in two editions, an Art Medicine Edition that is full color printed on glossy art paper and a reasonably priced black & white edition.

Becoming Who You Are: Beautiful Painted Arrow’s Life & Lessons for Children Ages 10-100 (2021) by Joseph Rael (Beautiful Painted Arrow) & David R. Kopacz MD was awarded a Silver Nautilus Award in category 35 “Young Adult Non-Fiction.” This book also won the Paterson Prize for Books for Young People this year.

Thank you to the Nautilus Book Awards who strive to recognized “Better Books for a Better World!”

“The Gates of Paradise: Shamanic Memories from an Indian Visionary” – in Parabola (Summer 2022)

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Thanks to Parabola Magazine for excerpting a passage from our latest book, Becoming Who You Are: Beautiful Painted Arrow’s Life & Lessons for Children Ages 10-100.

The excerpt is entitled “The Gates of Paradise: Shamanic Memories from an Indian Visionary,” and is availabe online in Parabola Summer 2022 Edition with the theme of Ancestors. It is currently available online, but the whole issue is worth reading, with an articles on P. L. Travers, Vaclav Havel, Nelson Mandela, and many different topics on the theme of Ancestors.

The article also features two of Joseph Rael’s paintings, “Sage Woman becomes visible to – bless “the People,” and “Crystal Chamber,” which I’ll include below.

We are very happy that this book is getting some notice as it is an autobiography of Joseph’s life specifically aimed at passing on wisdom to the next generation, how fitting that it is in the Ancestors issue of Parabola: The Search for Meaning. The book was also recognized as a winner of the Paterson Prize for Books for Young People.