“Spirit Talk” (Book and Discussion Group)

Wednesday, May 13, 2026, 3:30 to 5:00 P.M., Zoom
Spirit Talk’s has selected two books for our monthly discussion group. The first is The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Don Miguel Ruiz and Janet Mills. The second is a delightful short story, The Bat-Poet, by Randall Jarrell (Author), Maurice Sendak (Illustrator), which you can watch and listen to on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsoQrUI4WNs

In The Four Agreements, a perennial bestseller published in dozens of languages worldwide, don Miguel Ruiz reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, The Four Agreements offer a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform our lives to a new experience of freedom, true happiness, and love.
“Don Miguel Ruiz’s book is a roadmap to enlightenment and freedom.”—Deepak Chopra, Author, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success

The Bat-Poet is the story of a little brown bat who couldn’t sleep days-he kept waking up and looking at the world. Before long he began to see things differently from the other bats, who from dawn to sunset never opened their eyes. The Bat-Poet is the story of how he tried to make the other bats see the world his way. Here in The Bat-Poet are the bat’s own poems and the bat’s own world: the owl who almost eats him; the mockingbird whose irritable genius almost overpowers him; the chipmunk who loves his poems, and the bats who can’t make heads or tails of them; the cardinals, blue jays, chickadees, and sparrows who fly in and out of Randall Jarrell’s funny, lovable, truthful fabl