In, Honor in Concord: Seeking Spirit in Literary Concord, Cathryn combines her knowledge of Concord's literary history with the story of her own life as a writer in Concord who is struggling to better understand her own perceptions and abilities.  Cathryn sees the present and the past playing out before her eyes in Concord, and in Honor in Concord she draws her readers into the past through vivid passages that are written with such clarity that readers feel as if they have traveled there with her to witness those moments in time.  It is evident then that in the world she perceives the here, the now and the who that we cling to is not so firm and solid as we once thought.  We are more than our physical bodies and we live more than just this one life.  All events seem to play out simultaneously.  There is no present or past and there is synchronicity in all that occurs.  

Cathryn has studied astrology for over 20 years.  She has also investigated such topics as the near death experience, after death communication, the notion of both past and parallel lives, as well as the alien abduction phenomenon.  She is a gifted clairvoyant who brings this unique ability into her literary studies.  This enables her to relate in ways that few others ever have to the writers of 19th century Concord.

Cathryn remembers as a child being drawn to the faces on certain cards she would pull out of a deck called "Authors". Those cards held the images of some of Concord's famous writers.  She knew nothing about those writers at that time or of their association in mid-19th century Concord, but it is in those moments when her life path is revealed.  It is first as a spiritualist, someone who understands and fundamentally relates to the elements of spirit; and second, as a passionate enthusiast for the writers of this most historic and profoundly spiritual place called Concord.

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Cathryn McIntyre has a B.A. in English from Michigan State University and has done graduate work at both Harvard Extension School and at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.   She is currently at work on a book entitled, Thoreau's Wise Silence, that brings Thoreau and his message to life again in the 21st century.  Her essays on transcendentalism and on the politics of Thoreau have appeared in The Thoreau Society Bulletin.   

REMEMBERING A DEAR FRIEND

THE CONCORD WRITER
LOVINGLY REMEMBERS THE   BEAUTIFUL, EXTRAORDINARY, 
SHELBY, CONCORD'S FAMOUS
TALKING CAT.  SHE LIVED
A LONG AND GLORIOUS LIFE AND
PASSED AT AGE 20 - JANUARY 6, 2012. 
MY CONSTANT COMPANION, MY
DEAREST FRIEND, MAY YOU RETURN
IN SPIRIT TO THE BEAUTIFUL
MOUNTAINS IN VERMONT
WHERE I FOUND YOU. 
FAREWELL MY ANGEL,
UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN.

In the fall of 1992 I had a dream about a black and white cat, and a few days later I found her at a humane society in the mountains of Waitsfield, Vermont.  It is often said that cats are psychic and in Shelby's case it was certainly true.   Because of my own psychic ability, we were able to connect in a rather extraordinary way, which you can see by this moment I wrote about in Honor in Concord. ~ Cathryn McIntyre

Excerpt from, Honor in Concord: Seeking Spirit in Literary Concord, by Cathryn McIntyre - [Copyright 2008]

"I looked at her and she looked at me and I saw the fear and then the relief in her eyes, and I knew, my dear girl, my Shelby, had awakened at that early morning hour, and finding herself alone on the bed at a time when I am most often there with her, had called out to me, and somehow in some strange way I had heard her."
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The Politics of Thoreau: A Spiritual Intent (essay) 2008

Transcendentalism: A Belief in Spirit (essay) 2006

Works in Progress

Thoreau's Wise Silence
(to be published...)