The Art of Navigation examines the author's life-transforming association with the enigmatic shaman and anthropologist Carlos Castaneda, from a first encounter in 1980 up to the present, more than a decade after Castaneda's death. Journey with a modern-day shaman's apprentice on his more than thirty year trek across the globe, from hedonistic beginnings towards surrender and awakening, from a focus on magic and power to the emergence of love and compassion. The central theme of this memoir is the art of navigation, which entails living life in the spirit of an enchanting treasure hunt - playful, intuitive, fluid, and fully aware. Starting with a mind-stopping event that occurred shortly after Castaneda's death, the narrative jumps back to follow an action-packed and magical path of discovery through Sri Lanka, India, Nepal, Germany, France, Mexico, and the United States. This is the Art of Navigation, an unusual and fascinating spiritual awakening into our essential nature.

The Art of Navigation

Self-Help

Wolf, Felix

Personal Transformation

Pointer Oak

A guide to moving into the spiral of Creation's energy and discovering the deep beauty contained within each moment. It presents 11 simple practices, each a step on the spiral path, that will help you to embody the ageless wisdom of Spirit -- bringing happiness, healing, and real magic into your life. 1. Enlightenment is Easy. Throughout history, our spiritual teachers have done their best to share this secret with us. 2. Forgiveness is the Key. Practicing forgiveness leads to the recovery of life energy bound up in past injuries, and this is the energy that allows you to become whole and happy. 3. Suffering Is Optional. There is a practice that will support your choice not to suffer! 4. Wellness Flows Like Water. Life energy flowing through us is the fountain of youth and vitality. But when this energy is obstructed, we become depressed, distressed and eventually diseased. 5. The Great Mystery. At the center of everything, including you, is a great mystery. 6. Alignment with Creation. What are you aligned with in your life? Align with Creation and the prison doors will open! 7. Freedom. The focus on "freedom from" -- from lack, from hunger, from oppression -- prevents us from seeing that freedom is found in movement. 8. Dreaming. We dream at night, but we re also dreaming during the day. 9. Deep Beauty. Beauty is more than a personal attribute - it is the language spoken by Creation. As you become fluent in this language, beauty permeates you, radiates from you, and the deep beauty of every moment is revealed. 10. Seeing. We continue "seeing" what we expect to see, because our attention is directed by our beliefs. We can learn to see what really is, with no expectations. 11. Being. The shamanic path offers a simple, natural way to be.

A Shaman's Guide to Deep Beauty: Connecting with the Mojo of the Universe

Rico, Francis

What is it like to be a contemporary American Indian mystic? What sequence of experiences come together to form a mystic's path? How would you deal with the visions that come and carry you to alternate dimensions without notice and at the most inopportune times? In The House of Shattering Light: Life as an American Indian Mystic, Joseph Rael reveals how such questions shaped his life and his visions for the future. "This House of Shattering Light - this perceptual reality in which we live and of which we are a part - exists only for the soul's purpose of continuing its own livelihood." -Joseph Rael

House of Shattering Light: The Life and Teaching of a Native American Elder

Biographies & Memoirs

Rael, Joseph

Community & Culture

Secret Native American Pathways: A Guide to Inner Peace

More than 40 years ago, Thomas E. Mails began a personal exploration of the spiritual richness of traditional Native American customs and secret ceremonies. Using his gifts as a talented illustrator and writer, he tirelessly worked to bring the spiritual culture of Native Americans to readers until his death in November 2001. The new edition of Secret Native American Pathways: A Guide to Inner Peace authentically details the religious beliefs and rituals of four major tribes (Apache, Cherokee, Hopi, and Sioux) as practiced since ancient times. In this beautifully illustrated "how-to why-to" book, Mails' includes instructions for applying Native teachings to contemporary life. His central premise is that each tribe he discusses has triumphed over adversity through "walking the pathways" that led to inner peace, and that each of us can use these pathways to find our own inner peace. For more than a century, Native American medicine men have predicted the advent of a new era in which the spiritual practices of their peoples would be revered by the white man and the Native American alike. Thomas E. Mails could be considered a principal figure in helping that prediction come true.

Native American Pathways: A Guide to Inner Peace

Arts & Photography

Mails, Thomas

History & Criticism

Indigenous mystic, Joseph Rael, was given a vision at the Ute Sundance that inspired him to expand his beloved classic, being &amp; vibration. Grandfather Joseph shares this vision in the pages of this book as part of his New World Mystery School. Cenral to Joseph's message is his encouragement that we wake up from our field of limitations and enter a new world of possibilities by listening to the innervibrations of intelligence that are the substance of the universe and of ourselves. Includes 33 of Joseph's original art pieces in color, New World Mystery School, Ceremonies for entering the New World.

Being and Vibration: Entering the New World

Native American elder, Joseph Rael (Beautiful Painted Arrow), shares his insights about the importance of ceremony. He explains the aspects of ceremony - Intention and commitment, purification, fasting, sound, drumming and dancing. He explains how each of these elements connects us with Spirit and shows us how to construct powerful ceremonies for ourselves and our community.

Ceremonies of the Living Spirit

This magical book is an invitation from the world of plants to open your garden gate and enter deeper into the garden-into the presence of beauty, intelligence, healing and nurturance that are the gifts from the heart of creation. With chanting, journeying, dreaming and meditating, we remember that we too are nature-and communication with plants is essential to our health and happiness.

Deeper into the Garden: Meditating with Plants

Brooks, Judith

Religion & Spirituality

One + Heart: The Story of the Osage Monastery Forest of Peace

Dennison, Sally

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