The Second Half of Life: Opening the Eight Gates of Wisdom
by Angeles Arrien
from Sounds True
Cultural anthropologist and award-winning author Angeles Arrien presents The Second Half of Life--a collection of teachings, reflections, and stories from around the world to open us to the challenges and deeper mysteries of "the great crossing" at midlife. Working with the images, poetry, metaphors, and other forms of symbolic language from diverse cultures, Arrien introduces us to the "Eight Gates of Initiation." By mastering their lessons and gifts, we harvest the meaning and purpose of our life, and come into our spiritual maturity. This popular seller is now available in paperback, with a foreword by John O'Donohue.
The Four-Fold Way: Walking the Paths of the Warrior, Teacher, Healer, and Visionary
by Angeles Arrien
from HarperOne
A leading expert on native spirituality and shamanism reveals the four archetypal principles of the Native American medicine wheel and how they can lead us to a higher spirituality and a better world.
The Tarot Handbook: practical applications of ancient visual symbols
by Angeles Arrien
from Jeremy P. Tarcher / Putnam
Signs of Life
by Angeles Arrien
from Tarcher
"The soul never thinks without an image," claimed Aristotle. Indeed, as Angeles Arrien displays in this reissued edition of Signs of Life, shapes have significant psychological and mythological meanings embedded in our minds. Understanding the messages they convey and our attraction to them opens up a door to the secret workings of our inner selves and to a fuller appreciation of the art itself. As in her widely popular The Tarot Handbook, Arrien applies her background as a cultural anthropologist to the import human beings attribute to shapes. Examining her results, she has developed an effective tool to determine the connection between a person's preferences for certain shapes and the same person's inner, subjective states. In the course of using Arrien's book, individuals, parents, teachers, and therapists will experience the universal processes of growth embodied in images and myths.
Life, we discover, is art, and through Arrien's fascinating journey in Signs of Life, we gain a new perception of the omnipresent patterns and symbols that surround us.
Illustrated throughout with drawings and photographs
Maps to Ecstasy: The Healing Power of Movement
by Gabrielle Roth
from New World Library
Gathering Medicine: Stories, Songs, and Methods for Soul Retrieval
by Angeles, Ph.D. Arrien
from Sounds True
Gathering Medicine Angeles Arrien What lessons can the modern seeker of truth gain from the shamans' way? Join this respected anthropologist and folklorist as she bridges the past with the present to find powerful methods for gaining clarity and direction in your life - methods based on the shamanic tradition. The shamans' way, offers Angeles Arrien, is to "gather medicine" by reconnecting with yourself on the deepest internal level. This "soul work" utilizes imagery, reflective questioning, dream work, and storytelling to help you integrate inner and outer experiences. Thus you travel the "fourfold path" of the ancients to find your personal truth - the way back home. With many stories, spiritual teachings, and ideas for using shamanic principles in your own life. "Angeles Arrien calls up the wisdom of the ancient warriors, healers, visionaries, and teachers to show us how to restore the balance in ourselves and in our environment." - June Singer, Jungian analyst. Topics: Your body's inner wisdom; the shape! -shifter; the four rivers (inspiration, challenge, surprise, and love); three types of vocal energy; Rainbow Hoop and Medicine Wheel meditations; much more.
The Nine Muses: A Mythological Path to Creativity
by Angeles Arrien
from Tarcher
A self-help book based on the stories of the nine Muses from Greek mythology, by a renowned teacher and anthropologist.
The author of the classic The Tarot Handbook, which has sold more than 200,000 copies, Angeles Arrien now provides a magical and practical guide, using as a creative road map the myths of the most famous literary songstresses and sources of creative inspiration--the nine daughters of Zeus.
In The Nine Muses, Arrien illustrates how we can inspire ourselves and see clearly the muses that abound in our own lives. She follows the stories of the Muses from Olympus, Mount Helicon, and the springs of Hippocrene that flowed from the spot struck by the hooves of Pegasus, explaining how to awaken and cultivate our gifts and talents. Like Apollo, who led the chorus of the Muses, Arrien directs readers in developing the qualities we crave to develop more fully: Instinct, Wisdom, Imagination, Life Force, and Intuitive Understanding.
Full of illustrations from Greek art, mythical stories, and assignments and exercises designed to help readers in creative endeavors--whether artistic, personal, or business-oriented--The Nine Muses demonstrates a wisdom that is as familiar and remarkably powerful now as it was for the Greek Gods.
* illustrated throughout with photographs and line drawings
Susan Seddon Boulet: A Retrospective
by Michael Babcock
from Pomegranate Communications
Susan Seddon Boulet lived life in search of the magnificent. As a child growing up on a Brazilian farm, she developed a deep affection for animals and loved making colorful sketches of them. From these formative experiences, she found her destiny, one that deeply affected people all over the world.
This beautiful, moving retrospective by Michael Babcock recounts Susan Boulet's artistic development and celebrates her extraordinary personal journey. It includes more than two hundred reproductions of her unique and wondrous paintings, some never before published, along with photographs chronicling the events of her life from Brazil to California.
Meditations on Everything Under the Sun
by Margo Adair
from New Society Publishers
This ground-breaking work by one of the country's foremost meditation teachers is as wholistic an approach to a healthy psyche as Andrew Weil's guide is to physical health. It weaves together three consciousness disciplines and includes 160 meditations on virtually every issue people face in contemporary life; plus dozens designed for enhancing collaboration in groups. Designed for both professionals and general readers, using this book enables everyone to put their best foot forward.
Margo Adair's previous book Working Inside Out (Wingbow Press, 1985) sold over 40,000 copies, remaining on BookPeople's top 10 bestseller list for years. Adair is interviewed on public radio programs regularly and travels extensively conducting workshops. She lives in both Seattle and San Francisco.
The Four-Fold Way CD: The Teacher
by Angeles Arrien
from Wisdom Circles
The third of a four-part CD series. Learn the cross-cultural ways to discover and reclaim access to our own wisdom and the wisdom of those who have gone before. This CD supplements the book, The Four-Fold Way: Walking the Paths of the Warrior, Teacher, Healer, and Visionary, or can be listened to individually. 61 minutes.
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