The Wisdom Wheel

Access the gifts of transformation, heal the self, and live in harmony with one another and with the Earth by journeying through the wisdom wheel—a fresh take on the traditional medicine wheel—its archetypes, and its four wisdom challenges. The teachings of the medicine wheel have existed from the beginning of time. Today, however, we are creating modern paradigms of shamanism while drawing on the sacred traditions of the past. In this book, shamanic practitioner Alberto Villoldo explains that the medicine wheel is also a wisdom wheel: an advanced tool for working toward personal and planetary transformation. By journeying through the wisdom wheel and its four directions—South, West, North, and East—each of which is associated with an archetypal animal and sacred journey, you will be able to access powerful healing energies and step into a new personal and collective destiny.

For anyone who has ever had a dream or longs to find one, this book will help put a great plan behind your dream.

Using a commentary on the influential text, the Mañjuśrī-nāmasaṃgīti, ‘The Chanting of the Names of Mañjuśrī’, this book deals with Buddhist tantric meditation practice and its doctrinal context in early-medieval India. The commentary was written by the 8th-9th century Indian tantric scholar Vilāsavajra, and the book contains a translation of the first five chapters. The translation is extensively annotated, and accompanied by introductions as well as a critical edition of the Sanskrit text based on eight Sanskrit manuscripts and two blockprint editions of the commentary’s Tibetan translation. The commentary interprets its root text within an elaborate framework of tantric visualisation and meditation that is based on an expanded form of the Buddhist Yoga Tantra mandala, the Vajradhātu-maṇḍala. At its heart is the figure of Mañjuśrī, no longer the familiar bodhisattva of wisdom, but now the embodiment of the awakened non-dual gnosis that underlies all Buddhas as well their activity in the cosmos. The book contributes to our understanding of the history of Indian tantric Buddhism in a period of significant change and innovation. With its extensively annotated translation and lengthy introductions the book is designed to appeal not only to professional scholars and research students but also to contemporary Buddhists.

"The dream calls to us from the rainbow’s end, but the plan and the journey always begin in the here and now." For anyone who has ever had a dream or longs to find one, Wheel of Wisdom will help put a great plan behind your dream.

Dive deeply into the theme of Integrity with the help of the Wisdom Keepers!During extreme times like this, it is easy to become derailed and lose our center. We can either get lost in a battle for survival, or check out completely in the guise of spirituality. It is more important than ever that we find ways to stay grounded, open, loving and awake. To stay in our Integrity. Here are two definitions of Integrity:One: The quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness Two: The state of being whole and undividedWhat a beautiful paradox -- one that the Wisdom Keepers are especially qualified to teach us how to hold, and walk. When we are living in Integrity, we are both soft and strong; receptive and dynamic; humble and assertive. We are able to take a stand for what and who we care about, without closing our hearts down to those who think or feel differently from us.When we are living in Integrity, we are able to see clearly the unfortunate consequences of "us vs. them" thinking and survival based reactivity, without getting swept up by the strong currents of our own judging minds.When we are living in Integrity, we are able to tell the difference between a grounded embodiment of our deepest spiritual values, and a feel-good spiritual bypass.When we are living in Integrity, we are much better able to help others live in their integrity, because we're not imposing our way on them. But how do we get there? Especially now, during such destabilizing times? This is the question we will be asking the Wisdom Keepers in this practical workbook. We will be exploring collective themes, as well as uncovering our relationship to Integrity as unique individuals. At the end of this book (course), you will have your very own council of Wisdom Keepers, available and devoted to supporting you.To benefit from this book, access to a copy of The Wisdom Keepers Oracle Deck is necessary. The corresponding Online Course is recommended but not required.

Aims to show the reader how to contact the spirit of the Native American totem animals, using special cards. There are three levels of attainment: White Eagle Apprentice; White Eagle Medicine Student; and White Eagle Elder, which uses all the cards in the form of a medicine wheel.

This kit includes rose quartz and amazonite crystals - said to help in attracting love to one's life - plus a helix to enclose a crystal so that it can be worn as a pendant. Illustrations.