Julie Tallard Johnson

Wheel of Initiation (eBook, ePUB)

Practices for Releasing Your Inner Light

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A guide to personal spiritual initiation through the transformation of habitual patterns, apathy, and resistance • Based on the Native American medicine wheel, the Vedic wheel, and the universal initiatory mandala • Enables readers from any tradition to initiate themselves through practices of thought transformation, narrative medicine, meditation exercises, rituals, and journaling • Facilitates breaking through personal and societal illusions that perpetuate resistance and apathy Intentions and spiritual principles, meditation and contemplation, ritual, and risk-taking are the conditions that comprise an initiated life. Regrettably, in modern society we do not have rites of initiation that break through the personal and societal illusions that instill and perpetuate negative habits that keep us in states of resistance. Lacking initiation practices, we often remain trapped in ways of being in the world that were formed by our past conditions and attachments. We tend to identify too strongly with the status quo, which must be challenged to prevent stagnation and to encourage happiness and authenticity. Julie Tallard Johnson shows how to become initiated into an authentic life through practices of thought transformation, cultivating attention, journaling, storytelling, and rituals found in the four directions of the universal mandala. She begins the Wheel of Initiation in the South, where initiates set their intentions; then moves into the West, where they free themselves from habitual patterns and core beliefs; then into the North, the direction of cultivating attention and unity; and finishes in the East, the direction of regeneration and initiation. Drawing upon the life experiences of those who have successfully navigated the wheel, Johnson demonstrates that once fears, assumptions, and ingrained beliefs are confronted and transformed, initiates emerge ready to reenter society with renewed energy and vision that will enrich their own lives and their communities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781591439691
• Artikelnr.: 49185074

Autorenporträt

A licensed psychotherapist and creative writing teacher, Julie Tallard Johnson has kept journals since the age of sixteen discovering how the writer and spiritual path are one and the same. She has spent the last thirty years working with individuals and groups to help them discover a spiritual practice that brings them a sense of purpose and happiness. The author of many books for teens including Teen Psychic, Spiritual Journaling, The Thundering Years, I Ching for Teens and Making Friends, Falling in Love, which was recognized by the New York Public Library as one of the best books for teens, she lives in Wisconsin.
Visit the author's web site at www.Julietallardjohnson.com

Inhaltsangabe

Preface A Useful Tension--Religious Beliefs and Spiritual Practices
Acknowledgments
Introduction Entering the Wheel
1 Entering the South: The Power of Agreements
2 In the South: Getting on the Horse of Intention
3 Entering the West: Following the Right God Home
4 In the West: The Symbolic Death
5 Entering the North: Tat Tvam Asi
6 In the North: Taking Hold of the Sacred Thread
7 Entering the East: Crossing the Threshold
8 In the East: Initiation and the Return Journey
Appendix Teachers and Groups: The Tao of Not Following
Resources
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

Rezensionen

"There are many books on spiritual initiation and others on the Medicine wheel, but this one I found to be well organized and extremely useful for both the newly intentioned as well as those who have been distracted, disheartened, stumbled or lost their way." --Jennifer Hoskins, New Dawn Magazine, January 2011