• Explores how wetiko covertly operates both out in the world and within our minds and how it underlies every form of self-destruction, both individual and collective• Reveals how wetiko’s power lies in our blindness to it and examines how people across the ages have symbolized wetiko to help see it and heal it• Examines the concept of wetiko as it appears in the teachings of the Kabbalah, Hawaiian Kahuna shamanism, mystical Christianity, and the work of C. G. JungI...

Humility, being open and receptive to all experience, is the key to becoming one with the spontaneous patterns of the universe• Integrates classic teachings of Hinduism and Buddhism with principles of quantum physics to reveal the science of the enlightened masters• Reveals how we are each capable of shifting from the aggressive path of the warrior to the humble path of the sage• Explains how the key to catching the current acceleration of conscious evolution is hum...

How to harness your ADHD “hunter” strengths to start your own business and prosper in the workplace• Provides organizational strategies, tips to maintain focus, and tools to set goals, build a business plan, and discover the right project to keep you motivated• Shares ADHD success stories from Fortune 500 CEOs, inventors, small business owners, and the author’s own experience in launching new businesses• Explains the positive side of ADHD behavior in the context of ...

• Presents guidance and techniques for Buddhists who wish to incorporate psychedelics into their practice as well as for psychonauts who are interested in the maps of inner space provided by Buddhism• Explores the use of psychedelics in Buddhist practice, sharing the kind of spiritual experiences that can be gained with each• Describes meditation techniques, with special attention being given to the generation of the Four Positive AttitudesIn this user’s guide to ps...

• Learn how ancestral trauma is at the root of wetiko and how the wounded healer/shaman archetype can help bring both individual and collective healing• Meet the inner guide--a daemon/angel that lives within us as an ally in our encounters with the daemonic energy of wetiko• Cultivate “symbolic awareness” as a path to creating meaning and transmute the poison of wetiko into medicine for healingThe profound and radical Native American idea of “wetiko,” a virus of the...

• Examines the direct perception of non-dual reality and shows its implications for navigating ordinary reality in an open, compassionate, and ever-maturing way• Shares the author’s most significant awakening experiences and explores their psycho-emotional and psychospiritual foundations• Offers practical teachings for spiritual understanding, emotional development, and the cultivation of compassionExploring the direct perception of non-dual, “non-ordinary” reality,...

• Explores the many theurgic themes and events in the Odyssey and the Iliad• Analyzes the writings of Neoplatonists Porphyry and Proclus, showing how both describe the technical ritual praxis of theurgy in Homeric terms• Examines the methods of telestikē, a form of theurgic statue animation and technique to divinize the soul, and how theurgy is akin to shamanic soul flightFirst defined by the second century Chaldean Oracles, theurgy is an ...

Combines cognitive psychology with Zen, Taoist, and Vedic practices to empty the mind• Explains how eliminating external stimulation can alleviate stress and anxiety for a calmer state of mind• Details meditation practices, such as open-awareness meditation, contemplation of Zen koans, and Vipassana meditation, and explores methods of digital detox• Draws on classical yoga, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism as well as cognitive science to explain how and why to fast th...

A guide for achieving an enlightened mind through the art of non-doing• Details meditation practices, focused on stillness of the mind, along with Patanjali’s yoga methods to maintain a consciousness referred to as “being in the zone”• Builds on Taoist, Confucian, and Hindu principles along with scientific findings to support wu-wei--the art of non-doing, non-forcing--as a way of life• Explains how wu-wei practitioners cultivate intelligent spontaneity and effortles...

The mind-virus behind human self-destruction has a name: wetiko. See it clearly, and it starts to lose power.You see it everywhere: smart people making destructive choices. Companies poisoning their own customers. Nations pouring trillions into war while their people suffer. Social media built to connect us driving us apart. We’re the one species that knowingly degrades its own habitat at scale.Why do we keep acting against our own survival?

A practical system for those with ADHD to take back their personal power and embrace their unique talents for success in the modern world• Explains how those with ADHD grow up wounded by the negative labels and attitudes surrounding them and their “diagnosis”• Shares simple and fast-acting techniques from neurolinguistic programming (NLP) to recalibrate painful memories into valuable learning experiences, re-pattern learned behaviors and negative habits, and discover person...

A newly revised and updated edition of the classic guide to reframing our view of ADHD and embracing its benefits• Explains that people with ADHD are not disordered or dysfunctional, but simply “hunters in a farmer’s world”--possessing a unique mental skill set that would have allowed them to thrive in a hunter-gatherer society• Offers concrete non-drug methods and practices to help hunters--and their parents, teachers, and managers--embrace their differences, nurture creat...