The Journey to You a Shaman's Path to Empowerment [Import] [Paperback]

Ross Heaven (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: bantam books (2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0553813234
• ISBN-13: 978-0553813234
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,292,997 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

www.thefourgates.org

Ross Heaven was described by Guardian newspaper journalist James Shreeve as "the Joseph Campbell of our times". The director of The Four Gates Foundation for spiritual and shamanic wisdom, Ross is a psychologist, presenter, and the author of more than 10 books on shamanism, plant medicines, and the healing traditions, including The Hummingbird's Journey to God (the first book to be written about shamanic healing with the plant teacher San Pedro), Plant Spirit Shamanism (about ayahuasca and San Pedro healing and the therapeutic uses of other plants), Plant Spirit Wisdom (about healing traditions and practices with native European plants), and The Sin Eater's Last Confessions (about the folk-healing practices of Wales).

As well as his work with native shamanism, Ross has visited Peru since the 1990's to work with the ayahuasceros and curanderos of the Amazon and Andes, and with ayahuasca and San Pedro, the two legendary sacraments and teacher plants used by the shamans of these regions to heal the mind, body, and soul, and to unlock new levels of expanded consciousness.

He now offers the same opportunity for others, with retreat programmes and journeys to Peru where participants can work with indigenous healers and explore and expand their awareness through shamanic encounters with visionary plants.

He has also worked with the shamans and plant healing traditions of Haiti and his experiences in this area are recorded in his book Vodou Shaman, of which Publisher's Weekly said "This stands out as one of the most articulate and well-intentioned guidebooks available".

In his workshops, Ross draws from his cross-cultural knowledge of shamanism and its healing possibilities for creating new ways to understand ourselves, our connections to the Earth, and the journeys we are on.

For more information about Ross and his work, visit The Four Gates website at:
www.thefourgates.org or email him at [e-mail] and receive regular updates from the author about his workshops and books.

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars amateurish, January 12, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: The Journey to You a Shaman's Path to Empowerment (Paperback)

This is an example of a yet another would be "shaman" who thinks that visions obtained from the hallucinogenic tea brewed from Banisteriopsis qualifies them to teach us mortals about medicine work. Nothing could be further from truth.

Ayahuasca is a magnificent plant. The spirit of this plant is a demanding, exacting, tempestuous and awesome teacher. An ayahuasca shaman devotes his life to studying the vine; he/she apprentices for decades to one or several maestros. There are very few legitimate Western mediators of plant teachings and Ross is not one of them - you do not become an ayahuascero through a weekend visit to Peru or Ecuador. In this book we more or less get insights obtained by a sincere and dedicated tourist. If interested in listening to a true ayahuascero, try to obtain the music from Don Jose Campos.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Science of Shamanism by Cerridwen Connelly, August 3, 2001

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Cerridwen Connelly ([e-mail]) (Hampshire, UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Journey to You a Shaman's Path to Empowerment (Paperback)

At last! The mystery and mumbo-jumbo of "shamanism" is explained in terms of user-friendly Science. A must-read for anyone who has ever wondered just what shamanism is really about - and how we in the 21st century West can partake of its simple elegance without ingesting strange substances or travelling to obscure corners of the planet.

...Cerridwen Connelly, author of "The Cosmic Computer".

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars NEW AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR!, June 22, 2001

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tyler dee (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Journey to You a Shaman's Path to Empowerment (Paperback)

This book is to new age title what THE MATRIX was to film!

Written eloquently, passionately and CONVINCINGLY, Ross Heaven argues that the reality we are taught from birth is a powerful illusion - but that human beings are infinately more powerful if we see through the sham! He even includes exercises to show the readers how!

One of the best books I have ever read - and DEFINITELY the best book I have read this year.

Highly recommended!