What is love? How can we be more loving in our relationships? How do we learn to trust again after love has let us down? Why do we find it so hard to receive love? Does love sometimes blind us to the truth? How do we know if our relationships are healthy? How do we mend a broken heart? In Love's Simple Truths, spiritual psychologists, Ross Heaven and Kathleen Charlotte provide answers to the 100 "universal questions" asked about love by relationship clients; answers that are sometimes surprising, but always illuminating, insightful, and inspiring. Their advice is illustrated with the words of Jalalludin Rumi, the revered Sufi mystic and poet of the heart. Excerpts from Rumi's great works on love are arranged as meditations on the questions this book explores, so that readers can reflect on the insights they offer and learn more about what love means to them. Simple and straightforward, light yet profound, Love's Simple Truths shows us how to step onto The Path of The Heart and learn from the greatest teachers of all: ourselves and our lovers. Through them, we will discover all we need to know about who we really are and what we most want from love. A beautiful book with a beautiful heart which holds up a mirror to our innermost selves and the truths that we are living. Tania Ahsan, Journalist: The Guardian and London Metro newspapers Ross Heaven is a therapist with healing practices in the UK and Ireland, and the author of eight other books on love and the healing arts, including The Way of The Lover and The Four Gates to Freedom. Kathleen Charlotte is a psychologist and counsellor specialising in relationship advice for singles and couples. She is the author of one previous book on love.
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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 ross@thefourgates.org and receive regular updates from the author about his workshops and books.
