Fourteen Inches to Peace: Seven Simple Steps to Move from Your Head to Your Heart By David Mutchler and Elizabeth Beau

Time and again we hear reports from readers and students of our programs that “This is ‘It.’ This is what I’ve been looking for all these years. This is what I’ve long sought but until now have not been able to find.”

“It” is the subject of this book. Here are a few examples of the responses we get when we ask, “What is ‘It’?”

• a thread that weaves through the truths of other spiritual traditions and ties them all together;

• a nonintellectual means for obtaining spiritual fulfillment without cluttering the head with more and more information;

• that evolutionary piece of Spirit work that takes a person beyond concepts and knowledge to actually achieving the changes he or she seeks;

• a methodology that “amps” up the spiritual process;

• a perspective that heals the pain ego causes and gives us access to the authentic self;

• an experience in which you need do nothing to gain the whole world;

• a clear and simple way to apply your existing spiritual knowledge;

• the spiritual fountain of youth; once you experience it, you return to the place you’ve always wanted to be;

• a personalized, simple way of finding your true self by getting rid of the pain that ego has caused in your life;

• life changing, an experiential framework for understanding the world, and a structure on which to build one’s life;

• a life-transforming experience; once you’ve been through it, it is impossible to return to a life driven by ego.

David Mutchler and Elizabeth Beau

David has authored three other books: Beyond the Ego, Lessons for Living Beyond the Ego, and Non-Judgment Day Is Coming: Are You Ready? In addition to writing, he speaks and leads seminars based on a program he created called “Awaken to Ego, Discover Your Spirit.”

Elizabeth has studied and taught A Course in Miracles since 1985. An educator in mathematics and science at the college level for many years, she now devotes much of her time and energy to helping people follow their own pathways to peace.

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Your Ultimate Life Plan: How to Deeply Transform Your Everyday Experience and Create Changes That Last by Jennifer Howard

We live in difficult and stressful times. You’ve read books and done workshops, but you still have to face so many stubborn obstacles. Yet it’s often our pain and dissatisfaction that pushes us to seek a more conscious life.

Your Ultimate Life Plan is the missing “how to” for getting unstuck and moving past your problems into a richer and more meaningful life. It’s a roadmap to living your most happy, most authentic, most amazing life.

A practical guide that will help you improve every moment of your life and create changes that last, Your Ultimate Life Plan teaches you how to build:

Confidence: Remove what’s stopping you.
Strength: Move from your wounded ego into your sacred self.
Courage: Make smarter choices by embracing the Four Dimensions of Consciousness.
Success: Rise to your next level of happiness, clarity, and transformation.

The distillation of Dr. Howard’s 20-plus years of experience as a licensed psychotherapist and spiritual teacher, this “workshop in a book” will help you do more than understand Wholeness–you will experience it.

Why settle for average, when the potential to live an amazing life is inside you, right now? This book will help you step boldly into your next, deeper level of happiness, wholeness, transformation, and success.

Jennifer Howard, Ph.D., is the author of “Your Ultimate Life Plan,” winner of a 2013 Gold Nautilus Book Award, and finalist in the 2013 Benjamin Franklin Book Awards and the 2012 ForeWord Book of the Year Awards. The distillation of her 20-plus years of experience as an internationally known licensed psychotherapist, energy healer, and spiritual teacher, this “workshop in a book” is the missing “how to” for moving past your problems and stepping boldly into your next, deeper level of happiness, wholeness, transformation and success. “Your Ultimate Life Plan” asks, why settle for average when the potential to live an amazing life is inside you, right now?

A recognized thought leader on psychology and spirituality, Dr. Howard is a Huffington Post blogger, one of the featured experts in the national wellness campaign, Walk with Walgreens, and has appeared as an expert on numerous national network television shows. On her weekly radio talk show, “A Conscious Life,” she has inspiring, informative, and fun conversations with such distinguished guests as Sharon Salzberg, Gay Hendricks, Hale Dwoskin, Marci Shimoff, Andrew Harvey, Bruce Lipton, Ph.D., Sonia Choquette, Mathew Fox, Bernie Siegel, M.D., Lama Surya Das, and Rabbi Rami Shapiro, among others. A life and business coach, professional speaker, and co-founder of the Healing Path Center, Dr. Howard maintains a private practice with offices in New York City and Long Island, and has an extensive phone practice.

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The Essential Mystics, Poets, Saints, and Sages ~ Richard Hooper

The Essential Mystics, Poets, Saints, and Sages is a treasury of quotes and passages from the great Sufi mystics, Buddhists, Hindus, Taoists, Jews, and Christians throughout the centuries.

This collection, curated by religious scholar Richard Hooper, stresses the beauty of religious language and mystical experience, including hundreds of entries from world’s major religious traditions, the greatest poets, mystics, sages, and saints of all time.

Included are selections from William Blake, Ramakrishna, Rumi, St. John of the Cross, Osho, Tagore, Chuang Tzu, and many more. The selections are given context by the introductory essays by Hooper, which explore the Perennial Philosophy, the nature of the mystical experience, and the way of non-dualism.

The Essential Mystics, Poets, Saints, and Sages is an ideal gift as well as a source for daily guidance and support, regardless of the religious or sectarian affiliations.
Richard Hooper is a former Lutheran pastor with degrees in both theology and the philosophy of world religions. He has been a nationally syndicated radio commentator on religion, Hooper and a columnist for United Press International’s web forum: http://www.ReligionandSpirituality.com, and is the founder of The Sedona Institute for Comparative Theology. His website is http://sanctuarypublications.com

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The Rebirth of the Hero: Mythology as a Guide to Spiritual Transformation ~ Kieron Le Grice

The portrayal of the hero in classical myths and modern films continues to exert a compelling influence on the collective imagination, entertaining and inspiring audiences the world over. On a deeper level, the myth of the hero’s adventure is recognized as a fundamental pattern of human experience itself, a symbolic expression of the individual’s struggle for greater consciousness, psychological wholeness, and spiritual realization.

In The Rebirth of the Hero, Keiron Le Grice draws on the ideas and life experiences of C. G. Jung, Joseph Campbell, and Friedrich Nietzsche to explore the spiritual journey of the modern self, from existential crisis and the “awakening of the self” to the dramatic encounter with the underworld of the psyche and the arduous labor of spiritual transformation. In a work of wide-ranging scope and penetrating insight, Le Grice analyzes scenes from a number of popular films—Jason and the Argonauts, Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings, Pan’s Labyrinth, and more—to illuminate the themes and stages of psychospiritual rebirth and individuation, helping to make the deepest of transformative experiences more readily accessible and intelligible to us all.

Drawing interchangeably on classical Greek myths, Christianity, alchemy, Romanticism, and depth psychology, the author also relates the individual’s personal journey of transformation to the relationship in Western civilization between spirit and nature, reason and instinct, and masculine and feminine. In so doing, The Rebirth of the Hero demonstrates the critical significance of the archetypal pattern of the hero not only for the individual, but also for cultural renewal and the wider spiritual transformation of our time.

Keiron Le Grice, Ph.D., is a guest lecturer in Jungian and Archetypal Studies at the Pacifica Graduate Institute, California, and adjunct faculty in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program at the California Institute of Integral Studies. He is the author of The Archetypal Cosmos and Discovering Eris, and the founding editor of Archai: The Journal of Archetypal Cosmology. Keiron was educated at the University of Leeds (B.A. honors Philosophy and Psychology) and the California Institute of Integral Studies (M.A. and Ph.D. Philosophy and Religion). In 2006, he was awarded the inaugural Joseph Campbell Research Grant from the Opus Archives at Pacifica Graduate Institute (in association with the Joseph Campbell Foundation) for furthering the work of Campbell, C. G. Jung, and James Hillman. Keiron currently lives in Wales with his wife and son.

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Sudden Awakening: Into Direct Realization by Eli Jaxon-Bear

Awakening is a living transmission of silence and freedom, writes Eli Jaxon-Bear, granting final liberation to everyone. A teacher in the self-realization movements of Sri Ramana Maharshi, Sri Poonjaji, and Gangaji, Jaxon-Bear presents a unique map of egoic identification as a vehicle for self-inquiry and a final realization of freedom. Sudden Awakening puts spiritual awakening in a larger context: that it is humankind’s next evolutionary leap. Based on ancient Indian teachings and years of contemplation, this book offers the key to the possibility of ending world destruction. The book is written in clear, beautiful prose, and readers can peruse each chapter as a meditation, or as a gateway into awakening the highest self-attainable. It offers insight into the nature of the true spiritual quest and shows the traps as well as the signs of confirmation along the journey.

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Eli Jaxon Bear – 2nd Buddha at the Gas Pump Interview

Published on Apr 18, 2013

Eli Jaxon-BearEli Jaxon-Bear was born Elliot J. Zeldow in Brooklyn, New York, in 1947. His eighteen-year spiritual path started in 1971, when he was a federal fugitive during the Vietnam war. In 1978, Kalu Rinpoche appointed him the president of the first Kagyu dharma center in Marin County. In 1982, he was presented with a Zen Teaching Fan at ChoShoJi Zen Temple in Japan.

After a search took him around the world and into many traditions and practices, his path and his search ended when he was pulled to India in 1990, where he met his final teacher, Sri H.W.L. Poonja. Confirming Eli’s realization, his teacher sent him back into the world to share his unique psychological insights into the nature of egoic suffering in support of self-realization.

Eli infuses the teaching with his teacher’s living transmission of silence. He presents a unique map of egoic identification as a vehicle for ruthless self-inquiry and final realization of true freedom. He dedicates his life to passing on the transmission of his teacher.

Eli currently meets people and teaches through the Leela Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to world peace and freedom through universal self-realization.
He is the author of Sudden Awakening into Direct Realization, (New World Library), The Enneagram of Liberation: From Fixation to Freedom, (Gangaji Foundation Press), and he is the editor of Wake Up and Roar: Satsang with H.W.L. Poonja, (Sounds True).

Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth – A Spiritual Response to our Present Ecological Crisis ~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

A Collection of Essays: Available Summer 2013
Edited by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

The Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh was asked
what we need to do to save our world.
“What we most need to do,” he replied,
“is to hear within us the sound of the earth crying.”

Our present ecological crisis is the greatest man-made disaster this planet has ever faced—its accelerating climate change, species depletion, pollution and acidification of the oceans. A central but rarely addressed aspect of this crisis is our forgetfulness of the sacred nature of creation, and how this affects our relationship to the environment. There is a pressing need to articulate a spiritual response to this ecological crisis. This is vital and necessary if we are to help bring the world as a living whole back into balance.

Contributors include: Chief Oren Lyons, Thich Nhat Hanh, Sandra Ingerman, Joanna Macy, Sister Miriam MacGillis, Satish Kumar, Vandana Shiva, Fr. Richard Rohr, Bill Plotkin, Jules Cashford, Wendell Berry, Winona LaDuke, Mary Evelyn Tucker, Brian Swimme, and others.

From the INTRODUCTION

The earth is in distress and is calling to us, sending us signs of the extremity of its imbalance through earthquakes and tsunamis, floods and storms, drought, unprecedented heat. There are now indications that its ecosystem as a whole may even be approaching a “tipping point” or “state shift” of irreversible change with unforeseeable consequences.

This book is a collection of responses to the call of the earth. It is not offered as a solution to a problem because the world is not a problem; it is a living being in distress. The signs of global imbalance, the tsunamis, the destruction of the coral reefs, are not just physical symptoms. As Thich Nhat Hanh writes, these are “bells of mindfulness,” calling us to be attentive, to wake up and listen. The earth needs our attention. It needs us to help heal its body, damaged by our exploitation, and also its soul, wounded by our desecration, our forgetfulness of its sacred nature. Only when we remember what is sacred can we bring any real awareness to our present predicament.

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The Ecological Crisis is a Spiritual Crisis with Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Emptiness Dancing ~ Adyashanti

In recent years, the bold new teacher known as Adyashanti has dared hundreds of students across North America to ask, What is ultimately behind this set of eyes? For it is in the process of this inquiry that we let go of who we think we are, and begin to understand what we are.

With Emptiness Dancing, readers will explore these subtle differences, and many other human perceptions?and misconceptions that we live by, including:

• Openness: Discover the freedom available when you cultivate an open heart and an open mind, and lose your self-image to total presence.
• Love: Enjoy the peace from being the essence of love at every moment, with everyone and everything you experience.
• Ego: Unmask the fall guy of spirituality for what it is, and release yourself from the fruitless pursuit of and running away from something that doesn’t really exist.

The funny thing about enlightenment, or awakening, is that we miss it even though it’s not hidden,  Adya teaches. It is hard to find because it is right here. Destined to become a spiritual classic, Emptiness Dancing brings readers Adyashanti’s quintessential teachings in a mind-to-mind transmission from this gifted teacher.

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Stillness – from Emptiness Dancing, by Adyashanti, Chapter 8

Adyashanti “Silence”

Adyashanti is a dynamic and inspiring spiritual teacher who lives an ordinary life while demonstrating an extraordinary gift for transmitting a simple truth to thousands of students worldwide: liberation is the birthright of us all. His teachings have been compared to those of the early Zen masters and Advaita Vedanta sages.

Adyashanti began teaching in 1996 at the request of his Zen teacher, with whom he had been studying for 14 years. A native of Northern California, he now teaches extensively in the San Francisco Bay Area, offering weekly satsangs, frequent intensives, and silent retreats. He also travels to teach in other areas of the United States and Canada.

Adyashanti is the author of The Impact of Awakening, Emptiness Dancing, My Secret Is Silence, True Meditation, and The End of Your World, and has made extensive audio and video recordings of his talks and satsangs.

Adyashanti speaks to the word silence.

Abide as the Self ◦ Ramana Maharshi ◦ Full Movie [ updated April 8, 2013]

Special Note: The transformational nature of this one hour video’s deep inner revelations of Ramana Maharshi teachings necessitates that viewers should focus attention and digest on the messages, free from distractions of the mundane worldly chores. Hence, view this video during solitary time of mental ease and reflective contemplation. – Namaste

Abide As the Self is a transforming video that takes you on an inner journey into the teachings of Ramana Maharshi and the path of Self-knowledge. Comprehensive film footage of Ramana comes alive, with emphasis on the teachings of Self-Inquiry and its practical application. A special collection of rare photographs enhances Ramana’s presence and captures the compassion and grace of one of the most respected sages of our time.

The inspired narration by Ram Dass provides an overview of Ramana’s teachings. Also included are interviews with H.W.L. Poonja, Douglas Harding, Allan W. Anderson, and others. In Abide As the Self, you will experience how the profound teachings of Ramana Maharshi can be easily applied in our daily life.

This is a deeply inspiring video in which the sage Ramana speaks directly to your heart. “Abide As the Self skillfully interweaves old and new still photographs, excerpts from Ramana’s writings, interviews with longtime devotees, narration by Ram Dass, and, not least, rare and precious footage of Ramana from 1935 to 1949. Highly recommended.” – Yoga Journal

“The presence of the great Indian sage Ramana Maharshi, his clear approach to Self-Realization, and the teachings of Self-Inquiry are beautifully presented. Interviews and exceptional film footage of Ramana Maharshi make this video an inspiring and transforming experience.” New Renaissance Bookshop

“The video concludes with the encouraging words of Ram Dass, who tells us that Maharshi’s message is not Indian but universal: the peace that illuminates the heart and mind is always present. Anyone curious about this aspect of Eastern spirituality will find this informative and interesting video worthwhile and surprisingly accessible to general viewers. Recommended.” ~ Video Librarian

“Bhagavan was always silent, that is everyone’s true nature . . . In this quietness the mind will automatically return to its source and there will be a tremendous fountain of peace. All doubts are cleared and one remains quiet, in the heart.” ~ H.W.L. Poonja

The Enneagram of Liberation: From Fixation to Freedom by Eli Jaxon-Bear

Eli Jaxon-Bear presents a radically new model of the ego and the psyche. Bringing together his background in Buddhism with his Sufi work on essence, he presents a fresh approach to awakening by using the Enneagram’s nine fixated structure of ego to clearly describe who you are not.

You will see how habits of egoic identification continuously appear to veil the pristine consciousness that you truly are. When these habits of mind are exposed, there is a clear choice to end the bondage of ego-based suffering and to realize the vast, inherent freedom of one’s true nature. In this book Eli gives us the map of the prison of mind and the keys to freedom.

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Eli Jaxon-Bear – The Essence of my teaching

Eli Jaxon-Bear dedicates his life to passing on his Master Papaji’s transmission of silence, traveling the world to share his unique psychological insights into the nature of egoic suffering in support of Self-Realization. Eli teaches through the Leela Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to world peace and freedom through universal
Self-Realization. To find out more about Eli and his schedule of upcoming events, please
visit: http://www.leela.org

Eli Jaxon-Bear – Interview on the Enneagram, Madrid

Eli Jaxon-Bear dedicates his life to passing on his Master Papaji’s transmission of silence, traveling the world to share his unique psychological insights into the nature of egoic suffering in support of Self-Realization. Eli teaches through the Leela Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to world peace and freedom through universal Self-Realization.

Eli Jaxon-Bear – Buddha at the Gas Pump Interview

Eli Jaxon-Bear was born Elliot J. Zeldow in Brooklyn, New York, in 1947. His eighteen-year spiritual path started in 1971, when he was a federal fugitive during the Vietnam war. In 1978, Kalu Rinpoche appointed him the president of the first Kagyu dharma center in Marin County. In 1982, he was presented with a Zen Teaching Fan at ChoShoJi Zen Temple in Japan.

After a search took him around the world and into many traditions and practices, his path and his search ended when he was pulled to India in 1990, where he met his final teacher, Sri H.W.L. Poonja. Confirming Eli’s realization, his teacher sent him back into the world to share his unique psychological insights into the nature of egoic suffering in support of self-realization.

Eli infuses the teaching with his teacher’s living transmission of silence. He presents a unique map of egoic identification as a vehicle for ruthless self-inquiry and final realization of true freedom. He dedicates his life to passing on the transmission of his teacher.

Eli currently meets people and teaches through the Leela Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to world peace and freedom through universal self-realization.
He is the author of Sudden Awakening into Direct Realization, (New World Library), The Enneagram of Liberation: From Fixation to Freedom, (Gangaji Foundation Press), and he is the editor of Wake Up and Roar: Satsang with H.W.L. Poonja, (Sounds True).

Your Dirty Little Secret: The Black Hole in Your Ego with Adyashanti (4:43)