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The Journey to You a Shaman's Path to Empowerment
(2001)
This fascinating book invites you into the world of the Shaman — a world
rich in possibility and empowerment.
Weaving together an amazing tapestry of historical background that stretches
across continents and cultures, Ross Heaven brings to life the ancient
universe and positions it right at the heart of contemporary society.
Eminently practical and accessible, The Journey To You reveals how to use
Shamanistic healing practices and techniques – such as imagework, journeying
and soul
retrieval – can bring about a more energized, stress-free
existence. Drawing upon the latest scientific research, his own personal
experience as a practising Shaman, and with input from some of the leading
figures in this field, Heaven presents us with a way to a reality more
remarkable and empowering than you could ever think possible.
Spirit in the City: The Search for the Sacred in Everyday Life (2002)
In this illuminating guide, British shaman Ross Heaven uncovers the key to
rediscovering our connection to the sacred as he explores the ancient world
of the shaman – a world which has existed for thousands of years and which
extends from the icy wastes of Siberia to the rain forests of South America
and beyond. Drawing upon this rich legacy of wisdom, he reveals what the
powerful shaman visionaries and healers have always known, and which modern
science now accepts: everything around us is energy, pure and simple, and
you can change this energy – and your life – in just a heartbeat.
Vodou Shaman: The Haitian Way of Healing and Power (2003)
Provides practical exercises and techniques from the Vodou tradition that
can be used as safe and effective means of spiritual healing and personal
transformation
Shows how to remove evil spirits and negative energies sent by others
Written by a fully initiated Houngan (Vodou shaman)
Providing practical exercises drawn from all aspects and
stages of the Vodou tradition, Vodou Shaman shows readers how to contact the
spirit world and communicate with the loa (the angel-like inhabitants of the
Other World), the ghede (the spirits of the ancestors), and djabs (nature
spirits for healing purposes). The author examines soul journeying and
warrior-path work in the Vodou tradition and looks at the psychological
principles that make them effective. The book also includes exercises to
protect the spiritual self by empowering the soul, with techniques of
soul retrieval, removing evil spirits and negative energies, overcoming curses,
and using the powers of herbs and magical baths.
Darkness Visible: Awakening Spiritual Light though Darkness Meditation
(2005) by Ross Heaven and Simon Buxto
The use of ceremonial darkness is a classic and
cross-cultural method for exploring hidden aspects of unconscious and
super-conscious states, accessing invisible landscapes, and embracing the
deeper recesses of the self. In Darkness Visible Heaven and Buxton examine
the spiritual and therapeutic practice of taking retreat in physical
darkness.
For millennia mystics and sages have used darkness as a spiritual tool for
breaking with their pasts, prior conditioning, and the limited reality of
their societies. Spiritual seekers from many traditions--Celtic, Eastern,
indigenous North and South American, Tibetan, and African--have used
darkness as a tool for spiritual enlightenment. Heaven and Buxton show how
experiencing complete darkness, even for only a period of hours, brings
about a remarkable clarity and mental stillness and thus provides a
springboard for creativity, intuition, and spiritual development. They
include exercises that explore lucid levels of dream consciousness, drawing
both from their experience as teachers of this method and from the many
cultures that include this practice in their spiritual traditions.
Darkness Visible shows how deprivation of sight can truly teach us to
see.
Plant Spirit Shamanism Traditional Techniques for Healing the
Soul (2006 ) by
Howard G. Charing and Ross Heaven
An in-depth look at the role of plant spirits in shamanic rituals from
around the world
Shows how shamans heal using their knowledge of plant spirits as well as the
plant’s “medical properties”
Explores the core methods of plant shamanism--soul
retrieval, spirit
extraction, and sin eating--and includes techniques for connecting with
plant spirits
Includes extensive field interviews with master shamans of all traditions
In Plant Spirit Shamanism, Ross Heaven and Howard G.
Charing explore the use of one of the major allies of shamans for healing,
seeing, dreaming, and empowerment--plant spirits. After observing great
similarities in the use of plants among shamans throughout the world, they
discovered the reason behind these similarities: Rather than dealing with
the “medical properties” of the plants or specific healing techniques,
shamans commune with the spirits of the plants themselves.
From their years of in-depth shamanic work in the Amazon, Haiti, and Europe,
including extensive field interviews with master shamans, Heaven and Charing
present the core methods of plant shamanism used in healing rituals the
world over: soul
retrieval, spirit extraction, sin eating, and the Amazonian
tradition of pusanga (love medicine). They explain the techniques shamans
use to establish connections to plant spirits and provide practical
exercises as well as a directory of traditional Amazonian and Caribbean
healing plants and their common North American equivalents so readers can
ex-plore the world of plant spirits and make allies of their own. -
The Spiritual Practices of the Ninja: Mastering the Four Gates to Freedom (2006)
Explains how the initiatory practices of the Ninja can
be used to achieve self-mastery
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Uses the five human archetypes of lover, seeker, magus, soul
warrior, and mystic
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Shows how to access kuji-kiri, the positive energy of the
Ninja Godai, to dispel fear, disempowerment, and soul fatigue
The Ninja are a mysterious warrior elite said to be so
spiritually advanced they knew the mind and will of God. Regarded with awe
as masters of invisibility and “warriors of the shadow-self,” their
legendary skills include the ability to command the elements and transform
themselves into Fire, Water, Air, Earth, and Void--the nothingness from
which all things stem. In this book Ross Heaven reveals the training
exercises and mental discipline used by the Ninja to develop these
extraordinary physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual skills.
Central to Ninja philosophy is the understanding that there is no higher
power than the actualized human being. The Ninja believe there are four
gates to freedom, and to pass through them we must overcome four initiatory
ordeals. Succeeding at these enables us to combat fear, find true power,
clarify our vision, and overcome the soul fatigue that is at the root of our
personal and social problems in order to embrace our positive energies and
realize our talents.
Ross Heaven guides us through these four gateways with exercises and
initiations that utilize the energy of the lover, seeker, magus, soul
warrior, and mystic as well as dealing with their shadow manifestations that
may be causing problems in our lives. We learn how to break the destructive
habits of the past and create a bushido, a personal code to live by. Without
initiation, we cannot access and channel our energies; they remain
uncontrolled or even work against us. Ross Heaven provides the key that
allows us to turn these
Love's Simple Truths - Meditations on Rumi & The Path of The Heart
(2007) by Kathleen Charlotte and Ross Heaven
The Way Of The Lover: Rumi and the Spiritual Art of Love
(November 2007 release)
The revered words of Jalaluddin Rumi - the greatest
love poet of all time - have endured for centuries. His moving verses can
help us answer life's greatest questions: What is true love? How can I be
more loving? How can love help me grow spiritually?
Drawing on Rumi's
writings, Sufi teachings, and shamanic techniques, Ross Heaven presents an
utterly unique spiritual guidebook to love and relationships. Your voyage
though every stage of the soul is aided by the Medicine Wheel, a spiritual
compass that will guide you on "The Path of the Heart". Use this powerful
tool to revitalize relationships, uncover fears, resist self-defeating
impulses, recover from depression or "soul fatigue," and master the "Art of
Love".
Published in the year of the 800th anniversary of Sufi Master, Jalaluddin Rumi.
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