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Take a journey by map through your inner landscape to discover a life of awe, enchantment, and radical aliveness
• Explains how experiencing awe and wonder can transform our lives, leading us to feel more satisfied, peaceful, and open to others
• Offers contemporary and time-honored practices--from mindfulness to dreamwork and working with plants--that help you reconnect with Nature and your imagination, open your heart, and find vitality and enchantment
• Explores ways of examining and embracing our shadow, deepening our relationships, and creating meaningful personal rituals
Where Wonder Lives invites you on a journey, an expedition through your own inner landscape to reawaken to the mystery of life. The travels are by way of an imaginary map through 9 distinct territories. In each, you explore the terrain, then are led to a rich set of contemporary and time-honored practices--from mindfulness to dreamwork, cloudscapes, and working with plants--that help you rebuild a life of vitality, connection, and enchantment.
There is no prescribed order in which to explore the map. Rather, the invitation is to begin at the territory that calls to you, or perhaps that which is most challenging. Each territory reflects and amplifies the others, and you will instinctively arrive at the practices that you need most. The Jungle delves into our original deep kinship with Nature and helps you rekindle your inner wildness. The Garden takes you on a journey through your senses, and the River unfurls your imagination. The Mountaintop presents a bird's-eye view of your life, while the Swamp delves into your inner shadow and delivers gold. The Village helps us deepen our bonds and relationships, the Lighthouse teaches us to quiet our minds, and the Fire inspires us to create meaningful ceremonies and personal rituals. The Ocean looks into the topography of the heart and offers practices to awaken the heart's most powerful emotions: awe, joy, compassion, gratitude, and love, the mother of them all.
Throughout the journey you are immersed in a world of wonder and awe, discovering new possibilities for learning and expansion in ordinary life. Face to face with the mystery of life, Where Wonder Lives makes you feel at once both infinitely small and part of a vast, unfathomable universe--all while helping you to see the world anew.
Contents
A Foreword for Those Who Skip Forewords
by Brother David Steindl-Rast
Introduction
Two Paths Diverge
A Map of the Journey
Stage 1
The Jungle: Re-wild Yourself
Re-inhabiting the World
Eating the Wild
The Brotherhood of Birds
Sky High: The Subtle Charm of Clouds
Stage 2
The Garden: Awaken Your Senses
Smell
Touch
Sight
Taste
Hearing
Stage 3
The River: Let Your Imagination Flow
Play, Dreams, Mysteries
Stage 4
The Mountaintop: Tell a New Story
What Is a Myth?
Personal Mythology
The Hero's Journey: The Great Story
The Heroine's Journey
What Is an Archetype?
Stage 5
The Swamp: Embrace Your Shadow
What Is the Shadow?
Projection: A Key Mechanism for Detecting the Shadow
From Mandala to Mandorla
Stage 6
The Village: Deepen Your Relationships
To Belong and to Be Oneself
The First Wound
The "Magical Other" and Differentiation
Stage 7
The Fire: Reclaim Your Rites
What Is a Rite and Why Does Its Power Endure?
Stage 8
The Lighthouse: Focus Your Mind
What Is Meditation? Mindfulness, or the Art of Remembrance
Stage 9
The Ocean: Open Your Heart
Exploring Emotions
Epilogue
As It Is in Heaven
List of Activities, Recipes & Exercises
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
About the Author
