Reviews for Four Insights: Wisdom, Power, and Grace of the Earthkeepers

The average rating for Four Insights: Wisdom, Power, and Grace of the Earthkeepers based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-07-15 00:00:00 Sergei Chnaiderman I've been listening to Alberto Villoldo through some of his Hay House connections, in conversation with Intuitive, Colette Baron-Reid, via a documentary featuring he and his wife Marcelo Lobos explaining the rituals of the shamans, showing them as they happened and most recently I've been following his year long Living a Sacred Life Webinar Series, monthly conversations between him and leading shamans, mystics and contemporary spiritual teachers of the 21st century. I looked at his range of books and decided that this was the one I wanted to begin with, I also have his book Shaman, Healer, Sage and although it was written prior to this one, it seemed more appropriate to read about the insights before diving into the healing practices. The four insights was an excellent read for me, for where I am at in my understanding, I absolutely loved it and all its insights, I was already familiar with the shamanic levels of perception, of serpent, jaguar, hummingbird, eagle, which correspond, to body, mind, soul, spirit and their associated languages. This book expands on those themes and provides deeper explanations of how we perceive at each of these levels, what we need to understand about how we are responsible for creating the reality of each of those levels, and that we can only change our own inner perception and try to uplevel, we can never change another's perception, except through being the role model that they might perceive and respond to without influence. At each level, which in this book are referred to as: - The Way of the Hero (serpent) body - the senses - physical reality, physical solutions - language = molecular and chemical - survival, self-preservation - reptilian brain - - The Way of the Luminous Warrior (jaguar) mind - curious, inquisitive - mammalian brain - language = words - to express ideas, beliefs, feelings - look for cause to resolve problems, reflect - The Way of the Seer (hummingbird) - soul - language = image, music, poetry, dreams - neocortex - reason, visualise, create -The Way of the Sage (eagle), spirit - consciousness - prefrontal cortex - dreaming a new reality there are four practices, ways in which we can alter reality, by shifting our perception into the higher realm, and hopefully staying there. When we get stuck, particularly at the level of serpent (physical reality) and jaguar (intellectual/analytical reality), we spend a lot of time struggling with issues, yet when we succeed to shift our perception to a higher level, and practice seeing things from that perspective, we suffer less. We still have to deal with issues, but we are no longer tormented or traumatised by them, we have the opportunity - if we practice - to no longer get triggered by patterns of the past, or patterns inherited. All levels have their place and use, and we don't necessarily only rest in one level, but by becoming aware of them and the gifts they offer us, we can heal aspects of ourselves and emit more light, like the luminous beings that we are.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-05-05 00:00:00 Glenn Sellars It's not just a read. There are exercises. Usually, with a book of this kind I'll read it all the way through first, and then if it seems worthwhile I'll do the exercises. The Four Insights takes shamanism deeper than most shamanic books, and it was clear from the gitgo that I was going to take it slow, do the exercises as I went, when I had time to clear my mind and do them right. So far I've done the first three with excellent results. The narrative is also quite good. Villoldo is a PhD and has not completely escaped the prose deadening effects of graduate education, but you can still tell what he means by what he says, and sometimes you can tell it with pleasure. I think he's going to be my new enthusiasm. This is the second of his books I've read, and the first was terrific, so before I'm through I'll probably read, and perhaps practice, all of them.