Bøger af Tom Crockett

Stone Age Wisdom: The Healing Principles of Shamanism is a guide to an urban contemporary shamanism that draws on the what religious historian, Houston Smith, describes as "the ground from which all religions spring." While the word shamanism has come to mean many things to many people, a shaman is an individual who uses an enhanced capacity to attend to the unseen world primarily in service to others. The first step to being able to artfully serve others is to return to balance. What does it mean to live in balance? Most people know what it feels like to live out of balance. The fast pace of modern life has left many of us without roots or a sense of connection to life around us. Shamanism is the spiritual practice that evolved from the worldview of our Stone Age ancestors. That worldview recognized that all things were alive, conscious, dynamic, interconnected, and responsive. By animating these core principles in our lives we can find that balance and sense of connection that is so lacking in our urban contemporary world. From each of these core principles has evolved a set of practices that allow the shaman to work effectively with the energetic patterns that form the template upon which reality as we know it arises. Stone Age Wisdom is a guide to these practices as refined for an urban contemporary practitioner. By following the healing principles of shamanism you'll learn practices to: DREAM-to be open to and understand the wisdom of your dreams VISION-SHIFT-to develop the ability to sense the energetic patterns in your life JOURNEY-to enter into dialogue with the energies that shape our lives SHAPE-SHIFT-to practice the art of conscious change and energetic healing CONDUCT CEREMONY-to mediate between the seen and the unseen worlds DREAM-WEAVE-to direct will and intention through embodied prayer and creative action

The PillowBook is based on the fundamental assumption that there is a masculine and a feminine sexual essence. The masculine essence is the penetrative force, directedness, and conscious presence. The feminine force is the receptive radiant embodiment of love, light, surrender, and the flow of energy. The masculine in anyone is that which identifies with seeing (awareness). The feminine is that which identifies with being seen (light). While any man or woman can access masculine or feminine energy at any moment, we all tend to rest as love and consciousness at some point along a masculine/feminine spectrum of expression. It is the polarizing effect of masculine and feminine forces coming together that accounts for the spark of sexual attraction and by consciously cultivating these energies in loving relationship, we more deeply serve each other and the world. This is an invitation to explore your own sexual essence and deepen your awareness of how your body expresses that essence as energy.The PillowBook is a guide to exploring masculine and feminine sexual essence through a series of 28 evocative erotic encounters and practices designed to help couples open their hearts, deepen their capacity for intimacy, and expand their sense of the nature of sacred sexuality. Sacred sexual play is the open-hearted exchange of intimate physical, emotional, and spiritual energy between two people committed to serving each other's spiritual growth and capacity to love. Sacred sexual play is also what it sounds like: two people playing deliciously with their bodies in intimate embrace and loving abandon.

"We create such suffering in our illusion of separation, commit such crimes from behind the walls of our well-defended identities, make such poor choices by always seeking what is beyond the here and the now, and wound so deeply from our longing to return to a unity that we "deny and refuse. The only way home is through the ultimate truth of our oneness-waking up." One Drop Awareness explores the territory of nonduality, pure awareness, awakening, liberation, self realization, and what the sages have called enlightenment. While the term enlightenment conjures up images of Eastern gurus, esoteric philosophies, or years spent meditating in monasteries or cold mountain caves, it is actually none of these things. Enlightenment happens when consciousness recognizes itself. When this happens, we simply stop seeking. We stop looking outside of ourselves for the objects or conditions that we once thought would bring us peace and contentment-love and joy. Waking up is not easy. It is not a self-help program. You can't buy it and no one can give it to you or do it for you. It doesn't come from books or from retreats or from hanging out with enlightened masters. The more you seek it, the more elusive it becomes, but, ironically, without the desire to wake up, you will continue to sleepwalk through your life. One Drop Awareness: Picturing Enlightenment and Nonduality, is a playful primer for oneness. It is an exploration of nonduality and the relationship between the appearance of form and formlessness, between growth, change, and evolution and the realization that everything is perfect as it is. It is also a collection of visual and textual pointing out instructions-nudges in the direction of enlightenment.

A fresh new approach to tapping into our own creativity, using the images and artifacts of our dreams.Getting inspired is one of the toughest parts of being an artist, whether we''re a beginner or a seasoned professional. But as Tom Crockett shows us in this new book, finding ideas for our artwork is easier than we think. By simply exploring the images of our sleeping and waking dream states, we can discover a wealth of ideas and inspiration that are more authentic and powerful because they reveal our underlying spiritual self.Recognizing the importance of allowing our spiritual side to infuse our art and the fulfillment this can bring, Tom Crockett has created a program to teach us all, no matter what level of artistic experience we have, how to bring art and spirit into one. The four different types of creative expression Crockett has identified--Finding, Arranging, Altering, and Making--open up artistic options for everyone, even for those of us who cannot yet imagine that we have the ability to create art. Filled with personal anecdotes from the author''s creativity workshops and practical, easy-to-implement advice for tapping into our hidden creativity, The Artist Inside teaches us: how to access the dreaming world to heighten creativity that we can create in each piece of artwork a temporary home for the spirit how creating a spiritual path can energize us and increase our intuitive capacityWhen the process of making art is guided by the inner vision of our sleeping and waking dream states, we connect with something larger than ourselves and rediscover that creativity can be both a spiritual path and an important life tool.