Awakening Spirits: A Native American Path to Inner Peace, Healing, and Spiritual Growth

This is one of my most favourite books of ALL time. This is my third copy as I lent my first one out and didn't get it back and my current copy is well worn as the pages have been read so many times. I wanted to get a spare copy in case it goes out of print. It is written so beautifully and with much emotion and a great deal of knowledge. The language used is clear and portrays such depth and details about nature, the lessons and intereactions of Tom, his cousin and Grandfather! Well worth every penny.

A practical guide to meditation and the basis for further spiritual development.

I really enjoyed reading this book. It's thought provoking and provides another approach to meditation. I would certainly recommend it to anyone interested in becoming more mindful.

Thank you!!

A must-read about shamanic spirituality ! Tom Brown Jr is such a good storyteller, here telling stories about classical north-american journeys. Recommended if you are interested in peak states of consciousness.

Die von Tom Brown Jr. gelehrte Meditation, die Sacred Silence, wird wunderbar darin beschrieben. Definitiv eines meiner persönlichen Lieblingsbücher von ihm.

Tom Brown Jr, recently passed away, but he words will live on in eternity. Tom is the founding father for nature, awareness and spiritual enlightenment. Be prepared for your life to change once you read his books, absolutely one of my favorite TBJ books!

After taking a couple of Brown's Philosophy courses, I started spending the "dirt time" to get into the spiritual part of what he teaches. Brown himself told my class that he writes this kind of book to support the Philosophy track courses. Getting out of the box of White Man culture is not so easy, for those who live in their heads. One needs to spend time in Wilderness, or solitude, alone, to let the spirit bubble up into consciousness, no book can substitute for that. Other books I've found help with this subject- Lost Secrets of Ancient Hawaiian Huna, Volume 1 , Redneck Shaman , Secrets of Shamanism: Tapping the Spirit Power Within You , The Future Is Yours: Do Something About It! , Richard Bartlett's Matrix Energetics, Jose Silva You the Healer- which has to have been an influence on the Medicine Place part of Brown's courses, and Vianna Stibal's Theta Healing. There is a Sufi story about moths, and the only moth that really understands the candle is the one who gives himself totally to the light, and the light gives itself to him. This applies to shamanic work. Shamanic techniques work from the larger self, especially in service to others. Shamanism means working with the subconscious, and at times superconscious minds. It cannot be apprehended by the conscious mind, the ego. Without a strong intent of service to others, many things just don't work, or work only slightly. Whispers of the Ancients: Native Tales for Teaching and Healing in Our Time gives you some idea of how very different natives storytelling is, how stories shape the Universe, and so does House of Shattering Light: Life as an American Indian Mystic , & Journey to the Ancestral Self: The Native Lifeway Guide to Living in Harmony With Earth Mother, Book 1 (Bk.1) These are very good basic books, to getting out of the box of White Man culture. Wong Kiew Kit's books on Chi Kung show how ideas like this survive in Chinese culture. Western culture is lost in the literal, and won't look at the deeper meanings of its stories. Neville Goddard has ideas on this, as one example among many. So do Joseph Murphy The Power of Your Subconscious Mind (Empower Your Life) and Max Freedom Secret Science Behind Miracles and Serge King, in Urban Shaman. This book is not a how to, it is a story of one man's experiences, which I found riveting, I couldn't stop reading it. The book is very inspiring, I've read it several times.