Fire of the Phoenix Initiation: Transform Your Life with the Ancient Spiritual Wisdom of India, Australia, and Peru

by Tanya S. Lenz

Overview

Fire of the Phoenix Initiation recounts a series of initiatory adventures, journeys, and dreams that span three continents and as many ancient wisdom traditions. In India, you’ll traverse the lower world of death and shadow, guided by a cast of Hindu gods and goddesses. In Australia, you’ll travel through the middle world of mother Earth and dreams, guided by Aboriginal elders and Dreamtime beings. In Peru, you are delivered into the upper world of light and spirit guided by Q’ero shamans, descendants of the Inca.

In the spirit of the best initiation stories, Fire of the Phoenix Initiation blends travel memoir, expert storytelling, spiritual history, step-by-step exercises, and essential practices to guide you through your own inner journey. At once entertaining and informative, practical and mystical, transformative and brimming with enduring wisdom, Fire of the Phoenix Initiation weaves together past and present to lay pathways for a new world future. A healing adventure for heart and soul not to be missed!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781844096923
Publisher:	Findhorn Press
Publication date:	05/10/2016
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Tanya S. Lenz is a writer and educator initiated into the shamanic lineages of the Peruvian Andes. A lifelong student of dreams, literature, medicine and healing practices, and world wisdom traditions, she holds a Ph.D. in medieval British literature. Her thesis was published under the title is the author of Dreams, Medicine, and Literary Practice: Exploring the Western Literary Tradition Through Chaucer.

Table of Contents

Prologue: The Reading 9

Part 1 India: Through the Golden Door 11

1 Ashes to Ashes: On the Banks of Mother Ganga 12

Exercise: Into the Fire 25

2 Faces of the Goddess 27

Exercise: Seats of the Goddess 35

3 Where Fear Feeds the Budding Blossoms of the Heart 37

Exercise: Moving from Fear to Love 48

4 Tears of Incense and Shadow Made Light 50

Exercise: Defeating the Predator 60

5 Touts, Sweets, Miniature Paintings, and a Healing 62

6 Return of the Goddess 77

Exercise: Feeding the Goddess 85

Part 2 Australia: In the Womb of Mother Earth 87

7 Rainbow Serpent Dreaming 88

Exercise: Sand Painting 99

8 Ghost Gum Dreaming 101

Exercise 1: Ghost Dancing 117

Exercise 2: Death Masks and Honoring the Ancestors 118

9 Egret Dreaming 119

Exercise: Dreaming with the Earth 126

Exercise: Egret Dancing 129

10 Butterfly Dreaming - Healing Love from Grandmother 130

Exercise: Honoring the Divine Sacred Feminine Within 137

Part 3 Peru: On the Wing with Condor 139

11 From the Golden Sunlight Far Away 140

12 The Roar of the Mountain 154

Exercise: Saminchukuy 165

13 Ambrosial Dews of Heavenly Nectar 166

Exercise: Dreaming a New World 171

Epilogue: The Jewel Ceremony 172

Ten Essential Practices 174

Glossary 175

About the Author 176