Don Juan and the Power of Medicine Dreaming: A Nagual Woman's Journey of Healing

by Merilyn Tunneshende

Book Overview

A journey of healing and transformation through Toltec mysticism, shamanic dreaming, and the teachings of the Mayan prophecies. - The author studied with don Juan Matus and the Nagual sorcerers who... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1879181932
• ISBN13: 9781879181939
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Bear & Company
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Enjoyable read. Returns us to Castaneda's world..sorta.

Well written, tight prose, and a thoroughly enjoyable read. If you enjoyed the Castaneda books you will like this one too. If you *believe* the Castaneda books, you will find this one a good deal less believable. Over the years it's become clear, (via personal experience, not only reading) that the world is more, much more, filled with variations and mysteries than I had ever expected as a youngster. As a result, the older I get, the more I tend to give the weird and unusual credence beyond the average hard-headed materialist viewpoint I started out with. Even so, Tunneshende comes across like she is painting with Castaneda's palate, but from her imagination more than from her experience. Castaneda's is a palate of ideas and images that are engaging, vivid and thought provoking, so this works for me. I liked this book. If she writes more I'll buy that too. She will need to tighten up her metaphysical game, though, if she is looking to convince us that these experiences really happened anywhere other than in her imagination.

Shamanism and dream power

This book relates the author's 30+ years of interaction with guides in the mystical world of the Toltec and Maya and discusses the power of the healing energies that may be applied in healing and transforming the world. A meeting with the writer William Burroughs was the catalyst for a journey to Mexico. Here she was taught by Don Juan Matus, the same shaman that mentored Carlos Castaneda as documented in his best selling books. After the initial apprenticeship with Matus she spent 12 years as a linguist and teacher before returning to the world of Toltec/Maya esotericism after an AIDS diagnosis. Her story makes interesting reading. The epilogue contains a novel view on four different categories of illness, the methods of discerning these and the proper treatments. This is a great book on shamanism, dream power, sorcery and healing that will definitely appeal to fans of the author Castaneda.

Really deep!

This is a fabulous book of transformation and I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in ascension. Told from a Nagual woman's perspective, it is magical and refreshing.It's also cool to read this woman's interaction with don Juan, the wise shaman from Carlos Castenedas' series. The author gives a strong visual, with regard to the choice we have, in moving outward from this dimension.