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Contents the same as Chapters Five, Six, and Seven of original Heartwood Path book: “Volitos: Connecting with the Personal Will,” “Collectivos: Connecting with the Collective Will,” and “Remeos: Persevering by Returning Home to Daily Enchantment.” Also includes a thirty-four page additional preface that helps activist go fast, go far, and go long by providing numerous new topics listed in long description. Topics included in the preface for Heartwood Path Part Three include: thriving through the middle years of life, being a praise-worthy predecessor and forebear, creating a durable economic future, giving to others, moving from crisis to sustainability, participating in transformative politics, putting spirit into your home, integral practices that give great leaps of meaning, Native American ways to live a life of balance, and gardening to alter your perspective.
Topics in Chapter One: “Volitos: Connecting with the Personal Will,” include: putting your personal Will into effect, imagining your future, using your Will to become more like God, the ultimate Self destructive pattern (the desire to receive for the individual self only), motivating your self into action through initiation and movement, falling towards your Soul, how a perfected person leads to a preserved and perfected environment, finding your soul purpose on a vision quest, how you become what you think about the most, fueling your Will with personal power, using the right tools to be successful, choosing to associate or dissociate with experiences, the three steps to personal transformation, changing unpleasant memories by creating your own soundtracks, transforming your self, overcoming fears, using the Earth as a model when developing the Will, absorbing qualities and attributes from the Earth, conversing with Mother Earth, experiencing the pleasures of the Spirit, developing and using your inspiration, the power of prayer, managing one’s time, Whole Devotion, how to identify your life purpose, managing physical, mental, emotional, relationships, ethical, and spiritual energy, one’s deepest values, assessing your performance barriers, the importance of neuro-physiological states, transforming willfulness and becoming nearly divine, the stages of the Will, arenas of the Will, increasing your motivation, being the change you seek in the world, surrounding yourself with confidence, imagination and desire, brainstorming, putting your will to the best possible use, making decisions, the purpose of emotions, laughing your way to a better life, seeking end values, limiting and enabling beliefs, creating a magnificent future, steps for achieving your goals, making a priority list of goals, fulfilling your physical, relationships, and financial objectives, values, using your Will to produce results, the Transpersonal Self, the persistence of resistance, evaluating strategies, increasing your effectiveness, reaching desired outcomes, planning, making a master dream list, determining effectiveness in life roles, executing work tasks, building your net worth, employing the six stages of will power (1. defining yourself, 2. understanding others, 3. self-reliance, 4. preserving yourself in relationships, 5. avoiding obsessions and compulsions, and 6. nurturing your Soul), being responsible for others, cultivating mercy, moving through melancholia by shifting from striving to arriving, having the Ego work interdependently with the Spirit, opening the gateway to the mysteries of ecstasy, the practice of returning to flow, growing spiritual by following six pathways (1. the pathway of responsibility, 2. the pathway of care, 3. the pathway of intelligence, 5. the pathway of personal change, 6. the pathway of camaraderie, and 6. The pathway of appropriate power,) envisioning personal and planetary futures, viewing relationships and the world as mirrors, using spiritual development to restore ecological integrity, grounding, creating visual images to evoke desired ends, switching from willfulness to willingness, becoming aware and releasing tension, building trust, enhancing Earth-given sensuality, ways to seek a better life, becoming self-aware, using the Will to care for Nature, testing how at-home you feel in Nature, reviewing your spiritual bond with Mother Nature, and manifesting the future through you.
Chapter 2: “Collectivos: Connecting with the Collective Will,” includes the following topics: connecting the collective Will, living your life in wise and compassionate circles of people working together to perfect themselves and save the world, making your involvement with others successful, checking the bad attitudes of team members, paying the price for group success, developing a group action learning program, joining a group pilgrimage, finding financial success by working better together with others, working to make religion “green,” rekindling the human spirit by using all aspects of socio-erotic desire, cleaving to joy and finding a use for desire, organizing eartHeart council meetings, sharing emotionally-charged eco-tales,
appropriate touch, acknowledgement of vulnerability, and the beholding of another, improving the environmental movement through “bildung,” finding the undiscovered self, understanding Jungian psychology, obtaining direction from one’s archetypes, consciously amplifying dreams, how dream symbols compensate for one’s conscious attitudes, identifying how you and others approach life, following the standards for participating in public life, questioning whether a team is worthy of your involvement, working as an enlightened individual in a group, making your own team better, becoming a team member’s personal trainer, mapping the mind, going through the four-step team-building process (1. name recognition and familiarity, 2. inhibition-reduction, 3. trust-building, and 4. solving problems together), forming group identity by picking and acting like the group’s animal totem, giving positive feedback, holding good group meetings, managing the programs and projects of the group, understanding the impact of norms, understanding the group’s positions and roles, self-selecting roles within teams, paying attention to human needs, creating or participating in a mastermind group, understanding the specific dynamics of eartHeart groups, the main job of eartHearts, helping others with team development, performing assessments of team functioning, determining team needs, magnifying everything positive that is happening for a team, being prepared for when the team bogs down, influencing the motivation of others, the fundamentals of humor at the workplace, giving feedback to others, understanding the impact of hope and trust on motivation, building hope and trust, understanding the nature of leadership, establishing performance standards, empowering others, encouraging accountability, helping groups embrace all of the natural world, collecting together in a wisdom circle to feed the eco-self, beginning a wisdom circle, participating in ceremonies that honor spirit, Nature, rites of passage, and sacred sexuality, recovering your ecological spirituality, conducting successful group meetings and ceremonies of release, creating sacred space for your group by connecting with Nature, minimizing and resolving conflict, rating your ability to demonstrate that you are listening, dealing with difficult people, being approachable, investing in others, doubling your joy by sharing it, focusing on others, studying great models of leadership, emulating the heart of a servant leader, being a resounding leader, acting on your empathy, coaching leaders in compassion, transforming yourself into the change you want to see in the world, understanding what it takes to renew yourself as a leader, using the collective Will to create prototypes, developing your charisma, preparing your self for relationships, operating near the brush of reform, serving customers and clients well, rating how well you or your organization serves, rating you or your organization’s actions to make clients/customers feel important, enhancing team creativity, identifying and use your team’s vision, developing organizational vision, setting team goals, communicating effectively, understanding the nature of tasks, checking the atmosphere, and holding good group meetings.
Chapter 3: “Remeos: Persevering by Returning Home to Daily Enchantment,” includes the following topics: reviewing your progress along your path to self discovery, handling “the Shadow,” gifts found during your period of discovery, using your intentions at home, listening to silence to discover God’s truth in nature, the usefulness of mythology, attending to Temenos, knowing the board of directors that control your own Realm of Interiority, awareness of Exteriority, finding your Greater Self, paying attention to God, his Creation, and the self-organizing intelligence of Nature, paying attention, considering your possessions, seeking “cosmic wisdom” and understand the “pattern that connects,” valuing leisure, practicing “awe-robics,” rooting out the love of money, affirmations about money, seeking guidance by paying attention to the voice within, tempering the Fall with Creation Spirituality, differences between Fall/redemption theology and Creation spirituality, reasons to be guided by Creation spirituality, overcoming restlessness at home, embracing emptiness, giving birth to creativity, getting unblocked by adequacy, using the keys to unlock the doors of perception, throwing out doubt, sustaining the viewer, stopping inner dialogue, facing death, finding the key to happiness and joy, refining your higher life purpose everyday, becoming a true inhabitant of home, adding spirit to your home, considering the blessings of your home, living a magical life, making nearby Nature a real element in daily life, recalling highpoints outdoors, developing a global perspective, becoming a Magus, collecting and arrange natural items and using them as devotional aids, getting the most out of physical activity, assessing your respiratory efficiency, finding the edge of your comfort range, focusing on the path rather than the outcome, discovering your internal signal for the need to rest, healing yourself, engaging in practices that celebrate daily life, living in a healing house, the importance of playing, celebrating, especially on his holy days, balancing busyness and stillness, understanding ethics for use at home, heeding the Heartwood Path’s central ethical point, (preserving the health of the whole great nest of holarchy and do not give preferential treatment to any one level), dismemberment and transfiguration, using dismemberment, transfiguration, intonation/drumming, and gratefulness as elements of your everyday practice of perseverance, listening to the wisdom of the oppressed, walking in the shoes of others, the enchantment of serving others, using appropriate technologies, laying siege to heaven, all day, everyday, practicing splitting the mind between Heaven and the world by using a Rosary, managing your anger, feeling one with the Earth, studying local geography, writing a story about a time when you were awed, soothed or humbled by Nature, acting with others at home, creating and sustaining a loving family, making work a sacred partnership with the creator, finding time in the landscape, staying in the present, letting go and let be, being with one’s true self, taking in the charm of youth: how parenting births wholeness, how parenthood creates and then destroys the illusion that the parent is God, preparing and eating good food with others at home, mindful eating, finding enchantment in food, tending a garden with family and friends, participating in politics locally, engaging in Heartwood Path intimacy, spending time with pets, especially horses, attending to friends with hospitality and forgiveness, attending or holding your own animal blessing, preserving the preservers, using the self-serving curative capacity of benevolence, finding a model and then engage in community-building, being in relationship, curing estrangement through long and constant exposure, using the four-step process for solving problems (1. understanding the problem, 2. developing a vision statement, 3. carrying out the plan, and 4. looking back), engaging in social action, working to end the suffering of others, taking in suffering, giving out love, arriving as a prophet, arriving in justice, making yours an inclusive community, pounding on the universal drum, seeking the help of a professional life coach, using sacred designs known as yantras, how life presents a spectrum of paradoxes and, step by step, their resolution, the metaphysics of evolution, becoming an operator of the grand elevator of the Greater Self, how Self, culture, and Nature are indivisible, building the hardware for the operating system of the Greater Self, finding delight at home everyday, converting good ideas into governing ideas, becoming an infectious agent of radical change, and anchoring yourself in the present.
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