Twilight Language of the Nagual: The Spiritual Power of Shamanic Dreaming

Would you like a book that explains you simple exercises so you can go beyond your death? Dont be scared this book is full of beauty!

I liked this book a lot. Tunneshende feels more balanced than the shaman maverick Carlos Castaneda. The shamanic work seem to come naturally to her and her stories complement Castanedas work nicely. It's also good to hear the stories of a western shaman woman.

For those people who've read and enjoyed Casteneda's books from the beginning, and learnt much from them - how many of us still wonder that there must have been 1 or more of Don Juan's apprentices who weren't (as Carlos honestly admitted he was) slow learners at this craft? There's no reason to think that there's not an accelerated version of shamanic tutelage; in fact it's rather unthinkable there wouldn't be, as one's own capabilities and proclivities would conspire to lead one to the holy of holies, or not. Merilyn Tunneshende's depictions thru her 3 books invite us to see what it's like for one of the quick learners - not that there weren't occasional (and sometimes horrendous) setbacks and recapitulations for her. But she isn't forced to grind on seemingly endlessly the way poor Carlos often had to do. [As such her books are shorter.] Her 3 books, each full of passion, beauty, enigma, and at times displaying thunderous courage, are not chronological sequels to each other - I sensed by the middle of this 3rd one that each was focused on one layer of the story/experience she was having/telling. She validated my perception nearer the end of this book. Book the first (variously titled 'Medicine Dream' or 'Don Juan & the Power of Medicine Dreaming', depending on the edition/publisher) goes into her experiences related to UNDERWORLD dreaming/archetypes, seamlessly and passionately woven with the biography of various aspects of her history which dovetail into that archetypal world. Book the second ('Rainbow Serpent' or in the newer edition 'Don Juan & the Art of Sexual Energy: the Rainbow Serpent of the Toltecs') depicts and tells of her dreaming relationship to energies of the EARTH. That volume introduces an intensely involving, stunning array of exercises after each chapter, by which a daring reader may attempt to suddenly, gradually, or by fits and starts - trace the pathways, map the worlds Merilyn has laid out for us. The third volume continues with this format - here is where the incipient dreamer/seer begins to touch and enter into varieties of communion with energies/lifeforms/archetypes of a CELESTIAL nature. Though at the beginning of this one she uncharacteristically falls into the trap of speaking with too many abstractions, that minor failing does carry on all that long. The 3-book tutelage profoundly fleshes out one person's mythological and energetic/visionary map of the THREE WORLDS. Following her lead is in no way akin to idolatry - she is too skilled to entrap the reader in overly-personalized modalities - there are checks and balances all through this work as she presents it. Ms. Tunneshende answers questions which may linger from Casteneda's work as well as other shamanic modalities. I was incessantly reminded of numerous moments I wasn't "getting it" while involved in long-term studies with Alberto Villoldo, as well as remote times in my youth when magic would occasionally rear its bounteous head and/or open a wisd