Earth Wisdom Teachings

• Takes you through the eight directions of the Medicine Wheel to ignite your spirit fire, inspire deeper connection with all life on Earth, and open your creative, sensory, emotional, and intuitive intelligences

• Shares practices such as deep listening, healing with the four elements, making death an ally, transforming limiting beliefs, discovering your animal teacher, and accessing inner wisdom

• Explains how the transformation of consciousness influences those around you, allowing individual inner work to initiate collective change and ecological healing

Revealing how our personal transformation serves the collective healing of our planet, author Carlos Philip Glover takes you on a journey of self-empowerment around the Medicine Wheel of Earth Wisdom to ignite your spirit fire, awaken new levels of consciousness, and inspire you to meet the challenges facing our modern world through deep inner work.

Based on teachings from the Maya, Toltec, and Olmec, each of the eight directions of the Medicine Wheel journey opens different aspects of your innate inner Earth Wisdom, including heart-knowing and your creative, sensory, emotional, and intuitive intelligences, allowing you to grow and deepen your relationship with the Earth and all life on it. The author explores practices such as deep listening, healing with the four elements, and making death an ally. Sharing stories from ancient traditions around the world, he describes how to uncover and transform your limiting beliefs, discover your animal teacher and its medicine, and access inner wisdom.

Explaining how consciousness has “field effects,” just as a magnet has a field around it, the author shows how, as each person awakens expanded states of consciousness in themselves, they influence the fields of consciousness around them, drawing other people into expanded states. In this way, the transformation of our collective human consciousness and the healing of Earth is achievable, one individual awakening at a time. A portion of the royalties for this book will support Survival International and Ehama Institute, New Mexico.

Carlos Philip Glover has trained with teachers from different traditions for more than 40 years, among them Ehama Institute of New Mexico. He is co-leader with WindEagle of the Evocative Leadership Mastery in Spain and for more than 20 years has served as the Dance Chief for the UK Drum Dance. He is the founder of Earth Wisdom Teachings, offering coaching, mentoring, ceremonial work, vision quests, and drum dances. Carlos lives with his wife in Devon, UK.

Preface

INTRODUCTION

Earth Medicine for Global Evolution

THE EIGHT DIRECTIONS

1. East: Creation

The Heyoka Joker
Let There Be Light
The Magic of Image-Thought
The Way of Ceremony

2. Southeast: Presence

Savouring the Moment
A Wizard Is Never Late
A Brief Mystery of Time
Make Peace with the Present

3. South: Emotion

The Little Child of the Universe
Wholeness in Diversity
Truth and Reconciliation
React or Respond

4. Southwest: Path

Secret of the Aztecs
Fingerprints of the Gods
What Is My Purpose
The Golden Threads of Destiny

5. West: Healing

All Energy Has Consciousness
The Dynamic Dance of Opposites
The Medicine of the Four Elements
Death Is an Ally

6. Northwest: Dreaming

Night Dreaming
The Pebble and the Paddling Pool
The Tower and the Birds
Whispers of the Oracle

7. North: Heart

The Way of the Animal Teachers
The Heart of Courage
Soul Force
How Much Is Enough

8. Northeast: Energy

Change Your Body, Change Your Mind
Tending the Spirit Fire
Judge, Critic, or Observer?
Have All the Voices Been Heard?

CONCLUSION

The Centre of the Self

Notes
Bibliography
List of Practices
Recommended Connections
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Index