Böcker av Ira Rechtshaffer

This highly original work breathes life into each of the seven chakras and creatively transforms them into living entities with whom we can engage in conversation. Each chakra is a specific energy center and represents a state of awareness and a level of personal development. The chakra system is a map of personal transformation that can be used to discover how and where we get stuck in our development, and how we can liberate ourselves from these places so that our spiritual journey continues to evolve. Through dialogue with each of the chakras, you will learn how to befriend every part of yourself, even the shadowy parts, and cultivate your creativity, intuition, and deepen your awareness. The chakra system provides an ideal framework for doing this, as it addresses both our issues and our gifts. Such an integrated process can reconnect us with our lives as a whole. This book invites you into a new and expanded perspective for how to understand and creatively work with your body, heart, and mind in order to become all that you can be.

In Stealing Fire from the Gods, Dr. Rechtshaffer draws upon many years of experience, both as a Buddhist practitioner and teacher, and as a therapist, to offer a fresh description of Buddhist meditation as an expression of our deepest spiritual longing. This very readable book integrates a deep understanding of Buddhist meditation with insights from Western psychology, and addresses both the powers and the potential blindspots of each tradition. The Buddhist teachings go to the heart of what we want most-to meet the larger being that we are and to ignite the fire of our aliveness. Here we discover that the enlightened energy and intelligence that we''ve attributed to our gods, is the very same energy and intelligence that burns in each of our hearts.Stealing Fire from the Gods reveals the way to insight, freedom, and love, and will inspire those seeking to follow a spiritual way of life.

Ira Rechtshaffer unpacks the Buddhist map to personal transformation with psychological sophistication, offering fresh insights into the complexity of personality and the challenge of intimacy in relationships.