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TABLE OF CONTENTS
CONTENTS The Religion of Love 1. The Masters of Love Stepping Onto the Path with Heart ...1 Seekers After Happiness, 4 Rumi: The Flowering Soul, 8 The Lover's Wheel: Medicine Teachings, 11 Merging Forms: A Sufi Medicine Wheel, 16 The Map of the Journey, 18 How the Stream Crossed the Desert, 22 Taking the First Step, 28 2. The Birth of the Lover Why Our Souls Fear Love and Love Fear ... 29 The Journey of the Soul, 30 Where Did I Come From? 33 Myth-conceptions, 34 Meetings with God, 35 Facing Our Fears of Love, 38 Where All Fears Begin, 40 Forms of Fear, 42 The Growth of Fear, 43 The Mood of the World, 44 These Fatal Wounds, 46 Explorations, 50 How Etsaa Became the Sun, 55 3. Seeking the Beloved Where True Power Can Be Found ...57 Powerful Myths, 58 The Illusion of Power, 59 Grabbing Power from Others and Losing It for Ourselves: Family Scripts and Dramas, 62 The Shocking Conclusion, 63 Meditations on Not-Being, 65 When We Are Not Selfless, 75 Loving the Tyrant, 77 Explorations, 81 The Priest Who Knew Too Little, 84 4. Life Games and Their Players Finding a Pathway to Love ...85 The Games of Life, 87 In the West of the Wheel, 94 Knowing How to Know Truth, 95 The God in the Hat, 96 All That We Know, 98 Explorations, 100 5. Staying Awake on the Path Avoiding That "Is It All Worth It?" Feeling ...105 But If Not Love, Then What? 107 The Value in Suffering, 109 Scars, 112 The Compassionate Soul, 113 The Beauty of Death, 115 Living with Patience and Good Intentions, 117 Nothing Matters, 118 Explorations, 119 6. The Medicine Wheel of Relationships Balancing Ourselves & Finding Our Way to the Center ... 127 Balancing the Four Bodies, 128 Harmonizing the Physical Self (The East), 134 Harmonizing the Emotional Self (The South), 136 Harmonizing the Mental Self (The West), 137 Harmonizing the Spiritual Self (The North), 140 Enhancing Mystical Powers (The Center), 141 Explorations, 143 7. Completing the Circle What Our Relationships Teach Us ... 147 Self-Knowledge: Shrinker of Journeys, 149 The Map of Loving Relationships, 150 The Soul of Souls, 156 Explorations, 157 The Beetle and the Broomstick, 160 8. Strive to Be a Lover Throw Away the Books & Start a Revolution! ...161 The Wise King, 163 References and Further Notes, 167 Index of Terms, 181 Index of People and Traditions (by first name), 189 Acknowledgments & Thanks, 193
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