This book is based on research based on the original texts of the Pali Canon, the shamanic literature, and Jungian psychology. It shows that there is a common pattern in the development of a shaman and that the Buddha's development follows this pattern. It argues that consciousness is naturally shamanic.

Usually our personality is a confusion of contradictory impulses. We both want something and we don't want it. We love and we hate the same person. We despair of ever understanding ourselves.

The solution is to become literate about our personality. Hal and Sidra Stone developed the Voice Dialogue technique that enables us to interview the different parts of our personality as if they were individual people. Through it we learn to understand their conflicts and we submit their desires to the overall control of our Aware Ego. Awareness is always the solution to life's challenges.

This is the first Do-It-Yourself Voice Dialogue manual.

The Buddha didn't only teach ideas, he taught a method through which we may obtain Enlightenment and invited people to come and try his method. The Pali Canon, the literature of Theravada Buddhism which is practiced in Sri Lanka, Thailand and Burma, contains many exercises that go back to the Buddha himself. This book is an introduction the the teaching of the Buddha and in these early texts of the practise they recommend. In it, exercises that go back to the Buddha himself become accessible to everyone.

We are breathing beings. From our birth to our death, our live is defined by our breathing. When our breath stops, so does our life. And yet, how many of us know anything about our breath? At its simplest we breath in, our breath pauses, we breath out, our breath pauses, we breath in again. But each part of our breath has its own profound symbolisn. "Inspire " and "expire" are words about our breath. Everything we do and everything we are starts with our breathing. This is an introduction to your breathing and your breathing patterns with exercises to help you to understand and be inspired by your breath.