Don Miguel Ruiz

Issue 47|July.August|2009 HEALTH & WELLNESS | HOROSCOPES | YOGA | PERSONAL ENLIGHTENMENT Interview with Don Miguel Ruiz Author of the New York Times best seller e Four Agreements SEPTEMBER 11, 12 &13 • LAKELAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE • KIRTLAND, OHIO Featuring James Van Praagh “Talking to Heaven” James Van Praagh, world-renowned psychic medium, best-selling author and co-executive producer of the CBS drama, The Ghost Whisperer Three days of lectures, A great variety of vendors featuring demonstrations and workshops nutrition, bodywork, crystals, music, to spark you to higher levels of astrology, psychic readings, aura imagery, consciousness. organics, and much more! PAGE TWO JULY • AUGUST 2009 THE JOURNEY MIND BODY SOUL EXPO 2009 SEPTEMBER 11, 12 &13 • LAKELAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE • KIRTLAND, OHIO and Don Miguel Ruiz “Please Help Me to Save the World” Don Miguel Ruiz, author of the influential books The Four Agreements and The Mastery of Love Sandra Taylor Agnes Thomas Laura Lee HUGE Also PSYCHIC Featuring FAIR “Achieving Prosperity In “An Introduction to “Spirit Salon” Difficult Times” Telepathic Communica- tion With Animals” For more info visit thejourneymag.com, email [email protected] or 440.223.1392 | Limited Vendor Space Available THE JOURNEY JULY • AUGUST 2009 PAGE THREE Download the Journey at www.thejourneymag.com From the Publisher July.August.2009 | Issue 47 find the term “New Age” very Ancient Wisdom = Common Sense|6 interesting. It seems to have a different By TC Brown meaning for so many people. Some look at it as a catch- all for anything The Wisdom of Remembering We are Enough |10 that might be a bit off the norm, kind of an I By Trista Hill airy-fairy thing. Others fear it, as if it were the work of Satan. Many in the “New Age” |12 movement use it as a way to help change Ancient Vibrations Your Sound Energy By Sandra Anne Taylor human consciousness. I look at this movement as nothing more then The Primordial Fire A New Age Dinner Table|14 By Chris Brown bringing forth ancient wisdom that has been around since man. Go to most any New Age bookstore and you will find tomes on ancient Ancient/Modern Fusion|22 practices like feng shui or aromatherapy. By Jeff Rosenbaum The books and movies about the law of Can the Wisdom of Ancients Guide Seekers Today?|32 attraction and manifestation are based upon By Denise Piersante spiritual teachings from eons ago. Sound therapy was used thousands of years ago Health & Nutrition | 17-20 Yoga | 25-28 in the form of mantras. You only need to Grandma Knew Best New Age Messages go into a Hindu temple to see color therapy Back for a Future of Healthful Eating Bear Ancient Principles and how it has been implemented to change By Janee Kuta-Iliano By wah! consciousness. Reiki, massage, Qigong, Tai Chi, and yoga are Publisher Clyde Chafer just of a few of the modalities and physical Editor TC Brown practices that have gained popularity in this Proofreader Katie Krancevic movement, but again are based on ancient wisdom. Advertising Manager Clyde Chafer | 440.223.1392 Advertising Sales Portia Yiamouyiannis 614-403-0142 A long time ago a friend told me life is Layout Bill Wahl | 440.552.8622 & Hank Wilson like one big circle. We just go around and experience, ending up back in the same place Feature Writers TC Brown but with more information. Trista Hill Sandra Anne Taylor May we each stay open to being “new” with Chris Brown wisdom to help us as we trudge along our Jeff Rosenbaum roads to happy destiny. Denise Piersante — Namaste’ Clyde September/October theme: “Earth” The Journey is a free bi-monthly publication. We do not necessarily endorse the views expressed in the articles and advertisements, nor are we responsible for the products and services advertised. © 2009 God’s Partnership, Inc. No portion of this publication may be reproduced without written consent from the publisher. PAGE FOUR JULY • AUGUST 2009 THE JOURNEY Contributors Wah! In this new age of communica- tions, we’re in a time where we can share ancient wisdom quicker and with more people than ever before, Wah, a regular contributor to the magazine, tells us. That doesn’t make it any easier to digest or use. Wah investigates code breaking and the use of new age markets in her thought-provoking piece found within the yoga section of the magazine. Chris Brown ind can accept How about considering assembling any boundary around the dinner table as a way to anywhere. But the touch into some ancient wisdom? reality is that, by First-time contributor Chris Brown “Mits very nature, existence cannot have explores this surprising association any boundary, because what will be and all that we might take from mak- beyond the boundary - again another sky. ing this comparison. The ancients, That’s why I’m saying skies upon skies no doubt, gathered around a primor- are available for your flight. Don’t be dial fire to exchange food and tales, content easily. Those who remain content learning valuable life lessons along easily remain small: small are their joys, the way. Thus, food is more than a small are their ecstasies, small are their sustenance for the body, Brown says. silences, small is their being. But there We could learn much by gathering is no need! This smallness is your own as families, once again, around the imposition upon your freedom, upon table, he says. your unlimited possibilities, upon your unlimited potential.” —Osho Trista Hill Writers will clutch any device available for inspiration. Trista Hill, a first-time contributor to the magazine, fueled herself on vegan fudge and lemon sorbet before descending into a deep and fascinating exploration about the wisdom of trying to re- member that you are always enough, despite the directions others may lead you. Remembering is a choice we can all make, even in the midst of dark times, Hill tells us. But some- times, to survive, you must at least temporarily forget. Wisdom told from the heart. THE JOURNEY JULY • AUGUST 2009 PAGE FIVE Ancient Wisdom = Common Sense Packaged in Contemporary Wrappings By TC Brown In many ways, this issue’s theme, ancient philosophies by translating but we call it new age because it is “New Age-Ancient Wisdom,” them into contemporary concepts happening now.” is also a central message in the so that one may be transformed Living in that “now” with teachings of Don Miguel Ruiz. through truth and common sense. awareness that we create our own Don Miguel’s Web site www. Don Miguel will appear at The individual worlds and therefore are miguelruiz.com says as much, Journey Expo 2009 from 1 p.m. to responsible for our own happiness is pointing out that in the tradition of 4 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 12. www. the way to fulfill our mission here, the Toltec, shamans or guides teach thejourneymag.com Don Miguel explains. one how to attain personal freedom. “Old wisdom is nothing but “Everyone comes to this planet Toltecs are a population common sense,” Don Miguel says with one mission, and that very and society that inhabited pre- in a recent telephone interview. important mission is to make Columbian central Mexico who “And of course they are connected, ourselves happy,” Don Miguel says. some believe to be real, while others “The world we create is how think they were fictional. Real or not, as his Web site points out, Don Miguel, “combining new insights with old wisdom,” shares “Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.” — Don Miguel Ruiz PAGE SIX JULY • AUGUST 2009 THE JOURNEY “When you love, whatever you do is because you want to do it. we live our lives right now.” He found himself drawn back into the It becomes a In other words, it’s an inside job. Toltec philosophies. He began touring “It is your own creation and you are in the United States in 1987, teaching pleasure, it’s responsible,” he says. “Nobody else is small groups of people spiritual issues, responsible.” self healing and happiness. like a game, For some, in this era of frightening He realized that many people and complex hard times, that concept struggled to quiet their minds and out and you have may be difficult and even troubling to of those observations he developed grasp. But hidden within crisis is a silver methods and a philosophy that fun with it. lining by the name of opportunity, says eventually led to his writing the Don Miguel. powerful “New York Times” best seller When you “Now things are a little more “The Four Agreements” in 1997. It is a intense,” he says. “I see crisis, but I see spiritual checkup that presents a guide it as opportunity. These opportunities for a way to live “distinguished by the love, you will change the way we see everything.” ready accessibility of happiness and love.” don’t expect Knocked Down The Four Agreements are: but Not Out something 1. Don’t take anything personally. Don Miguel confronted his own 2. Don’t make assumptions. personal calamity seven years ago when to happen; 3. Always do your best. a near fatal heart attack felled him. When he finally emerged from a coma, 4. Be impeccable with your word. whatever doctors told him only a small percent The message he conveys in this of his heart’s capacity remained and he and his other books and in his public happens is would have to cease much of his work, appearances is simple and practical and, including his public speaking tours.

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