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Snarp Farkle August 26 - September 9, 2009 www.northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 3 Featuring James Van Praagh, world-renowned psychic medium, best-selling author and co-executive producer of the CBS drama, The Ghost Whisperer Don Miguel Ruiz was born into a Combining new insights with old wisdom, family of healers and raised in rural Mexico don Miguel has dedicated his life to sharing by a curandera (healer) mother and nagual the ancient Toltec wisdom by translating it (shaman) grandfather. The family anticipated into practical concepts that promote don Miguel would embrace their centuries transformation through truth and common old legacy of healing and teaching and as a sense. nagual, carry forward the esoteric Toltec Thousands of years ago, the Toltec were knowledge. Instead, distracted by modern known throughout southern Mexico as life, don Miguel chose to attend medical women and men of knowledge. school and later teach and practice as a Anthropologists have spoken of the Toltec as surgeon. a nation or a race. But the Toltec were Don Miguel began teaching in the United scientists and artists who formed a society to States, with his mother, the Curandera, Don Miguel Ruiz is the author of “The Four Agreements” explore and conserve the spiritual knowledge Sarita in 1987. He taught small groups of and practices of the ancient ones. It may and “The Mastery of Love” people in a small room in Logan Heights, seem peculiar that they combined the secular CA. Working with Sarita, he first began with with the sacred, but the Toltec considered THE JOURNEY healing practices. 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