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| The Four-Fold Way: Walking the Paths of the Warrior, Teacher, Healer, and Visionary | 
 enlarge | Author: Angeles Arrien
Publisher: HarperOne
Category: Book
List Price: $19.00 (44.73 RON)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 26879
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.3 x 0.7
ISBN: 0062500597
Dewey Decimal Number: 291
EAN: 9780062500595
ASIN: 0062500597
Publication Date: February 26, 1993
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Seems to be more quotes from other writers than this author's own viewpoint January 15, 2008
I'm about halfway through this book. It contains good information about the four paths and their shadow sides, but I'm having a hard time getting past the fact that this author continuously quotes other authors instead of taking their information and putting it into her own words.
It gives the feeling of a collection of tidbits that will encourage further research.
I will revise this review once I have completed the book.
 Take time with this book. This aint no all-nighter. April 27, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The exploration of archetypes and symbols within one's life is a powerful tool for self understanding, healing and growth. And so, this is a significant book in my life at least.
This book took a while to be effective in my case. It has become well-worn from being opened to certain pages over and over again. It is marked, folded, penned and penciled in many spots.
I had to go through just one part at a time, and then take time--- to think about the words and their meanings, meditate upon how it applied in my life. Thus, I was able to experience difficult but valuable lessons when taking on the roles of Warrior, Healer, Visionary and Teacher while living through my own self-disassembly and dissection.
I know some reviewers didnt like them, considering them hodgepodge puzzles of various religions... but I particularly liked the tables and charts that illustrate the symbols and things to contemplate upon and process for a particular archetype or power role. For example, I was drawn first to "The Way of The Healer" and Arrien presents the following ideas, symbols and actions: Direction: South/ Element: Earth/ Human Resource: Love/ Kind of Meditation: Lying/ Way of Living: Right Speech/ Four-Fold Way: Pay Attention/ Season: Spring... to just name a few. Trying out the ideas on for size, the suggested practices, the skills... takes a lot of time! I can read a cliffhanger novel in one night, but I couldn't do that with the stuff in this book. LOL.
And so, I read this book for 1 year for self-healing and gained some inner strengthening. I also began to recognize my boundaries and the circle of power that I would have to be willing to stand in. During this time I also began to see patterns of these archetypes in leadership roles within communities and societies and thus continued discerning and observing the qualities of Warrior, Healer, Visionary and Teacher in the admirable men and women leaders I have met personally.
Bottom line, the ideas and symbols associated with Warrior, Healer, Visionary and Teacher needed time and again, contemplation, trial and error, before it really opened up for clearer understanding on the levels of mind and heart for me. Maybe this book can work for you too if you give it some time and your self some patience.
Fare thee well, book lover and fellow Seeker!
Four-fold Way February 25, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I like the book better than the CDs. There is a nice breakdown of information and a simple to understand text.
5 stars for 4 Fold February 23, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I got this book as recommended reading for a workshop I took on the heart. It contains a wealth of information presented in a warm, stratighforward way. There's so much in it to help guide you to opening yourself up where you need it and to expanding your knowledge of yourself. I practice some of the exrciese and meditations daily and refer to it often.
 What a mish-mosh October 27, 2004
9 out of 16 found this review helpful
This book is a New Age muddle of incorrect assumptions about buddhism and various aboriginal belief systems. This author doesn't get ANY of it quite right. She takes bits and pieces from different religious or philisophical traditions and sticks them together with bits of cellophane tape. I've seen collages made by kindergardeners that made more philisophical sense.
NOT recommended.
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