April 2008 Books
Beyond the Icarus Factor; Serpent of Light
Beyond the Icarus Factor
Releasing the Free Spirit of Boys
Boys. Have we misunderstood them, squashed their creativity, imprisoned their spirits in a system of norms as dangerous as the Cinderella notion for girls? Dr. Richard Hawley, for many hears headmaster of a Cleveland prep school and founder of the International Boys' Schools Coalition, clearly believes we have—and that if we know what's good for us, we will take steps now turn things around.
Beyond the Icarus Factor is a call to reconsider the place of boys in the family, schools, and community institutions that rob them of their inborn vitality and resourcefulness. Contending that all boys possess an inherent free-spirit nature, he argues convincingly that efforts to alter or suppress that nature lead to profound unhappiness, pathology, or startling compulsions.
If we are to set our society on the right track, Hawley maintains, we must invent an approach that empowers the inborn tendency toward fantasy and imagination rather than channeling it at an early age into problem solving. And this is not going to be an easy task, for to accomplish it we must release our attachment to the known model, step through our fears and allow the nature of boys that frightens us so to emerge in full flight.
Thank heaven for little boys—that's what we must do. Real little boys, just the way they are. For without them, what will little girls do? Seriously, I think this is part of what Barack Obama is challenging us to do—to let all the parts of ourselves be revealed and, from that, to invent a new future.
What happens to our boys when they're still boys is critical to our future. I hope you'll read this book.
—Chiwah
Serpent of Light
Beyond 2012: The Movement of the Earth’s Kundalini
and the Rise of the Female Light, 1949 to 2013
You've heard about kundalini. Maybe you've even experienced it. Perhaps you've thought of it as something that only spiritually evolved humans experience. Drunvalo Melchizedek—who initiated us into awareness of the Flower of Life—is about to change that.
It seems that Mother Earth also goes through her kundalini experiences as her life energy arises every 12,920 years from its resting place at the core of the earth to travel serpent-like across the surface of the planet and take up residence in a new location. Drunvalo offers another way of looking at this: Mother Earth's kundalini has two poles, one in the center of the earth and the other on the earth's surface, and every 12,920 years the poles reverse.'Ahh, yes, we've been hearing about the coming pole reversal….
Aren't you glad you elected to come into embodiment to witness this shift? Because now is the time, once again. Those who are aware of what is happening with Earth's grid are not intimidated by the chaos going on in the affairs of mankind, Drunvalo tells us, for they know that everything is about to change—that the spiritual awareness of all humanity is budding and about to blossom, bringing heart opening and soul expansion. When the poles reverse, when the serpent completes this latest journey, nothing will be as it was.
It happened in Lemuria. It happened in Atlantis. It happened in India and Tibet. And now, in the years since 1949, the Serpent of Light has been making its way to the Andes Mountains of Chile and Peru—and from the male pole to the female. Not without trauma—tens of thousands of earth stewards, mostly indigenous people, have been busy being planetary midwifes through this process, which sometimes defies the laws of physics as we understand them. Ah, well, there's so much to learn….
Drunvalo Melchizedek has been traveling and teaching in the service of higher consciousness for over thirty years. In Serpent of Light , he takes us by the hand and explains the basic principles upon which understanding of this vast transformation must rest, then leads us on a thrilling exploration of our interdimensional nature via his own experience of ceremonies at sacred sites all around the world.
Serpent of Light is an adventure story of unparalleled dimensions—the story of an adventure in which each of us has a role to play. It's our adventure. I hope you won't let the year go by without reading this amazing book.
—Chiwah
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