Don Juan and the Power of Medicine Dreaming: A Nagual Woman's Journey of Healing

SHAMANISM "This book will change the way many view spirituality. It is the kind of book that makes the rest of the world disappear as you get lost in the story . . . on par with the best writing of Carlos Castaneda." --Magical Blend magazine "In telling this story of her own healing through ancient energetic practices, Merilyn Tunneshende shows us how to see into the world of the nagual . . .an absolutely gripping story . . . an honest and timeless book." --Barbara Hand Clow, author of Catastrophobia Merilyn Tunneshende learned the secrets of Dream Power, energetic healing, and sorcery from don Juan Matus, the Toltec shaman who mentored Carlos Castaneda. This book is her personal story of over thirty years of interaction with the mystical guides, dreams, and prophecies of the Toltec and Maya. Through her journey we learn of the power of transmutational energies and how they might be applied to heal and transform our world. In the 1970s Merilyn Tunneshende had plans to travel the world, beginning with Mexico. Traumatized by the sudden death of her fiance after a series of premonitions, Merilyn found her adventurous trip transformed into a path of spiritual awakening, which took her into an intense apprenticeship with don Juan Matus. After becoming a fully initiated Toltec sorceress and Nagual Dreaming Woman, she experienced a trauma that threw her from the path of mystical study back into the everyday world of the West. For twelve years she pursued her career as a teacher and linguist--all but dismissing her former mystical experiences as madness. When a series of dreams began to pervade her consciousness and she received the heart-breaking diagnosis that she had AIDS, Merilyn returned to the world of Toltec-Mayan prophecy and nagualist training in order to unleash the transformative energy in her body to heal herself and to actualize transcendent liberation. MERILYN TUNNESHENDE has studied Toltec-Mayan shamanism since the early 1970s. The author of Don Juan and the Art of Sexual Energy: The Rainbow Serpent of the Toltecs, she leads workshops throughout the United States and abroad on the healing powers of nagualist shamanism, emphasizing dreaming, empowerment, energetic healing, and beyond-death states.