As some of you may know, I am collaborating with my good friend, Alberto Villoldo, PhD., to write a new book exploring the ultimate common ground where a shamanic view of the brain, brain function and illness, and concsiousness are ultimately unified with the concepts underpinning current neuroscience (as seen through the eyes of a somewhat renegade neurologist).

Meanwhile, Alberto’s latest book Courageous Dreaming: How Shamans Dream the World into Being has just been released and is a must read. I invite you to read this book which has a timely message about how to create a life filled with peace, health and abundance.

Courageous Dreaming is available at all major book retailers and online at Amazon.com

Book Review

Courageous Dreaming: How Shamans Dream the World into Being

Modern physics tells us that were dreaming the world into being with every thought. In his new book, Courageous Dreaming, Alberto Villoldo, PhD, medical anthropologist and psychologist, teaches how to dream our world with power and grace. The ancient shamans of the Americas understood that were not only creating our experience of the world, but are dreaming up the very nature of reality itself. When you dont dream your life, you have to settle for the nightmare being dreamed by others.

In this book you will discover how to wake up from the collective nightmare and begin to dream a life of courage and grace. This is a sacred dream that shamans and sages, throughout time, have known and served. You will learn the ancient wisdom teachings that explain how to birth reality from the invisible matrix of creation; and interact with this matrix to dream a life of peace, health, and abundance. You will come to understand that courage is all that is required to create the joy you desire!

About Alberto Villoldo

Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D. is a

medical anthropologist who

has spent the last 30 years

investigating the healing

practices of the shamans of

the Amazon and the Andes.

He is the founder of the Four

Winds Society, an organization

dedicated to the bridging

of ancient shamanic

traditions with modern medicine and psychology;

and is the author of over 10

books, including Shaman,

Healer, Sage, The Four

Insights and Yoga, Power

and Spirit. The Four Winds

Society Healing the Light

Body School, provides a

scientic framework through

which it is possible to learn

the ancient healing practices

that can be “known but not

told.”

For more information visit

www.thefourwinds.com

From Sonic.net

An 8oz glass of water weighs 1/2 a pound, an 8oz glass of gas from the center of the sun would weigh about 75 pounds.

Next time you drink a glass of water think about this: the hydrogen molecules in water are 14 billion years old, they were created at the same time as the universe.

10 percent of television ‘Snow’ is caused by microwave radiation from the big bang.

June 1, 1999 General Motors Corp. has a device in many of its new cars that functions like the black box recorder in airplanes: It collects data as a car crashes.

(Source: CNN)

June 2, 1999 Using laser beams like tweezers, Japanese Graduate student Yasuharu Arai has managed to tie incredibly tiny knots in strands of DNA.

(Source: CNN)

May 26, 1999 The scientists who created Dolly, the world’s first cloned mammal, said the 3-year-old sheep has DNA in her cells typical of a much older animal.

(Source: CNN)

An elephant’s trunk contains more than 50,000 muscles.

(Source: U.S. Humane Society)

The Panda bear is expected to become extinct by about 2040, barring a drastic change of events. Artificial insemination could delay the extinction of the giant panda by about 60 years or more, according to scientists who want to use the technique to produce more pandas.

(Source: CNN/Associated Press)

A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.

After English, the most widely used languages on the Internet are German, Japanese, French, Spanish, Swedish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Norwegian, Finnish, Czech, Danish, Russian, and Malay.

(Source: The Babel team)

The sky is shrinking and has been doing so for the past 40 years, scientists have discovered. About five miles of sky have been lost since 1958, and that figure may double over the next century. Researchers studying the Earth’s upper atmosphere, 56 miles up, said the contraction is probably a result of the greenhouse effect.

The world’s three richest people have assets that exceed the combined wealth of the 48 least developed countries, according to a recent United Nations report on global inequality.

A car is stolen every 30 seconds in the United States.

The Russian Blue is a breed of cat prone to having an extra toe. Six toed cats are so common in Boston and surrounding parts of Massachusetts that some experts consider it an established mutation.

Cats have a third eyelid, called a haw, which is rarely visible. If it is visible it could be an indication of ill health.

There is no existing photograph of Italian violin virtuoso Niccolo Paganini (1782-1840) however, a photograph that has been proven beyond a doubt to be a fake, can still be found in encyclopedias etc.

Blood is composed of a yellowish fluid, called plasma, in which are suspended the millions of cells that constitute about 45 percent by volume of whole blood. In an average healthy adult, the volume of blood is one-eleventh of the body weight, or between 4.5 and 6 liters (5 and 6 qt).

For all of you who are Steely Dan fans, here is the site for the rest of their 2007 tour scheduled thus far. What does this have to do with brain health? Steely Dan has always worked for me. Always in the background when studying. Donald Fagen and Walter Becker are magical.Official Steely Dan