Your Inner Islands offers a narrative adventure to help readers develop intuition, and the full flowering of joy and creativity. Based on an ancient spiritual metaphor of crossing the ocean of conditioned awareness to reach a higher state of intuitive wisdom, this book takes the reader on an imaginary journey to the Other Shore. It provides the foundation for a multi-media course on developing intuition.Crossing the ocean, there are six islands on the way, each providing keys to developing intuitive wisdom. These mythical Islands of Light are: 1) Understanding, 2) Energy, 3) Meditation, 4) Imagination, 5) Relationship, and 6) Compassion.Your Inner Islands provides for a multi-media course on intuition, with Dr. Tuttle's original piano music and Madeleine's art enriching the teachings and exercises comprising each island (chapter) of the book. The companion CD, Islands of Light, contains the eighteen pieces of original piano music composed especially for this book by the author. Also, the author's spouse Madeleine Tuttle has painted a series of five paintings viewable online that go specifically with the book as well.
Author Biography:
Will Tuttle, Ph.D., is a visionary writer, speaker, and musician, and has presented and performed widely throughout North America and worldwide. He is devoted to helping people awaken their inner wisdom through education and to spreading uplifting original piano music through concerts and his critically-acclaimed albums. He is also the author of the international best-seller The World Peace Diet (Lantern Books, 2005, 2016), and editor of Circles of Compassion (Ve-gan Publishers, 2015). He has created a DVD, Conscious Eating, as well as three spoken audio CD's: The Four Viharas Guided Meditation, World Peace Meditations, and Living in Harmony With All Life. Dr. Tuttle has taught over 20 different courses at the college level, including courses in mythology, philosophy, humanities, com-parative religion, and creativity. His doctoral dissertation from the University of California, Berkeley, focused on educating intuition in adults and was nominated for the Best Dissertation Award in the Graduate School of Education. A Dharma Master in the Zen tradi-tion, he has done intensive training in Korea, and has practiced meditation for over forty years, studying contemplative Christianity, Vajrayana Buddhism, and a variety of non-Western spiritual tradi-tions. He works with his life partner, Madeleine, a visionary artist from Switzerland, providing seminars, concerts, lectures, media presentations, meditation retreats, exhibits, and individualized music and art portraits. For more information about their projects, online courses, and upcoming events, please see www.worldpeacediet.com or www.willtuttle.com.
