Jun Q'Anil: One Who Walks the Way

By Jessica Nagler

Professional Los Angeles Psychotherapist, Jessica Nagler, decides to risk everything-leaving her family, her fiancé, a prosperous career, and the known, for a spiritual quest in Central America. Jun Q'anil describes her extraordinary passage from this world into a very exotic one-and back. Have you wondered what might exist beyond your everyday perception? Psychotherapist Jessica Nagler did, so she walked away from a secure, successful life a flourishing career, fiancé, a comfortable routine and set out on a quest to discover true meaning and purpose. She found herself rootless in an unfamiliar and exotic land, beyond the outermost limits of her experience. Moving from one serendipitous encounter to another, eventually finding a Mayan shaman to guide her, she slipped into another culture and another world. Jessica nearly didn t return, but she did come back, fundamentally changed. Then she spent three years integrating the journey, redefining her identity, writing the story of her passage an astonishing adventure that you won t want to miss.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1879384604
• ISBN13: 9781879384606
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Cypress House
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Jessica Nagler Walks the Walk AND Talks the Talk

With all the interest in the Mayan Calendar and the coming changes, Jun Q'anil author Jessica Negler introduces us to a real Mayan Shaman. This is an amazing story and Jessica Nagler's honesty and vulnerability as she shares her sometimes perilous journey is a tribute to the human spirit. We are indeed the ones we have been waiting for, and this story brings this home in a personal - yet universal - manner. Sunny Ariel, author, Shalom my Love

Walking the Walk

From the moment I started the first chapter, I felt a sort of peacefulness that I never before experienced from reading a book. Jessica Nagler's courageous journey towards self-awakening is both inspiring and thought provoking. She does what many of us only dream of doing; leaving our familiar life behind in order to find our spiritual path. Her clear and creative writing style enables you to feel the awe, excitement, fears, and revelations she experienced while on her enchanting path towards self-growth. I would (and have) recommend this book to anyone who has expressed any interest in spiritual development.

more than entertainment

i consider good books as intellectually valuable. few are great books that transcend intellect by enhancing my behavior/perception in daily life. junqanil is a great book - rather, a tool that i will revisit annually. if you're serious about further enhancing your daily condition, junqanil will at least help. this is the only review i have contributed online, ever - hopefully this says something. doc s

An Enthralling Trip

Spiritually uplifting books can leave a reader depressed. So many spiritual journey travelogues are filled with standard clichés of a lost soul searching and suddenly finding "The Answer." Yet, one author's epiphany is another reader's emptiness. But what happens when the big moment, the prophetic revelation of the journey, calls into question the journey itself? What happens when the seeker realizes the truth might have always been in the mirror the entire time? Only then does the reader feel a deeper connection with the author and the odyssey, realizing whether at home or abroad, there are no easy answers. Jun Q'anil: One Who Walks the Way is a riveting, majestic and deeply profound new auto-bio trip from Jessica Nagler. This former thriving Los Angeles psychotherapist chooses to leave behind a fiancé, family and finances in hopes of losing and finding herself among the people and places of Central America. Jun Q'anil (a Mayan term given to the author by a shaman priest that means, "One who walks the way") is not a typical yogi treatise on the ways and means of the universe, but instead a story for Everyman of every faith - or none at all - who struggles with the larger questions of connection and reason for the disorder of things. The writing brilliantly shifts moods to match the situations. Nagler's first stop at Samadhi fills her with doubt, disease and depression. The curt, claustrophobic sentence structure fills the reader with similar anxiety and dread. Yet, by the time Nagler has acclimated, acquiesced and given herself to the idea of the journey, the writing suddenly opens up and the rain of wealthy experiences and exchanges wash lavishly across the pages. As the author delves deeper into her own consciousness, the tactile sensations of the sun's heat, the sky's pallor and the air's sweetness become more acute and symbolic of her emerging connection to the planet. The stories in different colorful cities move at brisk clips, so as to take snapshots of interesting characters and assemble them like a puzzle. The synchronicity of the pieces thus form the fabric of the narrative and ultimately of the author's true purpose. Jun Q'anil is On The Road for spiritual beatniks. There's the large green and yellow bird in Tamarindo that literally attaches itself to Nagler's leg and will not let go until silently communicating her next destination; there's captivating Chloe who shares a vibrant, spiritual awakening with Nagler in Hacienda Del Sol that may or may not be the specter of a real UFO; there's bawdy Fransisco who nearly kills Nagler while teaching her to surf off a remote tip of Costa Rica; and finally there's Joselo, the colorful mountaintop Mayan shaman priest so transcendent, he performs magical ceremonies with raw eggs and red beans, yet so contemporary he loves prime-time television and large glasses of Coke. With Joselo, Nagler arrives at the apex of her journey in Guatemala and must decide whether her true calling is life

Held Hostage

Jun Q'anil: One Who Walks the Way captured me and held me hostage until I finished it! I couldn't put it down. What an adventure! Ms. Nagler's description of the journey was vivid and full of fascinating characters....and I so admire her courage. I wish her great success with this book and will tell all my friends to get it.