Medicine Dream: A Nagual Woman's Energetic Healing

by Merilyn Tunneshende

The Tzolkin, the Mayan prophetic calendar, points to this age as one of great change and transformation. Beginning in the last Katun-twenty-year cycle-the Earth Mother will withdraw her life force... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571740465
• ISBN13: 9781571740465
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing Company
• Length: 231 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Puzzle Piece

Similar to several of the other reviewers, I have read all the works mentioned as well as Ken Eagle Feather and Victor Sanchez. This work is another piece of a very complex puzzle. It is simply not the story of Carlos nor the last piece of the puzzle for those looking (including me) for the A-B-C guide to becoming a Toltec. I am reading Merilyn's second book regarding sexuality now and will then move on to the Thune Mares series. I keep trying to remember that it's the path and how we walk it that matters. This is a good story.... read the intro and two pages at a bookstore. If you like what you read in that time, come back here and buy it. It is a good addition to my collection and I will read it again. Happy trails.

Don't misunderstand this book

I fully agree with the review number 1 for this book, and find it disappointing that some other review writers did not have a positive experience. I have also read every single work by Carlos Castaneda, Florinda Donner-Grau and Taisha Abelar, and when all these writers bring in their piece of the puzzle a more and more multi-faceted picture of the teachings of don Juan emerges.It is clear that Ms Tunneshende's experience with don Juan was very different from that of Castaneda or Donner-Grau, but to my understanding this book was never meant to be an extension of their experience but to let Ms Tunneshende describe her own. I have not read any articles etc by Ms Tunneshende, so perhaps I do not have the full picture, but the important thing is that the book is not about Carlos Castaneda or don Juan, but John Black Crow (who is the don Juan Ms Tunneshende knew). Personally I thought that this book was fantastic and it gave me new insights and learning, and I would warmly recommend it to anybody interested in the path. I hope that Ms Tunneshende will write a continuation to this and I can't wait to read it. My heart goes out to her in the heavy work she has personally taken upon herself. However, this book does represent a different paradigm to the works of Castaneda and Donner-Grau (who I also appreciate very highly), and Tunneshende's work and role is different.NB just for the record, my dreams also changed since starting to read it - interestingly they involved blood sacrifice before I got that far in the book (and I don't normally have this kind of thing in my dreams I am glad to say).

Filled with powerful revelations.

I've read this book three times now, and each read leaves me with new lessons learned and more awe. Merilyn's writing style and portrayal of John Black Crow (don Juan) and Chon Yakil (don Genaro) is very different from Carlos Castaneda's, but that's because she was a very different pupil from CC. Having a lot of natural energy and talent, Merilyn progresses quickly through her lessons, enabling John and Chon to involve her in deeply powerful and visionary dreaming practices.

Medicine Dream Rules

Having read all of Castaneda's books, Taisha Abelar's book, Florinda Donner's last two books, articles by Tunneshende and interviews with her, interviews with Castaneda and statements about her by the editors of Magical Blend magazine, I can state with no effort that Merilyn is legit. How do I know? Because my dreams underwent a dramatic and powerful change the first night I started her book.I'm sorry some were disappointed but the only way to judge books such as these is by how you feel after reading them. I was touched by the book and by the woman's view of Juan Matus' world. As an aside, the publisher of her book informed me that the book was written in the form of a novel based on fact.