These are books and audio recordings I have found inspirational and helpful in the past several years.  There are Amazon.com links for those items available through Amazon.com.  Please let me know of your favorites and new discoveries that are not listed. 

The Four-Fold Way:  Walking the Paths of the Warrior, Teacher, Healer and Visionary

by Angeles Arrien, PhD

Synopsis
Appearing throughout the world's native cultures, the Native American medicine wheel symbolizes the four directions, each with a particular teaching and approach to life. This book demonstrates how ancient archetypes can be used in everyday life - just as indigenous peoples have continued to embrace these ways for centuries. This book represents the universal values common to all humankind - the way of the warrior accesses the resources of power and presence, the way of the healer accesses the resources of love, gratitude, acknowledgement and validations, the way of the visionary accesses the resources of vision, intuition and authenticity and the way of the teacher accesses the resources of wisdom and objectivity. The book features meditational exercizes, a self-inventory that helps readers explore their progress through four archetypes, and inspirational quotations that act as sources of empowerment.

Janet McCallen:

I thoroughly enjoyed this easy-to-read book.  Not only does Arrien describe each of the four archetypes, she explores tools to strengthen them, and describes their shadow side as well.  I particularly found the questions she poses at the end of each section useful to my journaling.

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