Truth - A Shaman's Book

About the Book

Life. It confuses, perplexes and confounds. Many people have written about it, few have offered explanations. In this new book Ross offers a unique perspective of life that differs significantly from our normal understanding of it. Ross provides insights into why life is the way it is and offers some groundbreaking insights into how we might live “fearlessly and passionately.”

Ross says, “Life can been viewed from many perspectives, and our present view is based upon the antiquated values of the age of conquest. Those old beliefs and values have simply outlived their usefulness. They inhibit our growth and development both as individuals and as a society.”

The Age of Conquest was part of The Age of Karma, a 20,000 year period that has covered much of the period of man’s social existence. During The Age of Karma, certain aspects of spiritual development, like enlightenment, were virtually impossible. We are entering a 50 year period that will be known as The Age of Awakening, and the rules regarding what is possible will be changing.

The Age of Awakening will both foster and encourage us to find different and more profound ways to view our existence, and that involves learning to live from the place of TRUTH. Learning to live from TRUTH powerfully changes how we see and feel about ourselves and how we deal with life.”

Shaman Ross says, “True inner peace can only be found by shifting perspectives and moving ourselves to the space of Truth. You cannot eliminate emotion from the ego space. Take an emotion like fear, for example. Fear arises because we feel separated from our natural selves – from our God-consciousness, or inner TRUTH. Living in the ego-space, we do our best to confront fear, but from the ego, you can only minimize emotion, you cannot eliminate it. We end up failing and then feel worse about ourselves. That,” says Bishop, “is a major flaw in our or present understanding of life.”

Ross continues, “taking the example of fear, if you shift to your center to the space of Universal Truth, you realize that fear is not a natural phenomenon but something created by our ego to fill the space of perceived separation from the Creator. Once you return to the God-space, fear simply ceases to exists, it is no longer relevant.” This is an example of the essential message contained in TRUTH. One of the book’s secrets is that it shows the individual how to move past the ego and live in the God-space.

The God-space is not some esoteric, spiritual practice known only to shaman. The concepts are quite simple and have been with us for quite some time. Ross points out that, “For thousands of years spiritual teachers of all kinds have urged us to do one simply thing – to open our hearts to ourselves and to each other. Whether you read the Bible, the Torah, the Bhagavad-Ghita, Buddha’s Sutras or the Koran, there is basically one message contained there: ‘Open your heart.” He points out that, “All any situation needs is more compassion. Whether it is an argument with your partner, being angry with yourself or the situation in Iraq, the whole world would be enormously better off if we would simply open our hearts to each other, but more especially to ourselves. The problem is that we have all been hurt and opening your heart under those circumstances can be very difficult. I work with that issue all the time in my workshops and in my private practice, and I have included some of the techniques I teach in Truth.”

TRUTH is written to help people learn to hold their God-space. Ross says “Actually what you have to do is to learn to stop not loving yourself. After that, nature takes care of everything else.” This is a groundbreaking book that will profoundly affect your life.