Josheph Rael (beatiful Painted Arrow) has been called our greatest living shaman. Here, in the first scholarly examination of his remakable life and teachings, Kurt Wilt, PhD. places this Native Amercian mystic in the context of other writers and mystic traditions, from Buddhism and the Kabbalists to Hildegrad of Bengen, Josheph Cambelll and William Blake. In doing so he uncovers vital connections between Real's Native American worldview and the deepest roots of other visionary teachings. The Visionary, tells thae fascinatiing story of a life in tune with the VAst Spirits and inspires the reader to learn more and to implement the visionary's teachings through the 33 meditation practices detailed in the " Following the Visions" section of the book. This book is for the reader ready to go deeper into the emerging worldview that ackacknowleges humans' conneciton to earth and sky, to matter and the unmanifested. to all that is, and all that is coming to be . It is not a book to be read and forgotten, but opens a path to a new way of knowing and being far hamans now.

All Ages.