cover image Mastering the Toltec Way: A Daily Guide to Happiness, Freedom, and Joy

Mastering the Toltec Way: A Daily Guide to Happiness, Freedom, and Joy

Susan Gregg. Red Wheel/Weiser, $24.95 (416pp) ISBN 978-1-59003-050-9

This book of daily insights is structured according to the moon's cycles: it contains 13 chapters, each with meditations for 28 days, and readers are encouraged to begin a new chapter at a new or full moon. Gregg, author of ""The Toltec Way"" and ""Dance of Power,"" draws upon Toltec wisdom and stories to help readers develop a heightened spiritual awareness, which she says is quite different from what the mind sees. She asks that readers commit themselves for a full year to the book's exercises, promising that their lives will ""change dramatically"" if they abandon themselves to the program. Throughout, visualization exercises offer opportunities to cultivate awareness. Although the stories stem from the Mesoamerican Toltec tradition, unusual source material for a New Age devotional, the advice in the book is fairly standard mind-body-spirit fare.