Touching the jaguar Transforming fear into action to change your life and the world
Book - 2020
"New York Times bestselling author John Perkins tells the dramatic story of how his experiences with shamans in Ecuador and Guatemala transformed him from an economic hit man to a dedicated decolonizer-and how anyone can overcome fear and take action"--
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- Autobiographies
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Oakland, CA :
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
[2020]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- First edition
- Physical Description
- x, 249 pages ; 24 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9781523089864
- Introduction: Meeting the Jaguar
- "Touching the jaguar" means that you can identify your fears and barriers, confront them, alter your perceptions about them, accept their energy, and take actions to change yourself and the world.
- Prologue: American Colonialism, Guatemala, 1993
- Empires had been colonizing tribes and nations for centuries, appropriating their economies, their lands, their peoples, their governments, and their minds...This time it had been done under the subterfuge of spreading democracy...
- Part 1. The Perception Trap 1968-1970
- I had no idea that he was suggesting that I might be upgraded from spy to economic hit man.
- 1. Welcome to the Miracle
- 2. Ayahuasca
- 3. Fighting Communism
- Part 2. The Death Economy 1970-1987
- It was a system that was bound to fail, to kill itself-what economists would later define as a Death Economy.
- 4. More Secrets
- 5. Economic Hit Man
- 6. Jackals Strike
- 7. Threatened
- Part 3. Changing the Dream 1987-1993
- The world is as you dream it. Your people dreamed of huge factories, tall buildings, as many cars as there are raindrops in this river. Now you begin to see that your dream is a nightmare.
- 8. Redemption
- 9. Dream Change
- 10. Two Realities
- Part 4. Uniting the Eagle and the Condor 1993
- The prophecy says that five hundred years later-now-the opportunity arises for the Eagle and the Condor to fly together, to mate, and to produce a new offspring, higher consciousness.
- 11. Dark Clouds
- 12. The Stones
- 13. The Ceremony
- Part 5. Confronting the Jaguar 1993
- They said they had dreamed on this, that their shamans had gone deep into the meaning of their visions, and they had concluded that they have to touch us-their people have to touch our people-initiate contact with the very thing they most fear.
- 14. Blood Lust
- 15. Threats from Two Governments
- 16. Decisions
- 17. Facing a Jaguar
- Part 6. The Legend of the Evias 1994-1995
- You must ask yourself about the Evias in your life. What scares you? ... What must you do to change this? ... You must do this alone. No one can help you. Only by doing that will you avoid going to war with yourself.
- 18. Stealing a Country
- 19. Piranhas
- 20. Kidnapped
- 21. Evil
- 22. A Shaman's Story
- 23. The Payoff.
- Part 7. Creating a Life Economy 1993-2017
- This Life Economy cleans up pollution, regenerates devastated environments, recycles, and develops new technologies that benefit people and nature. Businesses that pay returns to investors who invest in an economy that is itself a renewable resource become the success stories.
- 24. Coming Together
- 25. Commitment
- 26. Poisoned
- 27. Breaking Old Ideas
- 28. The Perception Bridge
- 29. The Alliance
- Part 8. Decolonization 2017-Present
- We are the Elder Siblings... Our job is to show you, the Younger Siblings, about taking care of our sacred mother, the earth.
- 30. The Kogi: Experts in Colonization
- 31. Good News
- Conclusion: The Jaguar's Message
- In these tracks, feel the jaguar that blocks your people. And feel the jaguar that is your ally for change.
- Resources
- Notes
- Author's Comment and Acknowledgments
- Index
- About the Author
- About the Pachamama Alliance