Philip Shepherd is an internationally recognized embodiment expert and the author of New Self New World. He travels the world teaching people how to ground their thinking in the calm, deep-dwelling intelligence of the body.
“Philip Shepherd has gifted us a book that reframes our basic
understanding of getting the most out of body intelligence. It
rearranges the familiar top-down authorship from cerebral brain to
body and restores body presence to a borderless merging of
intelligence that includes inside/outside and sensory awareness.
Ingest this book and let it ruminate throughout your daily dance.
Take Shepherd’s experiences to heart and practice the exercises he
shares with us to reclaim our inheritance as fully functional
breathing sensing alive awake beings.”
—Vinn Arjuna Martí, Designer of Soul Motion®. A conscious dance
practice.
“Radical Wholeness is an important book. It’s a “deep dive” into
understanding our somatic experience of being and
provides a path back to wholeness. And for students of the
Enneagram, this is a book not to be missed. You’ll be amazed and
delighted by how what Shepherd reveals so exquisitely adds to the
exploration of the three centers of intelligence.”
—Curt Micka, President of the International Enneagram Association
(IEA). (The opinions expressed here are not an endorsement by
the IEA.)
“With words of shimmering clarity, Philip Shepherd blows the door
between body and mind off its hinges. Calling us with rigor,
sensitivity, wisdom and imagination towards a future grounded in
resurrected human capacities of awareness, he shows not only why
but also how to develop those capacities, awakening intelligence we
didn’t know we had. Radical Wholeness is sorely needed and
sweet-tasting medicine for a fragmented world.”
—Amnon Buchbinder, author, Biology of Story, Professor of
Screenwriting, York University
“This very wise book shows why it is impossible and ultimately
suicidal to attempt to secede from nature, as our
culture has tried to do through denying our oneness and
wholeness with the world. We are nature, and there is no ‘out
there’ that exists independently from our consciousness, our
knowing. As Max Planck, the founder of quantum physics put it, ‘We
cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about,
everything that we regard as existing, postulates
consciousness’—for consciousness, he said, is ‘fundamental.’ But do
not think Radical Wholeness is merely a philosophical
treatise. It is a practical blueprint for embodying information in
the service of human welfare and survival. Our future depends on
the vision Philip Shepherd powerfully and eloquently presents in
Radical Wholeness.”
—Larry Dossey, MD, author, One Mind: How Our Individual Mind Is
Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why It Matters
“In a culture as broken and fragmented as ours, this book is
painfully overdue. Going beyond outdated notions of ‘holistic,’
Philip Shepherd has captured the essence of individual
embodiment and its inextricable connection with everyone and
everything. What our world desperately needs now are not more smart
homo sapiens, but fully present and embodied holo sapiens who feel
and live in grounded inter-relatedness. In this book,
Shepherd has provided us with an extraordinary tool kit that
tenderly and skillfully integrates mind, body, and soul with
all life in the universe. If you long to reconnect with your deeper
self, other living beings, and the Earth, you must read this
book.”
—Carolyn Baker, PhD, co-author with Andrew Harvey of Return to Joy
and author of Love in the Age of Ecological Apocalypse: Cultivating
the Relationships We Need to Thrive
“When Philip Shepherd asked me to look at his new manuscript, I was
unprepared for the extraordinary experience that awaited me—within
minutes I literally couldn’t put his book down. Radical Wholeness
was not just talking about, but was literally speaking to—and
invoking—a deeper, more whole and healed part of myself. While I
was reading, I had the overwhelming feeling that it is as if this
book is a multi-vitamin and mineral supplement—real
medicine—secreted by the universe itself to help us heal our
collective insanity. I can’t recommend Radical Wholeness highly
enough.”
—Paul Levy, author of Dispelling Wetiko: Breaking the Curse of
Evil
“Philip Shepherd is a force of nature. Fully embodied and
present in the world, he stands outside the most fundamental
bias of Western culture and offers us nothing less than a new
center to live from. In his hands, wholeness is no longer just an
idea or a goal to strive for; it becomes a visceral experience, and
one that can be accessed at will through brilliantly simple
practices. Here you will find both the vision and the means
to come home to your own wholeness. This luminous book is
clearly a lifework. Don’t miss it. It will transform you.”
—Morgan Farley, PhD., author of Name Yourself Feast
“As a social ecologist I highly recommend this book as a valuable
guide to a new way of being whole in our fragmented world.”
—Ben-Zion Weiss, PhD, author of The Creativity Revolution:
Steps to an Ecology of Culture
“In Radical Wholeness, Shepherd has given us an insight into what
it really means to be human, and it could very well
challenge our fundamental assumptions around this. Radical
Wholeness is a profoundly personal message with truly global
ramifications, written at a time of great need.”
—Michael Anderson, CEO Mediaworks NZ
“Radical Wholeness is a profound, ground-opening, stunning book—a
true masterpiece. Shepherd illuminates the madness of our western
culture and entices the reader to drop into the wholeness that is
always here with a powerful/urgent/gentle invitation to live from
it. The radical wholeness that Shepherd embodies, in my experience,
is the goal of all therapy and spiritual practice. This is one of
the most profound books I have read in twenty-five years of
practice and I will be recommending it to all my peers and
clients.
—Natalie Lascelles, Psychotherapist and mindfulness coach
“This wonderful book written with tremendous clarity and profound
wisdom should be in the library or backpack of every spiritual
seeker. Its advice on embodiment is the best around and the
practices Shepherd has evolved are matchlessly effective.”
—Andrew Harvey, author The Hope: A Guide to Sacred Activism
“This is the best book I have read on embodiment, I cannot
recommend it highly enough.”
—Jill Angelo, author Sacred Space: Turning Your Home into a
Sanctuary
“Philip Shepherd shakes up our way of looking at
ourselves and the world. He challenges the way we were
taught to think, and offers us
something that could radically change
how we live. Reading Radical Wholeness offers us real
hope, the kind of hope that sees a way out of the
quagmire of living in a unsustainable way in our own lives
and our shared world. If there was ever a time for this
book—this is it! Read it. Breathe it in. Let it change how you see
and live and love your life and the world.”
—Oriah “Mountain Dreamer” House, author of The Invitation
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