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Dancing with the Fire

by Michael Sky

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Table of Contents

1. First Steps: an introduction to and description of the firewalk; how I came to firewalking; initial lessons; the feeling of walking on fire.

2. The Co-creative Process: why people walk on fire; the nature of our relationship

to fire; our evolving capacity as co-creators of reality.

3. An Ancient Experiment: examples of the firewalking as an ancient and widely-spread practice; the firewalking in late twentieth-century America.

4. The Skeptical Mind: the problem with skepticism; the arguments against firewalking; the evidence for it; “unhealthy skepticism.”

5. The Power of Intention: accidental burn victims and the power of the human

will; intention as the first key to the co-creative process.

6. Walking on Placebos: Dr. Herbert Benson; meditation and belief; the placebo response; the circular nature of belief; debunking the debunkers.

7. The Body Electric: human bio-energy; the difficulties with classical science;

the nature and reality of energy; energy as the medium of protection.

8. The Challenge of Life: excitement and contraction; unresolved stress and tension; fear as the gift of bio-energy; saying yes to fear.

9. Boiling Energy: The Kalahari Kung; the positive excitement of bio-energy;

Table of Contents
1. First Steps: an introduction to and description of the firewalk; how I came to firewalking; initial lessons; the feeling of walking on fire.
2. The Co-creative Process: why people walk on fire; the nature of our relationship
to fire; our evolving capacity as co-creators of reality.
3. An Ancient Experiment: examples of the firewalk as an ancient and widely-spread practice; the firewalk in late twentieth-century America.
4. The Skeptical Mind: the problem with skepticism; the arguments against firewalking; the evidence for it; “unhealthy skepticism.”
5. The Power of Intention: accidental burn victims and the power of the human
will; intention as the first key to the co-creative process.
6. Walking on Placebos: Dr. Herbert Benson; meditation and belief; the placebo response; the circular nature of belief; debunking the debunkers.
7. The Body Electric: human bio-energy; the difficulties with classical science;
the nature and reality of energy; energy as the medium of protection.
8. The Challenge of Life: excitement and contraction; unresolved stress and tension; fear as the gift of bio-energy; saying yes to fear.
9. Boiling Energy: The Kalahari Kung; the positive excitement of bio-energy;

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