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Primal Body, Primal Mind

Author : Nora Gedgaudas
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1594779392
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (947 download)

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Download or read book Primal Body, Primal Mind written by Nora Gedgaudas and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-05-27 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining your body’s Paleolithic needs with modern nutritional and medical research for complete mind-body wellness • Provides sustainable diet strategies to curb sugar cravings, promote fat burning and weight loss, reduce stress and anxiety, improve sleep and moods, increase energy and immunity, and enhance memory and brain function • Shows how our modern diet leads to weight gain and “diseases of civilization”--such as cancer, osteoporosis, metabolic syndrome, heart disease, and ADD • Explains how diet affects the brain, hormone balance, and the aging process and the crucial role of vitamin D in cancer and disease prevention Examining the healthy lives of our pre-agricultural Paleolithic ancestors and the marked decline in stature, bone density, and dental health and the increase in birth defects, malnutrition, and disease following the implementation of the agricultural lifestyle, Nora Gedgaudas shows how our modern grain- and carbohydrate-heavy low-fat diets are a far cry from the high-fat, moderate-protein hunter-gatherer diets we are genetically programmed for, leading not only to lifelong weight gain but also to cravings, mood disorders, cognitive problems, and “diseases of civilization”--such as cancer, osteoporosis, metabolic syndrome (insulin resistance), heart disease, and mental illness. Applying modern discoveries to the basic hunter-gatherer diet, she culls from vast research in evolutionary physiology, biochemistry, metabolism, nutrition, and chronic and degenerative disease to unveil a holistic lifestyle for true mind-body health and longevity. Revealing the primal origins and physiological basis for a high-fat, moderate-protein, starch-free diet and the importance of adequate omega-3 intake--critical to our brain and nervous system but sorely lacking in most people’s diets--she explains the nutritional problems of grains, gluten, soy, dairy, and starchy vegetables; which natural fats promote health and which (such as canola oil) harm it; the crucial role of vitamin D in cancer and disease prevention; the importance of saturated fat and cholesterol; and how diet affects mental health, memory, cognitive function, hormonal balance, and cellular aging. With step-by-step guidelines, recipes, and meal recommendations, this book offers sustainable strategies for a primally based, yet modern approach to diet and exercise to reduce stress and anxiety, lose weight, improve sleep and mood, increase energy and immunity, enhance brain function, save money on groceries, and live longer and happier.

Primal Fat Burner

Author : Nora Gedgaudas
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501116436
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Primal Fat Burner written by Nora Gedgaudas and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author of the popular Primal Body, Primal Mind and widely recognized Paleo expert and nutritionist Nora Gedgaudas presents a revolutionary and accessible high-fat diet for maintaining health, losing weight, and reversing some chronic diseases. Popular nutritionist Nora Gedgaudas returns with advice that may sound counterintuitive: Eat fat to burn fat. In Primal Fat Burner, she explains the benefits and science behind a ketogenic (or fat-burning) diet, which switches your metabolism from a dependence on sugar to running on healthy fats. As Gedgaudas reveals, numerous studies in recent years refute the long-promoted anti-saturated fat and anti-cholesterol agenda. Now, “with able, funny writing” (Booklist), Gedgaudas explains the science that fat isn’t always a bad thing—if you know the right kinds of fats to eat. In her comprehensible, enjoyable style, she also lays out a practical meal plan with recipes. Author of the bestselling Grain Brain, Dr. David Perlmutter writes in his foreword that Primal Fat Burner is, “Wonderfully actionable, compassionately taking the reader from ‘why’ to ‘how.’” On this diet, you efficiently and effectively metabolize fat (ketones and free fatty acids) as your primary source of fuel, rather than glucose from carbs, starches, and sugars. Because fat is so satisfying, you naturally wind up eating less—without feelings of hunger or deprivation. And natural dietary fat is ultimately the key to feeling better, looking better, thinking clearer, and living longer. Discover all this and more healthy tips in one of the most groundbreaking nutritional books in recent time.

Your Primal Body

Author : Mikki Reilly
Publisher : Da Capo Lifelong Books
ISBN 13 : 0738216372
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book Your Primal Body written by Mikki Reilly and published by Da Capo Lifelong Books. This book was released on 2012-12-23 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A personal trainer and former competitive body builder offers a weight loss and fitness program that mimics the diet and activity pattern of humans' Paleolithic ancestors who hunted wild game and foraged for plants and berries.

Primal Cuisine

Author : Pauli Halstead
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1594775036
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (947 download)

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Download or read book Primal Cuisine written by Pauli Halstead and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-11-16 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nourishing and innovative paleo recipes to delight your family, impress your guests, and inspire your culinary talents while improving your health • Includes more than 150 primal recipes, with more than 20 options for every meal of the day, including snacks and dessert • Offers step-by-step advice to eliminate unhealthy carbohydrates and optimize daily protein and healthful fat intake • Each recipe is free of grains, gluten, sugar, chemicals, antibiotics, and hormones • Companion cookbook to Primal Body, Primal Mind (29,000 sold since June 2011) Improve your health, boost your energy levels, increase your brain power, live longer, and even save money on your grocery bills with 150 budget-conscious paleo diet recipes from gourmet chef Pauli Halstead. These easy-to-follow recipes provide more than 20 choices for every meal of the day--even desserts and snacks--and all are free of grains, gluten, sugar, chemicals, antibiotics, and hormones. More than just a cookbook, Primal Cuisine also explains the dietary theory behind the primal lifestyle. Chef Pauli’s step-by-step advice to eliminate unhealthy carbohydrates and optimize protein and healthful fat intake demonstrates how the foods of our ancestors--such as wild-caught fish, grass-fed meats, and organic vegetables, nuts, seeds, and berries--are still the best choice when it comes to improving your physical and mental health. From Mardi Gras Crab Cakes with Creole Remoulade to Beef Carpaccio Salad, from comfort foods like Sunday Roast Chicken with Herb Butter to completely sugar-free desserts like Lemon Cheesecake with Berries, this companion to the bestselling Primal Body, Primal Mind opens the door to a sustainable primal lifestyle of health, energy, mental focus, and long life using innovative recipes to delight your family, impress your guests, and inspire your culinary talents.

Primal Body-Primal Mind

Author : Nora T Gedgaudas, CNS, CNT
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780982184110
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book Primal Body-Primal Mind written by Nora T Gedgaudas, CNS, CNT and published by . This book was released on 2009-02-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selective pressures designed our primal physiology, but we can adapt our physiologies and our mind-sets to the modern world, and go beyond nature's limitations to a new frontier of unlimited potential.

Primal Body -- Primal Mind

Author : Nora T. Gedgaudas
Publisher : Primal Body-Primal Mind Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780982184103
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (841 download)

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Book Synopsis Primal Body -- Primal Mind by : Nora T. Gedgaudas

Download or read book Primal Body -- Primal Mind written by Nora T. Gedgaudas and published by Primal Body-Primal Mind Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gedgaudas provides a sane departure from conventional thinking about nutrition as promoted in the media and by conventional diet pundits. She describes how the body and brain function based on both fundamental human physiology and the ancient selective pressures that shaped it.

Primal Nutrition

Author : Ron Schmid
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1620555204
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Primal Nutrition written by Ron Schmid and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-09-17 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how the traditional foods of ancient cultures can naturally help prevent and treat degenerative disease and chronic conditions • Examines the protective nutrients inherent in primal foods, such as wild seafood, grass-fed meat, and raw dairy, explaining how they differ from Western refined foods • Explains how to create your own commonsense primal diet, tailored to your specific needs and conditions, such as allergies, eczema, arthritis, and even cancer • Builds upon the work of Dr. Weston A. Price, Dr. Francis Pottenger, and other nutritional health pioneers The human body’s innate mechanisms for healing and immunity extend beyond the mending of cuts and broken bones or recovery from colds and flu. Given the foods we evolved to thrive on, foods our ancestors knew well, the body can naturally prevent and overcome a host of degenerative conditions and chronic illnesses, from allergies, eczema, and arthritis to dental caries, heart attack, and even cancer. Drawing on the work of Dr. Weston A. Price, Dr. Francis Pottenger, and other nutritional health pioneers, Dr. Ron Schmid demonstrates that the strongest and most disease-resistant indigenous cultures around the world lived on whole, natural foods--seafood, wild game, healthy grass-fed domestic animals, and, in some cases, whole grains and raw dairy. He explores how modern refined diets differ from ancestral ones, the dramatic declines in health seen in indigenous cultures that adopt modern diets, and the steps you can take to build health with traditional foods. He observes that the foods considered essential and “sacred” in native cultures--the foods around which rituals and ceremonies evolved and that were emphasized prior to and during pregnancy--were invariably animal-source foods such as seafood, liver, and raw milk products, thus underscoring the importance of these foods to overall health and immunity, a fact that modern nutritional science has overwhelmingly proved true. Blending the wisdom of traditional eating patterns with modern scientific knowledge, Dr. Schmid explains how to apply these principles to create your own commonsense primal diet, tailored to your specific needs, to rebuild health and improve longevity.

Primal Roots of Horror Cinema

Author : Carrol L. Fry
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476674272
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Primal Roots of Horror Cinema written by Carrol L. Fry and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is horror in film and literature so popular? Why do viewers and readers enjoy feeling fearful? Experts in the fields of sociobiology and evolutionary psychology posit that behaviors from our ancestors that favored survival and adaptation still influence our actions, decisions and thoughts today. The author, with input from a new generation of Darwinists, explores six primal narratives that recur in the horror genre. They are territoriality, tribalism, fear of genetic assimilation, mating rituals, fear of the predator, and distrust or fear of the Other.

The New Primal Blueprint

Author : Mark Sisson
Publisher : Bradventures LLC
ISBN 13 : 1939563305
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (395 download)

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Download or read book The New Primal Blueprint written by Mark Sisson and published by Bradventures LLC. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Sisson’s 2009 release of The Primal Blueprint was the catalyst for the primal/paleo/ancestral health movement to gain mainstream awareness and acceptance. Both the hardcover and paperback editions enjoyed a seven-year run at the top of the primal/paleo charts and selling hundreds of thousands of copies. Sisson, publisher of the acclaimed MarksDailyApple.com, the acclaimed and most-visited primal/paleo blog, has spent the past six years diligently researching and evaluating recent the most up-to-date science and reflecting on thousands of users’ experiences going primal. The second edition of The New Primal Blueprint offers a comprehensively revised, expanded, and updated message from the original runaway bestseller. The New Primal Blueprint serves as the ultimate road map for anyone wishing to make the shift from flawed conventional wisdom about diet and exercise to a healthy, happy empowering lifestyle patterned after the evolutionary-tested behaviors of our hunter-gatherer ancestors. The book details the ten immutable Primal Blueprint lifestyle laws that enable empower you to reprogram your genes to direct in the direction of weight loss, health, and longevity. The Primal Blueprint laws are validated by two million years of human evolution as well as an ever-expanding body of contemporary scientific research. Sisson’s philosophy was originally met with skepticism as he aggressively challenged numerous mainstream health tenets. Eight years later, mainstream medical and health science are validating the Primal Blueprint tenets assertions that a high-carb, grain-based diet will make you fat, tired, and sick; that a consistent routine of medium-to-difficult cardiovascular workouts can actually compromise your health and longevity and increase risk of heart disease; and that consuming (whole food sources of) fat and cholesterol does not lead to heart disease as we have been led to believe, but rather offers many health benefits. The New Primal Blueprint comes alive with a vibrant full-color presentation packed with photos, graphics, and cartoons to make for a fun, easy, and memorable read. Join hundreds of thousands of primal enthusiasts and embrace a new way of life where you take responsibility for your health, fitness, and happiness. Reject once and for all the flawed conventional wisdom that has left modern citizens struggling with fatigue, excess body fat, and elevated disease risk factors as a consequence of grain-based eating habits, exhausting exercise routines, sedentary lifestyle patterns, and high-stress existences that misdirect our genes and promote illness instead of wellness and longevity. Here is a quick overview of the ten Primal Blueprint laws that will help you quickly and effortlessly reprogram your genes in the direction of health, happiness, and longevity: Law #1 - Eat Plants and Animals: Enjoy the nutritious, satisfying foods that fueled two million years of human evolution. Law #2 - Avoid Poisonous Things: Avoid toxic modern foods (primarily refined vegetable oils, sugars, and grains) that make us fat, sick, and malnourished. Law #3 - Move Frequently: Enhance fat metabolism, improve cognitive function, and avoid the stress of chronic cardio by keeping active with aerobic workouts at a comfortable heart rate, increased everyday movement, and complementary flexibility/mobility activities throughout your day. Law #4 - Lift Heavy Things: Brief, intense sessions of functional, full-body resistance exercises supports muscle development, increases bone density, and prevents injury. Law #5 - Sprint Once in a While: Occasional all-out sprints turbo-charge fat reduction and deliver a boost of anti-aging hormones. Law #6 - Get Plenty of Sleep: Align your sleep with your circadian rhythm by minimizing artificial light and digital stimulation after dark, and creating a calm, quiet, dark sleeping sanctuary. Optimal sleep promotes healthy immune, brain, and endocrine function. Law #7 - Play: Balance the stress of modern life with some unstructured, physical fun! Both brief breaks and grand outings are essential to nurture a cognitively fluid mind and a free spirit. Law #8 - Get Plenty of Sunlight: Expose large skin surface areas frequently to optimize vitamin D production (increases energy, prevents cancer). Maintain a slight tan, but never burn. Diet alone doesn’t cut it. Law #9 - Avoid Stupid Mistakes: Learn to be mindful and vigilant against dangers, both extreme and routine. Cultivate risk management skills to stay safe and sensible and eliminate “avoidable suffering.” Law #10 - Use Your Brain: Engage in creative and stimulating activities away from your core daily responsibilities. This will keep you refreshed, energized, creative, and productive in everything you do.

The Primal Connection

Author : Mark Sisson
Publisher : Primal Blueprint Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780984755103
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (551 download)

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Download or read book The Primal Connection written by Mark Sisson and published by Primal Blueprint Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A follow-up to the best-selling The Primal Blueprint draws on the author's evolutionary research to explore genetic reasons behind why people feel depressed and unfulfilled in spite of positive outward circumstances, outlining simple lifestyle strategies for promoting personal contentment.

Body by Science

Author : John Little
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 9780071597203
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (972 download)

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Download or read book Body by Science written by John Little and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2009-01-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building muscle has never been faster or easier than with this revolutionary once-a-week training program In Body By Science, bodybuilding powerhouse John Little teams up with fitness medicine expert Dr. Doug McGuff to present a scientifically proven formula for maximizing muscle development in just 12 minutes a week. Backed by rigorous research, the authors prescribe a weekly high-intensity program for increasing strength, revving metabolism, and building muscle for a total fitness experience.

Primal Resonance

Author : Dr Steven Schwartz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780988447141
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book Primal Resonance written by Dr Steven Schwartz and published by . This book was released on 2014-12-04 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything on this planet is toxic and contributes to chronic inflammation, which is responsible for nearly all known chronic illness. Thankfully, the root cause of inflammation can be successfully treated naturally by following the basic laws of nature. Whether you're suffering from chronic illness, feeling like you're not living your life to your full potential, or simply would like to learn the secret to living a long, happy, fulfilling, healthy life, this book is a must read. You will learn: What chronic inflammation is and why it's creating a widespread, insidious epidemic in America and throughout the world Why optimizing your body's cellular communication is so important for maintaining optimal health, vitality, and performance The top ten principles for reversing aging and degeneration Practical tools, techniques, and resources to reduce inflammation; clear old, unwanted cellular memory patterns; and restore balance to your body A new way of looking at how your body works and how your cells communicate and interact with your surrounding environment to slow the biological hands of time and help create a happy, healthy life Praise for Primal Resonance "This book transcends modern science and ancient wisdom beautifully." -Dr. Joe Vitale, Bestselling Author of The Attractor Factor and Featured Teacher in The Secret "Finally, a healthcare practitioner who sees the importance of inflammation and how it pertains to the body as a cause for the disease process." -Dr. Aubry Tager, DC, CAFNI, BCIM "Primal Resonance is a must read for anyone who wants better health in their life." -Greg S. Reid, Bestselling Author, Acclaimed Speaker & Filmmaker "After reading just 'The Age of Convenience' chapter in Dr. Schwartz's treasure chest, I want to share this with everyone I know. This book could very well be the 21st century version of the fountain of youth. Excellent work. Get two-one for you and one for your best friend." -Bob Proctor, Author and Featured Teacher from the movie, The Secret "

Primal Body, Primal Mind

Author : Nora T. Gedgaudas
Publisher : Healing Arts Press
ISBN 13 : 9781594774133
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (741 download)

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Download or read book Primal Body, Primal Mind written by Nora T. Gedgaudas and published by Healing Arts Press. This book was released on 2011-05-27 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outlines a complete mind-body program that combines modern nutritional understandings with Paleolithic health-bolstering strategies to reveal the link between the modern diet and common diseases, sharing recommendations for weight loss, stress reduction and improved brain function. Original.

The Real Paleo Diet Cookbook

Author : Loren Cordain
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544303261
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book The Real Paleo Diet Cookbook written by Loren Cordain and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2015 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of paleo diet recipes, including smoky stuffed sweet peppers, roast chicken with saffron and lemon, and spice-rubbed salmon with mushroom-apple pan sauce.

The Primal Teen

Author : Barbara Strauch
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307429229
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Primal Teen written by Barbara Strauch and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking look at the teenage brain for anyone who has puzzled over the mysterious and often infuriating behavior of a teenager. While many members of the scientific community have long held that the growing pains of adolescence are primarily psychological, Barbara Strauch highlights the physical nature of the transformation, offering parents and educators a new perspective on erratic teenage behavior. Using plain language, Strauch draws upon the latest scientific discoveries to make the case that the changes the brain goes through during adolescence are as dramatic and crucial as those that take place in the first two years of life, and that teenagers are not entirely responsible for their sullen, rebellious, and moody ways. Featuring interviews with scientists, teenagers, parents, and teachers, The Primal Teen explores common challenges–why teens go from articulate and mature one day to morose and unreachable the next, why they engage in risky behavior–and offers practical strategies to help manage these formative and often difficult years.

Sophia's Body

Author : Rowena Pattee Kryder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780962471674
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (716 download)

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Download or read book Sophia's Body written by Rowena Pattee Kryder and published by . This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful, full-colour, large book that will inspire nature lovers as well as art lovers. Dr Ralph Metzner says, "Rowena Kryder has shown once again that she is one of the foremost visionary visual artists of our time. Her painter's eye for the beauty of nature, melded to a mind attuned to sacred geometry, shows us the secret formal symmetries in animal, plant and mineral life. 'Sophia's Body' is a paean to the goddess, a celebration of beauty and delight for the eyes of wonder in all of us." Part 1: 'The Language of Nature and Spirit', a colorful introduction to 16 basic forms; Part II: 'The Metamorphosis of Sophias Body', is a combination of two forms and illustrations demonstrating how the forms work in Celestial Phenomena, Minerals, Flowers, Edible Plants, Sea Creatures; Part III: 'The Permutations of Sophias Body', as combination of the 16 forms.

Primal Awareness

Author : Don Trent Jacobs
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1620550474
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Primal Awareness written by Don Trent Jacobs and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1998-09-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable story of one man's rediscovery of his primordial mandate and of the strange journey that took him there • Explores the innate knowledge that exists within us all, a "primal awareness," that can help us to live in harmony with our world • Shows how we can rediscover this unseeable realm In 1983, caught in a violent rainstorm while kayaking the Rio Urique in Mexico's Copper Canyon, Don Trent Jacobs was swept into an impassable catacomb of underwater tunnels toward what he believed was certain death. But instead of panic, Jacobs found himself filled with a strange consciousness that left him feeling at peace and invigorated with a confidence he had never before known. Moments later he was spit from the tunnel alive--not at the end of his journey, but only at its beginning. Primal Awareness tells the story of Don Trent Jacobs's remarkable vision of the human mind and heart and the compelling spiritual quest that brought him to it. Through his experiences with the Raramuri people of Mexico and his research of other indigenous societies, Jacobs identifies what he calls our "primal awareness," an innate knowledge that exists within us all. Jacobs shows how we can rediscover this primordial mandate that unites all things and that helps us to find our own inner strength an harmony.