Part autobiographical, part "self help", this brilliantly told metaphysical adventure regales the author's "meeting" with Lilith, a Matriarchal Age warrior priestess. It is Lilith who reveals the Nine Deadly Venoms. 'Conquer them and you live forever, but beware!' She said with a wicked leer, 'each one is indeed a venom, the worst kind of poison and is very, very deadly." Nine Deadly Venoms will enlighten, inspire and entertain. Light bulbs will flick on in your head as you realise why you have experienced the life you have. More importantly you will discover that you can take control of your life and that you can have a happier, more fulfilled life once you have conquered the nine deadly venoms of karma, parental genetics, childhood conditioning, fear, language, gravity, time, tribalistic conditioning and human breath. According to the author, mastery of these will help you to live a longer, more rewarding and fulfilling life in the 21st century. Nine Deadly Venoms will enlighten, inspire and entertain. Nine Deadly Venoms has been referred to as "the autobiography of an urban shaman" however in many ways its much more than that. From his daunting childhood to the urban shamans first steps into manhood, he is on a journey of enlightenment. He learns many valuable and important lessons throughout his life, a mysterious woman named Lilith teaches him many of these lessons. As the book unfolds the urban shaman shares these secrets and lessons with you. Lilith tells him about the nine Deadly Venoms. These are man made poisons. They are the nine tests, nine gateways and nine stumbling blocks on the road to power, the road to everlasting life. The truth has been hidden from humanity for thousands years by the controlling powers the time has come for you to be set free. Nine Deadly Venoms, A blueprint for a better life: "The less useless baggage that you carry, the lighter and faster you will travel. You will travel to a place where there are no tears, no sickness, no guilt, no fear and no pain, but you must start now, for the good Earth is turning, ever turning, the sky is ever changing, and you must not waste one moment" Helping you to unlearn that which is not good for you. Reclaim your power, she said loudly and coldly. God did not write the holy books. Brutal men wrote them, and they wrote them to serve their own purposes and in doing so they cursed people, good people, forever. Then they sat back laughing, imagining that their position was unassailable, but now I am back! Get off the Wheel, Be Wise, Move On, Become Part of the Dance of Life " Driven by some primitive and passionate energy, she revealed the nine deadly venoms. Conquer them and you live forever, but beware! She said with a wicked leer, each one is indeed a venom, the worst kind of poison and is very, very deadly." Alex Gordon lives in a seaside town on the south coast of England, which of course is on the planet we call Earth. Alex Gordon is a Healer, an Urban Shaman As Alex says: I get scared yet I help people to face their fears. I become sad yet I try always to inspire people to achieve their full potential. I try my best never to cry, but if I am very hurt, I have been known to do so. Sometimes I am happy, sometimes sad, and usually somewhere in-between. In chapter Nine Alex Gordon reflects on some of the things he has learned / experienced. While Alex Gordon uses the term "dreams" to explain some of his learning process it should be realised that these dreams are not as most people experience them. These dreams are "Real Dreams" with real people Alex reflects It was a strange contradiction the next morning to be eating my breakfast cereal on the one hand and considering the form and nature of the Universal matrix on the other. I had become accustomed to dreams now, and I accepted them as meeting places between the evolved and the unevolved, I myself being in the latter group, of course. I knew that the people in the dreams were real, with their own homes and friends and loved ones, somewhere out there , on far distant worlds, all kindly trying to improve this world by instructing a few of its inhabitants. So I felt very honoured but I never thought for one moment that I was the only person receiving such instructive dreams. I realised also that the words evolved and unevolved were purely relative. I was evolved when compared to a thief or a violent thug, yet totally unevolved when compared to the people I was dreaming about, who were obviously far wiser and more perceptive than myself. Life is, in a sense, a race against deadly venoms. We are born, we grow up. We must manage to get to grips and conquer the majority of in-bred poisons before we reach our optimum appearance, which is around twenty-nine years of age. If we fail to achieve this, then we are in grave danger of never getting ahead of our own destructive forces. It is not easy to exist in society. Environmental pollution, the demands of relatives, the c