Earth is in the midst of a shuddering, a crisis. Since all of us are a part of Earth, we are part of that upheaval. We feel it personally and collectively. In this groundbreaking book, Will Taegel, Ph.D., takes us to the confluence of modern science and ancient wisdom as resources for walking across the bridge from where we are to where we are going. In this exciting page-turner, he takes us to the bridge and walks us across, individually and as a community, through a shamanic storytelling filled with information. It is a story about transcending our wounds. It is a story about skills you can learn to cross over into a new dimension of living. It is a story about two flawed persons who find each other, enter conflict, and emerge as cherished relatives. It is your story. The bears we walk with rumble across our interiors. The bears we walk with are the tumult of climate change, nuclear threat, traumatic distress, political chaos, and prophetic hope. That hope resides in a profound sense of love through intimacy within the flow of Nature and each other. This is a timely and important book, as so many of us may despair of the future we once envisioned for ourselves and the earth. As Will and Bear Heart show us, there is a way.... ~ Carol Flake Chapman An intimate and powerful articulation - infused with insight, inspiration, conversation and council - 'Walking with Bears' is an invitation to us all, to awaken to our own evolving impulse - expanding perspective and participation, and offering our presence, creativity and heart-full service - becoming bridge-walkers and co-creators of the new era, in harmony with all life. ~ Sarah Whiteley This gives me a deep sense of hope. Our world certainly needs the energy of hope to get across the bridge. Whether you have thought about your relationship with the force of Nature or not, I highly recommend this work that clarifies our role to where the bridge will lead us. May we all learn to pay attention to the information and meaning that comes to us and all species in the"eco-fields." ~ Reginah WaterSpirit This book is informative, entertaining, and thought-provoking. If you have an interest in supporting the earth through conscious awareness, this book points the way. Highly recommended for fellow bridge walkers. ~ Mary P. Rafferty This book sends us in the direction of building a bridge. A bridge between our ordinary habit patterns and the deep dimension we call soul. A bridge between the mechanistic view and an engaged eco-field. A bridge between an Oklahoma Indian (as Bear Heart liked to call himself) and a Llano Estacado mongrel (as I experience myself). Come along with me to an organic experience with this remarkable medicine teacher as we become bridge builders, inspectors, and walkers to the other side. We may learn that the biggest bear is the wild one inside who refuses to be tamed by a crumbling culture. Keep moving. Can you see the shadows of the other side, a new era Mother Earth is birthing? Dr. Taegel's story is one of marrying science with Spirit, of bonding the inner skeptic with acceptance of truth, and of linking the invisible and visible realms. Most of all, the narrative takes the reader across a bridge and beyond the confines of the Western paradigm. Such a walking across bridges has great appeal to people of my millennial generation. ~ Will Turner, filmmaker Will Taegel, Ph.D. walks in two dimensions. One reflects his lifelong connection with the Indigenous Mind/Heart and the other his psychological and scientific research. While both his doctorates concentrate on the synergy of ecopsychology and the matrix of field physics, he counts his shamanic training described in Walking With Bears as the most important of his life. This book completes a trilogy that includes "Wild Heart" and "The Mother Tongue"-all address a human return to Earth-based consciousness.