New Releases by Richard Wehrman

This short collection of poems was inspired by the Author's direct experience of the Heartwork process. The poems were previously published in a small limited edition for a Heartwork Intensive held in Austin, Texas in 2004. HEARTWORK, a therapeutic process originated by Dale Goldstein, is a practice of letting go with awareness into the truth of one's being in the moment. A synthesis of Eastern meditative approaches and Western psychology and philosophy, it uses awareness as the primary vehicle to see into the source of one's problems. As a spiritual path, the work is to inquire deeply into one's experience in the moment to come to know one's True Nature.

Who is the brilliant point of light you are? Where, in this chaotic world, is there any solid ground to stand upon? How, when your world is filled with fear, can you awaken Strength? Will you ever find an enduring source of Love? If these questions cause a vibration within you, if you are weary of voices that speak as if they know, but inside you, you know that they do not-then these poems will support you. There are no concrete answers here, only an invitation: to begin to open to what is. And to trust that these words do not lie, but speak directly to you-the Truth.

In a world of increasing separation those who seek unity have always relied on the support of nature to reconnect their lives with essential oneness. Seen as the Creator's original Eden, or personified as Gaia, Mary, Persephone, Isis and others, we each seek a personal spiritual relationship to the earth that gave us our very bodies and soul. Sophia in Arcadia is a reverie of one summer's opening to the fullness and healing offered in personal relationship to what we intuitively recognize is the source of our physical and spiritual sustenance. In this time of increasing fear and anxiety surrounding our place in the world, and in the challenges of climate change and environmental degradation, these poems offer a respite and access to an unseen resource--the open love of the Heart. As well as a new recognition of our essential oneness with our first true love, and ultimately our own.From the back cover: Sophia in Arcadia gathers poems germinated in the soil of Robert Sardello's heart-opening and continuing work with the Spiritual Earth, as well as the territory opened by A.H. Almaas and the infinitely expanding realms of the Diamond Approach teachings

This new collection of poems by Richard Wehrman explores the nature of our unfolding daily meditative life, experienced without censoring what arises and remaining open to what is revealed in its innocence and presence, in the moment of the writing itself. The writing is an outgrowth of the practice of Inquiry as practiced in the Diamond Approach, and strongly influenced by the style of the remarkable book, "The Death of Virgil," written in 1945 by the Austrian author Hermann Broch. "Being with these meditations requires slowing down, being patient, reflecting. The rewards are in the discovery of its many hidden gems." -from the Foreword by Paul Kuhl

"This is great!" Death said. So begins our little story. The Author and his long-suffering friend Death set out to record their stimulating and edifying conversions, enlightening us all to the real truth of what goes on behind closed doors where Life and Death get down to business, if not hand-to-hand combat. Transcribed from actual conversations, these verbatin dialogues will delight the most jaded and skeptical intellects, and be a most satisfying way to spend a rainy afternoon.

A narrative poetic journey into the heart of reality, The Book of The Garden opens the possibility that the Imagination can be a vehicle to a reality neither exclusively internal nor completely external, but situated between them both-an intimate World that comes into being as we embrace and believe in its possibility, not as an imaginative fiction, but as an ontological actuality. A world where our deepest longings find their resolution through their own creative arising-where our True Nature magically manifests "universe upon universe." A poetic vision both alchemical and personally revealing, The Book of The Garden speaks to the deepest heart in each individual, opening the spiritual and transcendent through the simplest of presences, in what becomes the Garden we have all, since our childhood, longed to re-enter. And where we find that through the heart of love, and our own Creative Imagination, we can.

"Light was Everywhere," poems by Richard Wehrman, brings together for the first time poetry previously shared only with a small number of individuals working, as he has, on paths of awakening, insight, and inner illumination. These poems always take as their touchstone the vibrant revealed earth, the rebirth of soul and spirit, and the continuous revelations of presence and awareness. A support for those who travel any difficult road, this small volume offers a confirmation of the challenges and rewards as we move towards spirit and open heart awareness. "Light was Everywhere" points us toward the beauty and support we are continually given by the world, and the growing recognition that what the Earth herself is, we are.