The Five Levels of Attachment
Toltec Wisdom for the Modern World
don Miguel Ruiz, Jr.
Foreword by don Miguel Ruiz (author of The Four Agreements)
We have all unwittingly made agreements about how we choose to live our lives and what we believe our personal truths are. But what we may not realize is that each one of these agreements represents anattachment, a limiting filter on who we think we are, and what the future could hold. We call these attachments “knowledge” without ever questioning if that knowledge is necessarily true for us.
The Five Levels of Attachment: Toltec Wisdom for a Modern World (March 2013, Hardcover , $18.95 )Hierophant Publishing by don Miguel Ruiz, Jr. is a guide to understanding how we have developed our belief structures and how to go about re-evaluating—or even severing—these harmful attachments.
Drawing on the Toltec wisdom he learned from his father and grandmother, don Miguel Ruiz Jr. explores how our attachments create our reality, and how our beliefs become intimately connected to our identity, or who we think we are. He also explains how we often create our identities based on the opinions and judgments of others. By explaining how our attachments can be divided into five levels, Ruiz, Jr. teaches us how to assess our own attachment to any particular belief that we have:
1. The Authentic Self
- 2. Preference
- 3. Identity
- 4. Internalization
- 5. Fanaticism
Accessible and practical The Five Levels of Attachment invites us to break our unhealthy attachments by cultivating awareness, detaching, and discovering our authentic self and the power of unconditional love.
About the Author: don Miguel Ruiz, Jr., is a Nagual, or a Toltec Master of Transformation. He is a direct descendant of the Toltecs of the Eagle Night lineage, and is the son of don Miguel Ruiz, author of The Four Agreements. He lives in Sacramento, California with his wife and two children. www.miguelruizjr.com
