LIL Quark-FM 1/22/01 8:42 AM Page i LIVING IN LIGHT THE LIL Quark-FM 1/22/01 8:42 AM Page ii LIL Quark-FM 1/22/01 8:42 AM Page iii LIVING IN LIGHT THE A Guide to Personal and Planetary Transformation Shakti Gawain with Laurel King NATARAJPUBLISHING A DIVISION OF NEWWORLDLIBRARY NOVATO, CA 94949 LIL Quark-FM 1/22/01 8:42 AM Page iv Nataraj Publishing A Division of New World Library 14 Pamaron Way Novato,CA 94949 Revised Edition ©1998 Shakti Gawain and Laurel King Original Edition ©1986 Shakti Gawain and Laurel King Cover Art:Nicholas Wilton Cover Design:Michele Wetherbee Back Cover Photograph:Max O’Neill All rights reserved. Library of Congress-in-Publication Data Gawain,Shakti,1948 — Living in the light :a guide to personal and planetary transformation / Shakti Gawain,with Laurel King.— Completely rev. and updated. p. cm. ISBN 1-57731-046-2 (alk.paper) 1.Self-actualization (Psychology). 2.Meditation. I.King,Laurel. II.Title. BF637.S4G392 1998 98-38364 158.1 — dc21 CIP First Printing,September 1998 Printed in Canada on acid-free paper ISBN 1-57731-046-2 Distributed to the trade by Publishers Group West 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 LIL Quark-FM 1/22/01 8:42 AM Page v This book is dedicated to the wisdom within us all. LIL Quark-FM 1/22/01 8:42 AM Page vi LIL Quark-FM 1/22/01 8:42 AM Page vii Acknowledgments I would like to acknowledge Laurel King for her help with the original edition of this book. I appreciate Lora O’Connor for her many valuable suggestions and overall support in creating this revised edition. I’m very grateful to Becky Benenate, my editor for the revised edition,for all her help and especially her willingness to work with my schedule and pull off a miracle of timing! Thanks to Katherine Dieter for her input, and to Marc Allen for his ongo- ing support. Kathy Altman, as always, has contributed her ideas and energy to the project. Jim Burns, thank you for your love and encouragement. Most of all I thank my readers, whose love and appreciation has been my inspiration and my reward. vii LIL Quark-FM 1/22/01 8:42 AM Page viii Contents Author’s Preface to the Revised Edition 1 Introduction 4 Part One — The Principles 1 — A New Way of Life 27 2 — The Higher Power Within Us 33 3 — Intuition 37 4 — Becoming a Creative Channel 44 5 — Exploring Our Many Selves 55 6 — The World as Our Mirror 63 7 — Spirit and Form 75 8 — The Male and Female Within 86 9 — Men and Women 98 10 — East and West: A New Challenge 108 LIL Quark-FM 1/22/01 8:42 AM Page ix Part Two — Living the Principles 11 — Trusting Intuition 115 12 — Feelings 130 13 — Balancing Being and Doing 138 14 — Authoritarian and Rebel 143 15 — Relationships 149 16 — Our Children 168 17 — Work and Play 179 18 — Money 188 19 — Health 205 20 — Your Perfect Body 214 21 — Life and Death 224 22 — Transforming Our World 228 23 — A Vision 242 Recommended Resources 243