Creativity is based on receptivity. Hearing the original self speak is based on quieting the conditioned self's habit thoughts, emotions, and memories. Attuning ourselves to the One is based on clearing out an inner place for the One to lodge. But the "how" of achieving such a goal can seem so elusive — or can be presented in ways that make it seem like real results come only after decades of a monastic-like way of life. Horden follows up on his highly acclaimed work, The Toltec I Ching, with this concise course in self-transformation.

Based on his own death experience, he translates ancient teachings on unifying the higher and lower souls into a practical guide for the modern mind. The Five Emanations is, in this sense, a new incarnation of ancient protocols that belong to this historical epoch.

A course of self-transformation in the tradition of sudden enlightenment practitioners, it follows in the footsteps of those who empty out their self-defeating patterns of thought, emotion, and memory in order to make a lodging-place for the original uncreated awareness. It points to a shortcut method by which soul ever-awakens within every form.

In all this, it adheres to the ancient teaching of self-liberation which transcends the separation of spirit and matter by uniting That Which Is Above with That Which Is Below in this very body and in this very lifetime.

William Douglas Horden is the author of more than a dozen books relating to divination and spirituality. He continues the tradition of passing along the teachings he received from an I Ching master and a Tarahumara shaman. The Toltec I Ching, co-authored by the muralist Martha Ramirez-Oropeza, combines the the two wisdom traditions of ancient China and pre-Columbian Mexico in an exciting new rendition of the Taoist oracle. A series of "Researches on the Toltec I Ching" flesh out its symbolic and philosophical system and include the breakthrough study of I Ching Mathematics. The author's spiritual biography, In the Oneness of Time: The Education of a Diviner, recounts the teachers and teachings that shaped his experience of the World Soul as the living intelligence informing and guiding all things from within. Its companion volume, Way of the Diviner, was released a year later, in the Fall of 2016. The Five Emanations and The Spiritual Basis of Good Fortune are two small volumes that detail practices the author received from his experience with dying. Taken together, the two books offer a course in mental and soulic training as part of the path of sudden enlightenment.