New Book
Return with Elixir
Weaving together ancient wisdom traditions East and West on reclaiming the soul, Miles shares his journey and offers four interconnected maps to guide you on the transformative pilgrimage through death and rebirth.
Wisdom from the Ages
An Integration of Timeless Traditions
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In Return with Elixir, Buddhist psychotherapist Dr. Miles Neale shares his hero's journey of trial and treasure set within a step-by-step manual for spiritual renewal. This powerful book weaves together ancient wisdom traditions, offering four interconnected maps based on Joseph Campbell's mythology, Carl Jung's psychology, Tibetan Buddhist alchemy, and the cosmological precession of the equinoxes, to help you navigate your way through the perilous journey of death and rebirth.
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Download Book SampleThe Four Maps for Spiritual Rebirth
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1. The Cosmological Map
Understand your place in the grand 24,000-year cycle of the cosmos as civilizations rise and fall during the precession of the equinoxes. Discover how to align with the signature of the incoming age.
2. The Psychological Map
Inspired by Carl Jung’s process of individuation, this map helps you face and integrate your shadow on your journey toward wholeness and authenticity. Discover that your unconscious is not an adversary but an ally.
3. The Alchemical Map
Tap into the Tibetan Buddhist alchemical process of conscious rebirth, using visualizations to traverse the secret pilgrimage of energy within the subtle body. Discover how death is not a terminal endpoint, but a doorway to resurrection.
4. The Mythopoetic Map
Draw on Joseph Campbell’s stages of the hero’s journey to navigate life’s challenges and transitions as opportunities for meaning and purpose. Discover how every dragon guards a buried treasure and how to return home with an elixir.
UNIQUE FEATURES
...that make "Return with Elixir" a must-have pilgrim's guide
- Reframes life challenges, transitions, and crises as opportunities for psychological growth, trauma healing, and spiritual transformation.
- Provides a practical meta map and a step-by-step guide to help readers let go of fears, uncover hidden strengths, and share innate gifts with others.
- Reveals the universal process of “dying before you die” and discovering eternal life underlying mystical traditions of diverse cultures and epochs.
- Provides a primer for Joseph Campbell’s mythopoetic monomyth, Carl Jung’s process of individuation, the Tibetan Buddhist art of conscious rebirth, and the cosmic precession of the equinoxes.
- Prepares readers before they embark on psychotherapy, meditation practice, pilgrimage, shamanic journey, and psychedelic ceremony, helps them avoid common pitfalls, and supports skillful integration after having had powerful mind-altering experiences.
- Supports a process of sensemaking the current convergence of ecological, economic, and geopolitical crises of meaning by placing them in a larger astrological context of global collapse and regeneration.
- Contains beautifully designed original, cyclic diagrams of the monomyth, individuation process, rebirth process, and the Great Year so readers can locate themselves on multiple visual maps.
- Offers a riveting foreword by Tibetologist Robert Thurman, PhD, and poetic afterword by mythologist Phil Cousineau.
- Contains an eight-page insert of color photos depicting mandalas and deities from various esoteric traditions including Greece and Tibet.
Exclusive Bonus Elixir Workbook
Pre-order now, and get the Elixir Workbook for free!
The Return with Elixir Workbook is a hands-on companion to Miles' step-by-step manual to reclaim the soul. Packed with exercises, reflection prompts, and visual guides, this workbook helps you apply the wisdom of the four maps—cosmological, psychological, alchemical, and mythopoetic—to your own transformative journey. Pre-order Miles' book now, email us a copy of the receipt, and we'll send you this exclusive bonus Elixir workbook.
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Miles Neale, Psy.D
Miles Neale, Psy.D., is a psychotherapist, teacher of Tibetan Buddhism, and founder of the Gradual Path, where he leads inner and outer pilgrimages of spiritual transformation. The author of Gradual Awakening and co-editor of Advances in Contemplative Psychotherapy, he lives in Bali, Indonesia.
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What thought leaders say about "Return with Elixir"
Return with Elixir is a go-to resource for meditators, psychonauts, yogis, and psychedelic wayfarers on a journey of self-transformation. With a foreword by renowned Tibetologist Robert Thurman and an afterword by accomplished mythologist Phil Cousineau, this book provides deep philosophical insights and practical tools for today’s spiritual pilgrim.
“We should make no mistake about it, we meet in Miles, through his sharing of his life and escapades with his intrepid partner Emily, his lama Geshe Tenzin Zopa, his merry band of travel companions Tjok Gde Kerhtyasa and other wisdom keepers of Bali, and his work of sharing his golden elixir with us all, a provocative and reliable guide for our own life’s epic masterwork of discovering who we really are. As Miles has shown us, this knowledge is not achieved by unquestioningly adopting a simplistic answer or label, but by opening our minds and hearts, through trial and terror, to the gnosis treasure of what we can become—what we have to become—to make truly meaningful our amazing lives in the midst of the cosmic planetary catastrophic crisis we chose to be born into!"
Robert A.F. Thurman, Ph.D.
Professor, humanitarian, and author of The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Jewel Tree of Tibet, and, Circling the Sacred Mountain
“I witnessed Miles slip into the dark night of the soul, only to reemerge on the other side with this extraordinary treasure. Return with Elixir is far more than a manual for rebirth, blending esoteric traditions East and West—it is a deeply personal, and therefore relatable, story of transformation. With this map of the inner landscape in hand, led by such an expert guide, you too can embark on the sacred pilgrimage to face your worst fears, taste the nectar of compassion at your heart, and return home for the benefit of others. Elixir reveals the secret path of converting obstacles into opportunities and making meaningful whatever miseries arise along life’s unpredictable journey.”
Geshe Tenzin Zopa
Tibetan Buddhist master, Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition
“Miles calls me 'wizard', and I call him 'sage'. Our meeting was one of destiny that was catalyzed by his insatiable search for truth and meaning and has led to a continuing Hero's Journey we both share to discover the living cosmology, the search for that golden thread that weaves through the patterns of life from West to East and back again. Miles masterfully weaves this universal quest with alchemical lore, Buddhism, Gnosticism, mythology, Western and Eastern esoteric knowledge, astrology, Balinese traditions and more into a deeply heartfelt personal biography of rebirth. His work is invaluable to seekers on the journey to find the elixir of the True Self.”Â
Tjok Gde Kerthyasa, BHSc(Hom.), ADHom.
Alchemist, homeopathic physician, and founder, Tirta Usada Holistic Health
“The elixir of immortal life is the secret of both Eastern and Western esoteric traditions–from the sacred Soma of Vedic India to the psychedelic sacraments imbibed by initiates at the Sanctuary of Eleusis in ancient Greece. In this deeply enticing work, Dr. Miles Neale guides us through cross-cultural mysteries of life, death, and psycho-spiritual transformation on an alchemical journey that leads us through the subtle pathways of our embodied being toward the ultimate ambrosia that flows from the fully awakened human heart and, in so doing, unbinds the mind and body and renews the world. This book is itself an elixir. Read it and be transformed!”
Ian A. Baker, Ph.D.
Anthropologist, explorer, and author of The Heart of the World, Tibetan Yoga, and, The Dalia Lama's Secret Temple
“Contemplative practice impels the human being towards receptivity, gratefulness, and altruistic love, without pretending that clinging, grasping, and asserting had nothing to do with the alchemy of inner growth. The true heart-self discovers what has always been at hand, even when the seductive dance of the ego is stepping out into evasion and appearances. Miles Neale’s brilliant account of the inner quest brings together the compelling voices of mystical Christianity, esoteric Buddhism, shamanism, Jungian depth psychology, alchemy, and the cries of pain in living an authentic life right now. The reader will not only find here a set of maps for the journey, but also a guide to learning the taste and texture of what truly heals the human spirit as it attends, moment to moment, the passage from death to life.”
The Rev. Canon Francis V. Tiso, Ph.D.
Catholic priest, inter-faith scholar, and author, Rainbow Body and Resurrection, and, Liberation in One Lifetime
“Miles’ Return with Elixir is a thoroughly engrossing journey. This book is for everyone. In a time where we're all asking questions, this book will give answers; or have us concentrating on what really matters.”
Damien Echols
Magician, occultist, and author of Angles & Archangels, High Magick, and, Life After Death
“Return with Elixir is a book I'll want to read rather more than once, which is not something I can say of most recent works in this field -- or, frankly, most others. This heartfelt exploration of the possibilities for personal and planetary healing through a fusion of ancient esoteric traditions and modern psychotherapy is itself an elixir, one that can help bring about the transmutations we need during this turning of time's wheel.”
John Michael Greer
Druid, astrologer, and author of The Twilight of Pluto, The Occult Philosophy Workbook, and, The Long Descent
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With step-by-step guidance, personal stories, and detailed maps, you’ll be able to locate yourself on the path of rebirth and find your way back to a more meaningful, soulful life. As Miles' often says, "It's not the destination that transforms us, it's the journey." Are you ready to embark?
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