A HarperElixir Book

The beloved teacher of spiritual wisdom and writer of the phenomenal NY Times and international bestseller The Four Agreements takes readers on a mystical Toltec-inspired personal journey, introducing us to a much deeper degree of spiritual teaching and awareness.

In 2002, Don Miguel Ruiz suffered a near fatal heart attack that remaining him in a nine-weeks-long coma. The spiritual journey he undertook while suspended between this globe and the next forms the center from the Toltec about The Toltec Artwork of Lifestyle and Death Artwork of Lifestyle and Loss of life, a deep and mystical tale of religious struggle. As his body is situated unconscious, Ruiz’s spirit encounters the people, ideas, and events that have formed him, illuminating the eternal struggle between life-unending energy and truth-and death-matter and subjective knowledge-in which we are all called to engage.

Over ten years in the making, The Toltec Art of Life and Death invites readers into the mind of a master of religious seeking, offering an unparalleled and intimate glance into the development of a soul. With this culmination of a lifetime’s learning, Ruiz shares with visitors the innermost workings of his singular heart and mind, and summons us to grapple with classic insights, attracted from historic Toltec intelligence, that will be the essence of change.