World Wheel

 One Woman's Quest for Peace


with artwork by the author  --  free of charge in PDF format

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Karuna Books is pleased to release the PDF edition of Vijali Hamilton's World Wheel: One woman's Quest for Peace.   This amazing book, full of extraordinary artwork, is now available free of charge for everyone interested in how art, nature, spirituality and community can be woven together into a radiant unity.

Journey with Vijali on her global pilgrimage as she sculpts environmental stonework acupressure points circling the planet and develops community with her World Wheel, Global Peace through Art. This is the story of how one woman transforms a childhood of deprivation and aloneness into a love affair with the entire world. With an artist’s valuable insight, she urges us to find our own voice as she takes us to the far corners of the world, embracing the planet and its people as one family.

Praise for World Wheel:

"As we travel wlith Vijali Hamilton, we come to understand the transformative power of moral imagination and wisdom of the heart. This is where many Cultural Creatives like Vijali are headed now—directly into the core of the problems of our common world."

     — Paul Ray and Sherry Ruth Anderson, authors of The Cultural Creatives

Also available in printed editions:   hardcover ($69.00) or softcover  ($39.00)

Watch World Wheel online video (27 min.) 

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Introduction
 

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Introduction

 

 

 

CHAPTER 1:  World Wheel  ~ Spoke One
   Malibu, California, USA

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Chapters 1 thru 4

CHAPTER 2:   Invisible Sources  

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CHAPTER 3:  World Wheel  ~  Spoke Two
   Seneca Cattaraugus Reservation, New York, USA 

23

CHAPTER 4:   The Vedanta Convent 

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CHAPTER 5:   World Wheel  ~  Spoke Three
   Alicante, Spain 

46

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Chapters 5 thru 8

CHAPTER 6:  Into the World

53

CHAPTER 7:  World Wheel  ~  Spoke Four
   Umbrian Forest, Italy

60

CHAPTER 8:  A Room of My Own 

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CHAPTER 9:   World Wheel  ~  Spoke Five
Tinos, Greece

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Chapters 9 thru 12

CHAPTER 10:  Kundalini

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CHAPTER 11:   World Wheel  ~  Spoke Six
South Gallala Plateau, Egypt

94

CHAPTER 12:   Winged Woman

104

 

 

 

CHAPTER 13:   World Wheel  ~  Spoke Seven
   Dead Sea, Palestine and Israel

114

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Chapters 13 thru 16

CHAPTER 14:   The Amazon Jungle 

121

CHAPTER 15:   World Wheel  ~  Spoke Eight
   West Bengal, India

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CHAPTER 16:   Freedom  

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CHAPTER 17:  World Wheel ~ Spoke Nine
Shoto Terdrom, Tibet

146

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Chapters 17 thru 20

CHAPTER 18: Marriage

156

CHAPTER 19: World Wheel ~ Spoke Ten
   Kunming, China 

159

CHAPTER 20:  Spirit Within Matter 

171

 

 

 

CHAPTER 21:  World Wheel ~ Spoke Eleven
   Lake Baikal, Siberia, Russia

181

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Chapters 21 thru 24

CHAPTER 22:  My Sacred Mountain 

190

CHAPTER 23:  World Wheel ~ Spoke Twelve
Tenkawa, Nara, Japan 

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CHAPTER 24:  Return

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Postscript Second World Wheel

212

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Postscript, Notes,
Bibliography, etc.

Chronology

222

Acknowledgments

224

Photo Illustrations

225

Endnotes

230

Bibliography

232

Books Featuring Vijali Hamilton

234

Other Works by Vijali Hamilton

235

Biography

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Winged Woman and Reclining Man                            Vijali Hamilton
 


k a r u n a   b o o k s

a library of e-books and essays on the life of compassion and creativity