The Smile Gate

Description:

What if the smile you show the world carries a story you have yet to understand? For four decades, Marc Mortiboys has worked with the human mouth. Alongside his clinical life, travels through Southeast Asia and encounters with different cultures led him towards questions that dentistry alone could not answer. The Smile Gate: A Shamanic Journey Through the Teeth of Time brings those questions into a world of mysterious encounters, ancient teachings and personal reflection.  Teeth become symbols of memory and identity. The mouth becomes a threshold. And a familiar part of ourselves begins to look unfamiliar. Through storytelling, lived experience and spiritual interpretation, Marc explores fear, ancestry, transformation and our relationship with the human smile.  The journey continues in a second part devoted to the Seven Shamanic Principles of The Smile Gate, inviting readers to reflect on the themes for themselves. Written for readers drawn to spiritual journeys, symbolism and the meeting of modern life with ancient traditions, this book invites curiosity without demanding belief. Its spiritual interpretations are offered as exploration, rather than established medical fact. What might you discover if you looked beyond the teeth?

subjects: Spirituality,  Shamanism,  Symbolism,  Teeth,  Memory,  Identity,  Ancestry,  Personal transformation,  Spiritual journeys,  ancient traditions