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The 6 Testaments of the Temple of the Circus Monkey

1. Enough Already - Change, Meditation & Transcendence.  Are we having fun yet?  Is this what you wanted to be when you grew up?  This book might help.  Enough Already can help you build the foundation for creating change in your life.  Whether you hate your body, your partner, your job, or life in general, this book will help you find freedom, power, and choice.  You've never read anything like it before.​
   
2. Just Say Sometimes - Healthy Appetites for Unrepressed Souls.  If you want to change your life, you need to control what you put in your body.  And no, that does not involve denial and repression.  Just Say Sometimes is an unorthodox approach to all your appetites.  This ain't your mommy's diet and lifestyle book.  It's a way to find more fun and joy!
   
3. Get Off Your Ass - Realistic Exercise for Regular Folks.  If you want to change your life, you have to deal with your body.  Get Off Your Ass can help.  Getting in shape is the necessary first step to find freedom, power, and choice.  It isn't exactly rocket science, regardless of what the infomercials and gym ads tell you.  Make your body capable of doing what you'd like.  The revolution starts on the floor.
   
4. Inner Workout Fu - Meditation, Tai Chi & Martial Arts to Tune Body and Soul.  Fitness is great, but the Western definition only goes so far.  The rest of the journey to joy-filled health requires center, energy, and reconciling your body and soul.  Inner Workout Fu will teach you to train your spirit, focus your mind, and calm your emotional chatter.  This ain't no hippy crap.  It's useful crap.
   
5. Self Defense 101 - Staying Safe in a World of Jerks.  In order to truly appreciate the world around you, it's necessary to know how to defend yourself.  There are a lot of jerks out there.  Self Defense 101 will give you the knowledge, confidence, and specific skills to protect yourself.  Even if you don't look like me.  
6. The BadAss Cane - the Only Weapon You Can Take Anywhere.   The Man wants to limit the weapons you can carry, but the Man messed up.  The BadAss Cane will show you how to use this particular weapon and explains how the law encourages you to carry one anywhere.  It's appropriate for both the accomplished martial artist and the complete novice.

The Booklets

• Down and Dirty Quick Defense - No Nonsense Self-Defense. Why is self defense necessary?  Human predators exist.  They’re as old as recorded history and as modern as tonight’s local news broadcast.  No amount of legislating, policing, or moralizing is going to change this simple fact.  So what are you going to do about it?  Down and Dirty Quick Defense will help you learn some quick and useful self defense techniques so that in that terrible moment when you’re confronted in a bad situation, you can protect yourself quickly and efficiently so that you can get yourself somewhere safe intact. Don’t be the person saying, “I never thought it would happen to me.”  It’s better to know what to do and never have to use it than be attacked and wish you knew what to do. Get this booklet and be prepared!
• Cane Revolution - The Quick Guide on Walking Stick Defense. These days you can’t get in anywhere without a frisk and a scan.  Carrying anything even resembling a weapon will get you arrested, hassled, or at least denied admittance even if you have all the relevant licenses.  BUT you can carry a cane anywhere, concerts, airplanes, courthouses, you name it.  Cane Revolution gives you the details  for how you can carry an unweapon, a regular walking cane, and still protect yourself in the modern world everywhere you go. 
  
• Swords to Canes - How to Adapt Your Martial Arts Forms to a Cane. Why do martial artists use weapons?  Martial arts were taught to the military elite so they incorporated the weapons of the time, mostly variations of the sword and spear.  So you’ve spent all this time learning how to use the various weapons of your chosen martial art. What now? It’s not like you can carry a sword or a spear around with you to protect yourself on the street.  Learn how to convert your weapons forms to the humble cane and have a form of self protection you can actually take with you in the modern world.

The Rest of Our Books

• Avoiding the Squirrels - thoughts/rants/sermons. A collection of essays, rants, sermons, and musings from the Laird Archbishop of Temple of the Circus Monkey, Angus McIntosh's blog, Avoiding the Squirrels, covering everything from politics, sex, change, bikers, joy, martial arts, lifestyle, and more.
  
  Avoiding the Squirrels: Behind every great oak tree is a nut that stood it’s ground. However, you have to avoid the squirrels! And there are a LOT of squirrels that would like to eat your nuts to keep you from taking root and standing up.
• What is My Clan? - A Study of Scottish Clans, Their Septs, and Their Various Spellings, by David McIntosh.  This book has been written to identify the septs and spelling variations for Scottish clans. It is not intended to be a guide for tartans.  It is my hope that this book will help other conveners be as accurate as they can be in their duties to their clans.
• More books coming with time.  Want your book here?  We publish books; for information go to the TCM Publishing tab under the Temple.