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Journey 8.0
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The Personal Journey Workbook
A Guide to an Extraordinary Life
by Ron Koertge and Mary
Rocamora
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To
show a way to get Awareness free of old, limiting patterns
so that
a fresh and expansive life can be lived" 
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Ron Koertge is a widely published poet, Young Adult author,
and teacher.
He is a recipient of the NEA Fellowship and a California Arts Council grant.
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Mary Rocamora, founder and director of The Rocamora School,
Inc.,
has been counseling gifted adults for more than 24 years, plus
researching how beliefs and patterns of thinking impact self-actualization
and creativity.
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This new self-paced workbook, based on the coursework of
the Rocamora School, is a carefully designed exploration of awareness
and beliefs using accessible, non-dogmatic information and precisely crafted
sequences of inductive exercises.
The best attitude to have or to cultivate for this work is
one of curiosity, interest, and fascination. Set aside labels ('neurotic',
'co-dependent', 'inadequate', etc.), judgments, theories, archetypes, beliefs
and meditation practices.
The Personal Journey is to be explored with a fresh mind
that is completely present,
to seek a precise description of your own inner -- and unique -- experience.
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One of the primary areas of exploration using this book is
our emotions -
the first things we have inner awareness of.
When we're little, we react spontaneously: toy breaks, kid cries.
Later our reactions feel less spontaneous, more inevitable.
Frankly, a precise emotional vocabulary is essential for
this work
and most of us can do better than simply "bad", "down", "weird" etc.
Awareness yearns for the specific quality of each individual
emotion like a gourmet
who longs for the individual piquancies of Thai curry, not just food.
Book
Review in Science of Mind, by Kathy Juline, March, 1997
"On the way to a direct experience of the
indwelling Spirit, most of us encounter a roadblock of old
fears or negative thinking, impediments that seem to keep us
stuck. A way through them is provided by Mary Rocamora and
Ron Koertge in The Personal Journey Workbook.
This workbook contains a sequence of lessons and exercises
carefully designed to free the user from limiting patterns
of thought and emotions. The journey offered here is one of
spiritual transformation, resulting in enhanced creativity,
capacity for loving, and authentic self-expression.
The workbook approach, dealing as it does with actual life
experiences, gives realness and clarity to the kinds of spiritual
Truths brought forth by Ernest Holmes, empowering us to allow
our higher Self to become more fully expressed. Then the greater
good we affirm in our prayerful thought becomes outwardly manifest."
Responses
to using Personal Journey material include:
"I find the text very profound. I can re-read
not only sentences, but parts of sentences. It seems very meaty
to me, very carefully and thoughtfully done. I find it extremely
helpful." (filmmaker)
"It's tremendous. I was busy living a little
life, and now my life has totally changed.I'm very happy."
(former office manager, now waitress and restaurant manager)
"I have been a seeker since I was nine,
involved with meditation and zazen and other practices. I see
this work as a totally consistent complement; this has really
amplified, clarified, accelerated a lot of the things I've been
working on." (CEO:
multimedia, CD-ROM and online game company)
"I'm open to new things, to new people,
new meetings, new possibilities" (award-winning screenwriter)
"This process enables one to be fueled
with the energy to become a dream maker again" (film
and TV producer)
"I am finding I can deal with people
in a way that brings the best out of a situation" (millionaire
financier)
The Personal Journey Workbook is a sequence of
self-paced lessons and exercises with carefully designed questions
and written responses designed to explore the unique qualities
of inner experience and to develop an awareness that is free
of old, limiting patterns of thought and emotions, in order
to enhance creativity and personal achievement.
Starting with an evaluation of how awareness can
be "free" or "trapped", with examples to
be developed from the reader's own life, the lessons go on to
explore in detail the emotional states, then lead to a freeing
up of awareness.
Author Mary Rocamora notes "The Personal Journey
work has the effect of clearing out belief systems, so they cease
to obstruct creativity, vision, and personal energy."
excerpt from the workbook: Emotions: From the
General to the Specific
Available
at Amazon.com.
The workbook is carried in the Los Angeles
area at:
- Barnes & Noble
/ Westside Pavilion (310) 475-4144
- The Bodhi Tree Bookstore (310)
659-4428
- Quiet Mind Books / Agape Church Center
(Santa Monica)
(310) 829-5780
- Alexandria Books (Pasadena) (818) 792-788
international distribution by:
DeVorss and Company P.O.
Box 550 Marina del Rey, CA 90242-0550
800-382-6121 (M-F, 8:00
- 4:30 pst)
additional publications and media :
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Guidebook of the Adult Giftedness Project
suggests ways to help you cultivate your talents and usher them into the world
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and invites your creative participation in the process
booklet. $10.00
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Workbook of the Adult Giftedness Project
self-paced questionnaire, research information and other writings
to better understand giftedness characteristics and qualities
booklet. $10.00
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or order both together for $15.00!
mail requests and checks to:
The Rocamora School, Inc.
7523 Mulholland Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90046
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prices listed include shipping and tax
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