This hard-hitting and innovative book about man-woman relationship immediately challenges the deceptions about love and intimacy rampant in today's patriarchal culture. At the same time, "Radiant Joy Brilliant Love" reveals a step-by-step process for discovering and living out alternative possibilities. The author claims that even the "best" of our relationships are still generally basic level; what he calls "Ordinary Human Relationship". He asserts that two more domains remain to be explored: namely, Extraordinary Human Relationship and Archetypal Love. The book shows exactly how to enter these new domains, and how to stay there long enough to cultivate genuine intimacy, nurturance, excitement and satisfaction together.
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"Clinton Callahan is an original thinker!" -- Marilyn Ferguson, former editor Brain-Mind Bulletin, author, The Aquarian Conspiracy
"This is a great book. It's honest, illuminating, provocative, fresh, practical, inspiring, humorous, and ruthlessly compassionate. It's one of those rare books that will definitely wake you up. I consider it must reading for anyone seriously interested in the path of conscious relationship." -- John Welwood, author of Journey of the Heart and Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships
"For modern seekers, responding to the call for initiation into relationship, here is an open invitation. As with all true rites of passage, the final destination can not be found on a roadmap, there is no promise of safety along the way, and, the potential for transformation is boundless." -- Malidoma Patrice Somé, PhD, author Of Water and the Spirit
"This is a great book. It's honest, illuminating, provocative, fresh, practical, inspiring, humorous, and ruthlessly compassionate. It's one of those rare books that will definitely wake you up. I consider it must reading for anyone seriously interested in the path of conscious relationship." -- John Welwood, author of Journey of the Heart and Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships
"For modern seekers, responding to the call for initiation into relationship, here is an open invitation. As with all true rites of passage, the final destination can not be found on a roadmap, there is no promise of safety along the way, and, the potential for transformation is boundless." -- Malidoma Patrice Somé, PhD, author Of Water and the Spirit
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This hard-hitting and innovative book about man-woman relationship challenges the deceptions about love and intimacy rampant in today's patriarchal culture and reveals a step-by-step process for discovering and living out alternative possibilities. According to the author, even the "best" of our relationships are still generally basic level: what he calls "Ordinary Human Relationship." Two more domains remain to be explored: Extraordinary Human Relationship and Archetypal Love. Radiant Joy Brilliant Love shows how to enter these new domains and how to stay there long enough to cultivate genuine intimacy, nurturance, excitement, and satisfaction together. The material for the book is startlingly original and fresh, directly distilled from over 30 years of trial, error, and evaluation within seminars and trainings conducted by the author in the United States and Europe. The essential teaching tools are "Thought-Maps" that illustrate and guide the dynamics of evolving relationship, coupled with a series of experiments/"explorations" to be engaged alone or with one's partner. The author claims that "an endless abundance of love can be directly experienced by any human being who prepares himself or herself." That preparation is what this book offers.
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DIRECTING THE POWER OF CONSCIOUS FEELINGS
I feel glad that we have gotten this book into your hands so you can use the results of our research - it took 34 years to develop these distinctions and another remarkable year to get them in order for the book!
Marion Callahan, my partner, while translating the manuscript into German, reported that this book is even more intense than Radiant Joy Brilliant Love.
Imagine that!
May this book transform your life! And may you enjoy that experience!
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
-- More info about my books is online at www dot clintoncallahan dot com.
-- More info about climate change, peak oil, stepping on the bridge to next culture, etc., is online at www dot arkbuilder dot org.
-- More info about upgrading the ideas you think with is online at www dot nextculture dot org.
Please take your time with encountering all this information. It can be quite transformational. I recommend gathering weekly with friends in small groups and studying these books together.
I wish you all the best,
Clinton
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Radiant Joy Brilliant Love is an extremely personal work. It was personal for me to write, and I am hearing from others that it is extremely personal to read. Fierce clarity forced the words into order, driven by a red-hot rage about the utter lack of this knowledge in our culture. Tears often rolled down my cheeks while writing. And many ideas were nearly too frightening for me to risk saying.
I think extremely personal work is required now, a direct and honest confrontation with the state of our inability to relate, to communicate, to listen, and to be with each other. Without an unflinching laser examination of what we presently create in our relationships, how can we hope to create anything different?
Each idea in this book was hard earned, through first-hand experience, with many failures and mistakes. Some of you reading this book were there in those moments when a piece of clarity was distilled. I thank you for your collaboration. Being in those moments with you, discovering how things work and what does not work, these are highpoints in my life.
I'll tell you one story, the night I discovered the first Hidden Purpose of my irresponsible self (my Gremlin). It may not seem like a highpoint in the telling, but it was a step that needed to be taken if I was to provide people with anything of value. And it was an integral part of my personal rite of passage.
I was living in France, co-managing a spiritual retreat center with my wife at the time. It was Sunday night, about nine-thirty, early winter, December, 1998, a chilly drizzly night. Ordinarily it was time for bed, but I received some feedback just then about an aspect of my behavior that had not changed even after repeated revelations. It struck me suddenly that change was absolutely hopeless so long as I remained ignorant of the root cause of my behavior.
My ignorance was driving me crazy. I was so frustrated I could not stay inside the old French farmhouse. So I grabbed my jacket and a sleeping bag and thought I would sleep out in the barn, but even there I could not stop moving. I dropped the sleeping bag and kept walking, out the long stony driveway in the moonless night, then up the winding paved road past little farmhouses, cold drizzle dripping from the leafless trees and hitting my face.
Some invisible purpose had been at work all my life producing results from behind a curtain I could not open, and I needed it open. Until I could make that purpose conscious I could not be accountable for my actions. The conflict was that opening that curtain would destroy a part of my life, a part that was heretofore functioning unconsciously. I could never return to my ordinary life if I gained that knowledge, but I vowed not to end this hike without it. I would rather spend the rest of my days begging in some far away French village, nameless and penniless, than to continue being a marionette buffoon.
A furnace churned inside me, pumping my legs onward. Most of the night passed while I trudged furiously, wet, cold and thirsty, with huge blisters on my heels. My hips ached and each step became torturous. Village after village passed by, until I finally sat down on a guard rail at a fork in the road unable to decide which way to continue, completely drained. I lapsed into absolutely futility. Then the curtain parted. I saw in this moment, exhausted, alone in the dark night, that I was fulfilling the very purpose that I had been searching for. The unconscious machinations of this purpose had been relentlessly twisting my every action into fulfilling its specifications, because this was the one purpose that was normal for me, ever since I was one year old, and left alone in my crib, I thought, to die.
I had screamed and screamed and nobody came, nobody cared. If I was to survive past that moment in the crib, then many subtle systems had to shut down. I had to abandon softer wishes, needs for abundance of heart and nearness of soul. If I was to survive that moment in the crib, then it would only be by exerting my own efforts alone. Surviving became the underlying purpose of my life, the thing that I could do, the thing that secretly defined my standard of normal, the outcome of my every effort. I intended to stay forever in a mode of survival. I became a survival hero. This was my Hidden Purpose. My life was about surviving. Anything different from being in survival could not be my life.
I slowly rose back onto my feet and hobbled towards the nearer village, a few kilometers further on. In the back of a monastery I found a small building that housed a heating furnace. Mercifully the door was unlocked. I let myself in and by the light of the furnace collapsed onto the dusty cement floor. An hour or so later the sun lightened the grey sky enough that I could call my friend Thomas to come pick me up.
It took months to digest that experience. I could not explain to anyone what had happened. I could not figure it out in any linear fashion. But through this fierce internal underworld struggle I was able to distinguish between low drama and high drama, to define Gremlin and its Hidden Purpose, to reveal the entire Map of Possibility - the central map of Possibility Management, and to experientially and intellectually distinguish ordinary, extraordinary and archetypal relationship, the basis of the book Radiant Joy Brilliant Love.
I feel glad that we have gotten this book into your hands so you can use the results of our research - it took 34 years to develop these distinctions and another remarkable year to get them in order for the book!
Marion Callahan, my partner, while translating the manuscript into German, reported that this book is even more intense than Radiant Joy Brilliant Love.
Imagine that!
May this book transform your life! And may you enjoy that experience!
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
-- More info about my books is online at www dot clintoncallahan dot com.
-- More info about climate change, peak oil, stepping on the bridge to next culture, etc., is online at www dot arkbuilder dot org.
-- More info about upgrading the ideas you think with is online at www dot nextculture dot org.
Please take your time with encountering all this information. It can be quite transformational. I recommend gathering weekly with friends in small groups and studying these books together.
I wish you all the best,
Clinton
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Radiant Joy Brilliant Love is an extremely personal work. It was personal for me to write, and I am hearing from others that it is extremely personal to read. Fierce clarity forced the words into order, driven by a red-hot rage about the utter lack of this knowledge in our culture. Tears often rolled down my cheeks while writing. And many ideas were nearly too frightening for me to risk saying.
I think extremely personal work is required now, a direct and honest confrontation with the state of our inability to relate, to communicate, to listen, and to be with each other. Without an unflinching laser examination of what we presently create in our relationships, how can we hope to create anything different?
Each idea in this book was hard earned, through first-hand experience, with many failures and mistakes. Some of you reading this book were there in those moments when a piece of clarity was distilled. I thank you for your collaboration. Being in those moments with you, discovering how things work and what does not work, these are highpoints in my life.
I'll tell you one story, the night I discovered the first Hidden Purpose of my irresponsible self (my Gremlin). It may not seem like a highpoint in the telling, but it was a step that needed to be taken if I was to provide people with anything of value. And it was an integral part of my personal rite of passage.
I was living in France, co-managing a spiritual retreat center with my wife at the time. It was Sunday night, about nine-thirty, early winter, December, 1998, a chilly drizzly night. Ordinarily it was time for bed, but I received some feedback just then about an aspect of my behavior that had not changed even after repeated revelations. It struck me suddenly that change was absolutely hopeless so long as I remained ignorant of the root cause of my behavior.
My ignorance was driving me crazy. I was so frustrated I could not stay inside the old French farmhouse. So I grabbed my jacket and a sleeping bag and thought I would sleep out in the barn, but even there I could not stop moving. I dropped the sleeping bag and kept walking, out the long stony driveway in the moonless night, then up the winding paved road past little farmhouses, cold drizzle dripping from the leafless trees and hitting my face.
Some invisible purpose had been at work all my life producing results from behind a curtain I could not open, and I needed it open. Until I could make that purpose conscious I could not be accountable for my actions. The conflict was that opening that curtain would destroy a part of my life, a part that was heretofore functioning unconsciously. I could never return to my ordinary life if I gained that knowledge, but I vowed not to end this hike without it. I would rather spend the rest of my days begging in some far away French village, nameless and penniless, than to continue being a marionette buffoon.
A furnace churned inside me, pumping my legs onward. Most of the night passed while I trudged furiously, wet, cold and thirsty, with huge blisters on my heels. My hips ached and each step became torturous. Village after village passed by, until I finally sat down on a guard rail at a fork in the road unable to decide which way to continue, completely drained. I lapsed into absolutely futility. Then the curtain parted. I saw in this moment, exhausted, alone in the dark night, that I was fulfilling the very purpose that I had been searching for. The unconscious machinations of this purpose had been relentlessly twisting my every action into fulfilling its specifications, because this was the one purpose that was normal for me, ever since I was one year old, and left alone in my crib, I thought, to die.
I had screamed and screamed and nobody came, nobody cared. If I was to survive past that moment in the crib, then many subtle systems had to shut down. I had to abandon softer wishes, needs for abundance of heart and nearness of soul. If I was to survive that moment in the crib, then it would only be by exerting my own efforts alone. Surviving became the underlying purpose of my life, the thing that I could do, the thing that secretly defined my standard of normal, the outcome of my every effort. I intended to stay forever in a mode of survival. I became a survival hero. This was my Hidden Purpose. My life was about surviving. Anything different from being in survival could not be my life.
I slowly rose back onto my feet and hobbled towards the nearer village, a few kilometers further on. In the back of a monastery I found a small building that housed a heating furnace. Mercifully the door was unlocked. I let myself in and by the light of the furnace collapsed onto the dusty cement floor. An hour or so later the sun lightened the grey sky enough that I could call my friend Thomas to come pick me up.
It took months to digest that experience. I could not explain to anyone what had happened. I could not figure it out in any linear fashion. But through this fierce internal underworld struggle I was able to distinguish between low drama and high drama, to define Gremlin and its Hidden Purpose, to reveal the entire Map of Possibility - the central map of Possibility Management, and to experientially and intellectually distinguish ordinary, extraordinary and archetypal relationship, the basis of the book Radiant Joy Brilliant Love.
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This review is from: Radiant Joy Brilliant Love: Secrets for Creating an Extraordinary Life and Profound Intimacy with Your Partner (Paperback)
If you can envision it, you can do it.Why would anyone want limited love? In love, one must carve a path to get there; there are no roads to follow except those created together. No one loves alone.
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Although the subtitle suggests that this book is for people who want to build a more satisfying relationship with a partner (and it is that), the book actually provides fundamentally new ways for creating and being in any relationship. Typically we entrap ourselves in a well-defended box made of unchallenged ideas, opinions, and values imposed upon us by our culture and peers. Relationships between boxes are what the author refers to as "ordinary human relationship," and it's the only kind of relationship most of us ever know. While the book alerts the reader to the existence of two higher levels of relationship (extraordinary and Archetypal) and guides him or her to those higher levels, a browser can gain substantive value by simply opening the book and reading a few pages at random. It's hard to avoid a new idea, an inspirational anecdote, or a challenging exercise that crawls its way into your psyche. But be forewarned. This is a dangerous book. On the back cover there's a disclaimer in a highlighted box that says, "Warning: You will not work with this book--this book works with you. This book is filled with memetic viruses--ideas that swarm through every level of your thinking, replacing any ideas they find that are formulated with less clarity. Your mind will not digest this book. This book digests your mind. If you do not want your present ideas about relationship seriously reordered, do not read this book." Take it seriously.
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Choose to Love, choose to grow, take responsibility.,
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This review is from: Radiant Joy Brilliant Love: Secrets for Creating an Extraordinary Life and Profound Intimacy with Your Partner (Paperback)
A powerful Instrument for learning love by doing exactly what its reviewers claimed. You won't digest this book, it will digest you. Reading it is like importing a computer virus that replaces everything in your hard drive regarding love that was wishy-washy and full of victimhood and installs clarity and personal responsibility. The light is so bright it may hurt your eyes. Clinton Callahan establishes a new "possibility" language that builds on and synthesizes previous psychological models and creates powerful new personal growth tools for self and relationship. This book is the closest thing to a manual of Awareness and Awakening that I have ever encountered. There is no where to hide from yourself after you've read this book. If you read it, you will share it with everyone who is important to you and use the concepts and experiments revealed every day for the rest of your blessed life.
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