End of the Year 2011 Greetings

We wish everyone receives their true gifts, one of which is the somatic feeling connection  to your deepest self. It’s the maker of dreams, and inner compass pointing to the next step.

JANUARY 2 0 1 2

• Classes+Seminars Jan-June 2012 

(see: Schedule2012 for details)

Amy’s PORTLAND CLASSES. “Music of Our Dreaming Process”

Arny’s PORTLAND Classes: “Parallel Worlds, Process Revolution+Multi-verse”.

Amy and Arny:YACHATS, ATHENS, LONDON Seminar “How the Universe helps solve personal and global problems”

Amy and Arny: ZURICH 1 day “Supervision” seminar (on1to1, Illness, death+dying,relationship organizational, eco)

• New Year’s DREAM EXPERIMENT

People who HAD A DREAM, the morning of JAN. 1, wrote 1 (one) line about the dream on Arny’s Facebook page. See that page to see what more than 100 dreams said to begin 2012. It’s was an experiment, we never did it before -Happy New Year!

• Parallel Worlds?

YES! Respected scientists now focus on parallel dimensions of the universe. Says particle physicist A. Barrau, at the European Organiza. for Nuclear Research (CERN), “…The idea of multiple universes is more than a fantastic invention—it appears naturally within several scientific theories, and deserves to be taken seriously.”–>My view” Alternative dimensions to reality are as old as shamanism’s dreamworlds! Physics+Psych are getting closer! Arny is looking forwards to dealing with this in my January classes.

FEBRUARY

• People from 19 Countries working on World Issues in Oregon

People from 19 countries in Oregon working with all sorts of world issues such as child prostitution, media-brainwashing, personal and organizational relationship issues, nuclear warfare, climate change, economic polarities, etc etc gave amy and i renewed hope for our planet’s future. What worked? Getting to the deepest self, (processmind) and using movement meditations in face to face triads and in small group work.

• The Universe Solves Global Issues?

How the Universe Helps Solve Personal and Global Issues?! We are excited and preparing for this seminar next week in Yachats, Oregon,…also in April for Athens, +May 3-5 in London! For us, preparation means studying and dreaming together about parallel world theory and the Tao…applying new ideas to body problems, ecology, economics, relationships and large group issues

• Portland Winter Classes

5 week Intensive (a beginning course in processwork) here in Portland. Creative people! –from many countries. Using group process and movement work brought out astounding group characteristics on the 1st day. Amy enjoyed her classes on Proceswork and Music. Arny enjoyed his Friday classes on the universe’s nature, and its parallel worlds in psychology, physics, +organizations.

MARCH

• Dreams Explain Body Experiences
  

We remind ourselves about forms of medicine. Don’t forget (as we often do) your dreams may explain body experience. Perhaps you are “ill”, but from a deeper viewpoint your body and “mind” are dreaming about parts of yourself to discover.

• Doing and Not-Doing

“Doing”-pushing is normal, but tiring. “Not-doing”? Thanks to Lao Tzu, Arny met “not-doing” 50 years ago; i.e. being his normal self, but also letting the “universe” be his/our process guide. Today, with and without awareness, “not-doing” sometimes just happens! Helpful ideas pop up+even surprise Arny! in the midst of UNESCO problems in Asia, U.S. climate change conflicts, city social issues etc. Our little planet needs all of your cognitive thoughts, and also your “not-doing”- dreaming. Know yourself, and be surprised if helpful things pop up out of you.

• What is Worldwork?

Worldwork is our term for bringing together many people in open city meetings, organizations, or family systems, and encouraging them to communicate to resolve problems. W.W. developed methods for large group work, partly because personal+social issues, world problems of all kinds are often difficult, emotional, personal, historical +global issues. Our world needs us all, to bring our issues  and use our awareness!

• ATHENS, ZURICH, LONDON

We very much look forwards to joining our many old and new friends, in Athens, especially thinking of social changes there, Zurich, thinking there about supervision but also about helping the City of Zurich with its conflicts, and London, connecting with various groups in our seminar there….

APRIL

• Racism in America

Racism in the USA! In US news, George Zimmermann killed Trayvon Martin, a black 17yr old. This brings up the US’s history and prevalence of racism. We need to resolve racism, and everyone can help. Realize the social rank you have in your culture (remember color, race, religion, gender, sex.orientation, $, age…). Being unaware of rank can hurt others with less rank. Realizing this helps everyone, in the US and worldwide. So remember istory, remember rank, help us all awaken. Practice open forums! Care for yourself +others. (See the book, “Sitting in the Fire” for more.)

• Athens: April 20-22nd

• Zurich April 28-30

Zurich By Day. A wonderful case seminar with scenes from everywhere, including near death, coma, addictions, family culture changes, and organizations.

Zurich by Night. A Worldwork City open forum supported by the city at the Volkshaus, building of the people. We focused on the town becoming so expensive, the original Swiss must move out. This worldwide city problem is called Gentrification. Amazing to see the Swiss talking about things together, yes, in the open, all 600 plus. More hope for our little planet.

Thanks to the IAPOP conference here and the Processwork Institute in Zurich for setting it up! It was just amazing to see what used to be a very quiet people, talking, even woofing together.

MAY

• London May 3-6

London seminar was a homecoming, experiencing so many people, ready to not only to support the diversity characteristic of all world issues, but also the subtle background unity, the flow turning diversity into a dance with many colors. Thanks to all who were there

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An overview of Process Oriented Psychology based upon a seminar given while they were scholars in residence at the Esalen Institute in California.

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From her experience and knowledge of process oriented psychology and creativity, author, therapist, and artist Amy Mindell takes you on a journey to discover the hidden creativity and inspiration in your body, in material objects, in the environment, and even in your day-to-day work. Her book THE DREAMING SOURCE OF CREATIVITY, shows how dreaming and imagination are essential aspects of a fulfilling life.

Big Blue and Harold are enjoying this book very much.

Filled with stories, easy to follow exercises, and over 100 pictures, THE DREAMING SOURCE OF CREATIVITYoffers simple and easy ways to creatively enjoy and work on yourself by sensing the “intentional field”, the dreaming source of creativity that is always present within and around you.

You discover how creativity arises from almost nothing and is hidden even in the most mundane parts of life. You will tap your deepest nature using art, music, puppets, movement, relationships and other amazing worlds. The creative methods in this book are also helpful for those therapists who would like to bring a creative and artistic dimension to their work. Process oriented psychology offers a unique, mind-expanding approach to creativity based upon dreams, body experiences, and overall life situations. Using the “intentional field” as the source of creativity is a new and unique perspective in art therapy, acting, and dance.

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The magical figures in this book make learning how to work with yourself and others an enjoyable experience. From 18 years of studying the situations arising in the practice of therapy and in the supervision of client/therapist interactions, a core group of imaginary figures (from Amy’s dreams) reveal central issues and principles in therapy. (350 pages.)

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“COMA” guides family and health care professionals in contacting people in deeply altered or comatose states of consciousness. Coma work attempts to raise the awareness or even awaken people in these states—regardless of the origin of these states—by assuming their experiences are potentially significant and meaningful.

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Available from Amazon Books

Review from www. Amazon.com, by Linda J. Thorlakson
Independent Publisher January.1999 Mindell’s revolutionary guide paves the way for an exciting journey through the depths of human experience. It renders a diagnosis of coma anything but a dead-end road

Metaskills, the feeling attitudes behind personal therapeutic talents, are the alpha and omega of healing. Amy breaks new ground in a theory and practice of the most ancient of all arts. http://www.laotse.com.

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Quest Books

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Read a three page Excerpt of ProcessMind

Einstein said, “I want to know the mind of God, the rest are details”. This book is therapist Arnold Mindell’s response. By processmind he means an earth-based experience of the universal state of consciousness that, he argues, pervades all reality. It is perhaps our most basic, least known, and greatest power, combining the nonlocality of modern physics with altered states of consciousness found in peak experiences.

What makes this book unique is that it offers some experience of this mind-state to the reader. Mindell does so by connecting cosmic patterns seen in physics with experiences occurring in psychology and world spiritual traditions. He draws together ideas about Aboriginal totem spirits, quantum entanglement, and nonlocality to describe the “structure of God experiences.” Enhancing his clear presentation are around 80 illustrations and 30 experiential exercises based on tested approaches that actualize our deepest, unitive consciousness. Through rational thinking and earth-based, inner experience, the reader can sense how the processmind’s self-organizing intelligence helps with dreams, body symptoms, relationships, and large-group conflict issues. Altogether, the book is a kind of user’s guide to tapping into an immense power that can benefit our own individual life and, ultimately, the world.

Mindell himself advises against believing any processmind theory or related belief system about the universe’s possible code. Don’t believe anything until you test and prove that a theory works at least in everyday life! Such doubting, he hopes, will bring the belief systems of spiritual traditions and sciences closer together.

Contents of the PROCESSMIND:

Part I. The Processmind in Your Personal Life
Part II. Using Processmind with Symptoms, Relationships+World
Part III. The Processmind in Science and Religion
Part IV. Nonlocality and the Entanglement Dance
Conclusion: Ubuntu: The World’s Future

Recommendations for PROCESSMIND:

From physicist AMIT GOSWAMI

The appearance of this book should be celebrated everywhere. Although for some time, some of us quantum physicists are talking about the advantage of an integrative approach to science and spirituality using quantum physics to transpersonal psychology, transpersonal psychologists themselves have been less than enthusiastic. And now a psychologist of the caliber of Arnie Mindel has used the integrative approach in his own inimitable style no less….

€”Amit Goswami, quantum physicist, author of The Self-Aware Universe, The Quantum Doctor, God is not Dead, and Creative Evolution.

From Roshi, JOAN HALIFAX, Founding Abbot, Upaya Zen Center

This extraordinary book has been described as “a user’s guide to everyday life and to the universe’s hidden dimensions.” Written with lucid language and energy emanating off the page, Processmind is an invitation to be on a path of discovery that is beyond theory, and is more a field concept that opens a practitioner to that edge between life and death, where mystery resides.

—Joan Halifax is Founding Abbot, Upaya Zen Center, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

From physicist: FRED ALAN WOLF

Bridging the considerable gap between mind and nature has been and will most likely remain a worthy goal well into the next millennium. None better pursuing this goal has been the work of Arny Mindell. “Process Mind” is his latest work dealing with this elusive subject only this time the value and purpose of it all is made even clearer by bringing in the idea of a Super-mind or Mind of God and how It effects your mind, spirit, and happiness. Fred Alan Wolf, PhD.

—Fred Wolf is Author of “Time-loops and Space-twists: How God created the universe”

From astrophysicist ACHIM GOERES

(In ProcessMind,) Arny Mindell takes us on a courageous expedition into the vast unknown land where science, psychology and transcendency converge. “ProcessMind” is a marvelous journey through experiences and visions, which may lead us one day to a “grand foot”, a holistic understanding of our complete world. This is much more essential than the TOE, the Theory Of Everything, which physicists are currently chasing. Although quite accessible for non-scientists, this book is a treasure trove for anyone who has some sense for natural philosophy as well as for experienced psychologists. ProcessMind opens doors to the understanding of tomorrow, though humankind might need another century to really grasp the potential behind Mindell’s ideas.

—Dr. Achim Goeres, theoretical astrophysicist, Berlin, Germany.

Lao Tse Press

The Yaqui Indian shaman, Don Juan, says “align yourself with the powers of the earth”. The Nobel prize winning physicist Richard Feynman tells us that elementary particles sniff all paths and take the one with least action. The mystic Lao Tse says, “the sage follows the way, and everything benefits.”

Arnold Mindell now combines and updates these various teachings from shamanism, physics and Taoism to create what he calls earth-based “path consciousness”, a fundamental, human spiritual experience linked to the nature of the planet earth.

By connecting quantum physics with aboriginal mythology, Mindell develops new methods to guide us and determine the best momentary psychological direction through inner turmoil, relationship trouble, and community issues. By connecting “path awareness” to the inner experience of the earth as well as the real physical universe, he develops elementary methods that can be learned by anyone and applied just about anywhere.

In the 22 chapters, 9 appendices and 114 pictures and diagrams, you find ca. 250 pages of Earth based Psychology describing new “directional methods” for dreamwork, relationship awareness and organizational development. In the appendices you can catch up on the basics of quantum thinking and vectors.

Now available from Amazon Books and Lao Tse Press!

Book Review From Independent Book Reviews, Trade Show 2007 issue

Although a highly credentialed Ph.D., Dr. Arnie Mindell is not difficult to understand. What is hard to fathom is why no other psychologist has seen these connections before. Most psychologists provide insight, therapy, and personality adjustments based on the assumption that individuals must adjust to society and culture. How can we ever become well-adjusted if that which we are seeking to adapt to is itself somewhat out of balance?

If we look to nature and physics for a model of relationships between matter, particles, and movement and how they interact, we can align our psychological inner work to mirror the way all things involving matter and energy perform.

Sentient awareness involves not just the everyday adjustments we accept to function in civilization, but also a welcoming of the noetic, the ineffable, and the dream-like, among other subtle pressures from forces in the Universe.

Lest the reader think that Mindell is giving us science lessons, they need only apply themselves to the 22 chapters and the many exercises that are simple to practice, but that have profound “aha” consequences. For example, chapter 11, “The Physics and Aikido of Least Action,” includes exercises involving Snow White, the Tao Te Ching, and waltzing with a chair. The net result: a respite from using guile to cope with stress and a reliance on”whistling while we work.”

This wonderful follow-up to Mindell’s series that covered dream-bodywork and quantum healing practices has its chapters divided into four parts and includes intriguing headings such as “The Universe’s View of Body Symptoms” and “Where Relationships Come From,” the latter of which includes the insightfulness found in the geometry of love. Earth-Based Psychology has 11 short valuable appendices such as “Quantum Mechanics in a Nutshell.” It also has 16 pages of endnotes, a six-page bibliography, and a helpful nine-page index. This is a groundbreaking and delightful way for 21st-century seekers to think about and use psychotherapy, whether as an individual or therapist.

Reviewed by; Thomas Peter von Bahr, Pacific Northwest Group, Lopez Island, Wash.

Thanks to the www.newageretailer.com -800/463-9243 for bringing this review to our awareness.

Hampton Roads. www.hrpub.com

With many practical exercises, this book explores how and why dreams influences your biology, and how emotions are linked to invisible, (quantum) dimensions of symptoms. Awareness training and examples make the theory a living experience connecting psychology, biology and physics. There are chapters on anti-aging, music therapy, and symptom oriented relationship-work in which symptoms are influenced by non-local aspects of relationships with individuals and communities.

For professionals and clients focusing on symptoms, for students of the life sciences and physics, The Quantum Mind and Healing:

• Integrates alternative and allopathic medicine attitudes creating useful symptom approaches
• Shows how physics, biology and psychology come together
• Explores the quantum and dreaming dimensions of symptoms

• Suggests why + how community problems effect symptoms
• Show why and how music can be medicine
• Uses awareness as an time-bending factor to explore the origins of life and death.

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On the back cover: By Fred Alan Wolf, Ph.D. Author
of Cheating Time, Matter into Feeling, Mind into Matter, the National Book award winning Taking the Quantum Leap and many other books.

Dr. Arnold Mindell’s latest work goes farther than his previous Quantum Mind and lays the ground for 21st century healing. Anyone practicing medicine or needing healing today will find great value in reading it.

Mindell, taking up where Carl Jung left off, has emerged as the leading expert in the uses of metaphors and concepts from quantum physics to heal the mind and psyche. This book is both an opportunity to learn psychology and how quantum physics notions offer new hope as well as a manual of operations for the psyche filled with new processes and imaginative insights

Book Award; 2004 New Age Retailer Narcissus Award Finalist (from over 4,500 entries)

Book review of June 12, 2004 by Thomas Peter von Bahr; of the Pacific Northwest Group.

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We are thankful to the United States NLP Magazine, “Anchor Point” and to the reviewer, Charles Levine for the following reviews of Arny’s books, The Dreammaker’s Apprentice, the Deep Democracy of Open Forums, and The Quantum Mind and Healing.

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Book Reviews – Sept 2004 Today’s Books; PNS Publish 500

” !!!! Exceptional – Adult Nonfiction €“for Consciousness/Alternative Healing; Quantum physics. Chronic illness. Guided exercises. ”

(From ForeWord Magazine, Volume 7, Number 5, September/October 2004)

” Mindell offers an original, level-headed exploration of human psychology, physics, medicine, spiritual traditions, and the importance of awareness, so as to develop “greater understanding and relief from physical pain.”

From Shirley Maclaine: “Despite his many achievements, it is not a stretch to say that The Quantum Mind and Healing is quite probably Mindell’s most important and best work yet. In it, Mindell explains that you can use the discoveries of quantum physics to access your body’s own intelligence and self-healing abilities. Embracing both conventional and alternative medicine, he shows that to truly heal you need both medicine and your own natural wisdom.”‘

Hampton Roads.www.hrpub.com.

++NOTE!! NOW available as a Kindle PC Download for your computer from Amazon.com (Just click the book cover above and you will go there)

The focus of this organizational and group development book is practice; the deepest feeling skills and essential linear techniques needed to facilitate small and large groups. This work is adaptable to any known group or organization. Process-oriented Open Forum methods create less stressful and more creative transformations through inner and outer awareness work. The concept of the psycho-social activist is introduced together with insights into the resolution of severe organizational conflicts and war.

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Review quote: on back cover by Daniel Bowling, JD, CEO, Duke University Dispute Management Center, Durham, NC. “Repression of conflict destroys countries, communities, organizations, relationships, and love. Unless we learn to use conflict to develop awareness, we will ultimately destroy our world. Dr. Mindell brilliantly and clearly teaches us how to follow the Tao of Conflict, the path of paradoxical awareness.”

From Shirley Maclaine

“You can take the subtlest of signals and use them to transform impossible problems”