RICK JAROW, PH.D.
MANIFESTING A RICH LIFE CONFERENCE LOS ANGELES November 9-11
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Through his acclaimed "Anti-Career" workshops, Rick Jarow has helped thousands transform their work lives by skillfully aligning with the energy of desire. Based on several decades of study of world religions, he teaches an incredibly effective way to align your own talents and desires with the hidden currents of the universe. Jarow is the author of Creating the Work You Love, Your Life's Work, In Search of the Sacred, The Alchemy of Abundance, and The Yoga of Work. He is an assistant professor of Eastern Religions at Vassar College, and a former Mellon Fellow in the Humanities at Columbia University. At the conference he will deliver and exciting and inspiring lecture as well as an experiential workshop you’re sure to enjoy and make your life blossom in every way.

Interview with Rick Jarow and Sounds True

Sounds True: What do you tell people with an ongoing struggle? People who really want to manifest something in particular but are not able to?

Rick Jarow: First, you need to take the pressure off yourself. We are whole and fragmented at once, and everyone will always have a piece of their life that is unknowable, unsolvable. This is known as having to carry your cross, and it is why the Navajo always leave one mistake when they weave a blanket. Next, can you just relax? Be grateful you are alive under the blue sky; receive every gift that is given to you. Manifestation is not about getting everything you want—it means that you open yourself to the fullest extent of your love and creativity. Then miracles do happen. You can stop and see the beauty of existence, you root for others as much as for yourself, anxiety vanishes, and the whole world is transfigured. In abundant alignment, you can be confident that you will receive what you need to do “your work.” And soon, you are receiving so much that you are inspired to share, to offer—and that is the art.

ST: What do you say to the overwhelmed person—someone who has very little time to even think about their dreams and hopes?

RJ: Well, everyone is overwhelmed and overextended. It is the contemporary condition, and we have all created it because we don’t know what else to do. Dealing with these things intelligently is the whole point of manifestation. We are not seeking a state beyond these things; rather, we understand that every event and person in our lives is here to teach us something. What we need is a counterbalance, a center to sustain us. On The Advanced Manifestation Program, you will go through meditations on the 12 main arenas of life, yet you always begin and return to the center—it is a practice you can return to on a regular basis. “Regular” is crucial, for it establishes your elemental power, the set of thought-attitudinal habits that can move you on the upward spiral. If you have a strong practice—even for 10 minutes a day—then you can step in and out of the chaos without letting it get to you.

ST: What can someone do when they are in a state of transition? How can they use a manifestation practice then?

RJ: The answer is not to hurry or worry. I remember when I was in the sixth grade, I was so concerned about what Junior High would be like: the teachers, the homework, could I handle it? And it all worked out, and so it will after we graduate from the earth school. “If you stop worrying about tomorrow it won’t all be chaos.” Someone told me that when I was 18, and I took it to heart. So, if you have been given the gift of transition, live it fully, ask yourself if there is any business you haven’t really finished, and do the Manifestation Work, make yourself ready. You cannot make the wind blow, but you can leave the window open, so you’ll be there when it happens.

RICK JAROW'S Los Angeles Conference Presentation:
The Tantric Alchemy of Abundance: Coming into Radiant Relationship with Everything & Everyone

The Way of Abundance is all too often misconstrued as a shallow sense of “getting what one wants,” “eliminating the negative,” or “being free from pain.” Even the often touted “manifesting your dreams,” offers a psychological disposition that generally remains fixated around manifestation as “the project of me.”

The “project of me” can never be quite enough, however, for it does not meet “the other,” and real living involves meeting. The touch and contact with all of life, the full freedom of non-separation, the completeness of full relationship, and the radiance of compassionate ecstasy is what we are inherently hungry for. These most authentic yearnings may initially appear as forms of imbalance (i.e. addictions) in our lives, but when understood and worked with skillfully, they open a way to a greater life; a life where feeling simultaneously expansive and yet close with everything and everyone is not a wish, but a reality.

This reality can be attained! And the practice of abundance offers a pathway toward this attainment. By listening deeply to the messages that life is sending to us, by profoundly releasing habitual judgments and behavioral patterns, and by learning to access the divine power of imagination in a clear and aligned way, we can find ourselves forever at home even as we act powerfully in the world.
Visit Rick Jarow at: www.anticareer.com

Event information is available at www.greatmystery.org/events/la07.html.

MANIFESTING A RICH LIFE CONFERENCE LOS ANGELES - A powerful weekend featuring teachers from THE SECRET and other very special guests: Arnold Patent, Bob Doyle, Dan Millman, Gay Hendricks, Hale Dwoskin, Howard Martin, Janet Attwood, John Hagelin, Lisa Nichols, Lynne Twist, Marci Shimoff, Niurka, Rhonda Britten, Rick Jarow, and Wendy Craig-Purcell. - November 9-11, 2007.

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