DIRECTING THE POWER OF CONSCIOUS FEELINGS
- Living Your Own Truth -
Now available from www.hohmpress.com or your local bookstore.
About the book
The ideas given to us about feelings by modern culture are so distorted that we equate feeling good with feeling nothing. We don’t actually want to feel happy. We want to feel numb.
Our numbness cuts us off from an inborn source of tremendous clarity, wisdom, insight and power: our adult feelings. Having a feeling is not a symptom to be stopped by brain drugs. Feelings are not some design error made by God. Feelings provide information and energy for bringing our uplifting vision of what is possible for humanity on planet Earth to life. If you have a feeling it is for healing something or for handling something. Drowning your feelings in denial, distraction, or drugs is waste of the greatest magnitude.
The growing global chaos and the general failure of seemingly intelligent human beings to create a sustainable future for ourselves reflect a deep disconnection from our own feelings. Idealizing the strong numb hero could possibly exterminate the human race.
This is an important book. It is a book for now. This book takes the reader by the hand and says: Personally choosing numbness may have been unconscious for you. But in this very moment you can change your mind and learn to consciously feel. Then, step by step, you do just this. Please read this book.
Praise for Directing the Power of Conscious Feelings
(Exerpt from a blog posted by Carolyn Baker called: Grow Up or Die, But How?)
Directing The Power of Conscious Feelings is filled with diagrams, charts, illustrative photos, and "maps" which make the book remarkably reader-friendly and beautifully clarify the author's concepts in no-nonsense fashion. My favorite is a map comparing the attributes of modern culture and the next culture which contrasts the essential mottos of both cultures and leaves us with: 'Human cultures are so immature. Can you grow up?' By the time the reader reaches this point in the book he/she will have been given a treasure-trove of tools for boarding the ship of feelings and steering it in the direction of a new culture that cannot be realized without conscious emotional, and I would add, spiritual, preparation. I believe that these tools constitute a profound rite of passage for non-indigenous people and provide a structure for psychospiritual maturation.
-Carolyn Baker, author of Sacred Demise: Walking the Spiritual Path of Industrial Civilization's Collapse
www.carolynbaker.net
http://clintoncallahan.blogspot.com/2010/06/blog006-grow-up-or-die-but-how.html Link to full text of this blog
This is a daring book— it asks us to recognize our numbness and become conscious about the issues that imperil our future. Deeply personal yet global, challenging, confronting, hopeful.
- Margaret J. Wheatley, author of Leadership and the New Science
www.margaretwheatley.com
Directing the Power of Conscious Feelings is the key to deliverance of humankind from our rapidly-approaching tragic end. This book is about honesty, sustainable community, forgiveness, creativity, co-intelligence and service – all the themes of liberation from the nightmare of civilization as we know it. Plus it is a very practical human body user’s guide. Clinton Callahan is radical, and he and those he works with are genius! This is a wonderful book!
- Brad Blanton, author of Radical Honesty
www.radicalhonesty.com
If you wish to change, read this book. It puts a simple key in your hand: allow yourself to feel. The key releases you from paralysis, opens true insights, and gathers energy. It brings people together wherever we stand to take responsibility for the situation on this planet. It awakens the inner adult to step forward and make the changes we long for. Thank you for this guide to a new culture. May this book spread in the world.
- Sabine Lichtenfels, peace activist, author, co-founder of Tamera
www.sabine-lichtenfels.de
Directing the Power of Conscious Feelings can help us peel off decades of pain and numbness to unearth our powerful, authentic selves. Genuine, here-and-now feelings are messages to help us behave appropriately and courageously, and to make the changes we need in our lives. Callahan’s book is full of potent, accessible tools for clear, effective communication and responsible action. This – our ability to be real and true – is what activists, ecovillage pioneers, and all of us (in my opinion) need to make the world a better place.
- Diana Leafe Christian, author of Creating a Life Together and Ecovillage Newsletter
www.ecovillagenews.org
Learning to feel is essential to us being able to stay alive as a species. We need to open our hearts and minds to the shift that is happening on the planet, allow it to penetrate deep into the center of our being, allow the pain to be felt and released, feel ourselves re-awaken to who we are as sentient, pulsing human beings, deeply connected to the Earth and the universe at once. Numbness is suicidal.
- Peter Merry, author of Evolutionary Leadership
www.humanemergence.nl
In the Middle East one experiences numbness not only as hopelessness about achieving any solution to the conflict, but as a tactic for survival itself. In this book Callahan introduces individuals, communities and nations to tools that allow awakening and transformation to occur. Here is an opportunity for all of us to gain a future worth living for.
- Sami Awad, Executive Director of Holy Land Trust
www.holylandtrust.org
It has been with great appreciation that I have found Clinton Callahan’s work and writing. He so clearly and comprehensively details the path of feeling that those who approach it with a sense of open inquiry will likely feel compelled to undertake their own feeling journey. The work to regain such a fundamental ability as feeling is revolutionary, and inevitably transformative, both personally and collectively. And once one has a long drink of the experience of feeling that Clinton writes about, it will be difficult to quench one’s thirst with less.
- Sally Erickson, film producer
www.whatawaytogomovie.com
Brilliant. A provocative study of power, healing and emotion. Callahan presents compelling insights into the relationship between personal transformation and global balance. Directing the Power of Conscious Feelings is a road map to higher consciousness that all of us can follow.
- Llyn Roberts, M.A., director of Dream Change, Inc., author of Shamanic Reiki, Shapeshifting into Higher Consciousness and other titles.
www.dreamchange.org
Directing the Power of Conscious Feelings is an owner’s manual for Sane Human Being. Follow the diagrams. Reconfigure your wires. Adjust your inner dials. Pretty soon you’ll reclaim who you have always been, who you came here to be, empowered by deep and authentic feelings. May your copy become dog-eared and yellowed with use.
- Tim Bennett, filmmaker
www.whatawaytogomovie.com
Directing the Power of Conscious Feelings is a book of enlightened distinctions; these distinctions changed my life: they changed the way I think and feel about myself and the world. This book maps higher consciousness and is a work of Conscience. I am an explorer of this territory. I recommend Clinton Callahan’s book whole-heartedly for its honor, insight, wisdom, and integrity. You can spend $10,000 on therapy or you can buy this book and change your life, which changes the world.
- Red Hawk, author of Self Observation: The Awakening of Conscience (Hohm Press, 2009)
Consider this book an 'Owner's Manual' for those who are prepared to make a deep and full commitment to their own development in these days of great upheaval and greater possibility. To bring feelings into clarity and skillfulness, learning to use them as most powerful tools of human navigation, is a great and noble intention. May the spirit world take note of this guidebook, calling us to meet our potential by developing the gifts of feeling that accompanied us into this world.
- Malidoma Patrice Somé, Ph. D., author of Of Water and the Spirit
www.malidoma.com
We project the horror of what happened to us as children onto the world. Gaia is suffering from all the ways in which we act out our 'unreal' solutions to what we could not solve. We cannot heal Gaia because we don't believe in ourselves, in our true value. Thus we have turned ourselves dumb.
It is in this that Clinton's work is so precious. This great book is a guide to consciousness. Only this level of self-development can bring out the attitudes that we and the world need to heal the Great Mother, our Earth.
- Dr. John James, author of The Great Field, and Notes to Transformation
www.cruciblecentre.com for his inner work and trainings
www.planetextinction.com for his love of Gaia
Clinton blends a rare combination of accurate psycho/political state-of-the-world awareness with truly valuable emotional-healing skills. We deeply need them both and this book leads the way.
- Bill Kauth, co-founder of New Warrior Training Adventure, and A Circle of Men.
www.sacredlifeboats.com