New CD by Michael Brown: The Radiance of Intimacy
Intimacy Isn't Into You and See. It's Into Me and See
My new CD is not just another talk about relationships—although it is about a particular way of relating.
Much information is already available about how to find the perfect partner, fix broken relationships, rescue a failing marriage, improve our sex life, and become the perfect mate for another. Such information is all about you and the romantic arrangement you may be having, or trying to have, with another—an arrangement that may or may not at some point deliver you into a scenario like a happy marriage. It’s all about “you and the other.”
This talk is quite different. It is about entering and exploring an experience called intimacy.
When I use the word “intimacy,” I’m not speaking about the experience currently associated with the word intimacy that conjures up sexual imagery. Such an instinctive association means one has exiled the possibilities inherent within intimacy solely into the physical aspect of our human experience.
In this talk, when I use the word intimacy, I am referring to an experience in which we consciously enter an exploration alongside another to enable us to see deeper into ourselves—“into me and see.”
This exploration doesn’t commence when encountering another who is willing to make such an exploration. It is a continuation of a journey into self-discovery—a journey that we have already commenced with ourselves.
Unlike the traditional approaches to relating to another, which we shall call “having a relationship,” intimacy is not about the other person. It’s not about into you and see. It’s about into me and see.
[read more]
Purchase The Radiance of Intimacy Online at the iStore
Journey from Isolation to Connection in Your Relationships
“Much of the advice about how to have a fulfilling relationship is guaranteed to keep you at a low level of fulfillment because that’s all most people know,” says the audio book Lessons in Loving—A Journey into the Heart, by Namaste Publishing’s David Robert Ord.
“The massive mediocrity enshrined in the ‘normal’ way of doing things acts like a tranquilizer, preventing you from ever experiencing the ecstasy that’s possible between two people,” the book explains.
Deep down, all of us sense we are capable of so much more than the mediocrity of most lives. We intuitively know that we were born for ecstasy, rapture.
In your quieter moments, you can hear your deeper self as it cries out for something so much more than a relationship and a life that are merely “okay.”
Not just romantic relationships, but all relationships deliver the fulfillment we seek only when we are being wholly true to ourselves.
“You owe nothing to anyone except to be true to yourself,” says Lesson in Loving. “By being true to yourself you release the power to love a partner.”
[read more]
This Holiday Season Give the Gift of
CONSCIOUSNESS
Two books released recently by Namaste Publishing make especially wonderful gifts for this end of the year holiday season.
 
The Leap - Are Your Ready to Live a New Reality? is a perfect gift at this season when we are about to embark upon a new year. It invites us to take an evolutionary leap in consciousness, and tells us what the requisites and some of the practices are to do just that. Since consciousness is causative, and therefore creative, it is here we must focus our attention in order to create a new life for ourselves and a new order for our world. We not only hold the wand of consciousness - we are the wand.
Eckhart Tolle, author of the Power of Now, says about The Leap:
"An inspiring book that not only deepens the reader's understanding of the arising new consciousness, but also offers many valuable and effective practices for awakening in daily life." |
|
Your Forgotten Self Mirrored in Jesus the Christ lifts the veil that separates Jesus from ourselves and reveals him to be just like us. Although Jesus seems to be different from us because he lived from the Christ consciousness, in reality he was the harbinger of what we are to become. Once we realize this, we embrace him as the mirror of our true self. We enter into a loving intimacy with him, whereby he becomes our constant companion and friend.
Andrea Matthews, DD, LPC, NNC says about Your Forgotten Self:
David Robert Ord's long-term fascination with Jesus has apparently led him right to his own mirror--the object of every true spirituality. His book, "Your Forgotten Self: Mirrored in Jesus the Christ" is a lay book that covers profound subject matter in a "let's sit down and chat" manner. Every single question raised by searching Christians is covered in this book. Questions like: What is the nature of man? What was the purpose of Jesus' crucifixion? How does one access a living, vital God? And yet the answers are far from the traditional answers we've heard for centuries. No, these answers urge us to look in the mirror to find God. The answers inform us that we were born, literally in the likeness of the Divine, but that we have forgotten who we are. We are, the author tells us, God made flesh. But because we do not see ourselves this way, we create all manner of images of self in the mirrors of our lives. And because we do so, we have created a world filled with dark, dingy, unworthy self-images, reflected back to us in our relationships, our politics, our crime, our racism, etc. He tells us that all we need do is look within to find the true nature of our being. And he tells us how to do that in simple, direct language that brings the reader to his own mirror. Though this book is written about a character very present in Christianity, it is a must read for anyone who is searching for a real spirituality--not that one fed to us by churches, gurus and other external institutions, but one that creates for us "a heart flowing with rivers of living water." Read this book and open up to a whole new paradigm about life! |
|
Order online and get 20% off when purchased together
[offer ends December 23, 2007]
AWAKENING TO INNOCENCE / INNER SENSE
 A three-DVD set from Michael Brown
In his first DVD presentation, the author of The Presence Process goes to the heart of his teaching, then in the third DVD shares with us his own journey, filmed in the home in which he wrote The Presence Process in South Africa.
For anyone dealing with illness, this interview is especially relevant. Michael explains the degree of pain it took to get his attention, and the path he took to discover consciousness. He discovered that taking drugs to get out of pain wasn’t the answer. The path to healing led right into the heart of his pain.
In a moment of clarity, Michael realized that the pain he was experiencing had nothing to do with his life in the present, but came from unintegrated emotions from childhood. He learned how to bring as much of himself into the present moment as possible—and thereby blazed a trail for real healing.
Michael found that he had no choice but to become present. Coming to the United States, seeking answers from many sources, he became the answer to his own illness.
Sitting on a beach in Mexico, Michael suddenly saw a pathway to becoming present, and he realized he had something to share with others. It’s then that he returned to South Africa to begin teaching the process of becoming present that we now know as The Presence Process.
Purchase Awakening to Innocence / Inner Sense Online at the iStore
ENJOY THE INSIGHTFUL DAILY NAMASTE PUBLISHING BLOG
http://x.namastepublishing.com/blog/index.php
SUBSCRIBE TO THE NAMASTE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER |
