“I got in an elevator, and a maintenance man with a bucket entered,” writes Constance Kellough, the president of Namaste Publishing who brought Eckhart Tolle’s The Power of Now to the world.

The maintenance man immediately struck up a conversation by asking, “How are you today?"

“I’m just wonderful!” Constance enthused.

“Oh, I’d never say that,” the maintenance man responded. “I’d be afraid that if I let myself feel that good, I’d have to pay for it later.”

The maintenance man isn’t alone in feeling a distrust of life. Says Constance in The Leap, a new book from Namaste Publishing, “I have noticed that whenever a person says they feel wonderful and really means it, people look at them like they must be fibbing.”

There’s something in us that just doesn’t want to believe that life should be a joyous experience.

Constance asks, “Why?” And she responds, “Because such people have never allowed themselves to experience with abandonment the joy of life.”

Don’t many of us sense that somehow we shouldn’t let ourselves be totally joyous? That we ought to be more restrained, hold back some? And that we need to keep an eye out lest the other shoe should drop?

But what are we afraid might happen if we didn’t restrain ourselves?

Western culture has drilled into us that bad things happen if we allow ourselves to unrestrainedly be who we really are. That’s because we’ve been taught that there’s something deeply flawed about our humanity.

For centuries, we’ve heard that we are essentially “sinful.” The implication is that if we were ever to really be ourselves with no holding back, we’d be selfish and uncaring for our fellow humans.

The very latest findings of the advanced technology of brain scans indicate just the opposite of this deeply ingrained belief about our nature. They reveal that it’s quite natural—and desirable—for us to do caring things.

Jorge Moll and Jordan Grafman, neuroscientists at the National Institutes of Health, have been scanning the brains of individuals who were asked to think about either donating a sum of money to charity or keeping it.

When the individuals put the wellbeing of others ahead of their own, a part of the brain known as the “reward center” lit up—the same part of the brain that responds positively to food and sex. In other words, it turns out that we are hardwired to experience caring as pleasurable.

Marc Hauser, a Harvard researcher, has also designed psychological experiments to study morality. His research has shown that people all over the world process moral questions in the same way, suggesting that moral thinking is intrinsic to the human brain rather than a product of culture.

“God is love,” said an insightful person called John some nineteen centuries ago. And, said another wise individual called Paul, the entire creation is a reflection of God, revealing not only God’s power but even the nature of the Godhead. This means that love—a sense of connection, and of our intrinsic oneness—is the basic state of the natural world.

Says The Leap, “When we don’t believe that love is the basis of everything, we don’t trust life to be absolutely supportive, benign, and giving to us, and therefore we fear life.” In other words, we don’t really believe that God is love.

But now, the technology of brain scans is revealing that love is indeed the basis of existence.

It turns out that a deep sense of connectedness to each other runs throughout the creation. Amazingly, this is true even of lowly creatures like rats.

For instance, in a laboratory experiment, scientists demonstrated that if a rat is given food while its neighboring rat is given an electric shock, the rat that is being given the food will in due course stop eating. The reason? Empathy.

Experiments with brain scans are confirming what we already know—that animals are capable of sacrificing their own interests for the sake of other creatures.

In line with this discovery about the inbuilt altruism of creatures, Namaste Publishing has released another new book that challenges western civilization’s belief that we are somehow intrinsically selfish, essentially evil.

Your Forgotten Self Mirrored in Jesus the Christ examines afresh the life and teaching of Jesus and his followers, and concludes that for the best part of the past 2,000 years we have had the message of Jesus exactly backwards.

It’s not trusting in ourselves, not believing in ourselves, not being unabashedly ourselves that causes us to be less than the loving individuals we are wired to be.

It’s our failure to believe in ourselves and be true to ourselves—our resistance to opening our lives up full throttle and simply enjoying—that is our “sin.”

There is nothing fundamentally evil about us. Only our failure to recognize this keeps us from feeling absolutely wonderful. It’s our holding back that Jesus identified as the taproot of all of society’s ills—the exact opposite of what most of us throughout Christendom have been taught.

The Leap and Your Forgotten Self are groundbreaking books. They invite us to live our lives from an entirely different state of consciousness than the vast majority of humanity come from. This elevated consciousness is at the heart of our humanity, and it is only our failure to recognize this that leads to all of the world’s ills.

The Leap—Are You Ready to Live a New Reality? asks us to let go of everything that is not truly who we are. “This includes anything that causes us to feel less than adequate, self-critical, or guilty,” writes Constance Kellough.

That’s a tall order—one we have a hard time following. It’s a step Jesus called “repentance.”

Far from being sorry for who we are, which is the way society conditions us to feel, repentance means we turn around and embrace the essential person within us that we have all our lives apologized for, felt badly about, and put down.

“Repent, and believe the good news,” said Jesus—and civilization promptly did just the opposite.

Instead of believing in our fundamental goodness, embracing the image of the divine within us, for centuries we have practiced self-loathing, self-rejection, and even self-flagellation . . . in the name of the man who taught how precious we each are.

Your Forgotten Self Mirrored in Jesus the Christ and The Leap—Are You Ready to Live a New Reality? introduce us to our true self and ask us to relax our grip on ourselves and allow this deeper sense of who we are to naturally and spontaneously emerge from within.

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RADIO & TELEVISION INTERVIEWS WITH NAMASTE AUTHORS

Radio Interview
with Constance Kellough, Author of "THE LEAP"
Show: The Good Life Show - Sirius Channel 114
Host: Jesse Dylan
Date: October 9th, 2007
Time: 2:00PM Eastern
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An interview with David Ord and his book "Your Forgotten Self"
Show: Emotional Pro (World Talk Radio)
Host: Ilene Dillion
Date: October 25th, 2007
Time: 9:00AM Pacific
Email: ilene@emotionalpro.com
Website: www.emotionalpro.com

National Spiritual TV Talk Show
Interview with Michael Brown
Author of The Presence Process
Bridging Heaven and Earth
Taping November 9, 2007, Santa Barbara
California Host: Allan Silberhatz

Radio Interview
An interview with David Ord, author of "Lessons in Loving" and "Your Forgotten Self"
Radio Show: Conscious Healing
Host: Sherry Anshara (Interactive-Live Radio)
Date: November 14th, 2007
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ANNOUNCING

A DVD Presentation by Michael Brown
Author of The Presence Process

For the first time, you can now see and hear Michael in a live presentation, on three DVDs, together with an interview.

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