Practicing Radical Honesty How to Complete the Past, Live in the Present, and Build a Future with a Little Help from Your Friends

by Blanton, Dr. Brad

• ISBN13: 9780963092199
• ISBN10: 0963092197
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-06-10
• Publisher: Sparrowhawk Pubns

Summary

This book includes many lectures and exercises Dr. Blanton uses in the intensive eight day workshop, The Course in Honesty

Author Biography

Brad Blanton has been a psychotherapist in private practice in Washington, D.C. for over thirty years.

Table of Contents

Foreword	9	(13)
Neale Donald Walsch
Author's Preface	13	(6)
PART ONE: True Individuality
Introduction: The Decline of Individual Psychotherapy and the Rise of Therapeutic Community	19	(26)
Living under the Old Paradigm	45	(8)
What Is a Mind and How Does It Work?	53	(28)
Dysfunctional Family University, The World-Famous School within Which We Grew Our Minds	81	(6)
The Truth About All Cultures	87	(18)
Conscious Community & Conscious Child Rearing	105	(4)
The Road from the Mind Jail Back to Being - The Sufi Levels of Consciousness	109	(14)
Adults Are Nothing but Large Children Who Have Forgotten How to Play	123	(12)
PART TWO: Community and Compassion
Introduction: Getting Over It	133	(2)
Community and Compassion	135	(18)
Radical Honesty About Anger	153	(18)
In Praise of the Old Paradigm	171	(4)
Creating Your Life	175	(12)
PART THREE: Creating Your Own Destiny
Introduction: The Workbook for Life Design	185	(2)
A Programmatic Approach to Personal Growth	187	(14)
Confronting the Past to Get Complete and Have Energy to Create	201	(6)
Planning the Future So You Remain Called Forth from Your Mind	207	(10)
On Continuously Being Centered in the Present and Using the Mind to Transcend the Mind	217	(4)
The Life Purpose Statement	221	(6)
Domains and Projects	227	(12)
Reformulation of Current Work Using the Project Write-Up	239	(8)
The Umbrella Project	247	(6)
Project Development Stages	253	(8)
PART FOUR: How to Speak and Listen Your Projects into Being
Introduction: A Conversation with a Life of Its Own	259	(2)
Creating a Context	261	(8)
It's a Lot of Work to Make a New Story, Isn't Its Now What?	269	(8)
PART FIVE: Paradigms and Contexts: The Revolution of Consciousness as Political Change
Introduction: The New Heroic Story	275	(2)
Normal	277	(6)
Creating a New Paradigm by Creating a New Context in an Old Paradigm	283	(6)
A Sufficient Fundamental Identity - The Living Being in the Body from Moment to Moment	289	(4)
The Big Picture: The Larger Context for All Human Activities	293	(18)
Intimacy and Community	311	(4)
The United States of Being, A New Nation	315	(20)
Declaration of Independence for a New Millennium	326	(9)
The Real Bottom Line	335	(8)
About the Author	343	(2)
Bibliography and Recommended Resources	345	(5)
Annotated Resources for Chapter 29	350	(4)
Websites/Workshops	354	(2)
Footnotes	356