Frontiers Of Fulfillment News Release
MINNEAPOLIS (PRWEB) July 28, 2005 -- The FULFILLMENT FORUM of
Minneapolis, Minnesota, an ebook and seminar publisher at http://www.fultillmentforum.com is pleased to announce its
powerful new book about Logotherapy by Jard and Roberta DeVille.
FRONTIERS OF FULFILLMENT is a comprehensive (105,000 word) book and
self-study course that thousands of participants have called the best seminar
they have ever taken. They gave it a 3.68 average rating on a four point scale
for two decades while the content was being thrashed out in the mud and blood of
human existence. The book's subtitle -- How To Live So Satisfying A Life You
Shall Want It To Last Forever, describes what it is all
about.
Logotherapy is Viktor Frank's term for this psychospiritual
approach to the healing of the human spirit or soul in this era of severe
existential frustration or spiritual bankruptcy. FRONTIERS OF FULFILLMENT is
based on the premise that while men and women create enormous problems for
themselves by relying on a materialistic society's secular values, immature
ideologies and irresponsible choices, they can mature enough to find consistent
fulfillment. Obviously, lasting satisfaction must come through choices more
conducive to a sense of joy than those offered by secular bread and circuses
alone. Unless you develop a spiritual attitude toward life that takes persons
beyond banal and meaningless expectations and choices, life almost always
becomes more and more disappointing as our adolescent dreams fade and we grow
older.
To begin with, we humans are indeed by-products of the Cosmo's
mysterious, green glowing star dust, are children of the Cosmic Creator who came
into existence with the mystic elements personified in God the Seminal Spirit.
Human spiritual needs are so demanding that virtually every civilization to
leave its footprints on the earth had its origins in some form of religious
faith. From the Indus River Valley and ancient Babylon and Assyria, to Medieval
France and England, to Colonial America -- men and women acted out their
spiritual needs as they created relationships and activities to make life a
little better for themselves. Some driven persons become very wealthy and
powerful by choosing secular values and methods, but we never become the
spouses, parents or friends we could be while sacrificing our spiritual needs to
secular and materialistic values and choices. We can strangle the
psychospiritual elements of life that yearn for expression but persons who do
almost inevitably feel that life is passing them by, that they are stuck in some
morass and that life itself has become pointless. We almost always feel some
aspect of the old quip -- "Oh, Lord, the sea is so vast and my boat is so
small!" We simply must connect with something or someone we feel to be greater
than our own short and too often banal lives or we become existentially
frustrated and spiritually bankrupt.
FRONTIERS OF FULFILLMENT goes far
beyond a simple "be nice and love everyone" homily. After conducting more than a
hundred FULFILLMENT seminars for
Major universities, international
corporations, liberal arts colleges, professional associations and many, many
churches, lard and Roberta get down into the mud and blood of human existence.
They learned from thousands of men and women what their needs were, why they
felt stuck in the midst of life and what worked and what didn't in a search for
spiritual maturity that leads to fulfillment. Some are calling this the best
synthesis of psychology and the Christian faith they have ever heard. Be that as
it may, Jard and Roberta are convinced that they have done all they can on this
project so they are now offering it in this format to men and women everywhere
who truly want to make their lives the very best they can become.
Anyone
who has read Viktor Frankl's MAN'S SEARCH FOR MEANING or THE DOCTOR AND THE SOUL
shall immediately recognized one source of inspiration but the authors didn't
stop there. While Viktor focused largely on the human need to live meaningful
and purpose driven lives, Jard and Roberta have moved to the next logical step.
They have combined Viktor's emphasis on meaning with their own interest in
sources of belonging in places of service with people with whom humans share
faith, hope and love. This basic message of this book and course is FULFILLMENT
f = (Meaning x Belonging)
The very best approach to life comes through
spiritual values or virtues, positive attitudes, high expectations, mature
beliefs and responsible choices, although we almost always need the spiritual
assistance that a cosmic connection can give us. This book and the self-directed
seminar it contains is filled with powerful presentations, self-focus activities
and meaningful projects that thousands of people have found very valuable in
filling their lives with the sources of meaning and belonging that lead to
consistent fulfillment.
BENEFITS OF FULFILLMENT
1. Only by
connecting our lives with the Cosmic Creator, God the Seminal Spirit, can we
satisfy the deepest aspects of the human soul that Viktor Frankl calls our
spiritual unconscious. The reader will learn how we the children of the stars
must mature through spiritual principles for life to become
successful.
2. We all need to mature through the physical, psychological
and philosophical aspects of life -- through the pleasure/pain, power/prestige
and purpose/permanence principles of existence. The reader will learn several
crucial factors in successful self-motivation and enlightenment.
3. In
this age of unending and often disquieting change, when nothing remains as it
was in the past, we are bedeviled by a cruel philosophy of nothingness, a belief
in disbelief that savages the human spirit. The reader will learn the importance
of rejecting nihilism in shifting circumstances.
4. We mature spiritually
through spiritual virtues, positive attitudes, high expectations, mature beliefs
and responsible choices. The reader will learn how to apply the by¬product
approach to successful fulfillment in which serendipity often occurs.
5.
Industrial age institutions have created a civilization that frustrates many and
leads to the selfish aggression and/or apathy that caused a hundred million
battle deaths in the terrible 20th century ~one. The reader will learn what
frustrates us most and how to cope with frustrating pressures.
6.
Maturing love, whether Eros, filias or agape, casts out fear and much
frustration and consistently empowers us to live a life of trust in God. The
reader will learn that being faithful to God, to others and to yourself, keeps
life from reverting to the fearful and banal.
7. The DeVille Sidewalk
Test confirms Jesus' observation, that normal persons respond to us as we first
treat them, thus allowing loving souls to establish sound relationships. The
reader will learn why and how the Golden Rule works so well in normal
interpersonal relationships.
8. We can promise others that to the best of
our abilities -- good things happen to people who deal honestly with us -- also
that, bad things don't happen to people who deal honestly with us. The reader
will learn that this isn't necessarily the way of the world but can be our
personal commitment to fairness, maturity and sound personal
relationships.
9. Because each person has a self-serving perceptual
screen through which everything is interpreted to one's best advantage, we can
easily deceive ourselves in our unconscious attitudes, activities and
relationships. The reader will learn how to deal with hidden agendas, whether
our own or of someone else.
10. The outcomes of life that we anticipate,
plan well for, develop a vehicle to attain and work hard and smart to accomplish
-- are what usually occur. The reader will learn how to succeed through sound
and supportive choices.
11. We can avoid and control conflicts through
the THREE STAGE conflict avoidance process and through the ASRAC conflict
management technique. The reader will learn two powerful methods that take
peace-making from chance to consistency.
12. By connecting with God
through faith and grace, we transcend most of life's banalities and meet the
vital needs of our spiritual unconscious. The reader will learn how to mature
emotionally and spiritually through permanent cosmic connections.
13. By
living courageously, we are empowered to deal wisely with life's universal
Tragic Element of Suffering, Rage, Guilt and Death. The reader will learn that
despite life's often grim aspects, there is no situation we cannot improve by
holding spiritual virtues, positive attitudes and high expectations.
14.
By working diligently within a legitimate enterprise, we pay our dues to society
for the privilege of becoming an authentic or maturing person. The reader will
learn how to choose a specific mission in each of life’s key stages.
15.
Learning what we need to know when we need to know it, learning to learn,
learning to choose and learning to relate, keeps us maturing consistently. The
reader will learn how to stay ahead of the learning curve in a way that makes
life satisfying.
16. Living in consistent love and friendship is the most
valuable aspect of life, even though a great many anxious persons in this
confusing age will do anything to receive love -- except become lovable. The
reader will learn how to maximize the power of love in his or her
relationships
17. Play and entertainment are not frivolous aspects of
life but rather the way we recharge our batteries for the long haul ahead of
each person. The reader will learn how to keep entertainment and play in
perspective with the rest of life.
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