Rick’s Mentor Hilda Charlton

This 3-part video of Rick’s beloved teacher Hilda speaking at the Interfaith Ministry in NYC in 1983 just surfaced on youtube… so how could I not post it here? For those who attended Hilda’s talks, this is sure to evoke rich memories of her as well as the community that surrounded her. For those who’ve never met Hilda, but have heard Rick speak of her over the years… now you may meet her in this way, 27 years later. Quite a woman!  The “grappling with dates” we see here is something still in question to this day…
Peace  ~W

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Video Interview with Rick Jarow

Below *would be* part 1 of an interview with Rick in NYC last summer but it has been rendered “un-embeddable” by the producer apparently, so if you click thru here you can watch it on youtube. Curiously, subsequent segments of this interview  ARE viewable here on the blog.

At the Edge of the Abyss @ NYOC

At the Edge of the Abyss:

Life’s Seven Major Passages and Their Call to Transformation

An entry-level, full-day workshop on astrology and the seven archetypal passages at the Open Center in New York City on Saturday, February 20, 2010.

Whether you’re experiencing a transition in your own life or assisting others through their life challenges, this workshop will give you a deeper understanding of how planetary forces influence our lives and how to recognize possibilities during times of difficulty. We will explore the 7 archetypal passages through the lens of astrology and other Western wisdom traditions so you can identify which passage you are currently experiencing and learn new tools, strategies and practices to help you navigate each passage with skill and grace.

Six of the seven passages are associated with a planetary energy:

• Saturn governs crises involving limits, structure, responsibility and successive seven-year turning points in our lives.
• Uranus rules our need for freedom, rebellion, and dramatic change.
• Neptune brings about periods of inspiration, times of “getting lost,” and our quest for direction.
• Pluto’s passage is about initiation through the darkness of loss, as well as through rebirth.
• Jupiter expands our horizons and guides the search for our true calling.
• Venus governs love and all of love’s travails.
• The seventh passage reconciles all these forces so we can clarify our own authentic path and engage with our true destiny.

Participants who register by February 12, 2010, and send their birth date to Rick Jarow will receive a copy of their chart with a list of the major passages they are going through.

For more information and to register, go to:
http://www.opencenter.org/at-the-edge-of-the-abyss/

A recent appearance of Rick’s at the NY Open Center was video’d by Judy Martin for her WorkLife Nation webisode series. You can view this clip about creating work you love (just 3 minutes) on Judy’s website.

Envisioning Work in 2012

Just back from Amsterdam and Belgium, such amazing places on so many levels. Good work, serious, sincere, accomplished people the world over working to revision and recreate what it means to work for a living.

Working with De Baak in the Netherlands (“The Lighthouse”) inspired me to put a lot of “anti-career” info onto power point. “About time,” of course – but it was so much fun! Now I am looking to collaborate with a good computer/design person. Anyone out there?

Been working a lot with the concept of “Vision.” What is it really, besides an all to often used buzz word? It occurred to me that the entire construct of “Manifesting Your Vision,” might not be the most powerful approach to this. Perhaps visions are not to be “manifested,” as much as they are to be served? When you serve a vision, you are offering yourself to something greater than yourself. You may not “know it,” but you trust what it has awakened in you, the call to act! You may not see how it plays out in your lifetime, but you know beyond the shadow of a doubt that you have been touched and blessed by its divine power. When you “manifest a vision” it is “yours,” your project, your idea. And we rightly laud those who have new ideas and build around them. But is this enough? Is vision just about the individual? The great visions – freedom, liberty, connectedness, are ones that deeply move humanity. They magnetize us profoundly and ask us to dare be a part of history, ask us to serve ideals that move our hearts. They may always lie beyond us, like the horizon, but they move us to be better people, to surpass our small selves, and to be authentic vessels of transformation. One man at the De Baak workshop spoke about how, when you look back at the work you’ve done, your best work, your most memorable work, your most meaningful work, is/has always been that which was done out of love. To me this is undeniable.

So, what do we want work to look like in 2012?   Seriously, seriously, seriously!

~RJ

Advanced Manifestation Retreat this Friday-Sunday

Our annual Advanced Manifestation Gathering is coming up quickly — November 20-22nd at Ananda Ashram in Monroe, New York. In response to prevailing sentiment last year, we are extending the workshop an extra day; so it will be Friday evening, Saturday, and Sunday.

For the past number of years we have met every autumn at this magical place to become more clear, empowered, and focused, as well as to connect with others who have a resonant sense of purpose. Our goal is to get a clear vision of the coming year, develop a workable action plan with the aid of feedback from others, and to consciously connect with the deep archetypal currents of energy that are underpinning our individual lives.

I will be introducing a body/mind interactive sequence in which traditional Yoga and Qi Gong exercises can be consciously integrated into our “Life Alignment Project,” and will develop new and effective community practices for the coming year. The extra night will allow for more in depth dreaming, and dream vision work, opening us to further hear the voices of our unconscious and of our inner guidance.

The cost of the workshop is $295, the extra day included – there are no fees for this day except for the rental of space and, meals, and bedrooms at Ananda. As in there past, there are discounts for couples; and if there is demand for it, we will organize child care at Ananda. To insure your inclusion in the annual retreat, send a $50 deposit and an email saying “Yes Ananda” to info@rickjarow.com. Availability is on a first come, first served basis, and spaces are limited.

There are incredibly strong forces around us at this moment, coming from all conceivable directions. If there was ever a time to take a stand for our truth, our humanity, and our soul’s purpose – it is now. Working in community greatly amplifies our power and allows us to overcome the forces of inertia and distraction which try to rule our daily lives. Let us be together again in ever increasing intention and abundance, and let us brainstorm to create forms of working together that will support us through the times to come.

Yours in Peace,

Rick

Q:  What is covered at this retreat?

I could give you a rundown (focus, intention, accomplishment, community building, envisioning, empowerment, etc.), but none of this is conveys what really goes on at the Ananda retreat. In fact, I am tempted to restate the question as “What is uncovered,” for the “real work” here is to trust the process of collective awareness to manifest our true agendas.It is the collective energy of the group that constellates the workshop. Tuning in to the “spirit of the collective” allows the issues that are truly important to surface. By meditating, focusing, inquiring, and paying attention together, an alchemical process is created that allows each of us to crystallize what we have to do and how we can go about doing it at this moment in our lives. The vision is to lay foundations for an emerging culture; that means each of us working to live the most clear, authentic, and compassionate lives that we can. RJ

Guide to Life Purpose

Friends~

Rick’s publisher, Sounds True, has launched a new series of online interactive guides with various life themes, including Life Purpose, which features Rick’s Anticareer and Abundance material quite prominently.

To explore this promising new resource, browse to: http://www.soundstrue.com/guide/lifepurpose/

~W

 

 

An Hour with Rick & Tami

Sounds True’s founder and guiding light, Tami Simon, interviews Rick Jarow on her latest podcast. Hear this conversation between colleagues whose journeys have been intertwined for years via their respective work they love:

http://www.soundstrue.com/podcast/?p=1234

Transcript of this interview also available.

The Life We Want to Lead

The video linked below on mortgage foreclosure practices challenges any reductive or ego-centered notion of Creating the Work You Love.

It is quite possible that the same people who press for foreclosures that can ruin other peoples’ lives, go to church, give money to charity, and attend local school board meetings. They just have agreed to see “work” in a similar way that our industrial culture has agreed to see the use of animals as a food source: as something “out there,” as an object separate from “me and my intimates,” as an arena where exploitation and slaughter do not count. After all, “that’s why they call it work.”

The effort to develop “Right Livelihood” needs to be integrated with the effort to develop a just and sustainable culture. Placing work in the realm of “war” and “hunting” is one strategy that may have its place, but it is not the only way to envision working. The same mortgage brokerage and broker my dedicate their work energy toward the mission of keeping people in their homes. There is just not that much reward for it apparently, but you do have to look at yourself in the mirror every day. The very foundation of Abundance is your conscience. If your heart cannot get on board with what you are doing, get out before your wings atrophy, before you accept defeat in the form of mere comfort. I ask the brokerages, “Is this the best you can do?” Creating the Work You Love might be more aptly phrased, live and work your conscience. The stakes are too high for anything else.

http://www.consumerwarningnetwork.com/2008/07/02/mortgage-servicers-secret/

Some Inconvenient Truths about Creating the Work You Love

Creating the Work You Love is really not about work, per se. It is about your life. Work is one arena where the principles of alignment and manifestation come into process. Complaints about “the job,” “the boss,” about “there not being anything that catches your passion,” or about the “evils of the economy,” (etc.) are basically disempowering. No one owes you anything! No one owes you a job, or food, or health care, for that matter.

Loving your work is not a right, it is a challenge; you have choices and every choice, like every thought creates the next moment, which translates into the environment you live in. No one will give you “Right Livelihood,” you have to take it! You take it with the burning fire of your will, with the determination to live your ideal, with the resolve to pull yourself up and out of wage slavery and do something with your precious life that is authentic and meaningful for you, and that can be communicated to others.

It may take all your strength of character to leave behind the distractions offered by the commercial media, to let go of the seductive illusions of more money or “success.” But this strength is the voice of your Spirit to be who you are. Such strength of character knows what success is for you; knows where to uncover the peace in your heart, and knows that having the space and time to share your being with others, to be creative, to love the flowers, and to move into the ever present bliss of creative flow is worth infinitely more than anything offered by the scarcity-driven, machine laden, always –in- a- hurry to get somewhere, facsimile world. As Mary Oliver puts it in her poem, The Journey, “One day, you finally knew what you had to do, and began…”

In peace and freedom,

Rick Jarow

= THIS WEEKEND =

Learn how to develop your authentic vocation and discover the art and science of creating abundance in every area of your life. I’m offering the last two entry-level workshops of the year at the Open Center in New York City this weekend, on October 3 and 4, 2009: “Creating the Work You Love,” on Saturday, October 3, and “The Practice of Abundance,” on Sunday, October 4.

“Creating the Work You Love” reveals how to open the doors of inspiration, transform your desires into action, and find the motivation and discipline to develop your authentic vocation.

“The Practice of Abundance” focuses on how to manifest your dreams and intuitions in the physical world, and get the money, time, support, and resources to do what you want to do.

Both workshops are highly experiential and show you how to connect to your fundamental sense of well-being and live in a conscious flow with the powers of creation. Registration is $120 for members of the Open Center and $130 for non-members.

For more information on these workshops and to register, go to: http://www.opencenter.org/ or call the Open Center at 212.219.2527.

Workshops Oct 3,4 at Open Center, NYC

Rick will be leading his two most popular workshops at the NY Open Center (in their new space) the weekend of Oct 2-4.

For info please see their website:

http://www.opencenter.org/creating-the-work-you-love/

and

http://www.opencenter.org/the-practice-of-abundance/