the philosophy center

Our Founder and Director

Philip Golabuk completed his undergraduate and graduate work in philosophy at the University of Florida with special studies in metaphysics, phenomenology, religious philosophy, and theory of knowledge, having worked closely with the late Drs. Tom Hanna, a pioneer in somatics, and James Millikan, a phenomenologist. During the years from 1973-1993, Philip taught philosophy at the college level and as part of a special educational outreach program to inmates in jail and prison, and also wrote several books in applied philosophy that were published in the U.S. and overseas in translation, and are now available through the Philosophy Center bookstore. In 1993, he founded the Philosophy Center to examine the practical implications of consciousness-as-cause. Philip is certified in Reevaluation Counseling and has developed many of the Philosophy Center's counseling, coaching, and consulting models and methods.

Our Policies

The following discloses our policies with respect to site use, refund requests, privacy, and more. Note that your use of the Philosophy Center site implies your acceptance of these policies.

Site Use: In interacting with the Philosophy Center, you agree not to use the site resources, including email, contact us form, or other method of communication in any way that is defamatory, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, disrespectful, invasive of a person’s privacy, "adult" in nature, or otherwise in violation of any International or United States Federal law. These Terms also prohibit using site resources including our contact us form or email addresses to send spam or solicit business in any form, attempt to establish social networking, or communicate about matters not directly related to the Philosophy Center and its work.

Your Privacy: We do not nor will we ever share, sell, or otherwise make available to any third parties the contact information you provide. There are no lists from which you need to "opt out." We recognize that you provide us with this information as an act of trust, and respect your right of privacy as we would want ours to be respected.

Bookstore Returns and Refunds: All Philosophy Center bookstore items are provided in digital format via download, and are not eligible for refund.

Gift Certificates: We offer gift certificates, delivered via email to the purchaser or recipient that the purchaser designates. Gift certificates are non-refundable and have no expiration.

Counseling and Coaching Session Refunds: Refunds for scheduled counseling and coaching sessions are issued upon request no later than two (2) business days prior to the scheduled session, after which scheduled sessions are considered non-refundable..

Session Scheduling: Those who register for a Philosophical counseling or coaching session must complete scheduling within 72 hours of registering, or we will refund payment for the session in full, as it is not our policy to hold funds for an indeterminate period.

Right of Refusal: We reserve the right to refuse services or support to any person as we may deem necessary to ensure the integrity of our programs and ongoing relationships. Philosophical counseling and coaching sessions canceled by us are refunded in full.

Receipt of Copyrighted Material: The Philosophy Center does not accept ebooks, CDs, etc., where the sending of such material involves copyright infringement or disregard for the intellectual property rights of others. Material sent to the Philosophy Center in violation of U.S. and international copyright law is discarded unread.

Visitor Data: We use any personal information you provide solely for our internal contact, purchase, and billing purposes; this may include your name, billing and shipping addresses, phone number, and email. Use of this information is limited to Philosophy Center business, offers, subscriptions, and updates relevant to transactions initiated by you. Financial data (e.g., credit card numbers) are not collected or stored on our site.

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Changes to the Site: Changes may appear on this site at any time including those affecting pricing and availability, fees, and scheduling.

Legal: All content on the Philosophy Center web site is protected under U.S. copyright and international law, and may not be reproduced in any form or medium without the written consent of the Philosophy Center. All content on or offered through the Philosophy Center site is the intellectual property of the Philosophy Center and may not be shared, distributed, reproduced, or copied in any form except to make one (1) backup for your personal use.

Our Thanks

We’d like to acknowledge some outstanding individuals here for t heir contributions to our work: the late Jimi Millikan, longtime teacher, advisor, and colleague, for his brilliant philosophical gifts and extraordinary friendship over the decades; the late Thomas Hanna, somatics pioneer, consummate teacher, friend and colleague Jack Salvano for lending his philosophical gifts and significant contributions as an advisor; and friends Bob Goldberg, Dennis Hays, and Richard Stone for hisir thoughtful participation in the many conversations over the years that played a part in clarifying and directing the Philosophy Center's mission.

The Philosophy Center
Bringing Philosophy to Life

The Philosophy Center is a local and online resource offering philosophical support to individuals, couples, and organizations based on models and methods at the leading edge of applied philosophy. These resources include:

Philosophical Counseling for Individuals and Couples
Philosoophical Coaching for Individuals
Organizational Consulting
The Still Circle Group
Free Bookstore

The free bookstore features philosophical self-help titles written by our founder and director, Philip Golabuk, and published in the United States and in translation overseas.

The Philosophy Center also serves as the parent site for two philosophical projects, the Field Project and the Fate Project.

What We Do

Ou unique approach to r counseling, coaching, and consulting draws from a number of sources including universal principles derived from the world's spiritual traditions East and West, the new physics, classical philosophy of Plato and the Socratic method, theory of knowledge, phenomenology, and ontology. While we have the expected formal credentials, the real value of what we offer lies in over 40 years of experience doing philosophy "in the marketplace," and our having developed particularly powerful and effective techniques that have consistently proven themselves in thousands of sessions addressing real-world issues. We work with clients at the most fundamental depths of psyche: identity and self-definition, reality assumptions, and unexamined belief—always within the framework of responsibility and choice, and the creative power each of us has to take up a new and better direction at any time. While proven and powerful, our methods are gentle and uncompromisingly respectful. All sessions are conducted according to a strict policy of privacy and confidentiality.

The James Dean Millikan Endowment

In April, 2011, the Philosophy Center established the James Dean Millikan Endowment in memory of a gifted philosopher, passionate visual artist, and beloved friend, Dr. James Millikan—"Jimi" to those close to him, who passed from this world on 29 March, 2011 at his home in Forestville, California. Through this Endowment, we are able to offer individuals in situations of financial need a discount of 25% on counseling and coaching services upon request. (Please note that Organizational Consulting is not eligible for discounted pricing through the Endowment.) To request the discount, use the convenient form on our Contact Us page and let us know how we can help.

About James Dean Millikan
Dr. James Dean Millikan, retired philosophy professor, writer of note, gifted visual artist, and lifelong student of truth died in the afternoon of 29 March at his home in Forestville, just as the clouds were parting from a series of storms. Born in Atchison, Kansas in 1935, James served in the army, studied at Kansas State University and the University of Tubingen, earned his PhD in philosophy from Yale University, became one of Yale's youngest professors at the age of 27, and taught at the University of Florida. Later, during his tenure at the University of Florida, our founder and director worked closely with him through undergraduate and graduate study, taking every class he taught—so inspiring were his intelligence, his talent for listening, his passion for philosophy, and his love for his students. By the time Jimi agreed to serve as the chairman of Philip’s graduate committee, they had become close friends. When Jimi was denied tenure by an ultra-conservative majority of the UF philosophy faculty in 1973, he left the university following the example of Socrates when the Athenian tribunal passed sentence—with head high, unsullied by rancor or blame, and with a readiness to take on the next adventure. Packing a shoulder bag and following his daimon, he hitchhiked out to California to start over. Over the decades that followed, Jimi studied theater, returned to his lifelong love for painting and drawing, became an administrator for Sonoma County, married a wonderful woman named Carroll, had grandchildren and great grandchildren, and always stayed in touch, serving as an invaluable advisor. He and Philip exchanged hundreds of emails, visited each other here and there, shared and discussed their writings, and spent hours on the phone continuing the conversation that they had begun so many years ago in Gainesville. Jimi’s passing from this world is a great loss for those who knew and loved him. He brought such excellent attention to everything he did that his life itself became a work of art. Excellence may seem an intangible thing, until one encounters someone who has learned to embody it as fully as Jimi did, someone who exemplifies what Plato called the “well ordered soul.” Such a one is like a fountain of all that makes being human good—kindness and compassion, generosity of spirit, curiosity and the willingness to learn, creativity and artistic expression, a real and abiding interest in life and in others, and of course, humility. In our small way, we offer the James Millikan Endowment as an homage to this quietly great man, and to express our profound gratitude for the time we had, for the chance to have known him, and for his example as a most excellent teacher, human being, and friend.