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PhilosophyCenter | META Practice℠

individual phone instruction repeatable as many times as the student wishes weekend scheduling available no background or training in philosophy needed		Instructor: Philip Golabuk Format: hour-long phone session Requirements: phone and email service Prerequisite: none META Practice℠ Single • $200 One-hour individual phone session META Practice℠ Double • $350 Two Single sessions over two consecutive weeks See Terms of Service below before reserving. Session scheduling must be completed within 24 hours. Sessions that have not been scheduled and confirmed within 24 hours are subject to cancellation and refund.

		While it's true that there's a correspondence or resonance between local consciousness and the outer world, the so-called law of attraction (LOA) gets it all wrong, a fact to which countless posts on popular Internet forums expressing endless confusion and frustration sadly bear witness. Why is this? Because LOA misses the crucial element of paradox implicit in the idea of intentionally trying to create experience in the world through various consciousness techniques, a paradox that ensures that any deliberate attempt to do so will fail. For while there is indeed a correspondence or resonance between the local self and the world it experiences, it cannot be leveraged through effort of the will. This is true regardless of the technique employed, as anyone who puts it to the test soon discovers. The universe is not Amazon Prime. It is not here to fulfill orders we place, often in desperation and ignorance of unforeseen consequences. The suffering of those who have been drawn down the dark alleys and dead-ends of LOA, often encouraged and misled by self-styled LOA coaches and gurus, can be severe, and the way out not always easy or obvious. META Practice℠ is the culmination of over 60 years of study and practice in how the self and its experience in the world correspond. This remarkable program offers rare insights that expose the false assumptions and claims of LOA, offering instead essential principles and practices that make it possible to achieve a state of equanimity and self-possession that, through the mysterious workings of nonlocal agency, is reflected in the world as better-than-intended outcomes, "flow," so-called miracles of timing, synchronicities, and favorable turns of events. Study points covered include: consciousness-as-cause: the world as the effect of self the paradox of conscious creating bad luck and the problem of "reincarnating" into the same distressing situation over and over why LOA is a pseudoscience posing as science why the LOA approach (The Secret, Neville Goddard, Abraham, Joe Dispenza, the New Thought movement, et al.) is doomed before it starts attachment and caring too much bring reverse effects the Taoist principle of "flow" achieved through actionless action (wu wei) allowing and its relation to nonlocal agency many-realities and the art of probability selection receptivity—receiving vs. taking gnosis: vertical vs. horizontal thinking This offering is designed expressly to help those who have been struggling with LOA and other "manifestation" teachings, who have grown disillusioned with chasing rainbows and are ready to take a serious look at how local consciousness informs the world we experience "out there," not through some trick of consciousness such as visualizatiosn or affirmations, but through the subtle and indirect nonlocal effect of the assumptions, beliefs, emotional stances, and expectations we hold.

		META Practice℠ offers far-reaching benefits for living a grounded and creative life including: enduring equanimity and self-possession in the face of life's inevitable challenges and seeming setbacks discovery of a new and deeply rewarding relationship between the local self and its nonlocal effects in the world movement into a general experience of "flow" and nonlocal agency that reveals why attempts to willfully "manifest" any particular outcome is futile and unnecessary greater fulfillment, often in surprising ways, in all staging areas of experience—love, wellness, supply, and life direction deeper clarity into one's true nature and the nature of personal reality

		Session Scheduling Session scheduling must be completed within 24 hours. Scheduling is not complete until it is confirmed by PhilosophyCenter. Sessions that have not been scheduled and confirmed within 24 hours are subject to cancellation and refund. No session can be scheduled until it is reserved. Phoning In The student should ring the PhilosophyCenter Direct Access Line promptly at the scheduled time and arrange to be in a place where ambient noise and interruptions can be kept at a minimum for the duration of the call. Note that the instructor will wait ten minutes for the student to arrive on the call, failing which class for that day will be cancelled and counted as missed without notice. Cancelled or Missed Classes If the student needs to cancel a scheduled call, at least 24 hours notice is required. In cases where such notice is provided, the cancelled class will be made up the following week. If the client misses the rescheduled call or fails to show up for a call without notice for any reason, the missed call cannot be made up and is forfeited. By reserving a session, you acknowledge that you have read and agree to these Terms of Service and all applicable policies listed in the Policies section of this website. We adhere to the strictest internal standards of privacy and confidentiality, and will not disclose client identity, information, or session details to any third party.

		Q. Is META Practice℠ a way to manifest desired conditions? A. No. META Practice℠ offers a radical alternative to the so-called law of attraction and other methods that focus on "manifesting" specific conditions in the world such as health, money, a life partner or "specific person," and so on. What sets META Practice℠ apart is its recognition that such manifestations cannot be brought about directly through an act of will, but must be actualized indirectly by eliminating those factors in our consciousness that subvert our good. These factors include resistance, reactivity, hubris, a sense of urgency, willfulness, and the need to control outcomes. Q. How many META Practice℠ sessions will I need to understand and apply the instruction? A. Each individual is different, of course, and the number of sessions you'll need to understand and apply the instruction is really up to you. We begin by identifying specific problem areas in your consciousness that are interfering with nonlocal agency. As these are eliminated and you're increasingly able to embody equanimity, poise, and self-possession even in the face of adversity, you'll see life conditions improving spontaneously, often in unexpected ways, and frequently exceeding your expectations. Doors will appear and open, and you'll find that you're living in a "flow" of beneficial timing and good fortune. For the "well-ordered soul," as Plato calls it, manifestation takes care of itself. Q. LOA claims its methods are scientific, e.g., based on the laws of quantum mechanics. Why do you say LOA is a pseudoscience? A. The LOA model, in its various forms, is based on exaggerated, oversimplified, and unfalsifiable claims—all of which are inconsistent with the scientific method. Of these, none is more glaring perhaps than the refusal to admit any evidence that counts against what it asserts. Such evidence is invariably explained away, usually within the assumption that the fault lies with the LOA practitioner or the technique. This unscientific refusal to allow falsifiability creates a self-justifying logic that leaves practitioners wondering what they did wrong, an assumption that LOA teachers are happy to promote in their followers, one that leads them on a perpetual wild goose chase searching for the "right" method, the next technique, the latest YouTube "hack" or Reddit post. What they end up "manifesting" is disappointment, frustration, and self-recrimination, when it is not they who have failed but the LOA model itself. While refusing to count any experience that would tend to refute its core asssumptions, it touts every success story as proof. Over time, this can leave the LOA practitioner feeling like the victim of some alleged metaphysical agency that is always just out of reach. Our consciousness indeed does inform outer experience, but not in the way LOA claims.

		Philip Golabuk is an internationally acclaimed author and educator. After completing his undergraduate and graduate degrees in philosophy at the University of Florida with special studies in existentialism, theory of knowledge, and phenomenology, he taught philosophy at the college level and as part of a community outreach program to inmates in jail and prison. He has written several books in applied philosophy that were published in the U.S. and overseas in translation by national and international publishers including Harper & Row and Ernst Kabel Verlag and reviewed in The Washington Post and Harper's Magazine. In 1993, he founded PhilosophyCenter, subsequently developing a number of courses in practical philosophy as well as leading-edge philosophical facilitating, counseling, and coaching models and methods. Philip is a member of the National Philosophical Counseling Association. He is also an accomplished guitarist, ballet dancer, and fine artist, proving that there are philosophers who actually can do things.

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