Leslie Kenton Journey to Freedom

A practical and highly personal 13 week program designed to expand consciousness and bring the reader home to that experience of bliss and wholeness which we all know should be in our lives, through a marriage of the most ancient technique for accessing power and expanding awareness - shamanism - together with tools from cutting-edge science-of-consciousness research.

From the back cover JOURNEY TO FREEDOM by LESLIE KENTON

For thousands of years artists, mystics, great scientists and shamans have know the secret of expanding awareness to connect with spiritual wisdom, creativity and bliss and then to make use of them. They do this by activating the consciousness matrix - the interface encoded within our DNA which enables human beings to tap into vast realms of spiritual power, authentic freedom and joy, and then bring these gifts to life.

Leslie Kenton believes passionately that the ability to do this is everybody's birthright. In this powerful and inspiring book - Journey to Freedom - she shows you how to:

Journey to Freedom has developed out of workshops Leslie gives throughout the world. It is a practical and highly personal 13-week course in which you learn stet-by-step to unleash soul power, connect with your own authenticity, and to bring the gifts only you can bring into the world.

A marriage of the most ancient technique known for accessing power and expanding awareness - shamanism - together with tools from cutting-edge science of consciousness research, Leslie's 13 Quantum Steps for the Soul process is nothing less than life transforming.

Extract JOURNEY TO FREEDOM by LESLIE KENTON

Freedom has always fascinated me. I love the smell of the word. I like its sense of possibility. I taste freedom when I listen to the music of Aaron Copland – music that could only have been written in a country which once had vast prairies and seemingly infinite wilderness. I feel it in my body when I run along cliffs in the rain. I rejoice in the sense of it that comes when, after hours of shifting dead words and sentences, something suddenly comes alive and beauty spills out all over the page.

In an outer way, to be free means to enjoy liberty of action under a government which is not despotic and does not encroach on individual human rights. In an inner way to be free means becoming liberated from the relentless forces of doubt, self-criticism and fear which we all inherit growing up in emotional and educational environments which split our mind from our body and teach us not to trust ourselves. They teach us to put our faith in "experts". They teach us neither to honor the splendor of the individual human soul, nor do they tell us that the universe is filled with compassion which we can draw on whenever we need support and power which we can direct to create whatever we want.

It makes me laugh to see the way our commercial world tries to sell the experience of freedom: Freedom? It means wearing a pair of Levi 501’s doesn't it? Sipping white rum on a tropical beach with a sexy lover. Taking a 100 miles an hour ride on a Harley across the desert at sunset. Or surfing that seventh wave. On film these things carry the freedom buzz. For a little while they let us imagine the real thing, even though they are only a pale facsimile of it. These days we get offered freedom in all sorts of ‘packages’. They range from TV ads offering telephone sex, to weekend seminars promising instant enlightenment.

Some people, in their search for freedom, end up sniffing cocaine. Others dance all weekend at a rave. A few turn to philosophy or look for freedom in ancient religious practices. They head off to India or to California to sit at the foot of the guru and hope that somehow he will hand it to them. All of these things – from rum and cocaine to raves and yoga – offer a taste of freedom. Some - like drugs and alcohol - are more transitory than others. When they wear off, so does the sense of liberation they once promised, to be replaced by a post-freedom hangover. Others, like transpersonal psychology, or Mahayana Buddhism run deeper. The freedom they offer is slower in the making but it lasts longer. Every experience of freedom brings with it a sense of being released from imprisonment – of being able, even for a short time, to respond to life spontaneously with the whole of your being.

Look up the verb to free in the dictionary. It will tell you it means to release from bondage or constraint, to deliver, to disentangle from obstruction or encumbrance. And quite right. When we talk of freedom we often speak of it as freedom from. Money worries for instance, or responsibility. Sometimes we tell ourselves, ‘If only I had this or didn’t have that, then I’d be free’. Other times we indulge in dreams of freedom – sailing across great expanses of sea with the wind in our hair, or crossing the Sahara on a camel, or building a wooden hut in the woods and living there, or partying until dawn every night. Yet how many times have we gone on vacation to be ‘free of worries’ only to find we packed them in the suitcase under the new underpants?

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From the back cover JOURNEY TO FREEDOM by LESLIE KENTON

Extract JOURNEY TO FREEDOM by LESLIE KENTON