Is There Life Before Death? (I Was An Imaginary Playmate in My Past Lives)

Steve Andreas; Steve Andreas [Editor]

ISBN 10: 0911226346 / ISBN 13: 9780911226348

Published by Real People Press, 1995

Seller Inventory # 0911226346-4-34123888

Synopsis:

This unique 30-year collection of stories, spiced with poems and quotes, is a treasurehouse that will touch your heart, clarify your vision, and tickle your fancy. A wide range of living is touched on in these selections: tears and laughter, wisdom and folly, dreaming and action, knowledge and ignorance, thinking and feeling, loving and purpose, anguish and gratitude, separation and connection, mistakes and perfection, certainty and mystery, good and evil, mind and spirit. These are stepping stones on the path of discovering what it means to be a fully human being.

About the Author: Steve Andreas was an American psychotherapist and author specializing in Neuro-linguistic programming.Steve Andreas was the son of Barry Stevens, a writer and gestalt therapist. He founded Real People Press, a publisher of works on psychology and personal change in 1967, in order to publish a book by Carl Rogers and Barry Stevens entitled Person to Person.Andreas got a BA in chemistry from Caltech in 1957, then worked as a chemist at Shell. Afterwards he went to graduate school at Brandeis University under Abraham Maslow and received an MA degree in psychology in 1961. After working as an analytical chemist for the U.S. Bureau of Mines for a year, he got a junior college teaching credential, and taught psychology and social science at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill CA from 1962 to 1970.He was introduced to Gestalt therapy in 1967 by Fritz Perls, and edited his books, Gestalt Therapy Verbatim and In and Out the Garbage Pail. He wrote Awareness, a book of exercises based on Gestalt Therapy in 1971. In 1971 he retired from teaching to focus on running Real People Press and setting up a small experimental community based on the principles of his book.Steve Andreas, with his wife and partner Connirae, has been learning, teaching, and developing patterns in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) since 1977.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Is There Life Before Death? (I Was An ...
Publisher: Real People Press
Publication Date: 1995
Binding: hardcover
Condition: Fair