With Fr. Edwin M. Mc Mahon, Ph.D. and Fr. Peter A. Campbell, Ph.D.

DVD #1 (107 min.)

Part 1: Felt sensing in the Information Age
with Edwin M. McMahon, Ph.D.

This talk proposes that a critical next step in the information age is learning to balance "head knowing" and the "felt-sensing" wisdom available to us in the "Larger Body." This is done by "owning" the felt sense we carry in our own bodies, especially those we can learn to notice that are trying to get our attention as we are inundated with more and more information. Nurturing this dimension of human intelligence through BioSpiritual Focusing builds a connection, a bridge in us that is essential for peace, wholeness, community, and the care of our environment.

Part 2: Crossing the Threshold into a Further Dimension of Consciousness
with Peter A. Campbell, Ph.D.

Fr. Pete explains what is meant by "Headbrain" and "Bodybrain." He shows how Eugene Gendlin has penetrated into the body's process of intelligence -the "felt sense." Through Focusing, Gendlin has opened an extraordinary doorway into what may be our next step in human evolution. Just as there was a border crossing between ape and man, we have arrived at a similar, perhaps equally critical moment in the evolution of human consciousness. The unfolding of a felt sense and the discovery of a gift dimension within the core of our being marks a further transitional crossing-point.

DVD #2 (114 min.)

Part 3: Abraham Maslow's Research:The Process of Human Wholeness is this Balancing
with Edwin M.Mahon, Ph.D.

Fr. Ed describes five significant learnings about human growth which Dr. Maslow's research taught him. These learnings then became keystones in the development of BioSpirituality. Toward the end of his life, Maslow realized that this life-long study of healthy, growing people showed him that integration and healthy spirituality is the balanced living of headbrain and bodybrain knowing, rooted in the conscious "owning" of change itself. In the final segment of this tape, Peter illustrates Maslow's hierarchy of needs with a brief story drawn from developmental experience in his own prayer life. He shares a personal struggle that many go through as they grow in prayer--letting go of outmoded expressions and embracing more congruent ways of praying.

DVD #3 (85 min.)

Part 4: Four Characteristics of the Felt Sense
with Peter A. Campbell, Ph.D.

In an earlier talk, Pete shared his experience that the principal way to resolve and move beyond so many of life's important problems is by discovering another dimension of human consciousness. The missing piece today lies within ourselves. In this and his following talk, Pete shares how he and Ed believe that the research of Rogers and Gendlin has opened a door, finally, into understanding this important change inside ourselves. It appears within an area of human awareness that Gendlin calls "the felt sense." This talk highlights key characteristics of the felt sense, including how it connects us with a larger process of wholeness within which we are each an integral part.

Part 5: Pioneers at the Border Zone Between Dimensions of Consciousness
with Peter A. Campbell, Ph.D

This talk builds upon Part 4, examining in greater detail the complementary contributions of Eugene Gendlin and Carl Rogers to our understanding of the felt sense. Gendlin built upon a clear direction discerned by Carl Rogers when he explored the necessary and sufficient conditions within which congruence occurs. Gendlin then brought precision and clarity to Roger's findings, moving us light-years ahead in our understanding of the process of human wholeness and the supportive environment within which it unfolds.

DVD #4 (85 min.)

Part 6: The Roots of BioSpiritual Christianity.
with Edwin M. McMahon, Ph.D.

During his many years of studying spirituality, Ed has come to realize that we cannot understand our contemporary problems unless we grasp that half our knowing potential has been kept in cold storage by the spiritualities created in most cultures. Why did this happen? Much in psychology shows that BioSpirituality is simply a level of maturing into which we all are meant to grow. So, there must have been growing people in ancient times who wrote about their BioSpiritual experience. What happened to them? Were there early Christian BioSpiritual focusers? And if so, why have present day Christians not inherited their spirituality? Since the basic role of spirituality is to activate the 'connecting potential' of the whole human organism within the finite expression of the Transcendent that surrounds us, and St. Paul repeatedly stressed that "the bodybrain knows this connection in ways the headbrain cannot grasp," then why did Christian spirituality ignore the development of body-knowing?

DVD #5 (120 min.)

Part 7: Brief Summary and some closing Reflections on the Challenge of Growing Beyond a Dualistic and Dominative Spirituality- with Edwin M. McMahon, Ph.D.

In the first part of this DVD, Ed concludes his talk on what happened to the Bodybrain in the early centuries of Christianity. He reflects on the implications and consequences of excluding this half of human knowing from spirituality. "What havoc and unspeakable horrors have been set afoot and still are set afoot each day in the human race without a spirituality that starts each morning with a simple check inside the body's knowing, an owning of what is noticed as real, and then nurturing that body-feel with space and time until it is gifted (graced) with some felt-connection?"

Part 8:Toward a BioSpiritual Psychology of Human Evolution: An emerging Synthesis
with Peter A. Campbell, Ph.D.

In this talk, Pete draws together key learnings from the research of 20th century scholars--Rogers, Gendlin, Bohm, Rahner, de Chardin, Law Whyte, and James. Pete weaves the separate strands of their ground breaking research into the larger tapestry of BioSpiritual Focusing. This synthesis, finally emerging in our time, brings hope that we may finally discover a simple, practical way to move beyond the personal and global violence which has reached catastrophic proportions in this century.