NEW
WAYS OF LOVING:
HOW
AUTHENTICITY TRANSFORMS RELATIONSHIPS
Facebook
Seminar
This
electronic discussion group empowers
people living all over the planet Earth
to discuss a book that upends most of the established patterns
of 'love' as it has developed in the Western world.
New Ways of Loving challenges
most assumptions about love
and replaces them
with new forms of loving relationships:
Romantic love, sexual attraction, & conventional marriage
are replaced by new relationships beginning with our self-inventing
selves.
We can love freely instead of imposing obligations.
We can love without needing, possessiveness, or jealousy.
We can love beyond our imprinted sexual fantasies
and our enculturated gender-personalities.
We can weigh the pros and cons of having children.
This on-line seminar will discuss 8 themes of love
as these questions apply to our own lives.
Over a period of eight weeks,
we will read and discuss the following chapters from
New Ways of Loving:
How Authenticity Transforms
Relationships.
(Chapter
titles in blue
below
can be clicked to begin reading that chapter.)
Week 1: (when we
begin, a date will appear here)
Ch. 1 Romantic
Love is a Hoax!
Emotional
Programming to 'Fall in Love'
Week 2:
Ch. 2 Loving
from Authenticity
Week 3:
Ch. 3 Loving
in Freedom:
Choice & Flexibility instead of Security &
Obligation
Week 4:
Ch. 4 Loving
without Needing
:
Seven Pre-Existing Needs and How to Transcend Them
Week 5:
Ch. 5 Loving
without Jealousy
:
As We Become More Authentic, Jealousy Disappears
Week 6:
Ch. 6 Multiple
Loving
:
Open
Relationships Beyond Jealousy
Week
7:
Ch. 7 Loving
Beyond Sex
:
Transcending Our Imprinted Sex-Scripts
Week 8:
Ch. 8 Masculinity/Femininity
:
Loving Beyond Our Gender-Personalities
HOW TO JOIN OUR FACEBOOK
GROUP
ON LOVE:
You need a regular Internet connection and be 'on
Facebook'.
You choose the time
and place for your electronic participation.
If you are not already 'on Facebook', go to:
http://facebook.com.
Register your name, your preferred e-mail address
and establish a password.
Once you are a registered Facebook user, search
Facebook for:
"NEW WAYS OF LOVING: Facebook Group"
Click to request to join.
This
group is exclusively for people who are reading and discussing
New Ways of Loving:
How Authenticity Transforms Relationships.
Here is the direct link to our Facebook Group:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/groups/341818712601775/?fref=ts
Thus, you will also need a copy of the book,
either a printed copy or an electronic version.
Most participants will buy their own copies.
Others will borrow copies from libraries.
Reading will take one or two hours per week.
And you might
decide to do more background reading
in any areas that especially interest you:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/aws-website-jamesleonardpark---freelibrary-3puxk/LVindex.html
This Facebook Seminar is for serious persons willing
and able
to devote
meaningful time each week to reading and sharing.
You are invited to read revolutionary ideas about
love.
Then you will share your thoughts by means of our Facebook Group.
Others who read your comments might be inspired to add theirs.
The author of the book is the leader of this on-line discussion group.
The Facebook Seminar itself is completely free
of charge.
The eight-weeks electronic seminar will be repeated
as new people discover this opportunity, obtain the book,
and join the Facebook Group called:
"NEW WAYS OF LOVING: Facebook Group".
Questions? Write to me.
My e-mail address: James Park, e-mail:
parkx032@umn.edu.
OUR DISCUSSION BOOK: NEW WAYS OF LOVING:
HOW AUTHENTICITY TRANSFORMS RELATIONSHIPS
The printed book for this Facebook
Seminar
is New Ways of Loving.
The complete table of contents will appear
if you click this line:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/aws-website-jamesleonardpark---freelibrary-3puxk/NWL.html
From
this table of contents you can open
several pages of the book.
This book is available in three different
bindings:
(1) comb binding, (2) screw-post binding, or (3) loose-leaf notebook.
(2015: Only the screw-post binding remains for the whole book.
But some copies of the first 8 chapters in a folder without a cover
can be bought for $10.)
Or you can obtain a PDF of the 8 chapters to be
discussed for $8,
plus $2 if you pay by electronic means.
This new electronic book option began in 2012:
For readers who do not mind reading these chapters on their computer
screens,
a Portable Digital File (PDF) is now available.
The PDF version is double-spaced,
which makes it about twice as many pages as the printed versions.
And the pages do not look quite the same as the printed book.
But all of the content is identical.
The cost is $8 for the first
eight chapters of the book.
If you wish to pay by electronic means, the cost rises to $10.
Payment by check or money-order keeps the cost down to $8.
There is no charge for postage or handling,
since your pages will be sent to our e-mail address electronically.
In order to confirm that your e-mail program can
receive PDF documents,
the author will sent you a PDF that lists many of his books.
This includes complete details about how to pay for
Chapters 1-8 of New
Ways of Loving: How Authenticity Transforms
Relationships
to be sent to your computer as a PDF.
Many
readers decide to buy the whole book as two PDFs.
The total cost is $14 for the book, plus $4 for electronic payment.
This delivers the two PDFs to your e-mail in-box for a total of $18.
For this test of your PDF capacity, send your
preferred e-mail address to:
parkx032@umn.edu
In the same e-mail, you can ask any questions,
explain where you live,
or suggest other ways of paying for whatever books you want to read.
OTHER OPTIONS FOR READING AND DISCUSSING:
Of course, it is always possible for anyone to read the book
without joining the Facebook Group.
Readers who live in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota,
will have the opportunity to join
a face-to-face discussion of love from time to time.
Everyone who joins the Facebook Seminar
will also be informed about face-to-face gatherings in the Twin Cities.
Our Facebook Group is another way
for people living in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota
to express their interest in having a face-to-face seminar in the Twin Cities.
The Facebook Group offers a place in "Files"
to sign up for the face-to-face gathering in Minneapolis.
Once about 100 people have joined our Facebook Group,
we will ask how many live near enough and would be interested
in having a face-to-face gathering to discuss this book.
Here is the description of how this in-person seminar will proceed.
Our Facebook Group allows people living anywhere on the planet Earth
to participate from their own keyboards and computer screens.
They might later join a face-to-face discussion of love.
Or it might happen the other way around:
People who have already participated in the in-person seminar
might decide to join the Facebook Group.
The Facebook Seminar will begin
once 100 people have joined the Facebook Group.
The face-to-face seminar (five weeks) will begin
when 20 people in the Twin Cities have indicated that they plan to attend.
People who meet on-line in our discussions of love
might be able to create other face-to-face seminars
at other locations on the Earth.
What other ideas occur to you?
This electronic approach will be modified to suit those who wish to join.
Send your questions, comments, & suggestions to me:
James Park, e-mail: PARKx032@TC.UMN.EDU.
Created
November 6, 2009; revised 11-12-2009; 11-21-2009; 2-26-2010; 3-15-2010;
6-2-2012; 2-13-2013; 3-15-2013; 9-11-2014; 9-20-2014; 8-13-2015;
10-9-2015; 11-29-2916;
See
the table
of contents for
New Ways of
Loving:
How
Authenticity Transforms Relationships.
Go to
the beginning of this website
James
Leonard Park—Free
Library