Shift: Change Your Words, Change Your World - Hardcover

Janet Smith Warfield

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0977832465 ISBN 13: 9780977832460

Publisher: Word Sculptures Publishing, 2007

Synopsis

Shift is a creative tool for expanding consciousness. Through thought-provoking questions, stories, illustrations, and poetry, Shift educates, drawing out new ways of thinking about old challenges. Its purpose is to bring powerful peace to the reader and, as a result, powerful peace to the planet, one reader at a time. The book is unique in using words to look at words, meanings, human perception, emotions, and actions. Its words are not Truth; they are catalysts helping readers find their own truths. Shift includes: *Optical illusions *Ambigrams *Ink blots *Cloud patterns *A human consciousness diagram *A discussion of the Human Truth Puzzle that has been solved over and over by person after person, but cannot be adequately communicated using words and symbols. *A startling new meaning to the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche similar to the startling new meaning Dan Brown gave to The Last Supper in The Da Vinci Code.

About this title

About the Author:

Resist not evil, but turn the other cheek. Thirty-five years ago, Janet Smith Warfield had an extraordinary, life-changing experience. Words she had learned in Sunday school suddenly became crystal clear. Nothing changed. Yet suddenly everything changed. Janet was now looking at the same physical world from a new perspective. Janet struggled to put words to this mind-boggling experience. No one understood. How could she use divisive, analytical words to communicate a unifying experience? There simply were no right words. There were only creative words. Words were fingers pointing at the moon. They were not the moon. Janet is a graduate of Swarthmore College and Rutgers School of Law, Camden, cum laude. She practiced law in Atlantic City, New Jersey, for 22 years. She is a powerful word sculptor who knows how to bring peace into troubled lives.

Review:

Exploring the power of words to shape experiences in the world, Smith Warfield, an author, poet, attorney, mediator, mother, and grandmother, acknowledges, There is only one rule: use your words in ways that serve yourself, others, and our planet, not in ways that harm. Like spending an afternoon with an exceptionally insightful friend who wears her mysticism with practical shoes, reading Shift opens readers to possibilities, clearly the author s intention. One of the author s methods for unlocking those possibilities is questioning herself and readers throughout. Questions serve as wake-up calls to stir awareness and consciousness, as they address another challenge: The mystic experience is difficult to express in words. Questions can point the way. The author shares some of her own mystic turning points in anecdotes and poems, asks questions, and explores dualities that sometimes get in the way of non-dualistic consciousness, her term for mystic experiences. She examines sixteen pairs of dichotomous terms including despair and joy, death and life, falsehood and truth, and science and religion, here concluding, Both, if properly applied, are valid, creative vehicles for improving the human condition ...Why not simply practice mutual respect and non-violence? Later chapters include insights on anger and inner peace, Anger is always a messenger telling you there is something in your life you need to change. She moves readers to consider, Do you want to hang onto your anger and frustration? She explains why focus can be so powerful saying, When you focus on what you want and how you re going to get there, your mind isn t able to focus on what you don t want... One of the most innovative discussions possibly troubling to readers with fundamental religious views covers functionality and nonfunctionality as more productive terms than good and evil. A BMW, she notes, when its tires are flat, its battery is disconnected, and is out of gas is not evil. It s just not functional. So, too, with humans: The parts have to work individually and together. She adds, Focus on becoming more functional...Stay serene and detached when others are upset and fighting. As much as she tries to clarify, the territory she claims in this book remains mysterious. Mystical experiences are not easy to put into words, although the author s poems interspersed throughout give readers a richer experience and a taste of what the words point to. She addresses heady ideas like transformed consciousness in multiple ways, encouraging readers to embrace their own processes and possibilities for encountering mystic experiences, saying, We are all on different paths to the same unifying consciousness. Mysticism is ultimately experiential. To tread in this territory, it s advisable to have as patient and wise a guide as Smith Warfield. --ForeWord Magazine, Bobbye Middendorf

Lawyer, grandmother, mediator and poet Janet Smith Warfield presents Shift: Change Your Words, Change Your World, a remarkable self-help guide to adapting one's consciousness to help bring peace to oneself and to the planet, one person at a time. Chapters encourage the reader to be honest with oneself, and attune to one's own thoughts and feelings, while being wary of negative impulses to judge or control other people, and touch upon the big spiritual questions. None of the world religions has ever been able to define God. God is referred to as a mystery, something beyond human understanding. The word define means to limit. Of course, religions can't define God. What right do we humans have to limit God? An utterly insightful guide to making sense of timeless wisdom, applicable to readers of all faiths and backgrounds. --Midwest Book Review

On rare occasions, life-altering experiences result in great works of art and literature. Thirty-five years ago, Janet Smith Warfield, had such an experience. This experience became the driving force behind her unique and noteworthy book, Shift: Change Your Words, Change Your World. For 35 years, Janet s artistic challenge was how to use words to communicate her wisdom. She knew that words were part of the human dilemma. Because of their constantly shifting meanings, words miscommunicate. Shift plays with word sculptures, using ordinary words in extraordinary ways to trigger readers minds so that their own unique wisdom and truth can emerge. Reading Shift is not an ordinary read. It s an interactive experience. Janet gently guides, sometimes jolts her readers into increased awareness, consciousness expansion, and living in the present moment. Using word tapestries of poetry, stories, quotations, and questions, enriched with illustrations and unexpected word juxtapositions, Janet helps readers of all backgrounds and faiths to understand and internalize timeless wisdom. The word sculpture experience provides deep insight into personal, vital questions. It helps manifest previously untapped strengths, helping produce win/win outcomes by transforming personal chaos into comfortable harmony. The word sculpture experience provides clues to solving the "Human Truth Puzzle." The author exposes startling new meanings to Friedrich Nietzsche s writings, which, when properly understood, supply a major piece for solving the "Human Truth Puzzle." Unlike mathematical problems, the "Human Truth Puzzle" cannot be solved logically using words and symbols. Knowing that the "Human Truth Puzzle" requires going deep into one s consciousness to know one s own mind and emotions, Janet Smith Warfield provides a road map for readers so they can experience their own higher awareness and truth. The author is a poet, mediator, grandmother, retired attorney, graduate of Swarthmore College, and cum laude graduate of Rutgers School of Law. Her unique, powerful word sculpture experience is unlike any other self-help, body, mind and spirit work. --Lightword Publishing, Bernie Nelson

About this edition

• Publisher: Word Sculptures Publishing
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0977832465
• ISBN 13: 9780977832460
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208