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What? - Book Launch
A recently published book on Peak Experiences will be launched high into the sky, via balloons, during a party celebrating the book’s publication.
When? – Saturday, June 1, 2013 at 2:30 PM
Where? The parking lot of First Congregational Church
1735 Fifth Avenue West
Hendersonville, NC
Background details
- The party, from 2 -4 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall of the church, will feature the music of the
comedic and well-known novelty jazz band from Burnsville, Hot Duck Soup.
At 2:30, several persons, including Reverend Richard Weidler, pastor of FCC, will bless the
book and lead a march outside to the parking lot, with appropriate music, where the launch will take place. Replicas of the book, attached to helium-filled balloons, will be released.
- Title of Book : TAKE IT FROM THE TOP: WHAT TO DO WITH A PEAK EXPERIENCE.
The book to be launched is a collection of some 90 peak experiences as told by 75 well-known and little-known persons, with the author’s commentary about these altered-state events.
A peak experience is an ‘ah-ha’ moment of intense emotion, reported by many individuals when they are suddenly taken out of themselves and experience profound joy, often with new understandings and appreciation of the Unity of which we are a part.
The term comes from the work of American psychologist Abraham Maslow who studied ”self-actualized” persons from all walks of life. They often reported experiencing these moments of heightened consciousness which, according to Maslow, come from “the farther reaches of human nature”.
The book’s website is www.peakexperience.info.
- The author, Dr. Edward M. O’Keefe, a retired Dean of Academic Affairs at a New York State
Community College, has made a lifelong study of this subject. He lives with his wife, Romella Hart-O’Keefe, in Mills River.
From: Edward M. O’Keefe, Ph.D., 366 Cardinal Road, Mills River, NC 28759
828-890-4889
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