Love and Freedom: Pathways to Personal Transformation

by Philip Ferranti

We live in an impersonal world that is often disconnected, overloaded with information, and colored by values and realities often in conflict with real love and personal freedom. Those same forces are at work within any individual who has failed in the great work of every life-to discover their true self.

Whether you're overcoming a troubled childhood, conditional acceptance by others, or negative interactions with other individuals, Love...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0595394868
• ISBN13: 9780595394869
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A straightforward guide to truly becoming one's own person.

Written by Philip Ferranti M.Ed., founder of Transformation Seminars, Love and Freedom: Pathways to Personal Transformation is a self-help guide to achieving freedom from dependency. Chapters describe in plain terms how to empower onself and rise above psychosocial conditioning, the virtue that is independence, interdependence whether in friendships or other relationships as a process of personalization, and much more. Love and freedom offers practical tools for life-assessment and solid, tested strategies for living life day-to-day in the present with out the harangues of an overactive mind, false identities, negative emotions, or inaccurate ideas. A straightforward guide to truly becoming one's own person.

Becoming Authentic

Reviewed by Robin Gix for Reader Views (10/06) "Love and Freedom" assists the reader in obtaining authentic living with spiritual wisdom and truth. It provides strategies to empower one's self and live as a real person. Mr. Ferranti shows us how, with personal growth and development, we can live our lives with meaning and purpose; with happiness. He shows us the difference between a person and a non-person. A person being one who has been true to one's self and has not been false to any other man. "Love and Freedom" explores the context of personal development, the process of personalization, freedom from dependency, the power to love, the empowerment of one's self, the virtues of being a person, and more. Mr. Ferranti shows us how to become free from an overactive mind. He explains how becoming a real person, and being aware of one's worth and the worth of others is to act personally; be authentic. In "Love and Freedom", Mr. Ferranti provides a process for his readers to stop believing in ideas and people that lead us to make choices that prevent our achieving happiness. He provides simple steps to start living and participating in life in a personal way. Mr. Ferranti states that "Life is much more than survival. It is about the quality of our experience. It is about discovering some measure of happiness, making meaningful choices, and building up humanity in a personal way." He stresses that when we act in a personal way, life becomes more fulfilling; it is the key to knowing what matters in life and what doesn't. "Love and Freedom" focuses and provides strategies for living in the present moment, learning how to love authentically, developing character skills that allow us to live life effectively, and discovering our purpose in life. This book is a guide to change our ways of thinking and living to become true to one's self and to live a more fulfilling and enriching life. If you are trying to overcome a troubled past, tired of the negative interaction with others, or just looking for a way to live life in a more personal and meaningful manner, then you should read "Love and Freedom". It will provide you with the tools and strategies to live life in the present and obtain personal freedom.

This book opens up both doors and windows to authentic self actualization

Love and Freedom unites the best of psychological insights and spiritual wisdom/truth to assist the reader in their quest for authentic living. Strategies to discover and be oneself, and live as a real person inspire the reader to fill in the blanks of their own life and become more of the real self they are in this life to be; personal empowerment strategies, insights, choices and dynamic change processes abound in Ferranti's very comprehensive work. Especially appealing is his emphasis the "he who would reject another, destroys the very bridge over which he, himself, must pass." His linking of the Christian spiritual path to the psychological dymanics of personal development is powerful and very welcomed in today's hectic world. This book is a MUST READ!