1) SOUL READING
I have been working with clients in this area since 1999. A reading involves matching up the letters of your name with a chart of symbols I have developed over the years as a painter.

In 1994, I discovered that rows of improvised shapes I painted began functioning as a different kind of language. These shapes conveyed meanings on levels that were quite scintillating to me.

Through trial and error, I was able to match up a shape (symbol) to each letter of the English alphabet. I did several trial runs, in which I did a reading of a person's name. People began to ask me to do readings.

Now, I'm doing these readings on an ongoing basis. I put them on CDs. Each reading is 3 hours long. It's very extensive. It takes me about 3-4 weeks to complete.

After the client listens to the CDs several times, I'm available for follow-up questions. Then, after listening to the CDs as many times as possible for the next year---I'm once more available to answer questions.

In doing a reading, I access what I call the realm of archetypes. An archetype is a personage (or more rarely, an event) that supplies a tremendous range of mythic information and imagery relating to life lived on a level of great adventure and progressively expanding consciousness.

The actual realm of archetypes covers a much wider, deeper, and higher territory than Earth-culture thought-forms and symbols. All archetypes are positive, and they exist to assist individuals on their road to unlimited creative power and larger self.

Archetypes also contain very great amounts of energy. Through repeated listenings to the CDs, and by doing the meditations (on these archetypes) that I suggest and describe, the client begins to gain access to these energies.

2) THE STUDY OF ARCHETYPES AND READING THEM
Occasionally, I take students who want to engage in a deep study of this area. We work by phone and email. The initial phase normally lasts six months, and involves developing a short chart of symbols, and reading them a number of times. There is additional "loosening up" practice, to bring the student's wider capabilities into the work.

3) BUSINESS CONSULTATION
The strategies involved vary widely, according to the size and type of business. The theme, of course, is success. The work is quite intensive, and if travel is indicated, that is part of the service.

Re-organization of functions, personnel training, and business-owner re-orientation are on the agenda.

Everything begins with individual sessions, in which I work with the business owner. Based on the results of those sessions, we may expand the relationship to include work with other employees.

Where indicated, a whole paradigm shift may be necessary, in which certain traditional ways of conducting business are changed to innovative formats.

As always in my work, everything starts with imagination. How can a business be re-created to make it more powerful?

4) PERSONAL CONSULTATION
This service covers the areas of health, energy, vision, future, goals, creativity, satisfaction, major life changes, and inspiration. It focuses on the concept of "ordinary self meeting larger self." It also covers, where necessary, practical action and solution.

In the area of health, I may refer the client to my wife, Dr. Laura Thompson, who runs The Southern California Institute of Clinical Nutrition.

The client needs to be willing to make a serious commitment to the overall work. Between sessions, there are assignments to be carried out.

5) IMAGINATION WORK
The most intense of all services offered, this one requires that the client be located here in the San Diego area for a period of at least four months. I work on an individual basis with the client in various areas that impact on, and draw out, creative power.

This may involve drawing, writing, meditation, the use of sound and voice, certain physical exercises, training in hands-on healing, the study of archetypes, and other services listed above.

This is full-time work. It aligns directly with my premise that imagination and creative power are the keys to what every individual, at the deepest level, has been seeking.

The time framework is: six days a week, five hours a day, for at least four months.

In 1958, it became apparent to me that all human problems and limitations were a form of self-imposed conditioning.

The ultimate form of that conditioning is the "burial" of the imagination.

Every other problem is derived from that "forgetting about imagination."

So, while certain advances and successes are still possible, as long as a person is working from grossly limited imagination, he/she is always going to run up against walls and dead-ends.

What I call Earth culture is based on the notion that imagination is a mere toy, a thing that children exercise for a time and then offload, like some useless evolutionary appendage.

Earth culture adores and worships systems. Systems can be extremely useful in many contexts, but when the form of thinking that goes along with systems spreads into every facet of life, imagination and creative force are placed far back on the shelf.

However, imagination never dies, is never damaged. It is always whole, always waiting to be employed along an infinite number of fronts.

Creative power is the secret that lies in the obscured core of every spiritual system or practice this planet has seen.

Creative power is the answer to accessing the paranormal; it is the answer to the quest for enlightenment; it is the answer to the desire for inner fulfillment; it is the key to a new and honorable and just and abundant world.

Because we have educated ourselves to believe otherwise, we make conclusions and calculations and assumptions that lead us into compartmentalized strategies and solutions in life. We come to accept all sorts of limited ideas about what is possible.

Having accepted these limited ideas, we then live and work within that framework.

There is another way. It is wider and more powerful than any universe.

JON RAPPOPORT