Julia Mossbridge - The calling : a 12-week science-based program to discover, energize, and engage your souls work

If youve ever wondered what your calling (or destiny) is, this book is essential reading. Julia Mossbridge is a scientist, but her words speak directly to your soul, the heart and eternal essence of you. Highly recommended.

Theresa Cheung , Sunday Times top-ten best-selling spiritual and personal transformation author

There is a myriad of books published on the subject of finding your purpose. The Calling stands out from the rest. It is written by a most superb cognitive neuroscientist using the deep scientific method to lead us in a most exciting prospect: uncovering our callings as we apply the scientific method to ourselves. I highly recommend this book, in which Mossbridge guides us in becoming scientists of our own true work, and takes us inside our own experience, where the truth of our souls is revealed.

Justine Willis Toms , host of New Dimensions Radio , coauthor of True Work , and author of Small Pleasures

A universal feature of the great spiritual traditions is that there is meaning, purpose, and direction to existence; that happiness and a sense of fulfillment are more likely when one aligns with this felt direction, this calling; and that guides who have been there can assist ones attempts to align with this beckoning from the world. Julia Mossbridge is such a guide, and The Calling is her guidebook.
Mossbridge has performed an enormous service, because a characteristic of our age is a widespread experience of ennui, despair, and a sense that what one person does will not matter against the backdrop of seven billion fellow inhabitants of the planet. The Calling is an antidote for this world-weariness.
And heres a bonus: Mossbridge is an elite scientist who understands the deep connections between mind and matter, consciousness and the world. She demonstrates why ones calling is not just a personal, individual concern, but is an issue on which the future of our species likely depends. It is difficult to imagine a more urgent concern, or a more valuable contribution.

Larry Dossey, MD , author of One Mind

Julia Mossbridge has rendered an important service in The Calling . She returns us to the origin of the real scientific spiritthe radical idea that the world is knowable. She also moves us into the twenty-first century by giving us a grounding in our own subjectivity, stating boldly that the science of your souls work is to take your inner experience seriously. Mossbridge gives us new, scientifically based reasons why we should reconsider a cosmology that places us inside the family of interdependent things. If you want to be the person you intuitively know youre capable of being, this book sets out an informed, friendly, and powerful program for getting you there.

Rebecca Armstrong, DMin , mediator, mythologist, cofounder of Mind University, and adjunct faculty in the department of philosophy and religion at Indiana University

The Calling provides a much-needed path to understanding what one was born to do, in a fun-to-read and refreshing alternative to the many self-help books that seek to direct readers toward careers that may or may not be fulfilling (or even the right fit). Through structured, actionable, and sometimes delightfully challenging exercises, Mossbridge deftly guides the reader toward the discovery and celebration of the souls workno small task in an era which finds many searching for meaning and purpose.

JD Pirtle , artist, educator, and founder and principal of Depth and Lightan education, design, and technology studio+consultancy based in Chicago, IL

Julia offers a unique approach to connect more deeply with your authentic self through a scientific process. This playful experiment guides the reader through stages of personal development, which invites clarity, connection, and surrender in pursuing purpose. Sharing stories and providing brief exercises engage the reader with possibilities and practices for getting out of their own way and allowing their souls calling to emerge. Doing this program with another or in a group may enrich the experiment and outcomes.

Maureen Pelton, MSSW, LICSW , cofounder of ShiftIt Institute, LLC

Julia Mossbridge has written a must-read guide for anyone who wants to live in alignment with their heartfelt desires. In The Calling , she accompanies readers on a twelve-week journey of experimental self-exploration to attain self-knowledge and clarity on what makes their hearts sing. Her voice is clear and compassionate, capturing the essence of all that is truly energizing in our lives and showing that you dont need to sacrifice your passion to live well. Like all things worth doing, the program requires commitment. However, if you truly want to change your life, I cannot recommend this book strongly enough.

Isabelle C. Widmer, MD , life sciences consultant and coach, elytra GmbH

Ever since I read The Martian , Ive been trying to science the hell out of my lifenice idea in theory, extremely difficult in execution. With Mossbridges The Calling , we now have the first textbook .

Neal H. Patel , principal product manager at Amazon, founder of Google Human/Social Dynamics, founding member of Google Advanced Technology and Projects, and principal researcher at Googles Project Oxygen

Publishers Note

This publication is designed to provide accurate and authoritative information in regard to the subject matter covered. It is sold with the understanding that the publisher is not engaged in rendering psychological, financial, legal, or other professional services. If expert assistance or counseling is needed, the services of a competent professional should be sought.

Disclaimer: This book includes real stories of real people. In some cases, the author has disguised individuals identities with pseudonyms, marked with an asterisk. In certain cases, identifying features have also been changed.

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Copyright 2019 by Julia A. Mossbridge

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For Joseph. May your true work shine!

Contents

Foreword

Our world is becoming increasingly materialistic, with a strong appetite for status, power, possessions, and insatiable dollars in the bank. Amid this drive, what is not always recognized is the yearning thats underneath it all. There is a deep yearning for a sense of peace and stillness, and living aligned with our purpose. Even as we obtain status, power, and more and more material possessions, millions of people still experience high levels of depression, loneliness, anxiety, insecurity, all sorts of fears, and a general sense of something missing or not quite right.

There is something more real thats yet to be fully tapped into in so many of us. This gaping hole has a lot to do with not following our callingnot living on purpose for what were really here to be.

Material things alone will never bring the fulfillment we each profoundly crave. Having our material needs met, as Julia Mossbridge points out in this book, is certainly a part of uncovering and living our potential. But, as she mentions, those basic needs are just the foundation; material needs alone will never bring the fulfillment we all fundamentally seek and need to live our potential and feel deeply satisfied.