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First Friday Lit Chat with Joan Rose Staffen

  • Catamaran Literary Reader 1050 River St., Studio 118 Santa Cruz, CA 95060 USA (map)

Join us to celebrate the release of Joan Rose Staffen’s new book

The Creative Pendulum

6:00-6:30 Reception

6:30-7:00 Reading/Lit Chat/Pendulum demo

7:00-7:30 Book Signing

The Creative Pendulum
demonstrates how to use the pendulum to unlock your inner artist, allowing you to discover or expand your creative potential.

Dowsing with a pendulum is a quick, direct path to the sub-and super-conscious levels, to higher forces, and to the Muse herself. Thirty pendulum creativity charts are offered that help clear, center, unblock, and guide a person forward, so that anyone may more easily enter the creative space to play and work.

Staffen offers practical information and tips so that anyone can learn to dowse, but even experienced practitioners will find exciting new ways of using a pendulum.

The book includes Joan’s own story of how the pendulum helped her transition from businesswoman to author and visual artist, bringing the power of the pendulum to real life.

About the Author

Joan Rose Staffen is a writer, artist, and psychic healer dedicated to helping others heal their lives, rediscover their purpose, and stay on their life path. On the spiritual path since her early twenties, she has explored many healing modalities including psychic healing, yoga, meditation, A Course in Miracles, Unity Church principals and prayers, and spiritual response therapy, a dowsing system for deep healing. Currently, she works and plays in an intentional artist community in Santa Cruz, California, called the Tannery Arts Lofts where she provides workshops and psychic healings. Joan has facilitated Artist’s Way groups in Santa Cruz and Marin Counties, and has helped coach numerous budding and recovering artists.

Praise For…

“The Creative Pendulum is a masterpiece of soul awakening and creative manifestation. Joan Rose Staffen is an accomplished artist and a healer, and both qualities shine in her new book. While many regard the ancient art of pendulum divination as an externalized practice, Joan demonstrates that pendulum divining is truly a creative skill, similar to that of an artist who uses a paintbrush with inner attunement and vision. The vibrant processes and practical life examples outlined in The Creative Pendulum show how the soul can truly “paint” its own dynamic landscape of enhanced consciousness, thereby activating one’s life with greater purpose, passion and empowerment.” —Patricia Kaminski, Executive Director Flower Essence Society