Finding Your Life’s Calling

This book explores the spiritual meaning of vocation and how to find fulfillment in a life’s central work. The author provides some important tips for successfully finding your true vocation and illustrates different ways to discover your life’s calling, including vision quests, dreams, meditation, and inner voice experiences. He describes the stages of confirming and developing a life’s work, and ways to navigate the interpersonal struggles and internal conflicts that may arise along the way. Some unique features of this book include emphasis on the inner, intuitive process of discerning one’s true vocation; and discussion of the historical evolution and psychology of vocations, especially within Jewish, Christian, Hindu and Buddhist teachings, and articulated in the works of thinkers as diverse as Martin Luther, Erasmus, Max Weber, C. G. Jung, Ira Progoff, Roberto Assagioli, and Dane Rudhyar. The text is also informed by the study of narrative and key episodes in the life cycle,   and concludes that vocational choice emerges through key episodes contributing to both continuity and transformation in the life story.

What is my Calling in Life?

This book is of special interest to counselors, educators, students of all ages, and to anyone considering a career change.  It is especially pertinent for those pursuing unconventional career paths. This book offers a unique perspective on the search for a meaningful vocation.

Reviews

“You will find this book worthwhile if you are still searching for your true vocation, if you have found it and want to affirm it more deeply, or if you are engaged in helping others choose their callings. Highly recommended.” —Tom Greening, Ph.D., Editor, Journal of Humanistic Psychology

“This excellent book makes a unique contribution to the field of vocational choice. It lucidly discusses religious, psychological, and spiritual issues involved in defining one’s calling, including a transpersonal aspect that is usually overlooked.” —Stanley Krippner, Ph.D., author of Personal Mythology

“An important survey for anyone considering a career transition.” —Diane Donovan, Bookwatch

This book is currently out of print. Remainder copies are available directly from Dawn Mountain Press. The author is completing a revised second edition that he hopes to publish in the near future.

Finding Your Life’s Calling: Spiritual Dimensions of Vocational Choice

176 pages, paperback ISBN 0-9639068-4-4 $14.95