Our Policies

The following discloses our policies with respect to maintaining your privacy, and provides statements about how we handle refund requests for both Online Store purchases and class enrollments. Doing business with the Field Center implies your acceptance of these policies.

Your Privacy: We do not nor will we ever share, sell, or otherwise make available to any third parties the contact information you provide. There are no lists from which you need to "opt out." We recognize that you provide us with this information as an act of trust, and respect your right of privacy as we would want ours to be respected.

Visitor Data: We use any personal information you provide solely for our internal contact, purchase, and billing purposes; this may include your name, billing and shipping addresses, phone number, and email. Use of this information is limited to Field Center business, offers, subscriptions, and updates relevant to transactions initiated by you. We consider this information confidential, and do not make it available to third parties for marketing or promotion. Financial data (e.g., credit card numbers) are not collected or stored on our site.

IP Addresses and Cookies: Our site does not use cookies to collect or track information about you or your computer, nor do we detect or capture your IP address.

Email and Get in Touch Comments: We may request permission from you to reprint on our news page, in a blog posting, or elsewhere on the site, excerpts from email or get in touch notes sent to us by you, with proper attribution, if we feel the content has value for our audience.

Store Refunds: Items Items may be returned within fourteen (14) days of receipt with a Return Authorization Number (RAN) for refund. If you need a RAN, please use our get in touch form. Items returned for refund must be unopened and in new and restockable condition with all printed materials, packaging, etc. Opened items, items delivered by download, and items returned without a RAN are not eligible for a refund. Customer is responsible for the cost of return shipping, which should include tracking or delivery confirmation and insurance as the Field Center is not responsible for returned items lost or damaged in transit.

Tuition Refunds: Tuition for enrollment in any class other than Field Center Certified Facilitator Training (CFT) will be refunded in full on request and enrollment canceled up to the start of classes in any given session, after which no refunds will be given. CFT students who have enrolled may cancel up to thirty days prior to the start of the session and receive a full refund. Requests to cancel CFT registrations made later than thirty days prior to the start of the session are subject to a 50% administrative fee.

Right of Refusal: We reserve the right to refuse registration, enrollment, or support to any student as we may deem necessary to ensure the respect and integrity of our classes and ongoing relationships. If a student's enrollment is canceled by us, the student will receive a full refund of tuition for the canceled class.

Changes to the Site: Changes may appear on this site at any time including those affecting Online Store pricing and availability, class offerings and tuition, and shipping terms and costs.

Legal: Realities is a trademark of the Field Center. "Reality is in the I of the beholder" is a service mark of the Field Center. All content on this site is protected under U.S. copyright and international law, and may not be reproduced in any form or medium without the written consent of the Field Center.

Our Founder and Director

Philip Golabuk completed his undergraduate and graduate work in philosophy at the University of Florida with special studies in metaphysics, phenomenology, religious philosophy, and theory of knowledge, having worked closely with the late Dr. Tom Hanna, a pioneer in somatics, and Dr. James Millikan, a phenomenologist. During the years from 1973-1993, Philip taught philosophy at the college level and as part of a special educational outreach program to inmates in jail and prison, and also wrote several books in applied philosophy, including Recovering From A Broken Heart; The Sunset Grill Chronicles; and Walls, Windows, and Doorways, which were published in the U.S. and overseas in translation. In addition to serving as the Field Center's director, instructor for all of the Center's classes, and staff Facilitator, Philip writes literary fiction.

Our Thanks

This web site and the rest of the universe are brought to you by the Field, which we acknowledge with utmost appreciation, gratitude, and awe. We’d also like to acknowledge some outstanding Particles here: Samara Crutchfield, outstanding writer, poet, musician, visual artist, and the Field Center's assistant director from 2001-2004, for her clarity, talent, and ability to see into the heart of things and wonderful contributions to the Free Audio Library; colleague Jimi Millikan, for his brilliant philosophical gifts and extraordinary friendship over the decades; the late Thomas Hanna, somatics pioneer, consummate teacher, and friend; Dennis Hays, for his thoughtful participation in the seminal conversations during the stormy Florida summer of 1993; the talented and dedicated group of Field Center Certified Facilitators; and the community of Field training students around the world who bring the curriculum to life each day.

Our Friends

We invite you to check out the links below, and get to know some fine people doing some fine work..

mercy corps
Be the change you want to see in the world. Mercy Corps supports international relief and crisis intervention.

the hunger site
Click daily to send free food to the world's hungry.

everyday bakery
Sweeten your life with this selection of gourmet baked goods.

modernmeditation
Refine your practice of the inner stillness that sets the stage for conscious creating.

  

The Center
An Educational Forum for Joyful Awareness


Our Story
The Field Center, established in 1993 during a typically stormy Central Florida summer, is an educational forum offering a unique curriculum for practicing joyful awareness, conscious creating, and shifting into more aligned states of identity. During the four years following the Center's birth, our founder and director, Philip Golabuk, “witnessed a lifetime of study, formal training, and investigation gathering like a storm into a remarkable curriculum,” and in the fall of 1997, we offered the Course for the first time to a small group of students. Our aim was to correct the oversimplifications, confusions, and misconceptions pervasive in the New Age literature about how personal consciousness “creates reality” in the world, particularly with respect to the whole notion of "manifestation," as we recognized that these errors in thinking and practice had cost many people dearly. Enrollment grew rapidly, and today we are proud to support students, Certified Facilitators, and blog subscribers in some 75 countries.

How We're Different
Field training is arguably the most thorough and precise model available on the subject of how our consciousness becomes the events and conditions of our experience both inwardly and outwardly. Unlike even sophisticated approaches such as Ernest Holmes’s Science of Mind and the work of Neville Goddard, Field training recognizes the element of paradox inherent in conscious creating, and most importantly, incorporates this element into its practice. This alone would set it apart. In addition, however, Field training is unique in its assertions that "creation follows identity," that "the aim of practice is alignment, not manifestation," based directly on its handling of paradox, and rooted in a practice that begins where the so-called New Age methods of visualization and affirmation leave off. Finally, no other approach brings together elements as seemingly diverse as the wisdom of the world’s major spiritual traditions, the new physics, ontology (the study of Being), and phenomenology (the study of phenomena as events in consciousness). View comparison chart.

Why People Study with Us
Many come to the Field Center after years of following some spiritual path or other, because they have a deep sense that something’s still missing. It may be showing up in one or more staging areas of life that remain unfulfilled, a general feeling of incompletion, or even homesickness. Often, they’ve studied Seth, A Course in Miracles, Science of Mind, Abraham, Neville, Chopra—the list goes on—but they still feel a “divine discontent.” They know there’s more.

All of these models miss what Field training understands as the essential gesture of deliberate creatorship—namely, a wholehearted and undistracted immersion in the creative moment for its own sake, an unconditional giving of self to the ideal. The techniques and methods they offer invariably aim at creating a desired outer fact, e.g., prosperity, romantic partnership, improved health, and so on. In short, the focus is always on changing the world. Field training, on the other hand, recognizes that conscious creating is first and last about the self, about identity, and not about worldly conditions at all. It begins with a longing, not to have more, but to be more. Further, changing consciousness in order to change the world implicates us in a contradiction that all but ensures failure.

Field practice is a path of wholeheartedness. It calls for a certain virtuosity of creative authority, so that we remain poised in a stance of inner friendship and agreement, and the war between desire and belief finally can end.