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 and iStudy instructor, Philip founded and directs the Fate Project. He also writes literary fiction, and recently completed his third novel.

Our Policies

The following discloses our policies with respect to maintaining your privacy and the conditions under which visitors may interact with this web site. Doing business with the Field Center implies your acceptance of these policies.

Terms of Use: In interacting with the Field Center, you agree not to use the site resources, including email, the get in touch form on our Support page, or the Forums in any way that is defamatory, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, disrespectful, invasive of a personŐs privacy, "adult" in nature, or otherwise in violation of any International or United States Federal law. These Terms also prohibit using site resources to send spam or solicit business in any form, or engage in conduct not directly related to Field training. We have great respect for our students and do not accept less in return.

Terms of Study: Note that the following Terms also appear on the iStudy page of this web site.

Over the years, we've established the following Terms of Study to ensure that students receive the greatest benefit from their work with us, and to preserve the integrity of our curriculum and programs.

1  The student should call in each week on a landline phone, as cell phones and VoIP phones such as Skype may result in poor network performance on the phone bridge. Students who opt to place the call via cell phone or VoIP assume responsibility for the acceptability of the connection. In the event that such calls cause excessive noise, repeat disconnects, or other issues that hinder the normal course of study, the instructor may end the call early and reschedule the missed meeting at a time when the student has access to a landline.

2. iStudy classes are scheduled to take place over consecutive weeks. Given the flexibility of the format, however, either the student or the instructor may reschedule a given week with a minimum of two days notice, up to a maximum of three classes per session. Rescheduled meetings are added to the end of the schedule. If a student misses two rescheduled classes in a row, the missed class cannot be made up and will not be added to the schedule.

3. Students may sign up for iStudy as often as they wish.

4. The student should arrange to phone the bridge a few minutes before the start of the call each week and be free to stay the entire hour. Students who have Call Waiting should disable it prior to placing the call.

5. All students of the Field Center are required to maintain an attitude of respect for the instructor, and to refrain from polemics, sarcasm, profanity, and any other inappropriate forms of expression during the call and in emails or other forms of communication. The failure to honor this requirement may result in loss of access to the phone bridge, Field Center support, and eligibility for future enrollments.

6. Phone bridge numbers and PIN access codes are to be kept confidential and used only during the session in which the student is enrolled.

7. Completion of the Field Center Course is prerequisite to iStudy. Students who informally distribute or share the Course outside the terms of the included license agreement may forfeit their student standing and Field Center support, including eligibility for future enrollments or purchased for which Course completion is prerequisite.

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: As all Online Store items are in digital format and delivered via download, they are not eligible for refund. Please review the item description and sample content on the item pages carefully before purchasing.

Tuition Refunds: Tuition for iStudy enrollment will be refunded in full on request and enrollment canceled up to seven (7) days prior to the scheduled iStudy session start date, after which no refunds will be issued. Refunds for scheduled Facilitating or FIeld Coaching sessions are issued upon request no later than two (2) business days prior to the scheduled session, after which no refunds will be issued. Refunds of tuition for Waves of Change Conference registrations will be made in full up to thirty days prior to the start of the Conference, after which no refunds will be issued.

Right of Refusal: We reserve the right to refuse registration, enrollment, or support to any student as we may deem necessary to ensure the integrity of our programs and ongoing relationships. If a student's enrollment is canceled by us, the student will receive a prorated refund of tuition for any remaining weeks in the session. Facilitating or Field Coaching sessions canceled by us are refunded in full. Students who have violated the Terms of Study posted above are ineligible for support or other student benefits.

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

Legal: Realities is a trademark of the Field Center. "Reality is in the I of the beholde," "iStudy: Get ready for the curriculum of your life," and "iHelp: Tech notes for your life" are 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 written consent from the Field Center.


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; our talented and dedicated Field Center Certified Facilitators and Coaches; and the community of Field training students around the world who bring the curriculum to life each day.

Some of Our Friends

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Mercy Corps
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The Hunger Site
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The Russell Home
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The Animal Rescue Site
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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.