For an energetic form of entertainment at the next adult party, be sure to check out the adult jumping castles Brisbane for a unique way to entice guest to have fun. It is sure to produce some laughs for an unforgettable day.

From boxing ring castles to slides and tunnels, the fun will never end. Guests can use joust poles and helmets and compete with other guests in the boxing ring jump castle. Some castles have basketball hoops for those sport fanatics to show off their skills with a game of basketball while trying to stay on their feet in a jump castle.

The castles can be set up and used at almost any event that adults will be present. They make a wonderful way to raise money for some worthy cause. Kids jump castles are found at many festivals, but now someone can include one for the adults to be entertained. Not only will the castles entertain the adults, but they will also get some needed exercise in a fun way.

When someone plans an adult party, he or she needs to add some jumping castles to liven it up. Let the guest know to come dressed for an energetic activity that requires acting like a kid again. They will be so thrilled when they see the jump castles that they will not care about anything else at the party. The jump castles will be the highlight of the party and no other entertainment will be needed

Domestic violence prevention is the most effective way of avoiding becoming a victim. Trained professionals are waiting to help you through the important transition from being scared and abused to be comfortable and safe. The most obvious way to prevent something from occurring is to remove yourself from the environment in which it occurs. Prevention is about more than just knowing how to defend yourself during confrontations, it is also about knowing how to take preemptive steps toward eliminating the occurrence of confrontations altogether.

Domestic violence counselling is another form of treatment that is directly aimed at getting a person away from possible sources of abuse. As opposed to preventative measures, counseling pertaining to domestic violence is often performed in the aftermath of an instance of abuse or after a woman has left an abusive environment. Professionals can help victims mentally unravel the bindings of their abuse and allow them to realize that nobody deserves to be mistreated; physically, emotionally or otherwise.

Whether you are fearful of a domestic situation soon reaching a boiling point or are already in the midst of a series of abuse, experts are ready and waiting to help you begin your road to recovery.

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Gay Pride Bands are one type of wristband that you can wear to show your true self. This type of band has the six colors of the pride rainbow that have long been associated with the LGBT community — red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple with the word “Pride” clearly ingrained in the bracelet. When you wear a Gay Pride Band you are showing that you respect and understand today’s LGBT lifestyle and that you are happy to be a part of a world where people are accepted for who they are and not for what they are. You don’t have to live a lesbian, gay, bisexual or trans-gender life to have gay pride, everyone who is welcoming of the lifestyle can wear the bands to show their support.

In today’s world it is important for gay couples to have the same rights as everyone else in the world. In America, different states have stood up to support and allow gay marriage in their state constitutions, unfortunately the same freedoms are not available across the country. One way to show that you support gays and their quest to be recognized as couples everywhere they live and travel is by wearing a Gay Pride Band. A single voice is powerful, but the more people that stand behind the voice, the more power that the group will have, so show your support and wear a Gay Pride Band. The small token of your support will mean a lot to the community and will help others to become understanding of the LGBT lifestyle.

No matter where you fit in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans-gender lifestyle, you can show your personality by wearing a Gay Pride Wristband.

As wonderful as the Internet is, a major problem for a site such as ours is letting people know we’re here. That’s going to take time, and we could use some volunteer help and expert suggestions as to how to proceed. So far we have applied to 20 or 30 of the major search engines for inclusion in their indexes. We have also asked major organizations in the social science and mental health professions to mention us if they have a page on Internet resources.

If you would like to help us in this effort — for instance, if you know of some educational institution that might like to sponsor our site, or you want to beta test some new features for us, or if you just have some good ideas on how we should proceed — please give us a holler. Thanks.

The thing that strikes me most about Paul was his overwhelming simplicity in life as in his understandings, getting down to that which is most simple, most basic in some way. I was overstimulated by this simplicity.

We can live up to what he stood for by being as true to ourselves as we can be. And having as much integrity and honesty as we can at any given moment. Having the intention of serving ourselves and the people around us with our greatest openness. You know, sometimes we do that by saying we need help.

It’s very evident to me how a greater understanding of truth and right are needed in the world. I think Paul stood for sanity, and the world needs it.

I think a lot of cynics in society and doomsayers just say, “Oh, society is useless, let’s blow it up. It’s not worth saving.” But that’s not what Paul saw about people. He saw their beauty and he saw their goodness and he saw that they wanted something better in their life, the majority of them. That’s what’s so wonderful about working with this material.

None of us will probably be here to see this millennium of psychological maturity, but I’m sure it’s going to happen. It started in the mind of one person, and it took his lifetime in order to get it out in some form that could be useful or communicated or demonstrated to others. Now it’s in the mind of maybe twenty other people who are trying to use it in various ways to get it out to the people they’re involved with. That’s the way any great system of thinking evolves.

Rather than the conventional world being so big all around you and you being like this tiny little thing trying to protect yourself from it, he showed me the conventional world is like this tiny little thing and you are way out there, like all over the place. And the creative world you’re in and the creative way of looking at life and looking at people, it’s like it’s bigger than the conventional. You’re beyond it, you’re free of it.

Paul had by far the most expanded intellect of any of the children in the family. I think that he also identified so closely with my mother and wanted to be the manager of everything — the role that she had — to such an extrreme extent. And I think that this added to his difficulty, but I think it also added to his ambition.

For myself, Paul’s science has been a liberating influence, changing the way I view the human scene. It has brought the harmony of understanding in place of the disharmony of half-knowledge. It illuminates the truly consequential matters of living through a process of magnificent discovery.

Paul just took off like a bat out of hell when the Center started. This was a dream come true for him, wasn’t it? He was just the most alive guy around. All these new ideas kept churning faster than he could write them down. There was that energy, that intensity — in poetic terms that magic — that was happening. The real power of it was happening right before our eyes. There was just this splendid event. It was like Camelot in the making. It had that romance to it, that adventure to it, that excitement, that energy, that power.

I don’t clearly recall what Paul had to say, but I clearly recall that he addressed me directly at one point without knowing my name. . . . Well, by the time I left I realized I was dealing with a whole different level of civilization than I had ever, ever dealt with anywhere.

Recently, for a new brochure we’re preparing, a few of our counselors typed up brief statements about how they approach counseling. Here’s what Bob Fink, who runs our Psychology Discussion Group, wrote:

To me, peer counseling is a focused process of teaching and learning from others about what it means to be alive. It conveys the rewards that come from a better understanding of human nature to both teacher and student. As a child, I found discussions about the inner lives of characters from history and fiction to be fascinating. As an adult, I am more interested in learning up front about the motives of my fellow human beings. My own experience has been that peer counseling is worthwhile if the student is willing to: explore aspects of his/her homosexuality; grow psychologically; make changes for a better life, and make ongoing commitments of honesty and time in the sharing of information, experience and feelings.

The work that I do in peer counseling is strongly influenced by the writings of Paul Rosenfels and several of his students. While there will be no “pop quizzes,” papers due or exams, anyone counseled by me should expect to do some reading of Paul’s ideas. This will be done at the student’s own pace. I make a point of this, because his texts have made the study of psychology so real for me.

Jennifer Minichello, who’s been with us for ten years, wrote:

I’ve been told I have a natural gift for understanding people. What I do know about myself is that I have spent many hours thinking about how I feel and react to things and thinking about and observing others’ reactions and actions.

As a youngster I felt like an outcast in a sea of actions that forced me to be aware of the whys and hows; and to ask myself where do I fit, how do I feel, how can I get another response, what do I want, what is important to me, what is possible. What I have is a lifetime of paying attention to how I work and how others work.

What all people have is the ability and possibility of sharing their experiences, understandings and questions beneficially with others. People have relinquished their natural ability to cultivate this information for and by themselves by leaving it to “professionals.” It is possible for all of us to have an effective influence and to be vulnerably open to what we need if we decide to do this work with honesty; without selfishness, self-indulgence and vanity; with respect, forgiveness and in a manner of faith and caring.

John Calhoun is actually taking a break from seeing people, but he wanted to go on record too:

I’m a social worker who has been a Center member since 1985 and who appreciates many of Paul Rosenfels’ ideas as most useful in helping others formulate and make sense of their problems. I see psychology at its best as an instrument for personal and societal development.

Here is why I am a counselor:

As a child I wondered a lot. Why does the world exist? Why don’t people care about each other more? Why do children end up with the same religion and politics as their parents? Why don’t people see how wonderful the world could be if we all worked together? Why do adults strut around in fancy clothes and yet hide their ignorance about, and deny their clumsiness in, everyday human affairs? Why aren’t there scores of teachers and leaders in every community to help us develop the most precious asset we have, our human potential?

Around the age of ten I decided to become someone who could help people become better human beings. In high school I learned about “shrinks” but quickly ruled out that career path because they all seemed such transparent frauds. In college I read about great thinkers like Carl Jung who saw students and tried to help them “grow” without forcing a lot of academic mumbo-jumbo and tranquilizers down their throats. Then I met a practicing psychotherapist, Paul Rosenfels, who believed in the same things I did but who had started out 37 years earlier. I learned more from him than I’d ever learned from my own bumbling efforts to help my friends. In 1970 I opened the East Village Counseling Service.

My approach to counseling is to be totally open and honest, and to talk about anything you want to talk about — including any and all details of my own life. You may not need much more from me except to be a springboard for your own ideas. Or you may want more direct guidance. I have lots of ideas about how and why people get into trouble with their lives, and we can try out any number of them over time.

I see life as a laboratory where an experiment that fails can teach you as much as an experiment that succeeds. Unlike mental health professionals who need your situation to conform to something they once read in a textbook, I want your life to unfold in a natural and inner-directed way. Many people I see are new and original demonstrations of what an exemplary life looks like. It’s not my job to dumb them down and make them conform. But if possible I will open doors for them they didn’t know were blocking their progress.

Psychology is still in its infancy, yet shrinks often think they “know it all” simply because they’ve read the current literature. I don’t have that problem. I know that human nature is something we’re just starting to understand. I’d be delighted if you were among the many people who are changing the world and setting a new standard for what “human nature” can accomplish. And if you’re comfortable with it, you may find yourself counseling me, too.

But aside from my respect for the individual and my refusal to categorize you according to symptoms you display, I feel fully competent to address all the commonplace interpersonal issues that we all face. Bosses, landlords, friends and lovers all add to and detract from the quality of our lives, and deserve to be dealt with as serious subjects.

Whether your problem is not knowing what contribution you want to make to civilization, or not knowing if you can stand your roommate for one more day, I believe I can help you gain new insight into your past, and get better control over your future. I know from long experience that counseling can be a valuable and rewarding experience for us both.

In my nineteen years with Paul I learned that there wasn’t anything of importance to human beings that he didn’t think about. But he was not a philosopher in the conventional sense; like Bertrand Russell he didn’t think much of the problems most philosophers worry about. He cared about ordinary things like human fulfillment and an end to war, and so his primary focus was on human nature and what David Hume had said was the most important task of moral philosophers, the founding of a science of human nature. If you read him thoroughly, you will find some rather amazing passages where he seems to toss-off, almost absent-mindedly, convincing solutions to age old philosophical dilemmas.

Paul used the principle of polarity between femininity and masculinity to describe — as if for the first time in history — the dynamics of love and power, honesty and courage, wisdom and strength, depth and vigor, faith and hope, as well as the more abstract categories of time and space, truth and right, tension and energy — even “causes and effects” and “beginnings and endings.” The entire canvas of human nature is described from a single viewpoint within a single semantics. In this sense, he made philosophy a branch of psychology.

We no longer remember the buzzing hive of academics who argued with Thomas Aquinas about how many angels could dance on the head of a pin. For similar reasons I believe that most philosophy being done today will be forgotten in the centuries to come, and that Paul will come to be considered the greatest thinker of the 20th century.

For those of us who knew him, though, he was merely a teacher who knew more than anyone else around about human beings. As tremendous as his insights were, he always said he was “only one page ahead of the class.” As an imperfect human being himself, Paul was in fact a constant reminder to us of how much we don’t know about ourselves.

Paul’s descriptions are as clear, as carefully organized and as universally applicable, as if a Martian anthropologist had written us up in the Encyclopedia Galactica. Yet his students are always surprised when all their problems don’t immediately vanish in the face of such wisdom. The reason is that science gives us only one kind of knowledge: the kind that can be demonstrated through experience. The kind we often long for, though, is a flash of insight that would constitute the whole story, that would put us into the mind of a god rather than that of earthbound creatures. As finite, transitory, biological organisms whose intellectual hardware evolved to cope with one planetary surface out of trillions, this holistic kind of knowledge is certainly beyond our current grasp. The greatest thinker longs for insights that will spare us tomorrow’s tragedy, yet tomorrow’s tragedy already comes. Paul felt accutely the tragic nature of the world, and his writings are informed by a compassion for humanity rare in the literature of the social sciences.

Still, science is better than cynism, and — like the universe itself — ultimately unbounded. Steven Hawking reminds us that the Grand Unified Theory (whose formula we will be wearing on our teeshirts in 20 years) will not be the end of science but only a new platform upon which bigger questions can be raised. Nor is Paul’s work the end of psychology. But from now on, thinkers the world over will see farther into the human landscape because they stand on the shoulders of a giant.

If you’d like to read more about Paul, his autobiography tells his story in great detail. Before you tackle that, though, you should probably read the brief article written about his work in the East Village before the Ninth Street Center was started, as well as the Foreword (and maybe the Introduction I wrote) to his last book. You’ll also find samples of his writing style, articles about Paul and his writings, a summary of his basic ideas, and a glossary of the terms that he uses, among the following links.

• The Ninth Street Center, by Doug Feldman
• Hot Nights at the Ninth Street Center, by John Paul Hudson
• Gays Go Free at Ninth Street Center, by Judy Chicurel
• The Ninth Street Center, by Bill Boushka

• Why can’t I stay home and just hope for a better world?
• Does psychology begin with a radical premise?
• Why are people like computers?
• When can an examined life tell you more than an unconscious mind?
• If IBM is a person, why isn’t my cat?
• Can I have a lover and not know it?
• Why Don’t People die?
• Why is Thirteen the Golden Age of Science Fiction?
• Is Belief in the Surpreme Being Harmless?

And here are some excerpts from the writings of other social critics (okay, only one so far).

Garrison Keillor: “Why shouldn’t you live in the past?”

When Paul said that psychology’s biggest hurdle was homophobia, he didn’t mean that scientists didn’t like gay people. He meant that they were unable to fully investigate their own psyches for fear of the homosexuality they might find. For a science of man (the species) must start with the scientist’s examination of himself before he can ever be objective about other people.

Because many scientists continue to cling to an artificially impersonal model of objectivity, their view of human nature remains devoid of human content. During the last two centuries too much of social science has degenerated into politically fashionable interpretations of skewed statistics. How often do we hear that psychologists can tell you anything you want to know about the effect of dinner bells on dogs, that psychiatrists are used to suppress dissent, or that psychoanalysts are still vacationing in Disneyland? Even New Age psychotherapists avoid educating their patients when hand-holding and the sale of inter-class validation — remember medieval indulgences? — can get the bills paid about as well.

Many observers of this state of affairs have suggested that we need theoreticians with more backbone who aren’t afraid to say what they really think. The Ninth Street Center is proud to offer the collected ideas of Paul Rosenfels as a candidate for what may in the future come to be regarded as the foundation of a true science of human nature.

• See a thumbnail sketch of Rosenfelsian semantics
• See a Rosenfelsian glossary
• See a timeline of polarity awareness
• Read about Paul and William James
• Read about Paul’s writing style
• See my 1987 review of Ernest Becker’s Lost Science of Man