The Calling: A 12-Week Science-Based Program to Discover, Energize, and Engage Your Soul’s Work

by Julia Mossbridge

The Calling offers a groundbreaking twelve-week program to help you discover more fulfilling work, more authentic relationships, and a deeper sense of connection. It’s no secret that many working professionals are dissatisfied with their occupations—it’s been estimated that more than 75 percent of employees in the US are disengaged or otherwise unhappy in their jobs. This dissatisfaction is often seen as a structural problem—one that can be solved by shuffling people in and out of positions until they find the right fit. Cognitive neuroscientist, researcher, and spiritual seeker Julia Mossbridge has a different take. According to Mossbridge, this lack of engagement and satisfaction in the workforce is a spiritual we find ourselves in stressful or unfulfilling jobs because we don’t know ourselves well enough to choose wisely, in alignment with our most heartfelt desires. It’s this problem—one of self-knowledge, values, and spiritual attunement—that this book seeks to solve. The Calling offers a twelve-week program for discovering your “soul’s work.” An intriguing combination of hard-nosed science and wide-open spirituality, this one-of-a-kind guide will show you how to use the scientific method of observation and experimentation on yourself, in order to determine the nature and scope of your true calling, and then put it into action. You’ll also create your own “lab notebook” of personalized information to help you discover, energize, and engage your soul’s work. With the insights and strategies in this practical yet spiritual step-by-step book, you’ll not only find more satisfying work; you’ll also discover greater fulfillment in all areas of your life, including more authentic relationships and a deeper sense of connection with the universe.

200 pages, Paperback

Published April 1, 2019

About the author

Dr. Mossbridge is Visiting Scholar at Northwestern University, the Science Director at Focus@Will Labs, a Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences and an Associated Full Professor in the Integral and Transpersonal Psychology Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Her research focuses on how events in time are perceived by our unconscious and conscious minds, and also on the power of unconditional love to positively influence human lives. She has a PhD in Communication Sciences and Disorders from Northwestern University and a MA in Neuroscience from University of California, San Francisco.

The 2014 winner of the Charles Honorton Integrative Contributions Award from the Parapsychology Association, she is also the inventor of Choice Compass, a patented physiologically based decision-making app. Mossbridge lives north of San Francisco, CA. For more information and upcoming events, visit mossbridgeinstitute.com or thepremonitioncode.com.

Reviews

[Jen · Rating 4 out of 5]

At some point a person may stop to re-evaluate where they are headed in life, work, relationships, etc.; and tries to figure out if they should continue on the same path or adjust their course. Determining your soul's work can be challenging and life changing but may also be necessary to achieve peace in one's life. This book can definitely help someone determine how to go about changes if they are necessary. The Calling offers step by step approaches along a planned course of action. It encourages individuals to seek help from positive influences in their lives to support them as they take this journey. The author suggests using a scientific approach to determining your spiritual path. This is a good self help book if you are looking to make some changes in your life.

Thanks to NetGalley, and the author Julia Mossbridge and for the electronic ARC of the book.

[Adam Johnson · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is quite an unexpectedly wonderful book, written by a neuroscientist, with a delightful little juxtaposition of being framed within science, and yet calling on intuition. The two emerge as not being in opposition at all - a steadily layered series of experiments develops access to the superconsciousness, and in turn, a person’s calling.

In laying out a process that takes 12 weeks, three stages each taking 4 weeks, the book builds to a point where the calling is not just identified, but also energised and engaged. This is powerful, and whilst I didn’t have the time to actually follow the process and test its efficacy, I want to and will.

The book successfully navigates the edges of implausible “woo”, and retains a sense of plausibility throughout. This feels right. At least to me. Other may, of course, find it too much or not enough. But I genuinely feel that this book really unlocks inner truths in how the mind works, how it connects with the universe at large to make things happen, and so how we can connect into what really matters. It’s an important book that is worth reading.