From Confinement to Freedom

About the Book

Personal transformation, liberation, and fulfillment can be discovered by anyone, anywhere, anytime, in the message and modeling of Jesus, not by denying or changing creed, race, gender, sexual orientation, or culture, but by freely manifesting the fullness of psychological and spiritual fulfillment. Jesus taught and modeled a universal, inclusive spirituality. This book illustrates that Jesus simultaneously taught and modeled the highest form of behavioral psychology applying to everyone, everywhere. The focus herein is a reexamination and reintroduction of the life and lessons of Jesus of Nazareth from a behavioral and inclusively spiritual point of view across creeds and cultures beyond religion. Those who study and practice the spiritual tenets of diverse religions and nonaffiliated spiritual pathways apart from Christianity will recognize shared experience, belief, and practice in the behavioral and spiritual lessons taught and modeled by Jesus. Therefore, this book is written for all people, religious and secular, inclusive of creed, race, gender, sexual orientation, and culture, who believe in an infinite, permeating principle that births and joins all of Creation, that is known by any name, form, or substance (God, Goddess, Father, Mother, Yahweh, Allah, Great Spirit, Grandmother, Grandfather, Creator, Maker, One, New Physics, et al.) from which all Creation springs, from which Creation cannot be separated, and through which we become the most transcendent and liberated of our human selves.

About the Author

Sharon R. Olson, MA, LMHC, holds Bachelors Degrees in Theology and Speech Communications and a Masters in Applied Behavioral Science. She began her career as a Mental Health Counselor in 1988. In a completely separate career that began after college graduation, Sharon worked in corporate settings as a software trainer and document specialist. Over the past 40 years, this diverse education and experience in uniquely different venues has broadly shaped Sharon’s keen, inclusive interest in spirituality and human development. Digressing from this book, which specifically references Christian Scripture, Sharon is currently in the process of launching Peership Principles, her own universally spiritual/humanistic model for personal and professional growth and leadership on behalf of individuals, groups and organizations. Peership Principles incorporates two paradigms—the first with an emphasis on universal spirituality/human behavior (peership.com), the second with a strictly humanistic/behavioral emphasis (peership.net) in order to meet the needs of individuals, groups and organizations with these distinctive developmental interests. Sharon lives near Seattle, Washington. (Cover photo courtesy of Jack Peterson, Tacoma, Washington.)