Evelyn Cole
MA, MFA
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- Creative Writing Accessing Subconscious Mind
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- Gambling for Good Mail, BRAINSWEEP
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- Learning strategies, Inc., Centerpointe, EFT, Wealth Beyond Reason, Joe Vitale, Simpleology
Biography of Evelyn Cole
Evelyn Cole “taught English” for 23 years, but not in the usual sense. You might say she pioneeredr English. To get high school freshman interested in Greek mythology she persuaded them to teach it to sixth graders across town by email. One day she overheard a boy at his computer whisper to his friend, “What’s a polite word for castration?”
To get college freshman to understand why they were required to analyze literature, she showed them how classification and structural and operational analyses related to all subjects in their curriculum.
To get all students to relate to language she made them write freely every day. To keep abused high school students in school, she took them home once a week for spontaneous writing, discussion, and creative productions.
Evelyn has read the personal jou als of hundreds ofrnstudents including some from boat people escaping Vietnam, some fleeing Iran, but most living in affluence in Orange County, Califo ia.
From her AB degree in psychology, Evelyn went on to earn her degree in English, a Califo ia teaching credential, an MA in literature, and then later and MFA in creative writing. While a mentor teacher in the Newport-Mesa Unified School District, she worked with teachers to develop their own writing skills, and by example, teach their students. She wrote and published curriculum and conducted workshops throughout the state. In 1994 she published a semantics based textbook that integrates all subjects in the seventh and eighth grade curriculum.
When Evelyn was 19 and a sophomore at the University of Massachusetts, her brother-in-law, a professor at the University of Kentucky, committed suicide. She transferred to UK to help her sister with her little children, and eventually graduated from UK. Other students there, upon hearing her speak in class, asked her what country she came from. She has since toned down her Boston accent, except when reading her own poetry. It slips out then.
In addition to her three published novels, short stories, poems, and textbook, she has a self-help e-course online calledr BRAINSWEEP. It’s a course of directed handwriting exercises to access the hidden 90% of one’s brain.
She has been to Paris, France twelve times because she loves that city.
She has been married three times. The third time is a charm.
She has two daughters from her first marriage. One lives next door. The other lives in Brisbane, Australia. Each has two children. She is in close contact with both families.
Retired from teaching, Evelyn lives and writes in Sanr Luis Obispo County which has a vibrant community of writers and poets. She reads her poetry regularly all over the county. She rides the waves in the summer, kayaks Morro Bay, plays ping pong all year and cooks at least four days a week for the sheer joy of it.
Finally, although she admires many people, she has only one hero: Tom Robbins, the author of several loquacious, funny, and wise novels.
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Imagine If World Leaders Grew Up In A "Zone"
Have you heard of the Zone? Positive Contagion? There's one in New York, Miami, San Francisco, the UK and Israel so far--a zone for positive peer pressure. When I read about it I was so excited I wanted to nblast it across the Internet. Here is what the Miami Herald ncolumnist Leonard ...
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How to Program Happiness
“It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is nnot possible to find it elsewhere.” Agnes Repplie Like computer programs, we can be misconfigured and need to re-program our subconscious minds. n Happiness is a subjective state, a temporary one by necessity. We can't know we are ...
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Being Nice Can Save Your Heart
I did not write this news release, but I submit it here and urge you to read it with all my heart: San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) -- Despite the old saying about sticks and stones, evidence is mounting that words said in anger can hurt not just feelings but arteries as well. University of Utah ...
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How do You Communicate Love--or Anything Else?
What Happens to Communication When Subconscious Clues Are Missing? What happens when all that is left is a hastily written and nthen hastily read message on a computer screen? Dire warning ahead! According to a recent blurb from the Associated press, 71% nof business executives prefer to ...
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Chronic Pain-Changing Attitudes in Western Medicine
nnnby Evelyn Cole When I was nine years old my father suffered a "nervous breakdown," whatever that was. The term is no longer in vogue. He was sick in every part of his body. When one part healed another part hurt. n His doctor finally told him he needed to see a psychiatrist. That ...
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Did George Washington Ever Tell a Lie?
"Deception and con games are a waynof life in all species and throughoutnnature. Organisms that do not improventheir ability to deceive-and to detectndeception-are less apt to survive." Harriet Lerner That's some quote, isn't it? What do you think about lying? Is it "right" sometimes and ...
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A New Way to Think About the Idiot Next Door
. . . or the Next Country For the last 20,000 years, give or take a few, philosophers nand politicians have been dreaming up solutions to problems nwith the idiots next door or with those moving in. You may be more familiar with those problems in the last nthousand years. Remember the ...
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Myths To The Contrary, Childhood Is A Nightmare
When we watch toddlers dance we feel their joy. When they trip, they don't fall far and their butts are padded. Their excitement at two-legged mobility is infectious. When we see kids of all ages running, jumping, giggling and then falling asleep at ease, we assume children are carefree and ...
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Happiness Must be In Sourced
“It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.” Agnes Repplier One of the hardest illusions to die is the one thatsomeone else can make you happy or unhappy,joyful or angry. We can be happy with another person only if weare happy with ...
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Brainwash Children? Yes, Let's Get it Right
The term "brainwashing" carries connotations of propaganda at best, disappearance into ideological cults at worst. If we think of it as manipulation to change attitudes, then we're in the mainstream of contemporary society. Our children are brainwashed every day. They are bombarded with messages from advertisements, parents, teachers, relatives, caregivers, street-co er preachers, movies and TV, and peers. Some children perceive these messages as critical—disapproving of them. In any case, they "brainwash" a child's self-concept by the time he is seven years old.
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Evelyn Cole
Money is a metaphor . . .
and I am going to ask you to spend some . . .
on your subconscious mind.
A metaphor is an implicit analogy.
"The Lord is my shepherd" means
the Lord relates to me as a shepherd
relates to sheep.
"Money is the root of all evil" means
that money supports and maintains
evil as a root supports and maintains
its plant.
If fiction is a metaphor for life, then
money is a metaphor for basic human
needs: security, control, approval (which
can also be called survival, power and
love.)
Money is an artifact that ranks up there
with video games and smart bombs.
Shakespeare's Iago wasn't kidding
when he said, "Put money in thy
purse." If you can't win your love,
at least you'll have money and the
power that comes with it.
Have you ever argued about money?
If so, hang with me here.
Money can be a symbol of parental
love. Withheld and diverted to siblings.
it's one large root of sibling rivalry.
Money gives us power, the illusion
of control. The one in control of the
money makes the decisions, buys the
security, comfort, admiration, and love.
When aging parents give us their power
of atto ey, they relinquish control.
When they die we are apt to fight over
their possessions, the metaphor for
their love.
Example: with recognition of
each other's strengths and weaknesses,
my sister and I shared responsibility
for parents who lived five years beyond
debilitating strokes. My father attempted
suicide; my mother begged me to kill her.
When my mother finally died at ninety
my sister told me that she (mother) had
promised the diamond rings to her.
I didn't care about the diamonds, but
I felt the old jealousy as if I were five
years old again.
Just before my mother died I dreamed
that I could kill her as she'd asked. The
next day I wrote a poem called "Matricide".
***
Example of test of the tooth:
In the '80s I found myself traveling
alone on a camel, rocking and rolling up
the path to the pyramids outside Cairo.
I was more afraid of the Bedoin leading
the camel than the very tall camel itself.
When we reach the base of the pyramid
the Bedoin would not command his
camel to kneel so I could get off. He
wanted me to pay in American money
and I had only Egyptian and British
coins.
He stormed around the upright camel
a few times and then finally reached up
for my British coin. He bit it. It didn't
break. Satisfied, hernmade the camel
kneel and let me off.
My money passed the test of the tooth.
***
Back to you. Have you ever disagreed
with a partner on use of money?
Have you ever disagreed with yourself?
Either way, try my MONEY FIGHT SAVER
Print two copies, one for you and one for your
partner . . . or your other self.
Then go spend some money discovering all you
can about your subconscious mind, for it's your
subconscious mind that attracts what you experience
in your life.
Train it to vibrate for the best things in life.
You can, you know. Irndid.
Evelyn Cole, MA, MFA
The Whole-mind Writer
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