John Selby (psychologist)
John Selby (born 1945) is an American Psychologist and Author. Other professional titles include Executive Counselor Psychologist, Videographer and Meditation Innovator. He is the author of over two dozen self-help, spiritual-growth, business-success and psychology books published in fourteen languages with half a million books in print.
Biography
Selby was raised on cattle ranches in California and Arizona. He attended Princeton University, UC Berkeley and The Radix Institute, and did early psychological research for NIH in cognitive-shifting working with the noted psychiatrist Humphrey Osmond MD.
Selby is currently married to Birgitta Steiner of Waldassen Bavaria. They have 2 sons Kibo and Jesse. John also has an earlier son Shon by another marriage. John and Birgitta lived in Europe for 5 years, Santa Barbara for 2 years, Kauai for 21 years and in 2011 moved to Santa Cruz, CA.
John’s father Walter Smith was a musical inventor. Selby carried his father’s ‘there must be a better way’ attitude into his psychological career by refining new therapy and meditation techniques. While based in Europe, John ran 8 experimental test groups for 4 years duration, conducting 160 three-day experimental-technique seminars. He then published an extensive 'cassettebook' self-therapy series with Droemer Knaur Verlag and Bauer Media Group Verlag based on those studies. Later, Eight of those original German-edition programs were later released as English-language books (See Bibliography Section)
Career
Selby is an innovator in cognitive-shifting psychological techniques, having done mind-management research for NIH at the New Jersey Neuro-psychiatric Institute, working under Dr. Humphrey Osmond MD. He also pioneered the development of and has apparently coined the term Focus phrase for inducing particular cognitive changes.
In the early eighties, Selby moved his operational base to West Berlin, to guide further psychological studies with Manfred Henschell PhD at the Free University of West Berlin on the emotional-healing techniques of Wilhelm Reich. During this period he initiated the use of self-help and meditation audio cassette-books in the German language
Selby returned to the States in the 90s and helped co-found The short lived 'BrightMind Network'. A company that was not able to reach it's full potential and dissolved after several months.
Selby has also worked as an awareness-management consultant with companies such as CitiBank Europe, The Allianz Group, the American Airlines Pilots Association, and Senn-Delaney Leadership. His three corporate-training texts, "Executive Genius, Take Charge Of Your Mind, Listening With Empathy" emerged as part of that corporate work.
In 2007 Selby launched BedRock Productions to research and produce a new series of awareness-training programs including the latest movie and book of the same name, Tapping the Source. focused on experiential video content using what he says is an advanced patent-pending video formula designed to encourage a meditative quiet-mind state of awareness using special visual and audio inputs. Through his company, he has also produced many psychological-guidance DVDs, and audio-training CDs. Selby has also appeared on over 60 radio-interview programs where he leads the audience through what he calls 'live-guidance' using his alertness/awareness programs
Bibliography
- Expand This Moment: 2011; New World Library; Novato CA
- Tapping The Source: Sterling Publishing; 2010; NY
- Secrets Of A Good Night’s Sleep: Dell/Doubleday; 1990; NY
- Take Charge Of Your Mind: Hampton Road Publ;Charlottesville VA; 2006
- Kundalini Awakening In Everyday Life: Random House, 1990; NY
- Seven Masters, One Path: HarperSF; 2005; San Francisco
- Let Love Find You: Random House; 2007; NY;
- Peak [...] Experience: Warner Books; NY; 1992
- Quiet Your Mind: New World Library; 2008; Novato CA
- Jesus For The Rest Of Us: Hampton Roads; 2006; Charlottesville, VA
- Listening With Empathy: Hamtpon Roads, Charloteesville VA; 2007
- Executive Genius: Career Press, Frankllyn Lakes NJ; 2008
Video Work
- Tapping The Source: The Master Process:BedRock Productions; 2011; Kilauea HI
- Quiet Mind: Focused Meditations With John Selby: BedRock Productions; 2010; Kilauea HI
- Falling Asleep: Relief From Restless Nights: BedRock Productions; 2010; Kilauea HI
- Insight Dreaming: A Guide To Understanding Your Dreams: BedRock Productions; 2009; Kilauea HI
Achievements
- Chief Psychological Consultant and Professional Host for the national training program developed by 3D ETC Inc in Detroit in 2009.
- Research into inducing natural sleep led to the book "Secrets Of A Good Night's Sleep" and DVD titled "Falling Asleep" which was presented by Suzanne Somers.
- Developed special "pain relief" and "relaxation/healing" Experiential Video programs for Hospice and hospital-room wellness TV programming.
- Developed core audio/video content for the ExamPerformance college-market program for students taking SATs etc.
- Has worked as trainer at the corporate level to introduce Focus Phrase methodologies for practical application.
- Collaborated with John Gray in developing audio-guidance CDs
See also
- List of New Thought writers
- New Age
- New Thought
- Self-help
- Spirituality