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EUREKA CA -- As the third in a series of seminars introducing the
newest contemplative arts phenomenon, Metaphors For Life is bringing
its "7 Mysteries in 7 Cities" seminar to Chicago-O'Hare's Embassy
Suites Rosemont on July 10th, 2004. The 7 Mysteries seminars explore
the patterns of seven as encountered throughout time and regardless of
culture. With the application of "metaphoric" sight, these sets of
seven reveal a path of personal evolution that can be used in
meditations, contemplations, and prayers.

The 7 Mysteries seminars are launching Rev. Dr. Alesia Matson's new
book, entitled "7 Mysteries: Contemplative Arts for the Modern
Mystic." Drawing from a multiplicity of sources, Dr. Matson
demonstrates how the number seven, as a set delimiter, is a signal for
a path of transcendence which is encoded in the set itself.

When asked about the applicability of this concept, Dr. Matson said:
"I have yet to find a set of seven things which didn't have this path
of transformation embedded in it, and I've looked at over a
hundred. Even the silliest sets imagineable contain it -- the Seven
Castaways on Gilligan's Island, for instance. It's there. And Snow
White's Seven Dwarves. It's there. You just have to know how to
look. And that's part of what I teach in the book and the seminars."

The seminars are being held in seven cities across the U.S. with New
York, Los Angeles, Atlanta and Denver following Seattle and San
Francisco and Chicabo in the schedule. In "The Grail Cup," MFL's
bi-weekly newsletter, Dr. Matson has promised to keep a journal of her
seven cities' tour to explore the patterns of seven humans create for
themselves. "The sevens I talk about in the book are almost archetypal
in their significance. In keeping a journal for the seven cities'
tour, I'll be looking at a conscious attempt to create a path of
personal transformation using seven. It's very exciting!"

The "7 Mysteries in 7 Cities" seminars are held all day on Saturdays
and involve the participants in a direct experience of their personal
evolution. They cover a wide variety of topics relevant to the
contemplative arts, such as universal archetypes, symbolic or
metaphoric sight, the signature of divine consciousness, overcoming
resistance, the differing types of meditative injunctions, and much more.

"The seminars are a live-time expansion of the material in the book,"
Dr. Matson said. "Those who attend get a crash-course in the
contemplative arts -- and get to have some fun with it all, too. I'm
looking forward to opening these [seminars] up to bigger
audiences. The reactions so far have been overwhelmingly positive."

Dr. Matson is one of the co-founders of Metaphors For Life, an
independent ministry of Church of the New Renaissance. Metaphors For
Life provides a wide variety of seminars and products for spiritual
education, self-improvement, and holistic health. Information about
the company, published articles, seminar schedules, and other projects
can be found on the web at www.metaphorsforlife.com.