It’s been almost an entire year since I launched Quan­tum Jump­ing in Decem­ber 2008.

When I first started out, my pri­mary goal was to inspire cre­ativ­ity. I wanted to show peo­ple how at nearly 80 years of age, I was able to learn and mas­ter new skills like pho­tog­ra­phy and paint­ing. Just to refresh you, here are some of my paint­ings and pho­tographs:

Sailor’s Rest

Howth Har­bor

La Rue

Grafton Street

As I’m sure you know, Quan­tum Jump­ing has many other func­tions too, from enhanc­ing your goal-getting abil­i­ties to improv­ing your health to sim­ply mak­ing you a hap­pier person.

But after reveal­ing it to the world, some­thing unex­pected happened.

Unbe­liev­able suc­cess sto­ries began pour­ing into my inbox. Peo­ple were telling me they had turned their lives around, made hun­dreds of thou­sands of dol­lars, healed them­selves of ill­ness and changed their mind­sets with Quan­tum Jumping.

At that point it was clear to me — Quan­tum Jump­ing was not only work­ing, it was work­ing in spades!

I’ve com­piled a spe­cial report of Quan­tum Jump­ing case stud­ies for you here, so you can see for your­self exactly what’s pos­si­ble with it from those who have already started jumping.

Get it here.

Now I’m also going to use this post to make a very impor­tant announce­ment:

I’ve been work­ing on the follow-up course to Quan­tum Jump­ing and it will be released very, very soon.

What will this course do, you ask? Put it this way — if the orig­i­nal Quan­tum Jump­ing course could help you jump as far as the moon, this one will take you all the way to Pluto (just imag­ine Pluto is still a planet

I’ve used the past 8 months to lis­ten to your feed­back, con­duct research of my own and cre­ate brand new Quan­tum Jump­ing tech­niques that will sky­rocket your abil­i­ties in this incred­i­ble skill.

You’re look­ing at deeper, more vivid, more intense Jumps than ever before. Even fur­ther enhanced goal-getting abil­i­ties. The devel­op­ment of an unbreak­able Money Con­scious­ness. Unshak­able health and vital­ity. Unsur­passed cre­ativ­ity. And ulti­mately, the dis­cov­ery of what I like to call your True Self.

Think of it as the next level of Quan­tum Jump­ing — the one you must aspire to if you want to truly mas­ter the skill of jump­ing into alter­nate dimen­sions and meet­ing your twin selves.

It’s called Quan­tum Jump­ing II, and it’s on track to reach you by the end of Sep­tem­ber. So keep your eyes peeled!

I can’t wait to see what you’ll be able to do with it

Sin­cerely,
Burt

P.S. Ques­tions or com­ments? Leave them in the com­ments sec­tion below.

P.S. Here’s the spe­cial report again!

Hello Friends,

Your past com­ments and mails made me notice that many of you have a cre­ative side in you. No won­der a lot of you could res­onate with the artist in me =)

So here I am, again, to share some more of my art with you. As I men­tioned in my last blog post, my new work is now ready to be revealed!. But before you scroll down, I have a small story to share with you all…

Some­time back, I was dri­ving through a not so pros­per area of a nearby city look­ing for some inspi­ra­tion. It’s when I noticed this lonely look­ing deserted house. For me, it was indica­tive of our depressed econ­omy and looked so sad that I thought I would take a photo and then in a year or so take another one, after the new own­ers give it a make over and not to men­tion, fill the swim­ming pool too! ( Lest hope some­one will pur­chase the place by that time and will re-do it)

So I went on cre­at­ing this mon­tage with those thoughts still fresh in my mind. I felt that it was indica­tive that only one thing in life is con­stant — and that is change. That times will change and that sun will rise again. That hope and faith aren’t just words but have a deeper mean­ing and effect. And that if have belief in our­selves then the change will be for some­thing bet­ter.

With these thought, I will let you enjoy the mon­tage now. It’s called  For­closed.

Kindly let me know what you think!

Sin­cerely,

Burt

Hello friends,

Since so many of you seemed to enjoy my Howth Har­bor post last week where I revealed my secret tech­nique to cre­at­ing my one-of-a-kind mon­tages, I thought you might also enjoy see­ing my newest creation.

Last Sat­ur­day I went to San Diego for the day and spent some time strolling around the har­bor look­ing for an eye-catching sub­ject to pho­to­graph. That’s when I spot­ted this old shack of a build­ing jut­ting out from the rocky shore. I knew imme­di­ately it would make a great mon­tage so I started snap­ping and took a total of 140 pic­tures of the shack and sur­round­ing ocean and rocks.

When I got home on Sun­day I devel­oped the pho­tos and put the mon­tage together. It took quite some time to do but once I started I just couldn’t stop!

Here is what the photo mon­tage looked like before I began painting:

I spent the entire day paint­ing to fin­ish it up. This is the first photo mon­tage I have done in ages. Recently, I have been paint­ing over old ones that I put together years ago (as was the case with Howth Har­bor) but this one I started and fin­ished all within the same week­end!

I call this mas­ter­piece “Sailor’s Rest” and I have to admit… I am quite fond of it

What do you think?

I hope you enjoy it! I would love to hear your thoughts.

Sin­cerely,

Burt

For those of you who know me well, you know I have a very unique pho­tog­ra­phy style. I can’t be cer­tain, but I am quite sure that no other artist is using my con­cept of cre­at­ing art. The truth is, it all came to me dur­ing one of my Quan­tum Jumps and today I want to show you my lat­est mas­ter­piece. It’s cur­rently hang­ing over my man­tle piece and I am pleased to say that when friends and fam­ily come over for a visit they can’t keep their eyes off of it!

I just couldn’t wait to share it with all of you.

Before I show it to you, how­ever, I have a story you need to hear.

It was 1988 and I was in Ire­land. I saw this old trawl­ing ves­sel docked at Howth Har­bor, a quaint fish­ing vil­lage on the out­skirts of Dublin. The bow of the boat was crowded with fish­er­men, each with a pint of Guin­ness in hand. I pulled out my cam­era and took about a hun­dred pho­tos of it. Once I returned home, I devel­oped all the images put them together in a col­lage for a spe­cial show­ing at the Inter­na­tional Pho­tog­ra­phy Hall of Fame. After the show­ing I brought it home and put it in my garage where it laid for­got­ten for nearly 20 years.

Well… a few weeks ago I found it and got an amaz­ing idea.

Here is what the piece looked like when I found it:

I brought the piece into my stu­dio and started paint­ing on the old pho­tographs. I painted a new sky and ocean then con­trasted it with the weath­ered brown boards of the dock I remem­ber so well. I touched up the boat and painted in new ropes. Before I knew it, I had a brand new piece of art right in front of me!

Here it is:

I call it Howth Har­bor. I hope you enjoy it.

Please let me know what you think!

Sin­cerely,

Burt

I need to clear the air about some­thing here.

If you’ve been fol­low­ing me long enough, you’ll remem­ber me men­tion­ing a few times that my pho­tographs have been dis­played in the Inter­na­tional Pho­tog­ra­phy Hall of Fame.

It recently came to my atten­tion that a num­ber of peo­ple have tried con­tact­ing the Hall of Fame to ask about my pho­tographs, only to find out that the Hall of Fame has no records what­so­ever of any­one named Burt Goldman.

The rea­son for that is simple–when sub­mit­ting my work, I used a pen name. Instead of Burt Gold­man, I wanted myself to be known as Jack Bur­ton.

I did this to dif­fer­en­ti­ate my pho­tog­ra­phy work from my lec­ture mate­r­ial and writ­ings, although I must admit I never expected this sort of mis­un­der­stand­ing to hap­pen from it. I have already con­tacted the Inter­na­tional Pho­tog­ra­phy Hall of Fame and explained the situation.

So in case you were one of the peo­ple who got in touch with the Hall of Fame, I hope this paints a clearer pic­ture for you =)

My work was orig­i­nally dis­played in the Inter­na­tional Pho­tog­ra­phy Hall of Fame in 1989. Appar­ently, over the years, much of it has been archived and in a few cases lost, or mis­placed. Alas, there is only one image avail­able there now to view — that would be my 30 x 40 image of a street in Dublin, Ire­land that I named ‘Grafton Street.’

Here is a photo of it below:

Grafton Street

I apol­o­gize for any prob­lems this may have resulted in. Jack Bur­ton, is indeed Burt Gold­man. I have not cre­ated any new mon­tages of late being quite busy with other things but I will have a new image for you shortly… and yes, the new image will be signed, Burt Goldman.

Sin­cerely,

Burt

As I have shared with all of you before, I enjoy paint­ing. In fact, along with the cre­ative stuff I do, to relax, I either med­i­tate, write, or paint. I thought it would be nice to share some of my newest work with you all.

All of these paint­ings were inspired by a Quan­tum Jump I took recently. Now I need your help to name them. Please leave your sug­ges­tions in the comments!

Burt

Pic­ture 1

Pic­ture 2

Pic­ture 3

Pic­ture 4

Pic­ture 5

Pic­ture 6

Pic­ture 7

Pic­ture 8

Pic­ture 9

Pic­ture 10

I would like to take this oppor­tu­nity to thank every­one who has par­tic­i­pated in the For­give­ness Let­ter writ­ing excer­cise, and all of you who commented.

For those of you still hav­ing dif­fi­culty let­ting go, imag­ine what a Holo­caust sur­vivor had to go through. She’s an amaz­ing woman who knows a lot both about suf­fer­ing and for­give­ness. She painted her way into lib­erty by learn­ing how to for­give. I’ll tell you more about her shortly.

But for now, accept this new paint­ing as a hum­ble thank you from me to you.

A Quick Note to Those Who Asked:

For those of you who have sent in their ques­tions, I’ve already pre­pared some­thing about for­give­ness. As many of you know by now, for­give­ness is a pow­er­ful thing and I really believe that it can change your life. It changed a Holo­caust survivor’s life. See what I’ve put for you here and let me know what you think.

With thanks and appreciation,

Burt Gold­man
~The Amer­i­can Monk

As all of you may know by now, I enjoy paint­ing. In fact, along with the cre­ative stuff I do, to relax, I either med­i­tate, write, or paint. How­ever lately it’s been paint­ing that does it for me best, and I thought it would be nice to share some of my work with you all.

Once you view it, it would be nice to know what you do to relax and calm your mind besides med­i­ta­tion. Please leave a com­ment as I enjoy learn­ing from all of you, and do let me know which paint­ing is your favorite.

My Paint­ings

After­noon At The Museum

My lat­est cre­ation is right below. It’s called After­noon At The Museum. The size is three feet x eight feet.

SOJOURN AT THE SEA

I call this one SOJOURN AT THE SEA. Peo­ple com­ing to the ocean front on a warm sum­mer evening to look at the harbor.This paint­ing was inspired by a Van Gogh that I like.

WOMAN WITH SPINE

The four lights dimin­ish towards the right thereby bring­ing the eye in to look at a mod­ern abstrac­tion of my own that I call WOMAN WITH SPINE. This was painted by me after I heard Sarah Palin speaking.

NIGHT CAFE

The paint­ing below is inspired by another Van Gogh that is my favorite of all, titled NIGHT CAFE. It took me the longest to com­plete, some­thing like two weeks of pleas­ant work went into this one but you do get a kind of sense of futil­ity with every­one just sit­ting around wait­ing for some­thing to hap­pen and the waiter just loung­ing with noth­ing to do. Should he play some bil­liards, or bring some­one another brandy?

As I live in a place where it sel­dom rains, and never snows I thought a peace­ful snow scene would be nice. Look­ing at this one kind of cools me off dur­ing a hot sum­mer day.

Which paint­ing do you like? What do you do to relax besides med­i­ta­tion? Please do share your thoughts.

With thanks and appreciation,

Burt Gold­man
~The Amer­i­can Monk

PS — My Face­book group has been offi­cially launched and I invite you to become a mem­ber of it.

Hello every­one,

I would like to start off by thank­ing you once again for all of the heart­warm­ing birth­day wishes that I received within the last few days.

It’s hum­bling to know that I have touched so many of your lives.

I’d love to share with you some of the moments of the best Birth­day of my life.
Below are some pic­tures I man­aged to snap the morn­ing of my Birth­day while enjoy­ing a relax­ing stroll down the Cal­i­for­nia coastline.

I espe­cially love tak­ing pic­tures of birds. There is some­thing so calm­ing and relax­ing about watch­ing such ele­gant crea­tures soar above you.

For those of you who don’t know, pho­tog­ra­phy is a pas­sion of mine and I hope to be able to share many of my pic­tures with you in the future — now that Alexan­dra has shown me how to blog

After the stroll I enjoyed a delight­ful break­fast and spent a relax­ing day at home with my family.

Have a won­der­ful day!
Burt Goldman