Mind magic
By: by Bill Harvey ; illustrated by Isaac Abrams.
Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: Ourobourus Institute; [distributed by] Unlimited Publishing
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Woodstock, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9780918538017
Subjects: Consciousness.; Meditation.; Creative thinking.; Thought and thinking.
Other titles: Ecstasy of freeing creative power
Description: "... a fusion of Western psychology and Eastern philosophy designed to expand consciousness by deblocking communication between the left and right brain hemispheres." Puts right-brain intuitions and feelings into left-brain language and logic, freeing inner vision and creativity. A practical guide for altering our cultural programming and re-opening the mind to endless possibilities.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The human heritage: word pollution: because words are so powerful, we tend to believe them rather than assimilate our own experiences; title: The present: word pollution overload: how the tonnage of words and other input has increased past the overload point, causing hysterical imitation in the place of real life. Meditation as accelerated information-processing; title: Avoid hasty closure: the mechanism of "making up one's mind too fast due to overload panic" and how to avoid this; title: Awakening real will: "Losing oneself and becoming a rolebot" and how to undo this; title: The originality moment: demechanizing oneself by broadening the range of creative possibilities; title: Self-rating is irrelevant: relieving the burden of constant self-judgment; title: What do you what? Stripping away imposed motivations, to find out what "the me that was born" wants; title: Opening the senses: seeing more of what is; title: Staying focused through complexity: effectively dealing with many things at once; title: "In action, watch the timing"-Tao Te Ching of Lao Tsu; title: Disidentifying with the thought senate: not throwing your authority behind untested head spewings; title: Improving inner visibility: allowing a wider range of material through the verbalizer; title: Transmuting negatives into positives: turning dilemma into opportunity; title: Visualizing the whole universe as one thing: identifying with all you perceive.