Inner Knowing: Consciousness, Creativity, Insight, Intuitions

This book offers an impressive array of excerpts from many well-known contributors to the fields of non-ordinary consciousness/experience, intuitive/non-linear knowing, experiential spiritual-mystical awareness. It is organized to give a wonderful tour that includes snippets from ancient and indigenous to very much contemporary ways of inner knowing; and also a post-modern socio-historical reckoning with "how we got here" vis a vis these fields of inquiry. Carl Jung talking about the phenomenon of the I Ching! Isabella Allende talking about how she taps her inner knowing as a writer! Excellent essay by Richard Tarnas called "the Passion of the Western Mind". It's really got a vast breadth. If you're looking for entire essays, you might be disappointed, because most are excerpted from longer works. But what is offered is a terrific package, whetting the appetite while providing a grounding in the above fields.

This is by far one of my favorite books. Its condition certainly shows it!Under the "stewardship" of Helen Palmer, this book covers a wide variety of readings on the topic of Higher Consciousness... .digging into not only what our life is about also how to be your own life anthropologist, so to speak.It includes readings by some preeminent names in the study of Spirituality, Psychology, Anthropology and other related fields all collected and categorized so that you can simply go to the table of contents and choose what suits you for that particular day.Included are Jack Kornfield, Sylvia Boornsteain, Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi and Abraham Maslow just to give you a taste.... And hopefully a hunger for more.With the selections from this book, you simply can't go wrong.