Inner Knowing: Consciousness, Creativity, Insight, and Intuition (New Consciousness Reader) - Softcover

Palmer, Helen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0874779367 ISBN 13: 9780874779363

Publisher: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1998

Synopsis

Inner Knowing illustrates that the human mind possesses the capability to consistently function at significantly high levels of perception, creativeness, and intuitiveness. Indeed, everyone has at one time in his life experienced a sense of mindful clarity that led to a Eureka! moment. In this latest addition to Tarcher's successful New Consciousness Reader series, Helen Palmer, author of The Enneagram, has compiled a collection of writings that explore such abilities and illustrate how they can be developed. Essays on exercising the mind, understanding synchronicity, experiencing "flow," establishing communication between the conscious and subconscious, utilizing the active imagination, listening to the body's feedback, and witnessing psychic displays of walking on fire, clairvoyance, and similar phenomena make up this enlightening, thought-provoking, and fascinating anthology. Contributors include: Bruno Bettelheim, Jean Shinoda Bolen, Sylvia Boorstein, Pema Chodron, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Betty Edwards, Erich Fromm, Daniel Goleman, Aldous Huxley, Carl Jung, Jack Kornfield, J. Krishnamurti, Philip Novak, Charles Tart, Montague Ullman, Frances Vaughan, Mark Waldman, and Roger Walsh.A sophisticated book representing the essence of the NCR series, Inner Knowing offers readers confidence in themselves as they reawaken subtle senses while learning to trust and utilize new ways of perceiving, knowing, and living.

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About the Author

Helen Palmer is the bestselling author of five books, including The Enneagram, and codirector of the Center for Enneagram Studies. She lives in California.

Reviews

Palmer is widely recognized for her popular book, The Enneagram, and her research on that Sufi system of personality types. Now, with only a few additional words of her own, she brings together a collection of essays from a wide variety of sources on "inner ways of knowing." These include "empathy, intuition, and spiritual experience" in many forms. What these qualities have in common is that they "cannot be grasped by intellect or analysis." With nods to the "breakthrough insights" of such notable scientists as Einstein, Newton and Edison, Palmer writes that transcendental awareness is ubiquitous. Contributors include Roger Walsh on the shaman's vision quest, Jean Shinoda Bolen on Jung's theory of "synchronicity," Montague Ullman on "dreaming consciousness" and Betty Edwards on "drawing from the right side of the brain." Philip Goldberg implores readers to "trust the hunches, vague feelings, premonitions, and inarticulate signals we usually ignore," and Frances Vaughan offers a detailed description of physical, emotional, mental and spiritual intuition. Erich Fromm teaches empathy for psychoanalysts, and Jack Kornfield offers meditation instruction. Palmer has done an excellent job of choosing, editing and organizing these essays from a broad range of voices into a sourcebook for seekers of "the subtle intelligence of the heart."
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Palmer, author of The Enneagram, shares both her lived experience and scholarly acquisitions with this anthology that explores our ability to perceive, intuit, and sense things in alternate fashions. Wary of being discounted as New Age, Palmer shows she is anything but. The essays she has collected contain excerpts of work by such notables as Carl Jung, Erich Fromm, Aldous Huxley, J. Krishnamurti, and Sylvia Boorstein. The essays answer questions of epistemology, ancient wisdom, human consciousness (and unconsciousness), and awareness. Spirituality and the wisdom of both ancient Eastern and Western religious traditions are studied, compared, and encouraged. Palmer prefaces each essay with a brief introduction that links them, facilitating a rapid and well thought-out succession. The powers of the mind, forces of synchronicity, strains of creative and inner thought, importance of dreams, and forces of a collective consciousness are all discussed in a thoroughly delightful manner. This collection won't put off skeptics or pander to the already converted. Palmer asserts her beliefs solidly, intriguingly, and manifestly. Michael Spinella

Enneagram expert Palmer, whose numerous books include The Enneagram (HarperSanFrancisco, 1991), is the codirector of the Center for Enneagram Studies. This new work is part of a series of original and classic works by experts in various psychological fields. Selections from authors such as Huxley, Bettelheim, Csikszentmihalyi, and Roger Walsh are arranged in sections: Part 1 examines aspects of nonduality, Part 2 explores ancient paths to wisdom, and Part 3 deals with nonintellectual conduits of information. These lay the groundwork for readers to rediscover the unified consciousness within each of these systems in the last two parts of the work. Intended for a sophisticated audience, this is the sort of book that yields different information to different readers. It is also a book that New Agers in particular will like. Buy for larger self-help and psychology collections.?January Adams, Franklin Twp. P.L., Somerset, NJ
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Edition details

• Publisher: Jeremy P. Tarcher
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0874779367
• ISBN 13: 9780874779363
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304