Essential Reading List

If you want to get the most out of your Creative Intelligence, I highly recommend you take a look at these books as soon as you can (Amazon links provided). Each book has been carefully chosen because it adds an important element to the content of the class.

The Science of Deliberate Creation   (Audio book) By Dr. Robert Anthony. Some very important material that supports what our class is about: the idea that you create your reality. Personally, I think this is one of the best audio books about creative intelligence that I’ve ever come across. (Price here is for downloadable MP3 audio files. Close the popup window and take a look at main subject.)

The Heart’s Code – Tapping the Wisdom and Power of Our Heart’s Energy.  By Paul Pearsall (1998).   
Paul Pearsall looks at the role of cellular memory and the natural intelligence of our body, which we too often ignore. Specifically focusing on the heart, Pearsall shows that our organs have their own awareness which is often suppressed by our conscious mind. Pearsall encourages us to listen to and trust our bodies more and rely less on our analytical motivations.

The Power of Full Engagement. By Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz
This book shows you how to manage your energy effectively for maximum personal
growth and emotional/spiritual evolution. Also see Tony’s latest work The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working: The Four Forgotten Needs That Energize Great Performance.

Beyond Positive Thinking. By Robert Anthony
How to go beyond positive thinking into aligning your conscious and subconscious beliefs so as to achieve mental, emotional, and spiritual coherence and success in all aspects of our lives. Simple, excellent book to get you started. One of my all time favorites and something I re-read quite often.

Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind – How Intelligence Increases When You Think Less.  By Guy Claxton
Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind: How Intelligence Increases When You Think Less
by Guy Claxton shows how our “undermind”, as Claxton calls it, is a supermind that is capable of astounding feats of thinking skill. While we have all been trained in the ways of fast-thinking, Claxton shows how slow thinking is more able to deal with ambiguous and paradoxical situations. Confusion and uncertainty often lead to more original, creative thinking than calculated, linear, rational thought. Claxton’s book goes a long way in showing us the power of process-oriented thinking and the benefits of slowing down to a more natural pace of life.

Science was Wrong: Startling Truths About Cures, Theories, and Inventions “They” Declared Impossible. By Stanton Friedman and Kathleen Marden
Some amazing case studies of how closed-mind and wrong science can become. Includes discussion of many of the technological and scientific discoveries that helped create the modern world, and how negative people at the time were about them.

How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day. By Michael Gelb
Easy steps you can take to activate your inner genius just like Leonardo.

Think and Grow Rich.  By Napolean Hill
One of the original self-help classics from earlier in the last century that shows us how our thoughts create reality.

The Four Agreements – A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book). By Don Miguel Ruiz
This is an excellent overview of the Toltec way of life and a practical guide to freedom and self-empowerment. Don Miguel counsels each of us to examine our beliefs, words, and actions as a way of breaking the domestication process that each of us has succumbed to. The Toltec path is a path of personal freedom where literally every thought, idea, and emotion we feel is subject to scrutiny. Freeing ourselves requires us to maintain our impeccability at every instant in our lives and foster creative awareness that accompanies self-responsibility and constructive intention. Don Miguel offers prescriptions for overcoming the chaos of Mitote, the illusion of external reality that we substitute for an authentic knowledge of the self.

Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure. By Tim Harford
Described by some as Britain’s “Malcolm Gladwell,” Tim Harford’s profound and highly insightful book  is a must read if you’re interested in how flexible, local decision making is often more effective than large, hierarchical, organizational system’s thinking.  He shows us why failure is essential to success.

The New Universe and the Human Future: How a Shared Cosmology Could Change the World. By Nancy Ellen Abrams and Joel R. Primack.
An astounding new books that shows us the new view of the universe based on the latest cosmological research into dark energy and dark matter, and how it affects our idea of who we are.

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