Inner Knowing: Consciousness, Creativity, Insight, and Intuition (New Consciousness Reader) [Paperback]

Helen Palmer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 28, 1998

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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Amazon.com Review

Although opinion polls indicate that most Americans believe in the power of intuition, dreams, and precognition to offer valid guidance and information, "we have not yet developed an educational context for developing these abilities," according to author and editor Helen Palmer. By assembling this stunning collection of essays from leading authorities on perception, creativity, and intuition, Palmer hoped to offer a classic resource for anyone who wants to commit to developing his or her mental and spiritual powers. Contributors include Bruno Bettelheim, who speaks about fairytales and their ability to enhance the link between imagination and inner knowing; Carl Jung, who writes of the I Ching's ability to chart ancient avenues of wisdom; and an interview with Isabel Allende, in which she recounts the prophetic powers of storytelling. --Gail Hudson

From Publishers Weekly

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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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Jeremy P. Tarcher (December 28, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0874779367
• ISBN-13: 978-0874779363
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #288,355 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Can't Bring Enough Light to Express the Wonderfulness!, September 6, 2003

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This review is from: Inner Knowing: Consciousness, Creativity, Insight, and Intuition (New Consciousness Reader) (Paperback)

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.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great tour through history and practices, September 6, 2009

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This review is from: Inner Knowing: Consciousness, Creativity, Insight, and Intuition (New Consciousness Reader) (Paperback)

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.