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Peak Evolution: Beyond Peak Performance and Peak Experience

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Great Book! Themes: Growth and change place us in the Unknown. And in the "Unknown" we must 'pathfind'. How do we 'pathfind'? We use our inner-guidance system; as energetic, vibrational beings we have a resonance or frequency. Lauren Holmes teaches us to use it as a guiding force. Seek work or a career at your frequency and you may find yourself in "flow state"; a state of altered consciousness where we can have 'spontaneous knowledge', 'quantum leaps' in change. I love this book! Throw out the detailed plans! Lauren Holmes suggests plans are okay, they have their place, but think about it, how many plans do go awry? Nature moves in non-linear ways; and since we are part of nature we also can access this intelligence which is within us and outside of us. Then watch out for the cluster of coincidences and synchronistic events that come your way, as we are "pulled" along by forces that support and lead us toward our highest fulfillment. An intricate exploration of "follow your bliss" (Joseph Campbell). It's a little complex at first, because it is well done. She even gives free teleclasses each week, so readers can discuss and ask questions. Great stuff! Gotta go...I am feeling a tug to do something else at this moment, and I trust it!

A 'scientific theory' is a conceptual framework which explains existing observations and predicts new ones. Peak Evolution theorizes a new conceptual framework which explains and makes predictable and 'harnessable' the natural evolutionary and optimizing forces which act on each of us and indeed all systems.

A 'hypothesis' is a working assumption. Peak Evolution provides readers with a series of hypotheses to experiment with in their own lives to (1) understand and prove to themselves how natural evolutionary forces are acting on their personal system, (2) predict how these forces will behave in their lives in the future, and (3) suggest ways in which they can harness that predictability.

Learning to comply with, capitalize on, and 'drive' natural evolutionary forces is similar to learning to drive a car. Where it differs is that driving evolutionary forces actually advances the base-line functionality of one's personal system so that it doesn't just 'grow' with new knowledge and skills as in learning to drive but actually 'evolves' beyond its previous potential.

No one is going to change your mind about how you and your reality operate except by proving it in your own life. Peak Evolution gives you the means to get that proof. It is a how-to book after the introductory 3 chapters. Every hypothesis of the peak evolution theory is testable and self-provable.

When a theory is said to be 'true', it means that it agrees with all known experimental evidence. Peak evolution theory explains and predicts a lot of phenomena. However, this book is only the first pass at what might ultimately become a new science. New experiments or more precise ones probing the workings and practical application of natural evolutionary forces will refine it over time.

At Frontiering.com, we have been using the peak evolution 'science' for a number of years to take executives and their companies to peak performance. This is a tough, intelligent, audience which would never risk using anything less than a provable, predictable, replicable, conceptual framework. So far, no one has been able to disprove Peak Evolution.

This book contains some interesting information, but is mostly a hodgepodge of insight nuggets from new age philosophy, popular quantum physics and as another reviewer mentioned, Joseph Campbell.

"Peak Evolution" is highly repetitive and could have been edited to half the length. The logical connections to reference material are loose, and the rational foundation even moreso. Droning references to author-coined phrases hammer down the concepts, but get tiresome.

Despite the annoyances, there was something to like about this book. Maybe it was the brazen style of the author, with shoot-from-the-hip references to "The Holographic Universe," that give you a prescription for maximizing your potential as a human being.

If you are ready to open your mind WAY up and take a magic carpet ride through your omnipotence as a reality creator, go for it, but be prepared to wade through 300 pages of wordiness and some unscholarly conjecture. This author has some creative ideas and brings together some interesting scientific and philosophical principles, but she just doesn't make it gel: pretty much a pseudo-scientific new age guru for agnostic fat-cats in search of a soul. At least that's my take.

maximum performance by laurence morehouse and peak evolution beyond peak performance and peak experience by lauren holmes