Spark: Raise Your Mind To the Power of Infinity and Create Anything. [Hardcover]

Arupa Tesolin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 30, 2008

It describes in detail how your vision seeds grow in the silent womb of the creative universe and how you can play an optimal role as an agent-partner in the process of creating anything from nothing.

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Readers of Arupa Tesolin's earlier book Ting!, everyday innovators in business and organizations, and people who yearn to learn more about the secrets to using their creative power and the law of attraction will love Author Arupa Tesolin's new book Spark. Applying these deeper principles will lead you farther in creating more meaningful and fulfilling experiences in life, work and enterprise.

From the Author

The world of ideas and innovation is focused on more masculine models of "ideation" - getting an idea out there and making it happen. Yet, our understanding about the silent feminine side of the creative process is quite underdeveloped. Though we have notions about "idea incubation" we tend to skip over this part quickly because we want to move to the action-stage right away. Spark focuses on the whole creating process with a lot of attention and care on this feminine side. There are a lot of advantages to focusing more on the feminine side of ideation. For one thing our over-reliance on action tends to get us to take ideas out fairly early, often without adequate contemplation and refinement. As a result, they tend to being incomplete and create difficulties that arise later in the implementation process. Our authentic creative-power rests fully in the idea process, which sets the course for the rest. With a deeper and more purposeful idea process, the ideas we do have are more reflective of an inclusive ecology, whether this relates to the sharedness of the idea, the people it impacts, and the value of the impact themselves. Spark is a better way to get to a more purposeful outcome, by using a more conscious and purposeful process.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 106 pages
• Publisher: Wisdom Tree Publishers (April 30, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 8183280846
• ISBN-13: 978-8183280846
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,828,170 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Spark Lacks Ignition, July 27, 2008

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Bryan Carey "Bryan Carey" (Houston, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Spark: Raise Your Mind To the Power of Infinity and Create Anything. (Hardcover)

Spark is all about sensing a vision and placing the idea into action. Creativity is an important component of this process and Spark emphasizes the utilization of creativity; pointing out different ways to improve the role of creative thinking and make it more effective. Not only is it important to improve creative thinking, it also important to block the obstacles to creativity, in order to enhance the vision and creative process.

This book talks about a subject that is nothing new and, in many ways, its content reminds me of some of the business training sessions I have attended in the past. These ideas about vision, creativity, etc., have been stated thousands of times before. Thus, Spark is not the most original book. It continues the themes of thinking positive, avoiding doubt, and following through on a visionary plan in much the same manner as any other book on the topic.

Spark recommends specific, repetitive verbal exercises to make the individual more receptive to creative energy. Phrases like: I am That, and My Mind is the Infinite One are required to be repeated over and over again, about one hundred times each day. Exactly how this is supposed to be beneficial, I have no idea. For myself, not only do I gain nothing from partaking in such an exercise, I also find that saying the same thing over and over again results in the statement losing its intended meaning.

Spark is an optimistic book, and there is nothing wrong with optimism. But its promises go too far to take them seriously and the book often gets lost in its own repetitive nature. Books that promise great things by simply changing one's mindset should always be greeted with skepticism. Thinking positively is certainly a good idea and positive thoughts are certainly better than negative thoughts. But just because a person thinks positively and flexes his/her creative muscles does not guarantee success. I can think of many people who are very positive and creative and yet have accomplished very little. On the other side, I can think of several skeptics who achieved even more than they thought they would in spite of their somewhat negative attitude.

Repetition is another problem I have with Spark. Words like Infinite, Creative, and Vision are overused in this book. In addition to that, I don't like the attempt to write over- intelligently. I often had to stop and re- read a paragraph or two to make sure I understood what the author was trying to say. This isn't because the book is complex or anything like that. No, the reason I had to read some parts over again is because the choice of words often made a simple statement sound more complicated than it actually was. Another read confirmed that the statement was really pretty simple.

Spark does offer a few useful pieces of advice, like its emphasis on the understanding of the power to create as opposed to relying strictly on intellectual prowess. The book is also correct when it talks about the barriers to creativity and success and what can be done to prevent them or overcome them if they are already in place. But taken as a whole, I find very little practical advice in the page of Spark. It's an enthusiastic book, but it does quite cut it for me. The repetitious exercises and the general advice about using creative thinking and opening the mind to new ideas has been stated a thousand times before- and more effectively- by other authors.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I would have titled this book "Creative Spark." And at 100+ pages this was little more than an article with a cover., July 3, 2008

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Jeff Lippincott "JLIPPIN" (Princeton, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Spark: Raise Your Mind To the Power of Infinity and Create Anything. (Hardcover)

This book was pretty good. It was short and an easy read. I can't say I loved it. And I didn't think it said what it was trying to say in an eloquent way. But it got me thinking about how I create things and accomplish things. It has the following 11 chapters:

0. Introduction
1. It all stars with a spark
2. Spark: Extending your magnitude
3. The living vision
4. Perfecting your vision
5. Planting your vision seeds
6. The principles of visioning
7. Defeating the dubious pair: Fear & doubt
8. Manifesting your vision
9. Principles of manifesting
10. Conclusion

This book is for the creative types: authors, movie directors, other artists, sales people, scientists, and entrepreneurs. It is about how to breed and harvest ideas that can lead to inventions, creations, and/or solutions. Whether you are into dreaming or strategic thinking, this book will probably help you do them better.

The author describes a person's imagination as her "creative laboratory." And in that lab a creative person experiments with ideas and scenarios. Some people are really good at this if they are good a meditation says the author. Meditators can get themselves into a "zone" where there are fewer limits on their thinking. And as a result the imagination can run wilder. I'm not a meditator, but I know what she is talking about. I have had periods in my life when I road my bicycle a lot. And other periods when I would go for long runs/jogs regularly. During these activities I did some of my best thinking. I was in a "zone" of freethinking so to speak.

We all place limitations on the way we think, solve problems, and/or create things. These limitations exist because of physical things, mental things, and our emotions. When we can escape from the real world and get into a zone of freethinking we will have our greatest imaginative moments. And it's these moments that a SPARK is created. 4 stars!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Tedious, dull and full of all-encompassing words with little regard to their meaning, July 7, 2008

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Charles Ashbacher (Marion, Iowa United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Spark: Raise Your Mind To the Power of Infinity and Create Anything. (Hardcover)

This book is one where all-encompassing words are used in a hyped context without regard to their true meaning. The one word used in particular is "infinite." I am sure that the author does not know the real meaning of the term. This is clear from the phrase in the title, "raise your mind to the power of infinity." This is a phrase that is nonsensical, while it sounds powerful; from a semantic point of view it makes no sense. After all, what does raising something to the power of infinity actually mean?
The exercise numbered 3 on page 34 is typical of the prose in the book.

" Exercise 3
My mind is an infinite one
Say this to yourself a few times while contemplating its meaning. Now sense what this means on a physical level. Can you feel your mind? Do you feel any borders? Of course you don't. That's because there are none. Your mind is connected implicitly with everything everywhere, both physical and non-physical."

If you think about this for a moment, this statement means that all people are gods, their minds are infinite and there are no borders to it. This also means that the universe is infinite, and all humans are mentally linked. Furthermore, there is the direct consequence that humans never die, as that would of course be a border. That is a lot to say in a few sentences.
This book is tedious, dull and full of such nonsensical phrases that are semantically confusing. As one last point of justification for my remarks, I quote the following statement from the inside of the front dust cover.

"It describes in detail how your vision seeds grow in the silent womb of the creative universe and how you can play an optimal role as an agent-partner in the process of creating anything from nothing."