Creative Prayer: The Miracle Road

CREATIVE PRAYER

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Parallel to an international law career in Germany, Switzer-land and the United States, Dr. Peter Fritz Walter (Pierre) fo-cused upon fine art, cookery, astrology, musical perform-ance, social sciences and humanities.

He started writing essays as an adolescent and received a high school award for creative writing and editorial work for the school magazine.

After finalizing his law diplomas, he graduated with an LL.M. in European Integration at Saarland University, Germany, and with a Doctor of Law title from University of Geneva, Switzer-land, in 1987.

He then took courses in psychology at the University of Ge-neva and interviewed a number of psychotherapists in Lau-sanne and Geneva, Switzerland. His interest was intensified through a hypnotherapy with an Ericksonian American hyp-notherapist in Lausanne. This led him to the recovery and healing of his inner child.

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Contents

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Introduction 11

WHAT IS PRAYER? 21

No Belief, But Faith 21

Not Linear, but Cyclic Thinking 23

No God Concept 28

No Suggestion. No Hypnosis. 29

LEARN THE TECHNIQUE 31

Relax and Affirm 31

Build a Positive Attitude 33

Forgive and Choose 35

Keep It Short 38

Create Your Own Reality 40

Change Your Inner Program 43

Be More Creative 45

Relax Properly 47

Become Spontaneous 50

PRACTICE CREATIVE PRAYER 53

Learning Motivation 56

Teaching Motivation 56

Learning and Techniques 57

Self-Healing 58

Self-Acceptance 59

The Principle of Inner and Outer Harmony 60

ACTIVATE SELF-HEALING 63

BUILD SELF-CONFIDENCE 67

CREATE INNER PEACE 81

POSTFACE 91

Glossary 103

Terms 103

Alpha, Alpha State 103Brain and Mind Research 104Cartesian Science and Worldview 106Consciousness 108Creative Visualization 109Direct Perception 110Emotional Intelligence 111I Ching 112Inner Selves 113Intuition 118Koan 118Life Authoring 119Quantum Physics 120Self 126Soul Power 127Synchronicity 128

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Taoism, Tao 129Tarot 130Yin-Yang 131Zen 133

Personalities 135

Berne, Eric 135Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama 136Confucius 137Descartes, René 138Einstein, Albert 139Freud, Sigmund 139Heraclitus 141Jesus of Nazareth 141Jung, Carl Gustav 142Krishnamurti, J. (K) 142Lao-tzu 145Murphy, Joseph 147Picasso, Pablo 148

BIBLIOGRAPHY 153

Personal Notes 173

CONTENTS

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Introduction

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The prayer method that I am going to pre-

sent here was first outlined in basically two es-

says by the spiritualist James Allen and, Abel

L. Allen. James Allen published As a Man

Thinketh in 1902, and Abel Allen wrote The

Message of New Thought in 1914.

Next in the development of the method

comes Ernest Holmes, founder of the ‘Science

of Mind’ and author of a book with the same

title, which was published in 1922.

The book is both a compendium of philo-

sophical wisdom and a practical manual that

teaches practitioners how to give treatments

using the unique prayer technique.

Eventually, it was in the 1960s and 70s that

the method really became popular through

the books of Dr. Joseph Murphy and Cather-

ine Ponder.

Joseph Murphy called it scientific prayer.

—See Peter Fritz Walter, Joseph Murphy and

the Power of Your Subconscious Mind (Great

Minds Series, Vol. 6), 2015.

Indeed, this kind of prayer is not founded

upon belief, but upon knowledge; it is based

upon insights in the functioning of the human

unconscious as, perhaps first in history, Sig-

mund Freud described it.

Well, I began reading Freud already upon

entering law school, so I was well aware that

the abuse and trauma I had suffered all

through my childhood had become imprinted,

in the form of thought patterns, on the mem-

ory surface of my subconscious mind.

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I discovered the prayer technique during

the time of my therapy and told my psychia-

trist about it, to see with him if that work was

compatible with the therapy. He replied that it

was not only compatible, but something like

an ideal add-on to it. With that reassurance,

then, from the side of my psychiatrist, I was

practicing affirmative prayer every day, consis-

tently, over a period of six months.

The results were more than convincing,

they were actually quite miraculous. My con-

stant anxiety and compulsive sweating gradu-

ally ceased, my feet were behaving in some-

what normal ways, instead of being frozen all

day long, and most importantly, my thoughts

were getting a note of self-affirmation that I

had never known before. I was developing a

new self-image. Observing my self-talk, I real-

ized that before that time I constantly wiped

myself out through disempowering self-talk.

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Eventually, I experienced moments of peace,

harmony and bliss that were novelty for me.

As a result, my creative expression ex-

ploded, and I could not stop the flow that was

set in place. I began to write and created in

virtually all literary genres, from essays to film

scripts; in addition I created hundreds of

spontaneous drawings, and many volumes of

spontaneously composed music.

Eventually I became also successful as a

coach, and my corporate seminars were found

to be creative, amusing and effective. It is for

that reason that I was going to name this

prayer technique Creative Prayer.

And it was only then that I realized that for

the first time in my life I began to manifest my

soul reality, expressing in my creations not my

ego, or conditioned self, but something from

a beyond-realm that I can’t express in verbal

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language. And at the same time I became

acutely aware that such kind of spontaneous

intelligent self-expression is what primes in

life. In fact, emotionally intelligent children

create exactly in the same way, at every mo-

ment when they play; they share their soul

values through manifesting their soul power.

Not long ago, science and religion were

tightly separated, and some people even as-

serted that the two realms of human endeavor

needed to be split apart. And yet, we know

that in ancient civilizations science, philosophy

and religion were one body of knowledge. To

be true, the most ancient of religions were al-

ways both scientific and metaphysical because

they knew that knowledge is limited; the

myths and tales of old were expressing the

unknown realms of existence, showing exam-

ples of how hidden connections can manifest

once the circular movement of thought is dis-

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rupted by an unusual or sudden event. Tao-

ism, the oldest known religion, from ancient

China, was scientific in that it was based upon

the I Ching, the Book of Changes, and the

immutable cosmic laws that this wisdom book

embodies and describes. So it is with Huna,

the ancient science-religion of the Kahuna na-

tives in Hawaii.

Today, even popular science books men-

tion the I Ching as a unique example for a su-

premely intelligent view of life that explains

pattern, cosmic dependencies, and relation-

ships between things, events and people, as

well as the hidden connections we call syn-

chronistic correlations, and that we express

through binary-code mathematics.

The other element, that might be called

the deliberate uncertainty principle, in those

traditional religions, is divination, which is a

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form of exploration outside the realm of cer-

tainty, and that runs as it were on probability,

extrapolating the present content of con-

sciousness on a timeline into the future.

Ancient religious traditions were more wist-

ful than modern materialism in that they saw

that there is no contradiction between the

certainty of knowledge, and scientific exacti-

tude, on one hand, and uncertainty as the ter-

tium after thesis and antithesis, on the other;

in fact, they wistfully understood that the rela-

tionship between both realms of human per-

ception is one of complementarity.

When you explore religion with a scientific

mindset, you will find that much of what the

hyper-rationalists held to be superstition and

magic is actually a realm of knowledge that

belongs to perennial science.

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I believe affirmative prayer is not only sci-

entific, but that it is also a form of positive

self-empowerment; even assuming you are

empowered by a divine force or god, the em-

powerment comes from yourself, in the sense

of coming from your higher self; after all, you

are sitting down for it. In giving that effort,

while it’s kind of effortless to do this, you are

participating in the divine plan. Thus it can be

said that we are engaging in a form of partici-

patory consciousness when we pray.

It doesn’t matter if you believe in a divine

superpower or in your higher self, your guard-

ian angel, your heavenly parents, your ances-

tor spirits, or whatever you call that creator

force; fact is that you, by an act of will, sit

down to pray. By doing this, you create the

thought forms that are going to trigger a posi-

tive and creative response from the universe

provided that what you wish to happen for

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yourself or others is non-harmful, constructive,

and ultimately in alignment with cosmic pur-

pose.

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WHAT IS PRAYER?

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No Belief, But Faith

Let me first explain what I mean when I use

the term prayer. What kind of prayer am I talk-

ing about, and why do I name it creative

prayer?

First, I am not talking about prayer as part

of a religious ritual, the prayer people do in

churches, mosques, temples or synagogues.

Furthermore, the prayer I am talking about

is not based upon belief. In creative prayer no

belief is involved, but faith. Faith and belief

are not the same. Belief is an intellectual con-

cept while faith is a quality of the heart.

Many of us believe that faith brings about

prayer, but it is equally true that prayer en-

hances faith. People tend to argue that with-

out faith prayer had no sense. When we eat

we believe that what we eat will be good for

our body; we also have faith that tomorrow

we’re still alive; otherwise nobody would ever

make plans. When we hurt our body we are

confident that the power of healing in our or-

ganism will quickly repair the damage. Faith is

something very basic, very natural, and some-

thing not reflected upon. People who say they

have no faith are wrong. I ask them one ques-

tion:

—Do you make any plans?

They of course affirm. And even if they

didn’t make plans, they still do have faith in

that tomorrow morning they are going to

wake up to a new day and not just die the

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same night. Clearly, without this basic faith,

humanity would never have achieved anything

because people would just not have any re-

gard into the future. To conclude, we cannot

not have faith. It’s as simple as that.

Not Linear, but Cyclic Thinking

Faith is not based upon linear thought but

upon cyclic thinking, and more precisely, upon

cyclic growth processes.

Our culture has created the line as a sym-

bol for evolution. However, the line is an artifi-

cial construct, inexistent in nature, a purely

mental achievement. Evolution is cyclic. It al-

lows the line only in combination with the cir-

cle, so as to say, resulting in the spiral.

Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary defines the

spiral as relating to the ‘advancement to

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higher levels through a series of cyclical

movements.’

The curving movement of the spiral is what

it has in common with the circle; the increase

or decrease in size of the spiral is a function of

its moving upward or downward.

The spiral is without a doubt the dominat-

ing form to be found in nature, and in all natu-

ral processes. It is a symbol for evolution in

general.

Life is coded in the spiraled double-helix of

the DNA molecule. The spiral is the expres-

sion of the periodic, systemic and cyclic de-

velopment that is in accordance with the laws

of life. The progression of the spiral shows

that it always carries its root, however trans-

porting it through every cycle onto a higher

level or dimension; whereas the line leaves its

root forever.

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All towers of Babel are manifestations of

the line: they are linear and are created by lin-

ear thought structures. True growth typically

manifests through a cyclic and spiraled ge-

stalt.

Liberated from linear thought structures,

man finds faith without effort. Or faith finds

man. There is no better means than creative

prayer for triggering this liberation from linear

thought.

Linear thought is purely causal and

founded upon mutuality, whereas the law of

love is neither causal nor based upon a condi-

tion. Neither is it teleological, but simply exist-

ing or existential. It is beyond causality and

synchronistic. Truth is beyond causality and

beyond time. Where all is synchronistic, time

ends.

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The creation principle, being beyond time,

beyond space, beyond causality, beyond ratio

and beyond thought categories cannot be

grasped mentally. However, we carry it with us

in every single cell, in the tiniest entity of the

hologram of life. All what we know of this

beyond-thought is that we do not know about

it. It therefore is the ideal soil for faith. That is

why the one who knows much and not one

who knows little has the greatest faith.

Ignorance is no fertilizer for religion, de-

spite the fact that the power mechanisms of

certain religions have exploited human igno-

rance for their profit.

When we pray creatively we hold the exis-

tence of all-that-is for more likely than its non-

existence, and thus we do not run around like

a blind hen who finds a corn here and there.

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We then are ‘seeing with other eyes and hear-

ing with other ears.’

Regarding this basic fact of our mental limi-

tation towards the unknowable, we really can

be like children and have the grace which is

promised and which is based on something

like ‘une heureuse insouciance.’

The Heraclitean ‘All Flows’ is perhaps the

greatest expression of faith in history although

it has to my knowledge never been consid-

ered as such.

Prayer brings all our inner parts into a state

of harmony, a balance of yin and yang. It cre-

ates a balance between rational mind and

emotion, between knowledge and belief, be-

tween male-giving (yang) and female-

receiving (yin), between high and low, good

and bad, positive and negative, white and

black, going forward, standing still or going

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backward, and so forth. Prayer establishes

complete mental, emotional and physical

health and wellbeing.

No God Concept

The next important point is that creative

prayer is not based upon a god concept. It is

based upon the existence of a universe that is

the result of all-that-is, infinite wisdom, si-

lence, love and energy—the creator principle,

the word, the logos.

What is beyond thought cannot be put in

words; the non-manifest cannot be imagined

as something manifest.

Let us say, therefore, that creative prayer is

based upon the existence of potentiality or

universal creative potential.

Prayer addresses the quantum field, the

nonlinear continuum that is mostly, but not

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exclusively, located in the invisible realms of

existence. Furthermore, creative prayer is not

a wish or a demand, but an affirmation. We

simply affirm a state of affairs we wish to real-

ize and that is not yet manifest, and we affirm

it as if it was already manifest and realized.

No Suggestion. No Hypnosis.

Last not least, I would like to clarify why I

consciously use the word prayer and not the

term auto-suggestion.

The question was once asked by my father

who wondered why I talked at all about a

prayer technique instead of using the term

auto-suggestion. In Germany, there notably

exists a technique called ‘Autosuggestion’

and people use that quite successfully for

dealing with timidity or for fighting alcoholism

or drug addiction. While indeed both tech-

niques do the same, there is a difference.

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When I say ‘prayer,’ I mean that I address

my words to a force that is beyond the mere

rational mind, thought or the tangible, physi-

cal world. I namely implicitly recognize an in-

visible realm of existence, and a supreme en-

ergy that is the creator force. However, when I

use the word ‘suggestion,’ I implicitly make a

reference to modern reductionist science and

psychology that affirm there is nothing be-

yond our five senses and that all the rest is

fantasy, imagination, psychosis or charlatan-

ism.

Because I simply know that there is an all-

encompassing quantum field of which the

physical world is only a tiny part, I will stick to

the word prayer and call it creative prayer be-

cause it is a form of creative writing and

gradually brings about a new reality through

conscious and subconscious mind working

together in sync.

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LEARN THE TECHNIQUE

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Relax and Affirm

How to work with the prayers? Best prac-

tice is to calmly recite them at least two times

a day, in the morning after waking up, and in

the evening before going to sleep, so as to

profit from the natural relaxation that takes

place in your mindbody during these special

moments of the day. Creative prayer helps

imprint your subconscious mind with positive

images, images that heal and help you to be

successful and happy in all areas of life. In or-

der to access this part of your consciousness

you must get into what is called a light trance.

Typically, this light trance is brought about

when your brain is in the so-called alpha state.

Before explaining you the details, let me

shortly point out why we need relaxation at all.

When we are relaxed, we more easily focus

inside. We become still and listen to our-

selves. When we feel connected to the source

of peace in us, there is nothing that cannot

be, and we will be radiant, joyful, powerful,

wonderfully successful and blessed with all life

can offer. In order to work on the fulfillment of

our desires, we need to connect with the su-

preme power that we bear inside of us!

When we relax and let go, we let life offer

its gifts freely to us instead of chasing life for

receiving those gifts.

What creative prayer does in fact is to

gradually change your mindset which is now

perhaps a mindset of limitation, to a mindset

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of infinite possibilities. Our destiny as human

beings is to be happy, powerful, joyful and

blessed. The only limitations there are, really

are the limitations we set for ourselves.

Therefore, it is essential that you find out

about the black magic of negative thinking. It

is negative thinking, and, resulting from it,

wrong action that created all the illnesses, all

the hurts or deprivations you are suffering

from right now.

Build a Positive Attitude

It is not esoteric to have a positive mental

attitude. It is directly related to, and con-

nected with, our daily life experiences and re-

lationships. We do not need philosophical

speculations and concepts in order to adopt a

positive attitude. To have more success and

achieve more happiness is not a function of

effort alone, nor even of intelligence. All our

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outward experiences are the result of our in-

ner attitude projected onto the interface of

real life: the world. Our thought today is our

reality tomorrow, it’s as simple as that.

Creative prayer helps to create positive re-

ality in transforming our thought structures.

Many of us are driven by negative inner

scripts written in early childhood. Some of

these inner programs, or some elements of

them, may even have been imprinted on our

mind during former existences.

These inner programs drive us uncon-

sciously and if they are negative, they bring

about frustration and unsatisfying or even

hurting life experiences. This is because inner

programs are composed of thought patterns

and emotional patterns which, since they are

repetitive, hold us within a vicious circle of

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frustrating life experiences that in turn seem

to justify or to confirm our negative worldview.

Positive reality and success, happiness and

fulfillment are not a chance; they are pro-

grammed! However, the will and intention

alone to change our inner program are not

enough. They are necessary for the start, and

even the primary condition for it, but they

cannot do all the work needed to erase dec-

ades or even centuries of negative self-

programming.

This is so because much of our inner pro-

gram is unconscious. We are not aware of it

and have the impression that all comes upon

us from outside.

Forgive and Choose

Therefore the first thing to do, once we

really want to change, is to accept that we are

not driven by outside forces or other people,

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but uniquely by ourselves. It means to admit

that we are the only cooks of our destiny

soup; which in turn means that we have to

forgive others and ourselves, and this regu-

larly, just like something we do naturally, like

breathing.

After forgiving we are open to access our

inner program using relaxation and medita-

tion or some form of spontaneous art to get

connected to our subconscious mind.

In the relaxed state then, we calmly recite

our prayer, which deeply penetrates into our

subconscious mind, especially if we repeat

this procedure several times per day, and over

a certain period of time.

The problem for many of us is our lack of

persistence. We tend to give up after a short

while, assuming the method did not work be-

cause we did not see immediate results. Skep-

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ticism really is an impediment to personal

growth. It leads to nowhere, or, yes, it leads to

more skepticism. High achievement is easily

brought about by an attitude that is humble,

and somewhat childlike.

I know that most people belittle this kind of

attitude but not only does the Gospel call it

the direct way to heaven, but it is in my obser-

vation also the attitude that most highly gifted

people maintain.

To enhance creativity and to boost our tal-

ents, there is nothing more productive than

play. Our creativity is at its peak level when we

play, just like children do. This is so because in

this state of mind, the natural balance within

our inner selves is restored because our inner

parent and our inner adult are put at rest. It

means that the inner criticizer, the naughty

observer is not any more part of the game.

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This is of course a temporary condition, but

a very important one, as every artist knows.

We have to give our inner child this freedom

of expression once in a while, and these are

the moments of bliss every creator knows to

tell a story about.

Positive thinking leads to faith, a strong

conviction that you will always attract the very

best to you. Faith is not a mysterious grace

fallen from heaven for select beings; it is avail-

able for everyone. It comes about not by

chance, but by the constant intention to bene-

fit others that is sustained and nourished by

positive and empowering prayer.

Keep It Short

Creative prayer works with mantra-like for-

mulas that we repeat to ourselves in a relaxed

state so that they become part of our uncon-

scious thought pattern. Our overall mental at-

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titude reflects the program that we run in our

subconscious mind. This program is com-

posed of rational and irrational elements, and

it seems that emotional content and generally

what is related to pictorial thinking finds eas-

ier access to this part of our mind. Publicity

exploits this fact very profitably.

Creative prayer uses the greatly enhanced

receptivity of the brain during the alpha

state— a state where our brain runs on longer

brain waves than usual—in order to trigger

significant changes deep down in our subcon-

scious mind.

Humans are special in that they can re-

create creation. They do it with their mind, us-

ing imagination as a tool. All our great artists,

scientists and business people have shown

that it is possible, long before we were talking

about virtual reality, to create worlds within a

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world. And if we go through the biographies

of very imaginative people, we can see that

they have created their own world, a world

that is usually quite different from the world of

the common man who takes reality for

granted.

Create Your Own Reality

We have already asked the question ‘What

is Reality?’

Now let us inquire further. Is reality a fixed

concept that we can define and that is the

same for all of us? My observation is rather

that there are seven billion realities on this

world, in every head one—or even more than

one. If we take multiple personalities, we can

see that their brain creates different worlds,

one for every split self. Different personalities

live in different worlds since they perceive re-

ality in a different way.

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Quantum physics with its puzzling insight

that the outcome of every experiment de-

pends on the observer perspective corrobo-

rates this observation.

There is a relativity theory which goes far

beyond the one Einstein is credited with, or

perhaps we have conceived Einstein’s obser-

vations in a much too limited fashion.

What if this relativity theory was actually a

universal concept in the cosmos, more than a

mere science theory but a philosophical con-

cept? You only need to remember how you

see the world when you are angry, and how

different it seems to you when you are content

and happy. The inside and the outside are

one! When we are black inside we encounter

black outside. It is very strange but when we

are filled with negative emotions, we encoun-

ter negative people, unlucky, unfortunate

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people, those who are mutilated, either physi-

cally or mentally. Yet when we are positive and

happy, the world seems populated with an-

gels. This is not a trick of our imagination. It is

because we project our inside world toward

the outside and thus re-create creation.

We use to distinguish our emotional life

from our mental life or mental attitude. In fact,

the two are not separated. Or, to put it more

precisely, the mental encompasses the emo-

tional. The mental is the broader concept. It is

directly linked to the universal or cosmic spirit.

If we accept that our mental reality encom-

passes all our feelings and emotions, and also

our irrationality, we can easily comprehend the

idea that the inner reality is at the basis of all

our shortcomings, like a seed which produces

a monster or a wonderful landscape, a demon

or an angel.

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Yet we have to go farther and see that the

dualistic concept which distinguishes good

and bad, white and black, yang and yin, male

and female, is a concept as well, a product of

our mind—and not the mind itself.

The mind at its origin is pure and un-

touched, and it is the source of a multitude of

virtual realities; it bears a potentiality full of

beauty yet a beauty that we cannot grasp nor

evaluate. However, we can program the mind

to recreate its original creation—and thus

achieve to change our mindset.

Change Your Inner Program

All of us are driven by an inner program.

This program is a mixture of heritage, up-

bringing and self-programming.

Unfortunately for many of us, this program

is more or less negative, thus blocking the re-

alization of our evolutionary potential.

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Creative prayer erases or neutralizes the

negative content of this program bit by bit,

replacing it by a new and positive one.

Our inner program is reflected by our self-

talk. If we want to find out about it, we only

have to watch our self-talk or self-thought-talk

during one day.

Many of us are not conscious of their self-

talk. Perhaps you will be surprised, once you

observe it, how negative it is, how cynical, dis-

empowering, or how colored by guilt and fear.

We can transform our self-talk, so that it

serves to bring us forward instead of blocking

us; we can change our inner black magician

into a white magician. If we wait for others to

empower us, we may wait a lifetime!

We are at the root of our success or our

failure, we are the carpenters of our house of

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life, and it will look outwardly exactly how we

inwardly built it.

Be More Creative

Many of us feel they need more creativity

or spontaneity. They perform well within es-

tablished ways and routines, but when it

comes to invent, to create new forms, to

change established routines, to open up new

pathways of realization, they have difficulties

and feel blocked or inhibited.

This is predominantly the result of a mind-

set that is too much left-brain oriented, disre-

garding the wide range of creation potential

situated in our right brain hemisphere.

Our two brain hemispheres carry out dif-

ferent tasks and are organized in different

ways. We reach our full creative potential only

if we imply the right brain hemisphere in our

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thought processes and thus think with both

sides of the brain simultaneously engaged.

This means that our thought processes

have to be coordinated so that they work as

one whole integrated thought process that is

based upon the harmonious functioning of

the full brain. Learning and creativity are

greatly enhanced from the moment we use

the full brain.

With our brain hemispheres it’s a bit like

with the potentialities of two persons. We

cannot say that one plus one equals two when

we talk of two people brainstorming for new

solutions. We all know that in this case we

have a multiplication factor or potentiality fac-

tor built in the cooperation of these two peo-

ple. In terms of human potential, one plus one

can go up to thousands. Left hemisphere plus

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right hemisphere is not two, but perhaps mil-

lions.

Relax Properly

Relaxation induces in our brain the so-

called alpha state, a condition of higher re-

ceptivity, which brings about a higher level of

coordination between our two brain hemi-

spheres. This following overview over all our

possible brain waves reveals that alpha waves

are among the longer brain waves.

The longest brain waves, predominant

when we are in deep slumber and not dream-

ing are delta waves. They are 0.5 to 3 Hz per

cycle. Second among long brain waves are

theta waves, predominant when we are

drowsy and drifting into sleep and dreams;

they are 4 to 7 Hz per cycle. Now, we got the

alpha waves which manifest when we are in a

state of relaxation or meditation, and in the

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short interlude between wake and sleep; they

are 8 to 12 Hz. Finally, among the short brain

waves, we got the beta waves which are char-

acteristic for our thinking activity, for our wake

state, and for conversation; they are 13 to 30

Hz per cycle. Last not least, there are ultra

short brain waves, called gamma waves, which

are manifesting when our brain is in overdrive;

they are 31 to 120 Hz.

• Delta waves 0.5 – 3 Hz

Deeply asleep and not dreaming

• Theta waves 4 – 7 Hz

Drowsy and drifting down into sleep and dreams

• Alpha waves 8 – 12 Hz

State of relaxation or meditation

• Beta waves 13 – 30 Hz

Busily engaged in activity or conversation

• Gamma Waves 31 – 120 Hz

Hyper brain activity

In the state in which alpha waves are pre-

dominant in our brain, the two brain hemi-

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spheres have shown to be most coordinated.

This means that our thought processes while

we are in alpha are more integrated.

When are we in alpha? Typically, in the in-

terval between wake and sleep or, artificially

induced, while we do relaxation.

In alpha, typically our brain functions in a

way that left and right brain hemispheres work

together in synergistic cooperation.

Creative prayer over time reorients the

brain toward a more integrated functioning by

dissolving the habit to function only on the

left hemisphere, a habit we have been condi-

tioned to by our left-brain oriented education

and culture.

The second element that favors whole-

brain thinking is creative visualization, which

actively involves our spatial and pictorial

thought capabilities and helps our prayers to

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be accompanied by pictorial content. This

makes for an integrated functioning of the

two hemispheres during visualization because

imagination is a right-brain quality while recit-

ing the prayers, as it involves language, is per

se a left-brain activity. Visualization therefore

enhances imagination and stimulates the

right-brain hemisphere to participate in the

creative prayer process.

Become Spontaneous

Creative prayer, last not least, enhances

spontaneity. Spontaneity seems for many

people something childish, something they

think they can do without. Yet spontaneity is

not only important in social life and on sur-

prise parties, but it is a major factor in the

process of creation. Without spontaneity, we

always turn around in the same circles, we al-

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ways stick to the same procedures, we always

trod the same old paths.

Spontaneity typically means doing before

thinking! Action without involving thought is

more integrated and generally more holistic

than thought-based action.

I do not suggest that we can entirely live

without thought and base our whole life on

spontaneous action. To state this would be

silly. What I am saying is that we need a crea-

tive balance between routine, on one hand,

and spontaneous creation, on the other.

Zen considers spontaneity as an essential

part of a creative and happy life. The tech-

niques Zen uses for spiritual growth and self-

development are designed to block thought

processes in order to free our potential for

spontaneous creation and action.

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One of these techniques is the koan, a

riddle-like tricky way of expressing truth, a way

which is non-logical, non-rational or even im-

possible to grasp with thought. The koan

tricks our mind to block thought or to go

around the trap thought represents for true

creativity.

For someone who has never done Zen

meditation, it seems at the beginning almost

impossible to grasp the idea of the koan

technique or to resolve even a simple riddle.

This is not a question of intelligence! It is

the way we use our brain and how we organ-

ize thought. Only if we get used to imply intui-

tion in our thought processes, we can pro-

gress in Zen—and in life in general.

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PRACTICE CREA-TIVE PRAYER

❊

Having practiced creative prayer for now

about twenty years, I can say with conviction

that, if pursued seriously and over a certain

period of time, at least about three months,

even deeply ingrained thought habits will be-

gin to change.

In addition, our thought process as a whole

will be restructured, and creativity and spon-

taneous expression will be greatly enhanced

so that inventive original thought can come

up freely and lets us find new solutions to old

problems.

These solutions are often so simple and

seem so evident that we may ask how we

could not find them before?

Relaxation can be done either progres-

sively with physical exercises, or with music. I

myself prefer relaxation with music because it

has the special advantage to work easily for

brain coordination.

This can be done with physical exercises,

too, but with a little more effort from the side

of the participant. Musical relaxation insures

that changes will be brought about effort-

lessly.

Observing the lives of geniuses shows that

they usually dislike hard and ineffective learn-

ing, which is perhaps why many of them drop

out of school. And yet they typically learn ten

times faster than average people.

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This is so because they develop their own

learning techniques that bring learning and

pleasure together; they derive pleasure from

learning.

That is one of several reasons why they are

motivated for learning.

We are always motivated to engage in do-

ing what brings us pleasure. But there is more

to motivation. Even if learning as such gives us

pleasure, this pleasure will evaporate if the

matter we want to learn is felt as boring or off-

track.

How does creative prayer help to build

learning motivation? When we practice crea-

tive prayer, we receive directly or after a while

flashes of insight or we take spontaneous ini-

tiatives that show us what we are really inter-

ested in. It happens that people remember

early interests or childhood interests they had

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completely forgotten about. Intuitively we

know everything about ourselves, yet often we

do not regard intuitions as a serious source of

insight and knowledge. Our culture and edu-

cational systems do not favor this knowledge

and even more or less destroy it.

Learning Motivation

A very simple but powerful prayer for build-

ing learning motivation and ability is:

Learning is easy and enjoyable for me.

Teaching Motivation

For teachers, the corresponding prayer

would be:

Teaching is easy and enjoyable for me.

The enthusiastic teacher, the one who

teaches with joy and derives pleasure from

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teaching, conveys implicitly that the learning

process is an exciting adventure, even without

directly teaching learning skills. Anyway, what

are learning skills for? No learning skill can re-

late the pleasure the learning process itself

can provide, and no learning technique can

build the motivation for learning. A technique

is a technique, nothing more and nothing less.

It is a tool for realizing something on a practi-

cal level.

Learning and Techniques

Yet techniques do not generally affect our

inner attitudes, our motivation, or our mental

disposition. I do not talk now about mind-

techniques, of course. I talk about techniques

like a piano technique, a type-writing tech-

nique, a carving technique, a mathematical

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For most of us learning was and is an expe-

rience directly related to techniques, to the

learning of techniques. Yet learning at its ori-

gin is not something linked to a technique.

And there are many forms of knowledge other

than techniques. I think that learning motiva-

tion even evaporates if we concentrate exclu-

sively on learning techniques.

Practicing creative prayer, we develop

natural confidence in our inner wisdom and its

guidance, and we avoid over-stretching our-

selves.

Self-Healing

There are basic affirmations that open our

inner potential. Once we are in deep relaxa-

tion and our mind is open and receptive, we

can begin affirming:

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Every day and in every way, I am feeling

better and better.

This simple suggestion, developed by Dr.

Émile Coué, effects miracles; he was one of

the first pioneers of suggestive healing. In his

hospital in Nancy, France, he let his patients

repeat this powerful mantra while they were

relaxed, and doing some repetitive activity

such as sewing or embroidery.

Self-Acceptance

This mantra can be varied. Here is a prayer

for self-acceptance:

Every day, in all respects, I approve more of

myself.

In fact, many people are at pains with ac-

cepting themselves. What happens if we do

not entirely approve of ourselves? Well, in that


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case we continuously try to mold ourselves

into others’ expectations or what we believe

they expect from us. As a result, we are out of

our center and cannot realize our full poten-

tial. In addition, we feel stressed and unhappy.

The stress to comply with others’ needs can

affect one’s health and even cause heart dis-

ease. A prayer for counteracting to this would

be:

I realize my full potential from inside out.

The Principle of Inner and Outer Harmony

When I first got involved with scientific

prayer, twenty years ago, reading Joseph

Murphy’s The Power of Your Subconscious

Mind (1962/1982), I was especially moved by

Dr. Murphy’s stressing the necessity to formu-

late our needs in a way to bring good not only

to ourselves, but also to others.

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And I took this principle of harmony as my

point of departure. In fact, I had encountered

situations before that time that everybody ex-

cept me would have considered as very unfor-

tunate. All my friends asked me where I took

my optimism from?

But my faith in a good delivery seemed to

win over their skepticism; after having done

creative prayer for a few months, I heard from

a growing number of persons, including my

psychiatrist that I had ‘completely changed.’ I

myself was not much aware of it, besides the

simple fact that I felt better about myself.

I namely had stopped to constantly judge

and criticize myself as well as feeling guilty for

some of my habits. Well-meaning friends also

revealed to me that before this fundamental

change, I had tried to justify myself to a point

to apologize for my very existence. One said:


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‘It was up to a point that you tried to apolo-

gize for your mother having put you in the

world.’

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ACTIVATE SELF-HEALING

❊

Healing and self-healing are important is-

sues in our times of turmoil, transformation

and global change. Healing has a more uni-

versal connotation than mere curing a sick-

ness. Whereas people, when their body is af-

fected, may consult a physician and when they

have a mental health problem go to a psycho-

therapist, they may hesitate to see anybody

when they feel empty, depressed and bored

with life.

Depression is more complex and perhaps

more dangerous than any physical ailment,

and therefore it cannot be healed by palliative

medicine. Some will see a spiritual healer,

minister or counselor, but most will stay within

their shell of mistrust that is in most cases the

reason why they cannot get help. And this

mistrust in turn is not a fancy but has well

founded reasons in the past of these people.

There may have been some form of abuse

or a heavy loss of trust in life, and in people.

There are wounds that need to heal but that

often have never been identified since these

wounds are invisible.

The solution, then, can only come from our

own inner source and not from outside sense-

givers. But this source has to be found before

this can happen; its existence must be ac-

knowledged so that its healing powers can be

activated. This means we have to connect to

it, and by doing so get embedded in our

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original continuum. Thus healing is first of all

self-healing.

How to activate this self-healing process?

How to trigger the process of linking back to

our primary source of being, to the I-AM force

in us?

There are several ways. One of the easiest

and certainly the most practical one is creative

prayer. The fantastic thing about this tech-

nique is that it is similar to Lao-tzu’s famous

wuwei or action through non-action.

On the outside level, we really do nothing

else but reciting some affirmations. But inside

a lot is going to change. And this form of

medicine, unlike most other medicine, has

really no side effects. The most marvelous is

perhaps that our inner wisdom is triggered

and activated which means that—

‣ We attract every possible help we may need;

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‣ We are freed from resistance to accepting this help;

‣ We are protected from becoming a victim of charlatans;

‣ We are peacefully freed from negative rela-tionships;

‣ We are gradually building a new self-image.

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BUILD SELF-CONFIDENCE

❊

In the old myths and fairy tales the hero is a

person who, through the patient mastering of

all kinds of obstacles, got to gain the princess

and the kingdom. He is rewarded because he

achieved inner unity, symbolized by the prin-

cess, as well as outer standing, symbolized by

the kingdom.

All heroes are driven by an idea, be it mar-

riage with the king’s daughter, be it the reali-

zation of some skill or mastership. The mar-

riage, love and sexual fulfillment and the chil-

dren as the fruit of this union symbolize the

élan vital, the life force that animates the hero,

his personal power or charisma, as we would

say today, his self-confidence, his inner

strength. It is the force that builds courage

which in turn conquers fear and leads us to

new horizons and achievements; it is our in-

herent power of renewal.

Optimism mixed with a good portion of

pride and unfettered self-confidence charac-

terizes for example the Virtuous Tailor in the

old German fairy tale.

What in fact is self-confidence? Is it faith,

and can it be enhanced through creative

prayer?

The etymology of the word is interesting.

Self-confidence means confidence in the self.

The self, as teaches Ramana Maharshi, is our

guide, our true I-AM force.

Self-confidence, it seems, is not pride let

alone vanity, but simply faith. What myths and

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fairy tales convey us is nothing different from

the wisdom that the religions teach: the best

way is to found one’s life upon the direction

that we receive through our higher self.

Creative prayer is the easiest and most

natural way to feed this faith constantly. Be-

hold, faith does not negate our human emo-

tions; it accepts and affirms them. It also ac-

cepts our weaknesses, our fears and doubts,

knowing that our greatest weakness will be

our greatest strength.

The faithful person knows that negating

the human nature is a defense, and is pro-

duced by fear. We could say that faith means

to believe that we will win despite our fears

and doubts, despite all that seems to be oth-

erwise an obstacle on our way to victory. Faith

helps to bring about this alchemical process in

us. What is life other than a magic circle, a cir-


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cle that serves to fulfill certain tasks in order

for us to progress on our evolutionary spiral?

Reading fairy tales is revealing. They are

highly initiatory and express eternal truths and

wisdom in a beautiful picturesque language, a

language that also children understand be-

cause it is non-intellectual and poetic.

Fairy tales teach us that all masochistic

worldviews and fundamentalist religious opin-

ions are deeply wrong and that we are right,

right from the beginning, in pursuing the de-

sires of our heart. Fairy tales encourage us to

work on ourselves to increase our strength,

self-confidence and courage since these

qualities are highly important to succeed in

whatever we want to do.

This is the reason why fairy tales are so im-

portant for children and adolescents. And

they reach the deeper mind of our children

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much more directly than our ordinary lan-

guage does because they are written in the

language of poetry which is the language of

the unconscious mind, the language of hyp-

nosis, and the language of children. And it is

the language of creative prayer. It is the lan-

guage in which our various religious scriptures

originally were drafted, be it the Torah, the

Bible, the Koran, the Vedas or others.

This language is rich in symbols, simple in

semantics and grammar, yet colorful and sug-

gestive. It is the language of the old myths

and sagas. When we listen to this language, it

sounds organic, simple and powerful. But eve-

ryone who has tried to write it knows how dif-

ficult it is to convey the world of dream and

occult mythology with ordinary words.

Folk wisdom says one had to be born a

poet. Yet people who either have successfully


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followed psychotherapy or found inner peace

through prayer or meditation unanimously

testify that the language of poetry once of a

sudden begins to flow like water from a well.

Gabrielle Carmi, an inspirational author

from Switzerland, reports that she wrote her

texts for the most part after long meditations

and that these texts were, to her own surprise,

written in a poetical imaginative language that

she could barely identify as being her own, so

different was it from her ordinary writing style.

I do not say that we need a therapy to get

there; whatever we use to become centered

and find inner peace will produce amazing re-

sults, if only, as I pointed out in the beginning,

we believe that this event is a probability and

accept it as such. This means that we do not

shut any door or exclude any potential out-

come when we start with the prayers.

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If, for example, we prefer using relaxing

music to get into a different state of con-

sciousness, or we use colors, or we make

spontaneous drawings, or else engage in

automatic writing, it makes no difference.

We all have preferences and should re-

spect them, because all these different ways

lead to the same source.

A good way also is to paint or print a sym-

bol on top of a page and then write a one-

page impression about this symbol, a sponta-

neous text that simply expresses what the

symbol triggered in our emotions and in our

intuition.

The themes and contents of such tales can

reveal surprising inner truths; they in fact de-

liver messages from our subconscious mind.

They often give hints to our present life situa-


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tion and can show new ways and solutions to

problems that burden us.

When we assume the power of our imagi-

nation, we will use it when we do creative

prayer. However, since our capacity of imagi-

nation and visualization is individually very dif-

ferent, creative visualization is not a must. In

fact, we can do without. While this may

slightly retard the outcome of our prayers, the

absence of visual images does not render

creative prayer ineffective.

The most important, to repeat it, is not

visualization but relaxation before starting our

daily prayer sessions. This is so because our

brain is something like a bioelectric organism;

it runs on frequencies, as we have seen al-

ready. Depending on the state of mind in

which we are, the length of our bioelectric

brain waves is different. For example, when

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we are fully awake, our brain works predomi-

nantly on beta waves. When we sleep, we are

in theta or even delta.

Particular attention merits the alpha state

because when our brain works predominantly

on alpha waves, it has certain very valuable

characteristics: it is highly coordinated and ex-

tremely receptive. As the alpha state is the

state in which we are between wake and

sleep, we actually do not need to learn any

sophisticated relaxation technique to get into

alpha, except we want to induce the light

trance at other times of the day. For this pur-

pose, for example for creating art, doing

brainstorming, or for finding new ideas, we

may resort to any relaxation technique, such

as progressive relaxation or relaxation with

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Progressive relaxation has been created in

1926 by Professor Jacobsen from Harvard Uni-

versity, USA. It is a technique that relaxes the

mind through relaxing the body. It progresses

step-by-step, hence the term, typically by re-

laxing an arm, then a leg, then the neck, the

eye muscles, and so on. The secret behind

this simple technique is what we today call

biofeedback. When I want to relax, my mere

will to relax is by far not enough to really get

me into deep relaxation. I need my body to

help me. The body helps by giving a feed-

back. So I simply tell my body what to do. I

say:

—When I relax my arm, I get a slightly hot

sensation in the arm muscles.

And the body responds by creating a warm

sensation in your arm. Thus, the body feed-

back reinforces your intention to relax. When

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you feel hotter every time, you go on doing

this with another limb of your body; this feed-

back greatly helps your mind to really relax,

and focus. It’s a fantastic technique because

it’s so simple and so effective. Its effectiveness

comes from the fact that our body is intelli-

gent.

I myself prefer and practice relaxation with

music simply because I have more experience

with music than with psychosomatic tech-

niques. This is so because I am a musician,

first of all, before being a lawyer, writer or

coach. This does not mean that I belittle Dr.

Jacobsen’s technique, but I think it’s better to

stick to what you really know.

By simply playing some relaxing tunes on

the piano, I was able once to hypnotize a

classroom with more than fifty orphan chil-

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orphans in Jamaica in 1988. After about fif-

teen minutes, all children had their heads on

their arms and were found to be in deep

slumber. And this was the case even with

highly disturbed and insomniac children. As

the German orphanage director could not be-

lieve what the teacher told her, she ran out of

her office to see with her own eyes what she

called ‘a miracle’.

Highly self-managed persons who are free

of bodily tensions and negative emotions are

able to switch consciously their state of mind

from beta to alpha, thereby opening their in-

ner space for the reception of creative intui-

tion, inspiration and a higher form of energy

which is involved in creation.

When we are relaxed, we can use one of

the following prayers in order to build more

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self-confidence. Every prayer has to be re-

peated over and over again in the alpha state:

PRAYER ONE

I am naturally, comfortably, and more and

more sure of myself.

PRAYER TWO

I feel more and more myself and self-

secured in every situation.

PRAYER THREE

I trust my innate wisdom to realize all my

gifts and talents.


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CREATE INNER PEACE

❊

Here I would like to unfold a regard on how

to realize inner peace.

Many religions have tried to force peace

upon man by dogma, prohibitions and pun-

ishment. Clerical and worldly forces have im-

prisoned the human animal in a set of tight

rules, laws and prescriptions that resulted in

rendering man a violent creature, full of con-

tempt, rebellion, strife and turmoil.

To get out of this net of obligations and the

feeling of oppression that goes along with it,

man is caught in an endless pursuit of pleas-

ure. To make it worse, through the split in

man’s mental and emotional setup as a result

of the schizoid dualism that judging our emo-

tions in good and bad ones brings about,

man’s psyche is divided in a conscious or offi-

cial part and an unconscious or unofficial one.

Through the process of so-called civiliza-

tion and primarily the school system with mass

indoctrination and the disregard of the indi-

vidual as a unique soul-being, humanity has in

fact devoluted since the end of the great Mi-

noan and other pre-patriarchal cultures of An-

tiquity, and evolution has made it only in the

tiny range of technological advancement

while in all other areas of life, we are today

more barbarous than eight or twelve thousand

years ago.

The solution for world peace is entirely dif-

ferent from what clerical and worldly powers

have ever taught us. In fact, only those who

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were considered as heretics, saints or proph-

ets have told the truth. Buddha, when he was

alive, found truth by human struggle and suf-

fering, but after his death his teachings were

perverted into their exact contrary. Through

levitating the man Buddha into a god-like

tower of virtue, the applicability of his teach-

ings for us was eroded. And the same hap-

pened with the teaching of J. Krishnamurti

who, in accordance with the Buddha, taught

total freedom as the only viable modus

vivendi at the root of man’s quest for sense

and soul.

To establish inner peace and peace in the

outside world, we must first of all embrace all

that is in us. This will enable us to embrace the

world, and all-that-is.

What happens when we repress certain de-

sires or emotions and discard them from our

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awareness? We will lose sight over them and

at the end they will take over control and

dominate us. Inner peace can only be estab-

lished if we make an end to our inner fight

and overcome our fragmentation.

Why should we make peace? What is the

value of being in peace with oneself or oth-

ers?

I think that for many people peace is but a

concept or a nice word or some kind of ideal

but nothing they really give a priority in their

lives. However, if you do not put energy in

what you want to achieve, nothing will hap-

pen. It means we have to put energy into this

wish, this very desire to be in peace with all-

that-is.

This simply means that, if we want some-

thing to grow, we have to care for the seed.

We have to water the plant, put it in the sun or

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give some fertilizer. The same applies for our

inner life. If we want to let something grow in-

side of us, we have to take care of the seed,

water it and put it in the sun, the sun of our

inner energy! Put some energy into peace

also means to take some energy out of war,

the war within ourselves, our inner struggles,

and the war with others or what we call ‘cir-

cumstances.’

Circumstances are but reflections of our in-

ner life, projected upon the interface of out-

ward reality. From our inner state, the screen

of our thought and our conscious and uncon-

scious beliefs, energy irradiates into the uni-

verse that brings about changes; it drives us

and others to various kinds of actions.

Depending on the level of integration and

harmony of our inner actors, the resulting ac-

tions are effective or ineffective, constructive

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or destructive, harmonious or disruptive. All

those beliefs form a coherent projection sys-

tem, something like a slide projector we carry

inside of us. On this screen we project images,

memories, fantasies and visions. We can con-

trol the outcome, the projection, by control-

ling our thought and our emotions.

It is through this form of inner control that

we handle intelligently our outer world and

lives.

I would like to recall the old Chinese gen-

eral Sun-tzu who wrote the legendary book

The Art of War. Sun-tzu who was a teacher not

only of war but also of life said that in order to

maintain peace we must prepare for war. This

sounds like a paradox and seemingly is one.

Sun-tzu knew that peace is not a static situa-

tion and that for establishing peace we need

to constantly maintain a dynamic balance be-

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tween inner and outer forces. As such, peace

can only be maintained through balancing

those forces or energies. And this is again not

something we do once forever, but which

needs to be done at every moment, con-

stantly, at every moment of our life, as a never-

ending task.

This also means that we have to deal with

everything in us and around us that is disturb-

ing peace, by first of all taking it serious, and

second, work on its integration. Taking inner

struggles serious means to stop the struggle,

the inner war, by giving a higher priority to in-

ner peace.

How, then, to stop the inner war? We stop

the inner war by giving up moralistic concepts

because those concepts make for inner war.

Second, we do it by meditating about

peace instead of staying with should’s and

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ought-to’s that moralistic upbringing has in-

stilled in us. Meditating on peace does not

necessarily mean to sit cross-legged for hours

every day. It does not mean either to declare

peace an ideal to strive after. Ideals are in

practice as destructive as moralistic concepts

and get us into inner conflicts instead of help-

ing us to integrate conflicting opposites.

Meditation means first of all acceptance of

all our inner drives and conflicts and second,

passive awareness. When we are truly atten-

tive at every moment to the whole of our inner

and outer life experience, new integrated so-

lutions will come up that show us the way to

peace.

These solutions will come up spontane-

ously and intuitively. Intellectual constructs or

mere reasoning will not lead us out of our in-

ner chaos and fight. Nor will the big words of

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famous gurus, be they from a spiritual or a

business background.

The only guru that can truly help you is

your inner guide, your true self. It is thus your

task to find and connect to your self and to

develop and allow its involvement in your

daily thought and work.

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POSTFACE

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In this article we have seen that the ‘spiri-

tual track’ is not necessarily the honest track,

nor is it the track that leads to a transpersonal

understanding of reality.

Stan Grof, the founder of transpersonal

psychology, has stressed that for developing

an authentic spiritual understanding of life, it

is paramount to get beyond social and cul-

tural conditioning.

This was the reason why Grof experi-

mented several years with LSD and psychoac-

tive drugs, because he saw that when humans

get to strip off their conditioning, by whatever

means, they are suddenly connected, totally

and forever, with their inner being, their

unique spiritual identity.

And by being connected to their own at-

man, their own spirit guide, they are also con-

nected with brahman, the universal spirit, the

cosmic intention that is the creator force for

the whole of the universe.

The late Albert Hofmann, of Sandoz Labo-

ratories in Switzerland, discoverer of LSD, was

a naturally religious person, whose intention

was to help us discover our own unique spiri-

tual connectivity, without being sidetracked by

organized religion and ideology.

Terence McKenna, an explorer of reality,

and parallel realities, came to exactly the

same conclusions, as he asserted that looking

beyond the fence of our cultural conditioning

is a key element in true spiritual growth and

evolution. When you remain on the level of

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the persona, the social mask, you cannot but

follow your sense-givers, your religions, your

ideological molds and concepts, and you are

disconnected from your true mission and

dharma.

To connect with your soul reality, you need

to unwind this social and cultural conditioning

as much as possible. This does however not

mean that you will end up as a clochard or

hermit.

It means that you remain questioning the

outside reality you are facing, the culture in

which you are embedded, the society of which

you are a citizen.

This quest, if it is honest and nonjudgmen-

tal, is individual and personal, and it’s a matter

of peaceful transformation.

It will not trigger a bloody revolution, nor

will you go out to missionarize for your point

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of view. In this sense, this personal transforma-

tion, this revolution is, to use Krishnamurti’s

words, psychological—and not political.

I have shown in this essay that one of the

most important elements in Life Authoring is

creative prayer, a self-coaching technique that

helped me heal the emotional scars originat-

ing from adverse childhood experiences, and

a climate, in which I grew, that I felt as oppres-

sive and manipulative.

I have equally shown in this essay that crea-

tive prayer is not a religious concept and was

not taken over from any religion; it doesn’t in-

terfere with your religious concepts and it

doesn’t sidetrack you from your particular re-

ligious worship and dogma. It is not normative

in the sense that it doesn’t consider itself to

be the only way there is for self-coaching,

healing and building self-confidence.

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In this sense, it is humble enough to rec-

ognize that there are many ways to perceive

reality, and that agnosticism is not to be

frowned upon simply because it denies a god

concept.

Let me repeat here the perhaps most im-

portant reason why I talk about prayer, and

not about auto-suggestion, self-suggestion,

or auto-hypnosis. First of all, and despite of

some overlapping, creative prayer is not to be

confounded with auto-hypnosis.

You are not going to hypnotize yourself

when you repeat positive affirmations. You

stay fully awake, while you are, and should be,

relaxed.

The overlapping here is that relaxation is

indeed the first stage in the process of hyp-

notic induction, but only the first of several

stages.

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That is why I speak of overlapping, but still

the two techniques have nothing in common

except that they start out with relaxation.

So far, so good. However, there is well a

difference between creative prayer and prayer

concepts that involve a personal god. To

stand for a god concept is a potential source

of strife, and a potential source of antinomy.

It is for that and other reasons that I chose

to define prayer in a way to be valid even

without a god concept. Without using such a

concept, I however fully affirm that there is in-

ner guidance, that there is a universal kind of

intelligence, that there is a creator force, and

that there is resonance and synergy in a uni-

verse that is conscious, responsive and holo-

graphic.

Not many would have guessed just half a

century ago that the scientific revolution

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would also bring about a religious revolution,

and at the same time a psychological revolu-

tion.

When we pray, we address that universal

field, called the quantum field, the zero-point

field, the quantum scale, or the quantum vac-

uum. While these scientific terms differ in

some ways, what is basic to all of them is the

fact that this universal field is both an energy

field, and an information field.

We have here, on the subatomic level, a

convergence phenomenon set in place, where

all experience in our universe can be de-

scribed as a constant, multi-vectorial and

complex energy and information flow that is

instantly updated when any new information

arises.

Some speak of the Akashic field, or the

Akasha library of emotional patterns, or the

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universal pattern library. Plato had perhaps

the first vision of that field when he spoke

about the eidós, the ideas.

Hence, apart from the technique itself, that

I have sufficiently explained in this article, it is

important to behold that creative prayer is a

modern technique to connect with our inner

quantum field level, also called atman, in

Hindu religion, the holy spirit of Christian re-

ligion, the indwelling spirit in the Sufi esoteric

teaching, or the Buddha Nature known in Zen.

In its functional usefulness, creative prayer

is to be defined as a technique that helps in-

ner healing, inner growth, soul expansion and

soul healing, without having in any way the in-

tention to replace the prayer that religions de-

fine and ordain for their followers.

In fact, I have been reproached by some of

those who know about my polyglot spirit that

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regarding creative prayer, I was unnecessarily

restricting myself to a ‘Christian’ mindset, and

that the method could not be possibly ap-

plied by people who adhere to other religious

beliefs and dogmas.

I strongly contradict. While Ernest Holmes

and Joseph Murphy, the founders of the

original method they called ‘scientific prayer’

were indeed focused upon a god-concept

and applied the prayer technique they in-

vented in that way, I was opposed from the

start to their dogmatic views and for that very

reason renamed the method into Creative

Prayer.

Later I found out to my surprise that the

term is since long known in the Sufi tradition,

which is the wisdom quest of Islam. I believe

that not only Christians, but also Muslims,

Jews and Buddhists, and even Taoists can

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practice creative prayer, precisely because the

method is not based upon a particular relig-

ion, nor a god-concept.

And let’s go up one level in the hierarchy of

wisdom, and ask what prayer in fact repre-

sents? In other words, is prayer worship? Is

prayer an expression of being signed up with

a particular religious faith? It may be so inside

of religions, but it’s not outside. In real life,

prayer simply is a form of connecting with our

inner source, our inner wisdom, our inner

guide.

Thus prayer is a wisdom quest just as the

sweat-lodge is with native Americans, or sacri-

fice was for ancient religions, or regular tither

is for the practicing Jew.

And there is a reason why I called this

method creative prayer.

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Psychoneuroimmunology delivered much

evidence for the fact that mind and body are

mere concepts; there is simply no such sepa-

ration; body and mind are one, and there is

intelligence in every cell, and our emotions

are not in the brain, as modern psychology

still wrongly believes, but in the human energy

field. There is also our memory, as it’s a func-

tion of emotional flow, while the matrix is

somehow reflected in the brain, but that is like

the copy of an image. The image itself is con-

tained in the aura or luminous body.

This being said, I made it clear enough in

this booklet that I refuse to ‘agnosticize’ my

technique, calling it ‘auto-suggestion’ or the

like because we are not machines, we are not

mechanical devices, we are not ‘gadgets’ of

nature, but spirit beings by nature. We are

connected in the quantum field and religio

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simply means to connect with our primordial

energy source.

Prayer is not really an intellectual process.

It’s actually your body talking to your body,

your physical body talking to the complete

body, which consists of seven layers of energy

that have different density.

Hence, prayer, in the sense not as religions

use it, but in the sense of a psychological tool,

is a way to connect with the quantum field, by

sending out vibrations into the universe that

return to us in the form of what we desire, be

it money, wealth, love, relationships of value,

business connections, good health, wellbeing,

and so forth. That’s how it works, not more,

and not less.

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Glossary

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Terms

Alpha, Alpha State

Our two brain hemispheres carry out differ-ent tasks and are organized in different ways. We reach our full creative potential only if we imply the right brain in our thought processes and thus think with both brain hemispheres simultaneously en-gaged.

This means that our thought processes have to be coordinated so that they work as one whole integrated thought process. Not only learning but all our creative potential is greatly enhanced from the moment we use the full brain. relaxation induces in our brain the so-called alpha-state, a state of higher receptivity, which brings about higher coor-dination between brain hemispheres. In the state in which alpha waves (9-13 Hz) are predominant, the two brain hemispheres

have shown to be most coordinated. When are we in alpha? Typically, in the interval be-tween wake and sleep or, artificially in-duced, while we do relaxation. In alpha, typically our brain functions in a way that left and right brain hemispheres work in sync, through a process of synergistic and complementary cooperation. This greatly enhances memory and increases our overall learning capacities.

Brain and Mind Research

Latest consciousness research strongly sug-gests that mind and brain are not the same, but that the brain is something like an inter-face for the mind, and that, therefore, mind is the larger notion, and bears an essential connectedness with the whole of the uni-verse and creation.

This holistic view of the brain-mind replaces the former view that saw mind and brain as separated and that gave an undue impor-tance and exclusiveness to the human brain in explaining cognition. Typically, this scien-tific residue paradigm was unable to ex-plain extrasensorial perception (ESP) and generally, psychic phenomena.

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Besides, this general agreement, systems research has shed a particularly important light upon the relationship between mind and brain. Fritjof Capra explains in his book The Web of Life (1997) that still back in 1994 the editors of an anthology titled Con-sciousness in Philosophy and Cognitive Neuroscience stated frankly in their intro-duction: ‘Even though everybody agrees that mind has something to do with the brain, there is still no general agreement on the exact nature of this relationship.’

He then explains that science was held by Descartes’ assumption that mind is a thing, the ‘thinking thing’ (res cogitans).

However, systems research has brought to daylight that mind is not a thing but a process—the process of cognition, which is identified with the process of life itself. Ca-pra then explains that the brain simply is the structure through which this process of cognition operations. The relationship be-tween mind and brain, therefore is one be-tween process and structure.

Capra finally adds that the entire structure of the organism participates in the process of cognition whether or not the organism has a brain and a higher nervous system. (Id., 175-176).

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—David Bohm, Wholeness and the Implicate

Order (2002) and Thought as a System (1994),

Gregory Bateson, Steps to an Ecology of Mind

(2000), Fritjof Capra, The Turning Point (1982/

1987), The Web of Life (1996/1997), The Hidden

Connections (2002), Stanislav Grof, Beyond the

Brain (1985) and The Holotropic Mind (1993),

Michael Talbot, The Holographic Universe

(1992), Amit Goswami, The Self-Aware Universe

(1995), Dean Radin, The Conscious Universe

(1997), Lynne McTaggart, The Field (2002),

Hameroff et. al, Consciousness: 20 Scientists

Interviewed, DVD (2003).

Cartesian Science and Worldview

A Cartesian or Newtonian worldview is a life philosophy marked by a dominance of de-ductive and logical thinking to the detri-ment of the qualities of the right brain such as associative and imaginative thinking, and generally fantasy. It’s also a worldview that tends to disregard or deny dreams and dreaming, extrasensorial, multisensorial perception and ESP faculties, as well as genuine spirituality.

The term Cartesian has been coined from the name of French philosopher René Des-

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cartes. While nature is coded in energy pat-terns, Cartesian scientists deny the cosmic energy field as a ‘vitalistic theory’; they have split mind and matter into opposite poles.

Historically, and philosophically, it was not René Descartes who has been at the origin of this schizoid worldview, but the so-called Eleatic School, a philosophical movement in ancient Greece that opposed the holistic and organic worldview represented by the philosophy of Heraclites; but it was through the affirmation and pseudo-scientific cor-roboration of the ancient Eleatic dualism that in the history of Western science, the reductionist approach to reality, which is ac-tually a fallacy of perception, became the dominant science paradigm between ap-proximately the 17th and the 20th centuries.

We are right now at a point in time where this limited worldview is gradually being overcome and replaced by the novel in-sights of quantum physics, systems theory, and a new holistic science paradigm that connects us back to the oldest of wisdom traditions.

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Consciousness

Consciousness basically consists of three major elements: Perception, Information Processing, and Energy.

The most important part of my scientific observation of consciousness is that it con-tains energy, the information field, or hu-man energy field, so that energy must be seen as a constituent part of it, next to per-ception and information processing.

In Western scientific history, the energy part of consciousness has been consistently blinded out from scrutiny and occulted, to a point that in modern society, there is a huge knowledge gap about the human energy field as a result of this cultural and religious prohibition of the ‘tree of knowledge.’

Consequently, my consciousness research is focused upon bringing in the missing links so as to arrive at a unified field of integra-tive perception and thus a coherent model of consciousness.

—David Bohm, Wholeness and the Implicate

Order (2002), Thought as a System (1994),

Gregory Bateson, Steps to an Ecology of Mind

(2000), Fritjof Capra, The Turning Point (1987),

The Web of Life (1997), The Hidden Connec-

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tions (2002), Amit Goswami, The Self-Aware

Universe (1995), Stanislav Grof, Beyond the

Brain (1985), The Holotropic Mind (1993), The

Three Levels of Human Consciousness (1993),

Hameroff, Newberg, Woolf, Bierman, Ra-

machandran, Chalmers, Consciousness: 20 Sci-

entists Interviewed, Director: Gregory Alsbury, 5

DVD Box Set (2003), Dean Radin, The Con-

scious Universe (1997), Lynne McTaggart, The

Field (2002), Michael Talbot, The Holographic

Universe (1992).

Creative Visualization

Creative Visualization is based on the in-sight that through thought forms and emo-tional patterns, we impact upon the outer world, be this influence positive or nega-tive.

Thus creative visualization helps us achieve higher by teaching correct thinking and right action, by changing our thoughts so as to bring them in alignment with cosmic in-tention. Creative visualization ideally ac-companies creative prayer and can be said to be a basic technique underlying positive thinking. It is frequently used by athletes to enhance their performance.

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For example, a golfer may visualize the ‘perfect’ stroke over and over again to men-tally train muscle memory. It can also be used to attract certain positive events or to find the right partner or business partner. Creative visualization is different from day-dreaming in only one respect, namely that it is intentional and purposeful. Creative visu-alization is increasingly used in modern psychotherapies, for stress relief and for curing psychosomatic diseases.

Direct Perception

Direct Perception is the primary mode of learning that nature applies in evolution. Direct perception is the mode the human brain uses to receive and store information in its capacity as a passively organizing sys-tem. The child learns his or her first lan-guage through direct perception, the picking-up of whole patterns, using the in-tegrative and associative mode of the right brain. Obedience and imitation are not the appropriate means to develop the human potential; therefore civilization can only function on an outside or superficial level, but not as a motor of integrating man into a truly functional power unit that is operating on all levels at once.

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The mainstream educational system has put this natural intelligent and holistic learning mode upside down in forcing children to learn with their left brain hemisphere only, cutting off the necessary mode of synthesis provided by the right brain hemisphere. This is the single major reason why the modern educational system, while it is very costly, is totally ineffective, and brings about people who are alienated from their own inner source, out of touch as they are with their innermost human potential. This also is the reason for the astonishing lack of creativity in the corporate world, that the world-famous coach and corporate trainer Edward de Bono deplored in his books.

Emotional Intelligence

Emotional Intelligence is one of the four types of intelligence, which are logical-rational intelligence, emotional intelligence, graphical-spacial intelligence and tactile intelligence. Emotional intelligence is espe-cially active when it goes to understand re-lationships, human affairs, and the psycho-logical implications within them.

—Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence

(1995).

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I Ching

The I Ching or Book of Changes is the old-est of the Chinese classic texts. A symbol system designed to identify order in what appear to be chance events, it describes an ancient system of cosmology and philoso-phy that is at the heart of Chinese cultural beliefs. It is based on the alternation of complementary energies called Yin and Yang, which are developmental poles that by their alternation trigger inevitable change. It is also based on the old integra-tive philosophy of the five elements that is part of many other esoteric science tradi-tions. The philosophy centers on the ideas of the dynamic balance of opposites, the evolution of events as a process, and ac-ceptance of the inevitability of change.

The I Ching consists of 64 hexagrams. Each hexagram or kua is an energy pattern that is a unique mix of the two base energies, yin and yang, represented symbolically by lines. Yang is represented by a solid line, yin by a dotted line. Each hexagram is com-posed of six lines, and two trigrams consist-ing of three lines each. The lower trigram deals with matters that are in their begin-ning stage, from the start of a project until about half of its realization. The upper tri-gram deals with the culmination and the

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end of processes or projects, positively or negatively.

The I Ching has been a book for divination and relief, and for spiritual learning for many great and famous people such as Confucius, Hermann Hesse, John Lennon, Carl Gustav Jung, and many others. I per-sonally consult the I Ching on a regular ba-sis since 1990, as well as Astrology and the Tarot since the 1980s.

—Richard Wilhelm, The I Ching or Book of

Changes (1967), Helmut Wilhelm, The Wilhelm

Lectures on the Book of Changes (1995), Hua-

Ching Ni, I Ching: The Book of Changes and

the Unchanging Truth (1999), Alfred Huang, The

Complete I Ching (1998), Richard Wilhelm &

Charles Baynes, The I Ching or Book of

Changes (1967), John Blofeld, The Book of

Changes (1965), Thomas Cleary, The Taoist I

Ching (1986), R.L. Wing, The I Ching Workbook

(1984).

Inner Selves

GENERALITIES

Inner Selves are energies in our psyche that form part of our total and integral whole-ness. In the ideal case, they should be bal-

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anced and in harmony with each other. This means that all inner selves ideally should work in sync, as a sort of inner team, in which all members are fully awake and communicate with each other. In most peo-ple’s psyche, however, the inner child is somnolent or asleep, and either the inner parent or the inner adult dominate the psy-che. While the truth about our inner selves goes back to Antiquity, the insight in mod-ern times has been made fruitful for psy-chiatry through Eric Berne in 1950, the founder of Transactional Analysis (TA).

He recognized three essential inner selves: Inner Child, Inner Parent and Inner Adult. In my own research and work with the inner dialogue, I encountered the presence of additional entities such as the Inner Con-troller or Inner Critic as the instance in the psyche that represents the societal, cultural and moral values that we have internalized through education and early conditioning. If the Inner Critic hijacks the psyche, we are unable to realize our love wishes, nor can we be creative. In addition to these inner selves, I encountered an entity of superior wisdom that I called Lux and a shadow en-tity I called Sad King and which embodied repressed emotions that had turned into sadistic drives.

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INNER CHILD

Inner Child is a psychic entity, part-personality, or psychic energy, created be-tween our 7th and 14th year of life, and that is part of our inner triangle. Positively, the inner child energy is primarily emotional and wistful, predominantly creative. It is the motor of every human being’s creativity. It can be said to be the creative motor, the very source energy in humans that makes that we can be spontaneous, creative and sometimes a little mad, to go beyond the limiting framework of the rational and re-petitive mind. Negatively, the inner child is either mute or cataleptic so that its energy cannot manifest, or else its energy is domi-nant in the psyche or turned upside-down which makes an inner child that is rebel-lious, capricious, willful or overbearing, producing the ‘clochard’ personality, the ‘hippie’, the ‘anarchist’, the ‘eternal student’ and abuser of the social system.

INNER ADULT

Inner Adult is a psychic entity, part-personality or psychic energy that repre-sents our logical thinking, our reason, our maturity. Positively, it makes for our bal-anced decisions, our down-to-earth attitude and our sense for daily responsibilities. Negatively, the inner adult manifests as the

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intellectual nerd or through emotional fri-gidity, cynicism or an obsession to measure human relations on a scale of reasonable-ness or straightness without considering the emotional dimension. The dominant inner adult energy plays a major role in modern education where it results in devastating damage on the next generations’ emo-tional integrity. The dominant inner adult also produces the ‘professional skeptic’, the obnoxious ‘total rationalist’ who considers ten percent of the human nature as pre-dominantly important, flushing the other ninety percent down the toilet!

INNER PARENT

Inner Parent is a psychic entity, part-personality or psychic energy that repre-sents our inner value standards, our moral attitudes, our caring for self and others, but negatively also our judging others, our I-know-better attitude or blunt interference into the lives of others without regard for their privacy. The dominant inner parent energy plays a recurring role in tyrannical and persecutory societal, religious and po-litical systems.

INNER TRIANGLE/INNER TEAM

The term inner triangle or inner team is an expression that denotes two things. First, it

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is a summary of the main inner energies, the inner child, inner adult and inner parent who can be seen to be in a triangular rela-tionship. Second, the expression also sug-gests that there should be balance or har-mony between these inner entities so that neither of them dominates the psyche and that they react flexibly, not in a stiff manner, to any events that arise, or in communica-tions with the outside world.

INNER DIALOGUE

The inner dialogue is a technique to get in touch with our inner selves through relaxa-tion or self-hypnosis and subsequent dia-logues with one or several of our inner selves, in a state of light trance. The state of light trance can be self-induced, with no facilitator needed, and outside of a psycho-therapy. The inner dialogue should ideally be fixed on paper, at least in the beginning, because the voices that come up are very soft and writing down the dialogues helps to keep focus. The technique is also called Voice Dialogue, for example by Stone & Stone, in their book Embracing Our Selves (1982). However, the expression could mis-lead novice users as the ‘voices’ are not really voices of course, as they are not to be heard with our ears, but something like flashes of intuition, or sudden precisely

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formulated thoughts that seem to come ‘from nowhere.’

Intuition

Intuition is inner knowledge that typically manifests spontaneously and that is all-wise and non-judgmental, broad in scope and wistful; typically, intuition is transpersonal in intent, not ego-based, thus manifesting something like cosmic intention. In the old wisdom traditions, intuition was more highly valued than in modern consumer culture; it was typically called ‘the knowledge of the heart.’

Koan

Zen Buddhists learn the art of holistic dia-logue. The whole of Zen training puts a stress on the fallacies inherent in mere ver-bal communication; the koan system they developed is a unique way of transmitting truth nonverbally. Zen considers spontane-ity as an essential part of a creative and happy life. The techniques Zen uses for self-development are designed to block thought processes in order to free humans’ potential for spontaneous creation and ac-tion. The Koan is a way to get to directly

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experience truth, by circumventing the thought interface. This is how the non-logical, non-rational and emotional realms can be integrated.

Koans are riddles which are meant to make the student of Zen realize the limitations of logic reasoning. The irrational wording and paradoxical content of these riddles make it impossible to solve them via the thought process. Hence, they are designed precisely to stop the thought process and make sure the student uses intuition, directly experi-enced truth, for the direct perception of re-ality.

Life Authoring

People generally know what authoring is, as for example authoring a book. But can one author one’s life? While this sounds some-what queer and pretentious, I have thor-oughly tested it before I came to present it as a self-coaching method that facilitates self-healing, by helping overcome an early abuse trauma, healing depressions, and it helps realizing unused talents, virgin poten-tial, or an ‘old dream.’

I designed three concise elements, tech-niques or activities in life authoring. None

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of them was invented by myself, but I have developed them into elements of a coher-ent system of tools, or method. They should be done simultaneously, and on a daily ba-sis for the time of at least one month. The day should be started and ended by 5 to 15 minutes of Creative Prayer, then Story Writ-ing should by preference be done in the morning, and Voice Dialogue and Sponta-neous Art in the late afternoon or evening.

Quantum Physics

DEFINITION

Quantum Physics or quantum mechanics is a fundamental branch of theoretical physics with wide applications in experimental physics that replaces classical mechanics and classical electromagnetism for the subatomic realm. It is the underlying mathematical framework of many fields of physics and chemistry, including condensed matter physics, atomic physics, molecular physics, computational chemistry, quantum chemistry, particle physics, and nuclear physics. Along with general relativity, quan-tum mechanics is one of the pillars of mod-ern physics.

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THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE

The once certain basic assumptions about life, that were the pillars of Cartesian sci-ence, were replaced by uncertainty. It was by Werner Heisenberg that this often-quoted uncertainty principle was estab-lished in physics, and notoriously much to the exasperation of Albert Einstein who re-portedly objected ‘God does not play dice!’

And it was perhaps through Werner Hei-senberg that quantum physics was estab-lished as a science. Vidette Todaro writes in her elucidating study The Enigma of Energy (1991):

VIDETTE TODARO-FRANCESCHI

It was but one small leap from the uncer-tainty principle and the dual wave-particle character of matter to physicist Niels Bohr's theory of complementarity. He proposed that on the quantum level nothing can be divided into discrete parts. Everything is re-lated; everything complements everything else. Since it is impossible to completely predict outcomes on a quantum level, we are forced to look at the whole. Furthermore, Bohr illuminated the philo-sophical issues entwining complementarity in the quantum physics world with psychic

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experience and the study of living organ-isms in general. The simple fact is that eve-rything is inseparably connected. (Id., 37).

This has done us a lot of good because this is more than just physics. It’s life. What im-pact this new worldview can have upon healing, Dr. Villoldo recognized and ex-plained it in his bestselling book Shaman, Healer, Sage (2000). He writes:

ALBERTO VILLOLDO

Physicist Werner Heisenberg developed a key principle of quantum mechanics: that one could determine either the velocity or the position of an electron accurately, but not both. The Heisenberg uncertainty prin-ciple states that the act of observing an event influences its outcome or destiny. Heisenberg's discovery seems to indicate that the ability to change the physical world through the exercise of vision is very limited once energy has manifested into form. The time to change the world is before form has emerged from the formless, before energy has manifested into matter. Thus many of the healing practices developed by sha-mans heal conditions before they manifest in the body, before old imprints in the Lu-minous Energy Field have organized matter into illness or misfortune. (Id., 131).

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NONLOCALITY

Another basic discovery of quantum physics is nonlocality. Nonlocality means that ef-fects be triggered by element A in element B without element A and element B having any form of physical connection. They can in fact be light years away from each other. Nonlocality, then, is not bound to relativity, and effects therefore are not a function of the speed of the light nor any higher veloc-ity; in other words, they are instantaneous. The term used for nonlocal effects is entan-glement or quantum entanglement. An al-ternative explanation was given by Rupert Sheldrake who explains nonlocal effects by morphic resonance.

As I am not a physicist, I will quote Dean Radin, who writes in his book Entangled Minds (2006):

DEAN RADIN

At a level of reality deeper than the ordinary senses can grasp, our brains and minds are in intimate communion with the universe. It’s as though we lived in a gigantic bowl of clear jello. Every wiggle—every movement, event, and thought—within that medium is felt throughout the entire bowl. Except that this / particular form of jello is a rather pe-culiar medium, in that it’s not localized in

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the usual way, nor is it squishy like ordinary Jell-O. It extends beyond the bonds of or-dinary spacetime, and it’s not even a sub-stance in the usual sense of that word. Because of this nonlocal Jell-O in which we are embedded, we can get glimpses of information about other people’s minds, distant objects, or the future or past. We get this not through the ordinary senses and not because signals from those other minds and objects travel to our brain. But because at some level of our mind/brain is already coexistent with other people’s minds, distant objects, and everything else. To navigate through this space, we use at-tention and intention. From this perspec-tive, psychic experiences are reframed not as mysterious ‘powers of the mind’ but as momentary glimpses of the entangled fab-ric of reality. Particles that are quantum entangled do not imply that signals pass between them. Entanglement means that separated sys-tems are correlated. (Id., 263-264).

As quantum physics really is a prototypical example of complexity in action, the litera-ture I recommend is not limited to the ex-planation of quantum mechanics in the strict sense.

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Jeffrey Satinover’s book The Quantum Brain (2001) artfully weaves quantum mechanics, neuroscience and psychiatry into one epic tale of grandiose dimensions that offers a broad outlook on the possibilities of a fu-ture humanity. The book is a good example how poetic a scientist may become when he thoroughly gets involved with quantum mechanics. And the interesting thing about Satinover is that he is a trained psychiatrist and only in a 2nd life study cycle has be-come a quantum physicist. This is extraor-dinary in itself!

Another book, which I have reviewed, is Deepak Chopra’s Life After Death (2006), a book that is apparently only about life after death, but it’s also about quantum physics, as without our discovery of quantum phys-ics, this book could not have been written, because most people simply would not un-derstand and accept a truth that runs counter to the teachings of 2000 years of Christianity. The success of this book is in my view not due to Chopra’s fame and popularity. Quantum physics has opened certain pathways in our brain that before were lying dormant in the sense of looking at the world. The precepts of quantum me-chanics all compound in demonstrating that there is more to visual reality, that there is a

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reality out there, and within us, that is not tangible, and that all physics paradigms be-fore quantum mechanics simply could not explain. This has opened our view to di-mensions that are highly paradoxical if we look at them with our conditioned mind. Hence the need to change our entire view-point in the cognitive assessment of reality. This involves then, forcible also, the domain after death, and the fate of the soul.

—Fritjof Capra, The Tao of Physics (1975/2000),

Deepak Chopra, Life After Death (2006), Russell

DiCarlo, A New Worldview (1996), Amit Gos-

wami, The Self-Aware Universe (1995), Ervin

Laszlo, Science and the Akashic Field (2004),

Lynne McTaggart, The Field (2002), Rupert

Sheldrake, A New Science (1995), Michael Tal-

bot, The Holographic Universe (1992), Russell

Targ, Miracles of Mind (1999), Vidette Todaro-

Franceschi, The Enigma of Energy (1999).

Self

It is important to clarify the notion of Self, which is ambiguous, used in different ways by different people, and by different relig-ions. To begin with, the Self needs to be distinguished from the ego. While it is gen-erally true that the ego isolates and suffo-

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cates human creativity in an ego-bound shell, this is not true for the Self as the greater notion. In this sense the Self con-tains the ego, but not vice versa. The Hindu notion of atman as the higher self that is considered as an outflow of the universal spirit or oversoul, brahman, may be a good conceptual aid. It is in this sense that the Indian sage Ramana Maharshi uses the no-tion of self and this comes very close to my own idea of selfhood. However, my idea has been influenced also strongly by the psy-chology of Carl Gustav Jung. In Jungian psychology, the self is the archetype sym-bolizing the totality of the personality. It represents the striving for unity, wholeness, and integration. As such, it embraces not only the conscious but also the uncon-scious.

Soul Power

Soul Power, which I synonymously call Pri-mary Power or Self-Power is a concept I have created to connote our original power, and which is distinct from the harmful sec-ondary powers or worldly powers that pro-foundly mark our current society, and which are clearly violence-inducing, and in the long run damaging the human potential and natural human spirituality.

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Synchronicity

Synchronicity is a term attributed to Carl-Gustav Jung; it may be of older and peren-nial origin. It is a quite handy expression that connotes that two apparently unrelated events are behaving in sync, in a sense of being linked by an information field. In fact, what was found by research is that such in-formation fields truly exist. When two parti-cles are linked in an information field, that is, entangled, they behave exactly in the same way, be they light years away from each other. How we explain this with terms like quantum connectivity, a ‘holographic’ universe or morphogenetic resonance is of secondary importance; the fact cannot be denied and has been observed in all ex-periments of quantum mechanics.

Synchronistic events are typically increasing when emotional tension and release are high, which often occurs during therapy and cathartic events. Typical examples are given by all our famous psychoanalysts, as by Jung himself. One of his patients for exam-ple suffered from a phobia against frogs and on the last day of the therapy, when a breakthrough was reached, and the patient finally utters that she can now meet any frog without panic, a frog was sitting on the window sill of the psychiatric practice. This

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is a case for synchronicity because the two events are not just randomly connected, but are intelligently linked in an information field and thus are to be considered as syn-chronistic.

—Michael Talbot, The Holographic Universe

(1992), Amit Goswami, The Self-Aware Universe

(1995), Lynne McTaggart, The Field (2002), Frit-

jof Capra, The Hidden Connections (2002), Vale-

rie Hunt, Infinite Mind (2000), Ervin Laszlo, Sci-

ence and the Akashic Field (2004), Rupert Shel-

drake, A New Science of Life (1995), Ken Wilber

(Ed.), Quantum Questions (2001).

Taoism, Tao

Taoism is a philosophical school from an-cient China. One of its foremost sources are the Tao Te Ching, by Lao-tzu. Tao means path or way, but in Chinese religion and philosophy it has taken on abstract mean-ings.

Some of the foremost qualities that charac-terize Taoism are a non-biased and non-judgmental mindset, acceptance of all-that-is, including the world, integration of emo-tions, magnanimity, patience and tolerance toward the uneducated and ‘brute’ and the

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‘perverse’ majority of humans who are caught in innumerable projections due to their refusal to face what-is and their entan-glement in possessions, status and time-bound concepts.

Lao-Tzu is considered, together with Chuang-tzu, as the primary representative of Taoism.

Very similar to Taoism is Chang Buddhism, which after its propagation in Japan was termed as Zen. Like Taoism it is a philo-sophical school that warns of the concep-tual trap by saying in a metaphor that the finger that points to the moon is not the moon. Both philosophies stress the impor-tance of daily life as a plane of sharpening the mind through developing attention.

Tarot

The Tarot de Marseille is one of the stan-dard patterns for the design of tarot cards. It is a pattern from which many subsequent tarot decks derive. Research showed that the Tarot deck was invented in northern It-aly in the fifteenth century. The name Tarot de Marseille is not of particularly ancient vintage; it was coined in the 1930s by the French cartomancer Paul Marteau, who

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gave this collective name to a variety of closely related designs that were being made in the city of Marseille in the south of France, a city that was a centre of playing card manufacture. The Tarot de Marseille is one of the standards from which many tarot decks of the nineteenth century and later are derived. Like other Tarot decks, the Tarot de Marseille contains fifty-six cards in the four standard suits.

Divining with the Tarot can be done in simi-lar ways as consulting the I Ching, using serendipity (or the help of our unconscious mind) to determine a set of correlated cards that give an answer for a particular outcome or question. However, unlike other divina-tions, the Tarot is psychological in the sense that cards, at least the great arcana, are ar-chetypal images and need interpretation. This is not always an easy task and can be subject to error and misinterpretation.

Yin-Yang

The primordial energy, when working on the earth plane, manifests itself in a dualis-tic form, as two complementary energies, called yin and yang. Both of the energies can be associated with certain characteris-tics. However, it would be wrong to identify

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yin with female and yang with male. It is not that simplistic. Yin can well be associated with the female principle but this does not mean that it is identical with it. It’s actually a bit like in the cabalistic system. We talk about corresponding characteristics or elements, and the system as such is one of corresponding relationships.

Yin can be said to correspond with the fe-male principle, the passive, receptive, soft and dark, water, clouds, the moon, the tiger, the turtle, the color black, the north, lead, the direction down or a landscape that is flat, as well as even numbers.

Yang can be said to correspond with the male principle, the active, creative, bright and hard, fire, the sun, the colors white and red, the dragon, mercury , the direction up or with a landscape that is mountainous, as well as odd numbers.

What that means is that for example yin moves towards its fullness in order to cul-minate and swap its nature into yang. Yang, when it culminates, becomes yin. That is why we can say change is programmed into the very essence of the yin-yang dualism and thus, change cannot be avoided. We can even go as far as saying that the very fact of change is the proof that we deal with

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a living thing. If there is no change, there is no movement and, as a result, no life. Life is change, living movement. This is what the nature of life teaches us.

Zen

The Japanese word Zen comes from the Chinese ch’an which in turn has its origins in India. The establishment of Chan (Zen) is traditionally credited to the Indian prince turned monk, Bodhidharma.

—Roshi Philip Kapleau, Three Pillars of Zen

(1967), Eugen Herrigel, Zen in the Art of Archery

(1971), Trevor P. Leggett, A First Zen Reader

(1972), Paul Reps, Zen Flesh, Zen Bones (1989),

Alan W. Watts, The Way of Zen (1999).

The meaning of Zen may be meditation; however the deeper and more mystical in-terpretation is that Zen means ‘revelation’ or ‘enlightenment’.

Zen emphasizes dharma practice and expe-riential wisdom, particularly as realized in the form of meditation known as zazen, in the attainment of awakening. As such, it putatively de-emphasizes both theoretical knowledge and the study of religious texts in favor of direct, experiential realization.

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Zen is within the Buddhist tradition, but it’s not really a practice that is ‘religious’ in the sense of Buddhist religion. It’s rather a down-to-earth, practical and all about self-empowerment in the everyday routine of ordinary life. None of these are emphasized by traditional Buddhism.

One doesn’t need to be a Zen master or monk to practice Zen. Suffices to start with a desire to be a complete novice with the ‘beginner’s mind‘—a clean slate. Practicing Zen means to clear the mind from material clutter, stripping thoughts away to the point of ‘realization’—an all-embracing aware-ness. This realization or awakening is known as wu in Chinese, and satori or kensho in Japanese. Besides meditation, Zen uses the Koan, riddle-like poems, to scramble the intellectual and conceptual mind and to bring about a state of innocent and fresh awareness. Koans are enigmatic little or question-and-answer dialogues that can be used to prompt to help understand the Zen approach to enlightenment. Scholars and followers of Zen say you don’t need words to explain Zen. It is all about a direct expe-rience of the ‘here and now,’ with an empty mind—what Zen practitioners call ‘no-mind’. In its free-form minimalist approach,

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Zen is wholly concerned with the self and with finding reality through realization.

—See: James Harrison, Endless Path Zen, Lon-

don: Flame Tree Publishing, 2006.

Personalities

Berne, Eric

Eric Berne (1910–1970) was a Canadian-born psychiatrist best known as the creator of Transactional Analysis (TA). He published both technical and mass-market books on the subject. In the early 1960s he published both technical and popular accounts of his conclusions.

The bestselling book Games People Play made terms like scripts and tokens part of the ordinary vocabulary. His Structures and Dynamics of Organizations and Groups ex-amined the same analysis in a broader con-text than one-on-one interaction. His semi-nar group from the 1950s developed the term Transactional Analysis (TA) to describe therapies based on his work. By 1964, this method expanded into the International Transactional Analysis Association. Many therapists have put his ideas in practice. Other applications have appeared in the

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practice of organization development con-sultants. By 2003 the various TA organiza-tions boast over 15,000 worldwide mem-bers. Berne was famous for his use of ordi-nary, easy-to-understand words instead of psychiatric terminology.

Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama

Siddhartha Gautama (563 BC–483 BC) was a spiritual teacher from Ancient India who became the founder of Buddhism. He is generally recognized by Buddhists as the Supreme Buddha of our age. Gautama, also known as Shakyamuni, the sage of the Shakyas, is the key figure in Buddhism, and accounts of his life, discourses, and monas-tic rules are believed to have been summa-rized after his death and memorized by his followers. Various collections of teachings attributed to Gautama were passed down by oral tradition, and first committed to writing about four hundred years later. The Zen tradition, while today often seen as de-tached from Buddhism, was originally founded as a specific branch of Buddhism in China, called Chan Buddhism. When this tradition came to Japan, it was called Zen, and this name has survived until today.

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Confucius

Confucius (551–479 BC) was a Chinese thinker and social philosopher, whose teachings and philosophy have deeply in-fluenced East Asian life and thought. His philosophy emphasized personal and gov-ernmental morality, correctness of social re-lationships, justice and sincerity. These val-ues gained prominence in China over other doctrines, such as Legalism or Taoism dur-ing the Han Dynasty. Confucius’ thoughts have been developed into a system of phi-losophy known as Confucianism. It was in-troduced to Europe by the Jesuit Matteo Ricci, who was the first to Latinize the name as Confucius. His teachings are known pri-marily through the Analects of Confucius, a collection of ‘brief aphoristic fragments’, which was compiled many years after his death. Modern historians do not believe that any specific documents can be said to have been written by Confucius, but for nearly 2,000 years he was thought to be the editor or author of all the Five Classics such as the Classic of Rites, and the Spring and Autumn Annals.

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Descartes, René

René Descartes (1596–1650) was a French philosopher, mathematician, scientist, and writer who spent most of his adult life in the Dutch Republic. He has been dubbed the ‘Father of Modern Philosophy’, and much of subsequent Western philosophy is a re-sponse to his writings, which continue to be studied closely to this day. In particular, his Meditations continues to be a standard text at most university philosophy departments. Descartes’ influence in mathematics is also apparent, the Cartesian coordinate system allowing geometric shapes to be expressed in algebraic equations being named for him. Descartes was also one of the key fig-ures in the Scientific Revolution. As the in-ventor of the Cartesian coordinate system, Descartes founded analytic geometry, the bridge between algebra and geometry, crucial to the invention of calculus and analysis. His most famous statement is: Co-gito ergo sum.

The Cartesian system of thought, philoso-phy and science is today generally ques-tioned. One of the most prolific science authors who is now world-famous, offering in his books a comprehensive critique of Cartesian thought and its limitations, is the physicist and author Fritjof Capra.

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Einstein, Albert

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist widely considered one of the greatest physicists of all times. He formulated the special and general theories of relativity. In addition, he made significant advancements to quantum the-ory and statistical mechanics. While best known for the Theory of Relativity, he was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics for his 1905 explanation of the photoelec-tric effect and ‘for his services to Theoretical Physics’. In popular culture, the name Ein-stein has become synonymous with great intelligence and genius.

—Joyce Goldenstein, Physicist and Genius

(1995), Albert Einstein, The World As I See It

(1993), Out of My Later Years (1993), Ideas and

Opinions (1988), Albert Einstein Notebook

(1989).

Freud, Sigmund

I was first reading Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), in its German original edition, back in 1975, upon entering law school. Freud’s theory that children’s psychosexual devel-opment was a process of libidinal (erotic) identifications with first the same-sex parent

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(homosexual identification), and then with the other-sex parent (heterosexual identifi-cation), passing through the oral and anal stages for finally arriving at the genital stage—is an attractive surrogate for the real knowledge!

Freud was the avatar for what later became, and today still is, the mainstream paradigm in child psychology and education. One of the pitfalls of this paradigm is the denial or exclusion of parameters that serve to build identity through self-knowledge, intuitive or inner knowledge, paranormal knowledge, pre-life knowledge and relational experi-ence. The identity that is said to be the only possible one according to mainstream psy-chiatry is a derived, not a genuine, identity. It is derived from the parents’ identities. For a boy, the process will be identification with the father, as a primary homosexual identi-fication, during the anal phase and identifi-cation with the mother, as a secondary het-erosexual identification during the genital phase.

According to Freud, the so-called Oedipus Complex comes in at that moment in the child’s psychosexual development. True identity is built, according to this theory, when the boy has successfully liquidated the Oedipus Complex by having developed

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enough aggressiveness toward the father and enough castration of his incestuous de-sire toward the mother at the same time.

Heraclitus

Heraclitus of Ephesus (535-475 BC), was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, a native of Ephesus on the coast of Asia Minor. Heracli-tus was the first person of the Western world to create a holistic philosophy and who recognized the importance of flow in all living organisms, thus anticipating mod-ern systems theory for more than two thou-sand years.

Jesus of Nazareth

Jesus (8–2 BC/BCE to 29–36 AD), also known as Jesus of Nazareth, is the central figure of Christianity. He is commonly re-ferred to as Jesus Christ, where Christ is a title derived from the Greek christós, mean-ing The Anointed One, which corresponds to the Hebrew-derived Messiah. The name Jesus is an Anglicization of the Greek Ie-sous, itself believed to be a transliteration of the Hebrew Yehoshua or Aramaic Ye-shua, meaning YHWH is salvation.

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Jung, Carl Gustav

Carl Jung’s approach to psychoanalysis had a strong impact on my understanding of psychoanalysis. The first text I was reading by Jung was a rather esoteric essay, Relig-ious and Psychological Problems of Al-chemy, and it showed me the depth of Jung’s research into even highly esoteric topics.

Soon I became aware that Jung was going to cover that area that I found was missing out in the other authors’ view upon the hu-man psyche, that is, the spiritual dimension. After having read Archetypes of the Collec-tive Unconscious, The Myth of the Divine Child and On the Nature of the Psyche, I realized that for the first time, I had encoun-tered something like holistic psychology.

Jung’s writings were also fruitful for my bio-energy studies and my subsequent attempt of a scientific vocabulary regarding the cosmic energy field, which is ultimately something like a systems approach to hu-man emotions.

Krishnamurti, J. (K)

Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) was born in a small village in south India. Soon after

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moving to Madras with his family in 1909, Krishnamurti was adopted by Annie Besant, President of the Theosophical Society. She was convinced that he was to become a great spiritual teacher, and Reverend Char-les Webster Leadbeater became his per-sonal tutor. Three years later she took him to England to be educated in preparation for his future role. An organization called The Order of the Star was set up to pro-mote Krishnamurti’s anticipated role as a World Teacher and Maitreya. In 1929, how-ever, after many years of questioning the destiny imposed upon him, Krishnamurti disbanded this organization, turning away all followers saying that: ‘Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any or-ganization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular spiritual path.’ From that time until his death in February 1986 at the age of ninety, he traveled around the world speaking as a private per-son, teaching and giving talks and having discussions. His aim was to set people psy-chologically free so that they might be in harmony with themselves, with nature and with others. K taught that humanity has cre-

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ated the environment in which we live and that nothing can ever put a stop to the vio-lence and suffering that has been going on for thousands of years except a transforma-tion in the human psyche. If only a dozen people are transformed, it would change the world. He used to call this transforma-tion ‘psychological revolution.’

Krishnamurti maintained that there is no path to this transformation, no method for achieving it, no gurus or spiritual authorities who can help. He pointed to the need for an ever-deepening and acute awareness in which the limitations of the mind could drop away. K was a universal and cosmo-politan mind. Although born of Indian par-entage, he stated repeatedly that he had no nationality and belonged to no particu-lar culture of group. What he hoped his audience would learn, he himself was the living example for it, which is, in my view, the only way a guru can legitimize himself as a true leader. Only what is brought over as incarnated can be shared, not what is merely preached or lectured as true as it may be.

Education has always been one of Krishna-murti’s concerns. If a young person could learn to see his or her conditioning of race, nationality, religion, dogma, tradition, opin-

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ion etc., which inevitably leads to conflict, then they might become fully intelligent human beings for whom right action would be a natural way of life. K reasoned that a prejudiced or dogmatic mind can never be free.

During his life time K established several schools in different parts of the world where young people and adults could come to-gether and explore this possibility further in actual daily living. Krishnamurti said of the schools that they were places where stu-dents and teachers can flower inwardly. Be-cause, schools are meant for that, not just merely to turn out human beings as me-chanical, technological instru-ments—though jobs and careers are neces-sary—but also to flower as human beings, without fear, without confusion, with great integrity. He was concerned to bring about a good human being, not in the respect-able sense, but in the sense of whole, un-fragmented. He wanted the schools to be real centers of understanding, of real com-prehension of life.

Lao-tzu

Lao-tzu (604 BC–531 BC) was a Chinese classical philosopher. The reputed founder

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of Taoism, he preached conformity to the Tao, or eternal spirit of right conduct, and is considered one of the great figures of Chi-nese history. He is the author of the Tao Te Ching. According to the legend Lao-tzu was a contemporary of Confucius, and worked as an archivist in the Imperial Library of the Zhou Dynasty (1122–256 BC). Hearing of Lao-tzu’s wisdom, Confucius traveled to meet him. Confucius put much emphasis on traditional rituals, customs and rites. Confu-cius met him in Zhou, where he was going to browse the library scrolls. Lao-tzu strongly opposed what he felt to be hollow practices. Taoist legend claims that these discussions proved more educational for Confucius than did the contents of the li-braries. Lao-tzu perceived that the king-dom’s affairs were disintegrating, so it was time to leave. He was traveling West on a buffalo when he came to the Han Gu Pass, which was guarded. The keeper of the pass realized Lao-tzu was leaving permanently, so he requested that Lao-tzu write out some of his wisdom so that it could be pre-served once he was gone, Lao-tzu climbed down from his buffalo and immediately wrote the Tao Te Ching. He then left and was never heard of again.

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Murphy, Joseph

Dr. Joseph Murphy (1898–1981) wrote, taught, counseled, and lectured to thou-sands all over the world for nearly fifty years. Born in 1898, he was educated in Ire-land and England. Dr. Murphy was Minister-Director of the Church of Divine Science in Los Angeles for 28 years, where his lectures were attended by 1300 to 1500 people every Sunday. His daily radio program dur-ing all that time was immensely popular. He moved to Laguna Hills, California in 1976, where he continued to speak every Sunday until he made his transition in 1981. Murphy refused requests for profiles and biogra-phies, saying that his life was to be found in his books. He wrote more than thirty books, including The Amazing Laws of Cosmic Mind Power (1973), Secrets of the I-Ching (1970), The Miracle of Mind Dynamics (1964), Think Yourself Rich (2001).

Dr. Joseph Murphy’s books have trans-formed my life. I admit it was not a miracle one-day cure. It took me a few years, but these years of working with Murphy’s method, and adapting it to my own needs, really was worth millions of dollars as it transformed my life from a victim-like and anxiety-ridden existence into an endless

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string of joy, excitement, creativity and ulti-mately—happiness!

I have lectured about the Murphy method in several of my books and videos, and came to call it ‘Creative Prayer.’ However, I do believe that no God concept is neces-sary to benefit from this prayer technique which Murphy called ‘scientific prayer.’ While faith is well needed to reap the bene-fits, faith is not something necessarily linked to religion. One can be faithful in one’s des-tiny, in one’s proven success principles, in one’s positive attitude, one can be faithful in one’s genius, in one’s self-confidence or problem-solving capability.

Picasso, Pablo

Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) was a Spanish painter and sculptor. One of the most rec-ognized figures in 20th century art, he is best known as the co-founder, along with Georges Braque, of cubism. It has been es-timated that Picasso produced about 13,500 paintings or designs, 100,000 prints or engravings, 34,000 book illustrations and 300 sculptures or ceramics.

—Brigitte Leal, et al., The Ultimate Picasso

(2000), Hans L.C. Jaffe, Picasso (1996), Brassai,

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Conversations with Picasso (1999), Henri-

Georges Clouzot, The Mystery of Picasso (DVD,

2003), Edward Quinn, Picasso: The Man and His

Work, Part 1 (1881-1937) and Part 2 (1938-1973),

New York: Art Series (DVD).

Since high school times, Picasso was for me the incarnation of the artist-genius, a true archetype. There was no other visual artist who ever could trigger so many emotions in me, and so much admiration, while I also like Marc Chagall, Juan Miró, Salvador Dali and many others. But on a simple human level, Picasso was and is closest to my heart and soul.

Picasso is known to have not shunned tradi-tion, but to have surpassed it, as he was able already at age 14 to paint like the old masters, which led his father, a reputed Spanish painter, to put the paintbrush in his hands in that early age.

Picasso also was a man of courage, a true hero in the good sense, a lover of nature, of all that is authentic, honest, great and origi-nal. As such, he was unwavering even when, in the 1930s, he was threatened through Hitler’s getting to power in Germany, and his friends urged him to leave France and emigrate to the United States, but Picasso

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heroically resisted. He stayed despite the danger, and nothing happened to him. And Picasso knew why he did not want to settle in the USA. If there was one country that truly shunned Picasso, it was Uncle Sam’s hero paradise. As Picasso was for a while a member of the Communist Party, he was not allowed a visa for entering the United States of America.

Picasso also was a wonderful father; his daughter Paloma Picasso became a film star. She was the child of Picasso and Françoise Gilot, a French painter. She grew up wild, first in the relation Picasso-Gilot when her father was living in the manor La Galoise, and then with Picasso and his sec-ond wife, Jacqueline Roque, in the villa La Californie in Cannes, France. The photo-graph of adolescent Paloma was taken by the American photographer David Douglas Duncan and published in the photo book The Private World of Pablo Picasso.

—Donald Douglas Duncan, The Private World

of Pablo Picasso, New York: Harper & Brothers,

1958.

—There is an enormous amount of literature

and media about Picasso. See, for example,

Brassai, Conversations with Picasso (1999), Hans

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L.C. Jaffe, Picasso (1996), The Ultimate Picasso

(2000), Henri-Georges Clouzot, The Mystery of

Picasso, DVD (1956), Edward Quinn, Picasso:

The Man and His Work, DVD, 2002.

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Abrams, Jeremiah (Ed.)

Reclaiming the Inner ChildNEW YORK: TARCHER/PUTNAM, 1990

Allen, Abel Leighton

The Message of New Thought1914

Allen, James

As a Man Thinketh, 1902

Arntz, William & Chasse, Betsy

What the Bleep Do We Know20TH CENTURY FOX, 2005 (DVD)

Down The Rabbit Hole Quantum Edition20TH CENTURY FOX, 2006 (3 DVD SET)

Bachelard, Gaston

The Poetics of ReverieTRANSLATED BY DANIEL RUSSELL

BOSTON: BEACON PRESS, 1971

Bandler, Richard

Get the Life You WantTHE SECRETS TO QUICK AND LASTING LIFE CHANGE

WITH NEURO-LINGUISTIC PROGRAMMING

DEERFIELD BEACH, FL: HCI, 2008

Barron, Frank X., Montuori, et al. (Eds.)

Creators on CreatingAWAKENING AND CULTIVATING THE IMAGINATIVE MIND

(NEW CONSCIOUSNESS READER)

NEW YORK: P. TARCHER/PUTNAM, 1997

Boldt, Laurence G.

Zen and the Art of Making a LivingNEW YORK: PENGUIN ARKANA, 1993

How to Find the Work You LoveNEW YORK: PENGUIN ARKANA, 1996

Zen SoupTASTY MORSELS OF ZEN WISDOM FROM GREAT MINDS EAST & WEST

NEW YORK: PENGUIN ARKANA, 1997

CREATIVE PRAYER

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The Tao of AbundanceEIGHT ANCIENT PRINCIPLES FOR ABUNDANT LIVING


Bordeaux-Szekely, Edmond

Teaching of the Essenes from Enoch to the Dead SEA SCROLLS

BEEKMAN PUBLISHING, 1992

Gospel of the EssenesTHE UNKNOWN BOOKS OF THE ESSENES

& LOST SCROLLS OF THE ESSENE BROTHERHOOD

BEEKMAN PUBLISHING, 1988

Gospel of Peace of Jesus ChristBEEKMAN PUBLISHING, 1994

Gospel of Peace, 2d Vol.I B S INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS

Branden, Nathaniel

How to Raise Your Self-EsteemNEW YORK: BANTAM, 1987

Butler-Bowden, Tom

50 Success ClassicsWINNING WISDOM FOR WORK & LIFE FROM 50 LANDMARK BOOKS

LONDON: NICHOLAS BREALEY PUBLISHING, 2004

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Byrne, Rhonda

The SecretNEW YORK: ATRIA BOOKS, 2006

The MagicNEW YORK: ATRIA BOOKS, 2012

Campbell, Joseph

The Hero With A Thousand FacesPRINCETON: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1973

(BOLLINGEN SERIES XVII)

LONDON: ORION BOOKS, 1999

Occidental MythologyPRINCETON: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1973

(BOLLINGEN SERIES XVII)


The Masks of GodORIENTAL MYTHOLOGY


ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 1962

The Power of Myth WITH BILL MOYERS

ED. BY SUE FLOWERS

NEW YORK: ANCHOR BOOKS, 1988

CREATIVE PRAYER

156

Capacchione, Lucia

The Power of Your Other HandNORTH HOLLYWOOD, CA: NEWCASTLE PUBLISHING, 1988

Cassou, Michelle & Cubley, Steward

Life, Paint and PassionRECLAIMING THE MAGIC OF SPONTANEOUS EXPRESSION

NEW YORK: P. TARCHER/PUTNAM, 1996

Chopra, Deepak

Creating AffluenceTHE A-TO-Z STEPS TO A RICHER LIFE

NEW YORK: AMBER-ALLEN PUBLISHING (2003)

Life After DeathTHE BOOK OF ANSWERS

LONDON: RIDER, 2006

SynchrodestinyDISCOVER THE POWER OF MEANINGFUL COINCIDENCE TO MANIFEST

ABUNDANCE

AUDIO BOOK / CD

NILES, IL: NIGHTINGALE-CONANT, 2006

The Seven Spiritual Laws of SuccessA PRACTICAL GUIDE TO THE FULFILLMENT OF YOUR DREAMS

AUDIO BOOK / CD

NEW YORK: AMBER-ALLEN PUBLISHING (2002)

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The Spontaneous Fulfillment of DesireHARNESSING THE INFINITE POWER OF COINCIDENCE

NEW YORK: RANDOM HOUSE AUDIO, 2003

Diamond, Stephen A., May, Rollo

Anger, Madness, and the DaimonicTHE PSYCHOLOGICAL GENESIS OF VIOLENCE, EVIL AND CREATIVITY

NEW YORK: STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS, 1999

DiCarlo, Russell E. (Ed.)

Towards A New World ViewCONVERSATIONS AT THE LEADING EDGE

ERIE, PA: EPIC PUBLISHING, 1996

Dürckheim, Karlfried Graf

Hara: The Vital Center of ManROCHESTER: INNER TRADITIONS, 2004

Zen and UsNEW YORK: PENGUIN ARKANA 1991

The Call for the MasterNEW YORK: PENGUIN BOOKS, 1993

The Way of TransformationDAILY LIFE AS A SPIRITUAL EXERCISE

LONDON: ALLEN & UNWIN, 1988

The Japanese Cult of TranquilityLONDON: RIDER, 1960

CREATIVE PRAYER

158

Edmunds, Francis

An Introduction to AnthroposophyRUDOLF STEINER’S WORLDVIEW

LONDON: RUDOLF STEINER PRESS, 2005

Erickson, Milton H.

My Voice Will Go With YouTHE TEACHING TALES OF MILTON H. ERICKSON

BY SIDNEY ROSEN (ED.)

NEW YORK: NORTON & CO., 1991

Complete Works 1.0, CD-ROMNEW YORK: MILTON H. ERICKSON FOUNDATION, 2001

Fensterhalm, Herbert

Don’t Say Yes When You Want to Say NoWITH JEAN BEAR

NEW YORK: DELL, 1980

Flack, Audrey

Art & SoulNOTES ON CREATING

NEW YORK: E P DUTTON, REISSUE EDITION, 1991

Freud, Sigmund

The Interpretation of DreamsNEW YORK: AVON, REISSUE EDITION, 1980

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AND IN: THE STANDARD EDITION OF THE COMPLETE PSYCHOLOGICAL

WORKS OF SIGMUND FREUD , (24 VOLUMES) ED. BY JAMES STRACHEY

NEW YORK: W. W. NORTON & COMPANY, 1976

Ghiselin, Brewster (Ed.)

The Creative ProcessREFLECTIONS ON INVENTION IN THE ARTS AND SCIENCES

BERKELEY: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS, 1985

FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1952

Goleman, Daniel

Emotional IntelligenceNEW YORK, BANTAM BOOKS, 1995

Gordon Wasson, R.

The Road to EleusisUNVEILING THE SECRETS OF THE MYSTERIES

WITH ALBERT HOFMANN, HUSTON SMITH, CARL RUCK AND PETER

WEBSTER

BERKELEY, CA: NORTH ATLANTIC BOOKS, 2008

Goswami, Amit

The Self-Aware UniverseHOW CONSCIOUSNESS CREATES THE MATERIAL WORLD

NEW YORK: TARCHER/PUTNAM, 1995

CREATIVE PRAYER

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Grof, Stanislav

Ancient Wisdom and Modern ScienceNEW YORK: STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS, 1984

Beyond the BrainBIRTH, DEATH AND TRANSCENDENCE IN PSYCHOTHERAPY

NEW YORK: STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, 1985

LSD: Doorway to the NuminousTHE GROUNDBREAKING PSYCHEDELIC RESEARCH INTO REALMS OF THE

HUMAN UNCONSCIOUS

ROCHESTER: PARK STREET PRESS, 2009

Realms of the Human UnconsciousOBSERVATIONS FROM LSD RESEARCH

NEW YORK: E.P. DUTTON, 1976

The Cosmic GameEXPLORATIONS OF THE FRONTIERS OF HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS

NEW YORK: STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS, 1998

The Holotropic MindTHE THREE LEVELS OF HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS

WITH HAL ZINA BENNETT

NEW YORK: HARPERCOLLINS, 1993

When the Impossible HappensADVENTURES IN NON-ORDINARY REALITY

LOUISVILLE, CO: SOUNDS TRUE, 2005

Grout, Pam

ART & SOUL

NEW YORK: ANDREWS MCMEEL PUBLISHING, 2000

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Hicks, Esther and Jerry

Manifest Your Desires365 WAYS TO MAKE YOUR DREAMS A REALITY

(THE TEACHINGS OF ABRAHAM®)

CARLSBAD, CA: HAY HOUSE, 2007

The Amazing Power of deliberate IntentLIVING THE ART OF ALLOWING

CARLSBAD, CA: HAY HOUSE, 2006

Hofmann, Albert

LSD, My Problem ChildREFLECTIONS ON SACRED DRUGS, MYSTICISM AND SCIENCE

SANTA CRUZ, CA: MULTIDISCIPLINARY ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHEDELIC

STUDIES, 2009

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN 1980

Holmes, Ernest

The Science of MindA PHILOSOPHY, A FAITH, A WAY OF LIFE

NEW YORK: JEREMY P. TARCHER/PUTNAM, 1998

FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1922, REVISED IN 1938

Jaffe, Hans L.C.

PicassoNEW YORK: ABRADALE PRESS, 1996

CREATIVE PRAYER

162

James, William

Writings 1902-1910THE VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE / PRAGMATISM / A PLURAL-

ISTIC UNIVERSE / THE MEANING OF TRUTH / SOME PROBLEMS OF PHI-

LOSOPHY / ESSAYS

NEW YORK: LIBRARY OF AMERICA, 1988

Koestler, Arthur

The Act of CreationNEW YORK: PENGUIN ARKANA, 1989.


Krishnamurti, J.

Freedom From The KnownSAN FRANCISCO: HARPER & ROW, 1969

The First and Last FreedomSAN FRANCISCO: HARPER & ROW, 1975

Education and the Significance of LifeLONDON: VICTOR GOLLANCZ, 1978

The Essential KrishnamurtiSAN FRANCISCO: HARPER & ROW, 1996

The Ending of TimeWITH DR. DAVID BOHM

SAN FRANCISCO: HARPER & ROW, 1985

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Laing, Ronald David

Divided SelfNEW YORK: VIKING PRESS, 1991

R.D. Laing and the Paths of Anti-PsychiatryED., BY Z. KOTOWICZ

LONDON: ROUTLEDGE, 1997

The Politics of ExperienceNEW YORK: PANTHEON, 1983

Leadbeater, Charles Webster

Astral PlaneITS SCENERY, INHABITANTS AND PHENOMENA

KESSINGER PUBLISHING REPRINT EDITION, 1997

DreamsWHAT THEY ARE AND HOW THEY ARE CAUSED

LONDON: THEOSOPHICAL PUBLISHING SOCIETY, 1903

KESSINGER PUBLISHING REPRINT EDITION, 1998

The Inner LifeCHICAGO: THE RAJPUT PRESS, 1911

KESSINGER PUBLISHING

Liedloff, Jean

Continuum ConceptIN SEARCH OF HAPPINESS LOST

NEW YORK: PERSEUS BOOKS, 1986


CREATIVE PRAYER

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Lusk, Julie T. (Editor)

30 Scripts for Relaxation Imagery & Inner HealingWHOLE PERSON ASSOCIATES, 1992

Maisel, Eric

Fearless CreatingA STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE TO STARTING AND COMPLETING

WORK OF ART

NEW YORK: TARCHER & PUTNAM, 1995

McCarey, William A.

In Search of HealingWHOLE-BODY HEALING THROUGH THE MIND-BODY-SPIRIT CONNEC-

TION

NEW YORK: BERKLEY PUBLISHING, 1996

McKenna, Terence

The Archaic RevivalSAN FRANCISCO: HARPER & ROW, 1992

Food of the GodsA RADICAL HISTORY OF PLANTS, DRUGS AND HUMAN EVOLUTION

LONDON: RIDER, 1992

The Invisible LandscapeMIND HALLUCINOGENS AND THE I CHING

NEW YORK: HARPERCOLLINS, 1993

(WITH DENNIS MCKENNA)

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165

True HallucinationsBEING THE ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR’S EXTRAORDINARY

ADVENTURES IN THE DEVIL’S PARADISE

NEW YORK: FINE COMMUNICATIONS, 1998

McNiff, Shaun

Art as MedicineBOSTON: SHAMBHALA, 1992

Art as TherapyCREATING A THERAPY OF THE IMAGINATION

BOSTON/LONDON: SHAMBHALA, 1992

Trust the ProcessAN ARTIST’S GUIDE TO LETTING GO

NEW YORK: SHAMBHALA PUBLICATIONS, 1998

Miller, Alice

The Drama of the Gifted ChildIN SEARCH FOR THE TRUE SELF

TRANSLATED BY RUTH WARD

NEW YORK: BASIC BOOKS, 1996

Moore, Thomas

Care of the SoulA GUIDE FOR CULTIVATING DEPTH AND SACREDNESS IN EVERYDAY LIFE

NEW YORK: HARPER & COLLINS, 1994

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Murphy, Joseph

The Power of Your Subconscious MindWEST NYACK, N.Y.: PARKER, 1981, N.Y.: BANTAM, 1982


The Miracle of Mind DynamicsNEW YORK: PRENTICE HALL, 1964

Miracle Power for Infinite RichesWEST NYACK, N.Y.: PARKER, 1972

The Amazing Laws of Cosmic Mind PowerWEST NYACK, N.Y.: PARKER, 1973

Secrets of the I ChingWEST NYACK, N.Y.: PARKER, 1970

Think Yourself RichUSE THE POWER OF YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND TO FIND TRUE WEALTH

PARAMUS, NJ: REWARD BOOKS, 2001

Murphy, Michael

The Future of the BodyEXPLORATIONS INTO THE FURTHER EVOLUTION OF HUMAN NATURE

NEW YORK: JEREMY P. TARCHER/PUTNAM, 1992

Myers, Tony Pearce

The Soul of CreativityINSIGHTS INTO THE CREATIVE PROCESS

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Myss, Caroline

The Creation of HealthTHE EMOTIONAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, AND SPIRITUAL RESPONSES THAT

PROMOTE HEALTH AND HEALING

NEW YORK: THREE RIVERS PRESS, 1998

Naparstek, Belleruth

Your Sixth SenseUNLOCKING THE POWER OF YOUR INTUITION

LONDON: HARPERCOLLINS, 1998

Ostrander, Sheila & Schroeder, Lynn

Superlearning 2000NEW YORK: DELACORTE PRESS, 1994

SupermemoryNEW YORK: CARROLL & GRAF, 1991

Ouspensky, Pyotr Demianovich

In Search of the MiraculousNEW YORK: MARINER BOOKS, 1949/2001

Pearce Myers, Tony (Editor)

The Soul of CreativityINSIGHTS INTO THE CREATIVE PROCESS

NOVATO: NEW WORLD LIBRARY, 1999

CREATIVE PRAYER

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Ponder, Catherine

The Dynamic Laws of ProsperityNEW YORK: PRENTICE HALL, 1962

The Healing Secrets of the AgesMARINA DEL REY, CA: DEVORSS, 1985 (REVISED EDITION)


The Millionaire from NazarethHIS PROSPERITY SECRETS FOR YOU

MARINA DEL REY, CA: DEVORSS, 1979

The Millionaires of GenesisTHEIR PROSPERITY SECRETS FOR YOU

MARINA DEL REY, CA: DEVORSS, 1976

Rank, Otto

Art and ArtistWITH CHARLES FRANCIS ATKINSON AND ANAÏS NIN

NEW YORK: W.W. NORTON, 1989 (ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN 1932)

The Significance of Psychoanalysis for the Mental Sci-encesNEW YORK: BIBLIOBAZAAR, 2009


Rosen, Sydney (Ed.)

My Voice Will Go With YouTHE TEACHING TALES OF MILTON H. ERICKSON

NEW YORK: NORTON & CO., 1991

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Ruiz, Don Miguel

The Four AgreementsA PRACTICAL GUIDE TO PERSONAL FREEDOM

SAN RAFAEL, CA: AMBER ALLEN PUBLISHING, 1997

The Mastery of LoveA PRACTICAL GUIDE TO THE ART OF RELATIONSHIP


The Voice of KnowledgeA PRACTICAL GUIDE TO INNER PEACE

WITH JANET MILLS


Schwartz, Andrew E.

Guided Imagery for GroupsFIFTY VISUALIZATIONS THAT PROMOTE RELAXATION, PROBLEM-SOLVING,

CREATIVITY, AND WELL-BEING

WHOLE PERSON ASSOCIATES, 1995

Shinn, Florence Scovel

The Game of Life and How to Play ItMARINA DEL REY, CA: DEVORSS, 1925

Shone, Ronald

Creative VisualizationUSING IMAGERY AND IMAGINATION FOR SELF-TRANSFORMATION

NEW YORK: DESTINY BOOKS, 1998

CREATIVE PRAYER

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Stein, Robert M.

Redeeming the Inner Child in Marriage and TherapyIN: RECLAIMING THE INNER CHILD

ED. BY JEREMIAH ABRAMS

NEW YORK: TARCHER/PUTNAM, 1990, 261 FF.

Steiner, Rudolf

TheosophyAN INTRODUCTION TO THE SPIRITUAL PROCESSES IN HUMAN LIFE

AND IN THE COSMOS

NEW YORK: ANTHROPOSOPHIC PRESS, 1994

Stone, Hal & Stone, Sidra

Embracing Our SelvesTHE VOICE DIALOGUE MANUAL

SAN RAFAEL, CA: NEW WORLD LIBRARY, 1989

Szasz, Thomas

The Myth of Mental IllnessNEW YORK: HARPER & ROW, 1984

Tart, Charles T.

Altered States of ConsciousnessA BOOK OF READINGS

HOBOKEN, N.J.: WILEY & SONS, 1969

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Whitfield, Charles L.

Healing the Child WithinDEERFIELD BEACH, FL: HEALTH COMMUNICATIONS, 1987

CREATIVE PRAYER

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