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Summary: Psychi-atric Intuition
Review: When we begin to decide not to fear the world of the mind and embrace it for its unknown rather than condemning its capacity, we may begin to tap into the wonderful rich resource that prevents throwing away the exquisite benefits it offers - daily - to understand each of us, and our integrated existence in the world about us including those with whom we share this wonderful experience of being alive. Rather than fighting it, we might appreciate the opportunities we now ignore as unworthy of our attention and our awareness that now must beat us over the head to compete with our well conditioned intellect to keep us falling all over each other like buffoons, or fish swimming upstream.Having long relegated those spiritually and intellectually moved by what appears to be paranormal or divine intervention, and too often warehousing them in psychiatric offices and asylums, we may be ignoring what has always been a natural function of living because of our fear and confusion. As human animals possessed of instinctive intuition, gut reactions are far more likely to be right than wrong given openminded perceptions, yet we continually outsmart ourselves with the precautions we require of ourselves to appear normal usually making our lives far worse in the process than they need to be. A comprehensive survey like this one provides the alternatives to reduce that fear, to become sensitive to our own potential and to assess the purposes for which we have been assigned this marvelous instinct or intuition, when it can be relied upon to work, and when it might not based upon our ethical use of it and the expectations in our approach of its acceptance in using it. While unlikely to anticipate the wealth that arises from tapping into it as a rich resource of information, respect for individual capacity in recognizing its power, can produce the intangible benefits that are characteristic of its availability. Without being confined to the type of wealth it affords, an entire world of instinctive intuition that, undiscarded, works to our benefit to unlock that potential. The key is to keep the mind open to those possibilities and respect the human process rather than focusing upon the goal that we "think" we might be seeking and allow the process to work unfettered to unlock those riches.
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Summary: A book worth waiting for.
Review: Where has this book been hiding? I've been looking for years without success for a resource as good as this. It's so well written, so full of fascinating information and exercises, so well annotated, I can't believe it's not being prominently displayed in every bookstore in the country. Maybe it's the name, maybe it's the orange and blue cover, maybe it's just a bias against anything "psychic." Whatever, my thanks to Amazon.com for making it available. With a new millennium almost upon us, and new ways of thinking in the wind, I'm especially glad a book of this nature -- and this quality -- is out there for all of us.
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