Korzybski, Non-Aristotelian Thinking and Eastern Realization
Ted Falconar
$19.95
ISBN:1899836497
Nous involves seeing events as they really are, and not as they are presented to us through the illusion of words and memory. It stresses how no one thing is like anything else – that even two pins are never the same; and that the word can never contain what it names.
Creative Intelligence extends Korzybski’s concept of Nous by weaving into its fabric insights from Eastern philosophies. Introducing us to Realization (the seeing of reality) and Liberation (the aim of life), it teaches us, step-by-step, to ‘unlearn’ Aristotelian learning – that rigid pattern of thought that we are indoctrinated with from birth – and to escape the confines of memory, association and, most importantly, words.
Reading this exposition of Nous, we learn how it even forms the basis of many aspects of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) – that other radical system for re-thinking the self. We discover how Nous is vital to human progress – how it fuels invention and solves problems – and we realise its potential to overcome the distorted materialism that defines us. One of the most important studies of creativity ever written, Creative Intelligence guides us towards a state of pure creative intelligence, communicating the very secret of creativity. Written for teachers, trainers, therapists and principally the curious individual, this book enables us to achieve the main goal of existence – Self Liberation.
The
ideas in this book, if practiced and implemented, can
transform your life and the universe you live in. That’s a
bold statement, but I speak with some authority as I have used
the ideas in this book to do just that, and so have many of my
students. The concepts enclosed in these pages are simple, but
they are so diametrically opposed to the way we are taught and
conditioned to think about ourselves and the universe we live
in, that it takes practice to realize their results. If you
were to invert your thinking as Ted Falconar suggests in this
book you would hold the secrets of getting what you want from
life.
Reviews
I
hope you get as much from Creative Intelligence as my students
and I have. As I think about the concepts in the book I am
reminded of the visual image of The Hanged Man from the tarot
deck. The man is hanging there upside down from a tree yet if
you look at his face he looks young, bright and happy. Why?
Because he has inverted his thinking from the ways of the
world. The path below him is worn, indicating that many have
walked this path before. If you too walk the path you will
think in a very different way compared to most of those around
you. It is, however, a royal path to all of life’s riches.
David Shephard
I encountered this book during a search for an understanding of my own thinking, and it came simultaneously as a revelation and confirmation. It helped me to clarify my thinking and perception, and to further understand the difficulties of communication.
Ted Falconar has drawn on a breathtakingly wide variety of sources to produce a unique synthesis. It is a remarkable book, with wider implications for understanding personal development, communication, and society, which need to be much more widely appreciated in the Western World.
Dr David Mayhew
A lucid and succinct book that elaborates an essential distinction between intuitive, visionary insight and the verbal analytical thinking that forms the basis of our education. A very worthwhile and penetrating study. Scientific and Medical Network, August 2001