Creative Thinking Book

Moving towards pertubation

I have been writing about many factors which affect the way we think and act in our greater decision making arena.  In this regard  I have classified  many of the ideas as forms of creative thinking. My psychiatrist friend told me once that what her profession really does is seek to offer more useful points of view than her patients possess.

Einstein basically said that we cannot solve the great problems with the same degree of consciousness that we used to create them. The question, how do we acquire that consciousness? read more »

I have to admit I am a curious soul and bad news makes me click to see what happened. Unfortunately it usually does me little or no good. It is mostly on the tragedy of the economy, politics or health.

Good news however can be found in Ode Magazine.

I just watched a webcast sponsored by Ode Magazine, billing itself as the online community for intelligent optimists and decided to subscribe to their magazine afterwards.

The webcast was on Johan Boswinkel, the inventor of a light machine that promises to revolutionize the way we cope with disease. The machine helps you talk to your own body with regard to geting to the bottom of what ails you. It is fascinating. Check it out.

Gee, what happened?

I have been writing about conscious decision making focused  around synchronicity and intuition. I suggest that this is creative thinking in the meta sense because we may not consciously be  used to acting on these urges and signs.

Here is what I mean. read more »

Brought To LIght

I am at one of those crossroads in life where I have been able to nurse prostate cancer along for almost thirteen years. It is decision making time involving intuition,and  open mindedness .  I have two small tumors about the size of a rice kernels, maybe a bit bigger. The size isn’t the issue. It is the location. One is right next to an area where it can easily emerge from the capsule of the prostate and then it is a whole different ball game.

I like many had hoped by this time that medical science would have gotten much further along for the man on the street. That is there would have been breakthroughs which would would have provided the “silver” bullet so to speak.

I qualified for the latest in technological studies and just had a MRI guided biopsy. Here the latest in MRI and spectroscopy technology can be used to examine only the suspicious areas and to classify the aggressiveness. That is useful.

As I wrote about a few posts back, I had attended the Tesla Conference and there met a fellow who had a very advanced Rife Light. This is a light using frequencies to eliminate pathogens. He told me he had cured prostate and bladder cancer. Then I received an article about a man, Johan Boswinkel, from New Zealand who has also been using light to achieve remarkable results. This is a must read article.

I am hoping that my tissue analysis will give me a reasonable amount of time to explore the light.

When I emerged from the MRI biopsy I saw this sign on the building immediately in my path. The picture is a little out of focus as I  took it with my I-phone and had to blow it up. The sign on the building says, “Brought To Light.” I felt given the fact that I am on an open ended journey at the moment that this is a synchonicity.

I am buying one of those lights even though nobody can legally  say that it cures anything. I may also do other things, but I feel strongly that light therapy has a place in   the future treatment of chronic disease.

How does this feel to you?

“Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”
Oscar Wilde

I saw this quote on an e-mail today. It was the catalyst for this reflection. We all like the familiar, the tried and true, and being one of the gang. Yet it is that habit which frequently prevents us from being a bit adventuresome, from paying attention to our intuition. A contrarian  is one who consciously decides to swim against the current, to not run with the pack. It is this kind of conscious decision making that can open new doors. It is especially important today. The herd mentality can be frantic. Look at the markets.

In my book I wrote about how I had met a very wealthy financier in my earlier years who had had bone cancer as a youth. He had been bed ridden at age ten and  at the time and had asked that his parents bring him every auto biography in the library( There are numerous biographies but very few autobiographies by contrast).   He told me that there was one commonality exhibited by all of those whose autobiographies he had read: they all were contrarians. They all, in this sense, purposely marched to the beat of a different drummer. He was deformed with one leg shorter than the other, but said that he was determined to follow this model for life. He did, marrying a beautiful woman, raising a wonderful family, and becoming extremely successful in business.

Something to think about.

Me getting a treatment on the MRS 2000

Part of our decision making challenges in life revolves around accepting societal norms with regard to how ,say the field of medicine works. Some 60 million people in the U.S. are now seeking alternative therapies simply because they have their place and are producing results. What this means is that at the right times alternative forms can be the very best way to treat a chronic disease or ailment. The trick is to know when, where  and how to integrate it with traditional forms.

Years ago I had dinner in Germany with one of Europe’s top immunologists. People from all over Europe came to see him as he was a professor of medicine as well as a practicing doctor. I asked him the question above. He laughed. Then he pulled out a device from around his neck. He said this is what the Russian Cosmonauts were wearing in space. It was an energetic device. “This,” he said, “Is where we are going. Energetic medicine based upon Light, sound, electricity, magnetism, nano technology etc. “Why?”, he continued, because after a person has three prescription drugs in their system, it is impossible tell what the interaction of the next drug will be. Most senior people are running around with four or more drugs. some with many more. Unfortunately energetic medicine is not the domain of too many physicians. But that landscape will soon change. read more »

Ayahusca cooking

I know this sounds strange in a world where we quest  to improve, but some times that striving just  gets in the way of  being present and allowing an appreciation of what is around us. We move from moment to moment, marshalling the myriad of  information coming at us, and then we decide. Sometimes the priorities are already set and we just move through the day trying to check everything off. Our decision making is set, and we simply hope to get it all done.

I scanned the few news services I read regularly today  and realized that it is truly a mad mad world and perhaps always has been.  But we,  courtesy of technology, are experiencing it in ever increasing does with bewildering effects.

Today I was thinking, “What shall I write about?” Since nothing was appearing, I  realized that that was quite ok.  We can all get caught in our “doing” state and lose site of  the “being” state. In just such a blank moment I recalled the profound experience I had had on Ayahuasca years ago and knew that was my writing assignment for the day. Here is what I found out. read more »

The Happiness Rug

Most parents at some level want their children to experience a life of happiness. It was so important that it was part of the American Declaration of Independence. However the decision making process around pursuing happiness has been changing. Perhaps we need to apply more open-mindedness and  creativity to the way we think about it.

When I was growing up, my father would take me for those father and son drives and when we passed somebody digging a ditch, he would say, “ If you don’t continue with your education that’s what you will end up doing.” It did scare me and was more of the stick than the carrot. Yet, I didn’t have the presence of mind to ask my father whether he thought the ditch digger was happy or not. My dad’s assumption was that that man’s life was miserable, limited, and with no real choice. At that particular time the idea was that becoming all that you could be would give you the material wonders of the emerging world and a correspondingly better life. Is that true today? read more »

Umm! Yeah I kind of get what you're talking about

I have been blogging about how we have been living in a time when technology is capturing our linear thinking time and  forcing us to develop our intuitive side.  When we bring an open mindedness and  consciousness into the process, we enter the territory from a new perspective. Our antenna is up.

Heretofore we have been very comfortable in our rationale and linear mind. It lined up resources in a predictable  manner and when favorable enough, caused us to take action.

The new territory is the intuitive mind’s domain, but to feel comfortable in transitioning,  the linear mind still wants a map: something that makes it believe it can count on it.

So how much do we trust to our linear mind and how much do we reserve for our intuitive mind? In reality we usually  use our linear mind for as much as possible and accept the unknown as the domain for applying our intuition. However if we go about this process consciously we can decide to what degree we want to trust our intuitive mind.

How do we best do this? read more »

Today more than ever in all of the turmoil and change the old adage that “life is determined by the questions we ask” certainly needs front and center stage. If we are open minded and using our creative thinking focus we might ask ourselves the question in the headline.,

I went to a dinner tonight where the generations were discussing what they were facing. We had retired, recent college graduates, and those still very active in the work a day world. While it was acknowledged that each generation must find its way the difference between today and earlier times was that employment today is more challenging.  It is not that clear where opportunity is and how to land on one’s feet. It used to be that people had a game plan. They would find a career, apply themselves, save and muddle through to more gracious years. But now more than ever, nothing looks very certain, and when it is all stripped down here is what one of the leading thinkers and psychologists of the day, Mihaly Csikszentmihaly has to say about   What Makes Life Worth Living