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Community for Spirit
Creativity
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Dr. Deepak Chopra said that the average human being has
about 60,000 thoughts in a day. "Unfortunately", he
continued, "over 95% of them are the same thoughts they had the
previous day - {and the day before that and so on]. As a result of [socially]
conditioned responses, we structure a certain perceptual reality that
results in a certain mode of expression that remains constant, [day
after day after day]" Now consider the implications of this in the
context Dr. Kathy Goff gives us in her book Everyday Creativity, "Creativity
has been described as the most basic manifestation of a man or woman
fulfilling his/her own being in the world."
This search for our essential authenticity, what many call our
"spirit", is driving the emerging new view of life and reality -
and creativity is the means by which we can achieve it.
Books
 | CREATIVITY: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention -
Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi
 | This book describes what is necessary for someone to release his
or her natural ability to create.
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| The Old Way of Seeing - Jonathan Hale
| The beauty of this book is that it focuses on "seeing"
- that is, comprehending the meaning of "information".
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| The Creative Brain - Ned Herrmann
| This chronicles the discoveries, implications and insights of
Ned Hermann over his decades of study into left and right brain
function. It provides critical understanding for unlocking
creative capabilities.
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| The Mind of the Strategist - Kenichi Ohmae
| Ohmae's book may have been the first solid call for integrative
thinking in business. He argues that "successful business
strategies result not from rigorous analysis but from a particular
state of mind." The strategist's job, he says, "is very
simply to challenge the prevailing assumptions with a single
question: Why? and to put the same questions relentlessly to those
responsible for the current way of doing things until they are
sick of it."
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Links
| Gamepuzzles - for the joy of
thinking.
| The games and puzzles available from this site stimulate artistic, creative, systems thinking, foster non-hostile competition and integrate both sides of the brain. And besides, they're fun.
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| Creativity Cafe
| In the words of its founder, "At Creativity Cafe, we
live for the artist in everyone and believe creative people have
the solutions to the ills of humanity...and that everyone is
creative." This site is an ambitious undertaking that
celebrates "the artist in everyone".
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| The Creativity Web
| This site provides an extensive array of tools for developing
creativity
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| Creativity Web Sites
| This site provides a list of resources for enhancing personal
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