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Book SynopsisIn this provocative collection of essays, an interdisciplinary group of eminent thinkers and writers offer their thoughts on how embracing creativity can lead to improved physical and mental health, to new ways of thinking, of experiencing the world and ourselves.
Table of ContentsContributors
Foreword
—Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Introduction
—Ruth Richards
I. Creativity and Our Individual Lives
- Everyday Creativity: Our Hidden Potential
—Ruth Richards
- Living Well Creatively: What's Chaos Got to Do With It?
—David Schuldberg
- Artist and Audience: Everyday Creativity and Visual Art
—Tobi Zausner
- To Understand Is to Create: An Epistemological Perspective on Human Nature and Personal Creativity
—Mark A. Runco
- Audience Flow: Creativity in Television Watching With Applications to Teletherapy
—Steven R. Pritzker
- Structures of Consciousness and Creativity: Opening the Doors of Perception
—Allan Combs and Stanley Krippner
II: Creativity and Society
- Telling the New Story: Darwin, Evolution, and Creativity Versus Conformity in Science
—David Loye
- Standing Up for Humanity: Upright Body, Creative Instability, and Spiritual Balance
—Mike Arons
- Creativity in the Everyday: Culture, Self and Emotions
—Louise Sundararajan and James R. Averill
- A "Knowledge Ecology" View of Creativity: How Integral Science Recasts Collective Creativity as a Basis of Large-Scale Learning
—S. J. Goerner
- Cyborgs, Cyberspace, Cybersexuality: The Evolution of Everyday Creativity
—Frederick David Abraham
- Our Great Creative Challenge: Rethinking Human Nature—and Recreating Society
—Riane Eisler
III: Integration and Conclusions
- Twelve Potential Benefits of Living More Creatively
—Ruth Richards
Author Index
Subject Index
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