This volume in the New Consciousness Reader Series focuses on "knowledge that cannot be grasped by intellect or analysis" or what has traditionally been called "inner wisdom." In the introduction, Helen Palmer (The Enneagram) notes that national opinion polls find that most Americans believe in such nonconceptual ways of knowing as intuition, precognition, and dreams.
In a section titled "Ancient Avenues of Wisdom," the reader will find essays by Arthur Hastings on oracles and channels, Jean Shinoda Bolen on synchronistic knowledge, and Roger Walsh on shamanism. Imagination offers access to creativity and intuitiveness as Abraham H. Maslow reveals in a piece on experiential knowing and Montague Ullman demonstrates in a selection on dreams. In "Highways to Higher Consciousness" Jack Kornfield, Joseph Goldstein, Pema Chodron, Kabir Helminski, and other spiritual writers comment on attention and practices that can be used to confirm inner knowing. This sophisticated resource will appeal to all serious explorers of inner space.