Description

You may, at some time, have had a ‘peak’ experience, an ecstatic moment or a
moment of greater understanding, when your consciousness expanded - and you
knew it. When this occurs, the integration between left brain (logical thinking) and
right brain (intuitive feelings and emotions) is manifested in increased energy-flow
between the two sides. This is thinking and feeling in an holistic and balanced way. It
is a foretaste of an evolutionary jump for humanity - and in essence, what the socalled
New Age is all about - a new level of maturity in mental development, an
awakening.
By learning how to arouse the whole brain, selectively and at will, the mode of
consciousness may be freely altered, appropriate to the task or situation - whether a
crisis, making music, relaxing, mental arithmetic, brainstorming, or contemplating
nature.
In this new wide-awake consciousness, the world seems to be full of possibilities - it
possesses a strong sense of rediscovered meaning. This is nothing mystical, it is
essentially ordinary consciousness, operating for once at its proper efficiency.
“When we pull back and get, for a moment, the ‘bird’s eye’ view of life, it
reveals meanings that are ungraspable by the narrow focus
of our usual worm’s eye view” Colin Wilson
Research tells us that one side of the brain is usually dominant to the other, and that
most of the time, very little of the potential capacity of the brain is in use. Brain
studies have shown that people who are functioning optimally have a high level of
inter-hemispheric communication and that the two sides are working in synchrony
and balance, as described above. Also overall arousal is higher and under conscious
control - this is the skill of sustained concentration.
The methods described in this book are designed to help you achieve this state by a
step-by-step approach. The skills that are learnt and practised give an objective
understanding and control of the mind and just as important, a new understanding
and empathy with others.