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    Deep Creativity: Inside the Creative Mystery
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    Deep Creativity: Inside the Creative Mystery
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    Deep Creativity: Inside the Creative Mystery

    By Victor Shamas, PhD and June Maker, PhD

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  • Creativity is a popular topic, with books, workshops, and corporate training on the subject generating several hundred million dollars in annual revenue.

  • Offers groundbreaking insights into the nature of the creative process, based on Victor Shamas’ 30-year investigation of creativity.

  • Presents The Ten Tenets to challenge basic assumptions about creativity and reveal important new breakthroughs.

  • Documents both the verbal reports of creative individuals and Shamas’ own first-person exploration of the creative process.

  • Provides a bold, new vision of creativity that integrates ideas from psychology, comparative mythology, philosophy, fractal geometry, and mysticism.

  • Written from a research psychologist’s standpoint who has already published extensively in this field and is the co-author of the Amazon Bestseller Repose: The Potent Pause.

  • Victor Shamas has a national platform with his research featured in USA Today, Pregnancy magazine, and NBC’s Today show.

  • Reflects the effectiveness in the proposed approach in Victor Shamas’ own prolific creative output, which includes: four books; one music CD; several hundred musical compositions; over 200 instructional videos; two non-profit organizations; 25 university psychology courses; a global event attended by over one million participants; a multimedia program on the neuroscience of addiction; the invention of a solar water distiller; and the development of an anti-inflammatory health program designed to lower the risk of chronic illness.
    • LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMorgan James Publishing
    Release dateSep 12, 2017
    ISBN9781683505426
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    Deep Creativity: Inside the Creative Mystery
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    Victor Shamas, PhD

    Victor Shamas, Ph.D., is the Executive Director of PlayHaven, a charitable organization that promotes creative play for people of all ages. In 2016, he retired from the Psychology Department at the University of Arizona after a 22-year teaching career. His lifelong investigation into the role of consciousness in the creative process is chronicled in Deep Creativity: Inside the Creative Mystery. This work challenges fundamental assumptions concerning the nature of human creativity, including the way creativity is defined, the source of new insights and ideas, and the dynamics of the creative process. Shamas’ research is based on documenting both the verbal reports of creative individuals and his own first-person exploration of the creative process. The effectiveness of Shamas’ approach to creativity is reflected in his own prolific creative output. He is the author of three other books, including Repose: The Potent Pause, co-authored with Jhan Kold. The Repose technique described in that book has direct applications to human creativity, as detailed in Deep Creativity. Shamas has also written several hundred musical compositions; recorded a music CD and over 200 instructional videos; started an international network of chanting circles called Global Chant; developed and taught 25 university courses, including an honors’ seminar on creativity and innovation; organized a global event called WAVE1 that involved approximately one million participants in 40 countries; designed multimedia materials on the neuroscience of addiction; invented a solar water distiller; created an anti-inflammatory health program, called Victor’s Inflammation Mend (VIM), to lower the risk of chronic illness; and directed the Intuition in Pregnancy study, which has been featured in the national media, including USA Today, Pregnancy magazine, and NBC’s Today show. Shamas currently resides in Tucson, AZ.

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