REVIEWS
“Thank you for allowing me the privilege of reading your book. The final section, with its beauty of language, depth of experience, glowing honesty, quite swept me away. To be at home in those realms and to have the ability to express them so clearly and beautifully, is indeed a gift of God. Reading your book has given me faith and hope during a trying time.”
Vernon Katz, MA, D.Phil, Oxford University, Author of Conversations with Maharishi, Vols 1 and 2, United Kingdom
“I greatly enjoyed the beautiful poetic rhythm of this book, from the timeless Vedic wisdom to the testimonies of the author’s own meditative experiences , and the inspiring comments by great artists.”
Fritjof Capra, author of “The Tao of Physics”, USA
“This profoundly moving and inspiring text has been of great help in clarifying certain visions and feelings I’ve had during the creation of my latest experiments with virtual reality. By inviting me to delve into your contemplative and meditative experiences, I have gained so much wisdom by internally relating to and feeling the ineffable experience of our inner and deepest nature. Furthermore, sharing the ideas and poems of many great artists and gurus has profoundly inspired me and grounded my footsteps to a visionary path of “bridging the divine to the human world” (as you state) with the greatest and deepest intention of creating for the benefit of all.”
Jose Montemayor, Artist, London, United Kingdom
“This book is informative and brings out lucidly the “inter-connect” between all aspects of existential reality, cosmic consciousness and creativity. Complex issues have been explained in a simple, straightforward manner. The book subtly exhorts the readers to recognize and activate their own creative processes.”
Shovana Narayana, MPhil., Padmashri and Sangeet Natak Akademi Awardee in Kathak Dance, India
“Barbara Ann Briggs is able to take complex and often confusing philosophical ideas and make them accessible. I believe this guide will find a receptive audience for the creatives of the world, regardless of their viewpoints with regard to philosophy and religion, as a sound source of inspiration.”
Readers’ Favorite Reviewer, USA
A Work of Enlightened Genius:
“The Secret of Creative Abundance explains how alignment with one’s inner spiritual nature helps a person grow to a state of creative genius, whether in the Arts or Sciences. This book presents us with insightful quotations from geniuses in the fields of the arts and sciences, illustrating the creative process in specific examples of creativity. Famous artists and celebrated scientists, including many Nobel laureates, provide authentic ground for understanding the ramifications of delving into subtler levels of the mind to stimulate the creative process. Many, like the discovery of the structure of the Benzene ring by August Kekule are well known, but Briggs’ research takes us deep into lesser-known descriptions by equally famous people. Her book also includes quotations from the Upanishads which shed light on the Vedic descriptions of the field of pure consciousness as the substratum of the universe and the deepest level of human awareness. Her book culminates in a selection of Briggs’ own beautiful poems in its final chapter, which remind us of the works of Sri Aurobindo. Like Aurobindo, Briggs lived long years under British suzerainty, during which her initial brilliance, published in her native US, slowly matured to the level of the prose poems she offers us in the final chapter of her light-shedding volume for the 2020’s. She prepares us for it by giving intimately beautiful descriptions of experiences of meditation that lead meditators into such overflowing states of artistic genius. I feel that this book would be a great source of inspiration to artists and scientists and to anyone seeking to discover and enliven the subtle dynamics of the creative process. It broadens the scope of current thought on this topic by including the Vedic understanding of the process of creation, and bridges the gap between the East and the West by showing how tuning into subtler levels of awareness is a universal birthright open to anyone. “
–Alex Hankey M.A. (Cantab.) PhD (M.I.T.) DSc. (Hon Causa) Professor Emeritus of Biology, MIT World Peace University, India
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