Creative Intelligence and Self-Liberation

Non-Aristotelian Thinking as developed by Aldred Korzybski involves seeing events as they really are, and not as they are presented to us through words and memory. It stresses how no one thing is like anything else – that even two pins are never the same. Now Creative Intelligence extends Korzybski's concept by weaving together the Eastern philosophies of Realization and Liberation. It teaches us to ‘unlearn' the rigid patterns of thought that we are indoctrinated with from birth, and to escape the confines of memory, association and, most importantly, words.Albert Einstein thought in an entirely different way from ordinary people, and theorist Alfred Korzybski wanted to know why. Studying Einstein's unique thought processes in his book Science and Sanity, he explained how genius works, and named this process Non-Aristotelian Thinking. Creative Intelligence extends Korzybski's concept by weaving together the Eastern philosophies of Realization and Liberation. Falconar teaches us to ‘unlearn' the rigid patterns of thought that we are indoctrinated with - and to escape the confines of memory, association and, most importantly, words. Children live in a colour and sense world until words replace their senses. Then joy ends and the colours fade into a black and white world of words. This book teachers how to regain our senses and return to that original world. In this revised edition Ted Falconar has written a comprehensive new introduction and provides additional work on enlightenment and visualisation throughout the book. “When this important seminal book was first published in 2000, it was hailed as a work of genius, breaking new ground in the quest for keys to Creative Intelligence and Self Liberation. I strongly recommend this book to earnest seekers after Truth who are prepared to open up their minds to a fresh and rewarding approach to the real meaning of life.Alan Jacobs, Author of The Essential Gnostic Gospels“Drawing principally on the insights of Alfred Korzybski's Non-Aristotelian thinking but also the ideas of psychologist Abraham Maslow, Indian guru Krishnamurti, and others, Ted Falconar makes a powerful plea for rejecting the word-dominance so prevalent in the West (since “words are not the things they represent) and reinstating a tradition of visualization based on creative perception and Eastern enlightenment leading to self-liberation.Jack Herbert, Writer and Poet“Through the ages, deep thinking people have tried to point the way to Enlightenment. Ted Falconar is in that tradition. He believes the ability to visualise creatively is a faculty that lies dormant, waiting to be awakened. He makes the radical suggestion that there is a link between the age-old practice of meditation and human development and that ‘verbal thinking' has sidetracked human beings from the main line of evolution. This book tells us how to get back on trackSuzanne McKay Woolley, Journalist, Author and Yoga TeacherTed Falconer applied his lifelong interest in philosophy and human relations to managing companies. Ideas enabling workers to fulfil their potential and to harness their creativity were so successful that Tetley Tea Company, of which he was Managing Director, was turned round so that its productivity more than doubled and a large loss was changed in to spectacular profits. His writing can be seen as being concerned with his lifelong search for purpose and meaning in life.''Following on the work of Korzybski, Ted Falconar shows how we need to once again visualise our inner thoughts as sensory and in images not words, if we are to become creative seers once more. We are currently struggling in our thought process as slaves to the incompetent word and our current, indoctrinated thought process forces us to see the world as Piaget saw it, labelled and catalogued in schemas, categorised for later reference, thereby reducing future events as nothing more substantial than analytic association from memory. We have lost the ability to think in a way that allows us to see the world and all it contains as ever new and stimulating. Having separated our inner mind from the outer world we no longer see it world as Wordsworth saw it...'There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,The earth and every common sight,To me did seemApparell'd in celestial light,The glory and the freshness of a dream.'With the help of people like Korzybski and Falconar, we can regain the ability to think in images and liberate our creative potential. Maybe we could even emulate Einstein whose ability to think in image allowed him -to visualise a completely different Uninverse A which revolutionised physicsFor someone who works in Childcare and Education, I found this book alarmingly enlightening.''- Ian Deal Editor, A Bad Hair Day magazine, The Poet Tree Magazine, Image Nation Magazine''In this relatively short book, Ted Falconar introduces some powerful concepts. I thought that reading this book would provide me with ways to think more creatively. In fact, I now feel more empowered to think creatively, yet I also feel as though I am now actually thinking less, by keeping self-destructive thoughts out of my head.The messages in this book were, to me, incredibly useful in overcoming anxiety and nerves as well as offering me a way to think differently in a range of situations. If, like me, you have that “inner voice following you round and giving you unwanted advice, I would recommend that you read this book to learn how to silence the voice and to look at things from a new perspective. Using this alternative way of thinking has even helped me to get to sleep, by replacing word-thinking with picture-thinking.Falconar's book takes a modern outlook on spirituality, where the focus is on the here and now. It is this connection with the here and now which frees us from word-thoughts and enables us to be more creative.Initially I found the book hard to “get into, because I couldn't grasp the meaning behind some of Falconar's key themes, such as Korzybski's Structural Differential. Being someone who needs to understand things before I can move on, a significant time that I took reading this book was taken up by the introduction and the first chapter. Once I got to grips with the terms (by analogising them with terms that are more familiar to me from NLP, such as chunking upwards) I found the rest of the book to be a truly liberating read.''- Natasha Goggin, Managing Director, NXG Development Ltd''The revised edition of a book first published in 2000 and which builds on the work of Count Alfred Korzybski on what he called non-Aristotelian thinking and the Structural Differential. His basic contention is that we mistake verbal and abstract knowledge for the intuitive and visual insights that form the basis of real knowledge based on direct contact with reality. Ordinary thinking is analytical and associative, dominated by memory and reliant on noticing similarities. Non-Aristotelian thinking knows that words cannot capture objects and that nothing is like anything else. It looks for differences not similarities and tries to perceive things more subtly. In this respect, it resembles Goethe's scientific method. The world is represented in pictures, which is how Einstein thought and is the basis not only of creativity but also self-liberation: 'reality is structural, not verbal. It has form, pattern and shape.' And we ourselves are the universal light of consciousness, by which we perceive and which we can perceive. All this is very clearly explained within a wide frame of reference that includes poetry, mysticism and the thought of Krishnamurti and Maslow. it also has interesting applications for organisations in terms of releasing the creative potential of employees, which the author successfully accomplished when the managing director of Tetley Tea.''- The Scientific and Medical Network, August 2009