Willis W. Harman, PhD
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Willis Harman, PhD was President of IONS from 1975-1996.
Widely recognized as one of the practical visionaries of our time, Willis Harman was deeply committed to working with the global transformation that is evidently part of our immediate future. He exemplified the integration of spiritual and intellectual knowing that is at the heart of the work of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, where he was president until his death in 1997.
For 16 years, Harman was Senior Social Scientist as SRI International, a global -futurist think-tank in Menlo Park, California. He was emeritus professor of Engineering-Economic Systems at Stanford University, and a member of the Board of Regents of the University of California.
His books include An Incomplete Guide to the Future, Changing Images of Man, Higher Creativity, Paths to Peace, New Metaphysical Foundations of Science, and Biology Revisioned, as well as a number of monographs, including, "A Reexamination of the Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science" and "The Scientific Exploration of Consciousness."
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Classics in Creativity
by Willis W. Harman, PhD and Howard Rheingold
The reflections of these consciousness pioneers on creativity have no less relevance now than they did a generation ago.
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Biology Revisioned
by Willis W. Harman, PhD and Elisabet Sahtouris, PhD
Biology Revisioned presents an engaging look at the changing state of biology and proposes that we reconsider our views of science and life. Harman and Sahtouris suggest that it is an historical accident that physics came to be the generally accepted root discipline of science ...
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Global Mind Change
The Promise of the 21st Century
by Willis W. Harman, PhD
Global Mind Change startles us into reconsidering the role of consciousness in major areas of human concern: science and education, spirituality and consciousness research, health and healing, psychology and psychotherapy, economics and management.
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Higher Creativity
Liberating the Unconscious for Breakthrough Insights
by Willis W. Harman, PhD and Howard Rheingold
Insight is the mind's magic in action, solving problems, understanding relationships, creating new images--with a speed and certainty unavailable to ordinary consciousness. Breakthrough insights go even further. They take a quantum leap beyond ordinary creativity and our previous ways of looking at things ...