Creating Freedom

Name: Creating Freedom
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: James Fadiman, Ph.D.
ISBN: 9781664989290

Author: James Fadiman, Ph.D.

Narrator: Michael Toms

Unabridged: 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: New Dimensions Foundation

Published: 06/17/1987

Categories: Nonfiction, Psychology, Body, Mind, & Spirit

Synopsis

Freedom comes from within and requires seeing and transforming the blocks inside that hold us captive. Psychologist Fadiman views himself as "seeing things differently, and I call it consulting." Indeed, his perspective challenges us to examine how we hold ourselves back and to explore the possibilities for greater freedom and sanity in our lives.

About James Fadiman, Ph.D.

James Fadiman, PhD, did his undergraduate work at Harvard and his graduate work at Stanford, doing research with the Harvard Group, the West Coast Research Group in Menlo Park, and Ken Kesey. A former president of the Institute of Noetic Sciences and a professor of psychology, he teaches at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, which he helped found in 1975. An international conference presenter, workshop leader, management consultant, and author of several books and textbooks, he lives in Menlo Park, California, with his filmmaker wife, Dorothy.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Al on January 18, 2017

This book is a colossal achievement. Martinez has pulled together so much great thinking and it's superbly researched. In fluid, clear prose he sets out the structural problems with modern society and how we might go about changing things for the better. The author argues eloquently for a more compa......more

Goodreads review by Tariq on February 08, 2017

The book is a must read for liberals but will prove to be challenging read for all right wingers, nationalists and capitalists. Chapters on banking and politics were very interesting indeed.......more

Goodreads review by Camille on February 22, 2021

This is a great book all around. Every topic was well-researched and had just the right amount of abstract explanation and examples. The book is about how we are shaped by the environment around us and how that environment determines what degree of "freedom" we really have. It looks at the concepts......more