Willis Harman and Howard Rheingold: Higher Creativity
Higher Creativity: Liberating the Unconscious for Breakthrough Insights, from the first chapter: “Surprisingly, in the case histories of scientists, we found that not only many specific scientific discoveries but the very foundations of science itself were built on breakthrough experiences, later backed up by empirical investigation. It is ironic that science, the institution that has most strongly branded these kinds of experiences as daydreams, delusions, or hallucinations, appears to have been born in just such a state – in a fever dream, in a flash to an individual who could not solve the problem with the conscious portion of the mind.”