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How to Channel a PhD

An Intuitive Researchers Guide to Inspirational Thesis Writing
Marcus T Anthony, PhD
mindfutures@yahoo.com

This 20 000 word booklet tells you everything you need to know about how to write your dream dissertation and have a ball doing so! The author, Marcus T Anthony shares with you the way he completed a PhD dissertation, published a dozen journal articles and an academic book all in four years - while working full-time as a teacher and educational administrator!
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Table of Contents
Introduction 1. How I came to Develop Integrated Inquiry 2. A brief history of rational and intuitive ways of knowing 9 3. What is Integrated Intelligence? 4. The INQ Tools 5. Using Integrated Intelligence in research 6. Important considerations Finally Appendix: Some other useful tools References About the Author Other books by Marcus T Anthony Endnotes 4 7 12 18 32 52 56 57 63 67 69 71

Dont get so far ahead of the parade that nobody can see where you are.

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John Naisbitt (futurist) Only intuition, resting on sympathetic understanding can lead to these laws. The daily effort comes from no deliberate intention or program, but straight from the heart. Albert Einstein

Introduction
One day several decades ago, a young man walked into a public library. He wanted to find answers to some deep questions he had been asking himself about the nature of mind, cosmos and their relationship to modern physics. In those days there were no computers, and he did not have much of a liking for the card catalogue, so he did what he often did when he wanted to home in on some hard information. He began walking along the many shelves of books. He did not bother to look at the call numbers librarians had spent thousands of hours inscribing on the binding of the books. Instead, he just kept walking. Suddenly, he got the strong feeling he had been waiting for, stopped, reached out and grabbed a book from the shelf. The book was exactly what he needed, addressing the effect of human observation on experiments in quantum physics. It was that moment which launched Michael Talbot on a lifelong interest in the confluence between mysticism and what he called the new physics (Talbot 1992 p 137). What interests me about Talbots tale, is not so much his beliefs about links between mysticism and physics, but the way of knowing he used to locate his data. Why did he not just use a computer search like everybody else? Was he just being lazy? The answer, according to Talbot, is that he often relied on his intuition, and a sense of feeling to find books in libraries. He felt that this was often a more reliable process than using

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conventional methods. He believed that he would be led to find the answer to the question she was posing. What would you do? Chances are you would head for the card catalogue, or the modern equivalent, the computer database. And that tells us something about the way our minds have been trained to think, and the ways of knowing that we have come to call normal in the modern world. Some will dismiss Talbot as a New Ager, hippie, or as simply deluded. Yet these terms relegate Talbot to the realm of the other, and effectively prevent us from asking why - and more importantly how he used intuition to locate information in public libraries. In this way we as researchers remain confined within our comfort zones, and the boundaries to our knowledge are unconsciously maintained. In this booklet I am going to push the boundaries, and bring us to the frontiers of mind at least as defined in the modern Western world. Below, I will outline five intuitive research tools which can be used by researchers. Together they form an approach to research I call Integrated Inquiry (INQ). Although the title of this booklet addresses doctoral candidates, there is no reason why researchers and students at any level undergraduate or postgraduate cannot use INQ in their research or studies. It can be used by professional and lay researchers everywhere. The modern researcher Most students embarking on a higher degree have spent many years and made great sacrifices learning their trade. Most have spent nearly two decades in a modern education system. This educational experience shapes not only the way they use their minds and conduct their research, but creates strong beliefs about what constitutes rational, as well as what ways of knowing are valid. They have learned to identify problems, design projects, ask questions, construct experiments, conduct literature

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reviews, collect data, calculate, analyze, cite sources, and report findings. These processes and their rational ways of knowing are all part of the formal research process. Such is the restrictive nature of conventional research, and the training process so long, that by the time a research student has come to write up her masters or doctoral thesis, it is almost inevitable that she has forgotten about an entire range of cognitive processes that are actually very natural to human beings. These are the other ways of knowing which have been left off the map of modern research, and neglected by the entire modern education system, and our science. They have been largely rejected by developed civilisations, both East and West. For underpinning the modern research project is a hegemonic process which has both retarded and silenced mystical/spiritual ways of knowing, and removed potentially invaluable information and tools from the research process. In How to Channel a PhD, I want to share with you some of the skills and processes of Integrated Inquiry. I believe that INQ can be utilized by all researchers, if only they are willing open their minds. In Part 1 I describe how I came to develop the theory of Integrated Intelligence (INI) - a human mental capacity which exists both within and beyond the brain, and encompasses mystical insight. This section includes how I developed my own intuitive abilities. In Parts 2 and 3 I provide an explanation of Integrated Intelligence and brief historical overview of it (If you are only interested in the hands on applications of INI, you might like to skip these sections). Parts 4 and 5 represent the crux of this booklet. They detail the practical intuitive processes which you can start using right away in your research. These are the INI Tools. These sections include very practical examples from my experience as a researcher, and excerpts from the study diary I kept as a doctoral candidate. Part 6 briefly

addresses three issues you may face as you apply these kinds of tools to your research. The approach I recommend may be an affront to seasoned researchers. However, in the spirit of my own academic discipline 1 Deep Futures - I like to challenge common conceptions. I offer this booklet as an act of dissent a challenge to prevailing methods and the dominant paradigm.

How I came to develop Integrated Inquiry

I have used all the tools and processes I outline in this booklet for many years. I adapted them from intuitive abilities I learned long before I became a researcher. From about 1993-2002 I spent much of my time engaging in meditative states, recording and analyzing dreams and visions, as well as engaging in inner child work and emotional healing.2 At one point in the 1990s I read almost nothing for five years, instead focusing upon experiencing other ways of knowing and being. This initiation into the intuitive mind taught me a lot about the limits of the rationality that dominates modern education and science. I came to see that human knowledge and understanding can be greatly enhanced by developing mental abilities and processes that are not currently accepted in the Western world (and many other parts of the world, too). When I came to research and write a doctoral thesis beginning in 2002 (the topic was about Integrated Intelligence), I deliberately employed these intuitive ways of knowing alongside the rational mental processes expected of me by the system. As a result I was able to complete a 110 000 word thesis and publish a dozen or so research
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For an overview of Deep Futures, see Article of the same name, which I wrote for Nanyang Technological University: http://www.mindfutures.com/articlepdfs/artpdf25.pdf 2 You can read about my early intuitive experiences in more detail in the introduction to my Book Discover Your Soul Template (Inner Traditions, 2012). This book also details the INI Tools in greater detail, in relation to the way they can be used in real life situations.

booklets within the space of four years all while working full-time as a teacher and educator. My thesis was accepted for publication, and formed much of the research detailed in my book Integrated Intelligence (Sense Publishers, 2008). What is more, the experience of writing and researching my doctoral thesis was often a joyful one! At times it was effortless, as I entered a relaxed state of non-ordinary consciousness. Ideas and understandings often gushed out of me like water from a fountain. Yes, I channeled my PhD! (Well, at least part of it). My thesis received very strong reviews from my three independent examiners. One wrote: This doctoral thesis is an exceptional document. I am hard put to adequately express all the thoughts it brings to mind. I am first most impressed by the fact that, based on where I see the hopeful discourse for our time headed, this thesis seems to have leaped ahead and got to where the discourse will, if we are lucky, arrive in maybe another decade or more. I see this thesis as being the sort of island or rock upon which one can build a very significant career either as an educator or as a writer, or as both. Again, I must stress I see (Marcus T Anthony) as having reached where others will arrive, and most not so well, some years yet ahead in time. His marshaling of references is very impressive. Rather than simply tie his presentation to one or more powerful established positions, he has fought his way clear to achieve what seems to me a rare independence and maturity of mind.
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A Brief history of rational & intuitive ways of knowing

Western civilization has established rational ways of knowing as the dominant cognitive processes which underpin the way we access knowledge. However at the same time it has largely forgotten about the intuitive mind and mystical intuition. I believe this is a significant problem, because it is mystical intuition which helps us understand the deeper context and meanings hidden within information. It also prevents us from connecting with Inspiration, which is an incredibly valuable tool for any researcher. This problem has its roots in the atomistic and analytical philosophy of ancient Greece, the influence of scholastic universities in Europe in the middle ages, and in the scientific and industrial revolutions. Around the 1500s the scholastic movement developed in Europe. Scholasticism featured classification as its prime way of knowing. By 1800 analysis had developed in the social sciences, and around 1850 experimentation became crucial in the sciences (Pickstone 2000). Finally, the birth of the modern personal computer after the mid-twentieth century heralded a new way of knowing. The computer became a prime mediator of knowledge, and with it came the advent of computer rationality (Klein 2003) as a highly influential way of knowing. The separation between observer and subject became even more distinct. Data was mediated via the machine on the desktop. As just one example, where once weather forecasters had relied, in part, upon an intuitive connection with the environmentgoing outside to check weather vanes, to feel the wind on their faces and the humidity in the airnow they sit before computers and analyze data fed to them by sophisticated computer models.i The development of modern science thus brought a rapid increase in our ability to process and develop knowledge and technologies. Yet this tremendous progress in the hard and soft sciences has come at a great

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If you wish to explore this historical process, I go into it in more detail in my book Integrated Intelligence.

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price. It has created a split in the Western mind, as Richard Tarnas (2000) has pointed out. By the turn of the twentieth century another domain of knowledge had become suppressed, silenced. For it was by this time that the onceinfluential Romantic Movement lost momentum. Its prime ways of knowing had involved intuition and featured an emotive relationship with nature and the cosmos: the deep connection of knower and the known. This intuitive cognitive process stood in complete contrast to the detachment of the emerging scientific method, which necessitated that the observer be disconnected from the subject of observation. Even in the analytical and humanistic disciplines, academics were eventually forced to remove emotional language and first person references. This is how the alienated mind was born.ii The alienated mind is consciousness which exists in separation from its environment, and by implication, from the intuitive and emotional body. As the twentieth century progressed, and life became increasingly individualistic and focused upon career, achievement, and entertainment, this estrangement from inner worlds became entrenched across the Western world. It has now, I believe, become the norm in many Asian cultures as well, especially in East Asian countries with a Confucian culture.iii It is the intuitive mind which has been the obvious victim of this historical process. People in modern societies have few opportunities to access and employ the intuitive mind, and it plays no formal part in education and research.3 The essential point I wish to make here is that not only have we jettisoned much superstition and ignorance, we have also discarded a great deal of wisdom and lost touch with something vital Integrated Intelligence. The baby has been thrown out with the bathwater. Its time to correct the mistake.

Mundane and Mystical Intuition Yet, what exactly is intuition? There are multiple definitions, but for the sake of manageability I like to break intuition into two main categories. The first is mundane intuition, which involves the subconscious processing of information in the brain. This intuition makes itself known through subtle feelings which bubble up from just below the surface of conscious awareness. Because this intuition is explained in terms of known brain physiology, it does not challenge mainstream scientific thinking about human consciousness. There is a body of legitimate research available on mundane intuition (e.g. Torff & Sternberg 2001). It is the second kind of intuition mystical - which is central to the ideas presented in this booklet. Mystical intuition has been featured relatively little in academic research, and is thus poorly understood. Few researchers want to touch it, because mystical intuition contains references to spiritual, mystical, and religious experience. It requires a discussion of psi phenomena and the so-called paranormal, and the idea of the extended mindthat consciousness transcends the brain. There is an effective psi taboo (Radin 2006) in modern science, making this domain of research unattractive for most researchers.

What is Integrated Intelligence?

Integrated Intelligence, in which the individual draws upon transpersonal information, has been a key theme of my research. But I have not merely investigated INI intellectually by reading, analyzing, and writing academic booklets and popular books and articles. I have, in the tradition
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of the Romantic vision, systematically applied these alternative ways knowing during my life and my research. The result is the concept Integrated Intelligence, which incorporates a more complete range cognitive processes and ways of knowing than typically found mainstream discourses on mind and intelligence. Let me be a quite specific. Integrated Intelligence is:

of of of in

The deliberate and conscious employment of the extended mind, so that an individual can solve problems or function successfully within a given environment. In turn I define the extended mind as: The state of personal awareness whereby personal experience is infused with a transpersonal consciousness that transcends the confines of the individual mind and the limits of the sensory perception.4 Finally, integrated inquiry is: The deliberate application of Integrated Intelligence during research and learning. Using Integrated Intelligence There are seven mental applications and two outcomes of the employment of Integrated Intelligence.iv The mental applications of Integrated Intelligence are:
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Integrated Perception

I have borrowed the term the extended mind from Rupert Sheldrake (2003). The term integrated intelligence is my own.

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Location 3. Diagnosis 4. Evaluation 5. Fore-sense 6. Creativity and Inspiration 7. Recognition

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The outcomes of using Integrated Intelligence are: 1. Wisdom 2. Personal and Social Transformation Tables 1 and 2 (below) list these, and provide applications, evidence, and examples.v

Table 1: The Mental Applications of Integrated Intelligence

Cognitive Process Integrated Perception Potential Applications Other Evidence & References Integrated perception of the Mystic Edwin Buckes Mystical & spiritual underlying order & (1991) immediate perception traditions. Non-ordinary meaning of systems, & that Cosmos is not dead states of consciousness intelligence within those matter but a living (Psychiatrist Stan Grof systems - including cosmos. Presence. 2000, Sheldrake, Terrence Enhancing spiritual McKenna, & Ralph worldview; meaning & Abraham (2001), Ken Anecdotal Examples

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Wilbers (2000) empirical mysticism), claiming that mystical experience transcends culture and time. Location Researcher Michael Talbot Remote viewing, including employs deeper & more scientific remote viewing intuitive abilities in (Braud 2003, Radin 2006, locating research data Sheldrake 2003). Dowsing (Talbot 1992: 137). (the scientific data for dowsing is unsupportive see Wikipedia). Diagnosis Accounts of intuition, Larry Dosseys (2003) dreams & spiritual guidance research into healing & to facilitate diagnosis of prayer, distant mental problems. Hawkins (2002) influence. intuitively diagnosed patients illnesses. Carolyn Myss (2001), medical intuitive (see example of Integrated Perception in Part 5, below). Evaluation Evaluating design & Individuals who employ Card guessing experiments construction alternatives, intuition & spiritual from parapsychology, e.g. investment choices, guidance to make choices the Rhine ESP experiments research strategies, & (e.g., novelist Richard Bach (Dean Radin 2006: 83-89). technology alternatives 1986 - see fore-sense, (Targ & Katra 1999: 139). below). Evaluation of life, career, & relationship choices. Fore-sense Foresight of natural Richard Bach (1986). Using Scientific experiments into disasters, political an introspective visionary presentiment (Dean conditions, technological technique, he sees the Radin 2006: 161-180), developments, wear disastrous consequences of which suggest that conditions, & investment leaving his partner& emotional events from the opportunities (Targ & Katra adjusts his choice future subtly effect the 1999: 142). Sensing where accordingly. body before they occur. to look for information sources. To determine consequences of choices. Creativity & The individual draws upon Chemist August Kekule was Indigenous and mystical Innovation the extended mind to seized with the notion of conceptions of creativity facilitate increased molecular nature of benzene being influenced by inspiration & creativity in ring in dream (Kafatos & ancestors and spiritual work, business, research, Kafatou 1991:166); Otto entities (John Broomfield

sense of relationship with nature & cosmos. Perceiving the connection between & amongst concepts & schemata. Determining location of important objects (Russel Targ & Jane Katra 1999: 139-141). Also location of information & data for research; finding relevant people & places. Diagnosis of medical & mechanical problems; safety, health & environmental hazards; & sources of human error (Targ & Katra 1999: 141). Spiritual & psychological introspection.

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competition, or leisure.

Recognition

1997, Lawlor 1991). Similar claims by numerous artists, writers and creators (e.g. William Blake, Wayne Dyer). No known empirical studies. Having an intuitive sense of Indian mystic Paramahansa No known studies knowing somebody or Yoganandas (1979) (admittedly the subject something, without immediate recognition of his matter is difficult to define, conscious awareness of future guru at first meeting let alone study). having seen or met them while walking past him on before. the street.

Loews understanding transmission of neuronal impulses while asleep (Broomfield 1997: 80). vi

Table 2: The Outcomes of Integrated Intelligence

Cognitive Process Wisdom Potential Applications Anecdotal Exemplars Other Evidence

Having intuited underlying The life of Mohandas The links between causes, meanings & functions Karamchand (Mahatma) spirituality, spiritual of various life processes, the Gandhi. Gandhi combined guidance & wisdom individual is able to make an austere, mundane from anecdotes & intelligent choices which existence with political & tradition (Broomfield enhance happiness, well-being intellectual acumen, & 1997, Lawlor 1991). & spiritual development of combined these with self & the human collective. spiritual tools, insight, & wisdom to forge a powerful & effective life. Personal & Optimal human & cosmic Buckes cosmic Field consciousness Social evolution; may include consciousness (Tart 1993); studies (Radin 2006). Transforaspects of all mental Hawkins (2002) experience mation applications, with purpose of of being protected by a evaluation of personal goals bright, warming light while & choices within a greater stuck in a snow storm; planetary & cosmic dynamic. transformative power of Potential for increased hope & near death experiences meaning. (Grof 2000); synchronicity (Jung 1973).

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There is much evidence for the extended mind, including that from studies into comparative religion and anthropology, extrasensory perception, premonitory dreams, near-death experiences, crisis visions, psychedelic experience, and so on (Combs, Arcari & Krippner 2006, Grof 2000). If we peruse the literature on mystical experience in general, endless anecdotal examples can be added. Empiricists tend to reject anecdote, but there are some domains of human experience that are not easily studied empirically, and mystical and intuitive experience is one of them. There are simply too many extraordinary stories of premonitions, insights, inspiration and spiritual guidance for the data to be dismissed out of hand. That would be far more irrational than any mystical experience itself. A wonderful book which outlines many of the incredible cases on record is Lawrence LeShans (2009) A New Science of the Paranormal. Some theorists writing outside of the boundaries of mainstream discourses on mind and intelligence believe that there is a need to develop a new paradigm of science which includes non-local exchanges of information, via a transpersonal consciousness. These researchers agree that consciousness must be incorporated into our understandings of the working of the universe (Bradley 2004, Grof 2000, Laszlo 2004, Sheldrake 2012, Wilber 2000). Of these works I highly recommend Sheldrakes (2012) The Science Delusion as an excellent and very readable overview of some of the problems facing modern materialist science, including its understanding of consciousness. If you are interested in a more specific examination of consciousness, I can endorse none more highly than transpersonal psychiatrist Stan Grofs (2000) Psychology of the Future, which summarizes much of the evidence for the extended mind and presents it in accessible fashion. Grof was a pioneer scientist who studied the effects of LSD on the mind during the 50s and 60s. His understandings of consciousness are almost identical to my own. However he has used psychotropic drugs and breath work, while my understandings

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have come from non-ordinary states of consciousness and general life experience without the aid of any drugs. Despite these progressive thinkers, modern mind science still tends to classify mystical intuition and psychic experiences as delusional, psychotic or superstitious; or they are represented as stemming from unresolved childhood conflicts and dependencies. Yet the truth is that the evidence for the extended mind invites a more open intellectual stance than we presently find in mainstream science. The definition of a skeptic is one who favors deep-questioning - but has an open mind; not an inflexible philosophical standpoint of complete rejection of data which challenges the critical/rational worldview. The latter attitude is best described as dogmatism, as Rupert Sheldrake has long argued. It is my belief that in paradigmatically rejecting in toto the extended mind and psi experience, mainstream consciousness and intelligence discourses have failed to accommodate the totality of human mental abilities. We need a greater openness to alternative hypotheses, theories, models, and methods especially if we are going to write an inspirational thesis, and have fun doing so! Finally, I emphasise that INI is a tentative theory, and requires much further development to establish itself in academic terms. Ideally, this would include testing of some sort. The theory is based on academic research, but predominantly personal experiences.

The INQ Tools

Okay, enough with theorizing and philosophizing. Lets get down to the practical side of things. Fortunately it is not necessary to wait for science to catch up with practice before you start using INI in your research. I have employed the tools of INI extensively in my own research, including during the writing

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of my doctoral thesis. In the remainder of this booklet I am going to relate some of my experiences in writing my thesis (and occasionally in regard to other research projects) using these tools. This will include some excerpts from my study diary, which I kept during my doctoral candidature. The mystical components of Integrated Intelligence may well lay beyond the comfort zone of some researchers. Given this, I simply suggest a suspension of disbelief as you try the tools and processes I outline, below. I can report that the benefits are many, including making research more exciting, fluid, efficient, and of course, intuitive! Parapsychologist Dean Radin (2008) states that only about 0.3 per cent of university staff will publically admit to an interest in psi research. This is due to what he calls the psi taboo. Integrated Intelligence has obvious links with psi research, as the concept of the extended mind is related to such psi phenomena as extra-sensory perception, clairvoyance, precognition, and so on. While there are transpersonal researchers who do employ related tools formally in their research (Hart, Nelson & Puhakka 2000), in the process I am suggesting here, the five INI Tools are not formally incorporated into research methodology, but are background tools which enhance the research process. You do not have to have any specific belief in a mystical interpretation of intuition to use the INI Tools. It is necessary, however, to temporarily suspend doubt. After all, the suspension of doubt is the stance of the true skeptic. I see Integrated Intelligence as a means of facilitating and enhancing other ways of knowing. It is certainly no requirement to do away with critical thinking or traditional research methods. May I suggest that you begin with whichever of the INI Tools you feel most comfortable. You can modify them according to your particular needs and preferences. I developed these tools through experimentation, and through adapting and

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modifying other peoples ideas. vii I continue to work and experiment with them. I invite you do the same. Here I will categorize the tools according the mental applications of the theory of Integrated Intelligence, as outlined previously (Anthony 2006, 2008a, 2008b): integrated perception, location, diagnosis, evaluation, fore-sense, and creativity and inspiration. While there are numerous ways of utilising intuitive thinking and Integrated Intelligence in the research process, in this introductory booklet I am going to focus upon just the five tools. They are: the Intuitive Diary, Free-form Writing, Meditative States, Harnessing Synchronicity and The Feeling Sense. Below, I will briefly outline how you can use them in general. Then in Part 5 you will find more specific applications.

I hope you enjoyed this extract from How to Channel a PhD. You will find the whole book on www.Amazon.com, kindle section. US$1.99 Or you can order the book directly from Marcus T Anthony in PDF format. Email: mindfutures@yahoo.com. US$1.99 See more information about me and my books, below. All the best, Marcus T Anthony
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About the Author

Blog: www.22cplus.blogspot.com Web site: www.mindfutures.com Email: mindfutures@gmail.com Marcus T. Anthony, Ph.D., is the founder and director of MindFutures, and a writer and futurist with a passion for the futures of consciousness, human evolution, intuitive research methods, and spirituality. His vision has been to balance scientific and technological futures with deeper human and spiritual futures. Anthonys work is unique in that it blends professional scholarship and mystical insight, a result of combining intense training with spiritual teachers and advanced academic qualifications. His non-fiction books include Integrated Intelligence, Extraordinary Mind and Discover Your Soul Template, while Shadow Light is his semi-autobiographical novel. Marcus T Anthony obtained his Ph.D. from the University of the Sunshine Coast in Australia. He is a member of the World Futures Studies Federation and the Darwin Project Council.

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Fiction by Marcus T Anthony

Shadow Light What if you could see into the unknown country within men, to the dark places that even they dare not venture? Greg Marks is an extraordinary young man. After having several incredible paranormal experiences, the formerly average university student finds that his mind can access an undreamed of intelligence: the light. Yet Greg struggles to understand his newfound abilities. He joins a mysterious group which teaches him how to harness his intuitive abilities - to read minds and receive communication from mysterious spiritual realms. But just when it seems that he has scaled undreamed of heights, he is confronted by dark forces that threaten his very mind and soul. For Greg Marks has become a threat to those who would prefer his knowledge not be revealed to the world. Available on Amazon Kindle, $US2.99 OR PDF (email Marcus T Anthony: mindfutures@yahoo.com)

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The God Moment: (a short story). MindFutures, 2012. What if everything you had ever written or entered on the internet became instantly accessible to anyone, anywhere, anytime? Even that which you had thought you had entered anonymously, such as on public chat sites using a pseudonym? It is the year 2047 and radical libertarian group FreeThink has seized control of the internet using technology never seen before. Everything is about to be revealed. And Hugh Davidson has secrets he would prefer that nobody knows. Available on Amazon Kindle, $0.99.

Other books by Marcus T Anthony (non-fiction)

Discover Your Soul Template: Inner Traditions, 2012. Like an enlightened spiritual teacher, you, too, can tap in to the infinite wisdom of the cosmos to create a life of deep meaning and purpose. The key is integrated intelligence - your innate capacity, often experienced as intuition, to instantly draw upon knowledge beyond the confines of the five senses, from past, present, and future. Integrated intelligence enables not only a connection to the wisdom of the universe but also access to your soul template, revealing your self-limiting behaviors, karmic issues from past lives, and soul aptitudes--the abilities at which you excel. With knowledge of your soul template, you can successfully create the life you were meant to live in alignment with your souls purpose.

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Extraordinary Mind: Integrated Intelligence and the Future. Hong Kong: MindFutures, 2010. Integrated Intelligence is the natural human ability to connect with a greater universal mind. This book shows why the secret of Integrated Intelligence is a crucial part of human futures. Anthony draws upon decades of research and his direct experience in activating extraordinary mind in his own life and in the lives of others. In Extraordinary Mind you will discover why the power of Integrated Intelligence is widely misunderstood in modern science; what Deep Futures are, and how they can help us survive the crises of the modern world; and the six key abilities of Integrated Intelligence, and how to apply them in your life. Integrated Intelligence. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 2008. Based upon Marcus T. Anthonys doctoral thesis, this book is for the more academically inclined. It outlines the interplay of Integrated Intelligence and critical rationality throughout Western history and looks at where we can take things from here. In particular, the focus is upon the hidden power structures within society, culture, science, and education, which have created a deep ignorance about Integrated Intelligence.

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Endnotes

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Klein (2003) also uses the example of weather forecasters. ii This is my term. Elsewhere I have also referred to this as the fragmented mind (Anthony, 2008b). iii I make this observation after having taught in Asian education for many years. If anything, the problem is worse in developed twenty-first century Asian economies, as they tend to be extremely competitive, materialistic economies, and their education systems are typically relentlessly exam-focused, with little time for the development of inner worlds. iv I have extended this number over time. I also believe that deep empathy is another valid mental application. This is a sense of empathic connection with another person, animal, plant, or place. However, I shall not discuss this in relation to Integrated Inquiry in this booklet. v For a more thorough examination of evidence for such cognitive processes, see Sheldrake (2003), Radin (2006), and McTaggart (2007). vi It is, of course, possible to attribute these two cases to mundane intuition, or subconscious incubation of data. The lack of empirical testing of this mental process is undoubtedly due to the fact that identifying the source of a creative idea is extremely difficult and how one might test for that source being spiritual is even more problematic. vii Some of these influences were researchers, and some were not. The researchers include Hart et al (2000), Michael Talbot (1992) Dean Radin (2006), Rupert Sheldrake (2003, 2012), William Braud (2003), Gillian Ross (1993), Carl Jung (1973, 1989), Paul Scheele (1993) and others. Hart et al (2000) target intuitive methods specifically for research, while the others research related subject matters. Other inspirations have been mystics and spiritual teachers who write about intuitive experiences, such as the late Leonard Jacobson (2007), John Mack (1999), Brian Weiss (1985), Stuart Wilde (2001), and Elizabeth Kubler Ross (1997). Yet perhaps most influential have been the extraordinary individuals I have met and worked with in my personal life. I have worked with groups of mystics (I am not quite sure what else to call them) at various times and in different countries, and have been able to witness first-hand the reality of Integrated Intelligence. These mystics taught me how to utilise the dormant right-brained intuitive abilities that I believe we all have. In my semi-autobiographical novel, Shadow Light (Anthony 2012), I outline some of the experiences I had as a mystic in the making. It was my seeing others develop such skills relatively easily that convinced me that these are not simply special abilities only accessible to the gifted or to yogis who have lived in caves and meditated for thirty years. They are natural, commonly occurring capacities
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extant - though usually dormant - within us all. Rupert Sheldrake (2008) recently conducted telephone telepathy experiments, which have been successfully repeated by others, provide evidential support for my claim that integrated intelligence is widespread.