Full Description
A holistic approach to personal and professional growth
• Demonstrates daily practices for stress management, more effective persuasion, and creative problem solving
• Explores the use of trance and dreams among famous artists, philosophers, and inventors for making important breakthroughs in highly-competitive fields
• Explores the Six Cs—Connection, Creativity, Craft, Culture, Character, and Consciousness—to model integrating a spiritual consciousness into one's life
For thoughtful, spiritual people to thrive in a fast-changing, unpredictable, and high-pressure world, they must continue to develop themselves spiritually while cultivating the qualities and tools necessary for personal and professional growth.
In Transcend the Chaos, Angel Millar provides a unique working model for navigating our world today using Six Cs—Connection, Creativity, Craft, Culture, Character, and Consciousness. He explores the use of trance and dreams in the lives of famous artists, philosophers, and inventors and urges us to look inside to cultivate the imagination and creative thinking needed for modern careers. He also teaches persuasion techniques that work in advertising and politics and how to apply them to self-talk to replace self-defeating, sabotaging inner dialogue with powerful positive messages.
Millar shares exercises to optimize posture, breathing, and relaxation as well as pathways for emotional control, confidence, and creativity—techniques that can be used not only in times of high pressure but also at home during more quiet moments. He offers the tools, practices, and theory to not only endure the chaos but transcend it.
Contents
Introduction
1
Chaos
2
Character and Culture
Group Loyalty / Individualism • Innovation / Tradition
Self-Assertion / Receptivity • Religious Faith / Secularism
Epicureanism / Asceticism • Sex / Abstinence
Work / Leisure • Migration / Settlement
Recognition / Denial of Impermanence
3
The Eight Laws of Self-Empowerment
Health (or Physical Presence) • Self-Confidence
Determination • Will Power
Fearlessness • Concentration of Thought
Self-Possession • Perception
4
Eight Daily Power Practices
Diet • Physical Training • Sleep
Deep Conversation • Deep Reading • Ritual
Contemplation • Self-Hypnosis
5
The Language of Enchantment
6
Self-Talk
7
Five Roots of Personal Presence
The Face • The Heart • Breath
Calm Exterior • Posture
8
Chaos Revisited: Strangeness and Authority
Authority and Strangeness in Society
9
The Six Cs: A Survival Guide for a Time of AI
Connection • Creativity • Craft • Culture
Character • Consciousness
Notes
Bibliography
Index
