These weekly readings are discussed in the Advanced Program. They provide a conceptual and theoretical basis for understanding intuitive experience. This approach helps participants deepen their appreciation of intuition acquired through their Intuition and Activity Journals.

INTRODUCTION

 

Week 1: Program Orientation

  • Course Handouts

PART I: THE INTUITIVE EXPERIENCE

 

Week 2: Assessing Rational and Intuitive Styles

  • Taggart, William M., and Valenzi, Enzo, "Assessing Rational and Intuitive Styles: A Human Information Processing Metaphor," Journal of Management Studies, 27, 2, March, 1990, 149-172.

 

Week 3: Journaling Intuitive Experiences

  • Taggart, William M., "Discovering and Understanding Intuition" Forthcoming in Exceptional Human Experience.

 

Week 4: Self Observation and Remembering

  • Tart, Charles T., "Self Observation" (Chapter 17 in Part 3 Practices), Waking Up: Overcoming the Obstacles to Human Potential, Boston: New Science Library, 1986, 182-196.

  • Tart, Charles T., "Self Remembering" (Chapter 18 in Part 3 Practices), Ibid., 197-209.

PART II: RATIONALITY AND INTUITION

 

Week 5: Intuition in the Small

  • Simon, Herbert A., "Making Management Decisions: The Role of Intuition and Emotion," Academy of Management Executive, 1, 1, February, 1987, 57-64

  • Mintzberg, Henry, "Coupling Analysis and Intuition in Management" (Chapter 4 in Part 1 On Management), Mintzberg on Management: Inside Our Strange World of Organizations, New York: The Free Press, 1989, 56-78.

 

Week 6: Business Intuition

  • Agor, Weston H. (Ed.), "The Intuitive Ability of Executives" (Chapter 9), Intuition in Organizations, Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1989, 145-170.

  • Agor, Weston H. (Ed.), "The Logic of Intuition" (Chapter 10), Ibid., 145-170.

 

Week 7: International Survey of Intuition

  • Parikh, Jagdish; Neubauer, Fred; and Lank, Alden G., "Global Report: International Survey on Intuition" (Chapter 5) Intuition: The New Frontier of Management, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1994, 49-68.

PART III: CONSCIOUSNESS AND INTUITION

 

Week 8: Varieties of Intuitive Experience

  • Vaughan, Frances E., "Varieties of Intuition" (Chapter 3), Awakening Intuition, New York: Anchor Books, 1979, 66-80.

 

Week 9: Intuition in the Large

  • Taggart, William M., and Thomas, Anisya, "Management Wisdom and Intuitive Knowing," Manuscript submitted for review, 1999.

 

Week 10: States of Consciousness

  • Rama, Swami; Ballentine, Rudolph; and Ajaya, Swami, "Chakras" (Chapter 7), Yoga and Psychotherapy: The Evolution of Consciousness, Honesdale, PA: Himalayan International Institute of Yoga Science and Philosophy, 1976, 216-280.

PART IV: FLOW, FIELDS, MIND AND INTUITION

 

Week 11: Conditions of Flow

  • Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly, "The Conditions of Flow" (Chapter 4), Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, New York: Harper & Row, 1990, 71-93.

 

Week 12: Morphogenetic Fields

  • Sheldrake, Rupert, "Morphogenetic Fields" (Chapter 6), The Presence of the Past: Morphic Resonance and the Habits of Nature, New York: Times Books, 1988, 97-114.

 

Week 13: The Quantum Mind

  • Goswami, Amit, "The Chasm and the Bridge" (Chapter 1 in Part I, The Integration of Science and Spirituality), The Self-Aware Universe: How Consciousness Creates the Universe, New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, 1993, 3-12

  • Goswami, Amit, "In Search of the Quantum Mind" (Chapter 11 in Part 3 Self-Reference: How the One Became Many), Ibid., 161-175.

SUMMARY

 

Week 14: The Integrating Essay

  • No Readings, Final meeting.

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