Benjafield, J., and Adams-Webber, J. The Golden Section Hypothesis. British Journal of Psychology. 1976; 67 (1): 011-015, 5 pages (BF 1).
  The golden section is a proportion the aesthetic properties of which have been extolled since antiquity. Data from five experiments suggests that the mean proportion of positive adjectives used in interpersonal judgments approximates the golden section. By organizing their judgments in this proportion, people are able to pay special attention to negative events.


Benjafield, J., and Green, T. R. G. Golden Section Relations in Interpersonal Judgments. British Journal of Psychology. 1978; 69: 025-035, 11 pages (BF 1).
  A model of the organization of interpersonal judgments, based on the hypothesis that people tend to organize their judgments in golden section ratios, is presented. From this a theory of the process of interpersonal judgment is developed. An experiment in which subjects judged a variety of sets of acquaintances yielded results consistent with the model.


Bohm, David. A New Theory of the Relationship of Mind and Matter. Philosophical Psychology. 1990; 3 (2): 271-286, 16 pages (BF 1).
  An electron is regarded as an inseparable union of a particle and a field. This field has properties which may be regarded as containing objective and active information. The activity of this information is similar to the activity of information in ordinary subjective experience. The analogy between mind and matter is fairly close where the basic notion is participation rather than interaction. This leads to a more coherent understanding of the mind matter question than is possible in the common dualistic and reductionistic approaches.


Boring, Edwin G. A History of Introspection. Psychological Bulletin. May, 1953; 50 (3): 169-189, 20 pages (BF 1).
  Dualism, Classical introspection, Description of the impalpable, Awareness of mental activity, Phenomenological description, Patient's protocols, Psychophysics, Animal consciousness, Verbal report, Introspection as an operation, Unconsciousness, Conclusion. Two important dichotomies have been made with respect to introspection: 1) animal versus human and 2) unconscious mind versus conscious mind. They reduce however to inference versus direct experience. It seems that there is no longer to be found any sharp dichotomy setting off the introspectable from the unconscious.


Brown, Barbara B. Supermind: The Ultimate Energy. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1980: 001-264, 264 pages (BF 161).
  Preface, Mind, body, brain: state of the art (Mystery of the mind, Realm of the mind: knowns and unknowns), Body connection (Keen mind, simple body, Body sense: cradle of awareness, Unconscious and body behavior, Stress: uninformed mind), Brain connection (Mind and brain, Creation of mind), Unconscious connection (Tracking the unconscious mind, Nature of the exceptional mind states, Quintessential consciousness, Intellect and the unconscious).
___. The Realm of Mind: Knowns and Unknowns. Chapter 2 in: Ibid.: 008-025, 18 pages.
  Beliefs and attitudes, Untapped skills of mind and consciousness, Compartments of mind and consciousness, Exploring the resources of mind, Discovering the healing mind. Sleeping within everyone is a mind of superior intellect and ability, a mind that modern man, preoccupied with the wonders of physical nature, has neglected, and virtually silenced.
___. Mind and Brain. Chapter 7 in: Ibid.: 117-131, 15 pages.
  The mind body problem, How the experts see mind and consciousness, Brain to consciousness theories, To know mind is to know man. There is abundant evidence that unconscious mental activity is efficient and intellectual, and that the intellectual functions of the mind unquestionably modify the very neural substrate that gives rise to mind and its actions.
___. Quintessential Consciousness. Chapter 11 in: Ibid.: 232-247, 16 pages.
  Mystical states are so called because they are associated with religious pursuits, yet their occurrence is much more frequent in nonreligious searches for understanding. Imagination is by far the most neglected and underdeveloped of the normal abilities of the human mind. Mind controls its creator brain and the product of the brain's activities we call mind. These intangibles are supermind at work.
___. The Intellect and the Unconscious. Chapter 12 in: Ibid.: 248-264, 17 pages.
  New insights, Learning to control a single cell, A summary of general observations, The unconscious intellect: the information it uses, Clues to unconscious abilities from observing performance, A sense of order as a fundamental property of mind brain, The will and the will executor , The Brownenberg principle, The unconscious mind master of mind functions.


Cappon, Daniel. The Anatomy of Intuition. Psychology Today. May 1, 1993; 26 (3): 040 ff., 7 pages (BF 1).
  Intuition is like a very old whore who is now being revitalized and rejuvenated to become a very respectable lady. She is the archetypal jewel in the crown of human intelligence. The old whore previously inhabited the red light district at the intersection of Psychics Lane and Lunatic Fringe Boulevard. Article provides preliminary in formation on the Intuition Quotient Test or IQ2.


Diamond, Stephen R., and Royce, Joseph R. Cognitive Abilities As Expressions of Three Ways Of Knowing. Multivariate Behavioral Research. 1980; 15: 031-056, 26 pages (BF 39).
  Factor analytic studies suggest that there are six second order cognitive factors. These six factors are interpreted as aspects of Royce's three "ways of knowing." The division of second order factors into qualitative and quantitative aspects, with the qualitative more subject to deterioration and the quantitative more trainable, provides an avenue for linking cognitive abilities to other personality traits.


Ericsson, K. Anders, and Simon, Herbert A. Verbal Reports as Data. Psychological Review. 1980; 87 (3): 215-251, 37 pages (BF 1).
  When verbal reports are collected with other records of behavior, it becomes possible to check the consistency of the reports with the other behavior. For more than half a century, verbal reports (introspection) have been thought suspect as a source of evidence about cognitive processes. We have undertaken to show that verbal reports, elicited with care and interpreted with full understanding of the circumstances, are a valuable and thoroughly reliable source of information about such processes. It is time to abandon the careless charge of "introspection" as a means for disparaging data.


Feldenkrais, Moshe. Spontaneity and Compulsive Action. Chapter 2 in: The Potent Self. San Francisco: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1985: 006-013, 8 pages (BF 161).
  At the root of all anxiety lies inner compulsion to act or to check action. And compulsion is sensed when motivation for action is conflicting; that is, when the habitual pattern that the person can enact is sensed as compromising the person's security. The feeling of security is linked with the image of self that has been cultivated in the dependence period.


Hall, Calvin S., and Nordby, Vernon J. The Structure of Personality. Chapter 2 in: A Primer of Jungian Psychology. New York: New American Library, 1973: 031-056, 26 pages (BF 173).
  The psyche, Consciousness (The ego), The personal unconscious (Complexes), The collective unconscious (Archetypes: Persona, Anima and Animus, Shadow, Self), Interactions among the structures of personality.
___. Psychological Types. Chapter 5 in: Ibid.: 096-110, 15 pages.
  The attitudes, The functions, Combinations of attitudes and functions, Types of individuals (Extraverted thinking, Introverted thinking, Extraverted feeling, Introverted feeling, Extraverted sensation, Introverted sensation, Extraverted intuitive, Introverted intuitive), Practical considerations, Summary.


Hathaway, Starke R. Clinical Intuition and Inferential Accuracy. Journal of Personality. 1955; 24: 223-250, 28 pages (BF 1).
  The data indicate that there would be great value in the study of the predictive power of clinically important generalizations from obvious classificatory items such as sex, age, intelligence. It appears possible that a very few variables would be required to explain all ordinary clinical intuition and the encouragement of the young clinician to attend to many subtle cues is inadvisable in favor of teaching caution and reliance upon the more reliable and objective cues. The present data support the power of statistical prediction from a few variables is greater than is frequently appreciated.


Hilgard, Ernest R. Consciousness in Contemporary Psychology. Edited by Mark R. Rosenzweig and Lyman W. Porter, Lyman. Annual Review of Psychology. 1980; 31: 001-026, 26 pages (BF 30).
  Struggles over consciousness in experimental psychology, Experimental psychology becomes cognitive, Many topical areas in psychology become cognitive, Problems created by the return of consciousness to psychology, Persistent problems for a psychology of consciousness, Concluding remarks. The opening up of psychology, without sacrifice of the gains that have been made in tight theorizing and precise experimentation, is all to the good.


Houston, Jean. The Creative Realms of Inner Space. Chapter 7 in: The Possible Human: A Course in Extending Your Physical, Mental, and Creative Abilities. Los Angeles: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1982: 134-180, 47 pages (BF 161).
  Process of imagery, Activating imagery, Review of our research (Four level typology: sensory, analytic, symbolic, integral), Time and time again, Time and automatisms of the creative process, Exercise 1 (Becoming units of time), Exercise 2 (Yardstick of time), Exercise 3 (Archaeology of the self), Exercise 4 (Skill rehearsal with a master teacher).


Johnson, Robert A. The Shadow. Chapter 1 in: Owning Your Own Shadow: Understanding the Dark Side of the Psyche. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1991: 003-057, 55 pages (BF 175).
  The persona is what we would like to be and how we wish to be seen by the world. The ego is what we are and know about consciously. The shadow is that part of us we fail to see or know. How the shadow originates, Balancing culture and shadow, The shadow in projection, The gold in the shadow, The shadow in middle age, The ceremonial world.


Jung, Carl G., and von Franz, Marie-Louise, eds. Man and His Symbols. New York: Doubleday & Company, 1964: 001-310, 310 pages (BF 173).
  Approaching the unconscious - Carl G. Jung, Ancient myths and modern man - Joseph L Henderson, The process of individuation - Marie-Louise von Franz, Symbolism in the visual arts - Aniela Jaffe, Symbols in an individual analysis - Jolande Jacobi, Conclusion: science and the unconscious - Marie-Louise von Franz.


Jung, Carl G. General Description of the Types. Chapter 10 in: Psychological Types. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1971: 330-407, 78 pages (BF 23).
  The extraverted type (The general attitude of consciousness, The attitude of the unconscious, The peculiarities of the basic psychological functions in the extraverted attitude: Thinking, Feeling, Sensation, Intuition), The introverted type (The general attitude of consciousness, The attitude of the unconscious, The peculiarities of the basic psychological functions in the introverted attitude: Thinking, Feeling, Sensation, Intuition, The principal and auxiliary functions).


Jung, Carl G. Foreword to the I Ching. In: Psychology and the East. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1978: 189-208, 20 pages (BF 173).
  The I Ching does not offer itself with proofs and results; it does not vaunt itself, nor is it easy to approach. Like a part of nature, it waits until it is discovered. It offers neither facts nor power, but for lovers of knowledge, of wisdom, it seems to be the right book. Let it go forth into the world for the benefit of those who can discern its meaning.


Jung, Carl G. Occultism and Parapsychology. Word and Image. Edited by Aniela Jaffe. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1979: 028-035, 8 pages (BF 173).
  The irrational fullness of life has taught me never to discard anything, even when it goes against all our theories (so short lived at best) or otherwise admits of no immediate explanation. It is of course disquieting, and one is not certain whether the compass is pointing true or not; but security, certitude, and peace do not lead to discoveries.
___. The Mandala. Ibid.: 077-095, 19 pages.
  When I began drawing the mandalas, I saw that everything, all the paths I had been following, all the steps I had taken, were leading back to a single point namely, to the mid point. It became increasingly plain to me that the mandala is the center. It is the exponent of all paths. It is the path to the center, to individuation.


Kolanczyk, Alina. How to Study Creative Intuition? Polish Psychological Bulletin. 1989; 20 (1): 057-068, 12 pages (BF 1).
  Creative intuition is set apart from other creative and intuitive processes. A model of creative intuition is elaborated by synthesizing psychological research from different paradigms. A system of hypotheses is constructed which cover the characteristics of motivation, evaluation, as well as attention and memory in the process of creative intuition.


Kris, Ernst. On Inspiration: Preliminary Notes on Emotional Conditions in Creative States. International Journal of Psycho-Analysis. 1939; 20 377-389, 13 pages (BF 173).
  In the metaphorical usage, the action of inspiring and the condition of being inspired refer to an initial stage of the mind when it experiences the influence of the divine. We sometimes call spontaneous ideas 'inspiration,' and we speak of the 'inspiring' influence of a person on others. These are the second and third stages of the concept as presented here. In their purest form inspirations are found in primitive society where they appear in the lives of medicine men and priests. The author goes on to discuss this experience in scientific thinking when sudden solutions to problems arise .


Kun, T. Things are Not What They Seem. Chapter 1 in: Project Mind: The Conscious Conquest of Man & Matter through Accelerated Thought. Indian Rock Beach, Florida: Unimedia Publishing, 1993: 001-006, 6 pages (BF 41).
  There are too many "distractions." This lends sense to ideas and realities that would otherwise elude most readers. It is the touchstone permitting us to look at reality and at ourselves in a new way. Although difficult to acknowledge, it offers the possibility of a substantial opening in our capacity for understanding.
___. Creativity & Breakthrough - Conventionality & Distraction. Chapter 5 in: Ibid.: 041-070, 30 pages.
  Only with the neutralization of matter's restraining influence upon the mind will we be able to assimilate unthinkable realities. Topics include Creativity, eureka and Accelerated Thought; Creative individuals as subjects for Accelerated Thought; Existing conditions discourage creativity; The need for self knowledge; Abstraction and the illusion of freedom; and Form as intermediary between mind and matter.
___. Special Conditions Needed to Promote Accelerated Thought. Chapter 7 in: Ibid.: 083-101, 19 pages.
  This chapter outlines the processes that bring about liberation from the bonds of conventional reflective thought to the realm of new realities: Thought compression - focusing to break out of distraction; Meaning and awareness knowledge and reality; A clear direction; and Energy accumulation and illumination. Through the associated practices, each of us has the potential to attain the vision of an Einstein.


Luria, A. R. Neuropsychology in World War II. Chapter 8 in: The Making of Mind: A Personal Account of Soviet Psychology. Edited by Michael Cole and Shiela Cole. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1979: 138-173, 36 pages (BF 109).
  If the operation of intellectual processes is thought of in terms of functional systems instead of discrete abilities, we have to reorient our ideas about the possibility of localizing intellectual functions. It is easy to reject both the holistic notion that every function is distributed equally throughout the brain and the idea that complex functions are localized in narrowly specified areas, but it is difficult to find an intermediate position. Our solution has been to think of the functional system as a working constellation of activities with a corresponding working constellation of zones of the brain that support the activities.


McKenna, Terence, and McKenna, Dennis. The Invisible Landscape: Mind, Hallucinogens, and the I Ching. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1993: 001-225, 225 pages (BF 161).
  Mind, molecules, and magic (Introduction, The figure of the shaman, Shamans and schizophrenia, Organismic thought, Toward a holographic theory of mind, Models of drug activity, An experiment at La Chorrera, Psychological reflections on La Chorrera) Time, change, and becoming (Introduction, The I Ching as lunar calendar and astronomical calculator, Order in the I Ching and order in the world, The King Wen sequence as a quantified modular hierarchy, The temporal hierarchy and cosmology, Toward a physics of concrescence, The wave of time, Evolution and freedom, Epilogue).
___. The Figure of the Shaman. Chapter 1 in: Ibid.: 009-018, 10 pages.
  The presence of psychoactive substances is a primary requirement for all true shamanism. Where these alkaloids are not present, shamanism becomes ritual alone, and its effectiveness suffers accordingly. These compounds are the operational and physical keys allowing access to the powers claimed by the shaman. Through understanding the fascinating and alien figure of the shaman, we can draw nearer to that numinous, archetypal, living mystery that dwells within each of us.
___. Shamans and Schizophrenia. Chapter 2 in: Ibid.: 019-027, 9 pages.
  In our culture the schizophrenic provides a necessary pipeline to the collective unconscious, just as the shaman does in tribal societies. The spiritual atrophying of contemporary culture may be due in part to its loss of sensitivity to processes in the collective unconscious. A reinstitution of the shamanic role in modern society might prevent its total estrangement for this fountainhead of all human culture.
___. The Wave of Time. Chapter 13 in: 193-199, 7 pages.
  The whole spirit of the I Ching is pervaded by the atemporal assumption. The final words of Book I remind us that this a "book of the future." The I Ching suggests that its final fulfillment lies in the focus it might be given in a unique personality. "When it comes upon the right man, one who has inner relationship with this tao, it can forthwith be taken by him and awakened to new life. This is the concept of the supernatural connection between the elect of all ages."


Murphy, Gardner, and Murphy, Lois B, eds. The Psychology of China. Chapter 2 in: Asian Psychology. New York: Basic Books, 1968: 127-177, 51 pages (BF 108).
  Introduction, Book of Changes (Changes in the universe and in the Book of Changes, Summary), Confucianism (Aphorisms (Measure of man is man, Golden rule), Golden mean of Tse-sze (Central harmony, Golden mean, Moral law everywhere, Humanistic standard, Certain models)) , Taoism (Confucius and Lao-tzu, Chuang-tzu), Chinese conceptions of human nature.


Progoff, Ira. Jung, Synchronicity, and Human Destiny: Noncausal Dimensions of Human Experience. New York: A Delta Book, 1973: 001-176, 176 pages (BF 173).
  Interpreting the multiple universe: Jung and de Chardin, Synchronicity, science, and the esoteric, Using the I Ching, Foundations of synchronicity, Beyond causality and teleology, Leibniz and Tao, Archetypes and the patterning of time, Synchronistic ground of parapsychic events, Operation of synchronicity, Einstein and the larger view, From synchronicity to the transcausal.


Reik, Theodor. Chapters 14 to 20 in: Listening with the Third Ear: The Inner Experience of a Psychologist. New York: Jove Publications, 1948: 131-233, 103 pages (BF 173).
  Chapter 14: Conscious and unconscious observation - communication with conscious perception as a relay, Chapter 15: The third ear - how one mind speaks to another beyond words, Chapter 16: Free floating or poised attention, Chapter 17: Who am I? - the soul is a wide country, Chapter 18: Insight - knowing before thinking, Chapter 19: Conjecture - initial impressions, Chapter 20: Comprehension - passing through the filter of the intellect.


Spearman, C. The Battle Between 'Intuitionists' and 'Psychometrists'. British Journal of Psychology. 1934; 24: 403-408, 6 pages (BF 1).
  At the present day (1930s) psychology is suffering to an extraordinary degree from dissensions between 'intuitionist' and 'psychometric' methods of studying personality. The intuitive method has been widely attributed to the psychologists of Germany while the psychometric has been principally developed in English speaking countries. The intuitionist tries to make ideas work without mathematics while the psychometrist tries to make mathematics work without ideas. When will both learn that two legs are better than either one?


Sperry, Roger W. Science, Values, and Survival. Journal of Humanistic Psychology. Spring 1986; 26 (2): 008-023, 16 pages (BF 1).
  Recent conceptual developments in the mind brain sciences rejecting reductionism and mechanistic determinism on the one side and dualisms on the other clear the way for a rational, realistic approach to the natural fusion of science with ethics and religion. Science can be upheld as the best route to an increased understanding of and rapport with the forces that created the universe.


Sperry, Roger W. Structure and Significance of the Consciousness Revolution. Journal of Mind and Behavior. Winter 1987; 8 (1): 037-066, 30 pages (BF 1).
  General presuppositions, Causal concept of consciousness, Computer program analogy, Two views of causal determinism, Emergent inter action and downward control, Rise of mentalism, Alternate views, Further repercussions, New mentalism a modified materialism?


Springbett, B. M.; Dark, J. G.; and Clake, J. An Approach To The Measurement Of Creative Thinking. Canadian Journal of Psychology. 1957; 11 (1): 009-020, 12 pages (BF 1).
  The nature of creative thinking, Conventional tests, The lines test, Experiments (General procedure, Experiment I, Results, Experiment II, Results), Discussion, Summary. The lines test is offered as a way to measure the process of discovering the link between a principle which is already well established in relation to certain data and its applicability to markedly different data.


Taggart, William; Kroeck, K. Galen; and Escoffier, Marcel R. Validity Evidence for the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator as a Measure of Hemisphere Dominance: Another View. Educational and Psychological Measurement. Autumn, 1991; 51 (3): 775-783, 9 pages (BF 1).
  Findings contrary to those previously reported by Shiflett were summarized in this article. The MBTI scales were compared to the Left and Right dominance scales of the Human Information Processing Survey (HIP-S). The association between MBTI Intuition and both HIP-S Right and Left scales were in the opposite direction with more intuitive types being more Right and less Left dominant. Perceptive types were found to be more Right and less Left dominant. The current study only found one significant difference between males and females among the correlations for these variables.


Tick, Edward. To Honor the Clinging: Reflections on Self Containment from the Standpoint of the I Ching. Psychotherapy Patient. 1988; 4 (3-4): 339-344, 6 pages (BF 1).
  Self containment is seen to be a personality configuration whereby a yielding and receptive inner core (yin) constructs defensive walls (yang) around itself. The therapeutic process honors the walls and then supports the intuitive, receptive, yielding inner core so that it may will itself to blossom and find new, non defensive supports on which to base itself.


Westcott, Malcolm R. On the Measurement of Intuitive Leaps. Psychological Reports. 1961; 9: 267-274, 8 pages (BF 21).
  The aim of this paper is to present a quantitative investigation of individual differences in the tendency to carry on intuitive thinking. The tendency to demand information and the tendency to use information successfully are two reasonably stable dimensions of behavior relevant to inventiveness and creativity.


Wilber, Ken. The Great Chain of Being. Journal of Humanistic Psychology. Summer, 1993; 33 (3): 052-065, 14 pages (BF 1).
  This essay presents a brief summary of the great chain of being, as historically conceived and as it is reappearing in modern evolutionary and system theories. It particularly addresses the misconception that the notion of "hierarchy" is abstract and linear and reiterates Arthur Koestler's point that "hierarchy" which is a holistic concept of fields of fields, really ought to be called "holoarchy." The implications for psychology of the great holoarchy of being are briefly addressed, and the comprehensive nature of the great chain is related to various modern schools of psychology.


Yaniv, Ilan, and Hogarth, Robin M. Judgmental versus Statistical Prediction: Information Asymmetry and Combination Rules. Psychological Science. January 1993; 4 (1): 058-062, 5 pages (BF 1).
  The relative predictive accuracy of humans and statistical models has long been the subject of controversy even though models have demonstrated superior performance in many studies. We propose that relative performance depends on the amount of contextual information available and whether it is distributed symmetrically to humans and models. Given their different strengths, human and statistical predictions can be profitably combined to improve prediction.

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