The Metaphoric Mind: A Celebration of Creative Consciousness

by Bob Samples

This landmark book inspires us with new ways to think about and develop our capacity as learners and educators. The rational/technological/scientific way of doing things has scored one success after another, but often ignoring those other aspects of life and mind that make us truly human. The Metaphoric Mind presents a process for a balanced way of thinking and being in a culture that stands on the knife-edge between catastrophe and transformation. The author draws examples and evidence from anthropology, biology, brain physiology, psychology and from his own pioneering work in teaching creativity to write passionately about the rollicking, intuitive, creative part of ourselves that we have lost and, most importantly, how to regain it. Ultimately a positive vision of the future and how you can fit into it. Adults.

Genres: Psychology, Education, Sociology, Nonfiction

272 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1976

Reviews

[Kim · Rating 4 out of 5]

I use this book for my Psychology of Metaphor course, but I'm having trouble getting copies of it because it's out of print. It's a great book, Samples has lots to say about the "metaphoric mind." His perspective/definition of the metaphoric mind is basically the "right brain" (as opposed to the left brain), (in other words, he doesn't have a broad perspective on metaphorical process), but the book still has lots of good information in it. There isn't a comparable book out there, so I'm hoping that it will eventually get reprinted.

[Aidafi]

"There has been only the silent commitment of enough individuals to be human... fully human, that they have achieved and exhibited that quality of life. In that silence the things once feared as sickness - joy, excitement, anxiety, exploration, nonconformity, creativity - have all found sunlight. In that sunlight the human spirit now stands." ♡

And that part about feeling good and proud instead of competitive and jealous when you realise your ideas are not unique. Gotta work on that, gotta work on the world, my world.

[Anais · Rating 5 out of 5]

this book presents time and perception through the rational linear mind and the metaphoric cyclical mind.