Insight: Creative Systems Theory's Radical New Picture of Human Possibility (The Evolution of Creative Systems Theory and the Concept of Cultural Maturity)

While the concepts in this book, and his others, may seem difficult to grasp at first, the more I read the more I've come to realize the usefulness of the ideas and to see them as truly indispensable. It's thrilling to learn about something like Creative Systems Theory and begin to realize this is ground breaking material not only can change the way we see and engage the world, but also change our sense of ourselves in it.

This book provides a wonderful new framework to understand how human process works. Read it. Try it on. Creative systems Theory is a powerful concept. It provides hope for a more effective humanity. More healthy. More alive.

Johnston's newest book is a brief and concise introduction to perhaps the mostimportant thinking now available concerning the grave dangers and unprecedentedopportunities with which all humans are faced in this, the most crucial passage wehave ever faced — a moment in time where we find that our intellectual, material,spiritual, and emotional evolutions have brought us into a crisis in which we canmove forward only by using all of our several intelligences, by serving not only allhumans but also the planet as a whole in order to avoid catastrophic losses.Johnston understands that neither Left-brain nor Right-brain processes alonecan provide the needed wisdom. What we must achieve now is a deep integrationof hard-nosed facts and profoundly intuitive truths ... and Heaven help us if we failto achieve it.

Insight should be required reading for today’s leaders as well as anyone struggling to make sense of the challenges faced by humanity today. In the book, Dr. Charles Johnston provides a brief introduction to Creative Systems theory and the concept of Cultural Maturity. He shows how Cultural Maturity provides a new narrative for humanity and gives needed guidance for understanding the world as it transitions to meet our current unprecedented existential threats. For anyone desiring a more nuanced and systematic perspective on these challenges, Insight is a book you need to read.

"Insight" is the perfect title for Dr. Johnston’s most recent short yet powerful book. And distilled insight is what this cultural psychiatrist and pattern-recognizing futurist delivers. Our deeply polarized times too often whelm us over and we risk sinking under the weight of despair in our fracturing world. "Insight" teaches us how to see reality and what is possible with clarity and how to serve with creativity and courage. This is an essential guidebook for integral leaders in all fields who are determined to be physicians of psychological, moral and spiritual healing in our times.

Dr. Johnston's Creative Systems Theory and concept of Cultural Maturity, offer us a way forward, beyond polarization, toward a hopeful future. Insight explains how we can get there together, if we are up to the task.

Dr. Johnston’s latest book revisits the concepts presented in Creative Systems Theory with a deeper focus as to why these ideas are significant and how they require an entirely new cognitive organization. These ideas bring new understanding to the polarized ideology found within ourselves and currently reflected in our world.

“Insight" puts the contribution of Creative Systems Theory in conceptual and historical perspective. It is not an easy book, but the conceptual stretch helped me more effectively apply this major body of work and better appreciate the importance of doing so. This is an important read for anyone interested in shaping a meaningful future.