Recently, I came across a very interesting man, Sandy Sims, who is the author of the book Creative Thinking For The 21st Century — An Experiential Guidebook. He’s on a virtual book tour now and he graciously granted me an interview, which follows. But first here is some background on this fascinating person:

Sandy Sims:
Sandy Sims was raised and educated in the South. After serving as naval officer and finishing graduate business school, he followed a dream to live in Honolulu where he built one of Hawaii’s most successful advertising agencies.
The crisis of personal health and business setbacks opened the way to larger spiritual dimensions including a long association with the Caddy family, founders of the Findhorn Spiritual Community in Scotland His book,”How Frank Lloyd Wright Got Into My Head, Under My Skin And Changed The Way I Think About Thinking — A Creative Thinking Blue Print For the 21st Century,” is a memoir of his journey culminating in a 20 year project with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.
He has collaborated with Psychiatrist, Kerry Monick M.D., and authored Creative Thinking For The 21st Century, An Experiential Guidebook. Accepting the science that our intention does indeed affect the material world, it addresses what to be thinking about, how to shape these thoughts, and what might be the best way to avoid unintended consequences.
When not travelling, Sandy resides in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico where you can find him writing, playing tennis, poking around with his camera and embracing a new culture.

The interview:
1. Sandy, explain to us what creative thinking is and how someone uses it for solving problems.
First of all there are probably over a hundred different models for creativity and my statements are based upon trying out a non-linear manifestation model and reporting on the results. The primary reason I have referred to these as “thinking patterns” for the 21st century is that we are being forced to seek new ways to exist. Technology increases the number of experiences available at a blinding pace, and seems to steal time in the same breath. For me creative thinking is as follows:
A process of continuously petitioning the unconscious field to obtain the new.
This model suggests that new knowledge emerges through the unconscious mind and that aspects of this mind may be shared via intuition and synchronicities. It does not detract from our linear brain functions involved in reasoning and previous knowledge, nor does it negate other creative techniques, but sets the stage for those activities.
Problem solving. I ask intently and continuously to know the core question regarding any situation, trusting that the answer will appear whether definitively or intuitively; and using that core question as the contextual basis for all investigation to either a next step or a final solution.
This sets the contextual stage for the next step. It may even solve the problem. You may then engage with others using rationale analysis, brainstorming, and other techniques.
For example let us say you are a manager in a company and you have a chronic conflict between two employees to resolve. Your first inclination might be to think, “How can I help patch up a difference between these two people?” If however you ask yourself to know the core question, upon reflection it might be, “What is the best outcome for all concerned?” With this question as the basis then, a broader stage is set: it not only involves the two employees but the welfare of the company as well.
Maybe instead of trying to patch things up it becomes clear in the ensuing process that the best outcome is for one of the people to leave. The loss of that person might cause a certain immediate burden, but his or her replacement could turn out to be a huge improvement and the person leaving may have actually wanted a change but lacked the initiative.
Frequently a problem involves how to create something new which is going to involve brainstorming with others. In this case when you do meet your unconscious mind has already been long at work. Then you are prepared for either a solution or the next step.
2. Do you believe that angels really help people with their everyday problems? If so, why would they do this?
Yes I do. I referred to the “helpers” in my book as “invisible partners” and angels could certainly be part of that partnership. I feel that we are on the verge of a huge leap forward in which we and our invisible partners will do joint tasks. They have the larger picture and we have the arms and legs in this reality. In this arrangement there is a two way communication. We have desires with intent that turn into orders. Secondly we have intuition hits which prompt us to move in certain directions. The latter could be original communication from our invisible partners or responses to our original questions/desires with intent.
I feel that the reason angels help is that we can think of them as helping the human species evolve consciously, and that is done through a process of our having experiences and assessing the value of those experiences. Perhaps it is the angel that sends just the right person to trigger a decision in you or a piece of information.
3. How does a person begin to connect with their angels?
I feel the most common way we experience this is through our intuition and synchronicities, both positive and negative. The challenge is to recognize the synchronicity and harvest the message. Sometimes it may simply be an event or person showing up from “out of the blue.”
4. How does one know that the “answer” they are receiving is really coming from their angels?
This is the great challenge. Often we want something to happen so strongly that we are not sure whether it is intuition or just wishing getting in the way when we think we are receiving intuitive communication. One way to assess this is to use kinesiology: you might muscle test as to whether something is good or true for you. Sometimes there might simply be an event or person delivered to you at precisely the right moment.
4. Have you had any angelic encounters of your own? If so, please share.
When I was an ensign in the navy I was stationed at a naval air station as the manager of the bachelor officers’ quarters. A commander used to take me flying in the flying clubs acrobatic T-28. One day he said to me, “Aren’t you about due for a new assignment? You’re having so much fun, why don’t you apply to flight school?” So I did. But I had a gnawing feeling it was not the right thing for me. As a youngster I had been tested. Mechanical skills were at the dead bottom of my aptitudes, and you need to be mechanical to be a successful pilot. Two weeks later I received a set of orders to Navy flight school in Pensacola. I was sickened. Then a week later, another set of orders arrived sending me to Hawaii. I tore up the orders to flight school. I always felt there had been a strong helping hand that had intervened.

For more information about Sandy Sims and How Frank Lloyd Wright Got Into My Head, Under My Skin And Changed The Way I Think About Thinking, A Creative Thinking Blue Print For the 21st Century, visit http://creativethinkingbook.com/ and visit this page to get the Amazon links http://creativethinkingbook.com/buy-your-copy/.
Comments from author Sandy Sims:
Why I wrote – How Frank Lloyd Wright Got Into My Head, Under My Skin And Changed The Way I Think About Thinking, A Creative Thinking Blue Print For the 21st Century
Originally I knew this would be a story of interest to people who follow architecture. After reading Wright’s autobiography I had been struck by the idea that not only was he famous but his drawings at the time were selling at auction for the same price as those of Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo. He had designed over 1,000 designs but some 500 remained unbuilt. In an “aha” flash I imagined that a collection of Wright’s unrealized designs built in Hawaii would be stunning.
The pursuit of this idea was so compelling, that I innocently and naively began the journey, and what a journey it was. I was cordially invited into many of Wright’s private homes, to meet their owners, and to hear their stories. I became friends with those in the Taliesin Fellowship, some of whom were the earliest apprentices to Frank Lloyd Wright. It was a rich journey. While in the beginning I was attracted to the financial rewards that might have accrued, I later became fascinated by the idea of what it would be like to live inside of the space created by both a mystic and a genius. I found out.
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