I have all sorts of used books in my personal library that I purchased I can’t remember when for maybe a quarter or fifty cents a piece just for the cover art, including these, which I just scanned for display here at RCN:
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ABOVE: Madonna Kolbenschlag, Kiss Sleeping Beauty Good-Bye (NY: Bantam, 1981), with cover art by Leo and Diane Dillon.
ABOVE: Shakti Gawain, Creative Visualization (NY: Bantam, 1985), with cover art by Leo and Diane Dillon.
Shakti Gawain? Of course, Shakti Gawain! Would anyone in the 1980s have purchased new-age claptrap like Creative Visualization had it been penned by Mike Smith from Canmore, Alberta? Not bloody likely!
And will you look at that: both the copyright page and the author’s acknowledgement credit the Creative Visualization cover art to Rainbow Canyon… wait, what? Rainbow Canyon? Of course, Rainbow Canyon! It’s perfect!
The other cover is uncredited, but you and I both know that the art for both Kiss Sleeping Beauty Good-Bye and Creative Visualization is by the Dillons, right?
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I want to say Thank You! for this post! I have been searching for the artist who created this edition of Creative Visualization. Rainbow Canyon simply brings up a lot of artwork with canyons and rainbows. Now I have something more to work with. I am grateful!
I would also like to say that I own many iterations of this book even though I am not a New Age follower, a religious person, or even a spiritual person. I do not follow Woo topics or even do yoga. I do not espouse the Law of Attraction/TheSecret hype. However, this book by Shakti Gawain is a very powerful book. I came to it by way of reading Med-Science literature and the visualization practices of professional athletes, and wanted to understand why those tools have serious credibility in professional sports. If you can suspend preconceived biases, and take what it has to offer on its face value, you may be quite surprised to find how much it isn’t New Age claptrap. We are slowly making scientific links between the power of our thoughts and how it impacts our reality. As a very earthly person, I can only say … there is something at work here that we don’t yet scientifically understand.
All the best! Thanks.
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Thanks for your comment, Florian. If Shakti Gawain’s book has been helpful to you in some non-Woo-way, who am I to argue? But I am still not interested in any bit of it but the cover art. My thoughts impact “our reality” via my actions or inaction, and that’s good enough for me. Cheers!
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