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Unlocking the Science of Imagination to Transform How You Think, Feel and Live
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In a world where AI is taking over our imagination, this is the book that will teach us how to make the most of our very human imaginative advantage. What if the most overlooked key to mental health, innovation, and human connection wasn't a pill, a...
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See moreThe first book to offer a roadmap of imagination and an imagination profile tool to help each of us determine our imagination strengths and how we can use them to improve our lives.
The first book to offer a roadmap of imagination and an imagination profile tool to help each of us determine our imagination strengths and how we can use them to improve our lives.
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In a world where AI is taking over our imagination, this is the book that will teach us how to make the most of our very human imaginative advantage. What if the most overlooked key to mental health, innovation, and human connection wasn't a pill, a device, or a productivity hack... but your own imagination?
In Imagine That, psychologist and imagination scientist Dr. Cassandra Vieten makes a radical claim: imagination is not just for artists and dreamers, it's the operating system behind how all of us think, act, and live. And it exists within everyone.
Drawing on her original, cutting-edge neuroscientific research, Vieten introduces the concept of imagination neurodiversity: the idea that each of us has a unique set of strengths and tendencies that can be understood and activated. Readers of this book will gain the ability to:
- Open their mind to new possibilities to help alleviate depression, anxiety, and other mental health struggles.
- Boost their workouts, sports, and physical training.
- Enrich relationships.
- Be more creative in work, school, hobbies, art, and music, rather than relying on artificial intelligence to provide the answers.
- Deepen spirituality or other existential explorations.
- Develop more joy and creative energy through a more colourful way of seeing and being.
Imagination is a kind of magic. Through imagination, you can not only escape the limitations of the physical world but also transcend them. You can enter into states of mind that are not bound by the conventional rules of physics and space/time, or the restrictions of your physical body. You can fly, you can time travel, you can breathe underwater, you can dance with dragons. You can visit far-away friends or those who have passed away. You can experience the impossible. Nothing is off-limits when you harness the power of your imagination.
Imaginative speculation allows you to be released from your pre-existing categories, assumptions, rules. To not only think outside the box, but toss the box away completely. In your imagination, you can travel through territories of possibility, through landscapes of wonder, to alternate worlds. You have within you the ultimate metaverse—a vast array of worlds with infinite potential waiting to be explored.
As with any adventure, when exploring the inner worlds, it helps to have skills, tools, and a map. This book is that map.
Book Details
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ISBN: 9781785122262
Publisher: Bonnier Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 11 August 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Leap
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 24.0mm
Width: 155.0mm
Height: 236.0mm
Weight: 372g
Pages: 304
About the Author
Cassandra Vieten, PhD is a university professor, licensed clinical psychologist, mind-body medicine researcher, and internationally recognized workshop leader and public speaker, and author of three books. She is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the and also works at the Centers for Integrative Health at the University of California, San Diego, where she serves as the Director of the Center for Mindfulness. Cassi is a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), founded by Apollo 14 Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, where she worked for 18 years. She served as CEO/President from 2013-2016 and President from 2016-2019. She is co-chair of the Board of Directors of Partners for Youth Empowerment, Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors of the Consciousness and Healing Initiative, and serves on the Board of the Virtual World Society. She is also a blogger at Psychology Today. She is an internationally recognized workshop leader and keynote speaker, most recently at the American Psychological Association, the Osher Lifelong Learning Centers National Conference, and the Esalen Institute.
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