Shakti Gawain
Shakti Gawain was a New Age and personal development author. Her books have sold over 10 million copies.Background
Born Carol Louisa Gawain, she graduated from the University of California with a degree in fine arts and dance in the mid 1970s.
Gawain's best known book is Creative Visualization: Use the Power of Your Imagination to Create What You Want in Life. It has been a bestselling book for nearly 40 years. The book was said to have inspired Des'ree's 1994 hit song "You Gotta Be". Gawain was the co-founder, with Marc Allen, of New World Library Publishing Company and founder of Nataraj Publishing, a division of New World Library.
Gawain and her husband, Jim Burns, divided their time between California and Hawaii. Her father was a professor at a military academy in Northern California. Her mother, Elizabeth M. Gawain, was a city planner for HUD in Washington DC in the 1970s.Publications
- "Creative Visualization"
- Living in the Light: A Guide to Personal and Planetary Transformation
- Developing Intuition: Practical Guidance for Daily Life
- Contacting Your Inner Guide: Step-By-Step Guided Meditations Designed to Help You Make Choices That Are Right for You
- Return to the Garden
- Awakening: A Daily Guide to Conscious Living
- Every Moment: A Journal with Affirmations
- Meditations: Creative Visualization and Meditation Exercises to Enrich Your Life
- The Path of Transformation: How Healing Ourselves Can Change the World
- The Four Levels of Healing: A Guide to Balancing the Spiritual, Mental, Emotional, and Physical Aspects of Life
- Creative Visualization Meditations
- Creating True Prosperity
- Creative Visualization and Transformation
- Partnering: A New Kind of Relationship
- Reflections in the Light: Daily Thoughts and Affirmations
- Create Your Own Affirmations: A Creative Visualization Kit
- The Millionaire Course: A Visionary Plan for Creating the Life of Your Dreams
- Living in the Light: Follow Your Inner Guidance to Create a New Life and a New World