Carole Austen

Carole Austen
September 6, 1927 ~ November 1, 2007

CARMEL – Carole Austen's remarkable career in the arts, psychology and higher consciousness spanned four decades of leading-edge explorations in creative intelligence. Her extraordinary gift of psychic receptivity enabled her to convey vital messages of help, wisdom, love and greater understanding from beings eager to help humankind.
   Carole's lifelong interest in psychology and human potential blossomed in the energetic
learning environment of Rollins College in Florida. There Carole majored in art and intuitive learning, and created her own curriculum. Carole went on to receive her M.A. in Creative Arts Therapy from Goddard College.
   A passionate, skillful and innovative teacher, Carole devoted herself to igniting the spirit of creativity in all. Her focus was on Higher Creative Intelligence and Whole Brain Learning, within which the experience of direct knowing–or hearing the voices of "angels" speak–was an integral part. She forged her explorations of the mind's gifts and powers into high-energy courses to catapult students into luminous realms of creativity–worlds that were her natural home.
   Carole taught Creative Power through the Arts at the Navy Chaplain's School in Rhode Island, and lectured at Stanford, Harvard Graduate School, MIT, Brandeis University, Northeastern University and other centers of learning. She designed and taught her Ph.D. level courses at the University of Humanistic Studies in San Diego, and was invited to teach at the University of California in San Diego, Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz.     
   She instructed teachers at the prestigious Sterling Institute in increasing performance
capabilities.
   A Minister in the Fellowship of the Inner Light, Carole also taught at the Paul Solomon Foundation. To further her seminal work in researching the human brain and psyche, Carole founded the Center for Whole Brain Learning and Higher Intelligence Training, a wellspring of creativity to explore, teach and celebrate the vastness of human potential. Her work with learning challenged children and adults led her to help in founding the American Art Therapy Association. She also established, with Charles Williams, the Ask the Angels Foundation and PST–Creative Problem Solving Institute, as well as the Brain Integration Center in Encinitas, California.
   Thousands of listeners have been inspired, entertained and intrigued by Carole's talk radio shows on local stations. Whether answering call-in requests on myriad topics, or channeling messages from an eager host of advisors from the unseen realms, Carole brightened the airwaves with her programs: Ask the Source, Angel Voices Talk Radio, and Reach for the Stars Talk Radio. Her most recent program, Quantum Leap, with Bob Oliver, aired on KRXA.
   Carole created five books of both her original writings, and the collected messages of beings who communicated to humankind through her: Switch on Your Brain, Cosmic Conversations, Musashi on Musashi, The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, and The Grail Legends. Her sixth, most recent work, James Dean from Spirit, was completed in September. In it, Carole captured extraordinary revelations from one of the most iconic figures of the twentieth century. (James Dean from Spirit will be available through the website jamesdeanfromspirit.com)
   Carole was an accomplished artist, a bold and sure magician of color and form. Her paintings are in two museum collections and a volume showcasing her works is planned for publication by Trillium Press.
   Carole Austen moved effortlessly in realms only dimly guessed at by toilers in the mundane world. Her illumined catechism, offered tirelessly with generosity, passion and humor, taught the unlimited potential of the human mind and spirit. She put the transcendent on the street, the ineffable in the kitchen, the divine in the workplace. She not only sought to draw us into the wonder of the unseen realms, but took dictation from their inhabitants. Patiently she listened and translated a stream of counsel–exalted or earthy, scolding or droll–to enlighten, delight and tickle homo sapiens. Surely our friend is laughing at us now, and, if we have learned how to listen, sending us her own messages: that we are magnificent within... that life is a grand adventure... that we will all meet again.