Shakti Gawain (30 September 1948 – 11 November 2018)[1] was an American New Age and personal development writer.
[3] Born Carol Louisa Gawain, she graduated from the University of California with a degree in fine arts and dance in the mid 1970s.
[4] Gawain is best known for her book Creative Visualization: Use the Power of Your Imagination to Create What You Want in Life (1978).
[5] The book focuses primarily on making changes to visual mental imagery, and attributes to it the capacity for hindering or facilitating an individual's potential, citing vivid anecdotal stories drawn from her experience and that of others to support her thesis.
The following paragraphs define imagination as the "creative energy of the universe", and introduces the book as a means by which to use the so-defined imagination to "create what you truly want — love, fulfillment, enjoyment, satisfying relationships, rewarding work, self-expression, health, beauty, prosperity, inner peace, and harmony.