At the Quantum level we Live in a Universe City

Ontario is a First Nations' word meaning sunlight sparkling and dancing on the waves of lakes, like millions of points of light.  As we are finding out, quantum waveforms from our surroundings, together with our quantum waveform aspects, extend everywhere as fields of possibility.

We had possibilities scintillating in the Columbus Centre boardroom during our Social Creator Network and Universe City gathering on the evening of January 27, 2016.  We featured Lina Razgaitis, a pain and stress specialist, who routinely produces 32-page reports on the current health of Earth's biology out of concern and for her own interest.

For us to look at any claims about quantum technology devices, (that may otherwise boggle the mind or make eyes roll), we had biophysicist, Dr. John Stewart present in a support role for the group.  He specializes in the physics of biological organisms.

About 45 people, early-to-bed folk and night owls, swam through our discussion of how, at the quantum level, Toronto is a series of waveforms that interpenetrates the waveforms of Lake Ontario.  On the quantum level, we are part of life in Lake Ontario. 

Waveforms of life in Toronto and Lake Ontario do not end locally – they extend throughout the Universe. We saw graphs that summarized over 11,000 measures.  These verified that Toronto is a Universe City physically integrated into the rest of creation.

The multicultural crowd included a biophysicist, Japanese culture teacher, ecological artist, Taiwanese massage therapist, troubadour, stem cell researcher, billionaire, jewelry maker, and several proud parents.  After eight years, we've been able to gather a rich diversity of perspectives. 

Our intention is for each of us to feel supported in gaining more advanced perspectives on our lives, building bridges between various forms of understanding that are associated with left brain, right brain and fore brain neural activity.  Our strategies include listening to each others perspectives with respect.
  
We want to be able to take what we learn to help us achieve outstanding results between sessions.  

When I left at 11.30 p.m., twelve of us still talking.  The night security guy smiled and said, "You talked about strange things tonight".  Perhaps it was unusual for him to experience the quantum waves out of which we appear radiating down the hallway from the boardroom.  Who knows? 

It was late and I hesitated to say to him that we can now measure our everyday experience because everything is essentially a set of frequencies within waveforms. 

I didn't want to discuss how he and I were intimately entangled in a web of inter-relationships and consequences that extends across the Universe.   

Instead, I smiled back, said, "Thank you.  And, good night."

The remaining participants finally left at 12.15 a.m.

An article that summarizes and extends the Social Creator discussion that night will be available at our upcoming evenings.  

Its interesting that what I learned during the gathering later helped me understand a birthday suit dream I had in 1989.   

Everyone seems to dream about being naked.  But this was not like that.

In the dream I wear a suit and stand in a room waiting.  I pee into a grid in the floor on the North side of the room. 

Three women enter from the East side.  They face one another and quickly discuss my situation before one motions to me and I follow her. 

We eventually walk through a town.  It’s gloomy and around dawn.  

We are free to move but the few people walking past us follow cords that pass front-and-back through the middle of their chests.  Each cord stretches for blocks, constraining movements but probably allowing them to venture off a set path before the cord gets tight and creates stress in their hearts.

She takes me to outside a house.  I turn to face her as the four corners of the entire scene lift and curl over like a table cloth.  The passers-by, the houses, her form against the horizon and distant hills, everything in that town and beyond, scrunches itself into a ball that centres on my heart and encloses me. 

My entire vision goes black. 

I'm instantly inside the ball of that prior reality, pushing against pressure from supple walls.  I'm experiencing entry into life down the birth canal during that extreme initiation we call birth. 

It is my birthday.  She had taken me to where my future family lives. 

She is my soul aspect or anima.  She is literally what animates me.  

I only see representations of her in dreams.  But from then on she, and everything else from that world, resides inside of me.

Even if you were not physically present at the Columbus Centre, and were 'outside' somewhere across the horizon, we can accept that you interpenetrated the boardroom and were an integral part of the evening.  Thank you.

Assessing Neighbourhood Health with Quantum Biofeedback

We are very pleased to have Lina Razgaitis, a pain and stress specialist, as our speaker at the next gathering.

Quantum Biofeedback: Advanced Scientific Methods to Manage Pain and Stress

Scans on the Indigo quantum biofeedback units look at reactions to over 11,000 stress related factors.  whatreallyworksforstress.com.

Lina will share with us how she produces 32-page reports on the current health of Earth's biology or a neighbourhood.  

For us to look at any claims about quantum physics (that may otherwise boggle the mind or make eyes roll), biophysicist, Dr John Stewart has agreed to be present in a support role for the group.  He is an expert on the physics of biological organisms.

Date and time:  Wednesday January 27, 2016 from 7 to 9pm. 

Location: Columbus Centre, Toronto's Italian community's cultural centre, 901 Lawrence Ave West, two buildings west of Dufferin.  

Columbus Centre is conveniently located near Highway 401, and the Spadina subway (a 10 minute walk or short bus ride from Lawrence West subway station).

View Map to Location

We like to break-out into small groups of 3 or 4 people to discuss and help digest what we heard, and what this means to us individually.  We will also use groups to assess whether use of Quantum Biofeedback is advantageous for the health of neighbourhoods and how we go about setting up programs. 
 
This free event is held in conjunction with Universe City of Toronto.  We will look at expanding Universe City as a place you go to get the skills and experience you need for today's economy of creativity, sustainable development and learning.  Check out the section called 'Courses'.

Universe City is organized in seven movements.  One movement is about Health Promotion in neighbourhoods.

We are looking forward to getting together with like-hearted individuals.
Let Nick D'Aleandro or I know if you plan to attend.  Bring a friend.

Send us your email if you want to know about our events.

Movements help us get around rigid monopolies

At the last event we discussed how the present economic system will not serve many of today's youth and how young adults are organizing in parallel economies outside of the established channels.  We focused on promising methods of organizing as a society that suggest a way forward.

For society to be organized requires predictable structure and movements for change - like a Snakes and Ladders board.  Movements have always been the main way to get around rigid monopolies.  Movements, such as human rights, have drawn our attention to the need for change whenever some of us find it difficult or impossible to get ahead socially and economically.

We will meet again on Wednesday March 11th. at 7p.m in the library of the beautiful Columbus Centre.  Take the elevator to the second floor and follow the signs.

The Columbus Centre is an Italian cultural centre just west of Dufferin on the south side of Lawrence. 

 
(Use the Allen Expressway or take the subway to Lawrence West Station and take a bus a few blocks west to Dufferin.)

Leslie Ann Coles will be our visiting speaker sharing with us her inspiration for starting the Female Eye film festival.  (See below for more information.)

This Social Creator event is free with light refreshments catered by Mama D'Aleandro. 
Let Nick or I know if you are attending.  Bring a  friend.

 


Its time to fill out the Snakes and Ladders board for a post-2012 era. We will look at immediate economic opportunities and set educational objectives so that we learn to become more fulfilled. 

Our session we will go beyond logic and we will learn to use tools for insight.

 

There will be lots for everyone to talk about after selecting various breakout groups to discuss visions and educational objectives:

1. empowering ourselves for a More Lively and Loving Toronto,
2. a proposal to organize Neighbourhood TV,
3. influencing food quality and freshness,
4. influencing how the health industry operates,3. an income model for these and other proposals.

The Female Eye film festival is ranked one of the world's "Top 50 Festivals" by Movie Maker.  See: http://www.femaleeyefilmfestival.com.  Read more, below this email...

We will also have a draw for free passes to some of the films.

​Leslie Ann Coles (above) has been an actress and producer since 1997.

In 2003, the Female Eye Festival launched the script development program.
In 2004, FeFF produced the first Dec. 6th program with films that pertained to issues of violence against women.
In 2005, FeFF traveled to the UN Headquarters to present films on International Women’s Day.
In 2006, FeFF launched a photo exhibit and produced the first Young Filmmaker Development Workshop.
In 2011, Jules Koostachin became the director of FeFF's Aboriginal Filmmaker Series. 

The Future is Unclear. Adapt accordingly.

It’s easy for governments to ignore issues surrounding creativity and the mounting significance that heart-felt individual action takes in terms of our socio-economic future together.  Outside-the-box, creative, or values-based thinking is readily discouraged even though it is essential for dealing with areas that remain unclear and in the realms of probability, such as our future. 

True, there`s some interest in better ways of getting things done. Governments will continue to ask people to pitch in, and 'submit your ideas'.  Perhaps government employees see themselves as encouraging participation, of switching to a more `participative' style of government.  However participation is directed rather than facilitated.  

The familiar authoritarian style is also perpetuated by this wonderful capacity governments have of setting the questions ahead of time.  Allowing participants to define the terms of a discussion is not an option.  Every question,  every review, every national commission, is phrased into existence based on the solidified and dogmatic assumption that our representatives are there to lead the way to fulfilling needs in each and every situation.  

Nothing can change when government representatives define the terms for a discussion of our great rethinking and our great reworking.  Because of how things are set up for us we can confine ourselves to giving input and contributing in ways that won`t work.  

Contribute within TODAY`s Economy

In the USA, Obama's annual State of The Nation address continued the illusion that life in ‘developed nations’ is all about manufacturing.  

At least citizens of the US get a regular pep talk.  In Canada we have no idea where we are heading, either as an economy, or as a society.  You'd think that somebody in government would do something to rectify that.   

When you walk up to the door into a public washroom you notice that someone has been thoughtful enough put a little phrase or graphic on the door.  It’s something that everyone knows indicates a public washroom.  The reason it’s placed there is to indicate what to expect next.  

There needed to be something placed on the door to the future, decades ago.  The word for that little phrase or graphic that everyone understands is a sign.  

We achieve new kinds of society.  It's something we all agree to strive towards.  Together we put our life blood into making it happen.  All we need is a little sign.

Many of us distrust, or simply don’t know what kind of society we’re supposed to be moving towards let alone know what we`re contributing towards achieving.  The last time we heard a politician describe a vision of where we are going as a society was during the 1970’s when John F Kennedy told us we were going to the moon. 

As it turns out it was not a vision for society but a message to calm the military-industrial complexes of the US and USSR.  Kennedy was thoughtful enough to place a sign on the door to the future to indicate what the military and war industries of the two superpowers could expect next.  

Talk about the moon was a sign to indicate to the military-industrial complexes that they had a future in a world that was relatively peaceful.


Maybe that's why people are looking for signs of the times.  The sign we need is TODAY when we look around us.

Maybe that's why people talk about signs of the times.

Hello, Occupy! What you doin'?

To better understand how the Occupy Movement is so different, here is an email a devout Christian land developer friend of mine sent.  It's about a seminar that was being offered to North Americans about opportunities to legally evade paying national taxes by using tax havens in the Caribbean.  


My friend wrote:

These tax schemes are only one way that the 1% have legal ways to get further ahead of the rest of us. This is an actual example. If you were an accountant, you would know lots of other examples. The point is that the high net worth of the 1% does not come from just being industrious. If they paid their fair share of taxes, this would be a start in moving all of us towards equity.

This was great fuel for the Occupy conversation that the mainstream media has now engaged the broader population in.  


In response to my friend's request to pass forward something ‘that might be of interest to Occupy’ I sent the following email: 

Thanks for pointing out a real way in which the 1% gets ahead of the 99% with little effort.  This is a great idea that could turn into an action that Occupy takes, or at least enter the general discussion within the movement.  However, I've since discovered that there are no means for me to forward this suggestion on your behalf to, say the Action Committee for consideration.  


You are part of Occupy.  Sorry to have to say this... it’s either of interest to the individual or not.  It can't be 'of interest to Occupy'. 

Expressive movements fly in the face of everything we're taught about organizing.  They start with trust.  Trust is earned through experiences of working together.  'Organizing ourselves' as a corporation doesn't give us options, like choosing to only work with, or under people we trust.  Instead we pay ourselves to show up, and when we show up, we work.  That's part of what's usually called the 'command and control' model.


However an expressive movement bases collaboration on trust, sharing, caring, kindness, respect... and even more advanced values.  Together we become an embodiment of ideals, and compassion.  Delegation is out the window, and it’s more about freedom or expression, not imposing our individual ideas or ideology on someone else, or suggesting our ideas are things that others could be attending to.  It's about freeing ourselves from chains of command.  

The combination of community, creativity, and compassion results in something that no--one can command and control.  All this is relatively new and something I am still struggling to get my head around.  So far, I know this way of doing things is life affirming.  Both life and light are allowed in.  It's an enlightened development that goes beyond 'organizing ourselves' as a corporation.  Perhaps we're allowing God to step into the middle.  

An 'expressive movement' is special and very different from a single-issue movement or a corporation. The culture in Occupy is that something happens when someone decides to move it forward and it gains wider support.  Otherwise it languishes by the wayside.

To move forward with this valuable idea of doing something about tax haven seminars, you'd either take it as a proposal to a General Assembly, or, more effectively, join the Action Committee by signing on to their Googlegroup.  The info is given under the 'Committees' tab on  the main OccupyTO.org web site.

All the best to you, and heaven help us all.

Environments that are Conducive for Innovation

Here are some quotes from this really great article that I think indicate ways of moving forward.  To innovate and accelerate positive change in neighbourhoods, any movement may need a strong internet-based component.  The conversations we have need to expand internationally to as big a network as possible.Please circulate a link to this post to whomever may be interested.I look forward to your comments.

New York Times, Sunday Review.

The author of the forthcoming book “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking.” By SUSAN CAIN

Published: January 13, 2012

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/opinion/sunday/the-rise-of-the-new-groupthink.html?_r=3&hp&pagewanted=all

Solitude has long been associated with creativity and transcendence. “Without great solitude, no serious work is possible,” Picasso said. A central narrative of many religions is the seeker — Moses, Jesus, Buddha — who goes off by himself and brings profound insights back to the community.

Virtually all American workers now spend time on teams and some 70 percent inhabit open-plan offices, in which no one has “a room of one’s own.” During the last decades, the average amount of space allotted to each employee shrank 300 square feet, from 500 square feet in the 1970s to 200 square feet in 2010.

Solitude can even help us learn. According to research on expert performance by the psychologist Anders Ericsson, the best way to master a field is to work on the task that’s most demanding for you personally. And often the best way to do this is alone. Only then, Mr. Ericsson told me, can you “go directly to the part that’s challenging to you. If you want to improve, you have to be the one who generates the move. Imagine a group class — you’re the one generating the move only a small percentage of the time.”

Conversely, brainstorming sessions are one of the worst possible ways to stimulate creativity. The brainchild of a charismatic advertising executive named Alex Osborn who believed that groups produced better ideas than individuals, workplace brainstorming sessions came into vogue in the 1950s. “The quantitative results of group brainstorming are beyond question,” Mr. Osborn wrote. “One group produced 45 suggestions for a home-appliance promotion, 56 ideas for a money-raising campaign, 124 ideas on how to sell more blankets.”

But decades of research show that individuals almost always perform better than groups in both quality and quantity, and group performance gets worse as group size increases. The “evidence from science suggests that business people must be insane to use brainstorming groups,” wrote the organizational psychologist Adrian Furnham. “If you have talented and motivated people, they should be encouraged to work alone when creativity or efficiency is the highest priority.”

The reasons brainstorming fails are instructive for other forms of group work, too. People in groups tend to sit back and let others do the work; they instinctively mimic others’ opinions and lose sight of their own; and, often succumb to peer pressure. The Emory University neuroscientist Gregory Berns found that when we take a stance different from the group’s, we activate the amygdala, a small organ in the brain associated with the fear of rejection. Professor Berns calls this “the pain of independence.”

The one important exception to this dismal record is electronic brainstorming, where large groups outperform individuals; and the larger the group the better. The protection of the screen mitigates many problems of group work. This is why the Internet has yielded such wondrous collective creations. Marcel Proust called reading a “miracle of communication in the midst of solitude,” and that’s what the Internet is, too. It’s a place where we can be alone together — and this is precisely what gives it power.

To harness the energy that fuels both these drives, we need to move beyond the New Groupthink and embrace a more nuanced approach to creativity and learning. Our offices should encourage casual, cafe-style interactions, but allow people to disappear into personalized, private spaces when they want to be alone. Our schools should teach children to work with others, but also to work on their own for sustained periods of time. And we must recognize that introverts like Steve Wozniak need extra quiet and privacy to do their best work.

Before Mr. Wozniak started Apple, he designed calculators at Hewlett-Packard, a job he loved partly because HP made it easy to chat with his colleagues. Every day at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., management wheeled in doughnuts and coffee, and people could socialize and swap ideas. What distinguished these interactions was how low-key they were. For Mr. Wozniak, collaboration meant the ability to share a doughnut and a brainwave with his laid-back, poorly dressed colleagues — who minded not a whit when he disappeared into his cubicle to get the real work done.

In his memoir, Mr. Wozniak offers this guidance to aspiring inventors:

“Most inventors and engineers I’ve met are like me ... they live in their heads. They’re almost like artists. In fact, the very best of them are artists. And artists work best alone .... I’m going to give you some advice that might be hard to take. That advice is: Work alone... Not on a committee. Not on a team.”

MY point is not that man is an island. Life is meaningless without love, trust and friendship.

And I’m not suggesting that we abolish teamwork. Indeed, recent studies suggest that influential academic work is increasingly conducted by teams rather than by individuals. (Although teams whose members collaborate remotely, from separate universities, appear to be the most influential of all.) The problems we face in science, economics and many other fields are more complex than ever before, and we’ll need to stand on one another’s shoulders if we can possibly hope to solve them.

But even if the problems are different, human nature remains the same. And most humans have two contradictory impulses: we love and need one another, yet we crave privacy and autonomy.

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I think its fair to add that much of the innovation in terms of bringing compassion and environmental thinking to society is coming from movements.  


We need to bear in mind that movements:

• Never consisted of collaborations among Picassos and Buddhas. 
• Require input from everyone - doers, thinkers, feelers, inspirers, facilitators.
• Require collaborations among people of all generations.
• Encourage peer-learning for skills development, empowerment and leadership.

Andrew.

Evolution towards Capitalism and Beyond

Here briefly are five historic precedents in terms of types of economies.  They suggest that the evolution within economies is far from over.

1. Clan-based Economies - where exchanges benefited extended families

These were precedents for what today are household exchanges (within non-markets and communal forms of organization) where labour is unpaid.

2. Hunter-gatherer Economies – where exchanges spread beyond families

Labour was then paid for in a community currency such a beads, or wampum.  These economies were the precedents for local trading systems within alternative markets and alternative capitalistic forms of organization

3. Agricultural Economies – where exchanges expanded to circulate around cities as early centres of civilization

These were precedents for non-profit state enterprises, again, within alternative markets and alternative capitalistic forms of organization where labour is paid for in 'national' coin-based currencies.

4. Manufacturing Economies – where exchanges circulate around the world via a few financial centres

These are capitalistic forms of organization where labour is increasingly paid for using electronic transfers amongst international banks.

5. Service Economies - where exchanges are increased through manipulation and control measures so as to far exceed actual public needs or demands

The manufacturing economy requires many services to solve that problems that manufacturers face. To increase sales, manufacturers require news and entertainment outlets able to attract viewers to look at their advertising plus psychologists and public relations companies to orchestrate people's buying behaviour. See the BBC's four part documentary, Century of the Self... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUYFr-uDQgg

The initial type of service was providing large loans for buying land, plus building or leasing factories. The expansion of influence of capitalism, as the means of getting things done, started in 19th century England.

The income generated through loans was ploughed into widespread speculation or gambling at stock exchanges, say in derivatives, or the future prices of currencies. By the year 2,000, widespread speculation had grown to about 1,000 times the size of the 'real economy' of labour-based markets. The Internet had become the world casino for gambling on speculative shares and 'future prices'.
By now speculation and gambling without use of labour have hopefully been exposed as relatively useless in terms of generating value for society.

The Emerging Economies

Emerging economies build on, but do not replace, prior economies.  They simply add to the complex mixture of economies that already exist.  For example, the agricultural economy once engaged most of the population of all countries.  Now in Canada, though agriculture shows no sign of going away, it only engages about 2% of the workforce. 

Emerging economies will probably rely on ever more complex forms of organization and forms of payment for services than we seen in their historic precedents.


6. Economies of coordination, for Mutual Fulfillment  –  


7. Economies of self-awareness for Conscious Evolution - Everyone knows the effects of his or her actions.


Conclusions:
Note the seven developmental stages proposed within this framework.  Say we are at stage 5.  Further stages are already occurring informally, and are becoming more apparent.  

We're not at the end of capitalism, and draw hope from understanding that we are not at the end of an evolutionary progress in terms of economies.

Thanks for input from Jim Delaney who studies various economies that exist today, with special interest in Feminist Economics.
delaney.jim@gmail.com---