The Science of Intention

We are very pleased to have as our speaker for the February 24th gathering, biophysicist, Dr. John Stewart of Biophysica Inc, who specializes in the physics of biological organisms, water purification, and intention.

John will share with us how we are all producing results due to our intentions, and some of the physics behind this phenomenon.
 

One resource that John provides is a website on radionics and the principles of quantum physics:

http://www.raydionics.com/

Click the following link to another resource that John provides, a series of TV shows on Divine Physics.

It appears that our bodies and surroundings are embedded in an invisible matrix that are more fundamental or real than the physical universe.  

At least ten dimensions have been theorized in string theory and also by physicists Dr William Tiller, Dr Ervin Laszlo, Dr Dean Radin, and Dr Glen Rein.  These dimensions may be familiar to some of us through studies in ancient wisdom, including Kabbalah. We engage in some of these dimensions by combining intention with business planning, cooking, eating, etc.  


For us to look at any claims about what we can achieve through intention, quantum physics, and other dimensions, we have asked Dr Ken Adams, medical doctor and genetic researcher, to be present in a support role for the group.

Date and time:  Wednesday February 24, 2016 from 7 to 9pm. 
Location: Columbus Centre, Toronto's Italian community's cultural centre, 901 Lawrence Ave West, two buildings west of Dufferin.  Ask for the room number at the front desk.

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).

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This free and catered event is held in conjunction with Universe City of Toronto.  Check out the section called 'Courses'.  For those who are able to contribute, we ask for financial donations or educational services in support of Universe City programming. 
We will expand Universe City as a place to go and get the skills and experience we need for today's economy. 

Universe City is organized in seven movements.  One movement is about Innovative Facilities in neighbourhoods.

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 also use these smaller groups to assess whether use of intention is advantageous for the health of neighbourhoods and how we go about setting up programs that use this kind of technology.

 
We look forward to getting together with like-hearted individuals. 

Let Nick D'Aleandro or I know if you plan to attend.  Bring a friend.

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.

Fulfilling deeply held longings

My sense is that, in Toronto, we are transitioning away from meaning and becoming more in touch with our core values.  

First I want to explore the effects and conditions of this transition to soulfulness as individuals.  Then I want to look at how to adjust socially to a new mood that’s rising up in the city.

We can identify our unique values by what we do on a Saturday afternoon - family, community, or hobbies.  Though we may have a sense of what our values are, we don’t necessarily give them the importance they deserve as indicating what we have to contribute to society.

However, fewer of us are willing to live based on meaning alone – like getting a salary, getting ahead of coworkers, or waiting for our boss’ job.  Meaning was an important motivator from the ‘60’s – ‘90’s.  Now we want work activity that fulfills our deeply held values and longings.  

People in the arts and self-expression are in touch with, and must express their values each and every day.  We express our values when we decide what is important, gracious, lovely and essential to a course of action.  

We attempt to glimpse the wholeness in situations.  Our values are what indicate the way forward after taking any number of factors into account.  

Decisions made based on values, wholeness and inclusion are not logical or about taste.  They are decisions made based on love and a higher pragmatism.  Pragmatism beats what’s achieved with logic and thinking about a limited number of things we’re able to measure.  Pragmatic action is based on a realistic big picture.

Our values are our means to the things that we live for.  Our values are like gas in the tank, and a map.  We need a course of action or some idea of a destination that will fulfill an inner longing. But values and a course of action without engaging in community limit what we can achieve to express love. 

We know there is strength in numbers. Working in organizations goes further.  It is powerful.  In fact corporations and the military are incredibly powerful.  They’ve become the most powerful things on the planet.  

However we leave many of your values at the door or in the office lobby before starting work each day.  We limit the number of factors we consider.  We think in polarizing, competitive and disheartening ways.  We can be working to pull the social fabric apart.  We must adopt policies and an agenda set by someone else.

My second point is about society and our complete empowerment as individuals.  Complete empowerment comes when we combine our values and our direction on a map with the resources for moving forward.  We readily find help and resources to use in an organization.

However, once you are in touch with your core values the last thing that you want is someone else telling you what to do or setting a course for you.  That is why so many of us who have gone inwards and found our souls stayed away from corporations and group activities.  We want to be proactive in response to inner promptings and be free to do our own thing.

What’s been missing is a form of organizing that allows us to respond to whatever values we have registered in our souls.  That is partly why the Markham Street MuSE is very significant to you at this time.  It’s a form of organizing able to support the new mood in the city.  

A muse is defined as ‘the function of deciding among ourselves through ongoing distributed decision-making across a network of developing or emerging connections’.  

Compared to what’s produced when people get together and assume power after politicking among themselves, a muse leads soulful people to full empowerment with shared roles that make things more fluid and practical.

The function of a muse in organizing does not consider only one location.  It is meant as a source of inspiration for organizing across neighbourhoods and organizing in any local area, no matter how small.  I recommend that you check it out and look at the degree to which we are free to do what we want once we’re connected with our values.  

It allows for all our multiple, diverse visions.  These are the courses we chose individually on a map of a creative era.  

If you are in touch with your core values and aim for full empowerment, then you don’t have to wait for society to change completely.  Find out more about how to use a muse to get from where society is now to where you want to be.

Inclusive Capitalism

In May, 2014 , Prince Charles said in a speech at the Inclusive Capitalism conference:

"We can choose to act now before it is finally too late, using all of the power and influence that each of you can bring to bear to create an inclusive, sustainable and resilient society”. 
 
The Prince was addressing an audience of 200 business leaders including Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, and chief executives of multinational companies such as UBS, GlaxoSmithKline and Unilever. 

Here are more quotes from the article appearing in the UK's Telegraph newspaper.

“I remember when the Iron Curtain came down there was a certain amount of shouting about the triumph of capitalism over communism. Being somewhat contrary, I didn't think it was quite as simple as that. I felt that unless the business world considered the social, community and environmental dimensions, we might end up coming full circle.” 

He called on businesses to focus on the long-term and make “an authentic moral commitment to acting as true custodians of the Earth and architects of the well-being of current and future generations”. 

“It is only by adopting a broader sense of value that our finances will be sustained and we can find new sources of profit,” he said. 

The Prince suggested that companies must do more to put “young people properly at the heart of companies' employment practices and planning strategies, in order to tackle more effectively the world's growing youth unemployment crisis”. 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/prince-charles/10859230/Prince-Charles-reform-capitalism-to-save-the-planet.html 

Ed Miliband, UK's Labour leader, has also called for “responsible capitalism”. 

How we tackle Cancer

'Speed Futuring' is like speed dating.  Choose a future.  Spend some time with it and see if you want it in your life.

June 3rd marks our fourth 'no-charge' Social Creator event of 2014 before our usual summer break.   

Mark your calender for Tuesday June 3, 7 - 9.30p.m.  We will be in the Columbus Room on the Columbus Centre main floor, to the right of the restaurant.

We are featuring a presentation by world-renown cancer researcher and geneticist, 
Dr. Andrew Hessel from the University of Ottawa Institute for Science, Society, and Policy, and former co- chair of bioinformatics and biotechnology at Singularity University. He is trained in both microbiology and genetics. 

Doctor Hessel is a catalyst in biological technologies helping industry academics and authorities better understand the changes happening in life science. He is also the co-founder of the Pink Army Cooperative, the world's first cooperative biotechnology company aimed at making viral therapies for cancer 'open source' i.e. available to everyone. Since the cooperative was founded in 2009, the cost and time needed to make a new biotechnology therapy for one person (which skips over the most expensive and slow parts, like big clinical trials) has fallen by 50% (and continues to fall). Source: http://andrewhessel.com/?page_id=141

'Open source' is a powerful, relatively new model of development that promotes a) universal access to a product or service's design, and b) universal redistribution of that design, including subsequent improvements to it by anyone.


The Columbus Centre is an Italian cultural centre just west of Dufferin on the south side of Lawrence.  (Use the Allen Expressway or get the subway to Lawrence west and take a bus a few blocks east.)

We will serve refreshments and have our exceptional free dessert table catered by Mama D'Aleandro!

At 7.10 p.m there will be a 20 minute introduction to Social Creator network for people attending for the first time. 

Speed Futuring: Applying what we've seen and heard earlier in the evening

After a presentation on Organizing in Neighbourhoods to end our use of Toxins by Andrew Owens we will break into smaller groups to share ideas about assessing new innovations based on a big picture, international approach.

This promises to be another busy, fun and delicious evening.  Bring a friend.

Please confirm with Nick D'Aleandro or Andrew Owens if you plan to attend.

Meeting with City Councillor, Mike Layton

Here is a quick update on the development of collaborative villages.  Hope you find it inspiring for what you are up to in your neighbourhood.  Let me know if you and your neighbourhood would like to collaborate with the Bathurst and Bloor area of Toronto.

Councillor Mike Layton and I met January 6, 2014, regarding the Markham Street MuSE for living in a more creative Toronto.  It is also a community-led innovation and social response to today’s creative and learning economies.  We noted the fact that the Canadian economy is now less reliant on manufacturing, and that the City of Toronto wants to encourage citizen's to be leaders in today’s economies.

Mutual Support Enterprises are proactive member-owned associations that develop and advance a neighbourhood vision of urban living, or a ‘hyper-local’ vision for a street.  A MuSE is an association and hybrid of a social agency and a business.  It makes money to reinvest in social and economic development.

It encourages fulfillment of each person’s preferred roles, values, and vision for their life.  As member-owners we become more of who we are, both individually and collectively.  We develop further understanding, creativity, and increased capacity for health, vitality and well-being.

A MuSE is also uniquely positioned to be first-in-the-marketplace for helping corporations look at the wholeness in situations so as to benefit their return on investment.

There is an opportunity for the City of Toronto to supply arts groups with reusable material such as wood, metal, ceramics, fabric, etc., that would otherwise be sold or put in landfill.  The councillor is currently looking at options, say, when contracts with existing service suppliers are up for renewal.
We live in an urban forest.  Neighbours could use felled local trees to make structures, such as gazebos and arbors, that could be sold for beautification of local gardens and parks.  This kind of logging would be more enterprising and locally advantageous compared to the noisy practice of reducing trees to wood chips.

The future of society depends to great extent on encouraging our entrepreneurs.  We had a conversation about establishing creative economy hubs, and the need for neighbours to support entrepreneurial start-ups.  Practices of supplying office space and services to entrepreneurs that support neighbourhoods (‘social innovators’) remain part of the solution.

The councillor is a board member of Artscape YOUNGplace which is an example of a new, multi-tenant arts & cultural centre in the ward – at 180 Shaw Street, just west of Trinity-Bellwoods park.

We also touched on how Waterfront renewal as an opportunity to demonstrate the advancement of larger scale creative and learning economy hubs.  Exhibition Place has always tried to showcase innovations, such as wind turbine technology.  Councillor Layton pointed out how governments are now limited in what they can responsibly invest in, in terms of supplying basic services such as sewage and drinking water, when there is no immediate return on taxpayer investment.

We discussed the possibility of making Waterfront development ‘more organic’, more responsive to community needs, more economically sustainable, and less reliant on investment through financial institutions.

China is building 1,000 new universities over ten years (source: Roger Martin, past dean of the Rotman School of Management, U of Toronto,) as a strategy for adapting to the learning economy.  However, ‘developed countries’ in North America and Europe are making little or no investment in new learning institutions.

This led to a discussion of our proposal for neighbourhood campuses and the possibility of using underutilized local spaces.  Ideas for gathering and streamlining existing learning opportunities into curriculum streams that develop new skill-sets necessary for today’s economies could have been discussed further.  However, we had talked for over an hour and it was time to adjourn.

Our appreciation goes to the councillor and his staff for their kind cooperation.

Andrew Owens.

Speed Futuring - planning in no time

Here is the plan and notes from the Social Creator network's Speed Futuring workshop on November 28, 2012.

Attendees: Tony, Wolfgang, Susan, David H, Shea, Dorit, Nick, Andrew.

There were eight options for topics to be used for developing a plan during the evening.  We would use a combination of whole brain thinking of the whole situation (Mind-Mapping) and fore brain thinking (stages proposed within Self-organization of communities.)

Here they are, together with vote counts:

In-house facilities that distinguish condo buildings – 0
YouTube channel for a neighbourhood - 1
Clean technologies – 2
3D Printing - 3
Education - 4
Vertical farming up outside of high-rises - 4
Customized stays for visitors to Toronto - 4

The winner was:
Social development through community education - 6

Social development in response to crime, threats, bullying is a challenge that requires holistic methods. 

Who can be against something that would address these problems?
Why not use a breathing wall created by Wolfgang (an ecology of plants and animals and placed on an indoor wall,) as an experiential teaching method for holistic learning based on the study of ecologies.  This would engage youth and seniors particularly and could help participants look at local communities as social ecologies.

Strategy: Take Social Creator to a Finch and Jane community centre where people are thirsty for change.  They would probably like a YouTube Channel for the neighbourhood. 

Canadian Human Rights Orgn and Northwood Community Centre could be our initial local lead organizations.

With a lot of help from David H who works in a social agency at Jane and Finch, we first identified some pieces of the puzzle of self-sustaining social development.  See diagram below:

Then we developed the following stages of implementation as interdependent and integrated.  Later stages depend, and build on earlier stages.

The three developmental stages are:

1. Inspire a community –

·       Get neighbours to imagine / visualize (rather than stating some benefits)

·       Build a high-profile mini version of project that you almost have to walk over / believable 3D rendering / diorama  

2. Engage a community –

·       Lead partners must already have trust of the community

·       The 3D rendering is revealed to be evolving over time – delight

·       Educational information about the project is graduated in stages responding to feedback, as with education

·       Deliver persistent and consistent yet evolving messages

·       Means of giving anonymous responses at the rendering location

·       Appeal to youth

·       Facebook and Twitter

·       You Tube

·       Petition

·       On-line funding site mechanism where people vote and donate to initiatives

·       Speaker events or conference

3. Neighbourhood education, coaching and enrichment -

·       Community centre as a partner that facilitates setting up a school operated totally by kid participants (as with a government program in Costa Rica)

·       Lead kids record findings, and teach what’s been learned to following classes and in other schools

·       Focus on international collaborations amongst kids

·       Focus on breathing walls and society as ecologies

·       Similar programming for seniors

·       Inter-generational programming

Lectures from Wolfgang. 
Community coaching sessions. 
Free wikis for on-line storage of findings from classes

As an introduction to the planning segment we had the following "insights into the future":

·     
Apprenticeship movement will grow - Learning trades from elders who want to leave a legacy - as selected by the community centre, free of charge, candidates willing to work for free.

·       Souls will come in that have worked out much more of their karmas.

·       People will be together more. 

·       Lots more computerized on-line facilities from a young age.  Elimination of schools with traditional teachers and teaching methods.  We now see children in very different ways than we have in the past.  Some kids will be educating themselves.  We ask kids what they have an affinity for. 

·       Access to a world knowledge bank – material or spiritual storage.

·       Ineffective government and massive social turmoil leads to slowest thing becoming the fastest at bringing wealth as we thoroughly engage in them.

·       Wealth and abundance is created through addressing reality which has synergies where and 1 + 1 = 3 or more.  It creates massive engagement of people which brings happiness through helping one another.

·       Putting ideas in people’s heads (with marketing included) rather than have people ‘wasting time’ reading books.

·       Thought-controllable machines are going mainstream.  Wider recognition of danger with biofeedback because the brain becomes unbalanced. 

·       High, connecting bridges between high buildings.  Objects floating due to telekinesis.  Self-sustaining buildings reliant on solar power, kinetic energy derived from movement of inhabitants.

·       3D printers in every home.  Everyone doing 3D pictures at home. CNC machines (since 1990’s) computer controlled shaping machines that cut and shape wood go mainstream. 

·       Interactive walls that shape to what we want.  ‘Whole ceiling’ lights.

·       Food will grow in our houses as parts of our houses.

·       Photosynthesis by humans to get around eating.

·       New forms of personal transportation.