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.

Watched the release of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission findings which was broadcast on CBC-TV today. There were almost 100 calls for action from the Commission.  It was all very moving. 

People talked about Canada coming of age after a loss of innocence after learning about the horrors of the Residential School era.  Loss of innocence usually happens during our teenage years or earlier.  This suggests to me that facing how horrible we have been in the past offers Canadians the opportunity to attain greater maturity.

The Churches, represented by archbishops, were talking about how spiritually arrogant they were behaving at the time.

In business terms Canada has the opportunity to move from unconscious incompetence - i.e. childhood, to graduate from conscious incompetence - i.e. teenage years, and arrive at conscious competence - i.e. early maturity.

For what seems like six months before the election, the Conservatives funded a TV campaign that vigorously attacked, now Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, as immature (using patronizing words) but with nice hair (male objectification, if that's all they noticed about him).

There is something mature about what Trudeau did, based on compassion, today - wanting to befriend those of us from First Nations and bring about justice by adopting all the almost 100 calls for action.

To become friends people have to earn each others' trust.  There is no trust where there is injustice.

Trudeau showed the essence of leadership - empowering individuals to bring forward the most they have to offer society.  We cannot contribute fully in a social system that we do not trust, or that is not empowering.

He did a lot to combat ongoing talk of terrorism and fear of Islam last week when he looked deeply and with compassion into the eyes of Syrian refugees arriving in Canada, and reassuring them that they has a future here. 

The fear that some of us feel about how the world is changing is very real.  

It seems in retrospect that the Conservatives pushed away at any political opposition for months in an immature manner based on fear.  It is good that we have people able to show us another way based on compassion and justice.

Launch of Universe City in Toronto / World Creativity Week events

We will be celebrating Leonardo's birthday at the Columbus Centre, the Italian community's cultural centre, during our World Creativity Week celebrations April 16 - 23, 2015.

This will mark the launch of the Social Creator network's Universe City in Toronto on April 15.  Universe City is where you go to get the skills and experience you need for today's economy of creativity and learning.  It is organized in seven movements.

World Creativity Week

Be sure to join us.

Leslie Ann Coles will be presenting and also holding a draw for more passes to the Women's Eye Film Festival.  She will show some short films before leading a workshop on developing a script.  Its fun and also no previous experience is necessary.  This creative and practical event will be held on April 16 at 7pm in the Columbus Centre boardroom on the ground floor to the right of the main restaurant.  $10.

She will also be giving away more free passes to screenings at the Women's Eye Film Festival that starts in June.

Cosmological Gardens

Spring is in the air so think flowers and garden.  As part of World Creativity Week, Andrew Owens will be presenting on Cosmological Gardens - and how to get the garden of your dreams by working holistically.

We will discuss holistic thinking that uses the whole brain and cosmological thinking (fore brain).  This creative and practical event will be held on April 23 at 7pm in Room 303 of the Columbus Centre at Lawrence and Dufferin.  $10.

Columbus Centre is convenient for Highway 401, and the Spadina subway (a short walk or bus ride from Lawrence West station).

Leonardo was born on April 15, 1452 in Vinci, Italy.  (For those cosmologist / psychologist participants - Leonardo had Sun and Venus in Taurus - very grounded, with Moon and Jupiter conjunct in Pisces - very socially aware.)

Universe City

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. 

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.

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.