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.

Cheap solutions to world problems - Plasma Energy Power Units

We will be hearing more about a ‘Plasma Energy Power Unit' designed by Keshe Foundation.  We will read about it on the internet - but maybe not in the mainstream media.  

These 'world-changing' units are designed  to be affordable. For about $200 a home can generate power and be less reliant on power companies. For those who cannot afford the unit funding will be available from many sources, especially in the developing countries.

A unit will maintain a heating system and cooling system in our homes. A consistent room temperature will be available no matter how hot or cold it is outside.  Units will also be available for cars therefore also saving us thousands of dollars in fuel costs. 

The Keshe Foundation was started by Professor Mehran Tavakoli Keshe, an Iranian plasma physicist and nuclear scientist. It has offices in China and California.

He also started Keshe Foundation Spaceship Institute, or KF SSI, located in Bari, Italy. It was set up to teach industry, organizations, and individuals, how to develop systems and technologies based on the Keshe Foundation knowledge. The Institute hopes to become a central hub for the spread of plasma technology and knowledge.

The KF SSI is primarily an organization dedicated to understanding of space, and learning all aspects of survival in space.

Mehran Keshe repeatedly says that plasma units will go out for worldwide distribution. Keshe says that within the next 6 to 12 months things will change dramatically for the better as manufacturing will have created enough units for the entire world.

When Mehran Keshe gives his plasma reactors to delegates at a Peace Conference in Rome on October 16th, we can anticipate fuel price starting to drop permanently.  

So October 16th, 2015 could be a significant date for everyone and the planet. It could be another turning point towards a more enlightened way of operating and loving our planet.  It is something that many have been working toward for centuries. 

That's him - on the right.

Obama was reputedly given a plasma unit on September 24th of this year.  North America will hopefully go after cheap energy, as an alternative to what people have been saying for twenty years - 'War is not an Energy Plan'.   

There is no copyright and in fact Keshe made sure that it cannot be copyrighted.  People around the world will accept peace and cheap energy - which will change everything.

The Keshe Foundation Spaceship Institute claims that, "for the first time we have managed to create atomic hydrogen and carbon as gas and as solid matter at room temperature."  

Technical notes:

This new method uses atom-thickness layers, and multiple layered carbon, i.e., graphene.  Several international patents with over 300 potential uses have been filed in past years.

Graphene has the same composition as what we find at the core of pencils but is structured differently.  Until now this has only been produced at temperatures of 700° to 800°C.

Keshe is excited about the healing powers of this technology and how it produces a force field that protects against nasty psycho-tronic devices that have made misery of people's lives.

He claims that how we interact with the plasma is dictated by our overall vibration at the time.  Somehow the unit is sensitive to our vibrations.  That should be interesting if we wake up feeling grumpy.  It should give new meaning to phrases like stay positive, or, be happy!

Check out www.keshefoundation.org .

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

Collaborative Leadership

Some of you may know of Peter Senge.  He promoted the terms 'learning organization' starting in the early 1990's.  He is now a senior lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management. 

Here is a link to a fascinating article he wrote recently.

http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/the_dawn_of_system_leadership

If you believe we need to get beyond the myth of the hero, Senge is looking at the power of collaborative leadership. Together we come up with visions for more sustainable styles of society.  Together we participate in co-creating the society we want.

In the article you will also find new insights into the food crisis, youth crime, toxicity found within fashion items.

Newly Elected Premier of Ontario

This past week Kathleen Wynne was voted the first woman, and openly gay leader of the fair province of Ontario.

Taking from Occupy messages she said she is committed to creating an Ontario that works for everyone.  We probably haven't had that spirit here since the European settlers arrived.

When Occupy started there was talk of 'the 99%'.  This message was something the media could get their teeth into.  The message successfully changed the worldwide conversation on mainstream media and strongly influenced the agenda at the annual Davos Summit.  All with very little budget.  That was impressive.

Then Occupiers talked about 'a society that worked for everyone - 100%'.

Interestingly it was about that time that national leaders called the various Occupy groups terrorist organizations.

Now we have seen an acceptance speech where a major politician adopts the same, later, more refined message. It is an approach towards working smarter.  It has a stabilizing influence on society.  It is an enlightened approach that encourages greater participation in the social sphere.

We can recall how things progressed over the last forty years.  Conscientious citizens became known as engaged citizens that in turn became known as peaceful activists, only to be more recently branded as threats to security.  People who want to build a world that works for everyone were and probably never will be a threat.  Now again it is something to celebrate and be open about.

We must cherish her commitment.  It shows true leadership when we need it. 

Gross National Happiness - despite everything

This post is about the world debut of Gross National Happiness measures, or GNH, to take the place of those tired Gross National Product figures, or GNP. 

GNP is used to monitor manufacturing economy activity in industrial societies but includes financial gains.  GNP led to managing of countries using information that has horribly distorted the overall picture.  And bear in mind that all forms of ignorance are unnecessary.

Perhaps now that rich donors have a complete stranglehold on what is taught under the term, economics, in universities, and the credibility of economics grads is at an all-time low, it's time to allow economic academics to briefly give up on ignorance and recognize the obvious. 

Our academics appear to be adopting new sets of indicators that look at fulfillment.  But this could be some of that ol' time tokenism.  Tokenism is the best way to suppress true reform and prevent our chances of adapting to reality.  You simply ensure that you can say, "Oh, we already have a department in place that's in charge of that.  (But we don't listen to what they say, and we don't give them money so they won't threaten the existing system which, let's face it, our donors ensure we continue to do well within.)"

But something really is going on.

The French government began publishing happiness indicators in 2009. 

The Office for National Statistics in the UK has a program in place to measure national well-being at the same time that prime minister, Cameron, is touring East Asia to promote sales of weapons made in the UK.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD, is drawing up guidelines for members (mostly finance ministers of 'developed countries') to collect “well-being data”.

Daniel Kahneman, a psychologist who won the Nobel Prize in economics, is drawing up measures of “subjective well-being”. His group is financed by the Obama administration.  (We might wonder, "When is well-being not subjective?"  So look for answers, coming soon.)

The first World Happiness Report was published recently, commissioned for a United Nations Conference on Happiness, under the auspices of the UN General Assembly.  There's input from Columbia University’s Earth Institute, and two happiness experts, Richard Layard of the London School of Economics and John Helliwell of the University of British Columbia.

The happiest people are in countries in northern Europe:

Denmark,

Norway,

Finland,

Netherlands. 

Countries with the most misery are on the African continent:

Togo,

Benin,

Central African Republic,

Sierra Leone.

At the UN Headquarters in New York City on April 2, 2012 the country of Bhutan hosted 600 participants from governments, academia, civil society and religious bodies.  The conference focused on Bhutan's new economic paradigm. 

Prime Minister of Bhutan, Jigmi Y. Thinley: "It is now the intention of the meeting on April 2, (2012) to bring together people from around the world – ... we are looking at the launching of the initiative for the creation of a sustainability-based paradigm comprising of, basically, four dimensions. These are: 

1. well-being and happiness;
2. ecological sustainability; 
3. fair distribution; and
4. efficient use of the increasingly scarce resources."
   

The conference outcomes will inform negotiations related to Rio+20, the global conference on sustainable development in June of 2012.  Bhutan will present the revised plan.

Bhutan is a Himalayan kingdom.  But it's no Shangri-La.  There's wealth and then some estimates peg a quarter of the population of 700,000 as living on less than US$1.25 a day.  70 percent of the population is without electricity.  

It's a country which experiences large, ongoing problems with Nepalese migrants.  It borders on Assam (India) where there is political unrest, and Tibet, which was violently reabsorbed into China.  So the country remains rocky in more ways than one.

And in 2014, Bhutan will go further and hold a conference at home aimed at developing a new GNH-based agreement equivalent to the Bretton Woods Agreement to establish post- WWII global economic controls.  See previous blog post for the significance of the Bretton Woods Agreement and why it fell apart.

Note:  Coverage of Bhutan's conference at the UN was also given by:

Kuensel (Bhutanese news site)

Matthieu Ricard's Blog 

The Guardian

The Economist

New York Times

The Washington Post

CNN

as well as Canada’s CBC and Global News, plus Le Monde, and Time. 

Have you Organized as a Collaborative Village yet?

Today I attended the first in a new round of meetings about noise in our neighbourhood.  We live in a relatively quiet residential neighbourhood and found it alarming that an office space leasing business that encourages collaborations among companies with a 'social mission' would be so noisy.  Everything looked good when we heard that they were all about turning everyday challenges into opportunities to improve our communities and our planet.

However, business is business, and no doubt part of the plan was making money by renting out the main floor for parties.  Hey why not loud parties, as they can be more fun?  And what if these go on until 2 a.m.?  What about cars parked in the lane-way in-front of neighbour's garage doors?

Special occasion permits and liquor licenses are secured from the City.  And it's 'Party on!' with scant regard for people trying to get some shut eye.  It's all about that bottom line, improving communities, staying alive, and being socially innovative.   

At today's meeting we recognized this was no-longer about explaining our concerns to the new business in our midst.  This was going to be about ensuring they were denied permits.  We simply want to shut those noisy parties down.

It was not until schmoozing around the cheese platters after the meeting that I realized we could have been creative.   

Doh!  We could have been proactive!  

Why be constantly reactive, on the defensive or offensive for whenever a new crisis arises?  In addition to gearing up for another confrontation, we could also be looking to partner with this, and other businesses in the neighbourhood.

They need us on their side.  And in a transition to a creative economy, maybe we need them to be on our side too.  Maybe not the retirees in the group, but the kids, youth and self-employed people could benefit from help in becoming arts-based professionals.  (See previous blog for more on how economies evolve.)

  

The challenge for a group of neighbours to partner with businesses is that we need a creative and aspirational vision for the area.  (What could the neighbourhood be like with more beauty, enrichment and convenience at our doorsteps?  How do we attract more grace into our lives?)

Out of the vision comes a mission, or how to we make the vision real.  Tumbling out of the mission will come a series of major objectives, or the main aspects of how we are going to be pro-active in helping ourselves and others.

Businesses are clear on what they are working to achieve.  Ask the company chiefs what their objectives are and they will have an up-to-date list of reasons why all their people came together and get paid each month. 

So in preparing to partner, we address the challenges of coming up with a neighbourhood vision.  We would not be the first neighbourhood around here to do such a thing.  In fact you could say we have been lagging behind.  See http://glenmurray.onmpp.ca/pages.aspx?id=community_planning 

A new way to get things done

Either before or after our little rumble with the new business in the area, I will propose a Collaborative Village model of organizing.  This generates income and support for people willing to contribute to improving society.  In fact, I'm blogging right now, so why don't I suggest it here, and email a few of the neighbours?

A Collaborative Village secures suitable, under-utilized space for various aspects of a neighbourhood campus.  This is for education that prepares youth and entrepreneurs for the transition to a creative economy.  Studies will be within areas like creativity, community, compassion, and entrepreneurship.

And there's a big role for semi-retired elders to play.  They can help younger people start initiatives, becoming more practical and realistic.  And neighbourhood elders stand to learn a lot from today's youth.

A Collaborative Village looks at local TV and internet sites for production and support for our neighbourhood campus.  Let's face it.  The various levels of government are not going to be building large numbers of new universities and colleges.  So we can guarantee that people who need the necessary re-education won't get it unless the whole neighbouhood understands how it stands to benefit from working together.

A Collaborative Village sets up local collaborative hubs for self-employed people who can benefit from working together.  And we all need a break from all this commuting that chokes our lungs and stresses the ecology.

So who wants to coordinate a village?  

Self-employed people who are coaches, workshop facilitators, mediators, healing professionals, counselors and agents are always looking for new clients.  And nothing beats 'word-of-mouth' referrals! 

New and affordable opportunities for promoting services provide these kinds of entrepreneurs with real and immediate benefits.  I know I would like a neighbourhood rooting for me because of doing good work for the local community.  Why wouldn't others? 

Is coordinating a village possible?

It was not possible to have all this extra enrichment of our lives before the internet.  There were few options in terms of post-secondary education but to build a new campus.

People needed to publish expensive text books, because we had no way to learn and bring our knowledge together like we can today, using a wiki.  We had no opportunities to publish materials on-line as a neighbourhood - say on websites or blogs.

We didn't have on-line tools for business collaborations which allowed for our individual principles and values, until www.bettermeans.org was freely available to everyone.  And there were few options for local film and TV production and distribution, that is, before phones were manufactured with built-in cameras, and www.YouTube.com came along.

Now, with the Internet and on-line tools, coordination of a collaborative village has become very do-able.

What other models are there to consider?

The business investment area (BIA) model started on Bloor West Village in Toronto and is now in use in over 1,000 cities internationally.  However, people who run BIA's don't always live in the area, and often don't care what goes on in an area after their businesses close for the evening.

A BIA will react if something impacts their business, but they won't necessarily be proactive in terms of enriching the non-commercial areas of a neighbourhood, say residential streets, or other streets off the main street.  

You can also consider a resident's association model, where there is great socializing and occasional coming together around problems and opportunities. But nothing that we could consider as a response to the effects of globalization, and the subsequent economic transition we are going through.  It just seems to me that extreme change on the planet demands more than - the same ol', same ol'.

The residents` association in our area is wonderful, highly effective, and we have an innovative and fully engaged city councillor.  This may not be the case in your area.  Note that education and coordination for working a post-industrial economy is not part of their mission.

Also consider a ‘Friends of the Area’ model of volunteering, open to anyone.  You see this around parks or lane-ways that a city can no longer afford to maintain.  It can be fun in the short-term but it won't continue to bring people together unless there's some financial benefit.

As we move beyond some of the social conditioning on which we were raised, we see how we're all inherently creative.

There are many options that we can research, share and explore.  This is how people have adapted and moved forward throughout history.

Vision and Mission for Today - West and East interpenetrate

The vision for society is no-longer a single statement or goal that hopefully everyone understands, and interprets the same way.  We no longer need to 'get with the program'.

We can now treat the economy less like an engine of growth along a track to some inevitable destination we're not sure about, and more like development of a society-wide ecology that brings balance, ease and sanity to our lives.

What I am sharing with you next, I feel is very important.  It`s something that our civilization has only begun to grasp at the beginning of 2012.  

Now the Internet is up and operational, the vision for society has become mutual fulfillment. 

We achieve this vision through coordination.  Therefore the mission for society is to become fully coordinated.  

The specifics of what mutual fulfillment looks like differs from individual to individual, and changes as each individual moves from situation to situation.  The Internet allows us to update and share in a timely way, what we feel will fulfill us and become our next contribution to society.

There is a word for something that each individual understands in a different way, at different times.  It`s called a symbol. Artists are experts in the use of symbols.  Therefore, what governments are calling arts-based professionals are here to help in our new social environment.

As individuals we create the space for a new culture and a way of educating ourselves in order to contribute within today`s economy.  Our society adopts the symbol of mutual fulfillment and the practical mission of fully coordinating our projects.   


We have been adapting to become the change we wished to see in the world.  We`re moving beyond occupation by an inner empire of linear timelines and singular exceptional progress.  The empire is quickly super-ceded through ecological thought and balanced outlooks. 

Thank you Gandhi.  Thank you India.  Thank you art.

Knowledge-based Economy?

Strategic notions of a knowledge-based economy in `developed countries` require all levels of government to put in place policies that ensure citizens get paid for their knowledge.  


Realize that when governments ask us to submit ideas free-of-charge we limit the quality of input as well as the possibilities of some kind of economic knowledge recovery.  Then we could spend in our neighbourhoods and strengthen local economies.

Knowledge is embodied in each individual.  Supposedly it's lodged inside each person's neurology and muscle fascia.  But who knows where knowledge extends?  


Officials at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD, have been pumping out ideas of a knowledge economy for some time now.  It's an international institution run by unelected officials that use ideas about economics to help governments tackle the economic, social and governance challenges of a globalized economy.  Ministers of industry and finance subscribe to these ideas and dutifully pay their membership dues each year.  The notions of the OECD result in national strategies that have very real consequences in all of our lives.  www.oecd.org.

I've never heard of economies other than those derived from creating less demand on limited resources, or less need for action.  Who knew we are strategically planning our competitive stance as societies based on economies derived within the accretion and rearrangement of bioplasma in brain cells and electronic impulses in body cells?



If we want to progress through economies of knowledge then would we be well advised to drop ideas of competition and work together internationally, much like how learning progresses through sharing of academic studies and research.


We need to change as individuals so we're able to produce the items and services that contribute to whatever kind of society we want to live in.  The specific nature of your ideal society differs from that of other individuals based on cultural outlooks, values, education, and experiences.


It would be tragic if government talk of competitiveness tended to distract us from making our unique contribution and fulfilling our unique needs and aspirations.  In economic crises are soothing words delaying the need for personal introspection and the prospect of shared  adaptations?