The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Worth a look.
1. Rising social tensions in Middle East and Africa
2. Widening income disparities
3. Persistent structural unemployment
4. Intensifyng cyber threats
5. Inaction on climate change
6. Diminishing confidence in economic policies
7. A lack of values in leadership
8. The expanding middle class in Asia
9. The growing importance of megacities
10. The rapid spread of misinformation online
Here is an excellent essay by SR reader, author, and, physician Larry Dossey. I am happy to publish it because it reflects my own views. I encourage you to get Larry's new book: One Mind.
7 Billion Minds, or One?
LARRY DOSSEY, MD – The Huffington Post
Source: ONE MIND: How Our Individual Mind Is Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why It Matters by Larry Dossey, MD. Carlsbad, CA: Hay House; 2013
“I felt there was no separation between anything. I felt as if I were united with everything, and it was wonderful!” This recent report from a reader is a universal experience of people who are concerned with psychological and spiritual growth. This sense of connectedness is not fantasy, but is being affirmed by recent advances in consciousness research.
But where our mind is concerned, we've been more concerned with disunity than unity. During the 20th century we took the mind apart — the conscious, the unconscious, the pre- and sub-conscious, the collective unconscious, the superego, ego, id, and so on. When we look through the other end of the telescope, however, we can see a different pattern. We can make out what I call the One Mind — not a subdivision of consciousness, but the overarching, inclusive dimension to which all the mental components of all individual minds, past, present, and future belong. I capitalize the One Mind to distinguish it from the single, one mind that each individual appears to possess.
This is not a philosophical gambit, but is based on human experience and actual scientific experiments. Consider studies in which human neurons are separated into two batches and sealed in so-called Faraday containers that block physical communication. When one batch is stimulated with a laser, the distant batch of neurons registers the same changes at the same time.
The individual vs. the planned society
At the outbreak of World War 2, the Council on Foreign Relations began making plans for the post-war world.
The question it posed was this: could America exist as a self-sufficient nation, or would it have to go outside its borders for vital resources?
Predictably, the answer was: imperial empire.
The US would not only need to obtain natural resources abroad, it would have to embark on endless conquest to assure continued access.
The CFR, of course, wasn’t just some think tank. It was connected to the highest levels of US government, through the State Department. A front for Rockefeller interests, it actually stood above the government.
Behind all its machinations was the presumption that planned societies were the future of the planet. Not open societies.
Through wars, clandestine operations, legislation, treaties, manipulation of nations’ debt, control of banks and money supplies, countries could be turned into “managed units.”
Increasingly, the populations of countries would be regulated and directed and held in thrall to the State.
Posted: 05 Nov 2013 07:19 AM PST
Civil Liberties: “…and all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent.” On this Fifth of November, the address from V is more accurate and relevant than ever:
…so let’s take a moment to reflect on the fact that liberty and freedoms of speech and expression are more than words; they are perspectives.
The triple bottom line — people, profits, planet — is a recent business concept. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
1. People. The safety of people is threatened by a) vulnerable cyber infrastructure. See the National Geographic video American Blackout; and b) inequality leading to lower standards of living for the middle class. See the recent books by Hedrick Smith, Joseph Stiglitz, and Jeffrey Sachs.
2. Profits. See the various films and books on the financial crisis. For example, in the book Thirteen Bankers Simon Johnson, former chief economist at the IMF, and James Kwak say that “too big to fail is too big.” Yet the banks are getting bigger and they have great influence in writing the laws on banking regulation.
3. Planet. I had heard that sea level might rise by 3 feet by the end of the century. The National Geographic program Earth Under Water suggests perhaps as much as 16 feet in 100 years and another 16 feet in the next 100 years. See .
These numbers may be high. However, what actions should we be taking in order to minimize the problem and to prepare for whatever sea level rise occurs?
I think systems science, and reflexivity theory, would be helpful in understanding these phenomena.
Continue reading “Stuart Umpleby: The Triple Bottom Line & Current Challenges”
Playing the Great Game with Intelligence
Authority versus the People
Introduction
Playing “chess” authoritatively with the People
Classic openings in the Great Game
Recognizing patterns in the Great Game
Identifying patterns of moves with respect to “intelligence”
Recognizing patterns in the Greater Game with Otherness
Interplay of black and white in the Greater Game
Experimental integration of a Chinese framing of the dynamics of the Greater Game
Identifying a pattern of transformational transactions within the Greater Game
In quest of a meta-pattern of transactional games
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