Fields of Influence: “… as I’ve thought more about organizational or institutional cultures, I have come to appreciate the extent to which changes in mental models or patterns of behavior may reflect procedures that are invisible to most actors. Individuals think and behave differently depending on whether the culture of their organization is flat or hierarchical; whether it mandates the same requirements for all members, or is flexible and invidiualized; whether it regards cognate organizations as mortal enemies or as potential collaborators, or ignores peer organizations altogether. Should the organization change with respect to one ore more of those parameters of institutional culture, members may well find that they think and act differently even if nothing has been explicitly stated, nothing new has been mandated. Of course, the psychologist within me points out that such changes are difficult to effect, difficult to sustain, and come about only if dedicated individuals strive to initiate them.” (Preface, xiii, Changing Minds) i.e. DE, Noticing and understanding how we are part of a web of networks that fluctuate and move in response to changes, anywhere in the system, is key to everything that happens next.

Role of the Artist: “Often artists are the first to scout out terrain that is eventually explored in a more explicit way by scholars.” (pg. 3, Changing Minds) i.e. DE, Seeks to protect and elevate the role of Artists, Indigenous and HSPs in roles of governance, design, and education – influencing how we do business.

Body Intelligence/Mind Intelligence: “One position in psychology holds that there is just a single language of the mind – this language even has a name, mentalese. Proponents of mentalese believe that all thought, all mental computation, takes place in this singular language… like the language being used here [written text]. Most of us report a generous supply of visual mental imagery, and many of us, including such estimable thinkers as Albert Einstein, report that vital thinking occurs in imagery: in Einstein’s phrase, “of the visual, muscular, and body type.” (pg. 28, Changing Minds) i.e. DE, the focus and elevation of Rational intelligence (knowing) along with the extraction of its own complex inner flesh-poetry has excluded the imagination, forcing artists and people of imagination to have to fight to be heard, and included, in important decisions that affect all of society.

Value is time-specific: “Spurning an excessive dependence on psychometric instruments, I instead developed a view of intelligence that was deliberately multidisciplinary. I considered evidence from anthropology – which abilities have been valued and fostered in various cultures during various eras; evolution – how traits have evolved over the millennia in different species; and the study of “individual differences” – particularly evidence from unusual populations such as autistic individuals, prodigies, and youngsters with specific learning disabilities. Perhaps most crucially, I collated evidence from brain study: what we know about the development and breakdown of the brain and the ways in which different regions of the cortex effect different mental computations… As a result of this interdisciplinary investigation, I arrived at a definition of intelligence and a provisional ilst of intelligences. I define an intelligence as a biopsychological potential to process specific forms of information in certain kinds of ways. Human beings have evolved diverse information-processing capacities – I term these “intelligences” – that allow them to solve problems or to fashion products. To be considered “intelligent,” these products and solutions must be valued in at least one culture or community… The last assertion of “being valued” is important. Rather than claiming that intelligence is the same in all times and places, I recognize that human beings value different skills and capacities at various times and under varying circumstances. Indeed inventions like the printing press or the computer can alter, quite radically, the abilities that are indeed of importance (or no longer of importance) in a culture. And so individuals are not equally “Smart” or “dumb” under all circumstances; rather they have different intelligences that may be variously cherished or disregarded under different circumstance.” (pg. 29, Changing Minds) i.e. DE, Learning how to have fluidity between our three WOK is the key to being able to meet different situations in ways that help us thrive as a species.

Diversity of Intelligences: “I was arguing that (1) intelligence is pluralistic; it includes fashioning products as well as solving problems, and (2) it is defined neither on an a priori basis, nor on test performances, but rather on the basis of what happens to be valued at a particular historical time in a particular cultural context. While I am pleased that my theory has had some impact, I can also say that I have assembled a massive amount of data about how difficult it is to change people’s minds about what intelligence is (a concept), how it operates (a theory), and how to assess it (a skill). (pg. 30, Changing Minds) i.e. DE, We can find out exactly what our strengths, and our particular leanings and inclinations are by studying RES and seeing where we most ‘light up’ in response.

Sensory Knowing: “BODILY-KINESTHETIC INTELLIGENCE. In some ways analogous to spatial intelligence is bodily-kinesthetic intelligence: the capacity to solve problems or to create products using your whole body, or parts of your body, like your hand or your mouth. There is little doubt tat this form of intelligence was crucial in human prehistory, where it has sometimes been described as “tool” or “technological intelligence. To survive as hunters, fishermen, gatherers, or farmers, to be able to make clothing, build shelters, prepare food, and defend themselves against enemies, our predecessors relied on skilled us of the body… there are artisans, craftspeople, artists, surgeons, and athletes who still depend directly on their bodies in order to carry out their wrk. In complementary fashion, there are those who make use of bodily imagery and metaphors in their conceptualization of sundry topics.” ((pg. 35 – 36 –  Changing Minds) i.e. DE, Understands that our Sensory Knowing is far more than motor skills, it is the receptor and communicator for other realms of consciousness, in particular Planetary Consciousness, without it we are just meat, and bones, disassociated from the flesh of life and it’s inherent, embedded, psychic powers of communication and information sharing.

Flow: “Not only is everything changing, but all is flux. That is to say, what is, is the process of becoming itself… On this stream, one may see an ever-changing pattern of vortices, ripples, waves, splashes, etc., which evidently have no independent existence… arising and vanishing in the total process of the flow… implies only a relative independence or autonomy of behavior.” (pg. 61, Wholeness & The Implicate Order) i.e. DE, Tenet 1: Nothing is Fixed.

Knowledge: “One has to say that knowledge, too, is a process, an abstraction from the one total flux… it is very difficult not to fall into the almost universal tendency to treat our knowledge as a set of… fixed truths… if all is flux, then every part of knowledge must have its being as an abstracted form in the process of becoming, so that there can be no absolutely invariant elements of knowledge.” (pg. 62-63, Wholeness & The Implicate Order) i.e. DE, knowledge arises or, Tenet 2: Energy waits to be noticed.’

Organic Systemic Connection: “the central underlying theme has been the unbroken wholeness of the totality of existence as an undivided flowing movement without borders…” (pg 218, Wholeness & The Implicate Order) i.e. DE, we arise through, and because of, each other.

Implicate Reality: “… our notions of order are pervasive, for not only do they involve our thinking but also our senses, our feelings, our intuitions, our physical movement, our relationships with other people and with society as a whole… one may say that everything is enfolded into everything…. the actual order itself… this enfoldment and unfoldment takes place not only in the movement of th EM field, but also in that of other fields, such as the electronic, protonic, sound waves, etc… known… and, as yet unknown, that may be discovered later.” (pg. 224-225 Wholeness & The Implicate Order) i.e. DE, our shared fields of reality and influence allow, and enable, novelty to arise by our energetic informational fields’ local, and non-local, communion.

Ways of Knowing: “… thought is not merely the intellectual activity; rather it is one connected process which includes feeling and the body… the thoughts, the body, the emotions and also other people, are all part of one system. That’s the crucial point… if it is one system, you deal with all the parts.” (pg. 42-43, Thought As A System), i.e. DE, There are three ways of knowing, Rational, Emotional, Sensory – we need to understand how all three work together in order to have stability and longevity, as a species.

Relationship to our surroundings: “We cannot know… the lived experience of a grass snake or a snapping turtle; we cannot readily experience the precise sensations of a hummingbird sipping nectar from a flower or a rubber tree soaking up sunlight… Our experience may indeed be a variant of these other modes of sensitivity; never-the-less… we cannot know, or can never be sure that we know, what they know… To humankind, these Others are purveyors of secrets, carriers of intelligence that we ourselves often need… Our strictly human heavens and hells have only recently been abstracted from the sensuous world that surrounds us, from this more-than human realm that abounds in its own winged intelligences… The ‘body’… is not yet a mechanical object in such cultures, but is a magical entity, the mind’s own sensuous aspect and, at death, the body’s decomposition into soil, worms, and dust can only signify the gradual reintegration of one’s ancestors and elders into the living landscape, from which all, too, are born.” (pg 14-15, Spell Of The Sensuous) i.e. DE, we have intelligence and knowing that connects us far beyond the rational, that connects us to a deeper knowing – and we can access that part of ourselves through our own design; the Inner RES, in order to become informed again by an inherent wisdom that we need to return to now, more than ever.

Fields of Influence and Sensory Knowing: “The Body’s silent conversation with things… all of the creativity and free0ranging mobility that we have come to associate with the human intellect is, in truth, an elaboration, or recapitulation, of a profound creativity already underway at the most immediate level of sensory perception. The sensing body is not a programmed machine but an active and open form, continually improvising its relation to things and to the world. The body’s actions and engagements are never wholly determinate, since they must ceaselessly adjust themselves to a world and a terrain that is itself continually shifting. If the body were truly a set of closed or predetermined mechanisms, it could never come into genuine contact with anything outside of itself, could never perceptive anything really new, could never be genuinely startled or surprised.” (pg 49, Spell Of The Sensuous) i.e. DE, the human body is a portal and a source of expression for relationship. DE is the arising of novelty when two or more elements meet – the body is always one of those two, or more, elements, and connects us directly to our innate knowing – wherein lies our innate understanding of the difference between right action and wrong action.

Inner vs. Outer Life: “One of the problems today is that we are not well acquainted with the literature of the spirit. We’re interested in the news of the day and the problems of the hour. It used to be that the university campus was a kind of hermetically sealed-off area where the news of the day did not impinge upon your attention to the inner life and to the magnificent human heritage we have in our great tradition… When you get to be older, and the concerns of the day have all been attended to, and you turn to the inner life – well, if you don’t know where ti is or what it is, you’ll be sorry.” (pg. 3 The Power Of Myth) i.e. DE, It is time to come back into resonance with our evolutionary path, back in touch with the magic, back in touch with the sacred.

Feeling our aliveness!: “People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our own innermost being and reality, sot hat we can actually feel the rapture of being alive. That’s what it’s all finally about, and that’s what these clues help us to find within ourselves.” [Moyers: “Myths are clues?] “Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.” (pg. 5, The Power Of Myth) i.e. DE, Finding the magic starts with understanding what we are made of, our Inner Infinity and how it connects and resides in ‘Outer’ Infinity.

Doors open that we didn’t know were there!: “[Moyers: “Do you ever have this senses when youa re following your bliss… of being helped by hidden hands?] “All the time. It is miraculous. I even have a superstition that has grown on me as the result of invisible hands coming all the time – namely, that if you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in te field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you. I say, follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.” (pg. 120, The Power of Myth) i.e. DE, Taking the time to learn how the universe actually talks to us is exactly how we enter into the realms of connection and serendipity that make our lives magical instead of mundane.

Nature, Energy, Goddess: “The Goddess as Nature: In most mythologies, whether primal or from the high civilizations, deities are personifications of the energies of nature. The energies are primary, while the deities are secondary. Now, the energies of nature are present in the outer world, but also inside ourselves, because we are particles of nature. So when you are meditating on a deity, you are meditating on powers of your own spirit and psyche, and on powers that are also out there. One finds in practically all the religious traditions of the world (with a few exceptions) that the aim is for the individual to put himself into accord with nature, with his nature, and that’s both physical and psychological health. These are what in our traditions are called the nature religions and the deities are not final terms; they are references to spiritual energies. So when mythology is properly understood, the object that is revered and venerated is not a final term; the object venerated is a personification of an energy that dwells within the individual, and the reference of mythology has two modes – that of consciousness and that of the spiritual potentials within the individual.” (pg. 14, Goddess, Mysteries of the Feminine Divine) i.e. DE, Introduces Nature’s knowing, Planetary Consciousness as a non-denominational spiritual – and yet fleshy – reality. Seeing and understanding her sentience, given that we are embedded in the nature of Nature, allows us to open up to the greater possibilities of connection, reverence, right relationship, and magic.

The Goddess in Nature and YOU: “One of the most interesting and simple ways to get this message is from the mythologies of the Navaho. Every single detail of the desert in which they live has been deified, and the land has become a holy land because it is revelatory of mythological entities. When you recognize the mythological aspect of Mother Nature, you have turned nature itself into an icon, into a holy picture, so that wherever you go, you’re getting the message that the divine power is working for you… Modern culture has desanctified our landscape and we think that to go to the holy land we have to go to Jerusalem. The Navaho would say, “This is it, and you’re it.” I’m talking now in terms of mythologies… Meditation has to do with finding the Christ in you, finding the energy in you.” (pg. 19, Goddess, Mysteries of the Feminine Divine) i.e. DE, Walking with the eyes of a God/Goddess reveals the sanctity of life in its interconnected nature and allows us to feel at home, and in prayer, anywhere we go. This applies to aetheists as much as anyone who follows a religion.

Goddess is Everywhere: “On the simplest level, then, the Goddess is the Earth. On the next, archaic, level she is the surrounding sky. On the philosophical level, she is Maya, the forms of sensibility, the limitations of the senses that enclose us so that all of our thinking takes place within Her bounds – she is IT. The Goddess is the ultimate boundary of consciousness in the world of time and space.” (pg. 19, Goddess, Mysteries of the Feminine Divine) i.e. DE, Recognizing who we are, and what we ultimately belong to in our infinite embodied consciousness is something that can bring reverence to any weary soul.

Becoming Adept at Being your own Hero: “It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward, in counteraction to those other constant human fantasies that tend to tie it back. In fact, it may well be that the very high incidence of neuroticism among ourselves follows from the decline among us of such effective spiritual aid. We remain fixated to the un-exorcised images of our infancy, and hence disinclined to the necessary passages of our adulthood. In the United States there is even a pathos of inverted emphasis: the goal is not to grow old, but to remain young.”  (pg. 11, The Hero with a thousand faces) i.e. DE, We have opposing forces pulling and pushing us – when we become cognisant and adept at how we function as energy, we become masters that can go beyond trends into the stratosphere of what’s possible.

Becoming YOU: “The hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations to the generally valid, normally human forms. Such a one’s visions, ideas, and inspirations come pristine from the primary springs of human life and thought. Hence they are eloquent, not of the present, disintegrating society and psyche, but of the unquenched source through which society is reborn.”(pg. 20, The Hero with a thousand faces) i.e. DE, Our ‘pristine state’ is attainable with the self-awareness that we have available to us when we engage with the Universe that we love.

Are you following your destiny? “Refusal of the Call: Often in actual life, and not infrequently in the myths and popular tales, we encounter the dull case of the call unanswered; for it is always possible to turn the ear to other interests. Refusal of the summons converts the adventure into its negative. Walled in boredom, hard work, or “culture,” the subject loses the power of significant affirmative action and becomes a victim to be saved. His flowering world becomes a wasteland of dry stones and his life eels meaningless – even though, like King Minos, he may through titanic effort succeed in building an empire of renown. Whatever house he builds, it will be a house of death: a labyrinth of cyclopean walls to hide from him his Minotaur. All he can do is create new problems for himself and await the gradual approach of his disintegration.” (pg. 59, The Hero with a thousand faces) i.e. DE, Learning how to hear the Universe’s guidance, insight and suggestions for our ‘right life’ is the difference between telling ourselves we are small, and living a small life, and recognizing our greatness and living a generous life.

Updating Scientific paradigms helps us evolve: “The image of the cosmos must change with the development of the mind and knowledge; otherwise, the mythic statement is lost, and man becomes dissociated from the very basis of his own religious experience. Doubt comes in, and so forth. You must remember: all of the great traditions, and little traditions, in their own time were scientifically correct. That is to say, they were correct in terms of the scientific image of that age. So there must be a scientifically validated image. Now you know what has happened: our scientific field has separated itself from the religious field, or vice-versa. … This divorce this is a fatal thing, and a very unfortunate thing, and a totally unnecessary thing.” (Mythology and the Individual (1997), Lecture 1A, 13:45) i.e. DE, It is time to update what we know, not just about the Cosmos ‘outside’ of us, but about the Cosmos ‘inside’ of us.

Becoming autonomous – growing into an adult with imagination: “Marx teaches us to blame society for our frailties, Freud teaches us to blame our parents, and astrology teaches us to blame the universe. The only place to look for blame is within: you didn’t have the guts to bring up your full moon and live the life that was your potential.” (pg. 104, Pathways to Bliss, 2004)  i.e. DE, Learning who you are, how you are, how you can change is how you access both your boldness – your guts – your unique skillset, and your destiny.

System Properties: “… an interconnected set of elements that is coherently organized in a way that achieves something. If you look at that definition closely… a system must consist of three kinds of things: elements, interconnections, and a function or purpose… it’s a good idea to stop dissecting out elements and to start looking for the interconnections, the relationships that hold the elements together.” (p 11+13, Thinking In Systems) i.e. DE, our existence is an expression, and experience, of being in relationship to all life – it is almost impossible to say where one truth ends and another begins, where one boundary defines, and another connects.

Complexity of System Drivers: “Governments need information about kinds and quantities of water pollution before they can create sensible regulations… information about resources, incentives, and consequences is necessary too… If information-based relationships are hard to see, functions or purposes are even harder… The best way to deduce the system’s purpose is to watch for a while to see how the system behaves… System purposes… are not necessarily those intended by any single actor within the system. In fact, one of the most frustrating aspects of systems is that the purposes of subunits may add up to an overall behavior no one wants… any of those sub-purposes could come into conflict with the overall purpose.” (pg 14-16, Thinking In Systems) i.e. DE, When our three WOK are not communicating, Rational thought can be a self-serving system, Sensory knowing a reactive system, and Emotional knowing a motivational system – we have all three operating, with sub-drivers of belief systems that act as systemic subunits, undermining the good of the whole system in service of its smaller parts. More systemic thinking would enable greater holistic problem-solving.

Paradigm Shifts: “A change in purpose changes a system profoundly.” (pg 17, Thinking In Systems) i.e. DE, what if our purpose, right now, as a species, is to evolve how we know and how we create societies, paradigms and operating systems? Might it help to know how we work, in order to do that systematically, together?

Feedback Loops: “Systems of information-feedback control are fundamental to all life and human endeavor, from the slow pace of biological evolution to the launching of the latest space satellite… Everything we do as individuals, as an industry, or as a society is done in the context of an information-feedback system. Jay W. Forrester”(pg 25, Thinking In Systems) i.e. DE, Our Cosmos talks to us all the time, giving us information so that we might notice places we can learn to let go, do things differently, take in more information. All of this helps us make better decisions and also helps us with our evolutionary purpose/process.

Humility in Systems: “Stay a Learner – Systems thinking has taught me to trust my intuition more and my figuring-out rationality less, to lean on both as much as I can, but still to be prepared for surprises. Working with systems, on the computer, in nature, among people, in organizations, constantly reminds me of how incomplete my mental models are, how complex the world is, and how much I don’t know.” (pg 25, Thinking In Systems) i.e. DE, We are at just the right time to take on board that it is time to learn a new way of thinking, one that is humble and open to becoming more intelligent in new, inclusive, ways; allowing Sensory and Emotional to be as important as Rational, and to allow Rational to expand into a fuller, fleshier, whole.

The future, in systems: “Error-embracing is the condition for learning. It means seeking and using – and sharing – information about what went wrong with what you expected or hoped would go right Both error embracing and living with high levels of uncertainty emphasize our vulnerabilities from ourselves as well as others. But… to be the kind of person who truly accepts his responsibility… requires knowledge of and access to self aer beyond that possessed by most people in this society.” (pg 181, Thinking In Systems) i.e. DE, Novelty arises when we let it. When we fight our vulnerability and our learning edges, we simultaneously fight progress and socio-political development.

On Living a real life:  “What those old codgers saw in Cobb was an elusive quality – a spiritual hunger to learn from a lived life, a desire to hear from someone who’s been there and knows what it’s like up ahead. I see this hunger everywhere I go. It quivers in people who feel alone in their art. It’s a hunger for conversation, for soul guides, for someone to help us through the crossroads and continue on our journey. It’s the longing for a spark to be ignited and recognized.” (pg 88, Stoking the Creative Fires, Cousineau) i.e. DE, The process of becoming must be met with gravitas and courage, fear and curiosity. But overall, it must be met; DE can help us learn how to do that in ways that both suit, and reveal, our uniqueness.

Recognizing the value of novelty: “I do what I can, whenever I can, to fan that flame…”The shot will only go smoothly,” The Master said, “when it takes the archer himself by surprise.” That has become my own standard for art: is it startling?” (pg 88, Stoking the Creative Fires, Cousineau) i.e. DE, defined as the arising of novelty, accepts this truth that we ourselves must evolve in order for the Universe to continue to have a place for us… and us, for each other..

Courage in the new: “You can’t be sure where the thread is going to lead but you can be sure you have to follow it.” (pg 82, Stoking the Creative Fires, Cousineau) i.e. DE, three qualities required for discovery: Curiosity, Creativity & Courage.

Reverie: “That’s the beauty of reverie. It allows your mind to meander until the truth outs… we actually seem to be defined by our reveries, even created by them.” (pg 43-44, Stoking the Creative Fires, Cousineau) i.e. DE, Reverie is one of the gifts of our imagination and rational knowing – we need this in order to access numinous space, where our own soul’s connection to the Universal soul resides.

Creativity and your soul: “Your imagination holds news of eternity. Inspiration comes and goes, creativity is the result of practice. There is a gold thread from your soul to your real work. Hold onto it for dear life. There is a force within you that breathes divine fire and brings your work to life. Honor it at all costs. Give us something the world’s never seen before: you.”(pg 37, Stoking the Creative Fires, Cousineau) i.e. DE, it is the journey paved for you to walk on to discover who you are, why you are, and what you are doing here… what you have come to contribute. 

Yes, you matter! “I’m trying to tell you something important here. The creative urge matters. Stories matter. Images matter. It matters that you were born with a genius a guiding spirit, a daimon that may know more about your destiny than you do… the creative journey is a search for the deeply real. It’s a fiery attempt ot make real some idea, some vision that is uncomfortably unreal until it’s created… Your work will never be real – realized – until you are.” (pg 35, Stoking the Creative Fires, Cousineau) i.e. DE, Your journey starts here, and it starts now. DE is just the beginning, the gateway, to your next life.

Creativity: “Creativity is an act of unique communication, evidence of your soul’s move from inspiration to perspiration, from the invocation “You must change your life” to the charge “You must create your life… The object or the performance is a fiery response to that problem pressing on your soul.” (pg 102-103, Stoking the Creative Fires, Cousineau) i.e. DE, Finding the triadic RES allows you to feel, sense and create the great things that reside in you. 

States of Consciousness: “Robert Henr wrote in his ambrosial book The Art Spirit “The object is not to make art, but to be in the wonderful state, which makes art inevitable.” (pg 164, Stoking the Creative Fires, Cousineau) i.e. DE, We can change states of consciousness without drugs, but with knowledge, and will. Where we are at any moment, is always up to us.

Shifting from Materialism to Energy as measurement: “Materialism as a philosophy keeps evolving as scientific ideas about physical reality change within science. The boundaries of the “normal” are not fixed, but shift according to changes in scientific orthodoxies. In the course of the twentieth century, materialism “transcend itself” through physics, as the philosopher of science Karl Popper remarked. Matter is no longer the fundamental reality, as it was for old-style materialism. Fields and energy are now more fundamental than matter. The ultimate particles of matter have become vibrations of energy within fields… The powers of the mind, hitherto ignored by physics, are the new scientific frontier.” (pg. 4, The Sense Of Being Stared At) i.e., DE recognizes the role that energy plays in the experience of being human and seeks to support the discovery of our fluidity through understanding how to change states at will, and in collaboration with a magical universe.

Inter-realmic Communication: “Telepathy is an aspect of the seventh sense that enables members of groups to respond to the movements and activities of others, and respond to their emotions, needs, and intentions. Fear, alarm, excitement, calls for help, calls to go to a particular place, anticipations of arrivals or departures, and distress and dying can all be communicated telepathically.” (pg. 120, The Sense Of Being Stared At) i.e., DE recognizes that not everything can be explained but much can be experienced through the exploration of our own states of being and through recognizing how intrinsically we are linked to each other.

How we know, how we are dynamic: “We are all born with extraordinary natural capacities. How these develop is affected by many factors, including how and if they are actually used. There are three characteristics of human intelligence that have fundamental importance for understanding the nature and processes of creativity: Intelligence is multifaceted; intelligence is interactive and dynamic; and each of us has a different profile of intellectual and creative abilities. To develop creative abilities we need to recognize how rich they are and the conditions under which they will emerge.” (pg. 94, Out of Our Minds, Learning to be Creative), i.e. DE, Explores the three ways of knowing as portals to new ways of being and of taking in new information for the betterment of society.

How our intelligence develops: “As children grow, their brains are customised, hard-wired, around the uses they make or do not make of them. This may apply to language, sight, music, whatever… Studies of the brain suggest three crucial themes for understanding creativity: the variety of human intelligence; the dynamics of human intelligence; and the individual nature of intelligence… the nature of our senses determines our field of perception – what we are able to perceive and how.” (pg. 94, Out of Our Minds, Learning to be Creative), i.e. DE, We explore how our various multiple intelligences sit within  a context of three Ways Of Knowing; Rational, Sensory and Sensory. Knowing what influences us as we grow up enables us to revisit ways of thinking, and behaving, that may be inhibiting our creative and personal growth.

Gardner & Intelligence(s): “Gardner argues that we all have ‘multiple intelligences’. He argues that there are at least seven different types of intelligence. In later work he accepts that there are not simply seven discrete intelligences but others too… We think visually, aurally, spatially, kinaesthetically and in other ways too. These are not so much forms of intelligence as examples of the inherent complexity and variety of intelligence Intelligence in these and in many other ways goes well beyond conventional conceptions of verbal and mathematical reasoning.” (pg. 103, Out of Our Minds, Learning to be Creative), i.e. DE, We examine the complex nature of knowing; how we know, what influences our knowing and how to expand on our capacity to take in new information, creatively.

Limiting views of, & implications for, our Creativity: “The essential point is that academic intelligence is often assumed to be of a higher order than all others. Other abilities are assumed to be less important or impressive in themselves. Consequently they are neither sought nor valued to the same extent. The result is that many individuals do not know what they can do, nor who they really are. When we talk of realising our potential, we should aim to do so in both senses of the word. We need to understand its range and variety.” (pg. 110, Out of Our Minds, Learning to be Creative), i.e. DE, When we understand our multiple ways of knowing, we can contribute to society in ways that are, as yet, hard to see – this is because the arts have been relegated to a secondary position in society; one of fun and distraction, rather than in their essential role of the great balancers and creators of new societies.

The ‘field’ of creativity: “Any definition of creativity that aspires to objectivity, and therefore requires an intersubjective dimension, will have to recognise the fact that the audience is as important to its constitution as the individual to whom it is credited. This environment has two salient aspects: a cultural, or symbolic, aspect which here is called the domain; and a social aspect called the field. Creativity is a process that can be observed only at the intersection where individuals, domains, and fields interact… For creativity to occur, a set of rules and practices must be transmitted from the domain to the individual. The individual must then produce a novel variation in the content of the domain. The variation then must be selected by the field for inclusion in the domain.” (pg. 3, ‘A Systems Perspective on Creativity – Creative Management and Development, 2007, Henry.) i.e. DE, we create through our overlapping fields of reference, and we can learn to read the field which we find ourself in in order to consciously co-create novelty from new deeper, more embedded, places, i.e. from a place of deep ecology. It is through our collaboration that new realities self-select through us.

Valuing seeing the whole picture: “Ideas shape actions, so it matters how we think about reality, the world, and ourselves… three reasons why you might want to learn about the process-relational thought. The first is simply wonder – the philosopher’s joy in wondering about this incredible, amazing world. Second, thinking of the world as deeply interwoven – as an ever-renewing relational process – can change the way we feel and act. Finally, we need a coherent vision of our world, something that can engage people from many different scientific, cultural, philosophical, and religious perspectives.” (pg. 3, Process-Relational Philosophy, an introduction to Alfred North Whitehead) i.e., DE, Examining what is, and what we are in relation to what is, opens up a whole new world of wonder.

Flow: “When you meditate, the flow increases. Action and reaction go faster. You’ll get an idea here, then you’ll go there, and then there. It’s like an improvisational dance. You’ll just be zipping along; you’l be banging on all eight cylinders… And it’s not a pretend thing; it’s not a feel-good program, where the tell you, “Stop and smell the roses, and your life will get better.” It comes from within. It has to start from deep within, and grow and grow and grow: Then things really change… So transcend, experience the Self – pure consciousness – and watch what happens.” (pg. 29, Catching The Big Fish) i.e. DE, we have our three portals, RES, but the point of them really is to transcend them altogether. It’s a front door, a side door, and a back door to get inside the big house: You. 

Intuition – accessing the interior guide: “Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way we make heads or tails of it is through intuition. Intuiting is seeing the solution – seeing it, knowing it. It’s emotion and intellect going together. That’s essential for a filmmaker… How do you get something to feel right? Everybody’s got the same tools: the camera and the tapes and the world and actors. But in putting those parts together, there are differences. That’s where intuition enters… Personally I think intuition can be sharpened and expanded through meditation, diving into the Self. There’s an ocean of consciousness inside each of us, and it’s an ocean of solutions When you dive into that ocean, that consciousness, you enliven it.” (pg. 45, Catching The Big Fish) i.e. DE, our intuition emerges when we go deeply within, and learn how to communicate with ourselves in a primary, and magical, way.

Transcending Self: “Some forms of meditation are just contemplation or concentration: they’ll keep you on the surface. You won’t transcend; you won’t get that fourth state of consciousness and you won’t get that bliss. You’ll stay on the surface… Relaxation techniques can take you a little way in. That’s beautiful; it’s like having a massage. But it’s not transcending. Transcending is its own unique thing… When you dive within, the Self is there and true happiness is there. There’s a pure, unbounded ocean of it. It’s bliss – physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual happiness that starts growing from within. And all those things that used to kill you diminish… creativity can really flow. It’s an ocean of creativity. It’s the same creativity that creates everything that is a thing. It’s us.” (pg. 51, Catching The Big Fish) i.e. DE, Use the 4 Element Pathway, meditation, journaling, being in Nature – so many ways available to you, to access the part of you that is the Ocean.

Brain Coherence and Creative Transcendence: “When you work on music, you use a certain part of your brain. When you talk, you use another part. When you sing, you use a different part. When you do mathematics, you use still another part But if you want your full brain, you need to transcend. And then every time you transcend, you carry a little bit more of that transcendental consciousness as you work on your mathematic problem, as you sing, or what have you. Your brain is holding this coherence no matter what you do…. It’s a holistic experience; it’s total brain functioning. And that increasingly becomes a permanent state, the more you experience the Unified Field, the more that consciousness grows. It doesn’t happen overnight but it happens more and more each day. Vedic science has always said that this field is there ad that you can experience it. And now modern science, with each step forward, is affirming that.” (pg. 53-54, Catching The Big Fish) i.e. DE, becoming fluid in ‘you’ is your gateway to transcendent experiences of your whole life.

Sensory/Full Relationship: “Self Realization: An ecological approach to being in the world… For at least 2500 years, humankind has struggled with basic questions about who we are, what we are heading for, what kind of reality we are part of. Two thousand five hundred years is a short period in the lifetime of a species… 1. We underestimate ourselves. I emphasize self. We tend to confuse it with the narrow ego. 2. Human nature is such that with sufficient all-sided maturity we cannot avoid “Identifying” ourselves with all living beings, beautiful or ugly, big or small, sentient or not… 3. Traditionally the maturing of self develops through three stages – from ego to social self, and from social self to metaphysical self. In this conception of the process, nature – our home… is largely ignored… we may be in, of and for nature from our very beginning… our self is richer in its constitutive relations… not only… with humans… but with the larger community of all living beings. 4. The joy and meaning of life is enhanced through increased self-realization… broadening and deepening of the self. 5…. We ‘see ourselves in others’. Self-realization is hindered if the self-realization of others, with whom we identify, is hindered… 6. The challenge of today is to save the planet from further devastation which violates both the enlightened self-interest of humans and nonhumans, and decreases the potential of joyful existence for all.” (pg. 19-21, Thinking Like A Mountain) i.e. DE, seeks to facilitate a deepening of the process of self-actualization within the recognition of ourselves as embedded, belonging, members of a – the – larger community of all life.

Teleology of Connection: “If we didn’t already know the experience of what we’re looking for, we would never look. It simply would not occur to us. The Buddha left wife, son, wealth, power, and privilege because intuitively he knew that there must be something that would make sense out of what appears to be the senseless, useless suffering that life brings. We remain dissatisfied (suffering) as long as we are identified with an illusion of separateness. We know we are separate, but separate from what? We feel alone, isolated, abandoned – but what are we missing? What have we lost?” (intro, That Which You Are Seeking Is Causing You To Seek) i.e., DE we can use our three WOK to reconnect us to the truth of our embeddedness and our belonging.

Ego/Interface/Maya: “We suffer when we are not willing to feel pain. We close ourselves off. We dig trenches. We put up barricades. We develop “sensitive” radar systems. And when provoked, we attack. All because we don’t want to feel pain. All because pain frightens ego.” (pg. 18, That Which You Are Seeking Is Causing You To Seek) i.e., DE, our intimacy is available to us through our relationships, which we can deepen through self-awareness.

Rational/Emotional/Behavioural [Sensory]: “… we can remember that each system is not only independent, but also interactive and interdependent. One may be dominant, but the other two are always involved.” (pg. xxviii Introduction, Three Frames Of Mind) i.e., DE, 

Accessing & Understanding RES: “All life is energy. I am energy and my brain is energy, and energy is vibration. What kinds of vibrations govern my brain structures? What kinds of vibrations will enable me to access them?… Since the three brain structures are physically different, they also must vibrate at different speeds… the search then became how to discover the vibratory processes that would give me access to three different brain structures in order to become more conscious and better conduct the different realities of my life.” (pg. xxviii-xxix Introduction, Three Frames Of Mind) i.e., DE, sees the symbiotic relationship between Rational, Emotional & Sensory. The focus on ways to access each is an experiential approach to understanding, and working with, the vibratory nature of life. 

How We Know: “The mental intelligences of the neocortex; Rational, Associative, Spatial, Intuitive… The emotional intelligences of the limbic brain; Affectional, Mood, Motivational… The behavioral intelligences of the basic brain; Basic, Patter, Parameter…. the new thinker is like an orchestra conductor, focusing on music from one section, then another, then all together… The results you get depend on where you concentrate, where your focus is or is not. Knowing that you have many intelligences to choose from, you can start guiding your life by focusing in an appropriate intelligence and shifting out of one you find inappropriate.” (pg. xxxii, Introduction, Three Frames Of Mind) i.e., DE, We have three WOK that encompass all our intelligences. Learning how to work with these portals is both empowering and contributory, to the introduction of new levels of operating and appreciating our inherent wisdom.

How we learn to attach => how we live and lead: “Ainsworth was able to demonstrate that something she called “secure attachment” between infant and mother was of crucial importance to the child’s psychological development and that a certain style of mothering – warm, sensitive, responsive, and dependable – was the key ingredient in bringing this about. Secure attachment was seen as a source of emotional health, giving a child the confidence that someone will be there for him and thus the capacity to form satisfying relationships with others. Insecure (or “anxious”) attachment, on the other hand, could reverberate through the child’s life in the form of lowered self-esteem, impaired relationships, inability to seek help or to see it in an effective way, and distorted character development. Subsequent research suggested that close to a third of the children in middle-class American homes suffer from insecure attachment and that it tends to be transmitted from one generation to the next. In poor, unstable homes, the percentage is higher.” (pg. 6, Becoming Attached) i.e. DE, examines our psychological/emotional health as to not do so renders us vulnerable to damaging behaviors (to self, other and planet) and these are people who may end up running our country and running our businesses. DE lays out the energy matrix of such training and its impact on the development of a secure self.

Change is possible: “Equally important, attachment researchers have attempted to show how insecure patterns of attachment can change, whether in childhood, as adjustments are made in the family, or later, as the adult attempts to work through his early experience.” (pg. 7, Becoming Attached) i.e. DE, understanding, and practices are introduced to become strong, resilient and authentically present.

Social change requires political will: “The business world, and our culture as a whole, does not yet take the process of parenting seriously enough to give mothers – or fathers – the flexibility they need to care for their babies without insufferable losses in their careers… it will be in the best interest of society and probably more cost-efficient, as well, to keep welfare mothers on the rolls and give those that need it yet additional support – educational, psychotherapeutic, medical, even financial – to help assure the secure attachment and healthy emotional development of their kids… But there is not a politician in the nation who would say this or a government official who would entertain it… Nor is it adequately reported in the press.” (pg. 338 & 343, Becoming Attached) i.e. DE, Business & politics are both still dictating our social development, whilst affecting our future health – DE alerts us as to how we can recognize this and effect an intervention through our own portals of transformation.

Origins of Social Learning: “Maternal attunement & “Mutual Delight”: “… he [the child] also depends on her to take him to levels of emotional experience that he could not achieve on his own. The shared experience helps usher the baby into social exchanges and the richness of relating to another person. Even knowing what to feel in many ambiguous situations is developed through the primary relationships.” (pg. 349, Becoming Attached) i.e. DE, When this cannot happen, DE can show us both the social consequences and the way to work with the knowledge experientially, and simply, to rectify the lost training.

How we learn to withhold and withdraw and how that affects healthy societies: “By the time the child is six months old, the mother’s attunement with the baby has begun to educate him about the emotional states that are acceptable to share with other people… The mother who only tunes in to a certain range of the child’s inner life – who only values his arousal and engagement but not his passivity or who relates to him fully only when he’s down, not when he’s up – tells the child what part of himself to bring forward in interpersonal experience… The child, and later the adult, comes to feel that if people are allowed access to his true inner experience, they will be able to manipulate it, distort it, undo it. Only by freezing them out can he keep his inner experience unspoiled.” (pg. 352-353, Becoming Attached) i.e.  DE, What is at stake here is the whole of our social fabric that can be helped with the choice of personal intervention. Reviewing ‘Compromised Interaction/Occupy Me & Neglect Me will help understand the interactive dynamics at play here.

Embodied reason: “Reasons is not disembodied, as the tradition has largely held, but arises from the nature of our brains, bodies, and bodily experience. This is not just the innocuous and obvious claim that we need a body to reason: rather, it is the striking claim that the very structure of reason itself comes from the details of our embodiment. The same neural and cognitive mechanisms that allow us to perceive and move around also create our conceptual systems and modes of reason.” (pg. 4, Philosophy In The Flesh) i.e. DE, there is a fleshiness to Rational knowing that dreams in prose and poetry, the colors of a paintbrush, the stealth and heart of a lion.

Flesh of thought: “Reason is not completely conscious, but mostly unconscious; Reason is not purely literal, but largely metaphorical and imaginative; Reason is not dispassionate, but emotionally engaged… there is no Cartesian dualistic person, with a mind separate from and independent of the body, sharing exactly the same disembodied transcendent reason with everyone else, and capable of knowing everything about his or her mind simply by self-reflection. Rather, the mind is inherently embodied, reason is shaped by the body, and since most thought is unconscious, the mind cannot be known simply by self-reflection. Empirical study is necessary.” (pg. 4 & 5, Philosophy In The Flesh) i.e. DE, In order to know ourselves, we must know ourselves in all three ways, Body, Mind and Emotions – their dialogue is what we are experiencing 24/7.

Rational evolutionary dependency: “There is no such fully autonomous faculty of reason separate from and independent of bodily capacities such as perception and movement. The evidence supports, instead, an evolutionary view, in which reason uses and grows out of such bodily capacities. The result is a radically different view of what reason is, and therefore of what a human is.” (pg. 17, Philosophy In The Flesh) i.e. DE, once we understand our basic operating system, we can begin to free ourselves of our basic thinking.

The influence of our senses: “What we understand the world to be like is determined by many things: our sensory organs, our ability to move and to manipulate objects, the detailed structure of our brain, our culture, and our interactions in our environment, at the very least.What we take to be true in a situation depends on our embodied understanding of the situation.” (pg. 102, Philosophy In The Flesh) i.e. DE, We are an emerging phenomenon of our entire context, our histories, trajectories, ancestry, passion, prior learning, openness and influence of those around us, of all species.

Sensing the sacred: “To Earth-centered peoples the sacred is immediate. It is present in all parts of the world and one may, simply by being willing to be in relationship with the deeper aspects of a part of the Earth, attain closer relationship with Spirit. Through this closer relationship can come knowledge that gives guidance and meaning to one’s life and community. Through this deeper relationship one can gain power… to shape its course into human affairs to benefit the community, to heal and instruct, to uplift.” (pg. 9, Sacred Plant Medicine) i.e. DE, we recognize the sacred in the sensory and the relationship we can garner, and deepen, by using our body presence to connect to the body presence of Earth, as an ally, a mentor, a guardian, and a friend.

Sacred knowledge in a Rational world: “In the words of each of these medicine people a number of truths lay sparkling. Apparent was the deep caring they held for the children who would be coming into the world, the deep reverence they held for the sacred, and that they were describing a detailed territory of the sacred concerned uniquely with plants… The sacred reveals itself to people in a variety of manners. Among the holy people of many indigenous tribes, one unique manner of revelation concerned visions in which they received detailed knowledge of plant medicines and how to heal with them… this created a consistent problem for researchers. Used to a scientific, rational model of information gathering, the researchers had no ready reference for what they were being told.” (pg. 25-26, Sacred Plant Medicine) i.e. DE, becoming fluid in our own WOK allows us to become open portals to more numinous states of being and of relationship to the divine, however we experience, or frame, that. 

The consistent truth: “People who live close to the Earth and love the Earth and all things that grow upon it believe that there is a soul in all things, including the plants. They believe that the plants, or Creator, or sometimes other powerful spirits can convey direct knowledge and information about how to us plants for healing. The manner of these dreams and visions and their interpretation are incredibly similar from culture to culture around the world.” (pg. 30, Sacred Plant Medicine) i.e. DE, Spirit is one and appears to us in the context of our own reference points – we just have to be open to the communication and the multi-realmic conversation.

Chi – Biotech vs. Organic self-generation: “There is a strong and powerful life force that moves within the bodies of the wild plants… in spite of the work human beings had done in the genetic development of plant species – what they have created does not carry that life force as strongly. I wonder now, as I did then, how is it that we have come to accept this dilution of life force in what we create as a normal thing? This was all before I knew of the work of Masanobu Fukuoka, who spent so many years showing how to grow crops without tilling the soil, without fertilizers or pesticides, and still equal the yields produced by technological farming.” (pg. 51, Sacred Plant Medicine) i.e. DE, Nothing can replace life, but life can replace the unnatural, over time. Humans need to become more in-line with the communications of the planet and the universe if we want to be in harmony with a future that can sustain us.

Listening for connection: “It’s an unbelievable joy to walk to the microphone with WeBe3 singers… bringing all our variations in life and music experience, culture, age, gender and all the rest that goes into making creative juice… We stand together waiting for inspiration from the air, from each other, from the audience that sits silent and intrigued. Then one of us starts. We listen, wait, listen deeper, jump in harmonically or rhythmically or in counterpoint, whoever feels like grabbing hold, and off we go… there is no leader,’ we find the way together. No editing, no errors, no need for perfection, no judgment, no time but the present.” (pg. 8-9, Vocal River) i.e. DE, Trusting in the process of life talking to us, revealing itself to us, helping us, loving us, and supporting us is best done by first choosing the thing that makes you feel most alive and then, by learning to do it in ways that feed your own soul, with its own shape, and needs.

Serendipity, Trust & inspired Collaboration: “During that period I began to write many songs on my own, or seemingly on my own, but collaboration continued to play a part in my music. The evolution of the song “Swimming Upstream” shows an aspect of solo/collaboration that was valuable for me. A friend brought me a Balinese tinklik… Frank, a powerful keyboardist and producer, along with Gwen… who played didgeridoo, recorded a piece for that tinklik… Those tracks sat on my shelf for a couple of years… in rehearsal one day I improvised a poem with Michele… something was buzzing inside me and it came loose as soon as I got moving… my courage and vulnerability were different with her witness energy inb my room; my creativity got freed up. “Swimming Upstream” was written the way it came out that day… but it needed musical underpinning. Suddenly I thought of those tracks on my shelf… it was just the right sound… for this odd poem… I could never have found that combination on my own. It took time and trust… and those generous artists who wanted the best for the music… naming the author is often very subjective.” (pg. 12/13, Vocal River) i.e. DE, collaboration is the art of listening to find out what wants to come through next. It requires trust, patience, humility and a willingness to be both vulnerable and bold, messy and articulate, powerful and quiet. That art, is the art of life, the art of living and the art of appreciating.

Natural Reverence: “As I deepened my own music practice, I understood that my students and I needed to name the power we feel when we are singing. Without invoking any particular deity, religion or belief system, we practice praying out loud. We want to bless our music work, and we have forgotten a bit how to do that and to remember how many ways there are to pray. We hold shame or shyness about this natural connection with life and energy. That is, after all, what singers do. We move energy. We sign notes on waves of sound and ripple the air. We acknowledge our place in the realm of all things living.” (pg. 34, Vocal River) i.e. DE, Learning to reclaim who we are is how we become whole again, and able to fully acknowledge and appreciate the gifts of our own lives. It is a practice, and there are many ways to do that. 

Local Spirit! “There is only one active ingredient in plant medicines – friendship. A plant spirit heals a patient as a favor to its friend-in-dreaming, the doctor. To the people of the Amazon this truth is basic. Any four-year-old understands it… Plant spirit medicine is the shaman’s way with plants. It recognizes that plants have spirit, and that spirit is the strongest medicine. Spirit can heal the deepest reaches of the heart and soul. There is nothing exotic about all this. Don’t be misled by talk about the Amazon. If you want to meet the most powerful healing plants in the world, just open your door and step outside.” (pg. 20, Plant Spirit Medicine) i.e. DE, the magical and the sacred is both phenomenal (special) and ordinary (right here) – we become magical by acknowledging the immanent and the esoteric truth of possibilities being ‘right here’, right now.’

If we inflict suffering, we inherit suffering: “Poet Gary Snyder says the way we kill our farm animals is a source of endless bad luck for our society. This is an interesting statement and, I think, a true one. It is based on an understanding of what in the East is called the law of karma… many people have expressed concern and even outrage at the unnatural and cruel lives and deaths inflicted upon our livestock. It took Snyder, who is no vegetarian, to point out that our behavior towards animals rebounds on us just like all the rest of our behavior. If we take lives without respect and gratitude for the sacrificed animals, then we too will be subject to humiliation and alienation. This is not cruel fate or harsh nature, but just us creating our own bad luck.” (pg. 27-28, Plant Spirit Medicine) i.e. DE, takes this further in that it explains how we exist within fields of energy from which we cannot ‘step away’ – we are always embedded, and therefore everything we do, think and feel, exists in there with us. Our suffering is our creation, our freedom needs to become our discipline.

Sensory/Sensitive relationship with our own magical nature, through Earth connection:  “There are many examples of plants’ willingness to reintroduce us to the joy of a close relationship with nature… Some people, like Karen, are sensitive to these experiences and communicate them well. Others are less sensitive, less articulate. Many people probably never tell me ab out them because they don’t want me to think they are crazy. Nevertheless, I have heard many of these stories, and I now believe that everyone who is touched by the plant spirits gets some taste of a magic and union with nature… One woman described her first treatment with (local) plant spirit medicine as “bringing me back to a place I’ve been before.” This gets right to the crux. We are part of nature, but how many of us really live in nature? Whether we live in mud huts or skyscrapers is not entirely the point The point is the job of being in the dance of creation as an equal partner with everything. This means bringing us back to where we already live – on the earth, with the dirt, the rain, the sunshine and the air, just like our brothers and sisters, the plants.” (pg. 32-33, Plant Spirit Medicine) i.e. DE, our joy and our freedom lies in relationship – this is why we were born; to enjoy the intimacy of knowing that we have brothers and sisters in all of life, beyond the human, and including the liminal.

Quantum Perception: “Perhaps the most essential ingredient of this interconnected universe was the living consciousness that observed it. In classical physics, the experimenter was considered a separate entity, a silent observer behind glass, attempting to understand a universe that carried on, whether he or she was observing it or not. In quantum physics, however, it was discovered, the state of all possibilities of any quantum particle collapsed into a set entity as soon as it was observed or a measurement taken…  quantum physicists had postulated that a participatory relationship existed between observer and observed – these particles could only be considered as ‘probably’ existing in space and time until they were ‘perturbed’, and the act of observing and measuring them forced them into a set state.” (pg. 11, The Field) i.e. DE, We affect, and are affected by, the reality of our perception. We can use this to track our behaviors and experiences in order to flat things that we want to change or develop. Tenet 1., ‘Nothing is fixed’, Tenet 2., ‘Energy waits to be noticed., Definition., ‘The phenomena of novelty arising when two or more elements meet’ – one of those elements can be your own attention to what is occurring.

Morphic Resonance – our interconnection: “Rupert Sheldrake uses the term ‘morphic fields’ and an entire vocabulary of his own making to describe the self-organizing properties of biological systems, from molecules to bodies to societies. ‘Morphic resonance’ is, in his view, ‘the influence of like upon like through space and time’… He believes these fields… are different from electromagnetic fields because they reverberate across generations with an inherent memory of the correct shape and form.  The more we learn, the easier it is for others to follow in our footsteps.” (pg. 47, The Field) i.e. DE, this touches on triggering, interpersonal resonance and the collective healing that is possible when we show up in presence, to witness our own experiencing. Secondly, what we think/feel/do in Inner RES influences what is possible in the Creative Collective/Collective Consciousness.

How waves communicate in Feedback Loops: “Here was a model which provided a better explanation than the current neo-Darwinist theory for how all living things evolve on the planet. Rather than a system of fortunate but ultimately random error, if DNA uses frequencies of all variety as an information tool, this would suggest instead a feedback system of perfect communication through waves which encode and transfer information.” (pg. 51, The Field) i.e. DE, living systems are also part of the human experience for learning and evolving via communication from the Universe in truly customized ways.

Body as communicator: “Slowly a few select scientists from around the globe began to consider that the body’s communication system might be a complex network of resonance and frequency.” (pg. 53, The Field) i.e. DE, life – including our bodies – is made up of energy interacting and through that interaction transferring information and data, which we then create meaning and story out of. We are beautifully complex! We study the energy fields all the way through the program.

Information changes depending on who is looking at it: “There were numerous fine points to be worked out in the laboratory; the theory wasn’t complete. But they were convinced of one thing: perception occurred as a result of a complex reading and transforming of information at a different level of reality.” (pg. 83, The Field) i.e. DE, We can shift states of consciousness – and thereby our perception – to experience the information we receive at different levels of reality. This is not rocket science… it is that we are, in fact, rocket science!

Attention => creation: “Jahn kicked around the most radical idea of all. When you get down far enough into the quantum world, there may be no distinction between the mental and the physical… It might just be consciousness attempting to make sense of the blizzard of information. There might not be two intangible worlds. There might be only one – The Field and the ability of matter to organize itself coherently… the coherence of consciousness represents the greatest form of order known to nature, and… create order in the world When we wish for something or intend something, an act which requires a great deal of unity of thought, our own coherence maybe, in a sense, infectious.” (pg. 121-122, The Field) i.e. DE, The world organizes itself through our attention, which is why we have the urgent imperative to learn how we work and how we want to influence the future. We are already creating something, are we doing so responsibly and with the highest vibration available to us?

The power of our human creativity: “Jahn had proved that, at least on the subatomic level, there was such a thing as mind over matter. But he’d demonstrated something even more fundamental about the powerful nature of human intention. The… data offered a tiny window into the very essence of human creativity – its capacity to create, to organize, even to heal.” (pg. 122, The Field) i.e. DE, We can learn how to co-create with fluidity and grace – 4 Element Pathway.

Healing your family line: “… if you applied these principles to physical or mental health, it could mean that we could use The Field to direct influences ‘back in time’ to alter pivotal moments or initial conditions which later bloom into full-blown problems or disease.” (pg. 175, The Field) i.e. DE, We can use this ability to travel through time to heal our ancestral lines both in ‘the past’ and ‘the future’, freeing us up from the unconscious, repetitive, impulses that drive our behaviors and our reactions.

Everything influences everything and there is healing power in that: “A substructure underpins the universe that is essentially a recording medium of everything, providing a means for everything to communicate with everything else… People are indivisible from their environment. Living consciousness is not an isolated entity. It increases order in the rest of the world. The consciousness of human beings has incredible powers, to heal ourselves, to heal the world – in a sense, to make it a we wish it to be.” (pg. 225, The Field) i.e. DE, With awareness we can learn how to heal ourselves and lift the potential for healing in the related fields of consciousness – what we do for ourselves, we do for everybody.

Separation and its language: “The separation worldview goes like this, on an individual level but also at every level of complexity: The boundaries of my body separate me from the rest of the universe. I’m on my own against the world. This terrifies me, and so I try to control everything outside myself, also known as the Other. I fear the Other, I must compete with the Other in order to meet my needs. I always need to act in my self-interest, and I blame the Other for everything that goes wrong.” (pg. 22, Decolonizing Wealth) i.e. DE, The ‘Colonizer You vs. Indigenous You’ mindmap mirrors and expands on this consideration so that we might understand the drivers influencing the people who feel separate from a healthy relationship to their sensory self.

A separated Sensory self and the potential violations that ensue: “As far back as the 1400s, white supremacy, often in the name of Christianity, was employed to justify colonization – the conquest and exploitation of Non-European lands – by claiming he inferiority of Africans and Indigenous people. The Christian Doctrine of Discovery specified that the entire world was under the jurisdiction of the pop, as God’s representative on earth. Any land not under the sovereignty of a Christian ruler could be possessed on behalf of God. European colonizers sailed around the world taking stuff that didn’t belong to them, asserting it was their God-given right to do so… Academics who study colonization distinguish between external or exploitation colonization – in which the focus is on extracting goods… in order to increase the wealth and power of the colonizer – and internal colonization, which seeks to manage and control people inside the borders of the empire, using tools like schooling, policing, segregation, surveillance, and divestment. These two kinds of colonialism can and often do coexist. Violence and exploitation are always part of the process. The mantra of colonizers is divide, control, (and above all) exploit… In many countries around the world, the colonizers came, wreaked their havoc, and at some point left, sometimes after uprisings and independence movements succeeded in pushing them out. In America, however, they stayed. This is known as settler colonialism. Manifest Destiny, the rallying cry for westward expansion of the United States, was the Doctrine of Discovery updated for the nineteenth century.” (pg. 27, Decolonizing Wealth) i.e. DE, If we do not know how to set internal boundaries we can either become unsafe to others or dangerously vulnerable to others. The mindset of separation is explored in DE to help us understand what we are dealing with in relation to how we perceive, and justify, our separation from Earth, and our Sensory Knowing.

How our environment influences us: “… colonization has deep, long-lasting impacts on the colonized, the natives, but settler colonialism makes things much, much messier. The Tunisian author Albert Memmi wrote: “It is not easy to escape mentally from a concrete situation, to refuse its ideology while continuing to live with its actual relationships.” (pg. 28, Decolonizing Wealth) i.e. DE, How we grow up examines that violation of our inner boundaries and what that makes us susceptible to, as well as what kinds of relationships that leads us to pursue without realizing we can have, do, and be better, happier and safer.

Impacts of Prejudice on all parties: “At 11% our unemployment rate is almost double the national rate of 6.2%… Our high school drop-out rates are nearly twice as high as the national average, while our youth are 3.5x more likely to commit suicide.” (pg. 30, Decolonizing Wealth) i.e. DE, HSP, Indigenous and Artists are typically systematically left out of mainstream support and inclusion, be it financial, cultural or design-based. As a result the a) suicide rates and b) ability to contribute to societies development is a) higher and b) lower. This lack of inclusion is not just debilitating, it also is a huge loss for the development of viable, healthy, innovative and sustainable communities.

Tradition opposing Novelty: “Most organizations and institutions operating in the world today, and particularly those that handle money, reflect the design principles of the social architects of the industrial revolution and the scientific revolution. They were mostly philosophers economists, scientists, and statesmen working in the late 1700s to early 1900s: almost exclusively white men who privileged the rational (the mind) over al else, intoxicated with the separation paradigm… Tradition and the status quo were worshipped, resulting in conformity, formality, and arrogance. In other words, separation, separation, and more separation.” (pg. 43, Decolonizing Wealth) i.e. DE, when we don’t include the voices of the diverse representations that make up all our societies, we stay stuck in old patterns which contradicts Earth and the Universe’s natural inclination to create novelty. We oppose the flow and create discord in the Collective Consciousness as well as restrict the possibilities for our own growth.

Internalized oppression and its impact: “With yourself, internalized oppression may manifest as inferiority, inadequacy, self-hatred, self-invalidation, self-doubt, isolation, fear, feelings of powerlessness, and despair. You might drive yourself into the ground in a quest for perfection and acceptance, or the opposite, you might throw in the towel and stop showing up for school or for work. You might develop compulsive behaviors, eating disorders, addictions. You might walk around loudly protesting that exploitation and oppression of people like yourself is a total myth. You might get stuck in one abusive relationship after another. You might suffer from depression, or have intense, disruptive outbursts of bitterness or anger. All of these behaviors map onto internalized oppression.” (pg. 95, Decolonizing Wealth) i.e. DE, it is incumbent on each of us to heal ourselves as we walk this path of social activism. We come first. This is a big part of DE, learning how to recognize how we are repeating behaviors that are unhealthy for us, and for those around us, when we do not take our healing seriously, or put it first, above all else. Our freedom and longevity depend on it.

The science of beauty and symmetry: “Einstein; not only was he a superb mathematician – not only did he dream of warping space and time, and the fourth dimension, and universes that we can’t see – he was also a very spiritual person… he understood that we have a role in the larger universe. many people asked him about God. He understood that we have a role in the larger universe… he thought of God as the God of harmony, as the God of order, the God of Peace.” (5:55 – 6:43, in interview Einstein’s Cosmos: How Einstein’s Vision Transformed Our Understanding of Space and Time) i.e. DE, We have a place in the Universe – based on harmony and becoming aware of how we ‘fit in’ is available to us as we study how we experience being here, together, through the DE modules.

Mechanistic Philosophy => Music and Harmony: “There is a philosophy called Mechanism, which view the Universe as a clock, obeying Newtonian kinds of laws, very detached from people and the world of feelings. Einstein didn’t see that divorce that we sometimes have. The irony is that mechanism has given us reductionism, where we reduce everything to atoms… but reductionism has reached a dead end, though. We smash atoms apart and we find thousands of sub-atomic particles… Einstein said no, we have to have simplicity… beauty… elegance… symmetry and now we believe that its nothing but String Theory… that things are nothing but musical notes… vibrating on a super string which gives us all the subatomic particles… and so we have a beautiful way of reformulating the laws of physics to the laws of music.” (8:14 – 9:28 in interview Einstein’s Cosmos: How Einstein’s Vision Transformed Our Understanding of Space and Time) i.e. DE, as we discover more about the universe, we also discover more about ourselves – knowledge is aliveness.

Unified Field Theory: “Something that was considered useless 50 years ago is now the center stage of theoretical physics… as we go into higher dimensions, as we go into worlds unseen, as we go things that were considered science fiction once, are now the province of physicists. (10:15 – 10:35, in interview Einstein’s Cosmos: How Einstein’s Vision Transformed Our Understanding of Space and Time) i.e. DE, Mapping out the human experience of a multi-dimensional universe.

The Music of the Universe: “We have lots of particles when we smash atoms… there are hundreds, thousands of these sub-atomic particles… now we believe that they’re nothing but musical notes, just music of a cosmic string, so, if I had a microscope and could look at an electron it looks like a dot… but we physicists think that if we had a super microscope that we could look at an electron that we’d see it’s really a loop, a string, vibrating, and if you ‘kick it’ and it vibrates in a different mode, it turns into a quark, you ‘kick it’ again and it turns into a photon, ‘kick it’ again and it turns into a mezon… so that all the subatomic particles you see n the universe are nothing but musical notes. Now these musical notes can interact with each other and that’s called chemistry… we think that chemistry is nothing but the melodies you can play on strings. The universe is a symphony of these strings… the laws of physics are nothing but the laws of harmonies on these strings and that th mind of god is music, resonating through hyper space… that’s what we think the universe is, melodies, harmonies played on a template of hyperspace.”  (11:45 – 13:20, in interview Einstein’s Cosmos: How Einstein’s Vision Transformed Our Understanding of Space and Time) i.e. DE, in our interactive universe, we also change with each interaction and we can co-create harmony or disharmony, depending on our skill levels.

Music at the base of it all, at the base of us all: “People say that everything is vibrations and, if this theory is true then yes, these vibrations obey laws and these laws are the laws of music… two thousand years ago the Pythagoreans believed that music was the language of the Universe – they were the first ones to work out the laws of harmony… it took us about 100s of years to work out that there are hundreds of chemical elements, but where do these chemical elements come from?… they come from subatomic particles… thousands of them… so today we believe that the universe should not be so chaotic… now we realize that the paradigm is music, but it’s a special kind of music, it’s a music resonating in higher dimensions… so now, in laboratories around the world, we are trying to measure the presence of alternate universes… the equipment may not be sensitive enough to pick up the presence of alternate universes.” (13:38 -15:00, in interview Einstein’s Cosmos: How Einstein’s Vision Transformed Our Understanding of Space and Time) i.e. DE, Inter-dimensional reality is something we experience on the human level.

Multi-dimensional Universes: “We have three dimensions of space… and time can be viewed as a dimension. String Theory gives us 10 – perhaps 11 – dimensions.”  (15:40 – 15:50, in interview Einstein’s Cosmos: How Einstein’s Vision Transformed Our Understanding of Space and Time) i.e. DE, inter-realmic dimensions are something we can study to better understand our place in the magical universe we call home.

Life is Spirit: “When indigenous people talk about spirit, they are basically referring to the life force in everything. For instance, you might refer to the spirit in an animal, that is, the life force in that animal, which can help us accomplish our life purpose and maintain our connection to the spirit world.” (pg. 13, The Spirit of Intimacy) i.e. DE, hopes to help humans see and feel the connection, once again, to the Spirit of life, without relying on a particular theology other than that of life itself.

Spirit as Ancestors: “Ancestors are also referred to a spirits. The spirit of an ancestor has the capacity to see not only into the invisible spirit world but also into this world, and it serves as our eyes on both sides. It is this power of ancestors that will help us direct our lives and avoid falling into huge ditches… Ancestor spirits can see future, past, and present. They can see inside of us and outside of us. They can see cross-dimensionally. And they’re lucky not to have physical bodies as we do because without the limitation of the body, they have the fluidity of an eye that sees many different ways, many different directions… There is the spirit of the earth, which is responsible for our identity, our comfort, our nourishment, and so on… the spirit of nature, .. the river… the mountain… the animals… the water… the ancestors. Spirit is everywhere.” (pg. 14, i.e. DE,

How to reconnect: “People in the West can begin to strengthen their intimate relationships by maintaining their connection with spirit through prayers, through walking in nature and dealing with natural forces, through connecting with the earth, the mineral, the fire, or the mountains. By spending time in nature and taking time away from the mundane day-to-day way of living, we allow the part of ourselves that can heart natural beings to listen, so that we can find our connection to those spirits… It is very easy for us to get lost in the mundane world and forget about our connection to spirit. Yet without that connection we are basically the walking dead.” (pg. 14/15, The Spirit of Intimacy). i.e DE,

Ancestral belonging: “We might think that the confusion we experience in our daily life happens in isolation, but in reality it has something to do with our lack of connection to our ancestors.” (pg. 16, The Spirit of Intimacy), i.e. DE,

Community is our health: “People in the West can create a sense of community in their cities just as people in West Africa have. They can do this by providing one another with continuous support. Each of us needs something to hang on to. That’s why you have all these small communities here and there – a group of women working on social issues a group of men, and all these small groups pursuing a common goal. They are attempts to re-create a piece of that greater community that used to be and that has been destroyed… The only difference is that most of these communities don’t focus on spirit. They tend to leave spirit outside of their activity… it’s another way of saying, ‘we are in control,” when in fact a true community must be based on spirit. Spirit should be the leader and the guide for everybody in a community.” (pg. 28, The Spirit of Intimacy), i.e. DE,

Community is our health: “It is as difficult for indigenous people to conceive of life without a community as it is for most Westerners to imagine life in a community” (pg. 33, The Spirit of Intimacy), i.e. DE,
“Our lives are influenced by the presence within us of both feminine and masculine energies. It is important that these energies maintain harmony within us.” (pg. 35, The Spirit of Intimacy), i.e. DE,

The spirit of life is talking to us: “Every time you want to move into a ritual, you need to recognize that there’s a whole line of ancestors behind you, there’s a whole spirit world around you, there is the animal world, the ground world, the trees, and so forth. If you have a way of saying to these forces, “Come and be with us in such a way that we can feel and do such-and-such,” then you’re already in ritual… All you need to do from then on is go deep into your heart and listen tot he the rhythm of it. There is a language spoken to you by the beings you have called into your circle. The problem is, we usually don’t listen enough, and therefore we do’t hear it.” (pg. 43, The Spirit of Intimacy), i.e. DE,

Emotions heal us when felt: “People have a tendency to stay away from emotion, so we disconnect ourselves from what is happening an dit becomes superficial. In ritual, if tears are coming, it’s okay for tears to be there. If anger is coming, it’s important that anger come out. In fact, anger carries in it a healing energy. Only when we let it overtake our being and keep it prisoner does it become destructive.” (pg. 49, The Spirit of Intimacy) i.e. DE,

Emotion and Intellect, the relationship: “Emotion is very hard to resolve intellectually. That’s because the mind doesn’t know how to feel; its logic cannot fulfill the heart’s desire. and this is why it’s so important to realize how ritual, the feeling within ritual, can be a helpful tool in resolving crises that arise in a relationship.” (pg. 53, The Spirit of Intimacy) i.e. DE,

How the Ancestors and Spirits help us: “Spirits love to intervene in our affairs. But they don’t do it against our will. They are waiting over there for us to give them a job to do. We always talk about high unemployment in this world; just think about the other world!” (pg. 53, The Spirit of Intimacy) i.e. DE,

Action to heal and reconnect: “Maybe the way to start on the path to a healthy intimate life is to recognize the divine in everything. When we acknowledge that the earth we walk upon is not just dirt, that the the trees and animals are not just resources for our consumption, then we can begin to accept ourselves as spirits vibrating in unison with all the other spirits around us. Our connection to all these living spirits helps determine the kind of intimate life we live.” (pg. 84, The Spirit of Intimacy) i.e. DE,

Feeling is healing: “Maybe it is because we don’t feel enough! If we allow the heart to approach the problems that we experience, te heart will lead us to places that are not logical, that are more effective in handling the problem. One of the heart’s illogical paths is to create a ritual space and to start shouting, “Hey, I’m in trouble!”… So we need to allow ourselves to let go, to release our problem from the grip of our mind. Only after doing so can we see things from a different perspective, from a perspective that gives strength. Otherwise we keep shrinking, becoming smaller, while the problem becomes bigger.” (pg. 118/119, The Spirit of Intimacy) i.e. DE,

Support helps us maintain in strength: “When you have a spiritual base and the support of friends and family, things work in such a way that the couple is constantly held and given energy. They have just enough support to draw strength from. They are not just defending their limited resources.” (pg. 123, The Spirit of Intimacy) i.e. DE,

Environment? “We do not use the word environment,” said a Yanomami man from Brazil. “That is your word for what is left of what you have destroyed.” By 2011, there could be virtually no more tropical rainforest to save, warns one researcher. In Ecuador, American oil companies have demanded that oil production should not be hindered by laws protecting nature reserves, national parks or indigenous rights.” (pg. 94, Wild, an elemental journey”) i.e. DE,

Savage, the root: “The word savage – used so often to insult people of the land – comes from silvaticus (of woods, or trees) from silva, a wood. In the Amazon, the forest is called la selva, while salvaje, the Spanish word literally meaning “person of the forests,” is used to mean a savage and is a frequent term of abuse.” (pg. 44, Wild, an elemental journey”) i.e. DE,

Reason vs. Intuition in Civic design: “The city, for the ancient Greeks, was the site of public life and its straight streets were the place of historic deeds in linear time: the stage of men, not women. Women were more associated with the cyclical time of wild nature, unfenced by linear history, in the unruly wilds. To the Greeks, the city was a way of thinking and represented rationality. The city-state was associated with (male) reason and contrasted with the (female) irrationality of the wilderness. The city, with its plumb lines and right angles, represented the straight lines of logic, not the winding ways of intuitive, emotional thought.” (pg. 41, Wild, an elemental journey”) i.e. DE,

Song, Meaning and Wild Belonging: “The icaros that Juan sang were of his locale, the particular stream, particular hills and particular plants he knew. In singing them, he made his land quite literally en-chanted. The Kuma people of Panama similarly have songs that describe real places in the jungle, and they also have “curing chants,” which contain their most secret and most profound knowledge. But the younger generation are no longer learning the songs. They have little knowledge of the forests, so the chants are almost meaningless. And without the songs, the land in turn has little meaning… Songlines offer meaning to wild places. Wastelands, by contrast, are places where there are no songlines, devastated places unpathed with song, unenchanted, the wastelands of missionary activity silencing earth wisdom, the devastated land whose meaning is destroyed by logging and mining.” (pg. 38, Wild, an elemental journey”) i.e. DE,

Poetry, Breath and Air: The Inuktitut word anerca means “soul,” and both the terms “to make poetry” and “to breathe” are derived from anerca. The hunter, shaman and poet Orpingalik, a Netsilik Inuit man, said to Knud Rasmussen, “Songs are thoughts, sung out with the breath when people are moved by great forces and ordinary speech no longer suffices.”… David Abram, in his remarkable book The Spell of the Sensuous, writes of the relationship between air, breath, spirit and soul. “Nothing is more common to the diverse indigenous cultures of the earth than a recognition of the air, the wind, the and the breath, as aspects of a singularly sacred power.” (pg. 332, Wild, an elemental journey”) i.e. DE,