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After taking a hiatus this summer, we return to the political fray with an eye toward its implications for our lives and our pursuit of a more perfect union with the teachings of Zen. It is a good thing that we did not try to say anything about the campaign at the beginning of August, in light of the whiplash nature of rapid-fire developments on that front. Anything we had to say regarding predictions or outcomes would have been instantly irrelevant on a day-to-day basis, rendered moot by the exhaustive political melodrama playing out in the media. One of my online dharma dialogs brought up the question of agency, as in how much effect can one person really have on the direction the country is moving as a whole, not to mention the looming consequences of climate change on a global scale. It may help in setting the context, to recall my model of the Four Fundamental Spheres – those arenas of activity and influence that we all encounter on a daily basis. The four spheres, visualized as nesting in a concentric array, start with the Personal at the center; surrounded by the Social, which includes the political; then the Natural sphere, the world of our surrounding planet and its atmosphere; and finally the Universal, extending into outer space. Our sense of agency and influence diminishes as we move outward from the Personal, inversely proportional to the influence of the surrounding spheres on our personal bubble. It is necessarily an asymmetrical relationship, an understatement of cosmic proportions. Politics is the social sphere on steroids, we might say. It is a mixed blessing in that even those who emphasize our worst angels in the struggle to swing a majority, reveal, unintentionally, the dark underbelly of human nature. Which can be clarifying and even healthy, depending on what we do with it. These days , many of my online dharma dialog calls, dokusan in Japanese, reveal the anxiety that comes with the uncertainty of living in “interesting times,” as in the ancient Chinese curse. We might prefer to ignore the political realm altogether, but unless you are willing to become a hermit and remove yourself from society in some extreme manner, you cannot avoid the consequences of the political actions taken by others, in the cultural hothouse of modern civilization, whether urban or rural. The question arises: Is Zen (& zazen) merely a coping strategy? Or is it only reinforcing our personal status-quo? Or, conversely, can it enable us to change and adapt? I solicited suggestions for this reboot episode from my producer and publisher, the former being an American citizen currently living in the Southwest, the latter a Canadian living to the Northeast. Here is a sample of what they suggested: I think there's something in here about a cautionary tale for people looking to religious leaders for signals on how to vote. I've seen some other Zen leaders on social media endorsing candidates - which is fine, but they wield a lot of power, and Zen really is about thinking for yourself on your cushion. Maybe religion is separate from politics, and that's ok. It also might be interesting to discuss how to have compassion for the “other” – be it democrat or republican – as one cannot exist without the other; and neither are really separate.I was gratified to see the reference to my past emphasis in this series on the value of independent thinking, and engaging in interdependent action, which I propose is one of the outputs of Zen training. As opposed to co-dependent thinking and action, another way of characterizing the partisan divide. If we are developing the ability to think independently of the political forces impinging upon us, and the freedom to act interdependently with cohorts on both sides of the divide, then our Zen training can contribute to evolving the more perfect union that is given lip service in the social discourse. Referring back to the previous UnMind series of three segments on aging, sickness and death, the Three Marks of Buddhism's worldview, I want to reiterate that the paranoid style in politics seems most likely to stem from irrational fear of aging, sickness, and dying, the personal dimensions of the universal traits of anicca, dukkha, and anatta, or impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, and no-self. When we throw the “Three Poisons” of greed, hatred, and delusion into the mix, the result is a true witch's brew. This is the old “divide and conquer” strategy. The question of how to have compassion for the “other” – be it democrat or republican – goes to a more non-dualistic reading of the seeming divide between irreconcilable opposites. When we look at what conservatives are trying to liberalize, and what liberals are trying to conserve, we see that the labels are not really getting to the essence of the conflict, but merely exacerbating it. The issue of factionalism was raised in the early founding documents of the American experiment as a potential threat to the republic, but since one party cannot exist without the other, and neither is really separate from the body politic, they are mutually defining, and can be complimentary. The real conflict goes to the personal dimension, where we find the question of: “How much is enough?” How much is enough to live happily, and is there enough to go around? Are the global shortages of food, drinking water, clean air, housing, and the hierarchy of physical survival needs real, or are they the consequence of negligence and malfeasance on the part of greedy, profit-driven special interests? Have we as a species been on a decades-long binge of “Hotel-California-everything-all-the-time” wretched excess and the bills are just now finally coming due? Can we all downsize our lifestyle to a level that relieves the burden of the disposable consumption society? When we look to the example of our forebears in the history of Zen, and, indeed, in the early days of democracy in America, going back no further than my grandparents' generation, we can detect vestiges of a much more moderate way of living that recognized reasonable limits to the answer to how much is enough. Of course there were contemporaneous avatars of wealth and power, living out the lifestyles and fantasies of the rich and famous. And the human slaves of earlier periods in history have been replaced by the “energy slaves” of modern technology, as Bucky Fuller pointed out. In that sense, wealth, as the commonwealth, has been redistributed more widely, but there is still an unseemly preoccupation in some quarters with amassing financial resources beyond the scope of what any one person, family, or corporate entity, can possibly need, or spend, within one lifetime. Except, perhaps, as a defensive reserve to defend against future lawsuits. Or, perhaps, to invest in initiatives for future cultural evolution. But do we really need to terraform Mars, for example, when we cannot even make the Earth function as our home planet? Back to the personal sphere of meditation, and its connection to the social sphere of politics. If we accept the suggestion that our Zen practice is indeed a kind of generalized coping mechanism, it begs the question, Coping with what? Master Dogen asks, about two-thirds of the way through Fukanzazengi–Principles of Seated Meditation: Now that you know the most important thing in Buddhism how can you be satisfied with the transient world?Our bodies are like dew on the grass and our lives like a flash of lightningVanishing in a moment. By this point in the long tract of instructions on physical method and philosophical attitude he picked up in China, the first piece he published as a manual of meditation for his student followers, he has made perhaps a hundred different points about what is important in Buddhism. So what he means by “the most important thing” is subject to some interpretation. Just as it is in our modern milieu. What is, after all, the most important thing? Not just in meditation, but in all your daily actions, as Dogen emphasizes in the same writing. Media mavens, including pre-digital traditional channels and ever-expanding post-digital modes, are constantly promoting what they want us to pay attention to as “news,” what they consider the most important events and issues of the moment in the 24-7 news cycle. Most of it is designed to capture eyeballs, ears, and clicks, in order to develop ratings that are used to rationalize the cost of ad buys and other kinds of participation in the public arena, or direct sales. Which items are delivered to your doorstep in ever-greater frequency with minimal effort on your part. Except for disposing of the mountain of packaging and shipping materials. Turning our attention back to the cushion and the wall, the most important thing at the moment cannot be the passing pageantry of the political campaign. Unless you are running for office, or working for someone who is. One important thing is to understand or appreciate the importance of the political to the personal, in particular, your personal sphere. While the central personal dimensions of aging, sickness and death can definitely be affected – directly or indirectly, positively or negatively – by the political arena, it is not typically the most proximate cause of any of the three. And the last thing that you are likely to be thinking, on your death bed, is that you wished you had spent more time on politics. Some ancient sage said to “stamp life-and-death on your forehead and never let it out of your mind.” I am sure he was not morbidly obsessed with death, but that his life, and ours, takes a major part of its central meaning, and sense of urgency, from the fact that birth is the leading cause of death. This, to many, would seem to be wrong. But if you think about it – or as Dogen says, “examine thoroughly in practice” – this idea that something is wrong, it appears that it may only be our opinion. We may be wrong. Reality cannot be wrong. Nature cannot be wrong. But we may be wrong. Only we human beings can get this wrong. And then we blame others, turning against our fellow human and other sentient beings. As the Tao te Ching says, “When the blaming begins, there is no end to the blame.” We can blame our situation, with some justification, on others, including the pols. But the blaming does not solve the basic problem. Perhaps this is getting at the most important thing. Accepting and admitting that the suffering in the world that may be considered wrong, or unnecessary, is caused exclusively by human beings, based on their assessment of their world as somehow “wrong.” This is the kind of suffering that can end, seen in the clear light of emptiness in zazen.* * *Elliston Roshi is guiding teacher of the Atlanta Soto Zen Center and abbot of the Silent Thunder Order. He is also a gallery-represented fine artist expressing his Zen through visual poetry, or “music to the eyes.”UnMind is a production of the Atlanta Soto Zen Center in Atlanta, Georgia and the Silent Thunder Order. You can support these teachings by PayPal to donate@STorder.org. Gassho.Producer: Shinjin Larry Little

Two conversations about the big picture. First, 20 years ago USPS released a stamp honoring inventor and multi-hyphenate visionary Bucky Fuller. Here's my 2004 conversation about the man and his work with his daughter, ALLEGRA FULLER SNYDER. Buckminster Fuller Institute: bfi.org. Second, one of my favorites, my 2008 conversation with MacArthur-winning evolutionary biologist STUART KAUFFMAN about his book, REINVENTING THE SACRED: A NEW VIEW OF SCIENCE, REASON, AND RELIGION. Is the universe's ceaseless creativity the best way for us to think about God? Learn more: stuartkauffman.com

Listen to 66 Future Now Podcast Trimtab Times ‘Twas a busy weekend for us, with back-to-back dinner parties, and a visit to Whiskey Hill Farms for a tour by David Blum, author of the best seller, “Alcohol Can Be a Gas.”  Besides his innovative alcohol distillary, his experimental farm is growing a number of unusual crops that could support small farmers, such as Wasabi, a plant with a high return for it’s rhizomes.  On the tour was none other than lawyer Daniel Sheehan, who was meeting David for the first time, thanks to a wonderful connector person, Jahn Ballard, from Sebastopol. In this show, we open with an update on the latest from Apple Computer (think M4), thanks to our Apple analyst,  Taylor Barcroft.  From there we delve into a new portable solar generator system by Solex, being installed for Taylor by “Free Energy Bob,” and a report from Gabrielle Cianfrani on “trimtab,” a valuable concept she learned from David Blum (and he from Bucky Fuller).   In Future News we look at Scarlett Johansen’s dispute with OpenAI on the use of her voice for their latest AI’s, we demo and create a tune with the AI music generator, Suno, and delve into the realm of agreements with Master Now, visiting from well, the bigger N:OW .. Enjoy! David Blume demonstrates fuel creation to Danny Sheehan

Monday, March 11, 2024 is my 83rd birthday, and coincidentally the deadline for this segment of UnMind, in order to drop on Wednesday the 13th. I did an exercise in visualizing my personal timeline this last year, and will share it with you in this installment. You will have to visit the website to see the illustrations (link), but for now, as we say in professional design circles — when a design board presentation got lost in checked baggage — “Picture this, guys!” Been there, done that.I began by laying out my life in decades, starting in 1940 when I was conceived around July, born 9 months later in 1941, and — incidentally, not coincidentally — the year that Matsuoka-roshi arrived in America. Picture a spreadsheet 10 columns across, headed 1940,1950,1960,etc. up to 2030; by 6 rows down, with categories: Geographical, Societal, Marital/Familial, Educational, Formal Zen, and Professional. You get the idea. Then fill in the blanks with locations like Centralia, IL (my home town), Chicago (where I did my advanced schooling), Atlanta, GA (my adopted home town), Europe and Japan, traveling on design and Zen business — my lifetime “ecological sweepout,” as Bucky Fuller calls it. Big events like WWII, Korea and Vietnam; the end of the Cold War; Covid, etc.; and lesser ones such as “Born 3/11/41,” 1st & 2nd Marriages, Father & Mother dying; BS & MS degrees, etc., populate the cells. Plus Zen turning points such as meeting Matsuoka-roshi, Lay Ordination, ASZC & STO Incorporation, publish date of my first major book, “The Original Frontier”; and finally, career benchmarks such as teaching at U of I & the School of the Art Institute, various corporate ventures, and my current art dealer, Kai Lin Art Gallery, complete the exercise to date. I recommend you try something similar, to get an overview of your life. By the way, that expression, “conceived,” is interesting from a professional design perspective. We have what we call “concept design,” the initial stage of ideation, wherein few to none of the details of a design solution to a problem have been worked out. The spit-balling, brainstorming phase. Which seems to apply pretty aptly to that embryo in the womb — an inchoate mass of tissue that will, some nine months hence, come popping out into the world — if not “fully-formed,” as Buddha, in his miraculous birth, was said to have been. Not only that, but he immediately took seven steps in each of the cardinal directions; and, pointing one forefinger to the heavens above, the other to the earth below, declared: “Above the heavens and below the heavens, I alone am the most honored one!” If, indeed, this story is true, then, indeed, he would have had to have been. Or at least one of the most highly-honored ones.But of course, we take this tale with a huge grain of salt, perhaps even a saltlick block, like we used to put out in the pasture for our horses, on the farm where I grew up. My only claim to fame regarding an unusual birth came to light when my mother later confessed that she had tried to abort me by jumping off the back porch, which was what passed for birth control in those days, today referred to as “reproductive health.” Mom and dad already had “a boy for you and a girl for me,” in the persons of my older brother and sister — one darkly handsome, the other blond and beautiful, respectively — and the budget from the newspaper route they ran was already strained. I got my revenge by being born with an enormous head, which, because I was upside-down in the womb, I attribute to all that jumping. For some reason, my life seems to have morphed through the various “times-of-life” cycles — used to sort demographics in social research — in near synchronicity with the decades, as measured by an admittedly arbitrary calendar, called the Gregorian, which, according to the wizards of Wikipedia: The Gregorian calendar is the calendar used in most parts of the world. It went into effect in October 1582 following the papal bull Inter gravissimas issued by Pope Gregory XIII, which introduced it as a modification of, and replacement for, the Julian calendar. The principal change was to space leap years differently so as to make the average calendar year 365.2425 days long, more closely approximating the 365.2422-day 'tropical' or 'solar' year that is determined by the Earth's revolution around the Sun. Glad we got that cleared up. Now, we can see clearly the absolute degree of arbitrariness inherent in our concept of measured time. We can't even measure the time of day, the calendar year, or the planet's revolution around the sun, without resorting to infinitely endless decimal places. So much better than that antiquated Julian thing, though. And, “close enough for jazz,” to most intents and purposes.As you can see by looking at the first chart, my geographical sweepout was rather limited to my home state of Illinois in my 20s, other than a couple of junkets to California, until I moved to Atlanta in my 30s, then finally went abroad on business in my 40s, and to the Far East in my 50s, on behalf of Zen. My family did not have the kind of resources that would have financed a “grand tour” of Europe in my formative years. This charting of your life on a single sheet of paper turns out to be an exercise in humility, when you realize how little you have done, and how brief your lifespan really is. We will return to this subject in the context of the “lifespan chapter” of the Lotus Sutra. In the second spreadsheet, I extend the timescale to 80-year spans — extending back to 1460, and forward through 1540, 1620, 1700, etc., and finally my own era of 1940 through 2020 — shrinking my personal timeline down to two columns out of ten, roughly 20% of the larger span of five centuries or so. Visualizing only one row, encompassing the societal level, a distinct pattern emerges: major events, especially in the USA, seem to happen in 80-year cycles, going back to the Revolutionary War and Civil War and including World War II, which was just heating up when I came on the scene. Sure enough, when I Googled it, I found that this pattern of 80-year cycles is a known phenomenon, sometimes referred to as the “Strauss-Howe” theory, derived from critical events in the history of America, as well as the rest of the globe. The Strauss-Howe generation theory describes a recurrent cycle of same-aged groups with specific behavior patterns that change every 20 years. According to this theory, an 80-year cycle is crucial, when every four generations is associated to a crisis that impacts the ongoing social order and creates a new one. A startling personal finding popped out like a sore thumb: at 80 years old, I was 1/3 the age of my native country, the good old USA. A person 80 years old at my birth would have been born around 1860, the Civil War; one 80 years old at that time would have been born around 1780, the time of the Revolution. The reference to Armageddon in the final column, finally coming to pass within 80 years from now, is only partially, and hopefully, tongue-in-cheek. Expanding the timescale even further, the third spreadsheet encompasses twenty-five centuries since the advent of Buddha in 500 BCE, to the current 2000's, again shrinking my personal tenure to a vanishingly small portion, less than ten percent of the total, if I live to be 100. Which is unlikely. Although, as Matsuoka-roshi would often say, “Zen keeps the men younger, and the women more beautiful.” I can't really explain my relatively good health and wellbeing in any other way. To close this segment, let us consider some of the statements attributed to Buddha at the end of his life, in the Lifespan Chapter of the Lotus Sutra, ostensibly uttered as he was about to enter Pari Nirvana: To the deluded and unenlightened I say that I have entered nirvana although in fact I am really here.For the sake of these sentient beings I teach that the lifespan of the Buddha is immeasurable.The light of my wisdom illuminates immeasurably and my lifespan is of innumerable kalpas. This has been achieved through long practice.You wise ones do not give in to doubt! Banish all doubt forever! The Buddha's words are true never false. Here, we find one of the most controversial of all claims in Buddhism, which begs credulity — similar to the resurrection of Jesus — along with that of his virgin birth. Even the idea of Pari Nirvana smacks of “woo-woo,” given our skeptical scientific setting: In Buddhism, parinirvana is commonly used to refer to nirvana-after-death, which occurs upon the death of someone who has attained nirvana during their lifetime. It implies a release from Saṃsāra, karma and rebirth as well as the dissolution of the skandhas. Bows to our fellow travelers at Wikipedia, once again. But while we can readily embrace the dissolution of the skandhas — or aggregated form, sensation, perception, intention and consciousness, upon the onset of death, it seems mere speculation that anyone might find total release from the ocean of Samsara, the cycles of karmic consequence and rebirth, that Buddhism teaches as theories of the laws governing sentient existence. But Buddha seems to be pointing at something else, a kind of permanent existence that is not limited to the form of our present, impermanent body-mind. Like the timeworn analogy of the ocean and the waves, the eternal lifespan of Buddha implies that whatever is here has always been here, and will always be here, if in different form. A wave returns to the ocean, but does not, cannot, drown; being of one and the same substance. I will leave it to you, as usual, to “thoroughly examine this in practice,” as Master Dogen kindly advises. This is not a cop-out. If reality could be explained in words, it would have become commonplace knowledge long before 2500 years ago. The original language of our original mind is still in place. All we have to do is develop “the eyes to hear and the ears to see” it. The method for developing this transcendent, trans-perceptual wisdom is stunningly simple: just sit still enough — and straight enough — for long enough. And listen up — to the “sermon of no words.” * * * Elliston Roshi is guiding teacher of the Atlanta Soto Zen Center and abbot of the Silent Thunder Order. He is also a gallery-represented fine artist expressing his Zen through visual poetry, or “music to the eyes.”UnMind is a production of the Atlanta Soto Zen Center in Atlanta, Georgia and the Silent Thunder Order. You can support these teachings by PayPal to donate@STorder.org. Gassho.Producer: Shinjin Larry Little

500 Global's Khailee Ng – Entrepreneur, Venture Capitalist and Philosopher   Khailee Ng is among Malaysia's tech successes, having exited two startups with Says.Com and Groupsmore, and funding, through the venture capital firm 500 Global, seven regional unicorns, including Grab, Carousell, Bukalapak and Carsome.  With success having come early to him and plenty of time to consider ‘Life' at a more tender age than most, he also has reached fascinating conclusions about the world at large, giving this discussion a much wider and colourful range than normal.  Please Like, Share and Subscribe if you can! :-)))))  (As always, many thanks to the Asia School of Business for their collaboration with The Do More Podcast, in whose studio this conversation was recorded. The Asia School of Business is a partnership between MIT's Sloan School of Management and Bank Negara Malaysia). --- CONTENTS:  00:01:25 - Starting in the Media World (and Exiting) With Says.Com  00:04:48 - Enslaving a Nation by Depriving Independent Thought  00:08:25 - The Quest for Virality via Dopamine  00:15:57 - How Venture Capital Can Be a Force For Good  00:23:05 - Entrepreneurship and Dealing With Stress  00:25:35 - Tech Today - Where Is It? Valuations? Profitability? Growth?   00:28:35 - Venture Capital is a Sport of Co-Creation  00:34:34 - Entrepreneur / Venture Capitalist - Can One Become the Other?  00:39:47 - The Power of Thought and Actualisation  00:49:00 - The Process - A Day in the Life  00:55:46 - Making Hay In This Slice of Time .. As a Challenger Nation  01:09:14 - When People Build Nations, Not Politicians  01:14:15 - The Right People Mix in a Thriving Country  01:15:40 - Khailee's Experimental Life  01:17:08 - That Time on Necker Island with Richard Branson ..  01:18:18 - Having a Super Powerful RAS (Reticular Activating System) Magnet – ie Self Actualisation  01:19:27 - Branson Said, ‘Giving Money Away Is As Difficult and Interesting as Making Money..'  01:23:38 - Micro Charity is Accessible: Reference Ng Sek San, UrMu and Cold Tenderloin in San Francisco  01:31:35 - Outsourcing Nation-Building Disempowers You, So What's Your Personal ESG Policy?  01:33:24 - Going Beyond Meaning: Is It Religion?   01:42:00 - What's the Future About?  01:49:22 - Transcending Specialisation and Becoming a Full-Stack Human Like Da Vinci and Bucky Fuller  01:53:44 - Investing In the Human Psyche to Find the Next Stage of Technology  02:01:06 - What's Next for this Full Stack Individual?  FOLLOW KHAILEE HERE:  URL: https://khailee.com/  IG: https://www.instagram.com/khaileeng  Twitter: https://twitter.com/khailee  FB:  https://www.facebook.com/khailee/  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/khailee/ 

John David Mann is an award-winning author whose books have sold more than 3 million copies in 3 dozen languages, including the New York Times bestselling memoir The Red Circle with former Navy SEAL Brandon Webb and the New York Times bestselling parable The Latte Factor with personal finance legend David Bach.  As a teenager, John started his own high school and was an award-winning composer and cellist before turning to careers as an entrepreneur and author. His classic The Go-Giver (with Bob Burg ep 17) won the Living Now Book Award's Evergreen Medal for its “contribution to positive global change.”  His latest leadership parable, The Vagrant, is out now!  In this episode, John David Mann and Kevin Bees discuss: > How John career hopped his way into writing, via cellist, natural health, sales, entrepreneurship, and more. > A powerful lesson he learned from Bucky Fuller, and how he created a composition based on his words. > The importance of Optimism and Positivity  > How you can become a better writer www.howtowritegood.com > How to become a NYT best-selling author (hint, it is not jus about the writing) > Insights on his book, 'The Vagrant'.  It is a powerful Leadership Parable, about forgiveness & humility. https://www.amazon.com/Vagrant-Inner-Journey-Leadership-Parable/dp/163774370X > What happens when we don't ask ourselves the right questions? > John's unique idea around "quest formation”  - how we can create what we want in life using this technique. > Life-Changing Question: In difficult situations, what is the opportunity here to become a larger version of myself? > In writing ask “What are 7 ways I could do this?”.. there is not one right answer. > "What do I feel in my gut? What do the people I trust think?" And much more   Resources mentioned in the episode: Want to improve your writing tenfold? (Or a gazillionfold?)  HOW TO WRITE GOOD (OR AT LEAST, GOODER) www.howtowritegood.com The Vagrant https://www.amazon.com/Vagrant-Inner-Journey-Leadership-Parable/dp/163774370X   If you would like more insights on profit maximization for your business, visit www.ProfitHive.com.au

In this special episode, I drop by my friend Harlan Emil Gruber's magical home is Yucca Valley to have a long awaited conversation for this podcast. We have been connected by a thread of synchronicity for a couple years now and connected through our shared passion for conscious innovation and art. I am a deep admirer of his work which is shared throughout many festivals and Burning Man since the late 90's. He creates Portals to The New Earth; large immersive structures which work with sound healing frequencies and sacred geometry to establish an Earth - Soul connection. We have a candid discussion about the impact of urban planning, cosmic intelligence, spaceship Earth, the future of cities, and remembering our galactic mission while still being an awkward human sometimes.Harlan's WebsitePortal's To The New Earth bookHarlan's InstagramHarlan's YoutubeSpiral Revival's InstagramAlai's InstagramThat's Just Reality bookMuch love & blessings, Alaï Margarita Canyon Miel'aqua Malaika Delmaré Zaela Starshine

In this short, yet potent episode, I speak to Mark Smith, Sofia Hefter-Smith's Father, at his geodesic dome home in Oregon about his inner world concept of the Eleprocons. Mark has worked closely with the ideas of Buckminster Fuller and fellow 'New Earth' pioneers since the 70's when he developed these concepts which he has since carried with him as the precious stories they are.Get inspired by his prose of clever wordsmithing to continue cultivating our inner worlds and find our soul kin!Connect with Mark's ideas on IdeaPod, Youtube, and SubsStackAlai's InstagramSpiral Revival's InstagramSpiral Revival's InstagramAlai's InstagramThat's Just Reality bookMuch love & blessings, Alaï Margarita Canyon Miel'aqua Malaika Delmaré Zaela Starshine

EPISODE 1716: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Ken Dychtwald PhD, author of RADICAL CURIOSITY, on how to simultaneously stay young and old in an America preoccupied by age As a psychologist, gerontologist, author of 19 books, celebrated public speaker and teacher, successful entrepreneur, documentary filmmaker and CEO of Age Wave, Dr. Ken Dychtwald has been helping people envision their own and the culture's future for nearly five decades. He has been a key player in the emergence of the Human Potential, Holistic Health, Healthy Aging, Eldercare and Longevity movements and has given presentations to over two million people worldwide at high profile events alongside the likes of Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Nelson Mandela, Tony Blair, Ronald Reagan, Bucky Fuller, Al Gore, and Bono. He has been featured on 60 Minutes, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Today Show, Good Morning America, World News Tonight, The New York Times, PBS, CNN, BBC, Fortune, Inc., Time, Forbes, and many other media platforms worldwide. He has served as producer and host of multiple PBS documentaries and specials including “The Boomer Century, “Life's Third Age” and “Sages of Aging.” His firm Age Wave's innovative ideas and landmark research have garnered nearly 20 billion media impressions. Over the years, his client list has included over half the Fortune 500. He has served as a Fellow of the World Economic Forum, has keynoted two White House Conferences on Aging, and is the recipient of the McKinsey Prize for his writing in the Harvard Business Review. Ken has twice received the distinguished American Society on Aging Award for outstanding national leadership and, although he is not a financial advisor, he was honored by Investment Advisor as one of the 35 most influential thought leaders in the financial services industry over the past 35 years. Ken and his wife Maddy are the recipients of the Esalen Prize for their outstanding contributions to “advancing the human potential of aging men and women worldwide.” Ken was recently awarded the President's Award from the American Society on Aging as well as the Inspire Award from the International Council on Active Aging for his efforts to “make a difference in the lives of older adults worldwide.” He is a Trustee of the XPrize Foundation. Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) solved many problems we don't know we have. A master of efficiency and conservation of energy and resources, Bucky was the engineer whose ideas we need today.Full show notes here:Bucky Fuller: Brilliant Chart, Soulful Man (substack.com)Welcome to STARCAST!Every week, astrologer / journalist Eric Francis brings you the STARCAST program, a short update looking at current astrology. Occasional special editions consider longer timeframes and special topics.STARCAST is part of Planet Waves. We offer high quality services and readings, and monthly horoscope. To support the project, please visit our pages and take advantage of our products.Planet Waves Core Community Membership – Astrology from Planet Waves by Eric FrancisHere is the STARCAST home page, with all back editions available:STARCAST from Planet Waves – Astrology from Planet Waves by Eric FrancisAnd don't miss Planet Waves FM, my weekly program, which goes up each Friday night by 10 pm EDT.Planet Waves FM – Weekly webcast of astrologer Eric FrancisIf you want to support our efforts, please do so through our nonprofit organization, Chiron Return. Thank you for your generosity, your business and your trust.Your support matters. Every dollar you give goes directly toward our independent, original and commercial-free programming. Thank you! – Chiron Return Inc.

In this episode we delve into the journey of a fighter pilot. Dominic shares important life lessons, such as the importance of perseverance and how sticking to what we believe is the key to success. Discover how you can use a fighter pilot mindset to succeed at work. Dominic TeichDom “Slice” Teich brings his fighter pilot background and applies them to guide pilots, athletes, business owners, and students with afterburner techniques that American fighter pilots use to ensure mission completion. As an Amazon best-selling author, business owner, entrepreneur, civilian and military instructor pilot, he knows that busy individuals and teams struggle with information overload.  Since 2002, “Slice” has guided hundreds of students toward their goals. His blueprint is called Single Seat Mindset; an impactful group of 40+ fighter pilot guides with a combined experience of 700+ years. They share proven formulas and life advice to the insider circle community to ensure success and big goal achievement all while avoiding overwhelm, overload, and flameout. They dive deep into the productivity world to provide guidance through short, impactful steps.You won't find any other cutting-edge community like ours as we provide unique life experiences learned in the 3rd dimension.SingleSeatMindset.com

Russian Nationalism — a heady mix of Eurasianism, Russian Cosmism with esoteric and occult beliefs — is reflected in the Putin regime's information warfare. In recent episodes we covered a diverse range of topics, from longtermism to libertarian exit, to Bucky Fuller. But what do these things have in common, and what does it all mean? Dave is joined by Joe Szimhart who helps unpack the details behind Eurasianism, Russian Cosmism, and many other syncretic religious and occult ideas at the heart of Russia's war on the West. The picture helps provide a framework for better understanding what's going on, how to respond, and why this conflict is difficult to resolve. This episode is long and packed with information — you may find that it's useful to listen more than once to pick up on all the details. Feel free to send questions for future episodes to davetroy@icloud.com. Follow Joe on Twitter at @jszimhart, and Dave at @davetroy. Relevant books and papers: Mysteries of Eurasia by Jafe Arnold Russian Nationalism: Imaginaries, Doctrines, and Political Battlefields Books Instead of Lineage: Mystic Underground in the USSR (1960s–1980s) Don't Immanentize the Eschaton: Against Right-Wing Gnosticism Keywords: Syncretism, Eurasianism, Cosmism, Noosphere, Putin, Noocracy, Anton Vaino, Nooscope, Gnosticism, System 1 and 2 thinking, Völkisch Occultism, Russian Orthodox Church, Shambhala, Atlantis, Yuzhinsky Circle, Alexander Dugin, Yuri Mamleev, Psychotronics, Initiation, Libertarian Exit, Ayn Rand, Galt's Gulch, Hyperborea, Thule Society, Vril, Hitler, UFOs, Guenon, Fascism, Evola, Gurdjieff, Ahnenerbe, Tsiolovsky, Chizevsky, Fyodorov, Vernadsky, Teilhard De Chardin, Eduoard LeRoy, Gaia, Lovelock, Margulies, Sagan, Theosophy, Anthroposophy, Hare Krishnas, Hindu Nationalism, Gandhi, Nehru, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Marilyn Ferguson, Aquarian Conspiracy, Stepanov, Harmonic Convergence, Jose Arguelles, Birth 2012, Michael Beckwith, NESARA/GESARA, QFS, QAnon, The Event, Eschaton, Eschatology, Immanentize, Omega Point, Kurzweil, Russia 2045, Transhumanism.

Buckminster Fuller was a designer, inventor, and thinker, and a true American original. Alec Nevala-Lee is the author of a new detailed and honest biography of Fuller, "Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller." Dave talks to Alec about Bucky's life, the unusual cast of characters he attracted, and starts to get into some questions that help inform why Bucky's outsized personality might have attracted people who later went on to become attracted to various kinds of disinformation campaigns — a topic we'll explore in some later episodes. Follow Alec on Twitter at @nevalalee — and buy the book wherever books are sold. https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/59571984-inventor-of-the-future Keywords: Buckminster Fuller, Bucky Fuller, Inventor of the Future, Alec Nevala-Lee, Margaret Fuller, Geodesic Dome, Tensegrity, Gurdjieff, Roerich, Montreal Expo, Spaceship Earth, EPCOT, Bare Maximum, Dymaxion, 4D, Trim Tab, Robert Kiyosaki, Critical Path, Synergetics, Grunch of Giants, Werner Erhard, est training, John Denver, Ellen Burstyn, The Hunger Project, Stewart Brand, Whole Earth Catalog, Rich Dad Poor Dad, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos

This show first aired on May 31, 2018. The Studs Terkel edge on the radio was, first of all, picking guests who would sound more interesting 50, 60 years later: Mahalia Jackson, Bucky Fuller, Toni ...

Sponsored by Tierra Farm; Music by Aaron DessnerWith this episode, we're excited to officially launch season two of our Roots to Renewal podcast, and we are thrilled to have Greg Watson as our guest to kick things off. Greg is the director of policy and systems design at the Schumacher Center for a New Economics and a self-described lifelong student. He has spent nearly 50 years studying systems thinking as inspired by Buckminster Fuller and has worked to apply that understanding to achieve a more just and sustainable world. In this episode, you'll hear more about Greg's amazing biography and his involvement in many future bearing and life bearing initiatives as he and Hawthorne Valley's executive director and podcast host Martin Ping, take a deep dive on the topics of systems thinking and new economics, creating new forms of cooperation, the wisdom of nature, and so much more. If you'd like to learn more about Greg's work and the Schumacher Center for a New Economics visit https://centerforneweconomics.org. For more information on the World Game Workshop, visit https://worldgameworkshop.org.Donate to Hawthorne Valley here.More about Greg Watson:Greg is Director of Policy and Systems Design at the Schumacher Center for a New Economics. His work currently focuses on community food systems and an initiative to improve global systems literacy informed by a reimagining of Bucky Fuller's World Game Workshop. Greg has spent nearly 50 years studying systems thinking as inspired by Buckminster Fuller and has worked to apply that understanding to achieve a more just and sustainable world. He has served on the board of the Buckminster Fuller Institute and as a juror for the Buckminster Fuller Challenge.In 1978 he organized a network of urban farmers' markets in the Greater Boston Metropolitan Area. He served as Commissioner of Agriculture in Massachusetts from 1990 to 1993 and again from 2012 to 2014 when he launched a statewide urban agriculture grants program.Greg gained hands-on experience in organic farming, aquaculture, wind-energy technology, and passive solar design at the New Alchemy Institute on Cape Cod, first as Education Director and later as Executive Director. There he led the effort to create the Cape & Islands Self Reliance energy cooperative.  He served four years as Executive Director of the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, a multicultural grassroots organizing and planning organization where he initiated one of the nation's first urban agriculture projects (anchored by a 10,000 square foot commercial greenhouse).Watson was the first Executive Director of the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust (now the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center). In 2005 he coordinated the drafting of “A Framework for Offshore Wind Energy Development in the United States” and the following year founded the U.S. Offshore Wind Collaborative. Watson was part of the team that landed the National Wind Technology Testing Center in Massachusetts.  He served on President-elect Barack Obama's U.S. Department of Energy transition team in 2008.  In 2015 he founded the Cuba-U.S. Agroecology Network (CUSAN) following a trip to Cuba to learn about its agroecology system. CUSAN links small farmers and sustainable farm organizations in both countries to share information and provide mutual support. He is on the editorial board of MEDICC Review, journal of the nonprofit Medical Education in Cooperation with Cuba.Watson serves on several boards including Ocean Arks International, Remineralize The Earth, The Marion Institute, the Heron Foundation and Place Corps. 

Buckminster Fuller had one of the most fascinating and original minds of his century. He was a futurist, as well as a poet, philosopher, inventor and mathematician.He spent his life working across multiple fields, such as architecture, design, geometry, engineering, science, cartography and education, in his pursuit to make the world work for 100% of humanity.I first came across Bucky Fuller in 2nd Year Chemistry at University, and here I go into fascinating detail the wisdom he has imparted.You can read more about him here. Connect with me on Instagram @meiling.awBook a free consult with me here. 

This episode is with Sky King, the founder of Modern Stoa, a podcast advertising company for podcasters. His path is fascinating - he grew up in Hawaii, rarely wore shoes, was heavily influenced by Asian culture, had a father who was retired, and somehow ended up in a massive corporation right after college. In 2016. he became fascinated by how the media was shaping how people reacted to the 2016 US election and decided he wanted to try to make it better. From a cold email to Ryan Holiday to helping build Aubrey Marcus' podcast, Sky learned a ton that helped him build an agency FOR podcasters. His long-term vision is to build an alternative to traditional advertising in audio. We talk about this and a lot more including: Why he quit a good job to work at a smoothie bar How a cold email to Ryan Holiday changed his life Growing up in Hawaii Serendipitous events that lend to him moving to Austin The future of Audio Links Mentions Modern Stoa Sky's Podcast (Paid) or RMRK.app The Gray Lady Winked The Brass Check @consumersky (twitter) CrowdHealth: You ditched the traditional path… why haven't you ditched your traditional health insurance Experience the freedom and affordability of cash payments and community-funded healthcare with CrowdHealth. Use promo code “Boundless” during sign-up for a special discounted subscription offer. Sign Up Here Timestamps 1:41: Intro to Sky and where his name came from 5:03: Sky's influences growing up 11:34 Why he went to the corporate world 17:12 Cold emailing Ryan Holiday & vision for 19:47 Sky's "quake moment" 25:15 Moving to Austin and working for Aubrey Marcus 30:44 Sky's desire to help people 32:55 Growing up in Hawaii 36:10 Going to China at 10 39:30 Everything anywhere all at once reflections 44:40 The "true default path" 47:30 Hiring someone & responsibility 48:30 "what are you uniquely positioned to do?" 49:20 Advertising Subsidy & Media incentives 57:20 Meme farming & future of audio 1:01:30 Bucky Fuller & specialization Buy Paul's Book (Published Jan 2020): The Pathless Path Connect + Follow Paul Twitter: @p_millerd Paul's Weekly Newsletter on Work & Unconventional Path: Subscribe to Boundless Paul's YouTube Channel: Subscribe Further Ways To Support The Podcast: Become a sponsor of the Podcast / Newsletter Rate on iTunes or Spotify! Want to upgrade your Zoom studio? Check out Kevin Shen's Dream Studio Course Want to launch a course? Podia or Teachable are both platforms I use Web Hosting: Skystra Fast WordPress Hosting Host your own community" Circle 14-day free trial

In this episode, we chat with inventor, writer, producer, and educator Kurt Przybilla on American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor, critic of work, and futurist R. Buckminster Fuller.   Kurt Przybilla invented Tetra Tops, the world's first spinning top with more than one axis of spin, which were inspired by the works of Buckminster Fuller and have been featured in the New York Times, Popular Science, Baby Einstein, Child and Discover Magazine, as well as at the Smithsonian Institute. He is co-creator, writer and producer of the Molecularium Project at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where he has produced and co-written Molecules to the MAX!, a 3D animated film for Giant Screen IMAX theaters, Molecularium, an award winning digital dome feature, and NanoSpace, an game-based online theme park to teach kids about atoms and molecules. The Buckminster Fuller Institute Robert Anton Wilson's Interview of Buckminster Fuller The Molecularium Project Tetra Tops “New Ultrahard Diamond Glass Synthesized Using Carbon Buckyballs” ----------- Hilaritas Podcast Host/Producer Mike Gathers Engineer/Producer Ryan Reeves ------------- “There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.” “The minute you choose to do what you really want to do, it's a different kind of life.” - R. Buckminster Fuller.

In Montreal, Canada, there's an unusual modernist structure - on an island. Designed by Buckminster Fuller as the US pavilion for the 1967 World's Fair, or what everyone else on the planet calls the World Expo, the Biosphere attracted more than 5 million visitors, and today the site is a museum dedicated to the environment. In case you are a dome geek, and we know there are some out there, the Biosphere is a Class 1 icosahedral dome, as opposed to a Class 2 dodecahedral or a Class 3 tetrahedral.  Just sayin'.  It's a 32-frequency version where the inner and outer layers are connected by latticework standing two hundred feet high and covered by 1,900 acrylic panels.  Joining us today from Montreal is Michele Picard from Montreal's Bureau of Public Art, plus from New York, an expert on World's Fair history, Beverly Payeff Masey. 

When the generalized conceptioning field is macro untuned it is referred to as ultra-tunable, which is the systematic outsideness and as the micro untuned systemically infra tunable is the insideness. Logically, there must be a system's structural integrity for the insideness and the outsideness to exist in thought as systemic thought is the generalized model's polyhedronal integrity.  As intellect recalls what Bucky Fuller wrote, that integration discretely controls the coordination of all complex interactions.  Then metaphysical intellect as a function of finite Universe's de-finiteness consciously includes awareness of systematic outsideness and systemic insideness as the system itself is the discretely tuned-in conceptuality. (Synergetics 1033.10 Octave System of Polyhedral Transformations) In other words, we have to recognize the geometry and topology of the minimum structural system of Universe.  How otherwise can we put the facts of experience in order, which omni considerately would be in order to understand the importance of knowing the closest-packed spheres.  This seems especially so since frequency and uniform vectors of the isotropic vector matrix eventually connect to awareness of the diameter of the nucleus of the atom. Intellect's interpretation of Synergetics becomes a manifold accomplishment.  No longer estranged from recognizing the cosmic inception and conceptions, a mind is liberated from the onerous dictates of the hierarchical content, free to consider what the higher frequency order is respecting the diameter of the nucleus of the atom.  The smallest particle is an atom consisting of a positively charged nucleus surrounded by negatively charged electrons. Relevant links will be provided. You can read the entire transcript on my website sagesynergeticage.com. Synergetics Eligion Experiential Experimental Education Complex, SEEEEC

Wholly WOW!  To think Universe Eternal Omniscient Mind (UEOM) provides our human evolution intelligence a recognizable cosmic field for metaphysical intellect's generalized conceptioning as a cogently clarifying frequency tunability is more than amazing!  This is especially so as the PRJWBCSchemes continue to perpetuate insidiously harmful, least economic, most costly scenario episodes that divide to conquer whatever can separate a mind and heart from its inherent benignity.  Access to the knowledge is close at hand. But in our educated ignorance humans of a mind, an evolution species, the very thought of conceptualizing transceivered frequency information may as well be from an alien planet.  So far afield has our innate faculty been taken, the further into self-deluding redundant claims we go.   And yet, as metaphysical intellect's anticipatory design science curiosity includes the closest-packing-spheres assemblies within its reality basis and writing practices, the conceptualization experience provides increasingly more self assurance that benignity and accurately disseminated content is possible as discrete control measures.Integration, Bucky Fuller wrote, discretely controls the coordination of all complex interactions.  So, we can confidently inquire, asking.  What, if not the continuity of conscious life, which becomes personality as a product of complex periodic interactions known as cycles or periodic recurrences of a higher frequency order is also contributory to obsoleting the subconscious ignorantly fearful cautionaries of the PRJWBCS: Politics Religion Justice War Belief Complex Schemes? Reference for this episode today is included. Links are provided in my transcript on my website sagesynergeticage.com. Read the entire transcript for your research in this education experiment, Synergetics Eligion Experiential Experimental Education Complex, SEEEEC.

It is reassuring to learn that nature always starts ever freshly with the equilibrious isotropic vector matrix field. So, what prevents metaphysical intellect, a function of metaphysical and physical Universe, from starting freshly with this unified field, a quantum energy field, a compatible generalized conceptioning field with systemic thought's omniconsiderate, omnirational anticipatory reality?  After all, it is an operational field complex and a cosmic hierarchy in some eventual recognition correlating to systemic thought and a single conceptual system that provides a common language and accounting for both the metaphysical and the physical.  It is an accommodation network to which conscious mind can refer its observations of the reenacting articulations as our humanity evolves by conscious choice out of the womb of permitted ignorance and into the ever-expanding womb of total human consciousness.  We are now informed of the energetic-synergetic alternative options so that individually we can let go of the inherited detriments from the earlier humans whose PRJWBCSchemes laid the groundwork for the predominantly asymmetric propagation's and misunderstanding about our evolution species, humans of a mind, on Earth. We have recently learned of my acronym, PRJWBCS: Politics Religion Justice War Belief Complex Schemes.  As well from Bucky Fuller's Grunch of Giants we have recently learned of humans as being semi-divine.  And from Synergetics 440.01, we learned that the nearest approach anyone will ever know to eternity and god is zero pulsation in the vector equilibrium, which attracts a mind's focused attention comparatively to experiences of the inculcating fallacies perpetrated by religions everywhere in the world.  Fictional writers are inspired by those false premises to convey aspects of such misinterpreted experiences involving this sound word God.  It is where nature would never do what humans' resort to, in the name of God spoken in any language anywhere in the world and what they are indoctrinated to believe regarding god, God.  Which I have renamed UEOM Universe Eternal Omniscient Mind.A great example of this to the extreme is the movie on Netflix, The Devil All the Time. When watching movies intellect does not generalize every concept playing itself out on the screen.  But in actuality this is not an impossible feat with key words in the universal communications experience that reiterate the pernicious problem over histories of humans on Earth.  The PRJWBCS is a contextual parameter that lends itself to this potential clarity as the characters in this movie, “The Devil All the Time.”  They are portrayed in local settings that are replications of real live hometowns, small towns, as technology in the 21st Century is different from the 20th Century, but in every case is energy articulating as products and services correlating to observation and articulation.   Remember to read the entire transcript on my website sagesynergeticage.com/ for relevant links provided therein for your research in this education experiment, Synergetics Eligion Experiential Experimental Education Complex  SEEE

On their creation Tikkun Olunch, based on the Jewish tradition of Tikkun Olam, ”These lunches were an opportunity for us to get together once a week and ask, ‘Are you doing the most you can possibly do to make the world a better place?  How can I help you think through that and how can I help you step up your game?' -Amanda Joy Ravenhill, Executive Director of The Buckminster Fuller Institute@AmandaRavenhill, Executive Director of @BuckyFullerInst, which is dedicated to accelerating the development and deployment of strategies that radically regenerate Earth's ecosystems. She previously held the role of Co-Founder and Executive Director of Project Drawdown, the comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming. Amanda Joy is a member of The Seastars, an acapella group blending harmonies with new narratives of a future that works for 100% of life. She is also an avid gardener, stewarding her small backyard farm to build soil, host pollinators, create medicines, and grow food.@KushyKush, Co-founder and Director of Outreach, @Third_Deriv, a joint venture between Rocky Mountain Institute and New Energy Nexus. D3 now has the largest cohort of climate tech startups in the world, an SPV to fund all current and future companies, $3 trillion in market cap across corporate partners and $2 billion in deployable funds across VC partners. He is the author of “Accelerate This! A Super Not Boring Guide To Startup Accelerators and Clean Energy Entrepreneurship”, sponsored by the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, World Wildlife Fund, and New Energy Nexus, and featuring Y Combinator, Techstars, 500 Startups, Google X, and other innovation programs around the world.As always, HUGE shout out to Climate Tech Cocktails official sponsors ☀️Yotta Energy and

REFERENCE  for this episode: Synergetics 431.00 through Synergetics 445.15Intuition's imaginative ability to formulate conceptually referentially to Synergetics vectorial geometry considers the future likelihood of generalized anticipatory design science evolution manifesting a true democracy.  It is an eventual realization in the USA.  This is because the USA is where R. Buckminster Fuller discovered nature's coordinate system which is geodesic vectorial geometry.  Coincidentally this is where my experience of democracy is occurring.  To the best of my observations and accumulated knowledge, the concept True Democracy, referential to the coordinate system of nature's conceptualities found in Synergetics is a unique innovation.  The inspiration derives from Bucky Fuller's extensively explicit geometric models, the topology of which provide what my imagination's systemic thought strives to correlate to the understandable interrelating system integrities.  Logically, it is universally understood that democracy is a complex governing system.  Parameters already exist relative to the synergetic possibility of forming a more perfect union.  Therewith we can assign number values that perhaps can coincide with learning about the quantum accounting correlatively to the isotropic vector matrix, a cosmic hierarchy, Universe's omnirational operational field complex.  Experimentally this education process is a simplified correlation, for example, the 50 United States as but one contextual parameter that might correlate to the 50-frequency vector equilibrium.  Another inviting conceptual value of as yet to be fully imagined clarified and verified association is vector equilibrium as equanimity model.  Metaphysical intellect as a function of Universe in a True Democracy identifies conceptual values differentiated from the inherited practices that devalue individuals in the underway matters.  So that not only is metaphysical intellect known to be a function of Universe.  The metaphysical observer is not dismissed but is fully accountable as an integral constituent, not devalued concerning what provides a single language that accounts for the metaphysical and physical and permits what provides an absolute accommodation network of energy articulation, AAANOEA.Our consciously knowledgeably competent articulations employ the word Universe, the epistemological model which is the Synergetic's equanimity model, the vector equilibrium.  It shares a design in both the metaphysical and the physical.  It permits metaphysical conceptual thinkability.  The angle-and-frequency modulatability of it identifies much that our freedom-loving humanity had no language awareness of before when we never could agree to learn more about governing principles.  Remember to read the entire transcript  ON MY WEBSITE sagesynergeticage.com/ for relevant links provided therein for your researching in this education experiment, SEEEEC Synergetics Eligion Experiential Experimental Education Complex

It can take your excited thought deeper into the cognizable moment as the Synergetic potential of a true  democracy's tetrahedroning omniexperience accounting comes to light.  By the great cosmic intellect designing it seems to be intended for this specific nation relative to UEOM-directed discoveries by R. Buckminster Fuller in the 20th Century in this historic process of writing from this omnirationally omniconsiderate-fresh-start.   Oddly though, Synergetic correlation to be potential of a true democracy is still working itself out in the second decade of the 21st Century.  Obviously, there is a great difference between his genius and my naivete, which is situated as an observer who dares to be naive about the prospects of democracy evolving despite my inexperience with generalized design science and a quantum accounting.  You would be amazed by what I have latched onto in this self educating process as word associations to figure out what was not common knowledge.  Along the way I assumed consciousness of the Synergetic Universe was already known by the highly educated people in the world.  And, whose dedicated purposes, of course, would be similarly inclined  to refer their developing thoughts to the most brilliant source of omnirational coherent information.  It took decades for me to realize this was the furthest from the truth throughout the universal communications process.  More apparently now, I can observe from disseminated information, which I primarily tune in on the internet that approximately no one is paying the slightest attention to Bucky Fuller's genius as they continue to predominantly follow a differently coordinated thought-language.Such thought and language cannot resolve any prevalent issue or aspects of historically inherited agendas to inherent nuclei and consciousness of the most economical way of behaving relative to unity and self in Universe.  The quantum accounting and this multidimensional omniexperience accounting, the generalized transformative accounting that begins by closest packing equiradius spheres, does not occur to them.  Yet, the Synergetics' vectorial geometry introduces the mind of anticipatory design science's true democracy to the discovery of nuclear metaphysics.  Therefore, there is every clearheaded possibility that such an innovative use of Synergetics conceptual geometries and topologies would eventually provide inspirations correlative to democracy.Let us recall what Fuller wrote in this regard.  One molecule of any element in a ratio to one space is a cosmic democracy.   The consciously tuned-in observer's word-associating thought process latches onto the clues referring the word ‘democracy' to the potential of eventually coordinating the relevant correlations.  Such generalized conceptioning is metaphysical and independent of size that usually is not discussed primarily because the mind's thought-language inceptions and conceptions in this regard are temporarily inexplicable, not yet self evident and familiar enough to converse of it.  Remember to read the entire transcript  ON MY WEBSITE sagesynergeticage.com/ for relevant links provided therein for your researching in this education experiment, SEEEEC Synergetics Eligion Experiential Experimental Education Complex

Metaphysical intellect's inspirations and transcendent thought can belong to no otherness-generated obligatory social-political-religion-justice affiliation.  Neither does the individual's awareness in this  identify its mind relating to nor belonging to a spiritual realm.  Clearly the synergetically aware individual recognizes that its own mind, heart, and consciousness evolution is an integral function of UEOM, Universe Eternal Omniscient Mind. Perhaps for the first conscious competently conceptual articulation self admits newest insight into what Buckminster Fuller's genius found and stated in so many words in Synergetics 440.01.  It is that since zero pulsation in the vector equilibrium is the nearest approach humans will ever know to eternity and god, then Bucky Fuller could not have called  god, by the name his Synergetics inspired me to more accurately identify it, which is UEOM, Universe Eternal Omniscient Mind.  Full credit is given to his genius for inspiring my differently coordinated thought with his discovery in my mind, my anticipatory insights and outlooks.Perhaps more people will find that without the Synergetics model in exact balance which is described by the vector equilibrium's nuclear tendencies, radials and circumferentials, our evolution species could not begin to imagine erasing the old chalk board, to start with a clean slate, to begin life anew.  This can be accomplished while focused on the most comprehensive omniconsiderate new beginning.  It can occur at an unpredictable moment, the moment-to-moment rebirth where everything anticipatory is potentially omnirational. Remember to read the entire transcript  ON MY WEBSITE sagesynergeticage.com/ for relevant links provided therein for your researching in this education experiment, SEEEEC Synergetics Eligion Experiential Experimental Education Complex

Richard Miller, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and host of the syndicated talk radio show Mind, Body, Health & Politics. He's founder of Cokenders Alcohol and Drug Program and has been a faculty member at the University of Michigan and Stanford University. He also served as advisor on the President's Commission on Mental Health and a founding board member of the Gestalt Institute of San Francisco as well as a member of the national board of directors for the Marijuana Policy Project. He also restored and reopened the Wilbur Hot Spring Retreat facility in Northern California. He is the Editor and author of the book Psychedelic Medicine: The Healing Powers of LSD, MDMA, Psilocybin, and Ayahuasca. (Park Street press 2021)   Interview Date: 9/30/2021    Tags: Richard Miller, Psychedelics, LSD, MDMA, Psilocybin, Ayahuasca, PTSD, R. Buckminster Fuller, Bucky Fuller, Watson and Crick, DNA researchers, Carl Sagan, alcohol prohibition, Rick Doblin, psychedelics clinics, Ketamine therapy, politics of psychedelics, Health & Healing, Psychology, Social Change/Politics

As I assimilate this vast responsibility that could never be predicted of a future prospect at any developing aspect of my individual personality, I realize that the enormity of Synergetics has barely begun to play its pivotal role, functioning thus in this world's anticipatory design science innovations correlating to manifesting a true democracy and evolving as intelligent humans of the Universe Eternal Omniscient Mind. The progression is diurnal albeit not a scheduled routine because inspiration and allowable time can vary from one day to the next. Nevertheless, it is with increasing and decreasing lag rates between apprehension and comprehension as the after images from day to day include the variously-sized destructive irrelevancies as incoming information from the world's disseminating content and my reactions to it. When the irrelevant tolerance magnitude's tyrannical ignorance is also the predominantly increasing residual inaccuracy's erroneous dictatorial messaging articulated as the humanly-innovated law as well as interpretations of it, consciousness evolution's course corrections rely on what can be accurately measured.  The accurately measured, in truth, cannot derive from the PRJWBCS Politics Religion Justice War Belief Complex Schemes despite the communications technology in our world that facilitates world trade and all interrelating competitive ambitions where money and power convince every illogical reason to justify violating our humanity as such rationalization permits the powerfully situate to propagate such delusion. We have in Synergetics, Bucky Fuller's exploration's in the geometry of thinking that seemingly is beyond the grasp of the ordinary person, the layman, the people who comprise entire populations everywhere in the world.  More of us are not universities educated and many humans receive some education from systems designed for such purposes from childhood to various age and school education levels.  Consequently, we tend to rely on university graduates know how and know what that we trust is best for all that humans require to survive.  Nevertheless, we survive by trial-and-error experiential-experimental information-gathering, local problem solving. This has always been the case regardless that the experience does not seem to be the truth according to what we have been taught to think relative to some degree of indoctrinated inculcation and how we go about performing, starting but not always finishing, our daily tasks.   Remember to read the entire transcript  ON MY WEBSITE sagesynergeticage.com/ for relevant links provided  for your researching in this education experiment, SEEEEC Synergetics Eligion Experiential Experimental Education Complex.

Remember to read the entire transcript  ON MY WEBSITE sagesynergeticage.com/ for relevant links provided  for your researching  in this education experiment.The reference today besides the world stage, and a Netflix documentry,  is Synergetics 150.00 Synergy of Synergies, Synergetics 201.11,  & Synergetics 600.00 Generalized Design Science ExplorationEschewing is abstaining from.  It is not an everyday word choice but Bucky Fuller used it and so it is worth a glance from our 21st Century evolved humanity especially with regard to the possibility of eventually manifesting a true democracy.  From my informed perspective and metaphysical generalized conceptioning as a function of Universe Eternal Omniscient Mind, UEOM, religion evolved to Eligion therefore this Synergetic Eligion Experiential Experimental Education Complex, SEEEEC 17, does not abstain from the Synergetic exploratory strategy.  It is unlike perpetuating the educational strategies that eschew starting with the ‘whole'.      

Bucky Fuller was a recognised genius from last Century. His futuristic, design thinking has influenced thousands of people worldwide.. This quote is a powerful quote of his that I want to share with you today..

If it is true, it will always be true.  How otherwise could it be shown as research and development eventually describing the identifiable energized  behavior patterns?  It cannot be done without experiential-experimental evidence.  In any event, it, whatever it is, is the special case time-size articulation that eventually is identified as a part of the whole interrelating problem-solution.   “The articulations are ever reenacting,” as Bucky Fuller wrote, “each time hoping to reduce the tolerance magnitude of the residual inaccuracy of observation or articulation.”  Logically, ‘it' can be reduced relative to humans of a mind, our evolution species' hoping to do so each time the metaphysical generalized conceptioning field of thought loves and trusts the truth.  If it is true, the truth of its design science principle will always be true but can only be accurately said of an eternal generalized principle designed by the eternal omniscient mind.  Universe, in other words, at the moment of its expansion must have resulted from a design of its generalized principle.  This suggests that the eternal omniscient mind comes before all that occurs exponentially evolving throughout intertransforming environments as the motion freedoms are integrals to every Cosmic & Local event's interpatterning integrity  interrelating interacting by cyclic degree.  Saying so initially is a relatively superficial understanding, a not fully known correlation to all degree of omnirational, omnidirectional comprehension.  Aspects as intuitive points of the articulations nevertheless are tuned in by intellect's correlating aptitude's systemic thought, which anticipates eventing, the energy-synergy of Universe's metaphysical conceptuality independent of physical size, time-size, time-space-sizing where it is size alone that can come to zero, not the conceptuality.  PLEASE READ THE ENTIRE TRANSCRIPT on my website sagesynergeticage.com  Related links are provided therein.

A Synergetic new age eligion experience ought to lead to more self discoveries, clarifying what heretofore has been confusing, contradictory to self's intuitive nature especially regarding laws and truth.  Basically, truth is a relationship, a direction, and ultimately a conceptuality of the product zero.  So zero pulsation in the vector equilibrium, which Bucky Fuller wrote in Synergetics 440.01 is the closest approach humans will ever know to eternity and god is relevant to self discovery.  Only, I replaced the sound word God or god in any spoken or written language anywhere on Earth, naming it “the eternal omniscient mind.”  I did so because “God” in different languages over the centuries seems to be as a punishing force that is interpreted as a God-given, God-sanctioned agreement against other humans and self.  Such punitory authority is described by different authorities all of which indirectly malign God by devaluing humans, harming self and the others' whole lifetime. Generalized laws are different from manmade laws.  Manmade laws often contradict the purpose of life on Earth, which does not need to ignore nature's coordinate system's generalized primitive conceptuality differentiated from time-size realization.  But perhaps laws under the banner of Justice in every nation represents tribunals to assure survival of Justice as the justices adhere to the manmade laws, which can indirectly rule the people of the land, putting them in check with the lord of law's utmost integrity. People that value wisdom as the decisive power of the law can feel grateful when deepest deliberate thought decides the outcome in the name of justice as its cause is served accordingly.  But there seems to be no incentive for the J Factor (Justice) of the PRJWBCS to admit a reluctance to dismiss inherently illusory reality, not consciously discarding the three-dimensional reality as the basis of inefficient, obscurational, interpretation of the human experience. Eternal-timeless-sizeless generalized laws of Universe are metaphysical. Synergetic age's new world eligion anticipates engineering the most economic behavior which is relative to unity and self in Universe.  The relevant importance of eternal generalized principles is that humans can conceptualize the principles independent of size, time-size, where it is size alone that can come to zero not the conceptuality and which qualifies its integrity as changeless.  The eternal changeless definition of all understanding, therefore, could only be referential to its mathematical pristine non corruptible patterning integrity.PLEASE READ THE ENTIRE TRANSCRIPT. at my website sagesynergeticage.com Related links are provided therein.

Our nature is both physical and metaphysical.  There seems to be no principle of the metaphysical that physicists accredit.  Physicists admit complementarities. They have found it correlates to awareness of fundamental behavior patterning in Universe where comparative experimental realities are required to evidence non-mirror-images that are non simultaneously observed.  Bucky Fuller's Synergetics with the vector equilibrium in mind provides a schematic of the constant interrelationship of all the principles involved with a conceptual system, even a photon, which is configured as a tetrahedron.  This clearly suggests we may treat the conceptuality mathematically as topology.  Topology is fundamental for elementary education and can no longer be denied as an essential clarification that from centuries ago was displaced and supplanted by belief complex schemes of every detrimental implication. So there must be the metaphysical observer's conceptual-reasoning in the clarifying-reality process despite not accrediting it wherever the split second is zero time related.  Then, why do physicists tend to distort the information of a  conceptuality in the first place?  By distorting I mean discrediting fundamental phenomena as if ordinary understanding must be made so complicated that the average person shies away from being curious about what could eventually explain the deviant personalities that reference yet another influence, a different scheme's interference pattern.  What humans sense to be reality includes a conceptuality.  A conceptuality is metaphysical.  The conceptuality is of complementarity and relativity.  This is where the always-and-only coexisting complementarities ought to be common knowledge such as Nonconceptuality & Conceptuality, Experience & Nonexperienceable, Interference & Synchronization, Inexplicable & Explicable, Obvious & Mystical, which are paired concepts.  The paired concepts are generated by the complementarity of conceptuality, Fuller writes in Synergetics 501.23  VISIT MY WEBSITE  Transcript.  Read the credits therein.   sagesynergeticage.com

From microcosmic nuclear isotropicity to the macro cosmic isotropically interpositioned galaxies our individual awareness and metaphysical faculties are designed in principle by the eternal omniscient mind* to learn of these phenomena.  The learning process includes every trial-and-error indication to eventually develop an interest in the Universe's electromagnetic spectrum.  Then the intuitively interpreted signs, which are yet to be differentiated types of tuned-in-brain transceiver traffic over cosmic streams suggest what Bucky Fuller wrote which is “The continuity of conscious life becomes personality as a product of complex periodic interactions known as cycles or periodic recurrences of a higher frequency order,” are relevant to our humanity and evolution survival. As evolution beings what would possess our humanity whose drive is toward total comprehension and eternal changeless definition of understanding, not to consider the cosmic advantage especially correlatively to the universal communications process? *the eternal omniscient mind is my replacement words for the sound word god, God, in any spoken or written language anywhere on Earth.It is reassuring in this regard to learn that isotropic means everywhere the same.  With respect to a cosmic hierarchy the vectors are everywhere the same length as each vector's mass times its velocity equals zero. As well, every vector is theoretically metaphysical and physically realized therefore is a partial generalization.  In addition the cosmic hierarchy is a matrix, an isotropic vector matrix, an operational field complex.  The cosmic hierarchy is of relative significance to our humanity's drive toward total comprehension and anticipatory design science's eternally changeless definition of all understanding.  This is also because we can eventually ascertain where Bucky Fuller's conscious thought interconnected seemingly unrelated events.  In our day-to-day coexistence as systemic thought involves every consciously considerate correlation to observations of the reenacting articulations, we know none of this.  So until we are informed of it in the universal communications process of our  ordinary existence these thoughts may never have occurred to us.  PLEASE READ THE ENTIRE TRANSCRIP ON MY WEBSITE LINKS ARE INCLUDED THEREIN.  sagesynergeticage.com.

White billowy clouds quickly spread across the clear blue sky and as swiftly vanish bringing gusty winds inland momentarily swaying the highest branches of tall conifers. It was as ABCD and STUV sit comfortably on Adirondack chairs enjoying the late summer early afternoon.  Who could ask for better weather than full sun, gentle breezes for the greater part of the day?  Earlier,  they talked of recently observed events, as usual reacting to the news, while picking blueberries from a potted bush at the edge of the newly planted green grass.  The blue berry bush stood foreheads high, ideal for chatting and snacking, filling a hand to share with the family dog as they meandered across the freshly cut lawn on the family home site.It is tucked away behind tall spreading Leland Cypress and various evergreens, perennial trees, native bushes and honey suckle among other climbing vines.  It formed a natural privacy screen from the road to town, which was never too heavily traveled anyway.  Experiencing relative serenity at home, they never stopped appreciating living as they did in a rural setting within walking distance to the grocery stores for essentials.  Otherwise, online markets, increasingly more efficient shipping for home delivery from online merchants made their simple lifestyle easier than it was a few decades ago before the internet evolved. We must remember that ABCD and STUV are imagined characters in Christina Universe Citizen's reacting states of mind that provides dialogue in a skit for SAGE Synergetic Age a New World Religion Podcast.  With this in mind we note they are sisters barely two years apart from each other's age and seem always to have shared interest in common for nature and in particular Bucky Fuller's Synergetics.  They had happened upon Buckminster Fullers many books which include Synergetics Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking decades ago.  Amazingly though, the world for some inexplicable reasons has yet to catch on, not tuning into the Planet's Friendly Genius and his many discoveries written about in Synergetics.  This lack of world popularization is not discouraging to ABCD and STUV. They persist with learning more, co-writing, exploring the geometry of their systemic thought, conversing, recording developing consciousness as an evolution of  their individual perspectives as we can observe again today in this SAGE Skit Episode 47.  Let's listen in.Please read the entire transcript at my website SageSynergeticAge.com/ links are provided therein. 

Lyrics & Vocal Christina Universe CitizenInspired by: Bucky Fuller's Synergetics 986.830 Music My Co-Writer “RETRO”Any day come what may Someone in the world  is bound to  say There is the long and the short of itThe right and the terribly wrong of itNow and then of itThe best and worst of itBut we never hear of the metaphysical conceptual generalized principleThere is the up of it and the deeply down of itThe go around it getting in and out of itThe soundless and the noise of itThe woe begone beckoningThe life and death of itOh what the heck of itBut we never hear of the metaphysical conceptual generalized principleWe never hear of the metaphysical conceptual generalized principleIs it because we have to construct realities to please the status quo way to goCan we realize the static sphere, quasi sphere does not existSo where does this leave our intellectFeeling this a wayFeeling that old wayFeeling lost and found on any given daySlap happy or tear dropping sadlyGetting over the hurdlesStepping into an even  tighter girdleWearing another goofy maskDutifully performing the master's tasksBut we never hear of the metaphysical conceptual generalized principleWe never hear of the metaphysical conceptual generalized principleWhat about the timeless-sizeless symmetric polyhedraThe six positive and six negative cosmic degrees of freedomThe potential force vectorsFor adequately coping with all the conditionsEssential to maintaining the individual integrity The min-max primitive structural pre subdivision of Universe.  We gotta talk and sing about the structural inter-self-stabilized eventsEvents of Universe  The event patterning self stabilizes systemic thoughts anticipatory realitySystemic thoughts anticipatory realitySelf stabilizing systemic thoughts anticipatory realityVisit my website: sagesynergeticage.com/

The most essential, least known, integral of the eternal omniscient mind's a prior design is of such great importance to our humanity that metaphysical intellect as a function of Universe alas must now pay heed.  Presently, and as Bucky Fuller wrote in his book INTUITION, pp 43-44, 1972, we are omnivictimized by the antisynergetic educational process.  As well, it is an anticosmological education process.  So that no matter how cleverly, deviously, or honestly the governmental system is.  It must reinstate the authorities of its offices as the elected representatives in a democracy. Or in the world, governments instate victorious position as the totalitarian resulting from of a revolution.  However, the greater intellect of generalized principles remains of no interest to the world's PRJW: Politics Religion Justice War and PCJW: Politics Communism Justice War belief system complexes. The world is a reflection of our absences aforethought of the vast a priori design that is governing Universe.  It was unknown to the Roman Empire and all interrelating territorial power structures in that region on Earth.  It was unknown to every governing system in the world since then.  None of them have attempted to manifest a unified objective referential to operating a unified, comprehensively considerate form of government. This is the historical and contemporary case,  whether a tribal or any cultivation en masse where human behavior evidences the opposite of consciousness evolution comprised of knowledgeable of Synergetics. As a result, omnivitimization rears its potential personality as a vulnerability of the omnivictimized people.  The slave mentality is relative to the demented self gratifying, self-serving disproportionate number who prey upon others. READ THE ENTIRE TRANSCRIPT.  Relevant links included therein. 

Bucky Fuller! Nuph sed. The host of My Family Thinks I'm Crazy Podcast invited me to talk about one of my greatest inspirations.   Here is The Jindo episode I reference in the intro: not the latest one like I thought. Jesus, its like they listened to the podcast and put the video on the top for me. I was like, look there is some key evidence for Bucky's theory! Synchro or algo, that is the question. https://youtu.be/iD0nB9wFLM4

Devon Price, Ph.D. is a social psychologist, writer, activist, and professor at Loyola University of Chicago's School of Continuing and Professional Studies. Price's work has appeared in numerous publications such as the Journal of Experimental Psychology, Slate, and has been featured on the front page of Medium numerous times. Price is the author of Laziness Does Not Exist (Atria Books 2020)Interview Date: 1/7/2021      Tags: Devon Price, overworking, laziness, laziness lie, pandemic, universal income, Rebecca Solnit, R. Buckminster Fuller, Bucky Fuller, students, motivation, overwork, productivity, working from home, setting boundaries, achievement orientation, achievement indoctrination, Stephen Covey, Personal Transformation, Work/Livelihood, Creativity

Who are you working for? Millennials tend to get a bad wrap. They’re considered self-absorbed, introverted, and only looking out for themselves. In this episode of Millennial Money, Robert Kiyosaki and host, Alex Gonzalez, discuss how the Millennial generation isn’t the only one that can be described that way. Looking back on his college years at the Merchant Marine Academy, Robert realizes how those formative years helped strengthen him in all four intelligences: mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual. The most important of those, spiritual, is what still guides him as the leader of the Rich Dad Company. In a recent interaction with a homeless gentleman roaming the streets of Arizona during another blistering hot summer day, Robert realized he had a choice to make. Though it would have been easy for Robert to tell him to, ”Get a job!”, his spiritual intelligence kicked in. Giving the man a few dollars and sharing some comforting words, “I feel your pain,” reminded Robert that the true sign of emotional and spiritual intelligence isn’t divisive (“I have money because I work hard and you don’t because you’re lazy.”) but unifying. Recalling his time learning from Bucky Fuller, he reminds us that he doesn’t work for me (oneself) but for everybody. And therein lies the difference between the Millennial generation and those that came before it. Where previous generations grew up with nothing, the Millennial generation has every advantage imaginable. So while they are labeled self-centered and entitled, Robert is quick to point out that they are also full of compassion and seek to make the world a better place. Millennials are far more socially conscious than the Baby Boomers and Gen Xers that preceded them. Robert gives them credit with their desire to correct the mistakes of the past. #robertkiyosaki​ #richdadpoordad​ #millennialmoney​ https://www.richdad.com/​ Facebook: @RobertKiyosaki https://www.facebook.com/RobertKiyosaki/​ Twitter: @TheRealKiyosaki https://twitter.com/theRealKiyosaki​ Instagram: @TheRealKiyosaki https://www.instagram.com/therealkiyo...​ If you would like to experience this episode in closed caption, it can be found here on the YouTube Rich Dad channel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

During my business and entrepreneurship journey, I have been lucky enough to study with and learn from some incredible minds. Through Marshall Thurber, and his ‘Money & You’ course, I have been introduced to the truly profound business thinkings of both W Edward Deming and Buckminster Fuller.In this episode, and as we collectively set down our plans and priorities for the new year, I share some of the most compelling entrepreneurial philosophies and principles pioneered by the great ‘Bucky’ Fuller!In this conversation we explore: why goal-setting is so important why being in motion towards your goal is more important than the goal itself! why trying to ‘find your purpose’ isn’t it! why selfless goals & objectives are so much more impactful why adding value into the lives of others is so very important, for you and them! how the setting up of your plans to achieve your goals increases the likelihood of their attainment why regular reconnection with your goals is imperative, for you, your family and your team how your vision, goals & unique plans can set you apart as a business AND see you attract and retain great people and talent how to create a legacy and truly pioneer in your lifetime why innovating and inventing in order to solve broader social issues and specific industry problems can see you make an impact on the planet beyond your comprehension!   The brilliance of ‘Bucky’ is that we get to explore all of these very important elements of business and life simply by applying generalised laws of nature to how we lead and do business.I hope my ramblings this time have a meaningful impact for you.If you have any questions about this topic, feel free to reach out via the Profitable Farmer Facebook page. I’d love to hear from you.Sincerely,  JeremyPS - Only 80 seats left at our TOP Producers Workshop in Adelaide next month! Secure yours now by clicking here: TOP Producers Program 2-Day Workshop

Sim Van der Ryn has been leading the way for a more regenerative, resilient, and sustainable future as a pioneer of the green building movement. This movement emphasizes the value to our health and well-being of a direct connection to nature. Designing in collaboration with nature is a major tool toward creating a vital new architecture for an empathic world. Van der Ryn has been a leading proponent of the green building movement (even before it was known as that), and for more than a half a century has been leading the way to a more regenerative, resilient, and sustainable future. His books include The Integral Urban House: Self-Reliant Living in the City (Random House 1982) and Design for an Empathic World: Reconnecting to People, Nature, and Self (Island Press 2013)Interview Date: 1/22/2014   Tags: Sim Van der Ryn, nature deficit disorder, regenerative architecture, Christos’ fence, People’s Park, Occupy movement, resilience, green building, closed environments, toxic environments, watercolors, water coloring, five principles of eco-design, biomimicry, Bill McDonough, Jason McLennan, Bucky Fuller, Buckminster Fuller, mimic nature’s process, incidental contact, natural light, Monterey hospital, Real Goods Trading Company, water conservation, ecological architecture, Community, Environment/Nature/Ecology, Social Change/Politics

“Cada vida y experiencia personal es un micro universo” Bucky Fuller

David Gruder returns for the second time. If you missed his first interview please check out episode 6 of the Create A New Tomorrow Podcast. Dr. David Gruder is a twelve award winning integrative psychologist. He's president of the Integrity Culture Systems, which work focuses on what he calls self sovereignty, and that serves us all. He equips leaders, influencers and entrepreneurs who are called to repair and evolve the world in their own unique ways with inner, outer and spiritual skills to expand their positive impact. And a super change Catalyst's without sacrificing their lightheartedness, health, financial well-being or cherished personal and work relationships *Episode Highlights* *Ari* [00:04:15] How do you break through that kind of organizational is in, whether it's in corporations and governments in whatever or in families or in yourself, even the organizational how you've organized your own being. *David* [00:06:04] And for the words and actions that the emotions I'm having about the stories I'm telling myself about the parts of reality that I'm paying attention to have on those to whom I'm in relationship or with whom I'm in relationship. That, to me, is the essence of spiritual responsibility. So that's the personal side of it. There's a societal side of it, too. Should I go on to that? *David* [00:12:15] My belief system is the right belief system because after all, all of the other beliefs that my core assumptions are based on makes sense with my core assumptions. So my belief system must be right. Well, it does. It doesn't. Must be right. That's that's. That's erroneous thinking. That's arrogant thinking. And the reason that's important to the question that you are asking is because when I approach these kinds of of questions of paradigm of belief system from a place of humility. Then I get to see everyone else as my brothers and my sisters. I get to see people who have different life experiences for mine that have lessons and wisdom to teach me, just as I have certain life experiences that might have wisdom to offer others. *Ari* [00:17:26] And that's whether it's, you know, in this day and age is the mask versus the know mask. Right. Or the hug versus no hug. Social distance versus. Come together. You know, if we're able to have these kinds of conversations, don't you think we would get a long way, much better in society? *David* [00:22:10] The blindness that people end up having, they don't know it. I call it a spell. Most people, in my experience are under a cultural spell. They don't know how to see that they're under a spell and therefore they don't know that there's something to get free of. And it's incredibly damaging. *Ari* [00:23:29] A community of melting pot people. So when you know, when we hear people say, if you don't like it, leave it. Or if you're you know, if you think differently than I do, you should leave the country or whatever those those statements are that people make. *Ari* [00:27:26] That is so true. You know, my my grandfather came over to this country when he was 12 years old, I believe, by himself on a boat through Ellis Island, became a multi, multi millionaire, lost it all, gained it all, lost it all gained it all. *Ari* [00:27:44] But he spoke eleven languages, eleven Austrian, Hungarian, you know, Yiddish, Hebrew, Spanish, French. I mean, he spoke German a lot of languages because, you know, as a salesman that was his job. But even even before he was 12. Growing up in Austria, Hungarian Empire, he was initially taught and this was in maybe the late eighteen hundreds, early nineteen hundreds. He was taught these languages as just your being born. *Ari* [00:47:46] Absolutely. You know, I'd like you to maybe expand on that a little bit, these ideas, because this is really what what my book in this podcast is about is how do we go about with tools, with techniques, with training, with mindset. How do we go about taking this world that we created. Right. And saying, OK. The way I look at it is this is not optimal, we can create it better. So how do we create something that is more optimal for our own human growth? So let's expand on this for a little bit. And just I'm going to let you kind of go, because I know you've you've done a lot of thinking about it. We've talked about this before *Resources and Links* * *https://drgruder.com* * *https://drgruder.com/academy* * *https://CreateANewTomorrow.com* * *https://www.facebook.com/arigronich* *Full Transcription* *Ari&Davidpart1.mp3* *Ari* [00:00:00] Has it occurred to you that the systems we live by are not designed to get results? We pay for procedures instead of outcomes, focusing on emergencies rather than preventing disease and living a healthy lifestyle. For over 25 years, I've taken care of Olympians, Paralympians, A-list actors and Fortune 1000 companies. If I did not get results, they did not get results. I realized that while powerful people who controlled the system want to keep the status quo. If I were to educate the masses, you would demand change. So I'm taking the gloves off and going after the systems as they are. Join me on my mission to create a new tomorrow as a chat with industry experts. Elite athletes thought leaders and government officials about how we activate our vision for a better world. We may agree and we may disagree, but I'm not backing down. *Ari* [00:00:50] I'm Ari Gronich and this is. Create a new tomorrow podcast. *Ari* [00:01:01] Welcome back to another episode of Create a New Tomorrow. *Ari* [00:01:05] I am your host, Ari Granite's, and I am back with Dr. David Gruder. He is a 12 time award winning integrative psychologist. And more than that, he's an organizational psychologist. He has done some amazing things. I call him the guru of gurus, the mentor of mentors. And welcome back, David. I am so glad that we're able to do this again and provide so much more of your wisdom to the audience. *David* [00:01:33] That's a pleasure to be back with you, Ari. *Ari* [00:01:35] Awesome. Thank you so much. Tell us a little bit about how you got started in organizational psychology. Why did you choose that field specifically and what it is that you're looking to create in this new tomorrow, New World? *David* [00:01:52] So how I got into the field. Kind of starts at at age 16. I was expected to become a professional musician. And we're certainly on track for that. I had started performing as a child in a lot of different capacities. And so I was not being asked, what university are you going to? I was being asked, what conservatory are you're going to? And by the time I was 16, in some way, that is still kind of magical and mysterious to me. I knew that even though music was and is my first love, psychology was my calling. And I also knew that I was. Called to have impact on elevating society, not just on individuals. And so in my doctoral program, I selected a doctoral program that was going to enable me to get a PHD. That was split between clinical psychology, which is the deep inner work and organizational development psychology, which is the interpersonal the work of of what happens in groups and systems. And so that was my best way to equip myself to elevate leaders and cultures throughout my career. *Ari* [00:03:14] That is that it's awesome. You know, one of the things that I say a lot is we made this shit up and we can make it up better. Yeah. Think that people forget in many cases that the society as it is, is a figment of our imagination. We created it. We created the buildings. We created the design of the houses. We created the design of the societies. And when something is suboptimal, not up to performance standards, right. Then it's kind of incumbent upon us to recreate it in a different, better way. But we have organized around our creation and there's a psychological element to this is how we live and this is how we're always going to live and this is how we should live. And we want to go back to the way that it was right or the way that we think it should be. *Ari* [00:04:15] How do you break through that kind of organizational is in, whether it's in corporations and governments in whatever or in families or in yourself, even the organizational how you've organized your own being. *Ari* [00:04:31] What do you what would be some some tools, some ways that people could think about this a little bit differently so they'd be open to the possibilities now? *David* [00:04:42] Great question. I agree with you completely. We have massive imaginations as human beings were incredible. *David* [00:04:50] The natural compulsive storytellers. We make up stories left and right. And so, yes, everything we see around us is of our creation. We invented an imaginary thing, called it a corporation corporate structure. We invented an imaginary thing called money. I mean, you don't go down a whole long list of things that we invented and then those things started being or seeming real to us. So the tails wagging the dog in that sense. *David* [00:05:26] And so where where this starts is with a personal ownership piece and. And a societal ownership piece. So the personal ownership piece for me has to do with self responsible responsibility. I and I alone I'm responsible for the parts of reality that I pay attention to for the stories I make up about what those parts of reality that I'm paying attention to mean for the emotions that the stories I tell myself about the parts of reality that I'm attending to activate in me. *David* [00:06:04] And for the words and actions that the emotions I'm having about the stories I'm telling myself about the parts of reality that I'm paying attention to have on those to whom I'm in relationship or with whom I'm in relationship. That, to me, is the essence of spiritual responsibility. So that's the personal side of it. There's a societal side of it, too. Should I go on to that? *Ari* [00:06:30] Yes, please. *David* [00:06:32] So the societal responsibility part. Has to do with with the intersection of freedom and responsibility, which we seem to have forgotten collectively as a society, even though I know certain individuals who haven't forgotten that. *David* [00:06:51] But as a society, we seem to have forgotten it. You know, there are there are lots of people who are taking the position essentially that the most important thing in society is freedom. And others are saying the most important thing in society is responsibility, social responsibility. *David* [00:07:12] And both groups are equally and oppositely insane because of what they've forgotten, because freedom without responsibility is narcissism and responsibility without freedom is tyranny. And when we have forgotten that we invented society and that society or society's rules are not meant to be the boss of us, they are meant to be in service to our evolution as a species and our stewardship of a planet. When we forget those things, then we have everything upside down. Same thing goes with patriotism, by the way. You know, I view patriotism as nested dolls. You know, those Russian or Ukrainian dolls where there's a doll with an a doll with an a doll? *David* [00:08:08] Well, this is something else that we've forgotten as a as a planet collectively. Again, individuals are exceptions to this, where we take a position that in my country comes first. And, you know, whatever impact that has on your country, well, that's your problem. Well, you know, patriotism, if it's integrated and if it's saying it's nested. So my first responsibility is to stewarding the planet. My second responsibility is to humanity inside of that. I have patriotism to my country, to my religious or spiritual groups, to my communities, to my business, etcetera, etcetera. And inside of that is my patriotism to my to my family and my and my primary love relationship and to myself. When we when we are in either or thinking that says I have to sacrifice one of those nested dolls for the other nesting dolls or or in order to attend to one nesting doll, I have to be willing to sacrifice the rest. I'm engaging in insane societal thinking. *Ari* [00:09:20] You know, that's really interesting. I think a lot of people believe that they have to focus the exact opposite of what you just said. Right. Self family, city, county. I mean, it goes out and then eventually maybe we'll get to the world at large. Right. Or humanity at large and and so forth. I never quite understood the idea of patriotism. And I'll tell you why. Patriotism to me has always been the same thing as being a white supremacist or a well, saying to somebody, I'm proud to be white, I'm proud to be black. I'm proud to be blue. I'm proud to be green. It's something that you have no control over where you were born. Right. So you're born and you know, Latvia versus being born in the U.S.. So all of a sudden, you must be a lower form of human because you were born there, but you had no no choice in that. Just like you must be if you're black, you must be a lower form of a human being because of your color, even though you had no particular choice in that. And it really relates nothing to character. So how do we evolve beyond the label of. Well, any of the labels. But beyond the label of patriotism, beyond the label of I'm proud because. Of what I am versus what I do. *David* [00:11:05] Right. Oh, my gosh, there are so many layers to this question. *David* [00:11:10] You know, the let me start with what you said about in this narrative of a person saying, I can't help where I was born or the color of my skin. Even that is open to question. You know, there are metaphysical belief systems that that say that we do choose our life circumstances. So the humility piece with this is to remember that all belief systems, every belief system this planet has ever seen is based on its own set of core assumptions, such as I chose where you know, how the circumstances under which I was born. I didn't choose those core assumptions that are neither verifiable nor unverifiable that can either be proved nor disproved. And when we forget that, we move straight into arrogance. *David* [00:12:15] My belief system is the right belief system because after all, all of the other beliefs that my core assumptions are based on makes sense with my core assumptions. So my belief system must be right. Well, it does. It doesn't. Must be right. That's that's. That's erroneous thinking. That's arrogant thinking. And the reason that's important to the question that you are asking is because when I approach these kinds of of questions of paradigm of belief system from a place of humility. Then I get to see everyone else as my brothers and my sisters. I get to see people who have different life experiences for mine that have lessons and wisdom to teach me, just as I have certain life experiences that might have wisdom to offer others. And it's not a competition over who has more wisdom for whom it is this delicious opportunity. Life is this delicious opportunity to compare notes and learn from each other and discover more about the bigger picture from the smaller slices that we each see individually when we have that kind of attitude. We are able to sit in the both and of relishing our own identity, you know, relishing the unearned privileges and the unearned targeting that we get to experience as a result of the life that we have been born into. And we get to relish the diversity of humanity. So instead of it being one or the other, that I'm I'm either only identified through the color of my skin or I refuse to recognize that my skin has has a particular tint to it. How about both hand? *Ari* [00:14:20] That's a really interesting point of view. I think that what that does for people when they adopt that kind of a point of view is it allows for an openness and a willingness to understand another's point of view. And I'll give you an example of of an experience that I had about 10 years or so ago. I had a roommate who was a Palestinian Muslim woman. And I am a Latino Jew who I you know, I call myself a mutt because I have pieces, I think everything inside of me. So I've never actually identified as a label, but I've definitely got a lot of that Jewish culture and Latino culture in me. And so she and I would have these amazing conversations about the Palestinian and Jewish and Israeli conflict, the Muslim and Jewish conflict. And, you know, what was fascinating is her cousin was an attorney who worked for Hamas, PLO. And the government of Palestine. And did negotiations with Israel. So we actually had an an opportunity in that in those conversations to create some real change, because what I didn't know is she would call him up after we had a conversation and say, OK, you might want to talk to them about this. You might want to write. You might want to have these kinds of conversations with when doing the negotiating. *Ari* [00:16:09] And she was like a sister to me. We didn't have that feeling of being separate is even with our separate thoughts and our separate opinions. We didn't agree on everything for sure. But she was like a sister. We considered ourselves each others, family. *Ari* [00:16:27] And that allowed for so much healing within both of us from what we preconceived as in what's the word that they use in divorce? *David* [00:16:43] Irreconcilable differences. *Ari* [00:16:45] Both differences. Yes. So what we would consider to be a reference. A reconciled, salable differences became very reconcilable. Very common for us to get to a level of understanding where we were the same, where we were different. And how the how that happened. *Ari* [00:17:08] And I find that what you're saying is that kind of a conversation. When doing peace talks would be so beneficial. *Ari* [00:17:20] Yeah, to to have that kind of a conversation with the people who disagree with us. *Ari* [00:17:26] And that's whether it's, you know, in this day and age is the mask versus the know mask. Right. Or the hug versus no hug. Social distance versus. Come together. You know, if we're able to have these kinds of conversations, don't you think we would get a long way, much better in society? *David* [00:17:47] Not only would we get along much better, but the quality of our problem solving would skyrocket. Because. When people are in their own silos, you know, when they're when they're in what is in some circles, the circles that study propaganda, they call them information bubbles. They they're only getting a reflection of their own beliefs. Coming back at them from social media and other Internet sources because of how the the algorithms are actually set up on the Internet, where the algorithms are deciding for us what we're going to get exposed to, what products we're going to get exposed to, what perspectives we're gonna get exposed to and when we're in information bubbles. That's a prescription for divisiveness because in an information bubble, because all I'm seeing is my own reflection. Now, it's easy to imagine that I must be right. Whereas when we're given these these sacred opportunities to really know and interact with people who have very different life experiences and backgrounds than we do, then there's a level of richness that expands our vision of ourselves, of our world, and of what solutions could look like. *Ari* [00:19:20] Yeah, that that's that's really cool, I was watching a video recently, and it was a gentleman who what they, you know, they say infiltrated the KKK. He was a black gentleman, but he didn't infiltrate. He just started having conversations with one of the grand. Pubis don't know what they call them, grandmasters of the KKK, and yet and over the years, they became very close friends. *Ari* [00:19:50] Began to trust each other because they got to know each other. Yes, then I believe that it's somewhere around 60, 70 different members of the KKK ended up denouncing that. Belief system. They still like the camaraderie that came from being part of the group. Right. But they denounced what the group was focused on. I guess you could say, and it's an interesting form of psychology. *Ari* [00:20:23] You get to learn about somebody or about a different culture, and all of a sudden it opens your eyes and heart rate. They say that the cure to racism is traveling. *Ari* [00:20:35] What do you think of that statement? *David* [00:20:37] Yes, the cure to centrism. Any kind of ethnocentrism is to be exposed to other cultures. The conversations that I have with my fellow Americans who have not traveled extensively outside of the United States are profoundly different from the conversations that I have with my fellow Americans who have traveled extensively and by travel. I don't mean that they've that somebody has gone to another country and then they've stayed in American hotels and eaten American foods and gotten tours around whatever that location is by American tour guides. That's not traveling. That's pretending to travel. I'm talking about the real deal. And when we're exposed to other cultures, if we have any kind of teach ability in us at all, we can't help but be impacted. We can't help but have our world view expanded when people are very, very ethnocentric. Whatever the the centrism is about American centric, let's say, because they've never traveled outside of the United States. They may not have even traveled to all the different sections of our country because our country is a bunch of mini called countries. Culturally, you know, the culture in the Deep South is not the same as the culture in New York or as the culture in California, etcetera, etcetera. *David* [00:22:10] The blindness that people end up having, they don't know it. I call it a spell. Most people, in my experience are under a cultural spell. They don't know how to see that they're under a spell and therefore they don't know that there's something to get free of. And it's incredibly damaging. *Ari* [00:22:32] Yeah, that's interesting. I used to I I'm very good with accents. Right. And I used to be able to tell if somebody was from Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, Manhattan, which New York accent. It was that they had just because somebody was from Texas or if they're from Tennessee. Right. From. From their accent. And what you just said is so true. We are such a diverse culture of many different countries met. *Ari* [00:23:04] You know, this this whole thing about us being a melting pot. And so here's my question to you. If we a melting pot of all of these different cultures. How do we convince or shift the perspective of American to. *Ari* [00:23:29] A community of melting pot people. So when you know, when we hear people say, if you don't like it, leave it. Or if you're you know, if you think differently than I do, you should leave the country or whatever those those statements are that people make. *Ari* [00:23:47] How do we shift that so that people understand that this melting pot and the differences in culture is what makes us great, not what weakens us? *David* [00:23:58] A great question again. I, I think that what will help a lot is understanding the pendulum swing in the immigrant mindset that we've undergone over the last 80 years or so, 70 years, somewhere in that in that timeframe, that there was a time when the immigrant mindset that the dominant immigrant mindset was you come to the United States and you leave your old country, your old culture behind and you assimilate into being an American. And what that looked like back then. And I grew up in a family like this. Was that you? You gave up the language of the country that you came to came from and you gave up its its cultural traditions. And and you you tried to blend into some notion of what being an American was. And now we are at the other end of that pendulum swing where we have people that have no desire. Some people, not not all people, but some people have no desire to assimilate into American society. They want the experience of being in this country while staying fully identified with whatever the culture or country or languages that they came from. And I think both of those perspectives have massive blindspots. We have to have a common bond, a common sense of purpose and mission. And that common bond is in the context of the United States would be the the original version of the American dream, the version the American dream that birthed this country, not the delusional version of the American dream that it was replaced with in the 1950s. *David* [00:25:56] And the diversity piece of that is that I inside of this common bond that I share with you. I relish my uniqueness as an individual, as a culture. My ability to speak multiple languages, God forbid, like most Europeans, are multilingual. Most Americans are not multilingual. And in Europe, there is no there's no fear when I mean, when I'm working in Switzerland, there is no fear that I encounter among the Swiss, for example, that they're losing their culture because they're having conversations in French, in German, in Italian and in the one of the native versions of Swiss language, which is called her Monch. There's no feeling of, oh, I'm I'm suddenly not Swiss because I'm speaking all of these languages. There's there's a both. And about that, there's pride in being Swiss. And what the Swiss culture collectively stands for. And at the same time, there's a joy in expressing a flavor of that being that version of being Swiss. We're missing that in this country. We're missing the boat and we're in a war between blind acculturation or refusal, a refusal to a culture rate. It's got to be both. *Ari* [00:27:26] That is so true. You know, my my grandfather came over to this country when he was 12 years old, I believe, by himself on a boat through Ellis Island, became a multi, multi millionaire, lost it all, gained it all, lost it all gained it all. *Ari* [00:27:44] But he spoke eleven languages, eleven Austrian, Hungarian, you know, Yiddish, Hebrew, Spanish, French. I mean, he spoke German a lot of languages because, you know, as a salesman that was his job. But even even before he was 12. Growing up in Austria, Hungarian Empire, he was initially taught and this was in maybe the late eighteen hundreds, early nineteen hundreds. He was taught these languages as just your being born. *Ari* [00:28:20] You're growing up and you're learning. My parents, on the other hand, my dad who speaks German and Spanish and English and Yiddish. Right. But he they only spoke Spanish if they didn't want us to know what they were saying. And so I was I took a lot of years of Spanish, but I never learned how to speak it fluently or fluidly, I should say, you know, same with Hebrew. I took Hebrew school, but when I went to Israel, I couldn't speak Hebrew for anything based on how they speak it on the streets, right? Absolutely. No, I felt. And every time I've traveled, I have felt so culturally inept because of my lack of being able to speak another language. So what you just said is so true. And and I really appreciate you saying that, because when you speak somebody else's language, you get to know their culture much better. Right. Especially if you could dream. In their language. *David* [00:29:30] So you and I came from very similar families. Both sides of my family came from what was then the Australian Gary, an empire. One side of my family came from the Austrian side. The other side of the family came from the Hungarian side. And my parents as well, both of whom were born in the United States. It's their parents who came over from from Europe. My parents, when they didn't want my brother and me to understand what they were talking about. That's when they talk to Yiddish. And when I first started traveling extensively internationally in the 1970s, what I discovered to my great delight were that was that the two fastest ways to access the heart of a country that I was in were to speak its language and eat its food and hang out with people who were from that country rather than go looking for other Americans to hang out with. And I got huge enrichment from the willingness to be a clumsy imbecile in another language, because what I found very rapidly was that most people in the countries that I visited were very appreciative and forgiving of my inability to speak their language simply because I was authentically attempting to speak their language. And it opened up all kinds of doors. *Ari* [00:30:59] That is that's a that's a really good point. You know, when I was in Greece during the 2004 Paralympics. We learned a lot of Greek because I was going to be there for a month and I had to learn it. I had to learn what what they were saying on the on the trail, you know, the trains and and so on. And some of the words that are not appropriate to say. Right. So they had us with these. But. Packs as part of our uniform. But you called them a fanny pack. Well, you know, you were you were saying something untoward because Fanny means something different in European here than it does. That's right. Our culture. And so learning those things so that you don't offend, but you also learn. *Ari* [00:31:51] Oh, that's a odd name for that particular body part. Know, it's an interesting thing. And I would go to this this restaurant after a ten, twelve hour day. And this one gentleman was from Boston, but from while he was from Greece, we had lived in Boston. It came back to Greece. So he spoke a few languages and he and I would sit and chat for an hour, two hours, three hours a night and just get to know each other. And it was interesting because when I was there, they had the Algerians coming in to the country and doing all of the cheap labor for building the stadiums and so on for the Olympics was such an interesting thing for me because. We have in this country what we call the Mexicans, right? It's not Mexican people. It's the Mexicans that will do your cheap labor. And I was thinking, you know, every country has got to have is going to have immigrants that they call taking their jobs and doing this this kind of thing. And I think about it and I go, well, why wouldn't why weren't the Greeks doing the job? Because it was a lot easier, would have been a lot easier to hire the people who were from there. Right. So what is it about us as people in general that think that outsourcing and doing these kinds of things is such a wrong thing vs. allowing people who want to work in something that they're good at and like doing and then we get to do the things that we like doing. Right. *Ari* [00:33:38] So how can we balance these two pieces so that they make more sense for people? *David* [00:33:49] Well, I think it's important to understand with those particular dimensions that that there are certain people who who look on certain kinds of jobs as being beneath them. There are other people who might not look on a particular job as being beneath them, but the job pays a lower amount per hour than the amount of money that they want to be making per hour. And so they won't take the job because they think it pays too little. And so when we've got and we've seen this throughout cultures around the world, I mean, the Japanese, for example, had the same kind of attitude toward Koreans for a long time, just as a for instance, you name the culture there. *David* [00:34:40] There has been this kind of where the where the real people of our country. And then we have these people that really aren't us, but we've got to bring them in because they'll do what we need doing because they're willing to and they're willing to get paid less than we're willing to get paid. And we've got more important things to do that that kind of of that mean it's a form of elitism. Obviously, it's also partly propelled, though, by in the United States, by the old immigrant mentality. You know, my parents like like you're talking about when when my grandparents came to the States, they came penniless. They they gave up everything in their prior lives. And so my my parents both grew up in tenements. They grew up in the slums because their parents could barely make ends meet because they were taking jobs that were the the dregs of society kinds of jobs in order to make enough money to not be deported. You know, enough money to because they became they all became American citizens, but they didn't have the education to or the entrepreneurial spirit if they didn't have the education to really succeed in high level ways. So they put all of their energy into making sure that their children got the kind of education in the United States that they didn't have. *David* [00:36:13] So their children create better lives for themselves than their parents could. And my parents in term had in turn had that same idea that they wanted my brother and me to have a better life than they had. So we were enter generationally, we were on an upward spiral in the belief in the American dream. *Ari* [00:36:37] You know, that's a good point. I think every generation is designed as a step ladder. Right. And if we continually move up generation to generation to generation up that ladder, we can create something that's incredible. We just have to be willing to shift ladders when that ladder stops. Right. So one ladders, 10 feet. We've got to be on a 20 foot ladder to get past so we can switch. And right now, we're we're on this trajectory of people who want to go backwards down the ladder again. Right. And people who want to go forwards. We have this big confusion. I think it's a confusion, although a lot of people are very sure of themselves when it comes to progression versus regression. And, you know, progressive and liberal has gotten a bad name, conservative has gotten a bad name and those kinds of things. So if we're ever going to change and create a new tomorrow. What are the elements that we have to look at? In order to to start moving forward on and keep going up the ladder vs. regressing down? *David* [00:37:57] Well, I think first of all. *David* [00:38:00] We have in our society a massive pandemic of learned helplessness, the belief. Nothing I do makes a difference. The negative things I do don't really impact other people. The positive things I do don't really impact other people. So all you know, all I'm left with is let me let me live for today as much as I can. And, you know, I probably won't be alive in 10 years, so who cares? And so there's an unrealistic, you know, self-serving kind of undercurrent in parts of our society. There's a learned helplessness, undercurrent in parts of our society. There is a mentality in other parts of our society that says, well, we we've achieved things that other people haven't achieved. So we're entitled to look down our noses at those people who haven't achieved what we think they should have achieved at the at that point in their lives or in the in their generations of being American. The first stage, I think, is about spotting the spell. It's about waking up to the ways in which our minds. There's a battle for our brains. It's going on and waking up to the ways that our minds are being hijacked or that attempts to hijack our minds are occurring on a daily basis across the political and ideological spectrums. I think we need to align with our fundamental design. You know, there there there are certain qualities that unite all of us as a species, as humanity. *David* [00:39:46] We all have the drive to be who we truly are. It's our drive for authenticity. We all have the drive to bond with others. It's our drive for connection. And we all have the drive to influence the world around us. And that's our drive for impact. When we forget that our basic nature is about living at the intersection of authenticity, connection and impact. We are susceptible to being manipulated and propagandized by stuff out there that's going to that's trying to tell us that other things are more important than those things. So we have to align with our design or realign with our design. We have to strengthen our underpinnings. We have to strengthen our teach ability, are our personal well-being, our health are self care, our discernment, our ability to to recognize those kinds of subtle thought processes, critical thinking, if you will, rather than this ridiculous, you know, either or polarized thinking. We have to learn how to recognize the promptings from our deepest selves. We have to learn how to recognize wisdom that comes from whatever source we individually happen to feel connected with that we are a part of. And that's larger than us. We we need to learn how to harvest profound blessings and gifts from undesired and even unacceptable life experiences. *David* [00:41:23] We need all of those underpinnings in order to function in thrive, all rather than survival as individuals. We need to learn how to have right relationship with our power rather than to either run from power because the role models we see around power or our modeling really screwed up dysfunctional versions of power. So we want nothing to do with power or to pursue dysfunctional power. And we need to be really good at facilitating repair and evolution in whatever spheres of influence we're called to have positive impact. If we're all doing that, if we're all busy being too busy doing those kinds of things, then our differences become cherished and our common bond becomes sacred. And when we got that way of functioning as a society, the way we're going to function is vastly different from how we're functioning today. *Ari* [00:42:27] Yeah, you know, there is a number of things that you said there that that I really enjoyed hearing. And one of the things that, you know, my my mentor. I call him Buckminster Fuller would say is that we have to get over the auspicious. And this is a paraphrase. So don't quote me on it, but it's paraphrased. It over the auspicious notion that we have to work to be a value. And. *Ari* [00:43:01] I go back when I hear that phrase in my head, I go back to people like Thomas Jefferson, Leonardo da Vinci, Plato, you know, like I go back to the people that we consider great people of history. And I think, were they valuable in their lifetime or were they valuable in their death? Were they valuable as human beings because they created what they created or because they existed to begin with? And when I think of this notion,. *Ari* [00:43:37] I think of all the technology that we have created and all the technology that we can create. And we've seemed to placed so much emphasis of value on how much a person person works versus what a person contributes. And the results that we get, we do this in medicine all the time. A doctor gets paid for procedures, not for results, not for what they create, but for what they treat. And so to me, I want to go backwards a little bit to a time in which we don't have the technology. Now, this is this is just a utopian theory at the moment, right? *Ari* [00:44:27] I believe that we have borrowed with all the technology that we have and we consume. We've borrowed our imaginations from other people. And thereby have left our own imagination by the wayside. And that's going to become more and more evident in the next couple generations. Right. So how do we stop borrowing other people's. Imagination's and I call that, you know, game boxes. You know, any kind of game boxes and Internets and TV's and so on. When we had more time on our hands, we did more with the time that we had. I don't believe that people are lazy. I believe that people have been conditioned to cut their imaginations and thereby not create and be authentic in who they could be. So how do we get back to being our authentic selves when we have to eat? We have to live and we have to pay to be valuable. *David* [00:45:36] Let me answer at a macro level and on a micro level. At the macro level. We are culturally still in a phase with technology where we are intoxicated with it. So it's a new toy, a new set of toys, and we're drunk. We're drunk on the new toy. *David* [00:45:57] And so, of course, the toy becomes the boss of us and we relinquish our thought process to this new toy developed mentally in a society. Those phases are eventually outgrown. Where we we ultimately develop right relationship with new innovations rather than be intoxicated by them at the at the micro level. I think it's crucial for each one of us to discover and move into alignment with whatever are our deepest sense of life. Purpose happens to be because when we're living in alignment with our purpose. Our creativity comes back online and things like technology. Become what they are meant to be in the first place, which is tools to propel our creativity and our imagination rather than substitutes for being creative and imaginative. And I love that you brought up Bucky Fuller. One of my favorite of many quotes of his is the best way to predict the future is to invent it. And we've got the tail wagging the dog here. We're looking at trying to figure out how to predict the future so that we can be ready for it. Rather than asking ourselves what is the future we want to create together, the future we want to live in? What is the world we want to live in? And the world we want to leave to our children and our grandchildren. We need to stop predicting it and start inventing it. And, of course, like you said, in order to do that, we have to realign our creativity. *Ari* [00:47:46] Absolutely. You know, I'd like you to maybe expand on that a little bit, these ideas, because this is really what what my book in this podcast is about is how do we go about with tools, with techniques, with training, with mindset. How do we go about taking this world that we created. Right. And saying, OK. The way I look at it is this is not optimal, we can create it better. So how do we create something that is more optimal for our own human growth? So let's expand on this for a little bit. And just I'm going to let you kind of go, because I know you've you've done a lot of thinking about it. We've talked about this before. *David* [00:48:37] Yeah, well, on a brass tacks level, we can. *David* [00:48:43] Simply start making a habit of doing what is already being done in a more narrow way in high functioning companies, in a high functioning company. Among other things, one of the one of their one of the traditions or rituals in a high functioning company is that teams get together regularly, not just once in a while. They get together regularly and they ask the question, what's working well and why does that matter? What positive impact does those things that are working well have? *David* [00:49:18] And then they ask a second question. What would what could what could be even better? What would be even better? If so, what if we did this and that and this other thing differently? Why would that matter? What positive impacts would would the up leveling of best practices have and. Healthy company is constantly looking at it at their best practices and saying, well, those might have been the best practices 10 years ago. And thank goodness we develop them today in the middle of the Covid crisis. Not so much. What would what are what what in vet best practices would we invent? Now, that same kind of boots on the ground attitude. Is a equally relevant to crafting an elevated society. We need to look at what's working well and why that matters so that we will do those things more. And we need to look at the even better ifs and how it different changes and improvements are going to elevate our functioning as a society. So, you know, we're looking at, let's just say capitalism, for example. Most people don't know that there are two versions of capitalism and one version of something else that that's called capitalism but isn't. And most people just, you know, lump all of those things together. And so there are a lot of people in society that are viciously, fiercely anticapitalism. *David* [00:50:56] Well, when I ask those people to tell me their version of capitalism, what they inevitably describe is what I and others who study this call sociopathic capitalism, the sociopathic version of capitalism, where I manipulate you into buying what you don't need at a price you can't afford. And I'll manipulate you so well that I'll convince you that doing that makes you happy. That's sociopathic capitalism. Or I'll make profits at the expense of killing off the environment. That's sociopathic capitalism. When I ask people who are anticapitalist what they, how they define capitalism, they invariably define sociopathic capitalism. They have no idea that there's such a thing as healthy capitalism or collaborative capitalism, the way that you and I know about where we're creating win wins. And then there's a third group that defines capitalism in a way that has nothing to do with capitalism. They're defining a completely different economic system that I call debtism, which is borrowing against an uncertain future in order to prop up the illusion of a lifestyle in the present. There's nothing about capitalism that has anything to do with that. That's a completely different economic system. It has nothing to do with capitalism. So if we don't sit down and really look at what our structures really are, what is our economy based on? Well, we have an economy just to finish up this little strand. *David* [00:52:30] We have an economy that's based on an assumption that perpetual growth is good. *David* [00:52:41] And most people just buy it. They buy it as an economic assumption. That's an example of a belief system that has an assumption that's neither verifiable nor and verifiable. It's neither Chern or false. That perpetual growth is good. What we have to have the courage to look at is what are the costs of perpetual growth? What are the prices of perpetual growth? And is there a way to continue to grow simply because evolution is part of our makeup? But to not make growth the boss of us. What about the notion of enough Nisse? What about the notion of sustainability and looking at growth in that in those as frames of reference? *David* [00:53:25] So unless until we find the courage to say we have to evaluate, reevaluate what patriotism is, what the American dream is, and if we're in the United States or what the dream of our country is or elsewhere, what economics looks like, what happiness looks like. What growth looks like, what alignment with being stewards of a planet looks like until we have the courage to sit down and ask these kinds of questions without getting into polarized, divisive arm wrestling matches over ideological addiction. We will continue to devolve into the the opposite of utopian future. Well, it's it's a dystopian future that we are actually co creating right now. And yet, at the same time, everyone says, well, we don't want a dystopian future, but no, no, we're not going to look at our basic assumptions. That's nuts thinking. That's insane. That is cultural opposite of mental health as a culture. *Ari* [00:54:30] You know, I like I like that you you put it that way because in a lot of a lot of people I've talked to have issues sometimes just saying it like it is, you know. And the truth is, is that if you're not saying something as it is matter of factly, then you're doing a disservice to the situation at hand, you know? And so to say something like that's insane thinking is going to cause people to say, I'm thinking that way and I'm not insane. Right. Therefore, you must be insane for saying exactly there to be insane. *Ari* [00:55:16] Thank you so much for listening to part one of this interview. Stay tuned for the next episode when we resume this conversation right from where we left off. *Ari* [00:55:26] Thank you for listening to this podcast. I appreciate all you do to create a new tomorrow for yourself and those around you. *Ari* [00:55:33] If you'd like to take this information further and are interested in joining a community of like minded people who are all passionate about activating their vision for a better world, go to the Web site, create a new tomorrow Acom and find out how you can be part of making a bigger difference. I have a gift for you. Just for checking it out. *Ari* [00:55:51] And look forward to seeing you take the leap. And joining our private paid mastermind community. Until then, see you on the next episode.

REFERENCE:• Synergetics 326.40http://www.rwgrayprojects.com/synergetics/s03/p2600.html#326.40• Synergetics 532.13http://www.rwgrayprojects.com/synergetics/s05/p3100.html#532.10• Synergetics Fig 935.23http://www.rwgrayprojects.com/synergetics/s05/p3100.html#532.10• Synergetics Color Plate #9http://www.rwgrayprojects.com/synergetics/plates/plates.html• Bucky Fuller’s book BRAIN and MIND• OMNISCIENT UNIVERSE CHURCH  A Synergetics Podcast ♡® Episode 148 September 13-16, 2020 Explaining Alternatives to Tactics Concealed in the Critical Race Theory  https://omniscient-universe-church-a-synergetics-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes/148-explaining-alternatives-to-tactics-concealed-in-the-critical-race-theory• Master List of Names for God From World's Religionshttps://www.universespirit.org/god-names-master-list-of-names-for-god-from-worlds-religions• Resetting the World Stage.org  http://resettingtheworldstage.org/ 

In today's Solidarity Fridays episode, Joe and Kyle sit down and discuss two news stories emerging from Portland, Oregon- first, paramilitary-like federal agents showing up in unmarked cars and arresting protestors, and second, the beating and pepper-spraying of one of those protestors, Christopher David.  They look at these events from multiple perspectives- what fears are driving the opinions of people who are against these protests? Why does there always seem to be money when it comes to military expenses, but never any money when it comes to the wellbeing of people? How many police officers fully stand behind what they're doing, and how many are simply following orders or deeming certain evils necessary solely to earn their federal pension?  They analyze systems and better ways forward, like considering a bottom-up approach vs. the standard top-down approach or Ken Wilbur's framework of transcending an old system while including all the lessons from it. They also discuss decriminalization vs. legalization and the importance of regulation, and the massive scale of concepts and systems, like how MKUltra needs to be included when discussing the history of psychology. They also discuss telehealth and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy and the complications surrounding it right now, from both therapists and clients not wanting to be in an office to the concerns of self-administration at home, to the benefits of self-exploration for those who do feel comfortable and safe engaging on their own. And lastly, they talk about their upcoming Navigating Psychedelics class, which is selling fast and will never be cheaper than it is now. Notable quotes “This is illegal, and people seem to forget that it’s illegal. Even if it’s decriminalized in a locality, doesn’t mean the feds can’t come in and shut you down. And that’s why they call me the party pooper.” -Joe “How many people get into higher systems and institutions with really good intentions [of] wanting to make change, and thinking... “I’m going to change it from the top down.” ...What would a ‘bottom-up’ approach be, and how could we give power back to communities to start to create their own change, instead of thinking that we need to change it from these hierarchical systems? I always come back to Bucky Fuller’s quote about just creating a different system- you don’t change a system by trying to change it, you make a new system that’s obsolete to that old way of being. ...I’m thinking also too, from the somatic lens in therapy- approaching it more cognitively, intellectually- this whole top-down brain approach vs. a body-oriented approach and working with the trauma, working with the body and thinking about, ok, what’s the body? It’s people, it’s communities. How do we start to work that way?” -Kyle “I just prefer to see government funds spent on stuff like the green new deal to save us from climate change. Or health care for all- those kinds of things. Why spend to put people in jail, when we could have, just like with cannabis, taxable revenue. I don’t want to let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Just because it’s not equitable, I don’t think that totally excludes the thing. I’d just like to see less people going to jail, less people being harmed by black market drugs, and more clean appropriate drugs available to the people who want them.” -Joe “How do we have the money to send these paramilitary agents in but you didn’t have the money to produce personal protection equipment for hospitals? What’s going on here?” -Kyle Links U.S. Homeland Security confirms three units sent paramilitary officers to Portland Navy veteran beaten and pepper-sprayed by federal agents at protest in Portland Support the show Patreon Leave us a review on Facebook or iTunes Share us with your friends Join our Facebook group - Psychedelics Today group – Find the others and create community. Navigating Psychedelics

In this episode, I am highlighting the interdisciplinary work of Buckminster Fuller and his emphasis on whole systems design. His approach of doing more with less has had a huge impact on folks both within and outside of Permaculture Design practice - including myself long before I heard the word Permaculture, I learned about Bucky Fuller, Geodesic domes, the Whole Earth Catalog and the whole systems design movement of the early & mid 20th Century. I also really identified with his discipline of learning for oneself, from direct experience - He states that "man must learn to think for himself, rather than follow blindly what he has been taught." I hope enjoy another show digging into the roots of Permaculture...

Josh McManus, Chief Strategy Officer at Civic Entertainment Group, believes '“city” is a verb instead of a noun. Hear he and Alex Roy wax poetic on trust, safety, intellectualism, and the legend of Bucky Fuller, plus the folly of zero-sum thinking and why it's critical you never fall for your own BS. From the Knight Foundation to leading downtown Detroit's revitalization with Dan Gilbert and bringing Ford Motor Company into the future, McManus has been at the helm of making cities more enjoyable for the folks who actually live and work in them for his entire career. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Beyond Carbon: Part 1: The Energy Innovation & Carbon Dividend Act. Flannery Winchester: Citizens Climate Action Lobby What do Steven Chu, Bradley Whitford, George Schultz, James Baker, Don Cheadle, William Boicourt and Fortune Magazine have in common? Support for an idea for reducing CO2 output by more than even the Paris Accords goals in two decades that essentially holds most middle class, working class and poor families harmless (70% of the population)to slightly higher costs on carbon-based products. Forget the band-aids! The most comprehensive bi-partisan measure ever proposed in the United States Congress is also the one attracting broad bi-partisan support (it also takes a big step toward dealing with income/wealth disparity!). The Energy Innovation & Carbon Dividend Act (Aka Baker Schultz Carbon Dividend Act) HR 763 is gathering steam and support from across the political spectrum. A fascinating market-based solution that even carbon-based energy companies are starting to get behind. Real change may be on the horizon. Bucky Fuller would have loved this one!