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[Michael]

In his recent epistle, Steven made much of integral media, and the cartographer's fallacy...with a great deal of wit and wisdom.  I found it somewhat amusing and coincidental that I happen to be in the midst of a collaborative endeavor, creating a new media map.  And it is more or less of an integral nature, though not explicitly.  My part of the collaboration is to use some recently agreed upon categories as a website navigational device.  Below is my latest effort in this endeavor.  I thought I'd share with you both the visuals and some of the background of this project.

Here is the first version:

<a href="http://noetics.net/mandala6.swf" target="_blank">http://noetics.net/mandala6.swf</a>

And here is a version containing more images:

<a href="http://noetics.net/mandala6pics.swf" target="_blank">http://noetics.net/mandala6pics.swf</a>

None of the clickable attributes are live yet, obviously, but each will connect to something meaningful when it is implemented.

I'll add more to this thread by providing background as time permits.

[Michael]

CONTEXT AND LINEAGE OF THE SYNCON AND THE WHEEL OF COCREATION

Barbara Marx Hubbard

CONTEXT

Over the past 40 years I have been developing certain social “templates” or patterns to facilitate the next stage of our evolution. All of them spring from an evolutionary perspective and a metaphor to describe our current situation. The metaphor is: “Our crisis is the birth of a universal humanity, capable of co-evolving with nature and cocreating with spirit.”

This “birth” is dangerous, yet natural. The tendency in evolution at times of such crises is to develop evolutionary drivers that pressure us toward more consciousness, more freedom, and more life through more synergistic order. This is what we see happening now.

In this paper I will place two of these key evolutionary social patterns in the context of evolutionary potential and describe them briefly so that those who are choosing to apply them in a variety of ways will know where they come from, and will help develop whatever their greater potential may be.

These new patterns for social evolution come forth out of the recent revelation of the Process of Creation – cosmogenesis – understood as our own story, our own “birth narrative, from the origin of creation to us at the point of self-destruction or more conscious evolution.

This Process is seen as an evolutionary spiral, proceeding quantum jump by quantum jump from pre-life to life, from single cell to animal, from animal to human, and now, possibly, from human to a more universal, cocreative, compassionate humanity.

The spiral is experienced as directional, animated from within by an “implicate order,” a tendency, a universal intelligence or Consciousness Force leading to ever higher consciousness and greater freedom through more complex, synergistic order, as mentioned above.

The “Core” of the spiral can be visualized as the designing universal intelligence animating every atom, molecule and cell, now becoming conscious within us as our own motivation to grow, to love more, to participate more fully in the process of creating a world equal to our aspiration and potential.

From this perspective it appears that the universe is not neutral. It seems to be ‘coded’ with a prime directive: Create More Conscious Life. Transform Matter into Life. In this context the evolution of Earth Life including ourselves is understood as a vital stage in a universal developmental path toward a conscious universe. As James Gardner puts it: “The universe is coming to life,” We are a natural part of that life.

When we place our current condition within the evolutionary spiral as the next turn, we realize that quantum changes are nature’s tradition; that crises precede transformation; and that nature takes jumps through greater synergy – separate parts coming together to form a whole system greater than and different from the sum of its parts. Intuitively we can imagine this greater whole pulling us forward to realize it.

Revelation of higher states of being and creating are experienced as the next stage of evolution being born through us, in our midst.

In the planetary developmental path we are at the stage of beginning to coordinate ourselves as a whole planetary body in order to survive. None of our current institutions or structures is designed for social synergy.

We see that a vital key to our conscious evolution now is to create new forms of SOCIAL SYNERGY capable of increasing connectivity, communication and cooperation among diverse functions, groups, people, races, faiths forming a new whole system greater than and different from the sum of our parts.

The theological definition of synergism is when human will and divine will join for the regeneration of the human race. In this sense social synergy is a way for us to tap into the deeper patterns of creation and align our individual motivation with that tendency in evolution toward higher, more harmonious order. We find that the “Big Bang”and the fourteen billion years of evolutionary transformation are alive and well within us as our own unique expression of the continuing creation. We are the face of evolution.

From this perspective we see ourselves struggling to coordinate ourselves as a whole system, running out of non-renewable resources, over-populating, polluting, over-shooting our environmental base, in danger of collapse.

This is the precise set of crises of birth of the next stage of our evolution that we are given which are in fact activating our new capacities and pressuring us toward social synergy in order to survive and thrive at the next stage of our unfolding.

We also see that we are in need of longer-range evolutionary goals, an evolutionary agenda that can solve our problems in the light of the emergence of our extraordinary new capacities – spiritual, social and scientific/technological.

In order to precede we now place our selves in the broadest context . We take the “overview perspective,” as the astronauts did, experiencing our t as the people of the Earth now entering the process of natural synergistic cocreation . If nature could take jumps through greater synergy and cooperation for billions of years with no guide book, then certainly, we can too! It’s innate. It the nature of nature. It’s the intention of creation. It’s not inevitable, but it is potential.

The SYNCON process and the Wheel of Cocreation were both designed as processes to foster greater social synergy.

The SYNCON PROCESS stands for synergistic convergence. It brings together diverse groups and interests to seek common goals and match needs with resources in the light of the growing potential of the whole system. It was tested 25 times in the 1970’s in venues as diverse as the gangs of Los Angeles, a rural group in the nation of Jamaica, Washington DC, the Generation Federation of Women’s Clubs and Huntsville Alabama. (More comprehensive description of the SYNCON Process is available).

SYNCON was born out of this need to foster social synergy and to examine long-range evolutionary goals that have the potential of radically transforming the human condition for the good. It is a social acting out of the vision so many of us hold of a world wherein each person is free to do and be their best within the emergent whole system.

It is a harbinger of a more “synergistic democracy,” a form of self-governance that is designed to foster cocreativity rather than. Synergy is the way nature evolves. When we create synergistic social structures, the evolutionary tendency in nature is supported by us and the genius of self-organization is facilitated naturally, because in fact it is natural.

Here is a brief description of how the SYNCON worked. It can form an inclusive, coherent, evolutionary context upon which many advanced processes can be added.

THE SYNCON takes place in a wheel -shaped environment representing vital functions of the social body, such as health, education, environment, governance, media, science and technology, etc. The Wheel symbolizes the whole, at the local, regional, organizational, or global levels depending on where and how it is used.

DIAGRAM

In a more complex SYNCON it is desirable to have task forces at the growing edge of the Wheel representing evolutionary potentials not usually included in the social body, such as the biological evolution, space development, the psychologies of growth, the information evolution, etc.)

The arts are also invited to symbolize, celebrate, and help the social body imagine and feel itself as a whole.

A Coordinating Hub is composed of people from various sectors of the Wheel who are drawn by the common purpose of directing the process. There are facilitators in every sector of the Wheel, ideally people knowledgeable in the current realities and possibilities of that field. They are responsible for developing “Synergistic Rules of Order,” seeking an all-win relationships. Eventually these transcend “Robert’s Rules or Order.” Through SYNCON we are experimenting with a next phase of self-governance, beyond the win/lose oppositional and polarizing form that we are now using.

People are invited it to enter the Wheel based on their desire to create within some function. SYNCON does not demand idealism or altruism. It is designed as a better way to achieve one’s goals through synergy than through opposition.

The participants first meet in an Assembly of the Whole with all sectors filled with participants. At the opening of a SYNCON an experience of hope and possibilities is generated. However it is done, the feeling is that humanity’s potential to evolve is evoked in artistic, poetic, and imaginative ways. The Arts are vital here.

The SYNCON Wheel is a “theater for cocreation and conscious evolution.” The sectors can be artistically decorated to represented vital functions. The Hub of the Wheel can be seen as the place of coordination, of evolutionary design, of global intelligence.

If possible, the Hub coordinators have access to a video team. The participants who want to have their new agreements and connections recorded as the NEW NEWS call upon this team. Every day of the SYNCON there is an effort to produce the New News as it comes from the process itself.

If required, a Council on High Priority Needs is formed to assist people who do not communicate effectively or who may feel angry, left out, or incapable. Social healing is a vital part of social synergy. This is a place for coaches, counselors, and family therapists of all kinds. The goal is that no one is left out. Even better everyone finds where their gift is most needed within the whole.

[Michael]

. There are several main stages of a SYNCON:

1. Each sector meets, either in one group, or several smaller groups, to identify major goals, needs and resources both individually or as a sector. (Small group dialogue processes are valuable here.)

2. Each sector reports its goals, needs and resources to the Assembly of the Whole. If a growing edge group of task forces is used, they are asked to synthesize the emerging potentials in their fields and report into the whole. As so often the deprived citizens are left out of social change, so are the geniuses working to develop new capacities that are vital to solving problems and realizing new possibilities. As thes reports goes on, people in other sectors listen, and raise their hands whenever they have a need that some other person or group has a resource for. There begins to be excitement, as possible synergies are discovered. People make appointments to meet each other. “Vocational dating” is fun. People’s creativity is aroused.

3. People mingle with each other based on matching needs with resources. Often-larger clusters form. The discussions are animated. They call for the video camera, realizing that the media is part of their own nervous system. The concept of news evolves from what is breaking down to what is breaking through. People see themselves as newsmakers. especially when they have made a new connection or discovered a new mode of cooperation among former opposites. The Coordinating Hub’s media team, will make of the SYNCON a new news cast.

4. People reassemble in their sectors of the Wheel and share with one another the synergies and connections they have made. Each sector prepares a next report to the Assembly of the Whole, which includes the new possibilities that they have discovered and committed to. Through these reports, further connections are generated.

5. There is an All Walls Down Ceremony where the symbolic dividers are removed with music and whatever else is desired to celebrate the coming together of the parts within the new whole.

6. In this sacred space, each sector reports to the Whole its experience, and asks help of others as needed. Often social synergy is felt as a form of social love., a natural spirituality – the binding back and making whole. Stereotypes fade; oppositional leadership is often changed into cooperative leadership. Those who cooperate best gain the most rewards. They gain the most attention, since the media features cooperation over opposition. (Mayor Yorty of Los Angeles said there should be a SYNCON outside of every City Hall so that special interests and groups would have to learn to cooperate with each other before they got to the mayorl)

7. A New News Cast is played for everyone to see themselves as newsmakers, communicated widely via Internet and local broadcast. Local media is invited to be an intrinsic part of the SYNCON and is encouraged to develop the broadest possible outreach for the process and its commitments to positive action. .

8. Ideally the SYNCON is a continuous process occasionally interrupted by a meeting. There can be task force or the Coordinating Hub that continue to meet and report into the whole. It is now possible to develop the information technology to foster the continuation of the process of cooperation and cocreation. (See Fernand Sarrat’s design for Self Empowered Communities).

9. As the process replicates, each SYNCON places its goals, needs and resources into a common META-SYNCON information system. The matching of needs and resources does not have to be restricted to a single SYNCON. Eventually SYNCONS connect into larger organs of cooperation within sectors and between sectors. The seeking of common goals and matching needs with resources can be spread throughout the social body at whatever scale is possible. Through this process people discover that everything we need to solve our problems and realize our potentials is already in the system. The connectivity and new energy fostered by synergistic convergence is a vital key to realizing our social potential during the “crisis of our birth.”

 

THE WHEEL OF COCREATION is the second vital social process offered here.

See diagram of the Wheel on www.evolve.org and the story of the Wheel in Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of our Social Potential.

The Wheel of Cocreation was born out of the 25 SYNCONS produced by the Committee for the Future in the 1970’s and from the experience of my Vice Presidential Campaign in 1984, as well as more recently through collaboration with many colleagues.

During that ‘Campaign for a Positive Future’ I proposed a new social function in the office of the vice president, a “Peace Room” to be as sophisticated as a War Room, to scan for, map, connect, and communicate what is working in American and the world. The Wheel was to be filled in with projects and people and made available the public for greater participation. (When Dennis Kucinich, running for president, heard of this he envisioned a large Wheel-shaped room next to the oval office filled with data bases of what is working in every field and function, where leaders of the emerging world are invited to tell their stories and make the connections they need to fulfill their missions.) I am at this moment approaching Barack Obama with this idea for his campaign. It actually can be used by political candidates at any level in any party who wish to encourage grass roots cooperation and to overcome the current polarization through greater awareness of what is working. This design is neither Left nor Right: it is forward, upward and whole.

This version of the Wheel was further developed with the assistance of Avon Mattison’s Wheel for Pathways to Peace. Avon is a sister-in-evolution who is applying the Wheel to building a Culture of Peace through the United Nations International Day of Peace and throughout the world. Her input has been gratefully recorded in my book Conscious Evolution. Rama Vernon and I used the design of the SYNCON and the Wheel for Soviet American Citizen Summits during the Cold War, bringing together Americans and Soviets to seek common projects and goals. The Association for Global New Thought was founded on the symbol of the Wheel. It has served to support its purpose of bringing spirit into action through cocreation .

The Wheel was laid out as a schema to match people and projects through www.evolve.org with Marshall Lefferts,Teresa Collins and myself supported by the Foundation for Conscious Evolution. It was subsequently developed by several key groups including the Santa Barbara Conscious Evolution Community “Peace Room Project “which developed the 12 around 1 Wheel; the Shift Project, guided by Marshall Lefferts, Teresa Collins, myself and others, including Foster Gamble, Howard Rosenfeld of the Shir’ah Foundation, Jim Fournier of Planet Works and others, funded by Ermanno Magnini as an effort to overcome poverty through social synergy. The Wheel is currently being used by Susan Davis of the Tipping Point Network, Foster Gamble’s important film Thrival, Eleanor LeCain’s NewWaysUSA, the PartnerShift Alliance. Stephen Dinan working with Avon, is interested in the Wheel now in the Summer of Peace project in San Francisco. Rinaldo Brutoco, president of The World Business Academy wants to use it to set up a Peace Room for the Peace Alliance, which is supporting The Department of Peace legislation. Fernand Sarrat is using some form of the Wheel design for the Self Empowerment Community Project being modeled in Santa Barbara as a project of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution of which he is the executive director. I am applying the Wheel design for the Conscious Evolution Chair for Wisdom University under the aegis of Jim Garrison, as a way for masters and doctoral students to help develop the Wheel. It is actually a PhD in social evolution. The Wheel will provide the structure for the Barbara Marx Hubbard Library for Conscious Evolution and The Center for a Positive Future in Santa Barbara under the guidance of John Zwerver. I will use it for my forthcoming DVD: ‘Synergistic Democracy” as a call for the next stage of self-governance.

We are indeed “Reinventing the Wheel!” The time has come to coordinate these efforts and to deepen our collective understanding of its usefulness.

The Wheel represents the sectors of the SYNCON Wheel. While SYNCONS are face-to-face meetings, the Wheel is in virtual reality as well as serving as a model for group meetings. It has morphed from 8 sectors to 12 sectors. The process is still in its formative stage.

DIAGRAM OF THE WHEEL

Here is my understanding of the Wheel. Others will bring their own understanding to it.

The Wheel evolves naturally out of the evolutionary spiral. We can visualize it as Our Turn on the Spiral. It is a matrix of whole system designed to map and connect what is working in the world. It has been called the WhatWorksWheel. (WWW), the Synergy Wheel, the Transformation Wheel, the Peace Room Wheel, the Wheel of Cocreation.

It has at least the four functions which I suggested for the Vice Presidency. It scans for, maps, connects, and communicates (as the New News) what is working in the world. It attracts unto itself the people, projects, initiatives that are now actually healing and transforming our world. The projects self-organize and cluster according to vital function, revealing the emergence of the New Civilization through the actual projects that are now building it. The Wheel is “alive.” It is constantly turning. Every input not only adds to its momentum, but also increases the synergy among the evolving parts of the social body.

I see the Wheel in action as a way to cross the gap from what Jonas Salk described as Epoch A to Epoch B. Epoch A is the current situation as the population curve rises exponentially, and pollution, environmental degradation, climate change, etc., now nearing a critical collapse scenario. Epoch B is the next turn on the sigmoid curve when we have reached sustainability and evolvability. This “gap” between Epoch A and B cannot be crossed by linear means. There isn’t enough time. Time is critical, like during a biological birth. This is a “planetary birth,” or developmental process, that has reached a critical phase transition. This crisis is pressing us rapidly toward greater cooperation, or devolution and self-destruction. In this sense we can see the crisis as a vital evolutionary driver toward our next stage of maturation as a species. The Wheel is designed to foster non-linear, exponential connectivity and interaction among innovations now working. It fosters continuing social synergy in action. It assists the system in cooperating in its own self transcendence. I believe that when it is functioning, it will serve as a social magnet or attractor that can pull us across the gap in time toward the next stage of human evolution.

The Wheel is a context for new “memes” or ideas that self organize in functional clusters based on What is Working. Together these “memelets” begin to form a memetic code. We have just mapped the genome project. This can be the “memome project.” As genes create bodies, memes create cultures. Most of our modern memes are either really destructive, or fading rapidly. There is nothing more important than identifying and connecting the memes that can and indeed already are optimizing our future during the transition of our birth as a universal humanity.

(See my Evolutionary Synthesis paper, which is a framework to identify the meme-builders in the Evolution of the Universe, the Evolution of Evolution, the Evolution of Society and the Evolution of the Person, seen as one integrated process of emergence now actually happening but as yet invisible to most of us. )

At the center of the Wheel we can symbolize the Core of the Spiral breaking through, informing our own process of creation with there same power of coordination with which the Process brought atom with atom and cell with cell. It is the Still Point of the Turning Spiral.

The Center of the Wheel can be felt subjectively in our heart and soul as an emanation of the process of creation. It is the “soul of evolution” become conscious within us as our own motivation to evolve. It is experienced personally as our own yearning to evolve and participate. It can be cultivated collectively as our shared experience of the process of creation, or the Consciousness Force, universal co-intelligence , God. This is the way the Holy Spirit, or the designing intelligence, or whatever name we call it, is now breaking through into human consciousness, not as a religion or a dogma , but as our indwelling, divine creativity and calling to participate in the repatterning of our world.

We can visualize around the glowing flame a sacred circle representing the whole system design, the evolutionary design space, our collective awareness of the implicate order becoming explicate through us.

In a “mature” Wheel of Cocreation every sector of the Wheel already includes major innovations in health, education, economics, energy, governance, media, etc that are already manifesting “golden innovations,” projects successfully working toward greater sustainability, self-sufficiency, wholeness, creativity,re generativity , compassion, evolvability. etc.

There is the opportunity here to bring together at various scales key innovators to share with one another what they know that works, so that they can discover the greater synergies among the innovations now transforming the world.

We can envision an initiative to bring together at least 12 people who are master innovators in every sector of the Wheel, like Hazel Henderson in Economics, Jean Houston in Human Creativity, Deepak Chopra and Andrew Weil in Health, Amory Lovins and Bill Mcdonough in Environment, Rinaldo Brutoco in Business, Barbara Fields in spirituality and spirit-motivated social action, etc. They would spend enough time with each other to share with each other what they already know that works, and to discover the synergy among what they know, and to connect the vast networks with which each of them are already connected .

Through this process we would discover that the new team is here, in many places, the new leadership is at work, and the new world is being born in our midst right now. Such coming together of leading innovators could form the basis of cocreative politics, and could be offered to the people at any scale in various campaigns. Local SYNCONS could be held to bring diverse groups together and to discover what is working in localities.

This process can be done at any scale.
As a Coordinating Hub guides the SYNCON, so its “Wholly Hosts” focuses the Wheel. These are people who are skilled at whole systems design and social networking. Although the system must be self-organizing, the hosts have the responsibility of continually helping to connect people who need each other. Ideally these hosts would include brilliant entrepreneurs and philanthropists who can help people see how things can work better. The hosts are responsible for the New News, which is to flow from the Wheel. This new news is not just a series of stories about good works. It is actually the drama of a species grappling with extinction of evolution. It is far more compressive than a Tolstoy novel of War and Peace. The drama and art of conscious evolution needs to be developed. It is the story of the age. There is nothing more exciting or demanding.

[Michael]

Cartographers on amphetamines!!!     How outrageous is this?

1) A greater context may be useful in looking at the geometric correspondents to a few of the most fundamental mythemes: the "origin", the "axis mundi", and the "eternal return".

2) The general geometry for each of these mythemes can be unified by motion to the basic functions of trigonometry (producing oscillation, circumnavigation, and a vector from origin).

3) We can then derive "angle as meaning" (Young) when applied onto various conceptual manifolds of the quadrants of the axis mundi, such as the Aristotelians Elements and astrological archetypes.   Here, Young's four points match perfectly to the four elements and to the four cardinal points of the zodiac: (1) "Spontaneous Action" to the archetype of the pioneering fire sign Aries (the first sign of the zodiac, ruled by action-oriented Mars), (2) "Unconscious Reaction" to the deep water sign Cancer (ruled by the feeling Moon), (3) "Conscious Reaction / Observation" to the relationship air sign Libra (ruled by harmonic Venus), and (4) "Control or Conscious Actions" to the ambitious earth sign Capricorn (ruled by structured Saturn).

Wilbur's quadrants can align in respect to the astrological wheel: internal and external match to above and below the horizontal axis of ascendent and descendent, and individual and collective match to the left and right division of the vertical axis of midheaven and Imum Coeli.  There is direct association to the astrological archetypes which are marked by the axis points, and the houses they define: Aries corresponds to the first house of the "Individual" ("I"), Cancer to the fourth house of the "Family" ("We"), Libra to the seventh house of "Cooperation and Opposition" ("It's"), and Capricorn to the tenth house of "Profession or Vocation to Society" ("It"). 

Anthony Judge offers an in-depth treatment of the correlation between various quadrant systems, and proposes an overall synthesis useful for constructing conceptual frameworks (see Tables 3 & 4, http://www.laetusinpraesens.org/docs00s/monster.php ).

4) One way that the 12-around-1 segmentation can be created is by the Seed of Life.  Another way is by the same oscillating motion of axis nodes with circles (1/2 diameter of the primary circle) coming into intersections with the circumnavigating node. 

5) The color spectrum can be derived from proportions of red, green, and blue (RGB) by angular differentiation and combination (my formula for this is still nearing optimization, and is not yet complete).  There is also the possibility of bringing in Roerich's Pax Cultura trinity symbol (tilted 60 degrees), and designating RGB to the cultural sectors of Art, Science, and Spirituality.

6)   The colors can be applied to the zodiac wheel.  Each astrological archetype is analogous to a corresponding house--the more contextual "spheres of life".

7)   Here is one way that the astrological sign and house system can integrate with the constituents of the "Synergy" wheel.  Some nice 3 and 4 groupings here:

1 - "Health" (wellness) :  house rules physical body, health, vitality, impulse, longevity.  Analogous to Aries and Mars: the Ram is the archetypal "I am" individual, very much in the immediacy of the energized body ; Mars is full of iron like red blood.  You are what you eat.  Is marked by the first cardinal point, of the rising sun on the horizon.

2 - "Environment" (energy, food, water) : house rules resources, money, values, and attitudes toward wealth.  Attitude and environment is everything.  Analogous to Taurus and Venus: the Bull holds the bounty of the green earth ; Venus keeps everything in interdependent harmony.

3 - "Media" (communication) : house rules semiconscious and cognitive faculties and general communications.  Everything from the nervous system to the internet ... "The medium is the message".  Analogous to Gemini and Mercury: the air Twins facilitate every kind of transfer and oscillation between any type dual components ; Mercury is the fastest moving planet, and the "winged messenger".

4 - "Governance" (security and social justice) : house rules home, family, personal life, ancestors, existential roots, psychological support, safety, belonging, etc.  Analogous to Cancer and Moon: the Crab offers boundaries as a hard shell and protective pinchers to a very soft and vulnerable inside ;  the Moon is the underlying matrix of the psyche shared by all.   Is marked by the second cardinal point, offering the ground of absolute foundation.

5 - "Art" (culture): house rules self-expression, creativity, and play.  Analogous to Leo and Sun: the Lion is in the limelight of the ever generative sun.

6 - "Business" (economics): house rules service, work, business relations, detailed tasks.   Analogous to Virgo and Mercury: the Virgin applies  prudence and attention to earthly details ; Mercury is commonly regarded as offering the skills for good business management.

7 - "Relationships" (empowerment): house rules partnerships, cooperation, enemies, and oppositions.  Analogous to Libra and Venus: the Scales bring balance ; Venus brings harmony.  Is marked by the third cardinal point, of the setting sun on the horizon.

8 - "Spirituality" (religion): house rules death, rebirth, transformation.  Analogous to Scorpio and Pluto.

9 - "Education" (learning): house rules higher mind, philosophy, travel, conscious expansion.  Analogous to Sagittarius and Jupiter.

10 - "World View" : house rules profession, ambition, social status.  Is marked by the fourth cardinal point: literally, "on top of the world".  Analogous to Capricorn and Saturn: the earthy Goat climbs mountains ; Saturn applies frameworks of reality.

11 - "Science" (technology) : house rules society, community, collective aspirations.  Analogous to Aquarius and Uranus: the (air sign) Aquarian human bears the vessel which holds the "water" of humanities collective knowledge and wisdom, "dawning the new age" ; Uranus electrifies and innovates, and completely corresponds to the novel side of science, invention, genius, and discovery (the first planet discovered with the advent of the telescope during the "Enlightenment" era).

12 - "Justice": house rules karma.  Analogous to Pisces and Neptune: the Two Fishes represent the most peaceful of the personal archetypes ; Neptune is the higher-octave of Venus, showering transcendent love and idealism.

[Jana]

Oh cool nipples.

Yea and you can fit the chakras, enneagram and the Gods into those as well.

Lined up in a circle like that you can see how they are bother separate and one and the same.

Great work!

[Nickeson]

I'm not sure which I like the best, the nipple-studded and fractaled coordinating hub or the earth-centric universe--a really nice touch speaking of vanities; maybe it will help revive that too often ignored cosmology. Either way its good work and the folks from Shift should give you a raise. Tell them I said so.

Did Barbara write all those words...remember the Wheel in Space--International Geophysical Year..       ..the world was young and ...and...well, the world was young and



dumb.

S.

p.s. why won't    dance anymore?

he lost his place on the wheel...dropped his ticket in the loo at the homeless shelter...no refunds, no replacements...barbara was his sponsor but she won't return his calls.  He just went to that well too often.

Well, you know bananas; they were once thought of as the “Core” of the spiral (that) can be visualized as the designing universal intelligence animating every atom. But then we learned it was all hype and self-promotion and so....(drum roll)....back to the shelter.

[henry]

mD your last post reminded me of stan grof's friend richard tarnas, an integral philosopher who i can't remember ever being mentioned in any of these forums. he uses astrology in his analysis in his recent book "cosmos and psyche". naturally your correspondent henry gump remembers rick from the stone ages...will be changing my forum name to wowee ... ...henry...steven, thanks for covering the nipple thing....barbara marx hubbard last weeks/this weeks(?) new dimensions guest.

[marianthi]

Michael,

For a short spell our banana emoticon had stopped dancing.  I thought she must have read through Barbara´s plans to proceed with: templates or patterns to facilitate the next stage of our evolution. .

Now that our banana´s  recovered.  I´ll ask her what did it for her --so that I too can regain my composure after having been floored like this   by the minutae of how to uplift humanity.

I love the graphics.  May patience be yours for the rest of the work.



M.


P.S.  Steven says we should let Barbara loose in downtown Caracas  .


P.P.S. I had to look hard for the nipples in the graphics.  Found them : infantile, never had an erection yet!
 

[Nickeson]

infantile, never had an erection yet!

It doesn't look that way. If the "relationship" spoke of the wheel is bumped you can get "family," you can get "personal growth," you can get "team building"....TEAM BUILDING for Christ's'ake! But you don't get any "sex."

S
 

[Michael]

Geez you guys!!  Who'da thought of nipples, (pierced or virgin, or otherwise) in such a thing?     Looks like I might have to think about desexualizing the damned thing now....or not.

Yes BMH wrote the words in the 2nd and 3rd post, with a fellow I recently (cyber)met writing the bits in the 4th post, about integrating other systems, including the Zodiac.  He actually has a way cool Flash animation of his work, but alas, he's keeping it under wraps for the time being...

I had a conference call recently with a group of semi-brilliant, medium-to-high-rollers about this thing, including a passel of webdesigners, a filmmaker, etc...  earnest change agents all.  It was rather fun to sit in on that, to watch the egos at play in the fields of the Lord...  It was actually hard to keep a straight face most of the time... *toys-for-boys* was my conclusion...

Yes I remember Rick Tarnas very well Henry, and yes it is reminiscent.

I'll pass on your message to Barb about the journey to Caracas. 

Glad the bananagirl decided to resume her antics.

[jimtzu]

nice work on the graphics Michael, very creative!

i didn't see the "nipples" either, till they were pointed out (there's a joke in there somewhere  ), i guess i've been out of touch (literally). although it wasn't intentional, i think they give a good representation of the feminine energy that gives birth to the process and holds things together.

how is the Wheel going to be integrated into SIA?

[Michael]

how is the Wheel going to be integrated into SIA?

We're in the midst of a site re-design, with version 2 set to launch in December I believe...so I'm working on a lot of stuff in that regard.  Including this wheel-thing, to aid with overall navigation on the site.  The one you see above, or some version of it will be prominently placed in the new Discover page, replacing most of what is there currently.  So that when you click on one of the outside terms, you go to a heavily populated page with listings of media items in that category, as well as "organic groups" formed around that subject.  Organic groups is something I'm also working on, and it just a way to enable spontaneously arising discussion groups.

The wheel's inner terms are actually "tag clouds" (the one's you see above are just 'filler' samples), and clicking on one of them will take you to a "tag page", which is somewhat similar to the category/subject page, but more specific and less solidly established.  Which means tags are created and used by members, and rise and fall according to member's interests.

There will most likely also be a small version of the wheel, without the inner terms, used as a sitewide navigational aid.

We will also use it, or some version of it in each main section of the site, for continuity.  It might also be very useful for navigating all the offsite links we are amassing.

It also connects up with other sites in the sense that many interconnected websites will be implementing some version of it as well.  (thus the 'summit' alluded to above) 

I suppose much of this is reminiscent of I-I's attempts at a multiplex.  The main difference is that this version of such an interconnected project has no central authority, the way that I-I does.

BTW - some news of possible interest:
Stuart Davis and Danial Pinchbek make appearances on SIA next month     

[Jana]

<p>This “birth” is dangerous, yet  natural. The   tendency in evolution at  times of such crises is to develop evolutionary drivers that pressure us toward  more consciousness, more freedom, and more life through more synergistic  order.  This is what we see happening  now.</p>

9/29/07
I was kept asleep till 10.30 today with heaps of dreams, one of the scenes was a big tumorous mass with a vagina…out popped a small baby. I grabbed the baby and held it tight…it didn’t move for a couple of minutes and I didn’t know if it was alive or dead, but I just kept holding it. Finally it became animated…but the next thing, it started to talk in fully conscious adult speak…sorry I didn’t get what it said…however then its head changed into the bird head of Horus (wisdom).

This is related to my investigation of the most elevated approach to evil/negative shadow.

The keys are:
1. Resistance is the hymen between the immature and the mature state.
2. When the baby of maturity emerges, it is as though it is fully formed, because it simply "is what is"...and was just hiding in the dark womb along with the Shadow-fear.
2. Negative ego/Shadow needs to be seen, understood and loved into submission. And a new more “Universal” vision implanted.
3. Fascism is prevented by magnifying the differentiation, genius and Presence of each individual.
4. Social-evil needs to be seen through an amoral lens as though it were a physical cancer—in this way the moral-emotional hardware is disengaged allowing a rational and non-reactive approach to the cultural shadow.

Notice I pulled...the baby of maturity...right out of the dream I had just had.

Keep the nipples, very important to keep the nipples!

[marianthi]

... the "nipples" ...   i think they give a good representation of the feminine energy that gives birth to the process and holds things together.

Watch it jimtzu, watch it.  Your comments prodded Jana into giving birth overnight.  If you can accomplish this at a distance ... well...  I rest my case.

How about a warning, Michael D, somewhere in the membership intro to this forum along the lines of: ´Beware ye who enter here...´ ?

 

M.

[Jana]

Hi Marianthi,
I have been studying cancer lately, and trying to see plainly (maturely) what evil is, and how best to live in a world of unpresidented evil...without being undone by the mere knowledge of the insanity of such evil. My realization was to try and objectify evil and come from an amoral viewpoint about it...to see it as thought it was a physical cancer. This dream was a reward for the successful navigation of cancer and my realization on evil. The baby coming out of the tumorous amorphous cancer/evil mass was someone to love if only for a few minutes. Interesting play on my female wiring.