interview project
The Quantified Self
Why We Cooperate
The Lonley American
Article on “no child left in side”
From Peter Hershock’s Buddhism and the Public Sphere
HERSHOCK: “At the very least, it urges affirmation that health arises through open and properly aligned and balanced reciprocal interactions among physical, biological, cognitive, social, and cultural dimensions of human being. Health is not a state to be achieved and maintained-the model of homeostasis; it is a distinctly creative quality of interrelatedness.” P. 42
Buckminster Fuller Institute
This is a great site for new innovative ways of thinking, doing, and being.
“A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.”
R. Buckminster Fuller
“Content is King: A Great Fallacy!”
“Content is King: A Great Fallacy!”
The primary organizer of the complex grandiosity of life is the body-mind; aka the soma.
Just look at this complexity.
Pod cast with Paul Ray on Cultural Creatives
Somatic Leadership
Lets us assume that the Western Psyche is maturing into a perspective of interdependence.
Embodied Speed Reading or Belly Reading
Taking the speed out of speed reading through mindful embodiment and the spirit of exploratory reading. Have the intention of curiosity or openness, a level of inquiry and utilizing consciousness we can absorb the word pictures as a “felt sense”. With practice we can absorb content with our whole mind (the brain-body). This kind of reading a level of service and joy!
I was just reading an article on boosting brain power with the body, that I found through my twitter account. The article discusses how to improve memory by physical training, but not just any sort of training, its brain games while biking on the Brain Center America’s NeuroActive Bike. As much as I find this an interesting approach to learning, that is just barely cutting edge, it continues the fallacy that we need to add something new to our lives to improve our intelligence. Buy something to be better, but really we are absolutely filled to the brim with all that we need. We are a highly evolved mammal, who have forgotten to practice evolution, through growing, learning, and focused attention. How about this for boosting brain-body power. Learn to read with your body
Sensations and Communications
New research suggests that “that the brain integrates tactile sensations as well as audiovisual cues during speech perception, and leads to the surprising conclusion that the somatosensory system can influence the processing of speech sounds.” This research is continual evidence for Somatic Psychology and the possible learning interventions that may be made in a wide variety of locations; schools, businesses, and organizations. What this research reveals is the profound relationship between sensation, perception, and context or environment. This difficulty is that we have culturally marginalized the body’s information, what we might call subtle. Yet when we slow our internal experience through breath then the nervous system is highly tuned to a cacophony of information.
Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life
In Born to Be Good, Dacher Keltner demonstrates that humans are not hardwired to lead lives that are “nasty, brutish, and short”—we are in fact born to be good. He investigates an old mystery of human evolution: why have we evolved positive emotions like gratitude, amusement, awe, and compassion that promote ethical action and are the fabric of cooperative societies?
CONNECT to others and your self-We are wired for connection
“Within the effulgence of their new brain, mammals developed a capacity we call limbic resonance-a symphony of mutual exchange and internal adaption whereby two mammal become attuned to each others internal states. It is limibic resonance that makes looking into the face of another emotionally responsive creature a multi-layered experience. Instead of seeing a pair of eyes as two bespeckled buttons, when we look into the ocular portals to the limbic brain our vision goes deep: the sensations multiply, just as two mirros placed in opposition create a shimmering ricochet of reflections whose depth recedes into infinity. Eye contact, although it occurs over a gap of yards, is not a metaphor. When we meet the gaze of another, two nervous systems achive a palpable and intimate apposition.”
(Lewis, Amini, & Lannon, 2000; p. 63)
Learning Design and Creating a Learning Culture
We are at a crux time where the directions we go will decide the outcome of our future. This is a great time to share and voluntarily evolve or learn through growth and development, through the open exchange of innovative discoveries about ourselves in relation to each other and to the world, and to cultivate a culture of learning. At CALCO we are promoting learning as conscious engagement in growing and maturing our deepest most human attributes, skills, and talents and in designing curriculum for the future.
The Design of Space and a Radically Different World
We live in radically different world from just a few years ago and much like any other time, these changes take time to see and to understand. Learning is a gateway to growth and a rapid response to participate in a new way in todays world . Our mind or more likely our consciousness is capable of attentional telescoping . Looking at the discoveries of molecular biology, Bruce Lipton’s work, or the current understanding of the design of the universe, the work of George Moot, we find here that our course of study has been to explore the edges. Attentional Telescoping is something we do everyday, but implicitly. Developing implicit embodied right brain talents, are essential to creating and participating in a present minded changing world. Learning to work with our other hemisphere will only aid us in having a range of tools to respond rather than react to the change in the world, be it personal, family, or work.
The Formative Body
Keleman (2007), who is in the domain of Somatic Psychology in his article “Biological vision” is one who clearly can articulate what I am getting at. In this article Keleman is laying the foundational thinking for his development of his somatic psychology model called Formative Psychology. This psychology came out of his realization that not only are we psychological processes, but foundationally we are biological processes that expressed through the body. Through a life time an individual will have many different stages and evolutions, that are expressed though “shapes” within the body.
Honesty In Observation
Honesty. What is the depth to which we employ honesty?
As we become adults, it grows ever easier to be honest about things like receiving too much change at the grocery store. Or, who was first in line at the coffee shop.
Education and Learning
I think that Education is a very important matter: in today’s world there seems to be more emphasis on testing than on actual learning. Education should be about learning. People should be constantly exposed to new ideas and resources. Then, they should be taking these things back into their lives and applying them: making it relevant to them. Instead people are just being bombarded by facts that they are supposed to be able to regurgitate at a later date. I feel that education needs to take a step back to the basics.
The Brain is a Self-Organizing Structure
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