This morning Mr. Stefan Mittman, a reader from Greece, forwarded me a copy of the American Declaration of Independence without comment. Perhaps this document written 227 years ago deserves a another […]
Continue readingJapan Inc. meets the Digerati
As readers of Future Positive know, I have great respect for the Japanese co-Operative style of organization which used heterarchy so successfully in the 1980’s. Today, I came across this […]
Continue readingAdversity, Neutrality and Synergy
Note: This is the same as “Three Ways – Towards the Gift Tensegrity (8)” posted in November of 2001. Timothy Wilken So we have seen that there are three ways […]
Continue reading“Fair Shares”: Beyond Capitalism and Socialism
Synergic scientist Peter Corning emailed me with a copy of his new paper. Some excerpts follow: Peter A. Corning, Ph.D. A biological approach to social justice enables us to move […]
Continue readingSocioEconomic Democracy: A Definition
A received an enote from Mr. George describing his ideas for a future political economic system. Robley E. George It has been suggested, one way or another by literally billions, […]
Continue readingRegarding Emergent Democracy
A new epaper by Joichi Ito on Emergent Democracy is making quite a stir on the Internet. It is a very interesting read and references Dee Hock‘s essay Leader-Follower excerpted from […]
Continue readingLetting Go of Doing
Reposted from The Spirit of Now. Peter Russell Letting Go of Doing is not about not doing things. It is about letting go of the doing mode of consciousness—the attitude […]
Continue readingThe Butterfly Effect
Reposted from The Spirit of Now. Peter Russell In chaos theory, “The Butterfly Effect” refers to the discovery that in a chaotic system such as the global weather, tiny perturbations […]
Continue readingThe Great Awakening
Reposted from The Spirit of Now. Peter Russell We are living through the most exciting times in human history. Breakthroughs in every area of science are opening our minds to […]
Continue readingMEMETICS: Thinking about Ideas and their Transmission
This essay was presented to the Outlook Club in Berkeley, California on January 19, 1989. Reposted from kulturezone. J. Peter Vajk In April 1917, a 47-year old lawyer-turned-journalist and a handful of […]
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