Brock asked:
<<To the normal human being, what does our discussion
within this salon matter?>>
THREE BASIC STRATEGIES FOR MOTIVATING TRANSFORMATION
1. Promote the new. Or..."increase the perceived value
of the new idea." This is the principal work of the
Change Agents, but they certainly depend upon the work
of the Innovators, who make a 'cool' product initially.
2. Critique the old. Or..."decrease the perceived value
of the status quo by attacking it, either directly or
subtly, in short, making the old way of doing things
seem uncool. This is generally the work of the
Iconoclasts, though Change Agents also help.
3. Facilitate the switch. "This is the most important
and the least obvious strategy for making change
happen. It is also where many change efforts fail,
because they forget to reduce the perceived cost of
making the change."
Believing Cassandra
193-194
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To explain creative synchronicity across cultures, or
individuals in different locations, who could not have
been aware of each other's work, Ervin Laszlo has
studied instances where they appear to enter into
field-mediated communication, regardless of the
distance separating them:
<<..the great breakthroughs of classical Hebrew, Greek,
Chinese and Indian culture occurred almost at the same
time [750 to 399 BC]…among people who were not likely
to have been in actual communication.>>
Laszlo has suggested that some creative acts may be:
<<due to the elaboration of an idea or pattern in two
or more minds in [direct, but unconscious] interaction,
a process in which the results transcend the individual
abilities…. Perhaps [when individuals] with high levels
of motivation and great powers of concentration focus
on similar tasks, the similarity of the states of brain
and mind allows some level of access to each other's
cerebral processes.>>
Laszlo, E. (1995) The interconnected universe:
Conceptual foundations of transdisciplinary unified
theory. River Edge, NJ: World Scientific. (pp. 133-135)
(pp. 130-132).
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Biologist Rupert Sheldrake's concept of Morphic
Resonance is quite relevant.
http://www.primalspirit.com/pr1_1sheldrake_nature_as_alive.htm
http://fusionanomaly.net/rupertsheldrake.html
<<morphic resonance: The influence of previous
structures of activity on subsequent similar structures
of activity organized by morphic fields. Through
morphic resonance, formative causal influences pass
through or across both space and time, and these
influences are assumed not to fall off with distance in
space or time, but they come only from the past. The
greater the degree of similarity, the greater the
influence of morphic resonance. in general, morphic
units closely resemble themselves in the past and are
subject to self-resonance from their own past states.>>
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