EVEN IF SCIENTOLOGY IS NOT A HIGH PRIORITY TOPIC FOR YOU, THESE INSIGHTS MAY POINT TO A RELEVANT PROCESS WE NEED TO ATTEND TO. I just finished listening to a CD book expose of The Church of Scientology, which has stimulated interest relevant to UPLIFT. Composing this post has become a learning expedition:::: I started this…

LAST PARAGRAPH/ITEM REPEATED AT BEGINNING – This sem, a post in my blog, is an abomination. Is there anyone who will read it to the end? How many will skim, waiting (marking time) before moving on the the next item in their endless reading list? Will anyone STOP and think about ONE of the too…

This essay started as a comment to a Facebook post by Joe Brewer. I have included some personal historical information, cite many resources, and end with the beginning of a listing of query topics for future social science research. In my fading memory, the call for advanced social science research goes back to 28Nov,1969, with…

INTRODUCTIONS I use the plural, as it is the dynamic web of conversations that it most significant, not each message or specific threads of messages exchanges.I thank Alex for recommending me to Helene, who invited my to this group. AI must be a work on the display of members, as I am familiar with all…

I wish everyone could take the time to stop and read SURFACES AND ESSENCES by Hofstadter & Sander. It may slowly shift your context for the deep and fundamental role of analogy in human cognition – far beyond what has previously been explored.To counter the many arguments that would rise up in objection, the book…

A caricature is a rendered image showing the features of its subject in a simplified or exaggerated way. The “rendered image” here refers to both what we experience any moment in consciousness, our experientials – & –  the “reality/world” providing “context/meaning” to our experiences. As in a caricature of a person’s physical appearance, in our…

These thoughts were stimulated by a comment by David Braden in a Facebook dialog. “Larry is speaking of a societal structure that directs the choices of the people playing the various roles in that structure. And, as we discussed within the previous thread, the story that informs us about the threats to and requirements of…

This post was stimulated by Linda Ellinor’s comment to my Academia chapter, which I include here: hi Larry and all: I haven’t been following everything. But, I noticed this one paragraph in Larry’s latest post related to Dialogue: He says “Dialoging with each other is a very weak form of “doing together”. We ignore older…

Thanks to Helene, providing two stimulating quotes, nuet was stimulated to the following insights. Leif Smith just shared a wonderful text that I think titally reflects the spirit of what we are doing here 🙂 “We stand together at the edge of something great. I call it the emergence of freeorder, the collaborative making of…

DIANE REAM SHOWS  09/02/2015 Whether by design of serendipity, the two radio talk shows, The Diane Ream Shows on Sept 2, 2015 were both devoted to human flows.  One: the flow of refuges and migrants; Two: the flow of people via cars, public transit, bicycles, and walking in cities.  Both radio programs, to nuet’s perspective…