May I revel you in a story or two? Our tale bridges two distinct, but complementary realities, with a weave of metaphor and symbolism. Tangible and Abstract – labels flying around seeking a place to roost. Cell = basic component (unit/entity) of  life. once upon a time there were stories of worlds in transition.   …

Composing this doc has been a wild ride. It is in context with other equally wild docs – not yet posted. This probably should be in a well organized collection – but this is yet to come. I can’t continue to write more until I get some feedback.  I will copy/paste this from my outliner…

These queries may be presented to a gathering of about 60 persons on Jan 20, 2013 at Canyon Ranch in Tucson, AZ.  The gathering is to explore World Hypotheses in relationship to our sustainability challenge. These are not questions to be answered. They are queries to be explored after which a new pattern of activity…

There is truly AWESOME activity underway – but I feel it is all at the same level.  My metaphor are clouds at different altitudes.  The moisture rises and spreads at the appropriate climatic levels, filling the sky with intricate activity.  Later, beams pierces upward from the cloud and moisture rises to another, higher, level and…

An honest query: How much of this exciting looking discipline: ADAPTIVE AI3 do I need to comprehend and follow? Even with 2 PhDs under my belt, I recognize that this site would be like a freshman wandering into a final year graduate seminar. I can’t even get started from the home page. With fortitude, this…

This post was triggered by my reading the following proposal of intent: “The aim of the study group is to create an intellectual platform to theoretically discuss and empirically analyze co-production and its implications for the organization and management of public services”. Is this SPINNING OUR WHEELS, Afraid to face reality? Do YOU, really deep…

We are passing from a long, multi-millennial era of civilizations.  nuet views the era of civilization as late embryonic in a birthing metaphor, from our mammalian conception.  Civilization is the caterpillar in the metamorphosis metaphor. Our past record is a mix of material structures, some with information embedded.  The societal structures which channel much of…

Dan, neat that you can announce your own new post inside a comment to another post somewhere else. So far, all experimental flight vehicles remain experimental and too adventurous for me.  Sorry, but I flashed on this as another type of drone – as I did on the small copter I bought for my grandson…

Powerful Story. THANKS, Jeff. The WWW and our libraries are filled with powerful stories. We need, we seek, Stories. But, will stories be sufficient? What might we need, in addition to stories? I quote from the very end of the piece: “We do not have a new story yet. Each of us is aware of…

Jeff, thanks for the Good News Exemplars.  It has been a long while since I collected World Watch papers; good to see the more attractive cover. Such exemplars are widespread and in nearly all our Domains of Challenge.  Marilyn Ferguson’s 1970s book, The Aquarian Conspiracy was a collection of such exemplars; which I called “Societal…