synecticity

Mediation, like friendship, group therapy or building a bridge requires cooperation, social synectics & sociology group process. SRQ people should set up a round table group on how we can seed and grow our social skills; mostly meet and welcome new people to the world of art, service and inter-cultural friendship.  In 1976 I wrote a set of management documents to train the Iranians under the direction of a service sub-DOD contract with Bell Helicopter Textron in Teheran.  It was only American Peter Drucker (University of Vienna, my Alma Mater) style management systems but when we stared across the divide, it was about not the East vs. the West but in the Eastern Mind and the Western Brain. At that juncture I realized that our culture burns a path using neurons, ritual, social, intellectual and yes, even Chai (TeA) ceremonies to set one side or the other. We must be "pokers" and drill holes in the corpus coliseum of our collective ancient Jungian experiences and realize that Plato was correct when he wrote of the idols of the cave and the market place.  Its all a play within a play, as Hamlet taught us, to expose the real culprit: illusion and fear. If  you want to join me in a pledge to cross the bounds of religion, education, self centered-ness  and ego and money-power walls, dissolve them with love and service to one another--lets begin now.  One hand outstretched will be received by another and joining we can unite and collect toward the singularity in quantum physics, that is near and create the petabytes of energy it will take to "wormhole" ourselves through to the dimensions of time and space that now separate us propelling us beyond Mars and the Moon into a space where we are all joined in the power of ONE. Creation begins with just a touch.. artists begin with a blank paper, a stick and intention. This is where we are now. Because, NOW is the only constant we have.  You realise that Hericlitus taught his students that they could not put their foot in the same river even once.  The river is Time and we must engage or die.   Kent c Norton Certified Court Mediator/healthcare Trained by Project on Negotiation-Harvard "Program on Negotiation "thirteenth Judicial District, Tampa http://www.twitter.com/cantubury

http://mashable.com/2012/07/23/disabled-veteran-jim-stanek-united-airlines/

the same airline broke my new 12 string guitar, IN 1969, while transporting it to the then U.S. NAVAL STATION at treasure Island, san francisco, which is now a park. It tooks months of wrangling but they finally paid me about $175.00 a lot then and it was repaired but they did not want to take liability; that was before TSA, and I was even in uniform; so little has changed. I am sorry for pain, after being disabled and for the PTSD that will result; it is the uncertainty we fear that keeps us up at night--we never what will happen at the airport while the government is in control of our civil rights and our bodies and souls as we simply try to travel from point a to b. 

"And keep your eyes wide the chance won't come again

And don't speak too soon for the wheel's still in spin

And there's no tellin' who that it's namin'

For the loser now will be later to win

For the times they are a' changin'!

Come senators, congressmen please heed the call

Don't stand in the doorway don't block up the hall

For he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled

There's a battle outside and it's ragin'

It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls

For the times they are a' changin'!"  bob dylan

Wake up United Airlines; we are going to unite against you and boycott your service; you have waited too long to fess up.......

http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2012/07/23/geektastic-catwoman-cosplay-mock-up-fight-between-batman-and-bane-at-batman-premiere-pic-video/

 

Film violence and real life murder, mayhem and murder have been transposed as we can no longer tell what is staged and what is realy.It is no wonder that the red haired alleged shooter in Colorado was mistaken for part of the movie as he screamed, "I am the Joker". Americans have set the bar high for excitement in their brain chemistry and fantasy life and when it drops below the mark, they must ramp it up to get the same level of epinephrine & dopamine concentrations to envelope the paleocortex activation of the fight or flight mechanism for their enjoyment. Just like money is just a placeholder for values, self esteem and self worth, violence is the Ancient Greek equivalent of the Colosseum blood battles that evolve when war is the norm and people are in economic dire straights. "The huge crowds screamed " at Colosseum !" ("bread and circuses"). Events were often sponsored by wealthy citizens as displays of their wealth. Horses and athletes were given-performance-enhancing drugs." http://factsanddetails.com/world.php?itemid=2061&catid=56&subcatid=369

 

 Sound familiar. This was just before the fall of Rome. This type of cinima makes a mockery of peace studies, mediation and alternative means of solving problems and instructs the young that cage fighting and hatred toward others, in the name of good and righteousness, as in the many Crusades of all religions, alleged to make the world safe from invaders. I simply do not go to violent movies for a plethora of reasons. Apparently, I am in the minority. I cannot call for a boycott of this behavior, as Americans, or anybody has a right to view what they want; until th 3-D vision comes into our homes and crazy shooters bring the gun shots into our bodies for real...No one gets up and gets a hug, like in the movie scenes. So, "stay violent" my friends as we bow to the lower animal nature of survival, when it is not necessary to fight wild animals attacking us; as sthere are none; except our own powerlessness which has been politico-genetically implanted by our government and others trying to make us believe if we wear the right designer clothes, put granite counter tops and larger pools and more macho cars; we will become super heroes--except that the innocent were never the enemy; the only villains are our shadow selves somehow give parole from the 7th ring of Dante's inferno.

Gone green for the Season