2 FREE Juicy Creative Aspirational Online Events in September!

Creativity, Frameworks, and New Possibilities:
Two FREE Online Aspirational Events this Month
Exploring a Generative "What's Next"
 
I'm delighted to be one of the speakers in both these online events focused on a more hopeful, positive, creative future! With the world as it is, we can all use some inspiration, hope, support, and aspirational explorations and visions of what can be possible - along with applicable practices you can start right away. We all contain the seeds of creative change we've been looking for to birth healthier new foundations...and we all need each other.
 
September 14 - October 24
 
How do we want to respond to the calling of our collective future? This series is an exploration in making generative, impactful choices for yourself and others.
 
With one interview/day for 40 days, this series offers daily infusions of hope, wisdom & opportunity to inspire transformation and propel civilization forward in this new, emerging reality. Forced out of familiar patterns, we have the chance to make creative new choices for moving forward. This series engages creative visions, principles, and hand-on practices for a generative, creative, hopeful post-pandemic civilization.
 
A diverse array of other speakers include Dr. Bruce Lipton, Matthew Fox, Lynne McTaggert, the singer Jewel, Lynne Twist, Alberto Villodo and many others, each coming from a different lens and framework.
 
September 19
 
This conference is designed to provide a creative space for stimulating conversations between academics, educators and entrepreneurs with a deep interest in developing a creative economy, and more creative, generative, prosperous future. This year's themes are Presence, Emergence and Impact.
 
Following the conference, there will be an opportunity to remain in contact with the speakers and other conference attendees through monthly online follow up sessions to continue creative conversations which may lead to collaborative projects and creative business opportunities.
 
An international group of other speakers include Frijof Capra, Terry Tillman, Talmud Bah, Susan Sharp, Paul Z Jackson, Siddarth Agarwal, and Linda Naiman among many others.

The Creative Unknown: Turning Uncertainty into Discovery

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Because it is central to my work, I’m constantly learning and reminded - and in awe of - how what we see as a ”miracle" on one level (i.e., fulfilled intentions in the most unexpected, completely unpredictable ways) is just about partnering the with unknown-yet-to-emerge as a generative, creative resource and letting that be our guide.

I experience it not as "blind faith" in the process but rather faith-from-experience in the natural order of how things are created and emerge...and letting go of outdated, socialized assumptions and ways of being that no longer serve. I'm always looking to more fully inhabit and embody the "emergence lens" (which can be a struggle at times as I bump up against my own inner assumptions that need to be transformed).

But one thing is for sure…is that you can’t discover what you already know - to stay in the discovery process means allowing yourself the spaciousness of being in the unknown. Right now, we are all in a huge unknown. We have a choice to use that for discovery. It is the nature of how things emerge that when you bring intention, heart, and purpose into the unknown, you make discoveries that are often surprising, and always life-giving.

One of the tenets of the creative emergence process is turning uncertainty into discovery. It means you don’t fill up the unknown with something familiar - or avoiding it, relying on others ideas, or numbing it - for security, but allow yourself space and time to discover what is calling to emerge from within your own creative yourself. And something is always calling to emerge if we are present…and listening. Sometimes that means using various whole-brain cultivation “tools” to access it - from drawing it to to journaling it to acting it out in the body and so much more! There are infinite ways to harvest the “fertile unknown” (I’ve seen literally thousands of variations over the past 25 years working with my clients). Different ways work for different people - because we each have out own unique creative style and language.

A place to start is just accepting that you are at the edge of what you know, and you are open to discovering what is there. Just that will start to reduce the fear of the unknown into something you do have choice over - which is engaging your discovery process. Then, stay open to impulses, insights, awareness, and dreams (they contain subconscious information that our conscious minds often do not see) that come to you. Instead of brushing something supposing off, start to connect with it in whatever way speaks to you…through images, words, energy, feelings, etc. - and you’ll deepen the insights.

Discovery turns the unknown for a dark, scary place into a rich, fertile landscape you get to explore. And with enough exploration, something new, clear, and life-giving will eventually emerge. Security comes not from being certain, or in control (which is impossible in volatile times), but from learning to experience the unknown as a creative ally - something that is generous, creative, and there for you. That "bond" strengthens over time as you practice navigating it.

If you’d like additional support in this process, or have questions on how to get started, contact me anytime for a FREE 30-minute discovery session.

Michelle James ©2020


77 Awesome Creativity Books

The following are some of the books (both the classics Festival_of_books
and some newer ones) that have informed, inspired and/or resonated with me along my journey over the years. I've chosen each based on philosophy, context, concepts, principles, practices, or applicability. Some are more reflective and other more active. Since most would fit into more than one catagory it felt too reductive to break them down that way. I'm just listing them in no particular order for you to explore whichever calls to you.

I am stopping at 77 becuase I like that number, and...have to put a cap on this post. There are lots of other really fantastic ones to add another time. Next time I'll specifcially focus on some of the awesome Creativity in Business books I've read (there are a few on this list).

  1. Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind: How Intelligence Increases When You Think Less by Guy Claxton
  2. Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  3. Higher Creativity: Liberating the Unconscious for Breakthrough Insights by Willis Harmon
  4. The Act of Creation by Arthur Koestler
  5. The Einstein Factor by Dr. Win Wenger
  6. The Creative Power by Bill Smith
  7. Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility by James Carse
  8. Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul by Stuart Brown
  9. Applied Imagination: Principles and Procedures of Creative Problem-Solving by Alex Osborn
  10. The Courage to Create by Rollo May
  11. Handbook of Creativity by Robert J. Sternberg
  12. Creativity for Life: Practical Advice on the Artist's Personality, and Career by Eric Maisel
  13. Zen of Creativity: Cultivating Your Artistic Life by John Daido Loori
  14. The Artful Universe; The Cosmic Source of Human Creativity by John D. Barrow
  15. Aesthetic Intelligence: Reclaim the Power of Your Senses by Rochelle Mucha
  16. The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron
  17. How to Think Like Leonardo DaVinci by Michael Gelb
  18. Creativity: Unleashing the Forces Within by Osho
  19. Ways of Seeing by John Berger
  20. Action Theater: The Improvisation of Presence by Ruth Zaporah
  21. Lateral Thinking by Edward DeBono
  22. The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life by Twyla Tharp
  23. Discovering the Obvious by Dr. Win Wenger
  24. Creativity in Business by Michael Ray and Rochelle Myers
  25. Science, Order and Creativity by David Bohm and David Peat
  26. The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO by Tom Kelley
  27. Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards
  28. Cracking Creativity: The Secrets of Creative Genius by Michael Michalko
  29. Creating Minds by Howard Gardner
  30. Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity by Hugh MacLoud
  31. The Gifted Adult: A Revolutionary Guide for Liberating Everyday Genius by Mary-Elaine Jacobson
  32. The Mind Map Book: How to Use Radiant Thinking to Maximize Your Brain's Untapped Potential by Tony Buzan
  33. Intutive Imagery: A Resource at Work by John B. Pehrson and Susna E. Mehrtens
  34. The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield
  35. Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative Thinking Techniques by Michael Michalko
  36. Orchestrating Collaboration at Work: Using music, improv, storytelling and other arts to improve teamwork by Arthur VamGundy and Linda Naiman
  37. The Eureka Principle by Colin Turner
  38. The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination by Daniel J. Boorstin
  39. The Compassionate Brain: How Empathy Creates Intelligence by Gerald Huther
  40. The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America by David Whyte
  41. Appreciate Intelligence: Discover the Ability Behind Creativity, Leadership and Success by Tojo Thatchenkery andCarol Metzker
  42. Mental Jogging: 365 Games to Stimulate the Imagination by Reid Daitzman
  43. Games for Actors and Non-actors by Augusto Boal
  44. The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending and the Mind's Hidden Complexities by Gilles Fauconnier
  45. Quantum Creativity by Pamela Meyer
  46. Jump Start Your Brain by Doug Hall
  47. Creating: A Guide to the Creative Process by Robert Fritz
  48. Orbiting the Giant Hairball by Gorden MacKenzie
  49. Group Genius: The Creative Power of Collaboration by Keith Sawyer
  50. Think Better: An Innovator's Guide by Tim Hurson
  51. Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art by Steven Nachmanovitch
  52. A Simpler Way by Margaret Wheatley
  53. Impro for Storytellers by Keith Johnstone
  54. Awareness Through Movement by Mosha Feldenkrais
  55. A Whole New Mind by Dan Pink
  56. Believe Me: A Storytelling Manifesto for Change-Makers and Innovators by Michael Margolis
  57. The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Thinks Differently...and Why by Richard  Nisbett
  58. Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness by Rupert Sheldrake, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham and Jean Houston
  59. The Red Book: A Deliciously Unorthodox Approach to Igniting your Divine Spark by Sera Beak
  60. A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander
  61. Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation by Steven Johnson
  62. The Metaphoric Body by Keah Bartal and Nira Ne'eman
  63. Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences by Nancy Duarte
  64. A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman
  65. The Back of the Napkin by Dan Roam
  66. Broken Crayons: Break your Crayons and Draw Outside the Lines by Robert Alan Black
  67. Training to Imagine: Imprivisational Theater Techniques to Enhance Creativity, Teamwork, Leadership and Learning by Kat Koppett
  68. Jack's Notebook by Gregg Fraley
  69. The Artist Within: A Guide to Becoming Creatively Fit by Whitney Ferre
  70. Your Creative Brain: Seven Steps to Maximize Imagination, Productivity, and Innovation in Your Life by Shelley Carson
  71. At a Journal Workshop: Writing to Access the Power of the Unconscious and Invoke Creative Ability by Ira Progroff 
  72. A Whack on the Side of the Head: How Your Can Be More Creative by Roger Van Oech
  73. Creative Stress by James O'dea
  74. The Mythic Imagination by Stephen Larsen, PhD
  75. Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming by Stephen Laberge
  76. The Innovator's Way: Essential Practices for Successful Innovation by Peter J. Denning and Robert Dunham

    And my all-time awesomest book on creative thinking:
  77. On Beyond Zebra by Dr. Suess


    For more rich content and whole-brain, embodied experiences come to our applied
    creativity conference on
    October 23, 2011 in DC. Hope to see you there! ~ Michelle

Wisdom from a Paradigm-Shifting Creative: Bucky Fuller

350px-Biosphère_Montréal Last night I saw R. Buckminster Fuller: The History (and Mystery) of the Universe at the Arena Stage in DC - written & directed by D.W. Jacobs - based on Fuller's life, work and writings - and awesomely performed by Rick Foucheux. It was FANTASTIC! A one-man show with integrating storytelling, multi-media, scientific theory and universal mystery, it, for me, was its own hybrid genre of theater - one where where engagement, education, inspiration, entertainment, resonance, audience interaction and evolutionary invitation converged.

Years ago, I had read his well known Operation Manual for Spaceship Earth and some of his articles and became enthralled with his ideas, vision and wisdom. But it wasn't until I took a design class that I really appreciated the power of physicalizing structure with those ideas - and "nature doing more with less." We were given toothpicks and glue and one egg. We had to create a structure for the egg by which we had to stand on a chair and drop the egg, encased in our toothpick structure, on to the ground...and the egg was not supposed to break. Long story short: only one person succeeded at not breaking the egg as he dropped it with nothing but a few toothpicks to protect it. His secret: he had created a geodesic dome around his egg. He used the least number of toothpicks, and he used them most coherently - just like nature creates. That was a powerful learning for me.

Last night I was reminded of Fuller's work and the magnificence of nature's creativity. I left inspired, re-invigorated and deeply grateful for the legacy of this brilliant, heart-centered pioneer who not only thought the great thoughts, but animated them with great actions and creations - and all is service of the good of "spaceship earth" for which he cared passionately.

A small piece of his story: Until 4.5 years old, when he got his first pair of glasses, he could barely see so he learned to live in and create from his imagination and internal experiences. In kindergarten, while other kids were putting together simple toothpick models based on everyday structures they observed (like box houses), he was designing triangles because they "stayed together - they made sense."

After diverse jobs, many hardships, and no particular direction, at age 32 he had a mystical experience that changed the course of his life while walking in the streets of NYC. He emerged from that experience committed to think for himself, discovering and speaking Truth. And in a way that is in integrity with nature. He wanted to find "the coordinate system that nature employs." Later on, in thinking about patterns, and especially "patterns in a mutable kind of way," he later discovered (what he had hints of intuitively at a young age) that "the triangle is the only stable structure" which eventually led to the development of the geodesic dome among his countless contributions. (More on him here).

Below are bits of his wisdom, as shared in the performance last night (in no particular order).
While some are not so cutting-edge anymore, they are still not universally accepted, let alone enacted or embodied. Other are still pushing at the edges. He was talking organic complexity, systems thinking, patterns, non-linearity, emergence, intuition, creativity, dynamic movement, biomimicry, sustainability and heart/mind/brain integration 60 years ago...steeped inside of a static, linear, dehumanizing, mechanistic world view and accompanying set of values. When I think about not only
what he cultivated, but when - the context in which he, like all out-of-time visionaries before and since, emerged his insights - I'm inspired by his courage uncommon. The following is from the play:

•  It is only through feeling that you are truly yourself. Thinking and knowledge can be learned form others,
   but feelings can only from within you.

•  Change is the normal state, as opposed to the Newtonian view where rest was normal
   and motion was abnormal.

•  Out of information comes synchronized principles.

•  Nature is about doing more with less. Economists, on the other hand, have been about doing
   less with more.

•  I m not a re-former. I am a new-former.

•  We need to re-orient production away from weaponry - away from killing-ry to living-ry.

•  Behavior of the whole is unpredictable by the behavior of it parts.

•  Oppositeness re-generates life.

•  Each individual is a verb.

•  You as an individual must have courage to go by the truth or you will be swayed by the crowd. 
   Only the individual can let go of his fear and plunge into the design science revolution.
 
•  To reform the environment is the design responsibility of Spaceship Earth.

•  Selfishness made sense when humanity didn't know there was enough to go around.
   Now that we know there is, selfishness does not make sense anymore.

•  All is expanding and contracting.

•  We need idle time. It allows people to think, "What do I see that needs to be done?"

•  Intuition is the key to thinking - the contact between the conscious and the subconscious.
   The mystery is ever more entrancing and ever more beautiful.

•  You can deceive your brain self, but not your mind self. The mind deals only with the truth.

•  Everything is energy. Instead of seeing is as fixed - up or down - see it as inward or outward.

•  We have a choice: Utopia or Oblivion. If we make it, we'll make it because of truth and love.

In an age when "visionary" and "renaissance" is found in every other manifesto, I think we need a more discerning word or phrase to do justice to the Bucky Fullers. For now, I am feeling gratitude for the "verb" of who he was.

The image is of the geodesic dome donated to Expo '67 in Montreal.


Integral Life and Creative Emergence

Some of the Principles of Creative Emergence include: Spiral

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts
It contains surprises and can seem like magic when they come      together at a new level of coherence
It is an evolutionary unfolding
It "yes ands" - transcends and includes that which came before
   it; ever increasing in inclusivity

The known emerges form the unknown (the void) by a creative,
   evolutionary impulse

It increase in depth, complexity and purposefulness
It is conscious and always seeking more life

An article on the web site, Integral Life, called "Exploring the Technium" that focuses on artificial intelligence and emergence of "conscious" technology speaks to these principles and others. To read the whole article, which is written by Corey W. deVos - about a dialogue between philosopher Ken Wilber and Kevin Kelly, Senior Maverick at Wired Magazine  - click here. While I enjoyed the entire article and it's focus on intelligent machines, for spacial limitations on this blog, I have extracted the following parts particularly focused on emergence in general (which can be applied to all human systems):

The universe is evolving. From atoms to molecules, to simple single-cell organisms, to multi-cellular critters with increasingly complex nervous systems—evolution is a story of emergence, as new forms and new realities spring into being, new wholes that are themselves greater than the sum of
their parts. But emergence is a mysterious affair, as noted by Mark Bedau, Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Reed College: "...logically possible, it is uncomfortably like magic."

...While humanity can be currently seen as the pinnacle of evolution in this corner of the universe, we are by no means the final word in this extraordinary story, and will one day be inevitably subsumed by something greater than ourselves—something that will undoubtedly emerge through us, while becoming something much more than us. Humanity represents a process of evolution becoming self-aware, which means that we are now actively participating with evolution, midwives to a future that simultaneously transcends and includes the entire human condition...

...In the beginning, there is nothing. There is nothing at all. There are no stars, no moon, no mountains or ocean or sky. There isn't even nothingness, not even the absence of absence. There is only pure reality—infinite, boundless, and silent.  There is only pure unobstructed Awareness...

...A tiny point of light, impossibly bright, pierces through the Void. It is barely a pinprick, a pixel of light that somehow contains all space, all time, and all possibility...A universe is being born...

...Armed with creativity, curiosity, and conscience, man begins to fashion tools for himself—technological systems that evolve from foraging to horticulture, to agriculture, to industry, to informational, and beyond. These technologies pull worldviews up through increasing waves of depth, meaning, and inclusivity, growing from archaic to magic, to mythic, to rational, to pluralistic, to integral, and on into the future...

...Slowly mankind begins to understand its role in this evolutionary unfolding...mankind feels this very same creative force smoldering in his mortal heart...

...And so the evolutionary impulse continues to surge into the future, following the inherent tilt of the universe toward creative novelty...



Creative Genius Thinking


Einstein I came across an article on the Innovation Tools website about a creative thinking technique. It was written by Michael Michalko, author of ThinkerToys and Cracking Creativity, and creator of the ThinkPak. Here are some excerpts on what he had to say about how geniuses think. For the creativity technique and the full article click here

"The creative genius will always look for a multiplicity of ways to approach a subject. It is this willingness to entertain different perspectives and alternative approaches that broadens their thinking and opens them up to new information and the new possibilities that the rest of us don’t see. Einstein was once asked what the difference was between him and the average person. He said that if you asked the average person to find a needle in a haystack, the person would stop when he or she found a needle. He, on the other hand, would tear through the entire haystack looking for all possible needles.

"When Charles Darwin first set to solve the problem of evolution, he did not analytically settle on the most promising approach to natural selection and then process the information in a way that would exclude all other approaches. Instead, he initially organized his thinking around significant themes, principally eight, of the problem, which gave his thinking some order but with the themes connected loosely enough so that he could easily alter them singly or in groups. His themes helped him capture his thoughts about evolutionary change by allowing him to reach out in many alternative directions at once and pulling seemingly unrelated information into a coalescent body of thought.

"Darwin used his themes to work through many points that led to his theory of evolution by helping him to comprehend what is known and to guide in the search for what is not yet known.  He used them as a way of classifying the relation of different species to each other, as a way to represent the accident of life, the irregularity of nature, the explosiveness of growth, and of the necessity to keep the number of species constant...By adjusting and altering the number of themes and connections, Darwin was able  to keep his thought fluid and to bring about adaptive shifts in his thinking. He played the critic, surveying his own positions; the inventor, devising new solutions and ideas; and the learner, accumulating new facts not prominent before."


Brain Scientist's Whole Brain Journey

Jill_images The highest levels of creativity happen when using an integration of both sides of the brain - both the non-linear "flow" of the right, and linear "structure" of the left.

Harvard neuroanatomist, Jill Bolte Taylor, suffered a stroke n 1996. She then used her own brain as her "lab" over the next several years.  In an 18-minute video of her speech at the last TED conference, she recounts the details of her stroke and the insights she cultivated as a result . She explores the differences between the left and right sides of the brain, and how by losing use of the left (sequential processing) side, she fully experienced the right (parallel processing) side - and the euphoria, transcendence, and consciousness that came with that. After 8 years, she regained full use fo both sides, and now it as choice which side to use when and how.

It is worth watching through to the end.  See the video here:
When-a-brain-scientist-suffers-a-stroke video


Neuroleadership

There is an ever growing trend in looking at neuroplacticity and creativity. Scientific research shows the more we use our brain in novel and different ways, the more placticity it generates - and the more adaptable, pliable, and innovative we become.

Neuroleadership brings that knowledge into the business world. It is an emerging field of study fo­­cused on bringing  knowledge of the brain and how it works into the area of leadership development, management training, education, consulting and coaching. It involves looking at leadership abilitie through the lens of neuroscience. They are having a summit in NYC in October. Check it out at www.neuroleadership.org.


From Impossible to Elegant

A few years ago I completed an intensive 5 year program in a psycho-physical healing modality called coreSomatics (at the Somatic Institute, Pittsburgh, developed and led by Kay Miller). coreSomatics is informed by depth psychology, Gestalt Psychology, the Feldenkrais Method, the Alexander Technique, other body-mind practices, and the expressive arts. During the program and since, I felt especially drawn to the philosophy and practices of Moshe Feldenkrais, the creator of The Feldenkrais Method. In describing movement  - through awareness - in the body, the goal, he said, was to:

Make the impossible possible
The possible easy
And the easy elegant

It works. People practicing his Awareness Through Movement system can achieve miracles at making the" impossible" elegant. I have since come to believe this to be a universal evolutionary principle, true for all creative endeavors. We often do not get to see the elegance emerge because too often we just stop at the impossible.

When we get a vision or an impulse to innovate (which we actually do all the time if we pause to be in awareness), if we change the question of from "Is this possible?" (which often results in a no if there is no previous evidence to back up the vision) to "How might we make this possible?" (which assumes that is already possible, despite the lack of historical evidence, and we just need to discover the ways to create it forth) we are on the evolving path to elegance.




Emergent Processes

The term Creative Emergence unfolded in my consciousness 10 years ago when observing what was happening an "emergent" co-creative process in which I was immersed with a business partner. I had not heard it before, but something amazing was happening in our process where there was no compromise - where the whole of what we were creating was greater than the sum of both of our contributions.

As I started working with clients using creative emergence processes - by discovery in real time - I observed some reoccurring patterns and compiled "44 Principles of Creative Emergence" (to go in my book some day). Shortly after, I discovered that Emergence was one of the more well known principles talked about in the complexity sciences. That opened a whole new level of understanding - what I had been learning about emergent creativity fit in perfectly with what I started learning about complex adaptive systems and emergence in the natural world - and could be applied in human organizational systems. Then, I started studying improv theater and found the improv principles fit in with both the principles of creative emergence as well as the ones in complexity sciences. Suddenly, things fit more into place in my mind - we live in a creatively emergent universe and these patterns can be found everywhere.

Today I found this article entitled Emergence Processes by Tom Wiscombe at http://www.emergentarchitecture.com/pdfs/OZJournal.pdf. Here are some excerpts:

Emergence isn’t interested in parts; it is the science of wholes...

There has been a lot of talk about emergence since it was ‘discovered’ as a subset of complexity theory in the 1980s, that discovery linking back to the emergence of systems theory in the 1920s. Beyond the journalistic definition, ie. ‘to arise’ or ‘come to being’, as in ‘emerging artists’, emergence refers in fact to a very particular scientific phenomenon: the indivisibility and irreversibility of wholes-- be they structures, organizations, behaviors, or properties. In particular, emergence refers to the universal way in which small parts of systems, driven by very simple behaviors, will tend toward coherent organizations with their own distinctly different behaviors.

The natural world gives us the most vivid, real-time examples - the hive, swarming, flocking - where independent parts snap into formation and take on complex emergent behavior, behavior which is not traceable back to the behavior of the parts. Nevertheless, emergent phenomena are natural in a broader sense, and have been proven to be equally useful in describing the complex behavior of cultural, political, economic, and urban organizations.

Even the organization of conciousness into what is often loosely referred to as ‘intelligence’ turns out to be best modelled from the bottom-up as a swarm of neurons exhibiting emergent behavior. More interesting still, paradigm shifts, or changes of collective mind, appear to also be best understood as sudden coherences emerging from multitudes of independent feelings about the world. Growth and evolution, and the drive toward more complex forms of organization, therefore, are never additive and linear, but rather consistently based on the dynamics and transformative potential of emergence...

This means setting multiple processes and techniques in motion...rather than focusing on a singular formal solutions.


Nassim Haramein: "The Vacuum is not Empty"

Nassim_2 I had the pleasure of being in scientist-philosopher-mystic Nassim Haramein's session at the Institute of Noetic Sciences conference a while back. His was one of the most interesting presentations. A multi-dimensional pioneer, he is working on a unified field theory he calls the “Holofractographic Universe.” I deeply resonated with what he was saying - not through the lens of a scientist, but through my lens of the living, fertile, fractaled, integrative, shape-forming, creative universe. He has mathematically and scientifically discovered what creators and mystics have always known - that we create by feedback and change and that we are all beings of infinite creative potential - in a very literal sense: the vacuum is not empty - it is not nothing. It is actually highly organizing and always communicating - an "unknown" that is actually fertile with creative potential. He founded The Resonance Project Foundation. You can see him speak on the Crossing the Event Horizon video on YouTube.

I found this write-up of him at The Laughing Coach Newsletter:

Nassim Haramein, a world traveler, was born in Geneva, Switzerland. As early as 9 years old, Nassim was already developing the basis for a holographic hyper-dimensional theory of everything he calls the “Holofractographic Universe.”

The Holofractographic Universe theory is a unified field theory resulting from over two decades of investigation into the geometry of hyper-dimensional systems and their relation to the creation of three-dimensional reality and all of its forces—including consciousness.

The premise of The Holofractographic Unified Field Theory research is that space is not empty, it is full. It is full of an energy that, through a specific set of fractal geometry, creates atomic structures that are themselves made of 99.999% space. It is a sea of electromagnetic flux we call the zero point energy, which has been demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt, since its mechanical effects have now been measured in laboratories.

This is nothing new, most ancient civilizations believed in a primordial soup of energy embedded within the fabric of space and in a primary geometric pattern coordinating creation. Later many of the world's great thinkers, including such scientists as Albert Einstein, Nicolas Tesla, Buckminster Fuller, and Walter Russell, believed in an all prevailing energy at the base of the fabric of space.

Haramein's findings have resulted in theoretical and practical developments based on a specific geometric array fundamental to creation. This theory has now been presented to the standard scientific community with great success, and his papers on the Holofractographic Universe will soon be followed by a book for the layman entitled "Crossing the Event Horizon."

Nassim's investigation of the geometry of hyperspace has combined quantum physics and cosmological understandings of universal forces with other sciences such as biology and philosophy, resulting in advanced unification computations that, astonishingly, relates to ancient codes left in monuments and documents around the world—including the Bible, the I Ching, the Mayan Sacred Calendar, Pyramids, and Egyptian temples. The results of his research may bring our planet to a new dimension of understanding and existence, one which was predicted by the ancients to arrive at this time in history.

Nassim is fluent in both French and English. He conducts workshops and seminars on his theories to help bring an awareness that is greatly needed in these times. His lectures are designed around his life experiences beginning with childhood illuminations and culminating in the discovery of a technology and united view that seems to have been left encoded by ancient civilizations for us to rediscover. His work may lead to some of the most important scientific, philosophic and technological discoveries in written history.

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