Marilyn Schlitz's Post

"As people strive to move more deeply into the field of noetic sciences as a profession, we encourage you to earn an advanced degree in a traditional area that interests you, anything from psychology to physics, to anthropology, work towards a traditional career in those areas, do exceptional work and gain high credibility in your career, and then study or conduct noetic research on the side."

I expect that I agree with this approach, with at least one critical caveat: learn to keep critical thinking in its place by taking a de Bono Thinking course and a Mind Mapping course. Otherwise traditional Cartesian Thinking sets the mind in blocks of basalt: granite not being hard enough.

You have set excellent goals for us to aim for, Marilyn. In science we learn to start from a known point: repeating previous work to the point of getting the same results before extending research into the unknown future. We want to do that without crippling our abilities to leapfrog into the future, don't we ?

There is a consciouness that extends at least as far as our universe that I became aware of when a friend told me about new chemicals not knowing their own chrystaline structure; melting points or boiling points for some time after first being synthesised on this planet. After some time they would self organise, or something, and become part of the family: with all the proper characteristics.

If that took place in Scotland, the next synthesis done anywhere, Eg. New Zealand, would find the product able to manage its own melting and boiling points; chrystaline structure and so on immediately. They would be identical to what had transpired at the original site.

I doubt this consciousness extends to Google ? If I try to search for these concepts, without knowing any technical term that has been assigned to it: 'No Results Found for this ignorant search'.

Mind Mapping can be different. If the map is developed over a period of three weeks or more, for ever if it turns out to be a useful map: universal consciousness kicks in and guides the development of it. If any of you have experiences like this it would be a useful concept to share.

You will not find that observation in any Mind Map course that I know of. Perhaps the Asians and Africans have caught on, though; they have been quick to catch on to everything else.

George
2010 BC

Hi Marilyn,

this sounds good for me. I'm very curious and I hope this will help us in our daily life to bring the shift into action.

Why not create your own standards?
for example IONS Practitioner, Master and Trainer etc. a training with all the basics and the new insights from a interdisciplinary world view. Provide all the tools for like-minded people to work for a change at all levels in the human society. Spread the word also outside US and build sections of the institute in South America, Africa, Asia and Europe.

Namaste Roland

Morsel:

The Master once asked his disciples which was more important: wisdom or action.

The disciples were unanimous: "Action, of course. Of what use is wisdom that does not show itself in action?"

Said the Master, "And of what use is action that proceeds from an unenlightened heart?"

1-I would like to see the live teleseminars start again to ask questions of the speakers.
2-I want the second teleseminar per week to restart. The old one was tuesdays at noon.
3-I would like to see a teleseminar time for members to present their info.
4-I would like to see things like the IONS annual meeting/conference be made available on the internet for members who can't afford to go.

Filip

I am excited about the height, depth, and breadth of your vision for IONS, Marilyn. Bon voyage! Bob