…Almost one-third of the world’s people don’t get enough iodine from food and water. The result in extreme cases is large goiters that swell their necks, or other obvious impairments such as dwarfism or cretinism. But far more common is mental slowness…
…One of the attractions is that a campaign to iodize salt costs only 2 cents to 3 cents per person reached per year…
We are continuing our conversations with Dr. Paul Kordis. Paul has been researching writing, and speaking to groups for over 20 years about the processes of profound change. He is a globally traveled speaker and seminar leader on futuristic, human development, change and other topics. He received his Ph.D. degree (with honors) in human capital and economic development from Colorado State University in May, 2008.
His 1,500-page dissertation is entitled “The Superhighway to Serfdom: How False-Social-Norms Marketing is Hijacking the American Dream.” He is a co-author (with Dudley Lynch) of the books The Strategy of the Dolphin: Scoring a Win in a Chaotic World, which has become a best seller, and Code of the Monarch: A Guide to the Real Global Business Revolution. He is also the author (with his wife, Susan) of the book Name Your Passion: A User’s Guide to Finding Your Personal Purpose.
Today’s conversation touches upon the following topics:
Emergent phenomena – that enhances people’s life. It’s in the systems, institutions, organizations.
Developments in the economic, political and religious systems are leading towards bifurcation point.
Artifacts
Waves of change
Take human history as a 30-day month
First 29 days – hunting and gathering
Wave 1: The agriculture came along – peaked in early 1900s
Wave 2: The Industrial wave – started in 1650s, peaked in 1950s in the US
Wave 3: Informational wave – peaked out in mid-1980s
Wave 4: approaching the bifurcation point. Characterized by 6 primary technologies
Bio-engineering
Nanotechnology
Robotics (macro)
Machine cognition
New material science
Exotic energy sources
Key observation: in waves 1 & 2, change was slow, and we could adapt on the back of the wave. Wave 3 was faster, we had to adapt with the change. With wave 4, we may have to adapt before it happens.
Wave 4 technologies
Car battery – building the capacitor with a virus
Water filtration plant “Slingshot” – by the guy who built the Segway. Runs on methane, produces about mega-watt of energy, and produces enough fresh water for the entire village.
Betrayal of the technologies
They de-centralize power, hence less profit for the richest
[techtags: Paul Kordis, Dolphins, Waves of Change, Syntropy, Spheres of Human Influence, Generosity, Purpose, Passion, Globalization, Localization, NLP]
We are continuing our series on the practice of 5Rhythms – a moving meditation, a dance without steps; a practice introduced in the early 1970s by Gabrielle Roth. We invite you for an insightful conversation with a long-time 5Rhythms practitioner, Kathy Altman.
As Co-Director of The Moving Center School, Kathy was the first person asked to help Gabrielle bring her work out into the world. Over the past 20 years Kathy’s teaching has brought thousands of people back to the joy of their own, original movement. Using dance as the medium, Kathy illuminates for her students “as on the dance floor, so in life”. She is devoted to inspiring people to live the teachings of presence, patience and practice long after the music ends.
In this episode, we touch upon the following topics:
As in dance, so in life
We are all good at some rhythms, and not as good at others
We practice the whole wave to gain more balance
The first 3 rhythms are just gateways; lyrical and stillness are the reward
The Shadow side of the Rhythms
Flow – inertia, where we can’t get ourselves going
Staccato – tightness, rigidity of boundaries
Chaos – confusion
Lyrical – spacing out, instead of spacing in
Stillness – getting numb, instead of quieting
Rhythms in real life
Shadow sides are the extremes of the rhythms that define their true essense
You see this everywhere in life
Examples of famous people embodying various rhythms
Connections between people in dance
Connecting essence to essence, soul to soul. Very different from connecting on a personality level.
…Transformational teachings were shared as gifts, rather than traded for money
…You had access to iconoclasts and change makers on-demand, rather than at their availability?
…The conversations were spontaneous, open, and emergent, rather than scripted, dogmatic, and dry?
…Change was approached synergistically, through the synthesis of many approaches?
…There were no ads or infomercials?
At the Radical Change Group, we believe that questions are more important than the answers. Hence, we have formulated our mission and focus as these "what if" questions – for our listeners to decide for themselves.
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Network science is a new and emerging scientific discipline that examines the interconnections among diverse physical, informational, biological, cognitive, and social networks. This field of science seeks to discover common principles, algorithms and tools that govern network behavior. The National Research Council defines Network Science as “the organized knowledge of networks based on their study using the scientific method.” (Wikipedia)
This introductory episode brings forth the following topics:
What is network science?
Structure of a network
Nodes, links, clusters, weak links, hubs
Examples of clusters and the power of the weak link
The power of the weak link
Making connections
Interested vs. Interesting
Having / making friends
Interviewing for a job
Finding your love
The Power Law
The “80-20 rule” (or “90-10 rule”)
Examples – wealth distribution, biggest players in a market, etc.
We are continuing our series on the practice of 5Rhythms – a moving meditation, a dance without steps; a practice introduced in the early 1970s by Gabrielle Roth. We invite you for an insightful conversation with a long-time 5Rhythms practitioner, Kathy Altman.
As Co-Director of The Moving Center School, Kathy was the first person asked to help Gabrielle bring her work out into the world. Over the past 20 years Kathy’s teaching has brought thousands of people back to the joy of their own, original movement. Using dance as the medium, Kathy illuminates for her students “as on the dance floor, so in life”. She is devoted to inspiring people to live the teachings of presence, patience and practice long after the music ends.
In this episode, we touch upon the following topics:
5Rhythms as a spiritual discipline
Most people medicate (drink), rather than meditate
“I’m just a <qualifier>” – we are bigger than that
It takes great discipline to move with our emotions rather than freeze
Practices for embracing emotions
Recognize them as energy, not a static thing
Let it in, let it through, let it out
Fear of your own greatness
How can this practice help us understand our reason for living?
Learning to connect, despite of everything else. Err on the side of liveness, connection.
Can I dance in a group of complete originals, just like me?
Three types of relationships – to myself, to another, and to the community
Naming the rhythms
Flowing – a grounded way of moving without stopping. No manipulation; following the needs and desires of the body in motion.
Staccato – start to organize. Having a clear beginning, middle, and end to our movements. Finding natural physical boundaries. Moving with no force, but lots of power.
Chaos – mind, and its watery nature. It’s where the build-up starts to crash, and we cannot control the uncontrollable.
Lyrical – where things re-pattern themselves, bigger than we could have imagined. Let go of letting go, and see what remains. Discovering our own patterns, as opposed to the external patterns that shape us (as in Staccato).
Stillness – the “dessert” after the “meal”. Being.
One you can undo, and re-do again and again, the other – if you missed the boat, it’s gone.
In business, fortunes are made (and lost) on correctly (or incorrectly) predicting structural changes.
All structural change leaves behind damage
Russian revolution of 1917 – a structural change that was a step back (from the Adaptive Intelligences perspective)
American Revolution of 1776 – a structural change that is a step forward
Personal growth – will the change stick? From the perspective of the neurological levels – on the lower levels, change is often cyclical (behavior), but higher up (values, identity, spiritual) it is often structural and thus, permanent
Calibrating what change it is
Look for markers. In Business – where boundaries are dissolved or disrupted, it’s likely a structural change.
Relationships – same event can be either cyclical or structural, depending on the particular context, and with experience, you usually know pretty well which one is which in a particular relationship
Personal growth – first, by the neurological levels
Dealing with change
Business – missing the change vs. riding the change.
Relationships – being responsible for your actions and knowing where to stop
Personal growth – embrace the structural change, be aware and either stack up or eliminate cyclical change, depending on whether you like it not
Initiating change
how to choose the right type of change and how to do it in business, relationships, and personal growth
[techtags: Structural Change, Cyclical Change, Business, Relationships, Personal Growth]
