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I had a dream last night .. Breakthrough into horror and ecstacy

I had a dream last night .. What does it mean? Seems to be a breakthrough, which lives on the edge of horror and ecstasy. Maybe there is ...

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Freedom, Suffering, and Changing Normal

Dear CN Clan, I am no writer, but I am loaded with insight. So I ask that you piece together a very large picture that I am attempting t...

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Join the "BeTheChange!" Experiment - A World Community Conversation

Wear a BeTheChange! T-shirt Join the 'BeTheChange!' Project , by DiscoveryFuel.com This effort is about initiating a world community con...

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Fuel For Discovery

Written by members of the Discovery Fuel team to initiate inspirational dialogue, offer unique concepts, or provide community instruction.

29 Sep 29
I had a dream last night .. Breakthrough into horror and ecstacy
by Discovery Fuel

Domain 1 - Spirituality and Religion

Triad: Nucleus Principle: Generates community vitality. Connection to infinite, source of planetary awareness, guides personal relationships Question: How do religions influence society and community?

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Domain 2 - Arts and Ritual

Triad: Nucleus Principle: Guides community possibility, expression, inspiration, and manifestation. Question: How does it reflect who we are as a culture?

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Domain 3 - Science and Physics

Triad: Nucleus Principle: Directs community's present reality, Inquiry and modeling for how we see the Universe and our place within it. Question: What are the differences between ancient and modern physics?

1 Dec. 10, 2008
diagnostic tools...approaching science backwards...?
by Phil Henshaw

Domain 4 - Resources and Environment

Triad: Nourishment Principle: Environment is relationship between nature and human need. Extract and replenish resources in ways that maintain healthy ecosystems. Question: How do we utilize resources without disrupting nature's processes?

1 Dec. 1, 2008
Related networks
by Chris Watkins

Domain 5 - Energy and Power

Triad: Nourishment Principle: Creates cultural character, establishes choices, Determines how community develops, Balancing centralized with distributed power regulates stability. Question: How energy impact the way we build communities?

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Domain 6 - Food and Agriculture

Triad: Nourishment Principle: We are what we eat, Food impacts community health, Eliminating toxins and increasing nutrient content raises community vitality. Question: How does the way we grow food affect community wellness?

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Domain 7 - Habitat and Building

Triad: Daily Living Principle: Align living centers with Nature's wisdom, Make them energy and resource efficient, house people of all capabilities, Beautiful to experience. Question: How can human habitats generate more than they take?

1 Apr 1
Reply by Alanson Charles

Domain 8 - Transportation and Mobility

Triad: Daily Living; Principle: Connecting people increases vitality and well being, Providing mobility and access, Get people where they want to be; Question: How are 'get around' needs similar/different from the past?

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Domain 9 - Neighborhoods and Families

Triad: Daily Living; Principle: Commit first to immediate surroundings and the people within them, Primary organizing theme of human lifestyle, Determinant of local social infrastructure. Question: How do we improve basic people interactions?

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Domain 10 - Learning and Education

Triad: Cultural Advancement; Principle: Collective knowledge unleashes individual capability, worth, and identity. Life long learning based on individual passion and purpose. Question: What are the differences between education and learning?

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Domain 11 - Commerce and Business

Triad: Cultural Advancement; Principle: Closed loops make products, Sustainability is innovation foundation, Advance society thru technology, robust community service, ecosystem integration; Question: What is influence of triple bottom line?

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Domain 12 - Governance and Policy

Triad: Cultural Advancement; Principle: Transform existing policies into new ones, Coordinate services to aid all domains, Wisdom councils resolve disputes; Question: What are the different kinds of decision-making processes?

1 Nov. 8, 2008
Policy Innovations: When Principles Pay
by Discovery Fuel

Domain 13 - Wellness and Medicine

Triad: Integration; Principle: Join eastern western philosophies, Medical care & lifestyle choices align with natural processes, Include birth & death; Question: What are wellness benefits of traditional, alternative, and integral medicine?

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Domain 14 - Populations and Diversity

Triad: Integration; Principle: Reproduction affects community health, Preserve cultural, environmental, and knowledge diversity to ensure robust future; Question: How does 'carrying capacity' impact community decision-making?

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Domain 15 - Inter & Intra Community

Triad: Integration; Principle: Choose best implementation principles and practices from other community experiences. Link communities together (web-weavers); Question: How do 'imaginal cells' relate to the way we co-create and network?

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Domain 16 - Media and Communication

Triad: Systemic; Principle: News is community glue providing platform for human interaction and communication Question: What happens when media directs rather than responds to community activities?

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Domain 17 - Recreation and Play

Triad: Systemic; Principle: Play is the primary way all life learns. Recreating is an ongoing way of life. Question: What happens when community members become playful?

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Domain 18 - The (W)hole Community

Triad: Systemic; Principle: Interdependent coordinated actions enable solutions for each domain, Social mythology emerges defining behavior and innovation, Also includes non-community; Question: How does the whole express itself within each part?

1 Nov. 20, 2008
Great website on 'Creative Economy'
by Wallace

Uncategorized Exploration

Existing discussions that explore new ideas but have not yet been assigned another category.

1 Nov. 12, 2008
Engaging Youth To Design and Build Innovations That Fuel Their Future
by Discovery Fuel

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Inspiration, Innovation, and Invention: Defining a bigger picture for the human creative process


Innovation is a misrepresented characterization of humanity's creative process.
It is too often used to describe the entire process of manifestation. Whereas innovation is actually sandwiched in… Continue

Posted by Discovery Fuel on September 11, 2009 at 10:00am

Discovery Fuel

First Steps Into The Changing Normal Portal

Hello and welcome!


NO, No, No, no no noooo; that's just not right! It's sooo cliche'.… Continue

Posted by Discovery Fuel on August 14, 2009 at 10:03pm

Vic Desotelle

Discovering Our Collective Global Mythology

It is essential that the world collaboratively discover our collective global mythology. Only through this act can sustainaContinue

Posted by Vic Desotelle on July 10, 2009 at 5:30pm

Discovery Fuel

Going Beyond: We live within the Great Soup of the Universe

I added a new potent domain 22. Categorized as a 'non-triad domain, it moves us beyond awareness here to awareness out there. This is so critical if we are to move beyond survival and into thrival.… Continue

Posted by Discovery Fuel on July 4, 2009 at 12:30pm

Discovery Fuel

Transforming Our World Through Myth: The Sacred Dance of Masculine and Femine Energies

One thing I ask as you read this brief article: How does myth (and related archetypes) help us to create new forms of culture?

In my below introductory article, I… Continue

Posted by Discovery Fuel on June 24, 2009 at 3:30pm

Discovery Fuel

Changing Normal REQUIRES Experimentation and Failure

ChangingNormal-ists,

Yesterday I sent out a couple things that went awry. First, I sent 're-invites' to what I thought would go to those who were invited but had not respo… Continue

Posted by Discovery Fuel on June 21, 2009 at 1:07pm

Discovery Fuel

From Static To Dynamic Knowing

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Posted by Discovery Fuel on May 23, 2009 at 10:56am — 3 Comments

Discovery Fuel

A word on white elephants, expectations, and changing normal.

A few of you have begun to ask questions. THIS IS SO WONDERFUL!

Interesting though, I am watching the level of expectation that immediately follows a question that is not getting quickly answered in a satisfying way. I noticed how quickly frustration set in because they didn't have… Continue

Posted by Discovery Fuel on May 6, 2009 at 7:03pm

Discovery Fuel

Introducing the new silo .... same as the old one :/

One of the biggest flags that I want us to watch out for is 'silo' reproduction. By this I mean that, as we build new structures to contain new knowledge, we must recognize and ask pointed questions about the silo's design. New knowledge held in (what are called) new silos, more often than… Continue

Posted by Discovery Fuel on May 4, 2009 at 8:01pm

Discovery Fuel

Togther let us "PAINT PARADISE, THEN GO IN"


Ahhh; dream land ...
Do you really know what Alice in Wonderland is all about? ??

Alice has the ability to step through mirrors ...
She is our own reflection,
Of what WE can do.
She is US.
She is our own expression,
Of love, truth, and beauty.
She symbolizes our own Spirit,
Impressed int
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Posted by Discovery Fuel on April 2, 2009 at 9:00pm

Discovery Fuel

To Change Normal - Attempt To Know Your Place In The Nest

To Change Normal ...

What if we first assume our assumptions are mere assumptions? What if we assume something different about what we assume about our assumptions? (hmmmmmmmm; gotta think about this for a minute :/ ) Such as for example: What if our place in consciousness is embedded within a Greater System of conscious Knowing , and that is made up of other Systems, which is enmeshed w… Continue

Posted by Discovery Fuel on March 30, 2009 at 5:30pm — 1 Comment

Mushin J. Schilling

Challenges of Community and Collaboration



Being an aficionado for collaboration, so much so that I've created a job for me being a Collaboration Ecologist, recently more often than not I've come to inquire into the question, "If, as seems to be the case, many if not most people and organisations in the world seek coll… Continue

Posted by Mushin J. Schilling on March 17, 2009 at 11:19am

Vic Desotelle

The Reappearance of Mythical Dragons ... Portal to 'Changing Normal'

Mythical dragons appear,
During this renewed era of 'once upon a time',
As we realize a collectively conscious global culture.



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"Tell me about the Dragons." (says Andrew)

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Vic says ...

"Ahhh yes: The Dragons.

They will begin to appear in the sky;

Fireballs of hell will be one's first impression -
An explosion of Universal vomit upon Earth… Continue

Posted by Vic Desotelle on March 11, 2009 at 9:30pm — 5 Comments

BillEllis

Intro Section I

by Bill Ellis



CHAPTER #1 -- THE FOUNDATION

For some 2000 years or more civilization has been ruled by a social paradigm on which all aspects of the EuroAmerican cultures are been based -- the “dominator paradigm.” In the past 2 two decades a new social paradigm has been emerging that could have the most, deep, fundamental impact on human civilization since humanids first came down from the trees. The old paradigm placed humans in a purposeful universe created by some super normal power for t… Continue

Posted by BillEllis on March 9, 2009 at 3:06pm — 1 Comment

Discovery Fuel

The World is "Standing By"

Will you stand by me? Sing along with this video of the world as it re-design's itself through conscious acts of creation.

Posted by Discovery Fuel on March 9, 2009 at 6:30pm

Discovery Fuel

The Question is the Answer in a World of Uncertainty

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In the name of a principle that I live by, namely: "The Question is the Answer", I propose the following elaborate questions. Maybe you can come up with a few yourself and build on this set? (There are no stupid questions. Rather, what is stupid are our assumptions that the answers should be known without as… Continue

Posted by Discovery Fuel on December 4, 2008 at 11:30am — 4 Comments

Discovery Fuel

Web Technology as Sacred


Digg!

The Web has reached a level of maturity where it can be viewed as an extension to our interconnected conscious selves. With the Planet now growing its own neural network (i.e. a global brain) 'Learning' takes on a new integral role as meta-teacher/student. This perspective brings a new dimension to our idea of 'global awareness' and stretches the meaningfulness of '… Continue

Posted by Discovery Fuel on January 26, 2009 at 5:00pm

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Imagination is our single most important asset for creating the future


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Here is a quote from Rob Brezsny on what's in our stars for the future. Now, astrology at a surface level may be a bunch of hoky poky. But, when studied at it's deepest levels, one finds it disturbingly correct and and personally guiding. Who the hec came up with this astro stuff? And how does it 'really' work? Anyway, astrology is not really the subject here.… Continue

Posted by Discovery Fuel on January 25, 2009 at 12:30pm

Vic Desotelle

Validation is primary food for human wellness and creativity

To become a true collaborating member of this community, you must watch one of these two "validation" movies ...



PASSING OUT FREE HUGS REQUIRED . . .
REACHING BEYOND OURSELVES TO CONNECT INITIATES DEEP COLLABORATION


MAKING OTHERS SMILE REQUIRED . .Continue

Posted by Vic Desotelle on January 18, 2009 at 11:00am — 3 Comments

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Sacred Geometric Configuration For Organizing Domains

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Earth Wisdom

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Green TV online

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Appropriate Technology Wikipedia

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Orrrr ... Donating even just $3.33 will help keep this adventure going. Only three dollars and thirty three cents (3 is a magic number for me : ) A few green-backs (3 1/3 to be exact) start to add up. So your donation will actually go a longggg way in helping to 'change normal' : )


HELP KEEP THIS ADVENTURE GOING. Consider donating between $3.33 or $33.33 to help make it so. Email me, Vic Desotelle, if you have any questions.

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