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Milton's Blog
Ideas that travel, take root, grow and make a difference
People who are stranded and need help sometimes put notes in bottles and cast them to the waves, hoping that the fragile thread of intent and chance will lead to a connection. My own efforts to help ideas that I think are important travel, take root and grow have taken many forms over the years. The latest effort is an on-demand publishing project where I combined a McMaster lecture outline, blog entries over the last few years, a creative/adaptive teams work
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A poem that speaks to deep changes in normal
Vic
Posted by Discovery Fuel on December 25, 2009 at 3:30pm
The Awakening (Author unknown)
The Awakening (Author unknown)A time comes in your life when you finally get…when, in the midst of all your fears and insanity, you stop dead in your tracks and somewhere the voice… Continue
Posted by Discovery Fuel on December 13, 2009 at 1:09pm
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
The Emergence of a New Global Mythology (What is a 'Myth'?)
Posted by Discovery Fuel on August 18, 2009 at 10:00am
First Steps Into The Changing Normal Portal
Posted by Discovery Fuel on August 14, 2009 at 10:03pm
Discovering Our Collective Global Mythology
It is essential that the world collaboratively discover our collective global mythology. Only through this act can sustaina… Continue Posted by Vic Desotelle on July 10, 2009 at 5:30pm
Going Beyond: We live within the Great Soup of the Universe
Posted by Discovery Fuel on July 4, 2009 at 12:30pm
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
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
From Static To Dynamic Knowing
Posted by Discovery Fuel on May 23, 2009 at 10:56am — 3 Comments
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
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
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… Continue
Posted by Discovery Fuel on April 2, 2009 at 9:00pm
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
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
The Reappearance of Mythical Dragons ... Portal to 'Changing Normal'
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
Intro Section I
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
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
The Question is the Answer in a World of Uncertainty
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
Web Technology as Sacred
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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How's working at McMasters?
Do they do any improv work with their MBAs? I'm teaching improv with the Cranfield MBAs and it's really rewarding....
Happy Friday,
Belina
Cool! My mom went to Burning Man last year - sounds like a wild festival!
What's your business website?
Best wishes,
B
Have you ever worked at the Banff Centre? I really like their Leadership Centre.
And last summer I went to the Loose Moose improvisation summer school.
You live in a cool place!
Best wishes,
Belina