How to Find Your Way through the Project Renaissance Maze
by Win Wenger, Ph.D.
published in The Stream, January 2004
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Very recently I received a letter which, I think, is a question many readers here might echo: There are so many procedures offered in the Project Renaissance website and in our books and articles, where does one START? Is there an optimal way?
An initial answer
The goal of Project Renaissance is to equip as many people as possible as well as possible with access to their own perceptions and their own resources, enabling them to better cope with such problems and opportunities as they encounter, to learn more effectively, to live a richer and more satisfying life in every human dimension. The main thing is simply paying attention to your own perceptions and your own thoughts and recording your observations as you go.
Our own understandings
A good understanding can generate many different effective procedures; but far more value to you than any of these particular procedures is a good grasp of our own understandings, most of which are encompassed inmodern Socratic Method.
A “curriculum” through which you can effectively understand modern Socratic Method, and understand why we see it as a major way to improve life here on Earth both individually and as a community,consists of examining the following articles:
- Feed-the-Loop in the Teaching & Learning Techniques section of the Project Renaissance website.
- Winsights articles Nos. 33, 52, 55, 56, 57 and 63 indexed in and Dynamic Format in the CPS Techniques section of the site.
Practical practices:1) Make frequent practice of Image Streaming, as per the final page of our online ebook, You Are Brighter Than You Think.
2) Make frequent practice of “Noise-Removal Breathing” and the other “Calm-Breathing Patterns,” in Winsights Nos 28 and 29.
For solving problems
- Windtunnel in Winsights No. 55 and updated in Winsights No. 72,”Situational Problem-Solving” in Winsights No. 68, and Crabapple process in “Working with Metaphor” in Winsights No. 56.
- Another basic path, good to have in its own right, is the Basic Associative Process in Winsights No. 48.
- An advanced problem-solving procedure is High Thinktank. It is especially good for use on the most important issues and problems because it sidesteps our conscious expectations as to what the answer “ought to be” and goes straight for perception of whatever IS the best answer.
If a problem doesn’t solve by one of these methods, it likely will by one of the others. There are few if any problems which YOU can’t readily solve via one or several of these methods, and it is important for you to know that.
For enhancing, improving, accelerating learning
- Improve your sensori-neurological contact with what you’re trying to learn, by methods similar to those cited in the first part of the first chapter of Beyond Teaching And Learning, as given in the Books Online section of the Project Renaissance website.
- Learn brainstorming-based problem-solving techniques like Windtunnel in Winsights No. 72 and the Freenoting technique. To turn these into improved learning methods, turn key understanding(s) of what is to be learned into questions, then torrentially flow ideas and explanations in answer to those questions. This draws upon your truly enormous but hidden a priori understandings on the topic, lets you “re-invent” that topic or that course of study. Once you’ve brought conscious that already-understood core of the subject, any learning that remains to be done, by whatever method(s), integrates easily and readily and in depth around that already-known core.
- Astonishingly easy and direct: the Borrowed Genius method for which Project Renaissance may be best known. Self-taught in the article of that name in the “Teaching & Learning Techniques” section of the site. For children, you might prefer the version given in “The World Next Door,” found in Winsights No. 20, in the article, “A Little Something You Can Do For Your Children”.
- Among the most astonishing learning-improvement methods to date are the Predictive Imagery techniques, which are detailed in the article with that title in the “Teaching & Learning Techniques” section of this site.
Inventing, Innovating, Making Discoveries
Part of the curriculum for this is already laid out in the published book, Discovering The Obvious. A further and major training curriculum is the new audio course published by Nightingale-Conant, Genius Code, by Win Wenger and Paul Scheele, combining two phenomenal techniques: Paul Scheele’s PhotoReading and Win Wenger’s ImageStreaming.
A Published Curriculum in Self-Training Form:
Following the best-seller success in co-producing with Nightingale-Conant the audio course, The Einstein Factor, we teamed up again to produce a new audio course. Nightingale-Conant has just released Brain-Boosters. This provides a fixed curriculum for self development and guides you very well through each of the procedures in that curriculum.
The Einstein Factor, either the original book or the audio course, is a good place to start in the published literature on how to actualize your own very high potentials. By Win Wenger and Richard Poe.
Conclusion
You are, and the observations you can make are, your best teacher. The literature and the more specific recommendations are short-cuts and conveniences for you, as are our professionally led trainings. The most important things you can learn in this context, in any case, are what you can teach yourself and what you can discover from your own first-hand observations. Learning to teach yourself, and to make those first-hand observations, is a major part of those most important things to learn. We recommend you print out the first and Second part of this path-finding guide for future reference.