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![]() Newsletter of Project Renaissance and Win Wenger October 2007 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ IN THIS ISSUE: * Quote of the Month * Announcements, Books, News Items * Events, Workshops * FEATURE ARTICLE: People Have a Deeper Wisdom Than You Think, by Win Wenger * Comments, Feedback Matt Ganoza on Image-Streaming Kyle Reidy on Go-Lites and Image-Streaming * Organizational Notes * Links ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ QUOTE OF THE MONTH "Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity. It eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straight to the business of hate, debauchery, and self-annihilation." - Johnny Hart ....................................................................... |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ANNOUNCEMENTS, BOOKS, NEWS ITEMS ~~~ WELCOME to all new members who have joined us recently. We hope to hear from you and to give you much food for thought. Back issues available upon request. Just add the month to the subject line: mailto:thestream@winwenger.com?subject=BackIssues Or see the online archives: http://www.winwenger.com/strmlist.htm ~~~ |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| PROJECT RENAISSANCE'S NEW COREBOOKS www.winwenger.com/corebook.htm A series of compact handbooks of Win Wenger's key techniques. The first four volumes are now in print and easy to order from the publisher: * SUPER SKILLS FOR STUDENTS by Isa McKechnie * WIN WENGER'S IMAGE-STREAMING by Charles Roman * END WRITER'S BLOCK FOREVER! by Mark Bossert, Win Wenger * DYNAMIC TEACHING by Harman Benda and Win Wenger Order from the CoreBook storefront: www.lulu.com/ProjRen - great gifts! |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ~~~ BRAIN NETWORK RELATED TO INTELLIGENCE IDENTIFIED http://www.physorg.com/news108722746.html
A primary mystery puzzling neuroscientists - where in the brain lies "intelligence" - just may have a unified answer.
In a review of 37 imaging studies related to intelligence, including their own, Richard Haier of the Rex Jung of the distinct neurobiology of human intelligence. Their Parieto-Frontal Integration Theory (P-FIT) identifies a brain network related to intelligence, one that primarily involves areas in the frontal and the parietal lobes. The data suggest that some of the brain areas related to intelligence are the same areas related to attention and memory and to more complex functions like language. Haier and Jung say this possible integration of cognitive functions suggests that intelligence levels might be based on how efficiently the frontal-parietal networks process information. ~~~ AXONS PROCESS INFORMATION www.scienceblog.com/cms/brain-cells-work-differently-we-thought-axons- Increasingly, studies are beginning to show that complex information processing, and perhaps consciousness itself, may result from coordinated activity among many parts of the brain connected by bundles of long axons. Cognitive problems may occur when these areas don’t communicate properly with each other. _________ Win Wenger comments: Here, as elsewhere, the key to problems is improving communications within the brain. Two of the most powerful means for doing so are, of course, Image-Streaming - www.winwenger.com/imstream.htm and in the recently published Project Renaissance CoreBook, Image-Streaming, by Charles Roman ( www.winwenger.com/corebook.htm#IS ) - and learning to sight-read and play music. A third is improvisation and Improvitaping - www.winwenger.com/archives/part13.htm - all these by reason of pole- bridging effects within the brain ( www.winwenger.com/part73.htm ). ~~~ SCIENTIST UNVEILS PLAN ON CLIMATE CHANGE http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070820/ap_on_sc/global_warming&printer=1; A New Mexico Tech scientist believes he has found a way to head off dangerous climate change. Oliver Wingenter said the idea is simple — fertilize the ocean so that more plankton can grow. Read his full article. ______________ Win Wenger ( mailto:wwenger101@aol.com ) comments: Until now I was sadly convinced that conservation measures regarding CO2 would be too little and too late to meaningfully affect the outcome. Wingenter's observations regarding production of dimethyl sulfide by plankton changes my mind on this. My system for oceanic fish farming also, necessarily, very much enhances conditions for plankton to flourish, and has the advantage that we don't have to dump chemicals and substances into the ocean in order to fertilize the plankton. The dead waters offshore of into plankton productivity, without being used to fishfarm because of the chemicals which killed all life there in the first place. In other words, the combination of my proposal for fish farming, with Wingenter's proposal to boost production of plankton and therefore the Earth-shading effects of dimethyl sulfide, with even fairly mild versions of the proposed CO2-conservation measures, may be enough to restabilize Earth's climate and food supply, even while boosting food supply for billions now starving. ~~~ SPACE SHIELD TO BLOCK RADIATION http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6567709.stm British scientists are planning to see whether a Star Trek-style deflector shield could be built to protect astronauts from radiation. ______ Editor's Note: See also "Coils" in the Project Renaissance Inventions section, on electromagnets to deflect space radiation from astronauts. www.winwenger.com/coils.htm ~~~ GOOGLE EARTH OPENS NEW 'SKY' FOR STARGAZERS www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20388142/ Google Earth has launched a new feature called Sky, a “virtual telescope” that the company hopes will turn millions of Internet users into stargazers. Virtual telescope draws upon imagery from Hubble, Palomar and more. ~~~ TOP SCIENTIST BACKS WORKOUT FOR THE BRAIN: Computer games claimed to curb mental decline www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2327835.ece Baroness Susan Greenfield, a neuroscientist, is to launch an exercise programme for the brain that she claims is proven to reverse the mental decline associated with aging. Royal Institution, maintains that that concentrating on physical fitness is not sufficient preparation for old age. "What concerns me is preserving the brain too," she said. "There is now good scientific evidence to show that exercising the brain can slow, delay and protect against age-related decline." ~~~ TACKLING THE MYTH OF THE 'MOZART EFFECT' www.nature.com/news/2007/070409/full/070409-13.html Passively listening to Mozart - or indeed any other music you enjoy - does not make you smarter. But more studies should be done to find out whether music lessons could raise your child's IQ in the long term, concludes a report analysing all the scientific literature on music and intelligence, published by the German research ministry. The interest in this scientific area was first sparked by the 1993 Nature report in which psychologist Frances Rauscher and her colleagues at the better on spatial tasks - such as recognizing patterns, or folding paper - after listening to Mozart for 10 minutes. __________ Win Wenger ( mailto:wwenger101@aol.com ) comments: I think the strongest long-term effect on IQ will be shown by a child being taught at an early age to sight-read and play music, because of all the cross-brain integration involved. Right alongside that, with respect to Schlaug's studies on the left plenum temporales, will be whatever musical experience will reinforce or restore the ability of perfect musical pitch. In people with that ability, the left plenum temporales is double the size of that in people without perfect pitch, which is a phenomenal difference. That organ is our means of discriminating nuances of word-meanings, and so I regard that as close to being the core of our intellect. The literature has been mixed for some years on the short-term "Mozart Effect," with numerous researchers around the world stating that they were unable to replicate the effect while others claimed much on its behalf. I think the answer there is much as I once speculated about the then-unavailable Lozanov method, as reported in Ostrander and Schroeder's original Superlearning. Get "the art menu" up on your necktop computer and you have engaged a different way of processing information. Instead of straining in one fact or one lexical unit at a time through the left temporal lobe as your way to learn, you are gazing upon Mona Lisa as a whole and studying relationships of one part of that picture to another within that whole, and relating that also to other things in the context. Different menu running in your computer. A different intelligence, not necessarily a greater one, using both - as Suggestopaedy and Lozanov do - is likely a very good strategy for learning. ~~~ PRESCHOOL MATH SKILL PREDICTS SUCCESS http://children.webmd.com/news/20071112/preschool-math-skill-predicts- Pre-school math something to focus on? A hotly controversial study shows that preschool math and reading skills predict later academic success, but behavioral problems and social skills don't. ___________ Win Wenger comments: This certainly looked interesting. I renew my request for someone with skills at programming computer games and graphics to contact us for a Joint venture on a series of computer games which, if my theory and design are right, WOULD as a fun game prepare pre-schoolers with math perception and math skills up to college level. In any event, you should find some of the implications of this article to be intriguing. ~~~ Translators wanted - in any language, to translate selected contents of the Project Renaissance website, the new CoreBooks series, and certain books by Win Wenger. Please contact Win at mailto:wwenger101@aol.com if you are able and interested in collaborating on these projects. ~~~ ........................................................................ |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| EVENTS ~~~ THE FIREBIRD: Creativity, Danger and Transformation An evening of Story and Song Wednesday, December 12, 2007 7:00PM-? (however long you stay!) Presented by: Seth Kahn, change leadership specialist and master storyteller www.SethKahan.com and Laura Baron, award-winning singer/songwriter www.LauraBaronMusic.com Join us for wine, food and fun...and bring your business cards! $20 at the door - $15 with a dish to share Please RSVP to Michelle James, mailto:michelle@CreativeEmergence.com Capitol Creativity Network http://www.capitolcreativitynetwork.com ~~~ January 4 - February 22, 2008 A Professional and Personal Development Program Led by Michelle James, CEO of The Center for Creative Emergence A One-of-a-Kind Program - Practical, tangible outcomes and offerings will emerge from the inside-out over the course of 7 weeks. 4 Fridays over 7 weeks - 9:00am to 5:00pm - in January 4, January 18, February 8 and February 22 If you have to miss a day you will get an individual make-up session. $1200 for independent consultants/self employed/entrepreneurs. $1500 organizational rate. Early Bird Rate: $100 off if paid in full by December 24. This program is limited to only 6 people and fills up each time - $100 non-refundable deposit reserves your space. Credit cards accepted. Payment plans available - call 703-760-9009. For complete details and registration, go to http://creativeemergence.com/page10.html Email: Michelle James, mailto:michelle@creativeemergence.com Phone: 703-760-9009 The Center for Creative Emergence www.creativeemergence.com ~~~ February 1-3, 2008 - Invention-on-Demand Training Workshop with Win Wenger and Chuck Roman, in www.winwenger.com/iodtrain08.htm ~~~ May 23-29, 2008 - Annual Double Festival - Mark your calendar now! 16th Annual Conference on Creative Problem-Solving Methods and Enhanced/Accelerated Learning Techniques and Spring Workshops of Project Renaissance www.winwenger.com/upcoming.htm#DF ~~~
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Over 2400 years it has been the most tested, best-demonstrated teaching method there has been among all those which have yielded positive results. Socratic Method centers on eliciting insights and perceptions and understanding. When one engages in it, one BECOMES more perceptive, thoughtful and understanding...and articulate. People who engage much in Socratic processing develop high-quality language and reading comprehension skills. Modern forms of the method enable Socratic processing to be used with many students or participants simultaneously, even hundreds at a time if need be, and still give everyone there the intensive, perceptual and insight-building experience and engagement of a one-on-one Socratic drawing-forth. Modern forms of Socratic method can be used with everyone at a time: the method is no longer the exclusive prerogative of a privileged elite only. To see part of how to focus "buzz-grouping" so that everyone can be a Socrates to everyone else so that all benefit, see "Dynamic Format" at www.winwenger.com/dynform.htm. You can start trying it out a little at a time, and proceed as you gain confidence and enjoy the results. You don't have to launch into a different system all at once. Classic forms of Socratic Method required some pretty high skills to administer, and a really good knowledge of the subject you were teaching. Modern Socratic Method, by contrast, is far easier to use than the methods you are using now. The modern form, while your students "buzz" in focus on your question, challenge, topic, or key point in your lesson, allows you to regroup your forces from one topic and educational effort to the next. It enables you to observe and get to know your students in action. You are enabled to perceive directly what your students truly understand - and what they don't understand - so you can go in and repair their cognitive and curriculum infrastructure. And, as their understandings do connect up with what you want of them, you will be blown away by the genius-level perceptions and insights even your unlikeliest-seeming students or participants will be showing you. Meanwhile, consider this: Many of the more conventional classroom teaching methods you have experienced turn out to have little to do with human learning. Human learning is based in context, just as significance in physical reality is based upon relationships. How much change results in other things from a change in the one thing? That secondary change happens only through relationships. Any one thing is precisely as significant as it has relationships. Can you think of a single significant thing whose meaning does not obtain through its relationships? Human thinking and learning derives from the way the world works, and depends upon a context of meaningful relationships. Yet, most of the methods you have experienced were "validated" by slight differences in rates of memorization of unrelated nonsense syllables, and have nothing to do with human learning! Meanwhile, in this century, we have come to understand what it is IN Socratic Method which leads to its extraordinarily powerful positive results. That has let us in Project Renaissance design new forms of it which are infinitely easier to use, and even more effective - and which can be used with even the largest groups of people in overcrowded classrooms, while getting everyone thoroughly and intensely involved with the key points of your lesson! *** To Place a Major Resource Directly Into Your Hands: May we send you a booklet, for free, containing key information about modern Socratic Method and about how to use it in your classroom? Say the word and we will e-mail the booklet to you by attachment. Some of the information about modern Socratic Method is already online at www.winwenger.com/socmeth1.htm , but not organized as succinctly as in this booklet, and you will find other useful information there in the booklet as well. Just tell us - mailto:wwenger101@aol.com - to send it to you. *** Solving Diversity in the Classroom: Another key issue: Modern Socratic Method is a major solution to the problem of diversity in classrooms. No teacher can teach didactically to all her or his students, some of whom are auditory, some visual, some kinesthetic learners, some with high musical intelligence, some with high social intelligence, all with varying levels of formal intelligence and educational background. That means that some of the students necessarily fall outside the window through which the teacher teaches, their needs aren't met, and their consequent restlessness erodes even the teaching going on well within the window. But in response to proper Socratic challenge, every student draws upon His/her own unique strengths, stimulating and reinforcing these and beginning to build around them. Every student can be totally involved, optimally challenged, self-igniting, even crowded into the largest lecture-sections - while the TEACHER has an unbelievably easier time of it, gets to observe and know many of his or her students in action, and is freed up from most of the effort and the paperwork ordinarily used to herd along a reluctant band of cats. For further details on this apparent solution to a very major problem, please see the article on South African education posted here: www.winwenger.com/safr-edu.htm . While that paper was made up for schools in South Africa, it turns out its recommendations largely apply to key problems in most schools. Meanwhile, to receive a copy of the main document on Socratic Method, just email your request to Win Wenger, mailto:wwenger101@aol.com, and we will reply with that document attached. ------------------------------------ To send feedback privately to Win Wenger, email to: mailto:wwenger101@aol.com?subject=Socratic To send your comments about this article to The Stream, write to: mailto:thestream@winwenger.com?subject=Socratic |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ........................................................................ COMMENTS and FEEDBACK ~~~ Matt Ganoza ( mailto:mattg329@yahoo.com ) writes: Dear Dr. Wenger, I am a nineteen-year college student (Northern Virginia Community College) entering my second year of school. I will be transferring to East Carolina University in the fall of 2008. My area of study is Psychology currently. I first came across the practice of Image- Streaming when I was fifteen years old when I read a book entitled - The Mind Accelerator. The book described an approach to Image-Streaming that was quite ambiguous. I put the book down and decided it was nonsense. At the beginning of this past summer I came across your book, The Einstein Factor. I checked it out of the Chantilly Regional Library and used the techniques described in the book. I was astonished at the results. My whole life has improved in every aspect because of this method. These changes took no longer than a week. I try to practice Image-Streaming every day for an hour. If I have a day free of constraints, then I practice for longer. I personally find it to be more effective in terms of relaxation than Meditation or Hypnosis. I do find that it increases intelligence drastically. Because of Image-Streaming I welcome each new day, something I never did before. Thank you so much, Dr. Wenger. Image-Streaming has truly changed my life. - Sincerely, Matt Ganoza ( mailto:mattg329@yahoo.com ) ~~~ Kyle Reidy ( mailto:elykydier@yahoo.com ) writes: I've had The Einstein Factor for a few years. I'd try Image-Streaming off and on, and never was able to sustain an Image-Stream very well. The answer to my problem came to me in a flash, just recently. I was thinking about why I wasn't able to keep a strong connection to my subconscious, and a picture of my GoLite came to me. The GoLite is a device that you use to reset your body clock. You turn on the GoLite and shine it into your face, and it's absorbed through your peripheral vision. It raises seratonin levels in the brain. It's made for people who don't get outside and absorb sunlight to wake them up. I tried using my GoLite in the morning and the evening to reset my body clock and then tried Image-Streaming. I was able to sustain Image-Streaming for twenty minutes. Here's where I come the part that would be useful to you. The type of people to pick up The Einstein Factor (or the type of person to pick up a book at all) are a lot of the time the people who don't get outside. So maybe the reason a lot of people can't do Image-Streaming well is just because their brains are too tired. - Kyle ~~~ Win Wenger responds: Kyle, you've raised an interesting proposition. There are always some people around who appear to have initial trouble getting imagery. Publishing your ideas here could get us more information through feedback from readers. http://www.apollolight.com/golite_cnn_footage.html has a short CNN video explaining the uses of such lights for regulating the internal body clock to aid in coping with diminished sunlight and seasonal depression. ~~~ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To send your comments to The Stream for possible publication here, write to: mailto:thestream@winwenger.com?subject=Comments ........................................................................ |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ORGANIZATIONAL NOTES ~~~ IMAGE-STREAMING PARTNERS Project Renaissance is organizing a partners' bureau or real-time chat resource online via Skype, msn or yahoo messenger for people looking for partners with whom to do live Image-Streaming. If you're interested in joining this resource, please send your contact information and preferences, such as time of day, language, type of Image-Streaming, and we will add you to a cross-reference index of partners to talk online. Contact: mailto:thestream@winwenger.com?subject=PartnersOnline If you have already signed up, we will let you know as soon as the program goes live. ~~~
INTEREST GROUPS * ALBUQUERQUE, NM - Gaylord Galston ( mailto:logarms@yahoo.com ) wonders if there is anyone in the Albuquerque area with whom he can practise Image-Streaming. * BALTIMORE - Gerald Hawkins offers interested parties to contact him at mailto:gerald.hawkins@gmail.com about starting a problem-solving and idea-testing group in the Baltimore, Maryland, area. * CHICAGO - Nick Costello ( mailto:padrerock@rcn.com ) is interested in attending meetings of Project Renaissance members in the Chicago area. * DETROIT - Eric Bottorff ( mailto:pebottorff@gmail.com ) is interested in attending meetings of Project Renaissance members in the Ypsilanti area. * LOS ANGELES - Ray Croney ( mailto:croneyr@hotmail.com ) seeks Image- Streamers in the L.A. area. * NEW JERSEY - Donald Morrison ( mailto:donaldmorrison@gmail.com ) is interested in joining an Image-Streaming group in the Bloomfield, NJ, area. * TEXAS - Harry L. Beam, 6305 Poly Webb Road, Arlington, TX 76016 would like to meet with other members of Project Renaissance in the Dallas/Fort Worth area of Texas. * TAMILNADU, INDIA - Raj Kumars ( mailto:rajikumars2000@yahoo.co.in ) would like to practice Image-Streaming with a live listener in his area. * VENICE, ITALY - Franco Tiveron ( mailto:franco.tiveron@gmail.com ) is interested in learning and practicing Image-Streaming, in Italian or English. Please contact him if you are already knowledgeable in this technique and in the Venice area. ~~~ TOPICAL INTEREST GROUPS: Our membership is large and diverse, and many of you have expressed an interest in communicating with other members who share your topic of concern or research interest. If you'd like us to share your email address with other interested members, and to supply theirs to you, please email your name, email address and subject/topic to: mailto:thestream@winwenger.com?subject=InterestGroups ~~~ ADDRESS CHANGE? If your email address changes or your email box is full or your spam filter blocks us, we can't get The Stream to you. Please, before that happens, make sure you notify us of any change and put winwenger.com on your safe senders list. Write to: mailto:thestream@winwenger.com?subject=AddressChange Please do not use the unsubscribe link in such a case, then entering a new subscribe message. This makes extra work for you and your registrar and may result in deletion of all your personal information from our records. Put any other updated information you'd like us to have about you into the same address-change message. ~~~ SUBSCRIBER OR MEMBER? If you currently only subscribe to The Stream, you can upgrade your participation in Project Renaissance to full membership, free. Membership in Project Renaissance entitles members to additional benefits. If you're not yet a member, please register now, here: www.winwenger.com/regmem.htm or from the link on the homepage, www.winwenger.com . ~~~ DUPLICATE MAILING? If you received two (or more?) copies of this issue of The Stream, please let us know by replying to: mailto:thestream@winwenger.com?subject=duplicate ~~~ HOW YOU CAN PARTICIPATE... * The long-established, popular Image-Streaming egroup is here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/imagestream - requires Yahoo sign-in. * Submit articles, comments or questions for possible inclusion in The Stream: mailto:thestream@winwenger.com?subject=TotheEditor * Send questions or comments about the website, www.winwenger.com , to the webmaster, mailto:kate@gamepuzzles.com ........................................................................ LINKS * Back issues of THE STREAM by email upon request from mailto:thestream@winwenger.com?subject=BackIssues * Index of feature articles in The Stream archives: www.winwenger.com/strmlist.htm Starting in January 2007, the archived copies have a special cover photo masthead courtesy of Elan Sun Star. Do take a look - they're gorgeous and restorative. * Archived copies of Capital Ideasmiths are here: www.winwenger.com/Capitalidea/capidea1.htm * Project Renaissance homepage: www.winwenger.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSUBSCRIBE: If you do not wish to continue receiving this newsletter from Project Renaissance, please send an email to mailto:thestream@winwenger.com?subject=TheStream-unsubscribe ~~~ |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Project Renaissance home page | The Stream Index |