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Newsletter of Project Renaissance and Win Wenger
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March 2004
IN THIS ISSUE:
* Quote of the
Month
* Announcements
* Events
* FEATURE
ARTICLE: “Compromising with
Omniscience" by Kate Jones
* Comments &
Feedback
Muhammad
Latiff
Adam Levenson
Anthony Rao
* Links -
archives, back issues, homepage
* Question Quest -
Challenge #1
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QUOTE OF THE MONTH
The precepts of the law are these: to live honorably, to
injure
no other man, to render every man his due.
- The
Institutes of Justinian [533 A.D.]
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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WELCOME to all new members who have joined us this month.
We hope
to hear from you and to give you much food for thought.
Back
issues are available upon request. Just add the month to
the
subject line:
mailto:thestream@winwenger.com?subject=BackIssues
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NEW ON THE WEBSITE...
The long-awaited "Image-Streaming for Groups"
instructions are
here: http://www.winwenger.com/is-group.htm
The much-requested FAQ (frequently asked questions) page
is online,
http://www.winwenger.com/faq.htm, with your best
questions from
years of exchange. Don't see a question you'd like
answered? Send
it in to mailto:wwenger101@aol.com?subject=FAQ .
The Project Renaissance website at last has its very own
Site Map
( http://www.winwenger.com/sitemap.htm ). Take a look.
You'll be
amazed at the many interesting pages you may have missed
before.
"Pole-Bridging in the Brain to Build
Intelligence" is the theme of
February's Winsights (
http://www.winwenger.com/part73.htm ). Win
Wenger explains the "why" and "how"
of this important phenomenon.
Project Renaissance introduces a new public-service feature:
Question Quest ( http://www.winwenger.com/question.htm ),
where
you propose the questions and you suggest real-world
solutions
to real-world problems, using any creative
problem-solving
method. Prizes awarded for selected questions and
successfully
implemented solutions. Challenge #1 appears at end of
this issue.
Read about other news at http://www.winwenger.com/new.htm
.
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CO-AUTHORS WANTED:
Active and/or retired professionals in psychology,
economics,
history, biology, physics, sociology, chemistry, etc., to
co-author
with me new kinds of introductory texts (various age
levels) and
methods-of-teaching texts. To become part of an eventual
discovery
curriculum.
...Win Wenger, Ph.D.
( mailto:wwenger101@aol.com?subject=Texts
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VOLUNTEER HELPERS...
Project Renaissance needs volunteers to help with certain
aspects
Of its operations. If you'd like to be involved in this
great work,
to whatever extent you are able, please contact Tijl
Koenderink,
Project Renaissance's executive director, for more
information:
mailto:tijl@dare2b.nl?subject=Volunteer
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EVENTS
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THE-NEXT-IDEA 2004 CREATIVITY WEEKEND - April 2-4, 2004
Harper's Ferry, W. Virginia (90 minutes from Washington
DC)
Explore and Facilitate Personal and Organizational
Creativity --
Experience the Science, Art and Spirit of Creativity.
The conference is structured as a Micro-University
experience with
3 to 4 different sessions every hour and a half. You will
create
your own experience by choosing from - Business,
Professional and
Personal Creativity as well as Facilitation Skills. For
Sessions
and Leaders, and samples of workshops, visit their
website at:
www.thenextidea2004.com
Cost: Conference
registration is $130 for two days or $75 for one
day. Room and meals is $85 per day. For multiple
occupancy (3 or
more), the price is $65 per day. So the average price for
the
entire Creativity Weekend would be $300 or less.
Registration:
www.thenextidea2004.com or contact Andre and Judy de
Zanger at
1664 3rd Ave., New York, NY, 10128. Phone
212-289-8856; e-mail:
mailto:creativityinstitute@juno.com
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PROJECT RENAISSANCE SPRING WORKSHOP - May 15-22, 2004
At the famous private facility in Pasadena, Maryland.
Training with Win Wenger and distinguished trainers.
May 15-16 Business
meetings, planning workshops
May 17-19 Advanced
Trainer training
May 20 Private
healing sessions with Chuck Bubar
May 21-22
Beyond-Einstein training for beginners. This training
is specially tailored to give people with interest in
trainership
information on becoming a Project Renaissance Trainer and
what
Certification will include.
This is a unique opportunity to receive the training. You
will not
only be trained by Dr. Win Wenger himself, but will
receive more
personal attention because of the number of experienced
trainers
Who will be present to help guide this training. You will
also
receive a complimentary copy of 'Discovering the
Obvious', Dr. Win
Wenger's latest book. Tuition, $395
Early registration discount, $50 (before March 31).
Certain other
discounts may apply (students, alumni, family members).
Full
details online. Register now to earn the early bonus:
http://www.winwenger.com/upcoming.htm#May
Questions? Contact Tijl Koenderink, Executive Director of
Project
Renaissance:
mailto:tijl@dare2b.nl
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NATIONAL PRESS CLUB SPEAKER - June 19, 2004
Dr. James H. Austin, M.D., author of "Zen and the
Brain" and
"Chase, Chance and Creativity," will speak at
the National Press
Club at 11 AM on Saturday, June 19, 2004. He will address
concern
about learning, discuss both books, and join us for
lunch. This
event is by invitation only. The talk is free. Lunch will
cost
about $12. Please email Elliot Ryan to indicate your
interest in
attending: mailto:nppress@sitestar.net
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CONFERENCE ON CREATIVITY - July 15-18, 2004
Celebrating Individual Creativity: From Inspiration to
Application
15th Annual International Conference on Creativity in
Colleges and
Universities - on the campus of Northwood University,
Midland,
Michigan.
Global assembly of those who value, teach, and practice
Creativity.
The audience will comprise higher-education teachers and
creativity
practitioners in both academia and enterprise. See their
website
for additional information: www.northwood.edu/abd
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PROJECT RENAISSANCE DOUBLE FESTIVAL - November 12-14,
2004
13th Annual Conference on Creativity and Accelerated
Learning
Maryland/Washington, DC area
This year’s theme is the ‘Theory and Practice of
Education’.
The leading experts in the field of learning and
education will
share their practical success stories and secrets to help
you
accomplish the same in your school or classroom. The
combination
of a membership with a support environment of
‘Progressive
Educators’ makes this THE event to attend. Mark your
calendar
now. More information is on the website:
http://www.winwenger.com/upcoming.htm#df
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Feature Article:
COMPROMISING WITH OMNISCIENCE
by Kate Jones
Some years ago, I consciously faced this question: There is a huge
though not infinite amount of knowledge in the universe.
There are
a huge but not infinite number of books in the world, in
existence
and continuing to be created at a rate exceeding any rate
of
consumption by any means available to a single
individual.
And I consciously accepted the answer: I am not omniscient nor
omnipotent nor omnipresent. I can understand, however,
why these
are desirable qualities and why we have conceived them in
our
constant search for growth, and why we have endowed them
to only an
impossible Being.
And I made my peace with never knowing everything and not
reading
every book and not seeing every movie and TV program and
visiting
every website and personally knowing every person who
shares the
globe with me. To preserve sanity and self-esteem, I made
a bargain
with myself: I
will organize what I know and what I need to know in
a rational hierarchy based on objective reality and on
the specific
environment
(physical/intellectual/emotional/interpersonal) in which
I have to function, by choice or chance.
By good fortune, the mind is a fine piece of equipment
that can
function in just this way. It already automatically
taxonomizes and
organizes and files and integrates and differentiates and
references
and cross-references and associates and interconnects and
retrieves.
Ah, this last is my only problem. In the grand structure
I have no
problem, but pulling out the data bits, the trivia, the
endless
inconsequential flotsam of daily experience, there is
inconsistent
speed and quantity of access. I rationalize that if it
were really
important, I'd remember it. And if I get a second chance
to absorb
it, it will be more retrievably encoded.
Just as in the old saying that if everyone swept in front
of their
own door, the whole street would be clean, in the
knowledge field I
like to think that everyone has a unique and special data
set, and
that among all of us is contained the collective
knowledge of all
mankind. And day by day more of it makes its way onto the
Internet,
where you can find anything you need and want at the
touch of a
Google button.
And what you need to know the most is naturally
reinforced by the
individual conditions of your life.
As for the idea that there is an overload "of
apparently precious
information so that it becomes self-reinforcing as each
question
raises so many others leading to more and more
information", the
strategy of coping with that is by categorizing, the
hierarchy I
mentioned above. It's like your computer's folders and subfolders
and subsubfolders.
A single icon can represent a huge body of
information, which unpacks on demand.
All that precious stuff is already filed in there. Your
mind's
associational faculty takes care of that. And that is why
Win
Wenger's methods are so effective. They maximize what you
can
retrieve and how to get at it.
- Kate Jones ( mailto:kate@gamepuzzles.com )
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About the Author:
Kate Jones is webmistress of the Project
Renaissance website and managing editor of The Stream.
She also
runs her own educational games and puzzles business. See
http://www.gamepuzzles.com
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To send feedback privately to the author, email Kate
Jones at
mailto:kate@gamepuzzles.com?subject=Omniscience
To send your comments about this article to The Stream,
write to:
mailto:thestream@winwenger.com?subject=Omniscience
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COMMENTS & FEEDBACK
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Muhammad Latiff ( mailto:al_jawad@hotmail.com )
I've read your book, "The Einstein Factor," and
really tried two of
your techniques described in it:
- Portable Memory
Bank
- Of course,
Image Streaming
- and your good
friend Paul Scheele's Photoreading
I've practiced for a year already (although I admit not
consistently)
and have found some insights. Why not try Image-Streaming
WHILE
Photoreading? This may sound a bit like Freenoting (I'm
going to
try this one soon), except that instead of Freenoting at
regular
intervals in the book being Photoread, you articulate
your inner
perceptions of the subject being handled by the book
SIMULTANEOUSLY
while you turn the pages and absorb.
This serves a few purposes:
- eliminates
subvocalising
- increases
"neurological contact" with the book
- enhances inner
and outer understanding of the book
I also have some questions:
You mention that I have to describe my Image-Stream in
rich, sensory
detail. Well, does that mean I have to have a good
vocabulary in
order to describe my images vividly? And surely I can
describe in
ANY language, right (silly question)?
- Muhammad Latiff ( mailto:al_jawad@hotmail.com )
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Dear Latiff - Your principles are good, and your
suggested procedure
may also be and is certainly worth investigating. If
trials of your
technique turn out to be productive, we may well feature
this as a
guest article/technique. Thank you very much. I'm
forwarding this
exchange both to Paul Scheele himself and to our listserve
members
as an invitation to those Renaissance practitioners who
also Photo-
Read to try this technique out and report back. Many
thanks.
- Win Wenger ( mailto:wwenger101@aol.com )
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Adam Levenson ( mailto:xyai2000@yahoo.com )
The more I'm getting in touch with my own awarenesses,
the more I'm
realizing how I'm understanding things, simple things and
difficult
things alike. I am so aware that whenever there is
perfect under-
standing, I am getting an image that is having it make
sense VERY
quickly. I'm aware of it, I see it for a split second. It
can also
be in any sensory form, such as trying to draw something,
if you
literally become what you are trying to draw and CONNECT
with it in
that way, it works out easily compared to just trying to
draw some-
thing you are making absolutely no connection with in
some way. How
can it be disputed that understanding isn't simply
someone's
ability to read their unconscious signals, or to get them
more
readily? How many times do people that really understand
things
simple and difficult alike question how they do it? It
just happens
so it's not even considered. It's reflexive, something
trained,
conditioned! It's just paying attention to yourself, your
own
thoughts. The
majority of why IQ is raised as a result of Image-
Streaming is much similar to the reason perception of all
kinds is
Increased - you're simply paying attention to what is and
has
always been there. Conditions ya how NOT to ignore what's
most
important, your own awarenesses.
So basically subtle is only subtle since it has been
ignored; the
game is to make the subtle very obvious as it naturally
should be.
It has only become subtle because it has been ignored,
that's not
naturally how it should be. Isn't it ridiculous now that
people
laugh at one another at times or are just genuinely rude
in their
judgements towards each other when people are simply
conditioned
to ignore their own ideas and perceptions early on in
life against
their own will? So basically people that are close-minded
about
someone's abilities, and can't get beyond the idea that
they are
simply just stupid and have to insert a rude remark, are
being
cruel to someone that has already experienced cruelty or
conditioning that prevented them from growing. And there
are
many people that say that human beings aren't just
animals? Well,
there are many people that say a lot of things...
If you have so many people not questioning things on a
regular
basis, interested in understanding and reason before
emotion and
belief, that's a huge waste of human life, and will
probably
lead to a huge loss of life.
I realize in many ways now how very real and important it
is to
get people realizing they are really quite brilliant.
We're all
affected in some way by the good and the bad.
- Adam Levenson ( mailto:xyai2000@yahoo.com )
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Anthony Rao ( mailto:deepblue1996@yahoo.com )
Query: I really
wish I knew the meaning of it all. I wish I
understood what creates that which I think I am. Is
electricity
produced by neurons responsible for consciousness? In
truth, are
we really responsible for anything? If we are just
neurons,
chemicals, etc. - that is me right now - then I don't
really
exist; rather, the neurons and other substances do. I
don't have
control over those processes, since they are creating me.
Do
neurons, since the moment they came to be in each of us,
react
in a domino-effect way? I sometimes think I could find
answers
to these questions, but I'm scared to. I'm just filled
with so
much fear.
- Anthony Rao ( mailto:deepblue1996@yahoo.com )
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Dear Anthony - What a fascinating question you pose. This
is
really the eternal quest of mankind: - what are we, and
why?
It may give you some comfort to recognize that all those
neutrons,
protons and electrons that are you, are also the same
stuff out of
which the whole Universe is composed. And those that
create you
are yours alone, a special and unique set of cohesiveness
assembled
by a blueprint, your DNA, evolved over the millions of
years that
life has been emerging out of the inorganic stream of
matter. That
humans are a lifeform with the unique capacity for
awareness and
self-awareness makes them infinitely precious.
That we have self-awareness and a considerable range of
self-
directedness does, indeed, make us self-responsible.
Generally
it's called "free will". Our molecules, that
hold together to be
and to remain us, have a major agreement among all the
cells of
the body, including the brain and all our neurons, to
define the
unique individual that each of us is. You exist as long
as this
cohesion exists. You could even say what an awesome thing
it is
that we are entrusted with the care and preserving of
this unique
individuality, and the care and preservation of our
life-support
environment. At every moment of our lives we have the
power of
choice, and so we cause the consequences of those
choices. We
are, indeed, responsible for all the choices we make.
Look at it this way. If a book were only the neutrons and
electrons
it's made of, would it exist? Of course it exists, and
it's more
than just its material substance, because it holds, for
as long as
the stuff it's made of stays together, the encoded
knowledge that's
printed on its pages, and that knowledge is a record of
what some
mind has discerned and identified and made transmittable
about the
world, the space and relationships of everything we can perceive
and understand.
All that is a cause for great joy, not fear. We are each
one of a
kind, never before seen and never again to be duplicated.
It is
the glory of sentient life of such complex consciousness
to make
the most of the here and now, and to leave a lasting
value in the
world that will help to preserve and nurture others of
our kind.
We each do make a difference.
Notice that none of this insight requires reference to
any Creator
or external agent as a wild card, although it allows room
for such
metaphorical musings.
I hope some of these thoughts will be helpful to you. We
all go
through life wondering at these questions. We all possess
the
answers, hidden within our subconscious. The techniques
taught
by Dr. Win Wenger and described in the Project
Renaissance website
are powerful means for accessing those answers.
- Kate Jones ( mailto:kate@gamepuzzles.com )
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To send your comments about this subject to The Stream,
write to:
mailto:thestream@winwenger.com?subject=Comments
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LINKS
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* Project
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PROJECT RENAISSANCE
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QUESTION QUEST - Real-world solutions to real-world
problems
CHALLENGE #1
You may use any means for deriving either questions or
answers —
any of the creative problem-solving techniques described
in the
Project Renaissance website, or other techniques you may
know, or
even consulting experts in relevant fields.
You may submit questions for which you would like others
to find
answers, and you may propose answers to others'
questions, or you
may just ask further questions in a Socratic manner to
assist the
questioners themselves to find a solution.
This Question Quest is being coordinated by Project
Renaissance as
a public service and as an exploration into practical
applications
of creativity.
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Question No. 1:
A 17-year-old
young man has extreme difficulty breathing
because of a
concave ribcage which prevents his lungs from
expanding
properly. He has to take about 31 breaths a
minute to
survive. He is considering surgery to have his
ribcage
altered. Is there a less drastic measure that
would offer him
relief?
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Email your questions and recommended solutions to: Question Quest
( mailto:thestream@winwenger.com?subject=Quest ).
Please include a note as to what problem-solving methods,
if any,
you used in arriving at your answers. Prizes will be
awarded for
the successful solutions upon implementation. Let's make
a real
difference in the world. New questions will be posted
here and on
the website as they are selected.
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