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Newsletter of Project Renaissance and Win Wenger
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August 2005 (Best viewed with
fixed-width font)
IN THIS ISSUE:
* Quote of the
Month
* Announcements,
News Items
* Events,
Workshops
* FEATURE ARTICLE:
Sidebands -
So Beautifully Simple - by Win Wenger
* Comments,
Feedback
"Beachhead" renamed to "Basecamp" - Win Wenger
"Beachhead"/"Basecamp": Getting There - Win
Wenger/Paul Kenny
* Organizational
Notes
* Links
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QUOTE OF THE MONTH
"Truth does not change because it is, or is not,
believed by a majority
of the people."
-
Giordano Bruno {1548-1600), Italian Philosopher
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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
Or see the online archives: http://www.winwenger.com/strmlist.htm
~~~
IMAGE-STREAMERS' BUDDY SYSTEM - proposed by Brian Theado,
who is also
willing to host the program. The idea is that
participants pair up and
email each other about once a week on their respective
progress and
experiences, encouraging each other and keeping each
other on target
toward their development goals. If you'd like to participate
and find
a "buddy", email your interest to:
- Brian_Theado ( brian_theado@yahoo.com )
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Addendum from Win Wenger:
For more than thirty years I've observed in all
capacities the profound
difference - in the outcome of our own and other similar
methods -
between working alone, even with a tape recorder, and
working with a
live partner. Reporting to another person makes all the
difference.
Brian has opened a huge opportunity for us, and for you.
Seize
advantage of it!!!
- Win Wenger ( wwenger101@aol.com )
~~~
NEEDED:
EXPERIMENTERS FOR PROJECT RENAISSANCE RESEARCH
We're looking for a core group of 30-40 committed
participants to
explore and experiment with new mind-development
techniques. This team
would be the only ones privy to the various synergistic
experiments
offered and would be eligible to learn the results at the
conclusion of
the program. They'd get to see the scripted instructions
for various
experiments, in return for committing to perform 2-3 of
them and then
detailing to us their observations and reactions. Be on
the cutting edge
of the creativity and brain-building field. No previous
experience is
required. To sign up for this team, email your name,
address, goal and
interest to: Win
Wenger ( wwenger101@aol.com )
~~~
BAY OF BENGAL INTEREST GROUP:
Members in the Bay of Bengal area of India interested in
meeting with
other members and practising Image-Streaming, please
contact by email
to: Kesava Prasaad ( keshavaprasadkh@yahoo.com ).
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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA:
I am keen to setup an image streaming/high think tank
group in
Melbourne, Australia. Please email me if you are in the
area and
interested in playing:
Rod Sherwin ( pr@sherwinprosperity.com )
~~~
NEW YORK CITY PRACTICE GROUP:
Looking for participants for a weekly practice group.
Anyone from New
York City wanting to practice some of the techniques
posted here and
others as well are welcome. Both newcomers and advanced
practitioners
of hypnosis, NLP, and somatics, please join us. Contact
Joel
( hurlanhurlan@yahoo.com )
I am located in Jersey, but am more-than-willing to
travel. I have
practiced ISing and similar procedures for a few months,
but have yet
to experiment with a live listener(s). Feel free to contact me.
Saltman ( saltman@datatoolsinc.com )
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PASADENA, CALIFORNIA:
I would like to connect with others in the Pasadena, CA,
area who are
experienced in Image-Streaming. I am still new at it and my only
experience has been with the cassette tape, though I've
had one
excellent answer! I am in
Duarte, CA, and work in Santa Ana. If
you
have a group that meets or are a single practitioner of Image-Streaming,
and would like to work together, send me an email.
Jim (
Jim91010@yahoo.com )
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THE NETHERLANDS
I live in "Het Westland, Holland" and would
like to Image-Stream with
others from the region of Randstad. Also, I am interested
in the topical
interest groups. Not so much for a particular area of
research, but for
a more general interest in creative problem solving.
Please email to
Rick van Deijk (rickvdeijk@gmail.com )
~~~
Rick van Deijk has created an online community/forum,
"IS Online", with
write-ups of his image-streams, articles, and a way for
people to find
live partners online. Quite an ambitious undertaking.
Thanks, Rick! His
email is rickvdeijk@gmail.com ; his website is at
http://vdeijk.proboards29.com/
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EVENTS
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MONTHLY HIGH THINKTANK MEETINGS, 2005-2006
Thursday, 7:30 pm, September 15
Thursday, 7:30 pm, October 20
*TUESDAY, 7:30 pm, November 22
Thursday, 7:30 pm, December 8
Thursday, 7:30 pm, January 5
Thursday, 7:30 pm, February 9
Thursday, 7:30 pm, March 9
Thursday, 7:30 pm, April 13
Thursday, 7:30 pm, May 4
Thursday, 7:30 pm, June 1
Quince Orchard Public Library, Room "A"
15831 Quince Orchard Rd.
Gaithersburg, Maryland 20878
(240-777-0200)
Directions:
From Route 270, take Quince Orchard Road to just beyond
the intersection with Route 28, about four miles or so.
Or take Route 28
West about five miles, just barely to Quince Orchard Road
left. Either
way, the Library is on your left. Just feet beyond the
intersection,
look for the nameless little spur of a road off Quince Orchard
which
leads into the Library parking lot. Or go to
www.MapQuest.com , type in
your own address including zip code, and type in the
Quince Orchard
Library's address, and get directions (and map) from
there.
* Please note the one exception to Thursday meetings.
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PHOTOREADING WORKSHOP
October 14-16, 2005 - Wilmington, Delaware
Invaluable PhotoReading skills taught. Our own Win Wenger
strongly
endorses PhotoReading and, indeed, all the work of Paul
Scheele that he
has thus far examined. For more information about this
Workshop, click on
http://www.learningstrategies.com/PhotoReading/seminar.html?id=297 . Or
phone expert PhotoReading coach, Mr. Dana Hanson, at
800-735-8273.
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UPCOMING PRESENTATIONS - Capitol Creativity Network
The Capitol Creativity Network
(www.capitolcreativitynetwork.com ) meets
on the second Thursday of every month. Time: 7:00-9:30pm.
Fee: $10 at
the door. Location: Social Room of Van Ness East
apartment complex;
2939 Van Ness St., NW; Washington, DC.
We explore and experience different facets of creativity,
from corporate
to expressive to scientific, etc. Each meeting is interactive, and
designed to have the participants experience their own
creativity in
real time. CCN's got a little something for every kind of
Creator in
2005:
~ September 8:
"Creative Thinking Techniques"
by Dr. Win Wenger,
Founder and Director of Project Renaissance; author
"The Einstein
Factor" and over 40 other books.
~ October 13:
"New Working Models: Using storytelling, improv and visual
techniques to extract relevant data and design functional
working models"
by Michelle James, Principal of The Center for Creative
Emergence;
business creativity catalyst.
~ November 10:
"Visual Mapping" by Nusa Maal, President of SenseSmart.
~ December 8:
"The Courage of Your Yearning: Using the principles of
creativity to create a life lived from your deepest
gladness" by Juanita
Weaver, creativity consultant.
Michelle James
The Center for Creative Emergence,
www.creativeemergence.com
Consciously Creating What's Next
McLean, VA USA
703.760.9009
michelle@creativeemergence.com
mjames7770@aol.com
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CREATIVITY IN WORK DEVELOPMENT
August 26 - October 7
Your Work, Business, and Leadership as a Practical
Expression of
Your Creative
Self
A professional and personal development program spanning
6 weeks. Led by
Michelle James, Principal of The Center for Creative
Emergence. See
http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=g9visnbab.0.a5nrmibab.nc7qncbab.141&p=http%3A%2F%2Fcreativeemergence.com%2F_wsn%2Fpage11.html
for the complete program description and detailed
testimonials.
This program is for entrepreneurs, leaders, managers,
consultants,
trainers, educators, executives, business owners, thought
influencers,
seekers, creators, artists, healers, psychologists,
teachers, sales and
marketing professionals, pioneers, change agents and
people in transition,
to name a few. It is for people who believe they are not
creative at all
as well as those who are already highly in tune with
their own creativity.
~~~
METAFORUM INTERNATIONAL
Academy for Integrative Communication
Bernd Isert, President ( team@metaforum.com )
* 13th World
Campus in Brazil, February 5th to 24th, 2006
Personal and professional development, with professional
coaching,
NLP from practitioner to trainer, systemic structural
constellation
work, hypnotherapy, mediation, and much more. Our
approach is systemic,
neuro-linguistic and integrative. Here learning,
experiencing, joie de
vivre and international encounters all belong to a
greater whole.
Visit our English website here:
http://www.metaforum.com/english.html
And see photo galleries of last year's events in Hungary
and Brasil:
http://www.metaforum.com/english/soca04-gallery/index.html
http://www.metaforum.com/metaforum/winter2005_galerie/index.html
~~~
A WILD AND WOOLLY WEEKEND INVENTING
March 31-April 2 weekend, 2006. Beginning 9:00 a.m.
Friday, March 31.
Where: Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C., specifics to
be announced.
Tuition: Only $395 for this initial offering, less
various discounts.
Inquire to
wwenger101@aol.com
Condensed into an impactful Friday, Saturday and Sunday
An Adventure in Inventing....more details coming to the
website.
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Feature Article:
SIDEBANDS - SO BEAUTIFULLY SIMPLE
by Win Wenger
While some of the tens of thousands of things going on in
your mind but
outside your focus are trivial and unrelated, many others
definitely are
neither trivial nor unrelated and, when examined, prove
to be a very
powerful part of our thinking and perceiving. We just
hadn’t been noticing
them. When noticed, and examined, they are proving to be
quite useful
— indeed, quite powerfully useful.
These are the "Sidebands" of your awareness, a
rich and fertile source,
a veritable motherlode of valuable information. Now we
are examining
several strategies for capturing or eliciting some of
these “Sidebands”
of ongoing aswareness.
What's so beautiful about "Sidebands" is that
almost ANYthing you do in
reference to something, and then are alert for relevant
perceptions to
come into focus of awareness during discrete times
afterward, will have
something of this effect. This whole thing is getting so
very simple that
it's beyond belief.
One of our more successful experiments with this is
simply to write a
problem statement, question, or matter you want to
understand, and WHILE
writing it pay attention to and note down your sidebands,
your secondary
awarenesses and associations relating to the matter. Then
change your
handwriting - block print is the way we ran the second
part - the same
statement and even the same wording - and again record
what comes up for
you this time when you do so. Then a third cut with the
same statement
or question in the same words but with an exotic
handwriting very
different from yours, and again record the new
secondaries that come up.
(Other ways to vary the "medium" would be with
differently colored
paper, differently colored ink, lined and unlined and
graph paper,
different formats on your computer.) Then LOOK at one of
your written
pieces, notice the further sidebands; look at your next
written variant
and again notice the different STYLE of secondaries which
are coming up
for you on it, and then the third.
As simple as that - try it and you will generate major
new insights you
never had before. That easily.
And almost ANYthing you do, in context of the question or
issue, while
staying alert for a discrete interval of time for such
sidebands or
relevant secondaries to emerge for you, will bring into
your conscious
focus such insights! Unbelievably simple! Everyone
reading this: you
are missing something great if you don't try this, simple
as it is,
easy as it is.
This is so COUNTER to how we were raised to think of
thinking, to think
of grit-your-teeth mental effort, to think of the great
and extraordinary
suffer-suffer effort of somehow being a genius, something
only a very few
mysteriously could do and the rest of us moping around in
outer darkness.
Hey: it takes only a few minutes; try this utter
simplicity, stand for a
minute in the sunlight of your own mind, and wonder how
we could have
missed something this major and this simple all these
centuries...
- Win Wenger ( wwenger101@aol.com )
Editor's Note: A
detailed description/analysis of Sidebands is being
prepared and will be added to the website soon.
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To send feedback privately to Win Wenger, email him at:
mailto:wwenger101@aol.com?subject=Sidebands
To send your comments about this article to The Stream,
write to:
mailto:thestream@winwenger.com?subject=Sidebands
To post your feedback or promote a discussion of this
topic:
http://bbs.cartserver.com/bbs/b/7733/#PostMessage
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COMMENTS and FEEDBACK
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"BEACHHEAD" RENAMED TO "BASE CAMP" -
Win Wenger ( wwenger101@aol.com )
"Beachhead" is now also known as "Base
Camp," a name more in keeping
with the peaceful entry and exploration of a high
civilization, and with
climbing heights, as with a tall mountain. It is still
the concept of
getting to an advanced civilization and establishing a
familiar basing
point and reference point within that imagined(?) high
civilization.
Then you can go there instantly and repeatedly, and
explore further
aspects of it. With the widest possible variety and range
of people,
"Beachhead" by any name has proven powerfully
productive of inventions,
discoveries, and of ingenious answers to various
problems.
There are about twenty different forms of "Beachhead."
The main basic
one is published in the book, "Discovering The
Obvious" (which also has
several other, further forms), and also free on the
Project Renaissance
website at http://www.winwenger.com/beachhd.htm .
"Toolbuilder" next to
that in the website (
http://www.winwenger.com/toolbld.htm ) is a good
example of another form of "Beachhead,"
tailored to inventing new methods
of learning, teaching, and training.
If these methods were locked up behind Pentagon doors and
stamped
"Absolute Top Secret," I think millions of
people would be beating at
those doors - and rightly so, because all these methods
provide ways for
each person to draw upon his or her own birthright
resources. Nothing
should be allowed to stand in the way of that.
Well, it's too late now to stamp these unlimited
high-resource avenues -
ImageStreaming, Beachhead and Toolbuilder - top secret.
We have to think
of another way to get the good word out. I very much hope
each of you -
many of you - will rise to this challenge posed us by
Steve Hinton's
initiative first published in The Stream (March 2005) and
reproduced
below, and forward the results to Steve at
stephen.hinton@tele2.se , and
to me at wwenger101@aol.com . Thousands of you, readers
of The Stream,
have received this invitation. If even a hundred of us,
or if even a
dozen of us, seek through the instructions at
"Beachhead"
( http://www.winwenger.com/beachhd.htm ) to see what our
high resources
can discover for us, I think we might see the world go
through a much-
needed transformation. I will look for your answers - and
mine - at
stephen.hinton@tele2.se .
Thank you very much.
- Win Wenger ( wwenger101@aol.com )
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[Reproduced here for your immediate information from the
March 2005 issue
of The Stream - ed.]
Make Image-Streaming Mainstream - Steve Hinton (
stephen.hinton@tele2.se )
Here's a challenge to use Image-Streaming (IS) to come up
with a way to
make the process itself mainstream:
* Visit via the
Beachhead ( www.winwenger.com/beachhd.htm ), a place
where IS was mainstream and had fueled a new renaissance,
with the
elimination of poverty and environment- and
health-detrimental lifestyles.
* Go around the
place, describe it, and then investigate how the place
had developed from what likens the current situation in
the world today
to this advanced state.
* Take from the
Image-Stream what you can to come up with concrete
proposals for proponents and practitioners of
Image-Streaming and other
related Socratic techniques.
I'll publish the results on my blog, "Inventing for
the sustainable
planet" ( http://porena.blogspot.com/ ). Just send
the tapescript and
follow-up notes to me. Looking forward to hearing from
many of you.
- Steve Hinton ( stephen.hinton@tele2.se )
Also visit the website: "A Very Beautiful
Place" ( www.avbp.net )
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"BEACHHEAD"/"BASECAMP": GETTING THERE
- Win Wenger ( wwenger101@aol.com )
When first establishing a way of get your perceptions
from "here" to
"there" (the advanced civilization visited with
the Beachhead process),
any vehicle will do. Some people have used Star Trek
transporters; I
imagine some in recent years have started to use Go'uld
transport rings.
Several times I've taught it as a long bus ride and
pulling up to a dock
in the target civilization. People going for
technological gadgets seemed
most comfortable and productive with an elevator, while
it was easier on
the whole to get people generally going in such an
experience by having
the visited civilization on the other side of a garden
wall in the "Over-
the-Wall" format. I really like Paul Kenny's
invention and use of Wisdom
Mirror visualizations, the ease and focus of the Mirror.
Visit Paul's
website, www.oceanlearning.co.uk and contact him by email
at
paul@oceanlearning.co.uk .
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to: mailto:thestream@winwenger.com?subject=Comments
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ORGANIZATIONAL NOTES
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