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Newsletter of Project Renaissance and Win Wenger
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October 2005 (Best viewed with
fixed-width font)
IN THIS ISSUE:
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Quote of the Month
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Announcements, News Items
*
Events, Workshops
*
FEATURE ARTICLE:
Using Sensory
Associations to Intensify Your Image-Stream
- by Win Wenger
*
Comments, Feedback
Michael
Bierly on eye positioning during Image-Streaming
Yolaine Stout
on multisensory Image-Streaming
Edmund Fargo
on artistic inspiration from Image-Streaming
Win Wenger on
blood flow to the brain
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Organizational Notes
*
Links
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QUOTE OF THE MONTH
"He who joyfully marches in rank and file has
already earned my
contempt. He has
been given a large brain by mistake, since for
him the spinal cord would
suffice."
- Albert
Einstein
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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@gmail.com
)
Note from Win: I
most profoundly encourage you to accept Brian Theado's
invitation and become part of an
Image-Streamers' Buddy System. Let me
urge you, in the strongest
terms, to gain leverage and to provide leverage
to each other. You will expand
your gains tenfold, in some instances a
hundred-fold. Such an easy way
to win so much effect, and your doing so
also helps another to do so. Go
for it. ...Win (wwenger101@aol.com
)
~~~
The ImageStreaming/high thinktank group in
by Rod Sherwin, is reporting an
active group and interesting results. This
month's meeting will be 26
October 2005 from 6:45pm for a 7pm start. The
purpose of the evening is to
help everyone explore and expand their ability
to creatively problem solve;
finding solutions to some real-life problems
or questions that you can bring
along. And over time develop the skills and
talents of the group to apply
them to not only our personal lives but also
to community and larger
outcomes. If you'd like to join in and are in the
area, please email to: Rod Sherwin ( htt@modelthinking.com )
Upcoming dates: 24 November 2005 and 15 December 2005.
~~~
From New Scientist's series on Being Human: "11 steps to a better brain"
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/mg18625011.900
Among steps such as smart drugs, diet, Mozart, sleep,
exercise, healthy
lifestyle, spirituality, paying
attention, and neurofeedback, the article
lists techniques for memory
training. Here's an excerpt:
"A team led by Torkel Klingberg at the Karolinska
Institute in
memory may grow in response to
training. Using functional magnetic
resonance imaging (fMRI) brain
scans, they measured the brain activity
of adults before and after a
working-memory training programme, which
involved tasks such as
memorising the positions of a series of dots on a
grid. After five weeks of
training, their brain activity had increased in
the regions associated with this
type of memory (Nature Neuroscience,
vol 7, p 75)."
Read the full article for the latest on increasing brain
and longevity.
~~~
Here are 2 websites I've found
for training your working memory:
Memory Gym ( http://memorise.org/memoryGym.htm
)
Digit Span ( www.dushkin.com/connectext/psy/ch07/digitspan.mhtml
)
-- Contributed by Ari Haviv (aribhaviv@fastmail.fm
)
~~~
THE CREATIVITY GAME by George Copsey (
george@curiositycoach.com )
This 21-day e-course, delivered as daily e-mails, audio
recordings and
pdf files, is designed by a
professional Image-Streaming coach to help
you enjoy ever expanding
creativity, greater confidence in your problem
solving skills, more joy and
energy from your Image-Streaming sessions,
increased awareness of your
subtle perceptions and intuition and how
to use them in practical ways,
deeper satisfaction in your work & life.
Download and play the Game anytime you want - even if it's 2:00 AM.
It's like having your own
personal Creativity coach, anytime you need
a tip, energy or inspiration. Here's a free 7-minute audio introduction:
http://www.viscoach.citymaker.com/page/page/1188604.htm or enroll
here:
http://www.viscoach.citymaker.com/page/page/1178345.htm
~~~
Ralph Cerchione ( figment@boone.net
) has a blog, "Future Imperative",
With a broad look at human
enhancement, from gene therapy to accelerated
learning, from neural implants
to smart drugs, from posthuman evolution
to the wildest flights of human
imagination. Check it out here:
http://futureimperative.blogspot.com
Truly, some of the best stuff on those topics you will
find anywhere,
on or off the Web, you will find
right there at Future Imperatives, and
I strongly commend it to you: http://futureimeratove.blogspot.
... Win Wenger ( wwenger101@aol.com
)
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EVENTS
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MONTHLY HIGH THINKTANK MEETINGS, 2005-2006
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"
(240-777-0200)
Directions:
From Route 270, take
the intersection with Route 28,
about four miles or so. Or take Route 28
West about five miles, just barely to
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.
~~~
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;
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:
- December 8, 2005: "The Courage of Your Yearning: Using the
principles of creativity to
create a life lived from your deepest
gladness" by Juanita
Weaver, creativity consultant.
***
The
Center for Creative Emergence Programs:
- Tuesday, December 20, 2005: "The Power of Being
Present"
9:30am-5:00pm. Harrison Snow and Michelle James. Workshop
for leaders,
facilitators, team members.
Details:
www.creativeemergence.com/page17.html
- Now booking - Improviganza!
improvisational fun and games!
Details: www.creativeemergence.com
- Saturday, January 14, 2006 - 4:00-5:30pm - IAL
Conference:
"Improvisation for Dynamic Learning and
Creativity"
Details: www.ialearn.org
CCN Founder and Coordinator: Michelle James
CEO, The Center for Creative
Emergence & Quantum Leap Business Improv
Creativity Cultivating, Consulting and Coaching
www.creativeemergence.com
michelle@creativeemergence.com
703-760-9009
~~~
Upcoming CREATIVITY WORKSHOPS in
Creativity Workshop Studios
Tel: (212) 922-1555
Contact: Vivian
Glusman
Shelley Berc and Alejandro Fogel, directors
Join Creativity Workshops in 2006 for workshops in
way to learn and travel, and
they earn 3 university credits. Choose one
of their workshops (from June
through August 2006) in Crete,
are held in
March 24 - 27
April 21 - 24
May 19 - 22
Tuition: $650
SUMMER CALENDAR 2006
From $1,650 including tuition and 9
night accommodations.
More details on their website, http://www.creativityworkshop.com
.
~~~
METAFORUM INTERNATIONAL
Academy for Integrative Communication
Bernd Isert, President (
team@metaforum.com )
*
13th World Campus in
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
http://www.metaforum.com/english/soca04-gallery/index.html
http://www.metaforum.com/metaforum/winter2005_galerie/index.html
~~~
IPSI CONFERENCES ( mont2006@ipsiconferences.org )
Multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary
research
January 8-11, 2006 - Hotel Stanford Terrace,
January 5-8, 2006 - Hotel Beacon,
February 19-13, 2006 - Hotel Puente Romano,
March 23-26, 2006 - Hotel Santa Caterina, Amalfi (
April 27-30, 2006 - Hotel de la Cite,
May 4-7, 2006 - Hotel Hostal de la Gavina, S'Agaro,
June 30-July 3, 2006 -
~~~
A WILD AND WOOLLY WEEKEND INVENTING
March 31-April 2 weekend, 2006. Beginning
9:00 a.m. Friday, March 31.
Where:
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:
USING SENSORY ASSOCIATIONS TO
INTENSIFY YOUR IMAGE-STREAM
by Win Wenger
For those who may have experienced difficulty in getting
good results from
their ImageStreaming attempts, I
want to remind practitioners and would-be
practitioners and experimenters
that the description of the imagery needs
to be sensory, that you won't
get anything like the desired results if your
descriptions aren't rich in
colors, textures, shapes, position-referencings,
motion, descriptions especially
in the visual senses and the touch senses,
and it won't hurt to get sound,
taste and smell in there, too.
The reason:
sensory associations are the working language of that 60% to
90% of your brain, beyond your ordinary 2%
verbal-conscious brain, that
you are trying to consult in
ImageStreaming and related processes. Engage
that larger resource WITH and build
connections WITH that ordinary 2%
verbal-conscious smidgen. This
makes a huge difference! How can I say
this any more plainly?
Yes, there are other benefits from ImageStreaming aside
from, and many
of them more significant than,
building intelligence. But most of the
controversy has been over
intelligence, so let me address that for a
moment. You can see that
"IQ" as a (rather flawed and limited) measure
of intelligence is an expression
of the verbal left brain, with a few
inputs from the positional and
visual senses.
You can also see that to link in some of the resources of
the sensory-
imaging brain, which is 40 times
greater by volume than that verbal 2%
smidgen, adds considerably to
the resources from which that 2% verbal
smidgen can express, and not
only on IQ tests.
You can see further effects on "intelligence,"
as expressed through the
2% verbal smidgen, when you consider that the verbal is
penned into the
false-to-reality structures of
our language such as the subject-predicate
relationship, which made us
think that the universe is organized in one-
way linear cause-&-effect
relationships when the reality is so much richer
and more holographic, effects
going every which way and impinging from
every which way. Our
sensory-associating brains have been giving us a much
more realistic and holistic
picture of how things actually work. This is a
form of "intelligence"
that doesn't show up on IQ tests but is no less real
in any meaningful definition of
that quality.
Further, there is a concrete sensory core to all our
thought and all our
levels of abstraction.
Abstraction is a huge convenience, manipulating
large classes and groups of
actions at a time in our minds. But the higher
the level of abstraction without
referring back to the sensory and concrete,
the higher the incidence of
error until "noise" begins to drown out the
useful signals.
Whether with interior imagery as with ImageStreaming or
by exterior senses,
the more and the better you can
connect with your senses and with sensory
experience, the clearer and more
effective you will be, whether or not one
calls that
"intelligence."
Another way of rebuilding your powers of actual in-depth
understanding, in
any particular subject or
generally, is found with an ImageStreaming
derivative process at www.winwenger.com/part44.htm .
Further, there is a numinous quality to experience which
one misses out
on and is far the poorer for
missing, if one doesn't tune in at least a
little to this vastly greater
part of one's brain (40 times greater by
volume than that 2% verbal
smidgen).
And beyond that:
how can you possibly think that such brush with the
numinous that you've had is all
there is, that you know what we're
talking about here? What if you
tune in to a little more than that little
bit?
I do not denigrate our language and that 2% verbal
smidgen: we absolutely
need that. The focusing power of
language made us human. The extent to
which we can articulate our
thoughts and perceptions is the extent to
which we can focus on them our
faculties and our actions. I refer to that
2% verbal smidgen, one-fortieth
of the size by volume of our sensory
processor, to attempt to convey
a realistic sense of proportion. We need
both types of brain chunk. The
more connected we can become between these
two vital regions of our brain,
the better.
ImageStreaming and its related procedures are but one way
among the many
ways possible for building those
better connections, but it appears to be
one of the two strongest and
most rapid ways we presently know of.
Complete free instructions - indeed, an entire curriculum
including how to
easily teach entire groups at a
time, if you click through to each of the
articles as you come to them -
is waiting for your action, beginning at
www.winwenger.com/imstream.htm .
Hey, good people, let's move
forward from here. Get your own toe into some
very nice waters.
-- Win
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COMMENTS and FEEDBACK
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Michael Bierly ( mbierly@epix.net
) writes:
Has anyone experimented with eye positioning during
ImageStreaming?
Some research indicates that looking up and to the right
(eyes open
or closed) is not only an
automatic physical response to attempting
to construct new images, but
that it also may help one to construct
new visual images. Up and left
indicates and facilitates visual memory.
Of course, this may be flipped
in some people and some look straight
ahead, but those are exceptions
to the rule.
As a test, have someone ask you the following questions
(or ones like
them) and have them record which
way your eyes go as you search for the
answer. Once you have that
answer, try placing your eyes in that position
as you ImageStream (unless you
ImageStream for a really long time... my
mother always said my face would
freeze that way and I don't want you to
risk that).
Questions -
*
Can you describe to me what your ideal house would look like?
*
If you could create a place that was a cross between the
mountains and
the beach, what would it look like?
*
Regardless of your religious beliefs, what do you imagine heaven
would
look like?
*
Describe what you think you will look like 10 years from now.
Actually, it isn't the specific questions, but just
questions that
cause the responder to construct
rather than remember a visual image.
Let me know what you think and, if you try it, if it has
any impact.
-- Mick ( mbierly@epix.net )
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Yolaine Stout ( ystout11@cox.net
) writes:
I use all the senses as an aid to having very vivid mind
experiences,
rather than just seeing images.
I find that these multisensory
experiences also reveal a
greater depth of meaning. I started doing
creative visualizations in the
1970s, but it wasn't until the Einstein
Factor that Win taught us that we can
ask questions and get answers!
Talk about an inner eye opener!
In the 1980s I began experimenting with different
approaches to make my
inner experiences become more
and more vivid and also to see to what
extent I could control my mind
and my body. What worked for me was
activating my awareness of all
our other senses BEFORE visualizing. Then
it
occurred to me to use a similar sequence in perceptual
development
of infants and young children. I
then experimented with adjusting those
sensations, in order to see what
was within my control and what was not.
This is the method that brought
me the most vivid images.
1. awareness of breath - adjust
breath to deep, rhythmic breathing
2. awareness of physical
sensations (weight of body, air currents,
tingling, warmth, coolness) - magnify those sensations, or
alter
them - try feeling lighter, heavier, cooler, warmer - make
your
hands feel tingly, make them stop, etc. - (takes practice)
3. awareness of inner sound,
sound of swallowing, breathing - to
imagining sounds of wind howling, raindrops, mom calling
your name
4. awareness of taste in mouth -
to imagining the taste of warm cocoa,
for example
5. awareness of smell -
imagining smelling that warm cocoa
6. seeing that cup of warm cocoa
in exquisite detail
7. feel the emotion of it
8. integrate a multisensory
event such as this: - a memory of being
hungry, being called in to eat, mom cooking, sitting down to
eat,
tasting, feeling -
That vivid multisensory experience in my mind's eye is
more vivid than
just watching something on a
screen.
Now try seeing your question in the same way your mind
thinks - ask your
question as a metaphor rather
than in words. If you want to know what
your obstacles are to a certain
problem - get into how you feel - see
your multisensory self walking
down a path, you turn a corner - what
obstacle appears before you?
Experience your obstacle with all your
senses. What you experience can be interpreted with the same associative
process as night dreams. - It
really works for me.
-- Yolaine ( ystout11@cox.net )
~~~
Edmund Fargo (Edmund_Fargo@hotmail.com
) writes:
As a painter, I have found the ImageStreaming technique
most useful in
conjuring up subject matter. It
seems every time I go into the Image-
Stream, I find the most incredible subject matter.
~~~
"Blood flow to brain may be clue to certain
dementias"
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-08/rson-bft082305.php
Well, people, they've worked
their way around a little bit more toward
what we've been saying about
improving circulation to the brain and the
consequences of that for brain
function, and there are certainly some
known and demonstrated ways to
do that improving of circulation... I
wonder how many more years we
have to wait for them to put two and two
together to come up with at
least three?
-- Win Wenger ( wwenger101@aol.com
)
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