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November 2009 
Who would you really like to get to know?
Ted
Bill Gates and Warren Buffet.
Between them they have the resources that could eliminate poverty, remove most disease, and solve the global warming problem.
It's probably a lot easier to get that message through to two individuals than to a government or intergovernmental agency.
From what I've read both are decent and disciplined individuals who are prepared to take calculated risks. I'd love to have their attention for a day, and make my case.
I've already tried going to Microsoft's headquarters in Seattle, and got escorted off the premises by some very professional security guards. It was the most probable outcome, and I thought there was a big enough possibility that I would make enough of an impression to get through, that it was worth the investment - which for me was a week or so my life and a few thousand dollars in travel and accomodation.
So yeah - I'd love to get to know those guys.
I've been within 20 ft of Bill 3 times, but haven't made it that last 20 ft.
One day - probably after it is no longer significant.
There are heaps of others I'd like to meet too - most of those I've met in this virtual environment being one set.
Access: Public
I think it is so sad, how money seems to isolate the very rich from well intentioned approaches from other people. i am thinking of Paul McCartney, the same, security so stringent nothing can penetrate, he lives a stones throw from me and is totally outside a chance of normal offers of neighbourly friendship in the village for the same reason, security prohibits it. Funny though, because villagers are all quite protective towards him not divulging info to the media etc.
and respecting that privacy, he could have many friends if the barriers weren't there, including those with similar creative interests. After a summer barbeque evening, sitting round a bonfire sharing songs/ poems together, and someone strumming their own song on a guitar, I thought haw sad his fame denies him such normal fun.
” … and got escorted off the premises by some very professional security guards.”
Ted, I respect you!
Dear Ted, I am somewhat suprised that you think that you have a better idea than they do on how to eliminate poverty, remove most disease, and solve global warming problems. I only know what I read in the papers but it seems that they are doing a great deal already. I wish you could talk to them too maybe you do have some ideas that they could use. I only know you by your comments on the blog. It seems that you are a very caring person and wouldn't it be wonderful if you could make a suggestion that would cause them to use their resourses to do a better job.
Be Here Now
I've gotten to know you a little more since I commented on what you said. I went to Solution Mutiplies and read it and I have to say you made my day. There are a lot of ideas there that are very interesting. I am going to go back and read it again. I have to admit that I underestimated you. How far along are you in making your dream come alive.
Blewbird -
Ted's website, Solution Multipliers is great, isn't it? He's a very interesting chap, he is. He's got a lot of left-brain going on, with a great dash of right-brain as well.
Hi folks
Around about the time Bill had his thought about a computer on every desk, I had the thought that aging seemed to be genetically controlled - and that being the case, it had to be stopable and reversable. That set my mind on the question - what sort of social, economic and technical institutions are required to allow all of these near imortal beings (ncluding me with a bit of luck) to live peacefully together.
That sent me into becoming a generalist - to take myself to post-graduate level in the theory and practice of as many disciplines as I could, including the sciences, history, philosophy, business, politics, living systems, evolution, mind/self-awareness/spitituality - and to build a coherent schema to relate them all. Only in such an approach could I see any hope of answering the question.
About 20 years ago a class of technical solutions developed in my awareness (with the aid of a bunch of Mensan friends), and I have made some refinements on them, and they remain essentially unchanged.
Over the last few years I have focused on being able to communicate the technical side, while refining the political and “spiritual” sides. Today for the first time I asked the question out loud - how is it possible to imagine an intelligence behind life when the development of life has clearly come about by the process of evolution by natural selection, and produces all of these forms that fail to survive - surely, if there was any intelligence at all, it would choose the path from one form to another without all the dead ends?
My spirituality has come to the conclusion that we are connected in very many ways that we are only just beginning to understand. We are connected to the fabric of the universe in profound ways.
And there is no evidence that that universe has any awareness of us, or any purpose for us - in fact there is considerable evidence to the contrary.
So I come out on the side of the mystic experience, yet not the interpretive schema that the mystics (or Ken Wilber) have used to explain their experience.
The experience of existence beyond ego is profound.
There is profound linkage with the unviverse available, and simultaneously, our awareness is an emergent property of the very complex set of systems that includes our bodies, brains, culture and language.
A little off topic, and as it occurred today, at the most profound level I have ever experienced, with brilliant clarity, I thought it appropriate to record here in this journal. I have been listening to a lot of Ken Wilber and Brian Johnson lately, and I've been feeling the patterns rearranging quite deeply - clarity emerges.
Quote There is profound linkage with the unviverse available, and simultaneously, our awareness is an emergent property of the very complex set of systems that includes our bodies, brains, culture and language.
How did you manage that without mentioning intuition, smiles.
The Mystic.
His senses reap new discoveries
feel the hand of creation working
through all. he knows very little
and has no worries about tomorrow
others know where they are going
lay out their plans and ambitions
the mystic has learned there's purpose
in unforeseen impulses - he simply
feels his way along a path invisible
to others. he will divine the purpose
of his coming going or staying
a path guided by a sure voice within
his finely tuned senses acutely aware
of what is hidden in unity with all
he knows nothing and yet tomorrow
unfolds a purpose he will accomplish.
“brilliant clarity”
“clarity emerges”
I just love it when that happens!
I have a hard time following what you are saying. I know you want to be a service to mankind but I don't understand a lot of what you say.
About 20 years ago a class of technical solutions developed in my awareness (with the aid of a bunch of Mensan friends), and I have made some refinements on them, and they remain essentially unchanged.
What?
how is it possible to imagine an intelligence behind life when the development of life has clearly come about by the process of evolution by natural selection, and produces all of these forms that fail to survive - surely, if there was any intelligence at all, it would choose the path from one form to another without all the dead ends?
Why do you think so? there are no dead ends only change
And there is no evidence that that universe has any awareness of us, or any purpose for us - in fact there is considerable evidence to the contrary.
I'm not sure I agree with you.
So I come out on the side of the mystic experience, yet not the interpretive schema that the mystics (or Ken Wilber) have used to explain their experience.
Haven't read much of Ken Wilber
There is profound linkage with the unviverse available, and simultaneously, our awareness is an emergent property of the very complex set of systems that includes our bodies, brains, culture and language.
Thank you Zephyr Do you mean intuition?
I've been feeling the patterns rearranging quite deeply - clarity emerges.
Huh?
I could understand what you were saying in Solution Multipliers, I'm not sure it's possible but my speciality is Love not understanding.
Hi Blewbird, yes I believe i did say intuition, I can easily understand peoples scepticism, I needed to experience it many times before I had no choice but to to believe it.
Hi Blewbird
Love works.
I'm into understanding also, because with it one can create tools, and with tools alter the nature of what is.
I would rather have a “what is” in which “war” is only of historical interest, in which the experience of poverty is no longer present, in which all people have the tools and the freedom to follow their own intuitions, whereever they responsibly lead..
The sort of freedom I mean is not a freedom simply to do whatever one “feels” like. Because sometimes we feel like doing things that are not in the long term best interests of anyone. It come with a responsibility, that one demonstrates in life.
What I am attempting to do is to build sufficient understanding of all the “what is” so that I can train my “intuition” (my holographic processors) to give me intuitions about the patterns that underlie all that we take for granted - ideas like “human nature”, “economics”, “morality”, “existence”; then to use that. If you have seen the movie “The Matrix” it is kind of like what Neo does there.
There is a very real sense in which ultimately the end of the movie will hold true - it really will come down the choices that every freed individual makes - because, by definition, such degrees of freedom are beyond predictability.
Yet there is another sense also, in which the battle rages between the machines (“human nature”, “economics”, “the military industrial complex”, “religion”, “culture”, …) and the self aware human, is currently still full on.
My objective is to alter the rules underlying the “machine”, while still working within the yet deeper rule set of the universe, to create a world where what I started this post with is reality.
www.solnx.org is my best attempt to date at putting that into words. Since I last did a major rework of that site (about 3 years ago) some things have changed, and what is in the site is still probably 80% aligned with the current schema I am using (though there are some elements of my current schema that are not well hinted at within solnx.org).
I have not met anyone else that is using a paradigm that comes close to the one I am using. I share elements of the paradigm with many others. Most of the elements I have taken from the work of others, very few elements are wholly my own creation (in a sense, even the notion of me creating fades and shimmers - as I acknowledge the intimate linkage between all that I am and the totality of the “what is” of the universe of which I am such a small part).
So many ideas that when I try and write them down, they simply do not translate well into language. I look back at them and see how people will likely read them and take something quite different from my intent as the meaning, yet words are all I have - I am far too poor an artist to try and paint pictures of what I see with my minds eye, and creating still shots would not work well, as much of the meaning is contained in the movement and morphing between the images.
And - as these are the tools I have, they are what I use.
One on one - I can usually create at least a broad brush stroke picture of what I am talking about. My goal is to do so via the written word.
I keep working at it.
Sometime I think I am making progress, sometimes it feels like climbing a scree slope that is thawing as I climb - (4 steps up then slide 3 steps back).
One foot after another, avoid the “bony” bits - keep going!
Love Peace Power Passion and Prosperity
Ted
Hi Ted
May be I can use your fertile brain to get you thinking in different lines. Please join my group 'Transforming capital in capitalsim' and my blog on
Deep conscious capitalism
if you like and see what questions or solutions arises…i'd like to know.
Dear Ted, I read somewhere that you must change the inside before you can change the outside. That rings true to me. It seems that if the world doesn't grow in consciousness that whatever we invent or produce will only be used for selfish purposes. The people in power will only get ahold of anything and use it ways that will benifit them. For instance, how to split the atom was used to bulid the atom bomb. Yes, I would love to end poverty and yes, I would like to live in a world of peace but we must change the inside first. I know you love your fellow man but don't you think you will lose control of any good idea to let say the military complex or get buried by special interest.
The latter is my greatest concern.
It is complex, and in the end it comes down to, if I don't “give it a go” who will?
I know it can work, the question becomes, will it be allowed to work.
The one possibility that is working for me, is that having me succeed adds more value to everyone than letting me fail - if only they are able to see that.
The great concern I have is that there may exist very powerful groups that are so conceptually “blinkered” by their current mindset, that they are unable to see me as anything but threat.
So yes - to a degree I share your concerns, and I'm doing it anyway - someone has ot give it a go.