New Civilization NewsAn NCN News LogWinding down and getting reoriented to Life- April 21, 2005 Clearly there is much more to the CSD process than meets the eyes and ears of a new comer. I spend much of my time listening to articulate language watching the faces of those also listening, some nodding in agreement or shaking their heads vigorously.NGO representatives, sitting in the arena, high above the delegates pass notes, make faces and have side converstaions. Cell phones go off, with some evening having coversations in hushed whispers. Its a good thing there are those funny ear...http://www.newciv.org/news2/index.htm/_v45/__show_article/_a000144-000188.htm Snowtree- April 21, 2005 There is a path they call peace, and they think of it as a place as in a destination, while another way of looking at it, is as a path, which extends limitlessly without destination. Who passed by in your world today more >http://www.newciv.org/news2/index.htm/_v45/__show_article/_a000112-000157.htm Oh Boy ! Jump for Joy !!- April 19, 2005 Have any of you ever litterally 'jumped' for joy Agalliao-jump for joy, exult, be exceedingly glad, with exceeding joy, rejoice (greatly)I haven't !!!At least I don't remember having done so ! NOt even when I was wee ... not even after Santa brought me that beautiful black walkingtalking dolly that I named Mandy-Lou !! I just never have jumped up and down for joy !I've been known to take a big breath of air and sigh when I noticed how blue the sky is .. or how beautiful a flower is...http://www.newciv.org/news2/index.htm/_v45/__show_article/_a000175-000205.htm WWW.GOD- April 19, 2005 God is the intelligence behind the Internet. Each website is a portal leading to collective portals that make up the World Wide Web. In the ideal world, each portal represents God manifesting as that experience; while the World Wide Web represents Infinite Mind. In the human reality this is not the case. The human idea of Infinite Mind is a fragmented one consisting of conflicting beliefs; while each portal is a distorted representation of the Real. more >http://www.newciv.org/news2/index.htm/_v45/__show_article/_a000422-000002.htm The Abolition of Work- April 19, 2005 In 1985 Bob Black wrote a brilliant essay called "The Abolition of Work". A monumentally brilliant manifesto, in my opinion. Suggesting, as it says, that we abolish work all together, and instead live playful lives. He outlines in colorful ways the tyranny of work, and the insanities we're putting up with in the name of work. And he outlines the faulty foundation the whole scheme is based on. I will include the whole essay in the "More" link as it isn't copyrighted. So just one quote here:Work.http://www.newciv.org/news2/index.htm/_v45/__show_article/_a000010-001533.htm Health Promotion, Health Fitness and Stress Managment for Prisons- April 19, 2005 In the October 1985 Issue of Corrective and Social Psychiatry and Journal of Behavior Technology Methods and Therapy, I published the article, "Health Promotion, Health Fitness and Stress Management for Prisons." I received letters from all over the world requesting a copy of this article so I assumed that our correctional systems were interested in examining and beginning to offer health practices to their incarcerated populations. However, the general attitude of citizens in this country is...http://www.newciv.org/news2/index.htm/_v45/__show_article/_a000400-000007.htm New Ways of Knowing- April 19, 2005 Something we OverlookSuppose theres something essential about how our species relates with knowledge that we overlooked. Something so essential, that it would change what it means to be human very rapidly were we to discover this hidden thing. Say for example that the modes of relation we use with what we understand to be knowledge are only a tiny portion of what is actually accessible and the modes were familiar with block access to these other potentials.Since were being imaginative, lets...http://www.newciv.org/news2/index.htm/_v45/__show_article/_a000187-000033.htm Structural Deep Democracy(SD2)- April 19, 2005 Structural Deep Democracy(SD2) is a non-ideological approach to organizing collective action and solving world problems. SD2 uses PageRank as a centrality algorithm to analyze votes to determine the center of TRUST and CONSENT in a human trust network. The top three or five lead such an organization with one of them as the executive. This creates a small and efficient locus of trust and accountability to lead the organization. Frequent rank recalulations are used to keep the leadership...http://www.newciv.org/news2/index.htm/_v45/__show_article/_a000009-000320.htm Seren yw llais pob un yng ngalaeth yr ieithoedd- April 18, 2005 "In the galaxy of languages, each person's voice is a star" more >http://www.newciv.org/news2/index.htm/_v45/__show_article/_a000408-000065.htm Prison and the Net- April 18, 2005 Yahoo News: Inmates in U.S. using intermediaries to escape into Internet, about how some prison inmates succeed in getting a voice on the net, by passing messages on to others who post them on websites.I right away get to think of my friend Bruce Lisker. And it is sad that he isn't mentioned there. Bruce is in prison for life for the murder of his mother. A very brutal murder. She was beaten with a steel bar, strangled and stabbed. In upscale Sherman Oaks, close to where I used to live. He...http://www.newciv.org/news2/index.htm/_v45/__show_article/_a000010-001532.htm |