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First Three Parts of This Multi-Media Series

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4: New Directions for Deep Resilience and Ascension Austin Noetic Science Community March 8, 2011 Oliver Markley, PhD (Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists). First Three Parts of This Multi-Media Series.

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  1. Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:New Directions for Deep Resilience and AscensionAustin Noetic Science CommunityMarch 8, 2011Oliver Markley, PhD(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

  2. First Three Parts of This Multi-Media Series • Manifesting the Upside of Down speech to the Houston Noetic Science Community, October 3, 2010 • Staying Resilient in a Wild-Card World article in the online journal, Noetic Now, January, 2011 • Deep Resilience: Manifesting the Upside of Down (or “The Capacity for Thriving in Upside Down Times”) workshop in Houston, January 28-30, 2011.

  3. The Two “New Directions” • Principles and promise of Happiness and Positive Psychology for deep resilience: The work of Shawn Achor 2. Principles and promise of Ascension: The work of Sal Rachele.

  4. A Noetic Experiment(The “Smiles in the Brain” exercise on page 202 ofThe Happiness Advantage, by Shawn Achor

  5. The Ostrich Effect

  6. New Research on Wild-Cards(aka “STEEP Surprises”)Possible events with a High Magnitude Impact • Type I – Low Probability • Type II –HighProbability Low Credibility

  7. Major Historical Eras

  8. Carrying Capacity for Ecological Load

  9. Now Beyond Carrying Capacity

  10. A Type II “Tipping Point” Toward Epochal Change

  11. An Even Bigger Ostrich Effect

  12. STEEP Surprises (aka “Wild-Cards”)With a High Magnitude Impact • Type I – Low Probability High Credibility • Type II – High Probability Low Credibility • Type III – High Probability Disputed Credibility • Type IV – High Probability Agreed Upon Credibility

  13. Five STEEP Stressors Toward Catastrophe • Population stress: overall increase and the difference in rate of increase between rich and poor countries • Energy stress: increasing scarcity and cost of conventional oil • Environmental stress from mounting damage to land, sea and air • Climate stress as the atmosphere responds to global heating • Economic stress from the widening gap between rich and poor people within countries and between countries (2006)

  14. Envisioning the First to Hit:Financial (2006) (2010)

  15. 4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-partBBC documentary“The Love of Money”Now posted athttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1M7z90Azps

  16. RSA “Crisis of Capitalism” Animation(2 min. clip of 11 min. program)For the whole thing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOP2V_np2c0

  17. http://motherjones.com/special-reports/2011/03/plutocracy-nowhttp://motherjones.com/special-reports/2011/03/plutocracy-now

  18. http://www.progressive.org/moyers0211.html

  19. The figure in the new budget proposal nobody in power wants you to notice - March 1, 2011, CBS News If Americans were ever presented with the real bill for the total U.S. national security budget, it would actually add up to more than $1.2 trillion a year. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main20038078.shtml

  20. Integrative (“Integral”) ActivismBilliard Ball ~ CornucopiaCausality (~)

  21. Integrative (“Integral”) Activism + (2001) (2007)

  22. Now…some GOOD NEWS(This and the next six slides were not included in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

  23. Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign Watch Six Steps to Caring Economics —  a webinar with Riane Eisler recorded on October 5, 2010 www.partnershipway.org/get-connected (2007)

  24. Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project Ervin Laszlo on YouTube (Parts 1 & 2): • www.youtube.com/watch?v=XozKEgwN7KE • www.youtube.com/ watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k The main website: http://ervinlaszlo.com/worldshiftcommunity (2009)

  25. Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project Watch Paul Hawken’s Bioneers speech, “How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1fiubmOqH4 (2007)

  26. Pachamama Alliance Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia www.pachamama.org www.swcoalition.org (2010)

  27. Sananda Mystery SchoolA resource for advanced cornucopic causality www.salrachele.com/sanandamysteryschool.htm

  28. Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages can be found in the PowerPoint visualsatwww.imaginalvisioning.com/manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

  29. Guiding Images and Development Source: Stanford Research Institute report, Changing Images of Man (www.imaginalvisioning.com/changing-images-of-man/). The original due to the work of Duane Elgin.

  30. Development Beyond Sustainability  Source: SRI report Changing Images of Man (1994)http://www.imaginalvisioning.com/changing-images-of-man/ (Graphic based on the work of Duane Elgin.)

  31. Economic Image of Man(now dangerously obsolete)  Source: SRI report Changing Images of Man (1994)http://www.imaginalvisioning.com/changing-images-of-man/ (Graphic based on the work of Duane Elgin.)

  32. New Guiding Image Now Needed  Source: SRI report Changing Images of Man (1994)http://www.imaginalvisioning.com/changing-images-of-man/ (Graphic based on the work of Duane Elgin.)

  33. The Economic Guiding Image (now dangerously obsolete)  Source: SRI report Changing Images of Man (1994)http://www.imaginalvisioning.com/changing-images-of-man/

  34. An Adequate Guiding Image for sustainable well-being should: • Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life • Entail an ecological ethic • Entail a self-realization ethic • Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative • Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions along many dimensions • Be proactive, experimental and open-ended. Source: Stanford Research Institute report, Changing Images of Man (1974) www.imaginalvisioning.com/changing-images-of-man/

  35. A New Guiding Image for Our Times:Resilience(Research and Action Toward the Upside of Down)

  36. The Tipping Point Toward Disintegration  bifurcation Source: Taylor & Taylor, “The collapse and transformation of our world“ (2007) http://www.jfs.tku.edu.tw/11-3/A02.pdf

  37. After the Tipping Point: The “Great Bifurcation” Source: Taylor & Taylor, “The collapse and transformation of our world“ (2007) http://www.jfs.tku.edu.tw/11-3/A02.pdf

  38. Two Aspects of Resilience • Adaptation – Weathering “the storm” as best you can and getting things back to normal as soon as possible • Transformation – Using the changes wrought by the storm to stimulate reformation leading to a “new normal.” Catagenesis (Homer-Dixon)

  39. Definitions of Resilience • Resilience, in general, is the capacity of a system to absorb disturbance and reorganize while undergoing change so as to still retain essentially the same function, structure, identity, and feedbacks. • Resilience in psychology is the positive capacity of people to cope with stress and adversity. • Ultimately, resilience is our ability to withstand crises.

  40. Principles of Resilience • Diversity: Not relying on a single kind of solution means not being damaged from a single point of failure. • Redundancy: Backup, backup, backup. Never leave yourself with just one path of escape or rescue. • Decentralization: Centralized systems look strong, but they are often brittle; when they fail, they fail catastrophically. • Collaboration: We’re all in this together. Take advantage of collaborative technologies, especially those offering shared communication and information. • Transparency: It is easier to figure out where a problem lies when plans, preparations and actions are shared.

  41. Principles of Resilience, Cont’d. • Fail gracefully: Failure happens, so make sure that a failure state won’t make things worse than they are already. • Flexibility: be ready to change your plans when they are not working the way you expected; don’t count on things remaining stable. • Foresight: You can’t predict the future of complex adaptive systems, but you think, intuit and prepare.

  42. Healing the Ostrich Effect

  43. Deep Resilience • Deep resilience is a way of being that is sourced by our inmost reserves (physical, mental, emotional, moral and spiritual). • With deep resilience, pain and suffering do not necessarily equate to psychic suffering.

  44. Source: http://www.throughyourbody.com/

  45. Cornucopic Inspiration • Holy Spirit (Christian) • Schechinah (Jewish) • Alayavijnana (Nondual Buddhism) • Sub-quantum Imaginal (Akashic) Field (esoteric arts & integral science)

  46. The Two “New Directions” • Principles and promise of Happiness and Positive Psychology for deep resilience: The work of Shawn Achor 2. Principles and promise of Ascension: The work of Sal Rachele

  47. The First New Direction The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology that Fuel Success and Performance at Work by Shawn Achor (2010)

  48. What is “Happiness?” • Pleasure combined with deeper feelings of meaning and purpose • The joy we feel striving after our potential • Ten principal correlates: joy, gratitude, serenity, interest, hope, pride, amusement, inspiration, awe, love.

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