What YOU have done and what YOU are doing @ zaadz is primarily something that only the very best of American pragmatism can achieve - my kind of crystal ball indeed - despite the fact that this ONE is created by Welsh artisans.

It appears to me that you have attracted a significant number of people,  who are - in Douglas Harding's words - already awake to, or awakening to the first person singular present tense which is the  LOVE that makes the world go round and leaves no-one whatever out - all travelling the way - and willing to communicate and collaborate with each-other - regardless of race, religion, politics or culture.

Your  quotation  No.14 of Margaret Mead - the distinguished American anthropologist, intellectual and scientist - obviously sets the scene for your initiative but it is very clear that you have already sown "the seed" which will establish a mechanism by which the ‘few' can become the ‘many'.

There is absolutely no reason why you should not further establish a large enough core of  "those that understand - because no explanation is necessary" - who, through example, will be able to increasingly influence & perhaps finally convince "those that don't understand - for whom hitherto no explanation would suffice"  - such that they to would join the ranks of those that understand and in so doing  significantly
change the world.

 

LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED

 

 

 

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One of the many keys to understanding is the need to acknowledge the concept of -

seeking less and less ...

about more and more

NOT

more and more ...

about less and less

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Since the beginning of mankind's ponderings on the "nature of all things universal" - ALL science and all scientists have ultimately been proved to be wrong in either some major or minor way.  The theory of the Universe as perceived by  Ptolemy gave way to that of  Copernicus, Copernicus to Kepler and  Kepler to Hawking & Penrose.

Although the beauty about Andrew Cohen's "What is enlightenment" magazine-initiative is that it brings together such a wide diversity of  knowledge & opinion - acquired & established  by the very broadest spectrum of specialist practitioners - such that articles about  Zaadz.com and  A New Dawn for Cosmology can be published in the same edition -  there is a tendency to encourage us to seek & get involved with more and more about less and less.

This is exemplified by the latest edition which highlights Ken Wilber's view's on God's Next Move - as Ken himself acknowledges Ray Kurzweil's views on the singularity etc. - against a background of discussion between Ray Kurzweil - as a scientist - and Stephen Woolfram - as a mathematician - about Stephen Woolfram's book  "A New Kind of Science".

In view of our ever increasing need to consider - and accept - what changes when change changes? -  Einstein's observation that ...

we cannot solve problems at the same level of thinking at which we created them

still seems most appropriate - but should we not, equally, be seeking  less and less about more and more?

In the same way that Spinoza inspired confidence in Leibnitz to publish his theories, as a result of their discussions about the I-Ching - we should utilise the Zaadz  ‘like-minded collective'   to promote a greater collective spiritual understanding of what needs to happen to change the world!

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A "ZEN poem"

does NOT attract

attention to IT SELF

IT REVEALS the world as "becoming" without assuming
and THE crucial point IS the existence of BEING behind IT

ALL seventeen hundred koans of Zen are simple
pointers to our "Original and Featureless Face"                                                                                
                                                              Daito Kokushi

You cannot describe it or draw it,

You cannot praise it enough or perceive it.

No place can be found in which to put the Original Face;

It will not disappear even when the universe is destroyed.

                                                                              Mumon

WHO IS Michael Grove? 

“ Michael is an exceptional technician leading the world in thought processes and use of technology in business. He is a visionary exemplar who should be listened to and given the resources to develop his ideas that can change the world  we live in and make it a better place for us all. " 
                                                                      Wayne Barsanti - Xerox Europe
                                                                                                                   



IT WAS during the early 1980’s that Michael established his reputation as a guru
of Interactive Multimedia Communications, as a consultant to Acorn Computers
and the BBC Computer Literacy Project, whilst still employed in the U.K. by the
Civil Aviation Authority as an operational Air Traffic Controller.

He was deeply involved in the BBC Domesday Project and absolutely instrumental in Apple’s move into this area of activity. His involvement with the original St. Louis Zoo Project and the development of the concept of a Multimedia Resource Centre in the Art and Design faculty of Wolverhampton Polytechnic, led to the establishment of an educational resource centre at the Zoo, which became a significant pre-cursor to Nicolas Negreponte’s One Laptop Per Child initiative.

He has continued, in this vain, to sow the seeds of wealth creation, from both perspectives of the mobius-strip-like journey of life, with greater emphasis on the dissemination of the wisdom of knowledge which results from the wealth of understanding.

Extremely dyslexic, Michael has developed innovative ways of thinking which help him to adapt to social conventions of thought and action, as well as to provide both brilliant alternatives and brilliant assists to them.  His significant intellectual insight is that people think in pictures as effectively as they think in words. 



WHO AM I …

I am a student of consciousness.

I am a dyslexic who has travelled the “world of the lexics” - in order to prove to myself that there are indeed methodologies of communication beyond “words”, that HOMO SAPIENS has to adopt - as part of the global skill-set which IS needed to assist nature in the qualitative advancement of the evolution of LIFE on earth.

"I am what I look like.  These six little words are big enough to cover the whole reason for our plight. They say it all. Or, to elaborate somewhat: I am here, for myself, what I look like over there, to you - as if our distance made no difference!

On this morass you and I try to build our lives. No wonder they are cracking up. To render them safe and sound we must rebuild them on the bedrock of I am what I see I am here; what you see is just one of my regional appearances.  I alone, at centre, am in a position to say what those myriad appearances are appearances of, and how different they all are from the one Reality that's given rise to them, from what I am looking out of. On this I am the sole and final authority."

                                                                                                Douglas E. Harding

"See what at this very moment your own face looks like - the Face you had before you, or indeed your parents, were born - there is NO THING hidden. If you look within and recognize your own ‘Original Face', all secrets are in you."     

                                                                                                 Hui-neng.

WHAT DO I DO …

I am working with ALL of those who would to establish an internetwork of networks of Thinking Environments to service the mutually beneficial needs & aspirations of …
Global Social Responsibility.

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Quark types - up - down - strange - charm - top - bottom
 - a particularly favourite example of Hoffmann's work

The valley spirit never dies;
It is the woman, primal mother.
Her gateway is the root of heaven and earth.
It is like a veil barely seen.
Use IT - IT will never fail
                                               Tao Te Ching

                06/06/06

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