Radiant zones and communities building..where are we up to ?

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Originally Posted by Oliver

Thank you, Mudra. I bookmarked The Art of Peace, and from short preview I did, it seems to me that this teaching has some touching points with Taoism, which is very close to my heart.

Artvison, thank you also. There are so many questions to be answered, as you properly posted them. I think it is wise for the technical issues to be resolved by the specialists, using their books, manuals etc.

As for my biggest interest, I started to work on “ideology” and “political system” stuff for the communities. When I have some draft, you will know it.

Respect

Dears,

Thank you for the interest and will of contribution to this life & death thread. This shows a deep desire in our souls for something better for people, for us in tha last instance.

This work is immense judging by the importance and by the knowledge must be shared and disseminated between us.

I have a practical experience of disseminating data and information between people, which NOT NECESSARY are of technical background, or not expressly technical.

Any person with reason and some life experience, can understand, handle and can bring their contribution to the common welfare, so here I more towards to work all to all the problems, at least be familiarized, while the trained experts will work more towards details and internal wheelings and dealings of systems, but overall all the people should have a global vision about everything... and who knows, maybe someone "non-expert" will come with a great idea which save trouble and time.

So, the idea is about having between us a common creative platform, which is not technical or technology dependent, we can make it also no be language dependent we can exchange within our group the creative ideas, suggestions, solution, being a fun in the same time; this idea of collaboration is based on two things:

1. The way our brain rteally works, it can gather information, store and process
2. How the computer is not helping the creativity process, but is an assumed bad, because of easiness of transfer and storage of data and ideas in digital format

So, for start, there was one smart person that observed that the humans are very bored when they have to learn and process lists and outlining; he deeply studied the problem and discovered that the brain function different as that was assumed it function. So, our brain functioning is based on images (remember that saying that 1 picture value more than 1000 words?); the central places in those images are the most important thing we are thinking at and from it radiate (RADIANT) subsections, like rays coming from the sun.


Each these rays then are divided in sub-subsection. You can visualize something like a central processor where are gathering many independent trunks of wires, each trunk is constituted by independent cables, each cable is made of wires and so on.

By analizyng this specific picture we can see the Big Picture, as well the details, in same shot, we do not need to turn page, to scroll and always we have all the information in front of our eyes. By further researches it has been observed that everything in nature is based on this make-up. From sun there getting out the rays, each rays is made from fascicles, each fascicle is composed from photons, etc.

The same is God, from which is radiate the wellness, the goodness, the life. You can observe in a leaf, if you look into the light, that are lots of nervure that emanate from the stalk.



These way of thinking and representing information, in a easy to grasp form for our brain, has been called MindMapping and has been developed by Tony Buzan.

I will not go in depth in this methods, suffice to say that will be very easy to visualize, understand and looks similar with scribbles and drawing of young children (which proves that what people learn in school is not necessarily good, but sometime could be bad! )

Here is an example of mind map:

http://techknowtools.files.wordpress.../mindmap_2.jpg

In center is the main subject. Each line is a sub-domain (we prefer to put only suggestive words - not propositions), as we get deeper and deeper level we detail more and more. The advantage is that is easy to keep an eye over all the information, is easy grasping, and with help of colors, forms and scribbles will remain more time vivid in our memory. Not only that, but if you want add something, you just draw another branch in the correct place. When you make list you should re-do it from beginning, right?

They use this method for advanced projects at NASA, Boeing, etc for Project Management, brainstorming and analyzing of extremely advanced systems. This is a method they said they used to coordinate the immense effort or re-satrting all the municipal services and systems in New York after 911.

So, along with that method, we need a software platform (but the best creative results are with a piece of paper, sharp colored pencils, rubber and a cup of coffee!). We need though the software to be able collaborate between different computers. Some use Windows, other Linux and others use Mac OS. So the file we are posting on internet, we can post as PDF or imagine, but someone interested cannot add, or modify easily. Here come into picture, the software I talk about.

It is FREE and is a collaborative software developed to collaborate between academic media, students, professors, engineers etc. Is easy to learn and intuitive and have so many feature that is unbelievable.

If enough people are here are interested by this method, I can indicate the links of this software and can create and post the initial structure, as a start poin which we can, flesh it out, every member, according with his ideas, experience, knowledge, not necessarily should be an expert in that domain. Really I do not want to intrude or monopolize the discussion, but we need a kick start and quickly because we are in the 11 hours. Please excuse me, I'm not that handy with all the tricks and features it may offer this forum platform because this is my first and only forum I post and participate in my life. And not because I'm someone coming from a cave or never saw a computer in his life, nor I'm so young (ouch!!! ) but because I never have an such vital interest as from this outstanding gathering of exceptional, smart and sensible people present on this forum, debating such extraordinary ideas and concept

So if you are interested I can post the links and afterwards I can put the draft of the Retreat Organization in that specific form and everybody can flesh it, can add or modify according with his wish.

Awaiting your opinion!
The software is easy handling, I know, also me, I'm not quite willing learn much new stuff!