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Newsletter of Project Renaissance and Win Wenger January 2007 (Best viewed with fixed-width font) IN THIS ISSUE: * Quote of the Month * A Special Message for the New Year - Win Wenger * Announcements, News Items * Events, Workshops * FEATURE ARTICLE: What Are the Questions Worth Asking? - Win Wenger * Comments, Feedback Ian Gressett on The Einstein Factor Win Wenger on Image-Streaming Joseph R. Schrock on Image-Streaming and Stereograms * Organizational Notes * Links * Masthead photo - Elan Sun Star ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ QUOTE OF THE MONTH “Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.”
~ Albert Einstein ........................................................................ A SPECIAL MESSAGE FOR THE NEW YEAR by Win Wenger ( wwenger101@aol.com ) Finally, we're back! As most of you know, our webmistress, Membership Director, and heroic newsletter editor, volunteer Kate Jones, had her computer blow up on her four times in 2006. The fourth time some data was lost, affecting both Project Renaissance and her own company, Kadon Enterprises. interrupted for a time. But as you see before you, The STREAM is now back; the "Winsights" column has been brought up to date, and a number of major new articles have made it into various parts of the website. And you ‘haint' seen nuttin' yet! In months to come you will see new breakthroughs, new discoveries, new methods, new services coming online. We shall continue to be THE cutting edge for development of new and better methods for creative problem-solving; for invention, innovation and discovery-making; and for accelerated learning. Regarding new and better methods for increasing human intelligence, we may or may not be able to keep up with new developments.... More on that in a moment. I'm hoping that the world situation also can recover. These past few years, my country kind of lost its way, forgot the substance of the very values it began giving more and more lip service to, forgot much of its humanity. Things got so terribly serious, people started waking up. Let's hope that enough wake soon enough to let us get through the difficulties of the months ahead without further compounding our errors. * * * ASKING THE WRONG QUESTIONS? Some of you know how our little thinktank, in January ‘02, tried to forestall Gulfwar 2 and all its tragic aftermath: * We put to our high thinktank process the question, how best could the * Without knowing that was the question being asked, we all got back images of water. * The a-ha! was that costs had come down so far on new technology for de-salting water that we could have offered to irrigate the entire the departure of Saddam. * We could have done the whole job for $3 billion or so - a quaintly small figure compared with our self-inflicted costs in a situation now costing a half trillion dollars and ever-so- many lives. The pressures for Saddam to leave would have been irresistible, and we would have been in the hero's
role in the to have been able to settle also
a meaningful peace between Some of us engaged in a letter-writing campaign on behalf of this quite ingenious proposal ... and never got back any meaningful response, nor any response from anyone connected with the White House. Somebody wanted that new war, and they got it. Which means that we asked - and answered - the wrong question. And that is why we are now in the early stages of a campaign to get creative problem-solving methods into practice by not only a much wider public but by some of our leaders and experts responsible for some of these situations. See "A Rising Tide Lifts All Ships," Winsights, No. 90 (May/June 2006) - http://www.winwenger.com/part90.htm - for one key part of this campaign. You will see other parts soon. * * * INCREASING HUMAN INTELLIGENCE: Improving human intelligence has always been the most controversial aspect of our work. Some of you reading this have suggested we abandon this topic, but even more than with Alex Osborn's demonstration fifty-odd years ago that such a basic element in our natures as creativity could be resurrected and trained through deliberate techniques and through changes in work environment, there is something absolutely basic at stake here. More than any other quality in human nature for which we pretend to a science, "intelligence" - more than I.Q. as measured on tests - has been widely thought to be the most unyielding, permanent aspect of a human being. That assumption - that you are stuck with the level of, meaning the lack of, intelligence that you were born with - is the last remaining excuse for imposed inequality. In a land in which the value of equality of opportunity is so basic, our society has continued to accept that this or that bunch of people is dumb and nothing can really be done about it except to keep them out of the way and don't let them in to privileged situations where they will only make messes. Other than look out for their better interests for them, the belief is that there's not much that can really be done for the apparently less intelligent among us. That also relieves our professionals of the responsibility of doing much for them or for even looking for ways to remedy the condition. And that renders unthinkable that anyone should find, or be allowed to find, that intelligence can be radically improved by any techniques or processes. Well, I've got some interesting news for you. I propose herewith a little experiment for you: * Go to Google Search. * Type in the words, "Brain Plasticity." Brain plasticity refers to the propensity of the brain to change its mass, distribution of masses, size and structure in response to different levels and types of stimulus in order to better handle the type of information involved. Could that not mean .... <intelligence>??? Indeed, how could that not? Please do that experiment for yourself. Type "Brain Plasticity" into Google Search, and enjoy your results. - If you put quotation marks around those two words, you will find more than 20,000 scientific studies with "Brain Plasticity" in their title. Nearly every one of those studies demonstrates brain plasticity happening in response to some difference or change in level and type of stimulus. - If you type in the words, Brain Plasticity, without the quotation marks, you will find more than 70,000 scientific studies with the subject of brain plasticity in their text. Nearly every one of those studies demonstrates brain plasticity happening in response to some difference or change in level and type of stimulus. Each difference, each change in level or type of stimulus, examined in those studies, can serve as a technique to invoke brain plasticity. That is why, despite our head start on this intelligence-building topic thirty-five and more years ago, it may be difficult for us to keep up with, much less maintain, the leading edge on techniques to improve human intelligence. So that is one piece of very positive news to take with us into the new year and years to come, with lots of consequences to follow. * * * OTHER BREAKTHROUGHS: The year 2006, now concluding, saw emergence of two astonishingly basic procedures for ingeniously and creatively solving problems or generating creative new ideas. These are DEAM (Double-Entry A-ha Method, found at http://www.winwenger.com/deam.htm , and the Evoked Sidebands Method at http://www.winwenger.com/evoked.htm . DEAM is actually a first step in the Evoked Sidebands method; both highlight important human phenomena in unmistakable terms; both are, like Image-Streaming, built around ongoing processes already in every human being; both are major landmarks in the search for easier CPS methods within reach of more and more people and a wider range of human beings. Can you imagine any problem-solving or question-answering method simpler than that of simply writing the question on two sheets of paper at a time instead of one? Well, it's a little more involved than that, but not by much! Go to http://www.winwenger.com/deam.htm and see what I mean.... We believe that it is essential in our time to convey effective abilities to cope and to problem-solve to as many people as possible, and to as broad a range of people as possible. We think the actuarial odds of our civilization may ride with our doing this. We are on a quest to bring the art and science of ingenious problem-solving within the range of all human beings able to tie their own shoelaces. We have been shown, over and over and over again, that the ingenuity is there in each of us, even among the least of us, needing but an opportunity to emerge and speak. These techniques, even the utterly simple DEAM and Evoked Sidebands, afford some degree of such opportunity. The discoveries - and website publishing - of DEAM and Evoked Sidebands are important milestones on our quest to bring such abilities and methods within range of literally everyone. The printing press, and literacy, redistributed knowledge and, with it, power. Far more so in our time, the Internet is redistributing knowledge and with it power. Giving everyone also access to methods which enable them to cope effectively with the problems they find themselves facing, is very much in keeping with what I believe is a very healthy trend. We are come much closer to the time when "equality of opportunity" will have a much richer and more substantial meaning than it does today. * * * ANOTHER BREAKTHROUGH: Isa McKechnie's wonderful new book, "Super Skills for Students," is Project Renaissance's latest new product, and the first in an important series of new CoreBooks which we in the process of publishing - see http://www.winwenger.com/corebook.htm. Isa's is a clean, condensed, effective handbook of techniques to enable students to improve and accelerate their own learning, learning-with-understanding, learning made easy, rewarding and amazingly rich. Important, meaningful, helpful new books by various of us will be emerging every few months over the next few years. Next through the pipeline will be a manual of creativity techniques for writers - both writers of fiction and writers of non-fiction - and a definitive, comprehensive text on Image-Streaming. Watch here in future issues of this newsletter, The STREAM, and in http://www.winwenger.com for announcements as these become published and available. * * * QUEST TOWARD ANOTHER BREAKTHROUGH: Unless you've done much Toolbuildering, there is always the temptation to regard our present methods as a finished system, only needing an effective commercial application to become a fixed package for use wherever. If you've done much Toolbuildering or thought about this issue much, however, you can begin to appreciate that all that we've done thus far in the Project Renaissance context is less than a drop in the bucket of where we need to be heading. We literally have not yet scratched the surface. I know you've heard me say this, I've heard most of you acknowledge it's having been said, but I don't know that it's really sunk in. We have made but the very barest of bare beginnings on the long and mostly unmapped path of where we have got to go. What if (we really did have an effective way that) we really did notice, pose and process each of the questions most worth asking as they arose, now that we have all these various ways of finding their answers? If this is our next major step in our evolution, it may well be worth more than all the (tapped and untapped) value of our problem-solving methods and work to date. I'd like to turn some of our current inquiry and quest into the direction of finding a much more effective way of doing these things, and would very much welcome responses on this and even help from those of you who are reading this right now. Let me start the ball rolling with a quick note, jotted below. Sometimes it helps just to simplify a topic so as to get an easier perspective on it, so this is a simple description of how to improve human capabilities, functioning and experience: Things are far simpler than most people realize - 1) Pick your focus 2) Describe in detail what you find in that focus. 3) As you detail, you discover more and more within that focus. 4) A most convenient focus is that ongoing stream of imagery every one of us has going on within us, a universal phenomenon. What makes that so convenient is that stream's remarkable sensitivity to whatever else is going on in our mind, our data base, and our subtler perceptions. Integration of the brain and enhancement of various intellectual and mental abilities are nice by-products from practicing Image-Streaming. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to like a lot of reward for not very much effort. I sure like that. * * *
ENJOY: We wish you the best New Year and many still better new years to come, and your own wonderful unfolding abilities, perceptions and experience. -- Win Wenger ( mailto:wwenger101@aol.com ) ......................................................................... ANNOUNCEMENTS ~~~ WELCOME to all new members who have joined us this year. We hope to hear from you and to give you much food for thought. Back issues are available upon request. Just add the month to the subject line: mailto:thestream@winwenger.com?subject=BackIssues Or see the online archives: http://www.winwenger.com/strmlist.htm ~~~
DYSLEXIA NEWS: It can't possibly be this simple, this obvious, this overlooked - or can it??? Are we looking at the end of (most forms of) dyslexia as we've come to know and love it? Click here: Brain images show individual dyslexic children respond to spelling treatment: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-02/uow-bis020806.php This article is in line with my twenty-one years of experience in teaching bad spellers to become good spellers by learning to be visual spellers. For instance, I once worked with a little German girl whose father forced her to write each spelling word 50 times – and she still flunked her spelling tests. After doing a little work to remove the trauma and teaching her to spell visually, she never spent more than 15 minutes studying, and her test scores were consistently 90-100% correct. -- Kathy Carroll [ mailto:kathycarroll@speakeasy.net ] ~~~ INTEREST GROUP - PHILADELPHIA/DELAWARE Gerald Hawkins ( mailto:gerald.hawkins@gmail.com ) offers interested parties to contact him via email about starting a problem-solving and idea-testing group in the Philadelphia/Delaware area. ~~~ ALZHEIMERS SURVEY: Anyone who has friend or relative with Alzheimers: I am trying to find out the incidence of such cases who have a lifetime history of a "sweet tooth," a history of frequent indulgence in sweets and sugar-laced foods and drinks. Through surveys as informal as this one, thus far the incidence is about 80-85%. If I can get more data together, it may be possible to persuade someone authoritative to run a formal study and follow through on the consequences thereof. Here is why a "sweet tooth" may be a possible cause or contributing cause to Alzheimers: Neurophysiologists and brain surgeons, when treating inoperable brain tumors and other inoperable brain conditions, to get medicines into the brain use a special sugar to temporarily break down the blood-brain barrier which separates bloodflow and its impurities from direct contact with brain cells. (The exchange of oxygen, CO2, nutrients and toxic wastes is mediated by cerebro-spinal fluid.) I am not a chemist, but I have been given to understand that most or even all sugars have some of that effect, of breaking down the protective blood-brain barrier. For this to happen frequently, through frequent indulgence in sweets, may explain why aluminum salts and other toxic plaques build up deposits in the brains of Alzheimer patients. I think we need to ascertain such data as we can and hope that at some point a more respectable study can be attempted. Please, if you know an Alzheimer's victim, report what you know or can find out regarding that victim's lifetime history of practices regarding frequent indulgence in consuming sweets. Incidentally, the same or similar sweets that (may have) created the problem in the first place may also serve as part of a solution. Once such a patient is well into a "cleansing diet," get him/her also into a program of held-breath underwater swimming for extra circulation to the brain ( http://www.winwenger.com/ebooks/guaran3.htm ). Use such sugars, then, to temporarily break down once again the blood-brain barrier, and flush away into the bloodstream some of those toxic plaque materials that were choking the brain to death. I am not a physician and this is not anywhere a medically accepted treatment, but for a disease with universally dire prognosis, zero recovery rate by current treatments, and given the physiological conditions observed, this might serve as the basis for treatment under appropriate medical controls and supervision. That is speculation, though, and what we need for now is what you know or can find out about the sweets-indulgence proclivities of any Alzheimers patients whom you know of. Thank you. -- Win Wenger ( mailto:wwenger101@aol.com ) ~~~ SUPER SKILLS FOR STUDENTS by Isa McKechnie -- now in print! “This book provides many practical strategies for people, especially students, to learn more efficiently and effectively. Based on the work of Dr. Win Wenger, renowned pioneer, researcher, and teacher in the fields of accelerated learning and creative problem-solving, these techniques can be of invaluable assistance for increased excellence in writing essays, taking notes, absorbing information, preparing for tests, and many other intellectual endeavors.” You can order this first of Project Renaissance's new series of corebooksnow, direct from the publisher: eBook edition, from $7.95 -- http://www.lulu.com/content/435623 Hardcopy printed edition, 95 pages, 6.14"x9.21" perfect bound, from $15.00 + shipping -- http://www.lulu.com/content/195898 ~~~ Hi-res, cheap & portable MRI scanner Posted by The neurophilosopher on September 6th, 2006 "At the Laboratory, researchers are testing a laser-based MRI technique which may lead to the development of a cheap and compact scanning device .... 'Our system is fundamentally simple and does not involve any single expensive component,' says Dmitri Budker, who developed the atomic magnetometer. 'We anticipate that the whole apparatus will become quite compact and deployable as a battery-powered portable device.'" Read the whole article here: http://neurophilosophy.wordpress.com/2006/09/06/hi-res-cheap-portable-mri/ ~~~ Getting a grip on cerebral blood flow Posted by The neurophilosopher on October 12th, 2006 "...it has been confirmed that pericytes control the diameter of capillaries, and therefore the changes of blood at the microscopic scale, in the retina and brain, in health and, perhaps, in disease. The findings challenge the idea that blood flow in the brain is controlled upstream of the capillaries by the larger arterioles." See the full article here: http://neurophilosophy.wordpress.com/2006/10/12/getting-a-grip-on- ~~~ Drawing Water Challenge http://www.arup.com/feature.cfm?pageid=9179 One billion people do not have access to safe water. Two-fifths of the world’s population lives without adequate sanitation. The drawing water challenge is a competition that aims to find solutions to help improve this situation. Water is essential to life, as is effective sanitation. We are seeking original proposals for ideas that could help many more people gain access to these basic services. Proposals may be for one of the following (by January 31, 2007, 5PM): * a new concept * a new technology * a new product * an innovative approach Submissions to: mailto:drawing.water@arup.com ~~~ ........................................................................ EVENTS ~~~ UPCOMING PRESENTATIONS Capitol Creativity Network and The Center for Creative Emergence (CCE) January 27, 2007 - Integral Leadership workshop Facilitated by Michelle James and Dr. Tom Goddard Presented by CCE and the Integral Company Details: http://www.creativeemergence.com/2/page26.html January 10, 2007 - Capitol Creativity Network presentation Time: 7:00-9:30pm Location: Details: www.capitolcreativitynetwork.com We explore and experience different facets of creativity, from corporate to expressive to scientific, etc. Each meeting is interactive and designed to have the participants experience their own creativity in real time.
Contact person: Michelle James CEO, The Center for Creative Emergence & Quantum Leap Business Improv Director, Capitol Creativity Network Creativity Cultivating, Consulting and Coaching www.creativeemergence.com mailto:michelle@creativeemergence.com 703-760-9009 ~~~ IEP ( THE HERO'S JOURNEY AND THE GENERATIVE SELF Two great trainers in NLP and Ericksonian hypnotherapy meet for this Workshop: * Robert Dilts <http://tr.anp.se/track?t=c&mid=20415&uid=18073587&&&http://www.nlpu.com/> * Stephen Gilligan <http://tr.anp.se/track?t=c&mid=20415&uid=18073587&&&http://www.stephengilli gan.com/> To see them collaborate is a unique opportunity and a special, inspiring experience. Workshop costs: Euro 700.00 = USD 880.00 or GBP 475.00. Costs include coffee, tea, hand outs and lunch. Registration form: http://tr.anp.se/track?t=c&mid=20415&uid=18073587 &&&http://www.iepdoc.nl/formulieren/en_form.asp Robert and Stephen's theme for this year is ‘The Hero’s Journey’, a blueprint for personal transformation that has been handed down through the centuries. In 'The Hero with a Thousand Faces,' mythologist Joseph <http://tr.anp.se/track?t=c&mid=20415&uid=18073587&&&http://en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joseph_Campbell> describes a great myth found in many different forms in just about every culture across time. This is the recurring myth of the person who is called on a “hero’s journey” to transform their life and bring a gift into the community. The phases in this myth - the basic process of transformation - are always the same, even when individual expressions differ. The myth has three stages: * the innocence of the garden, * the exile and trials of the desert, * the call to return into the community with a new self. In this workshop this myth will be used as a model for developing a Generative Self that is capable of deep inner happiness and significant external accomplishment.
~~~ PhotoReading seminar by Learning Strategies Corporation http://www.learningstrategies.com/PhotoReading/seminar.asp?id=464 Friday, March 9, 2007 (6pm-9pm) Saturday, March 10, 2007 (9am-7pm) Sunday, March 11, 2007 (9am-6pm)
Tuition, $750. An extra discount is available for PhotoReading self-study course buyers! * Class sizes are small * Ongoing coaching at no cost * Retakes at a minimal cost * Money-back Satisfaction Guarantee Need more information? Contact our expert PhotoReading coach, Mr. Dana Hanson: Toll frëë 1-888-800-2688 1-952-767-9800 Fax 1-952-475-2373 http://www.LearningStrategies.com ~~~ PHOTOREADING Seminar www.photoreading.com Tuition, $750 ($650 if paid in full by January 23) Paul Scheele is teaching one public PhotoReading seminar this year. If you would like to learn from the man who developed the system in the first place, then enroll today. The size of the class will be limited, so this will be a rare opportunity. To enroll, call 952-767-9800 and ask for Alison Bachman, or go online: www.photoreading.com ~~~ CREATIVITY EXPLORATION Writing Workshops http://creativityexploration.com/writing Fiction Writing Workshop in Memoir Writing Workshop in Poetry Writing Workshop in Pricing includes tuition and 9 nights accommodation. $100 off Early Registration (until 1/15/2007). The workshops are taught by award-winning authors, Patricia Foster and Kirpal Singh. We delve into our deepest emotions and insights and explore transformation, metaphor, and the innate structures of our writings. Class size is limited. Reserve your space in advance. Classes meets 3.5 hours per day. You can obtain 3 University credits for taking any of these workshops. For more information: http://creativityexploration.com/writing Phone: 1-866-217-1980 (Toll-Free); 1-212-922-1555 Email: mailto:contact@creativityexploration.com Please mail all inquiries to: Vivian Glusman ~~~ CREATIVITY EXPLORATION Creativity Courses, 2007 http://creativityexploration.com April 13-16, 2007 May 18-21, 2007 From $1,700, including tuition and 9-night accommodations. An inspiring way to learn and travel. More information here: http://creativityexploration.com Vivian Glusman, Administrative Associate Creativity Workshop - http://creativityexploration.com Phone: 1-866-217-1980 (Toll-Free); 1-212-922-1555 Email: mailto:contact@creativityexploration.com ~~~ ........................................................................ |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Feature Article: WHAT ARE THE QUESTIONS WORTH ASKING? by Win Wenger First, an excerpt from the letter that triggered my reply below, which, in the process of my making it, triggered further thoughts in line with the Principle of Description... "Since I´ve started image-streaming, I find that my brain automatically answers when I do the right questions... but these questions seem to be liberated naturally too...it´s almost an instantaneous process of question/answer."
[My reply:] You are quite welcome. I guess one question is how to persuade many more people to try Image-Streaming and practice it enough to get to that point of instantaneous flow. One of the most useful questions to ask is, "What IS the best question to ask in this context, and its best answer?" Asking (writing) that latter question just now, my thoughts flashed to two points: 1) What we've been observing recently is that various of us, between us, have a sufficiency of effective methods for generating ingenious answers and solutions; but the real challenge is noticing and recognizing questions to ask and then asking them (so those answer- finding methods can come into play). 2) One of those pocket timer-buzzers, which you can set as a reminder for anything. The thought behind that: there are probably most-relevant questions for every situation and/or opportunity to learn something significant. What if, every hour and twenty-two minutes or whatever interval, one were reminded by pocket-buzzer to ask, "In this context right now, what IS the best question for me to be asking, and its best answer or understanding to appreciate?" Or, "What is the best thing I can learn from this situation, right at this moment?" I have the sense that this will take some resolve and no little energy to pursue, but it might be part of the next significant development for us. It at least begins to address what I had come to consider to be the next critical issue for us.... Isn't the Principle of Description a hoot?!? So long as I continue to follow some of my own advice, that one continues to help me..... Do you have one of those pocket timer gizmos around to experiment with? I think I can round up one around here for my own experimentation..... Many thanks for writing. Replying gave me the opportunity, as that reply process has so often, or perhaps even the excuse, to start generating what may be the next revolution in our program. With great appreciation, .....Win * * * Hey, people: Most of you have heard me state my conviction that we've moved beyond the challenge of methods to ingeniously answer questions and problems, to the challenge of noticing and the discipline of asking questions worth asking. 1) Do you have one of those pocket buzzer gizmos around to experiment with? 2) Would you experiment with it for a few days, as I suggested to my correspondent above, OR: 3) Can you suggest a better experiment or application than that toward the same objective, or toward the same potential next step in our operational evolution? Further consideration: Unless you've done much Toolbuildering, there is always the temptation to regard our present methods as a finished system, needing only effective commercial application to become a fixed package for use wherever. If you've done much Toolbuildering or thought about this issue much, however, you can begin to appreciate that all we've done thus far in the Project Renaissance context is less than a drop in the bucket of where we need to be heading. We literally have not yet scratched the surface. I know you've heard me say this, I've heard most of you acknowledge it's having been said, but I don't know that it's really sunk in. We have made but the very barest of bare beginnings on the long and mostly unmapped path of where we have got to go. What if (we really did have an effective way that) we really did notice, pose and process each of the questions most worth asking as they arose, now that we have all these various ways of finding their answers? If this is our next major step in our evolution, it may well be worth more than all the (tapped and untapped) value of our problem-solving methods and work to date. Do you have, can you get, one of those pocket buzzer timers, or, still better, come up with a better experiment which opens this next-step frontier for us? (Can your image-streaming faculties come up with a better such experiment?) I will be playing with these effects also, but it would be best if the first published results on this came from someone other than myself. - Win Wenger ( mailto:wwenger101@aol.com ) ------------------------------------ To send feedback privately to Win Wenger, email him at: mailto:wwenger101@aol.com?subject=Question To send your comments about this article to The Stream, write to: mailto:thestream@winwenger.com?subject=Question |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ........................................................................ COMMENTS and FEEDBACK ~~~ THE EINSTEIN FACTOR - Ian Gressett ( mailto:emanetrain@gmail.com ) I absolutely loved "The Einstein Factor." I wasn't too intrigued by the cover, dismissing it as a "become smart by reading this book" title. This was before I had opened it. I LOVED it. I'm an active lucid dreamer and I picked up on this immediately! Image-streaming is another amazing concept which many brush off to be "absurd" until they experience it themselves. I have a strong desire to attend one of your workshops, but live out in a true inspiration to me and to others whom I've exposed to it; simply fascinating. Thank you so much for this invaluable information! - Ian Gressett Win Wenger ( mailto:wwenger101@aol.com ) responds: Dear Ian - thank you very much for your kind comments. I also hope that we can get together someday. While May of 2007 is the next time scheduled for one of our general workshops locally, we get invitations which enable me to teach at various times and locations around the country and abroad. Maybe one of these will sometime bring me to the West Coast again. From time to time, updates on these events are posted under "Events" at the Project Renaissance website, http://www.winwenger.com/events.com Also meanwhile, there are a number of other services offered at or through our website - and some further experience exercises and explorations - which I think you will enjoy for some of the same reasons that you've enjoyed The Einstein Factor. Again, thank you very much for writing. - Win Wenger ( mailto:wwenger101@aol.com ) ~~~ IMAGE-STREAMING AND STEREOGRAMS - Joseph R. Schrock [ mailto:joe_cuel@yahoo.com ] I have been Image-streaming and my images are developing an enhanced richness, depth and 3-D quality. Well, I was captured by the sudden change in textures. I spent some time reflecting on what I had changed in this last week. The only thing that I had noticed as changing is that I have spent three 1-to-2-hour sessions looking at stereograms. So then I went into an image-streaming session and I could feel the use of the eyes when I stereogram. I had done two more hour-sessions since. I have had amazing images arise. I love the new world that has been created. I am now at my city's public library, going to check two more Stereogram books. I don't know for sure if that is what caused it, but that is the only thing that I can sense had changed; and when applied again, the images become even more rich. I would reccommend this just as a trial. I would love to hear your results. I know I have greatly enjoyed it and actually can't wait to get into my 45-minute image-streaming sessions. I will probably increase the time. WOW. - Joseph R. Schrock [ mailto:joe_cuel@yahoo.com ] Win Wenger ( mailto:wwenger101@aol.com ) responds: Can others reading this please pick up a book or so of stereograms at the nearest library, see what several hours of looking at these does to the subsequent quality of their Image-Stream images, and report back? Thank you. - Win Wenger ( mailto:wwenger101@aol.com ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To send your comments to The Stream for possible publication here, write to: mailto:thestream@winwenger.com?subject=Comments ........................................................................ |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ORGANIZATIONAL NOTES ~~~ TOPICAL INTEREST GROUPS: Our membership is large and diverse, and many of you have expressed an interest in communicating with other members who share your topic of concern or research interest. 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