Dear DK, ATCA, John

As in any opening hand of cards, all four types of scenario are active now, and will remain so for some time. It will take a strong effort of educating people, at every level, worldwide, that their interests belong to the suite of hearts, in order to reduce the impact of those who prefer to deal in diamonds, spades, and clubs. I pray the effort to win in hearts succeeds.

May I suggest: since so many in the world know the four suites of cards, and the metaphor in this post is so easy to understand, that the message in this post be simplified and used the theme of a worldwide marketing campaign, to focus the people of the world on the hearts option? Such a campaign would raise awareness of the issues worldwide, and widen the pool of people who can contribute to the hearts scenario.

love, Heath

Great thought from John Elkington. Hearts or better is a done deal. Provided that the one primary solution is implemented.

The key is life training. Overcoming, bypassing, egoic resistance and accessing extreme intelligence and genius.

This is the art of the present moment not attached to outcome and seeing everything as connected as your own body.

Understanding how to deal with and master the egoic mind (your own and others) with wisdom and the promise of a desired experience.

This combined with engaging the gestalt intelligence and leveraging it. In this area we actually help you to have a direct experience of it, so you have no doubts that it exists.

This is one of the intentions of the Spiritual Retreat in New Mexico, the special training and the direct experience of that all pervading intelligence, however it is that it arises or exists we can produce the phenomena science can try to explain it.

I expect every CEO and head of state to come for training and to meet that mysterious force.

We can promise a reality bending experience.

Perhaps Tammy has some more thoughts.

If you click my name below you can see some of the new sustainable building technology we are going to use. It is also a protoype for Sustainable Infrastructure Communities.

The heart symbol is not recognised worldwide, as it is here in the US and Canada. Many symbols that we use as communication of "mood" or "view" is not the same interpretation globally.

How can we bridge this global-gap with a movement, that is all-encompassing?

with loving kindness,
North

to re-phrase my question:

"How can we bridge this global-gap of symbol-recognition; for a movement, that is all-encompassing?"

Love,
North

When we shift the apex members in all organizations and institutions to higher consciousness it will trickle down.

A "fear free" organization, country, community will leave it's fear impaired competitors and neighbors in the dust, which is good for the bottom line and makes for excellent experience.

When the resistant ones (countries, companies, communities) see the success, they will embrace the "program" Prosperity & Abundance for All.

What was that meme..

All for One and One for all

North, everyone has a heart.

and if they don't know that we can tell them...

even lead them to a direct experience of it with a little silence, not only their own but that of others…

I long to hear her heart beat in synchronicity with mine...

North has a good point. It's something to keep in the collective awareness, that symbols don't necessarily translate across the board.

Is it possible to come up with a perfect plan before it's implemented? Probably not. And I think that fact tends to keep people/organizations from moving forward. Like with healthcare reform in the US (for example), because our leaders can't come up with a perfect solution, nothing ever gets done.

Which leads us right back to the Diamond scenario. "challenges ... disable decision makers and overwhelm society's ability to respond ...fear closes down thinking and creativity." At some point you have to be willing to take steps toward progress knowing that what you have created probably isn't perfect, accept that you'll make mistakes, and try to be aware of them when they're revealed so they can be fixed.

A little secret, everything will unfold perfectly and there is not a damn thing you can do about it. However if you put up resistance, it will not be smooth sailing due to the turbulence in your mind.

Fear free nation states.

When we go into the desert seeking the oasis, we take water, not out of fear for lack, but based on wisdom and probability.

We never act on fear thoughts and in doing so the miracles manifest.

The fearless, full of love are Gods.

and to the fearless, I bring the riches of the Kings and empires

the proagators of fear and lovers of conflict I leave barren

at least that is how it happens in Infinite Play the Movie.. unique though, in that it blends with reality

Dear DK

I will do so. Thank you.

love, Heath

Dear DK and Colleagues

Red Swans and Oil at $20 per barrel

Messrs Elkington, Malleret, Leung and Lehman have some thought provoking contributions on the impact of disruptive events or Black Swans. I presume they are black because they portend doom and gloom.

But what if these aberrations have a highly positive impact and turn out to be Red Swans ? Since everything Chinese is in vogue at the moment, and red is their lucky colour, they will have to red rather than pink. There a four specific discoveries which could take place which could reduce the price of oil to $20 per barrel. They will be quite as cataclysmic as any of the doomsday scenarios we have seen discussed but their disruptive effect will be highly beneficial rather than destructive. Everybody is geared up for the disasters but what about coping with the following blessings ?

Electricity generated by nuclear fusion. It only takes the discovery of an effective method of creating and containing fusion to completely change the whole world energy and economic outlook. There is no doubt it is possible even though it has not been done yet. But it only requires one moment of insight for the walls to come tumbling down.

Hydrogen production from solar cells. The Economist noted a couple of years back that a Geneva based firm had developed solar cells which when of sufficient amplitude to cover the a typical garage generated enough hydrogen to power a car of 10,000 Km per annum. Again only a relatively modest increase in the performance of these cells would make them economically viable and totally disrupt current oil usage.

Hybrid bio-diesel plants. Such a hybrid plant providing substantial yields in oils suitable at diesel fuel will reduce dependence on mineral oils. Again it is envisagable and by that very fact brings it closer to reality.

Solar cells incorporating nanotechnology to produce electricity. The very name says it all. A Credit Suisse research paper says these should come to market by 2010.

But more than the existence of these red swans is the very fact that they carry the imprimatur of being conceivable. Being conceivable makes them realisable and this is the true force behind them. If they could not be conceived then they could never be realised. It is what I call the bone-china syndrome. Back in the 1780’s it was conceived that it should be possible to mix bone with china clay to produce very high quality chinaware. The only problem was that no one could figure out how to do it until Josiah Spode perfected the technique. The mere fact that the idea was out there in the collective consciousness of the industry then lead to its realisation. The same is true of the four concepts mentioned above. They are all doable but their very existence as conceivable realities makes this happen. Oddly enough this collective realisation is a form of prayer. As in the case of bone-china it can be a very effective form of prayer but it is not always those who pray for the answers that get them otherwise I would already be marketing my cheap-as-hell desalination plants.

Bring on the red swans ! Opec beware !

Regards

Anthony

Here is a possible future checkered swan... Scientific American had a small item about making plastics and other hydrocarbons, including oil, from glucose and fructose:

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=3017C38C-E7F2-99DF-38D3D954CA9B3133&chanID=sa003

"June 15, 2007
Turning Plants into Plastic—And Replacing Oil in the Process
A new process may allow plants to become the root of chemicals, plastics and fuels rather than oil
By David Biello

Glucose is the main carbohydrate product of photosynthesis and a primary source of energy in most living things. It is a sugar and the human body's main source of fuel. And, because of its ubiquity, it is a leading candidate to replace oil as an abundant source for fuels, plastics and other petroleum products.

Unfortunately, converting the stuff into useable forms remains a difficult process. For example, using acid catalysts to transform it into a basic building block for plastics also yields a vat of impurities (such as levulinic and formic acids). But now chemists at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, Wash., have come up with a way to efficiently and cleanly turn such naturally occurring sugars into plastics, making Tupperware from trees a real possibility.

Chemist Conrad Zhang and colleagues at PNNL tested a variety of metal catalysts—compounds that speed chemical reactions—in their search for an efficient method of transforming glucose and other natural sugars into hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF), a molecule that can easily be manipulated into a variety of chemicals and plastics.

'Because glucose can be derived directly from cellulose and starch, it is nature's most abundant carbohydrate building block,' Zhang says. 'HMF from renewable carbohydrates, such as fructose and glucose, is a versatile platform chemical from which hundreds of other chemicals can be produced.'

The chemists detail in Science how they used metal chlorides—chromium, copper and other metals paired with two or more chlorine atoms—to transform 70 percent of glucose and nearly 90 percent of fructose into HMF. They report that chromium chloride (CrCl2) worked best, apparently by boosting a sugar molecule's ability to open up and shift atoms in its structure as it changed form, although the exact mechanism remains unknown, Zhang says.

The research could become the basis of a process that turns biomass such as trees, cornstalks and algae into feedstock for chemicals, plastics and fuels at roughly 100 degrees Celsius (212 degrees Fahrenheit), which is a lot cooler than the 600 degrees C (1,112 degrees F) needed for oil refining or the high temperatures (as well as pressure) such oil must undergo when it is formed naturally.

'A number of steps, including process development and optimization, have to take place before full-scale commercialization,' Zhang notes. 'It may take several years to reach that stage.'

Ultimately, the plastic in a fork used at a backyard barbeque may be as directly plant-based as charcoal in the grill and the chef's polyester apron. 'Direct utilization of cellulosic biomass for chemicals and fuel production is a challenging goal,' Zhang adds. 'Our results point to a potential process for the production of HMF from the most abundant renewable sources.'"

The focus of the item is on plastics, but the third from last paragraph's casual mention of fuel is a stunner. One reason industry is beginning to see the value of going green is the diminishing supply of underground hydrocarbons. If that reason is removed... yet if oil and plastics could be made from a renewal source, at lower temperatures, with less dangerous catalysts, there would be benefits short-term, especially if the bio source for the process encouraged financially-sustainable replanting of deforested areas of the earth, etc.

love, Heath

Dear DK

Despite my #15 reply to your #2 request, I haven't yet sent that email, and I've decided not to do so. My decision is due to a need for privacy. You're welcome to use whatever words I've written.

(I'll be participating less on IB, for the same reason. I'll continue to read every day, and I'll comment once in a while.)

All my best wishes to you.

love, Heath