Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4New Directions for

Deep Resilience and Ascension

Austin Noetic Science CommunityMarch 8, 2011

Oliver Markley, PhD

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.

The Two “New Directions”

1. 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.

A Noetic Experiment

(The “Smiles in the Brain” exercise on page 202 ofThe Happiness Advantage, by Shawn Achor

The Ostrich Effect

New Research on Wild-Cards(aka “STEEP Surprises”)

Possible events with a High Magnitude Impact

• Type I – Low Probability

• Type II – High Probability Low Credibility

Major Historical Eras

Carrying Capacity for Ecological Load

Now Beyond Carrying Capacity

A Type II “Tipping Point” Toward Epochal Change

An Even Bigger Ostrich Effect

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

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Five STEEP Stressors Toward Catastrophe

(2006)

• 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

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Envisioning the First to Hit:Financial

(2006) (2010)

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

RSA “Crisis of Capitalism” Animation

(2 min. clip of 11 min. program)

For the whole thing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOP2V_np2c0

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

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

The figure in the new budget proposal nobody in power wants you to notice - March 1, 2011, CBS News

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main20038078.shtml

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.

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Integrative (“Integral”) Activism

Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

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Integrative (“Integral”) Activism

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(2007)(2001)

Some Good News…(This was not included in the actual presentation

due to time constraints)

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

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.

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.)

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.)

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.)

The Economic Guiding Image (now dangerously obsolete)

Source: SRI report Changing Images of Man (1994)http://www.imaginalvisioning.com/changing-images-of-

man/

An Adequate Guiding Image for sustainable well-being should:

1. Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life 2. Entail an ecological ethic3. Entail a self-realization ethic4. Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative5. Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions

along many dimensions6. Be proactive, experimental and open-ended.

Source: Stanford Research Institute report, Changing Images of Man (1974)www.imaginalvisioning.com/changing-images-of-man/

A New Guiding Image for Our Times:

Resilience

(Research and Action Toward the Upside of Down )

The Tipping Point Toward Disintegration

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

bifurcation

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

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)

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.

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.

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.

Healing the Ostrich Effect

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.

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

• Holy Spirit (Christian)

• Schechinah (Jewish)

• Alayavijnana (Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal (Akashic) Field (esoteric arts & integral science)

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Cornucopic Inspiration

The Two “New Directions”

1. 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

The First New Direction

The Happiness Advantage:The Seven Principles of

Positive Psychology that Fuel Success and Performance at Work

by Shawn Achor(2010)

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.

Principal Assertions• Happiness causes success, not vice versa; all types

of success (health, wealth, effectiveness, sociability, creativity, friendship)

• Happiness produces neural changes associated with creativity and effective problem, solving—especially under conditions of stress (i.e., resilience)

• Due to “neuroplaticity,” habitual happiness can be “learned”

• Due to a neural “mirror effect,” happiness is contagious

• Principal cause of happiness: [What do you think?]

Audio Recording of Shawn AchorReading from The Happiness Advantage

(audio chapter #2e; book pp 43-45)

…and from the end of The Happiness Advantage

(audio chapter #3 a, c-e; book pp 199-210)

Pause…

The Second New Direction

Ascension, as envisioned by contemporary psychics

e.g., Sal Rachele’s bookshttp://www.salrachele.com/

and the Sananda Mystery Schoolhttp://www.salrachele.com/

sanandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”

Heavenly Father -Ancient of Days -Yahweh -Enoch -Melchizedek -Eight others

The Christ -Sananda -Jesus

-Eleven others

Divine Mother -Isis -Kwan Yin -Mother Mary -Nine others

Source: Life on the Cutting Edge (1994, , pp 197-198), by Sal Rachele.

http://www.salrachele.com/lifeonthecuttingedge.htm

Principal Assertions

• Earth civilization has been influenced by extra-terrestrial civilizations for eons

• Major astronomical cycles “synching up;” many earth changes to be expected

• Expected collapse of major societal systems and great reduction of world population in next 20 years; Many great earth civilizations in “prehistory” also collapsed

• “Ascension” into a higher conscious domain of reality now opening up for those who are ready.

Sal Rachele “On Ascension”

(Skype video on 3-3-11)

Sal Rachele Channeling Sananda

(Skype video on 3-3-11)

Attuning to the Deep Reservesof Consciousness Within

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• Holy Spirit (Christian)

• Schechinah (Jewish)

• Alayavijnana (Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Akashic Field (esoteric arts & integral science)

Thank You!blessings, love & light

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Appended Query(Recommended for personal and group reflection)

Four Questions to Orient Yourself as a Citizen Activist

1. When I look at what’s happening in our world, concerns I have include…

2. My positive vision for what I’d like to see happen is…. 3. Steps I can take to move in this direction include… 4. Things I need from myself and others to be effective include…

Source: Based on suggestions in The Great Turning Times – a free email newsletter about finding your power to respond to

global crisis. Website: http://www.GreatTurningTimes.org

Three Questions to Help Assess the Risk of Working Radically to “Rescue the Elephants in the Living Room” 

1 .What are the risks that you would have to take [or maybe have already started to take] to do what is needed in ways that are both self-critical and challenge powerful people and institutions?

What risks would you have to take to do that?2.What risks will you take if you don’t act in these ways?3. If you decided to take the risks inherent in Question 1, what will you need in order to survive and thrive as an activist and as a person: –What will you need from yourself?

–What will you need from other people? –What will you need from the institutions and organizations in your life, both public and private?

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Comment on the Three QuestionsYou might note that people in positions of privilege tend to exaggerate the risks in Question One and under-estimate the risks in Question Two. Source of the three questions and comment: Allan G. Johnson, author of Privilege, Power, and Difference

Quoted by U.T. professor Robert Jensen, author of Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim our Humanity