Slide 1

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 2

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 3

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 4

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 5

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 6

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 7

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 8

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 9

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 10

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 11

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 12

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 13

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 14

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 15

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 16

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 17

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 18

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 19

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 20

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 21

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 22

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 23

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 24

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 25

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 26

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 27

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 28

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 29

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 30

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 31

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 32

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 33

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 34

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 35

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 36

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 37

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 38

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 39

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 40

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 41

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 42

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 43

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 44

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 45

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 46

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 47

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 48

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 49

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 50

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 51

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 52

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 53

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 54

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 55

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 56

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 57

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 58

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 59

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 60

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 61

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 62

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 63

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 64

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

28

(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

29

Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
47

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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
60

Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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


Slide 65

Manifesting the Upside of Down – Part 4:
New Directions for
Deep Resilience and Ascension
Austin Noetic Science Community
March 8, 2011
Oliver Markley, PhD
(Ver. 2.0 with added material for activists)

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 of
The 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

Five STEEP Stressors Toward
Catastrophe
•
•
•
•

•
13

(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

Envisioning the First to Hit:
Financial

14

(2006)

(2010)

4 min. of key clips from the 150 min., 3-part
BBC 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/specialreports/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

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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main2003
8078.shtml

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism
Billiard Ball ~ Cornucopia Causality

(~)

22

Integrative (“Integral”)
Activism

+

(2001)
23

(2007)

Now…some GOOD NEWS
(This and the next six slides were not included
in the actual presentation due to time constraints.)

Riane Eisler’s Caring Economics Campaign
Watch Six Steps to Caring
Economics — a webinar
with Riane Eisler recorded
on October 5, 2010
www.partnershipway.org/get
-connected

(2007)

Ervin Laszlo’s World Shift Project
Ervin Laszlo on YouTube
(Parts 1 & 2):
•www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=XozKEgwN7KE
•www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wwwidCFVo_k
The main website:
http://ervinlaszlo.com/wo
rldshiftcommunity
(2009)

Paul Hawken’s WiserEarth Project
Watch 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
(2007)

Pachamama Alliance
Awaken the Dreamer / Change the Dream Symposia

www.pachamama.org

www.swcoalition.org

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(2010)

Sananda Mystery School
A resource for advanced cornucopic causality

www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.ht
m

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Active hyperlinks for the preceding pages
can be found in the PowerPoint visuals
at
www.imaginalvisioning.com/
manifesting-the-upside-of-down/

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-ofman/

Economic Image of Man
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

New Guiding Image Now Needed



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

The Economic Guiding Image
(now dangerously obsolete)



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

An Adequate Guiding Image
for sustainable well-being should:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Provide a holistic sense of perspective on life
Entail an ecological ethic
Entail a self-realization ethic
Be multi-leveled, multi- faceted, and integrative
Lead to a balancing and coordinating of satisfactions
along many dimensions
6. 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


bifurcation

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

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 (HomerDixon)

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/

Cornucopic Inspiration
•
•
•

Holy Spirit (Christian)
Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

• Sub-quantum Imaginal
(Akashic) Field
(esoteric arts & integral
science)
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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 Achor
Reading 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 books
http://www.salrachele.com/

and the
Sananda Mystery School
http://www.salrachele.com/sa
nandamysteryschool.htm

Genealogy of “The Founders”
Heavenly Father

The Christ

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

-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 extraterrestrial 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 Reserves
of Consciousness Within
•
•
•

•

Holy Spirit (Christian)

Schechinah (Jewish)
Alayavijnana
(Nondual Buddhism)

Sub-quantum
Akashic Field
(esoteric arts &
integral science)
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Thank You!
blessings, love & light
om

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?

Comment on the Three Questions
You 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