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Lois Farfel Stark has been described as a “female Joseph Campbell,” She’s the author of an extraordinarily creative, visionary and beautiful book. The Telling Image: Shapes of Changing times, which won four book awards, including Best Nonfiction 2019, from Next Gen Indie Book Awards. TEDx talk, Shape : Hiding in Plain Sight. Former Emmy awarded Producer Writer of NBC News documentaries. She has filmed in Liberia, Abu Dhabi, Israel, Northern Ireland and Cuba.
Other documentaries have covered architecture, medical research, globalization, social issues and artists.
Her website is loisfstark.com
One source of wisdom is a wider lens
The future is embedded in the present… to deeply see the present we need to embrace paradox, hold opposites and accept complexities with infinite causes and consequences.
We were nature centered, then human-centered, and now we become planet-centered. Being able to recognize past mindsets can alert us to current change, teach us to enlarge our lens and warn us not to mistake our mental map for full reality.
We live within the maps we create. Changing the mental map will change who we are.
To think out of the box, we need to see the _boxes we have been in.
We shape our world and then it shapes us. Romeo and Juliet
Balancing of opposites The web and circles, san Bushmen praying mantis,
collective, interconnected,
Where do indigenous people’s fit in?
Ladder: square, pyramid and grid 8} linear hierarchical, pyramids, god, shift from images to text, nature shifted from sacred source to material resource, shift from nature to man.
Network Helix
Torus toroidal magnetic field around a person, around earth, Torroidal architecture function?
What about zoom and corona virus? Balancing of opposites. Planetary consciousness
Pattern vs adaptive
The Dagara tribe—no word for you? Closest is “you are my other self.” The other is us. Difference in training a young person’s mind—linear to touch screen hyperlinked thinking.
We are the viewfinder and the storyteller of the stimulus and information coming to us. The story we tell about what we download becomes our version of reality. The digital world and the biological world are merging. Synthetic bacterium One source of wisdom is a wider lens The future is embedded in the present… to deeply see the present we need to embrace paradox, hold opposites and accept complexities with infinite causes and consequences.
Being able to recognize past mindsets can alert us to current change, teach us to enlarge our lens and warn us not to mistake our mental map for full reality.
We live within the maps we create. Changing the mental map will change who we are.
Lois Farfel Stark has been described as a “female Joseph Campbell,” She’s the author of an extraordinarily creative, visionary and beautiful book. The Telling Image: Shapes of Changing times, which won four book awards, including Best Nonfiction 2019, from Next Gen Indie Book Awards. TEDx talk, Shape : Hiding in Plain Sight. Former Emmy awarded Producer Writer of NBC News documentaries. She has filmed in Liberia, Abu Dhabi, Israel, Northern Ireland and Cuba.
Other documentaries have covered architecture, medical research, globalization, social issues and artists.
Her website is loisfstark.com
One source of wisdom is a wider lens
The future is embedded in the present… to deeply see the present we need to embrace paradox, hold opposites and accept complexities with infinite causes and consequences.
We were nature centered, then human-centered, and now we become planet-centered. Being able to recognize past mindsets can alert us to current change, teach us to enlarge our lens and warn us not to mistake our mental map for full reality.
We live within the maps we create. Changing the mental map will change who we are.
To think out of the box, we need to see the _boxes we have been in.
We shape our world and then it shapes us. Romeo and Juliet
Balancing of opposites The web and circles, san Bushmen praying mantis,
collective, interconnected,
Where do indigenous people’s fit in?
Ladder: square, pyramid and grid 8} linear hierarchical, pyramids, god, shift from images to text, nature shifted from sacred source to material resource, shift from nature to man.
Network Helix
Torus toroidal magnetic field around a person, around earth, Torroidal architecture function?
What about zoom and corona virus? Balancing of opposites. Planetary consciousness
Pattern vs adaptive
The Dagara tribe—no word for you? Closest is “you are my other self.” The other is us. Difference in training a young person’s mind—linear to touch screen hyperlinked thinking.
We are the viewfinder and the storyteller of the stimulus and information coming to us. The story we tell about what we download becomes our version of reality. The digital world and the biological world are merging. Synthetic bacterium One source of wisdom is a wider lens The future is embedded in the present… to deeply see the present we need to embrace paradox, hold opposites and accept complexities with infinite causes and consequences.
Being able to recognize past mindsets can alert us to current change, teach us to enlarge our lens and warn us not to mistake our mental map for full reality.
We live within the maps we create. Changing the mental map will change who we are.
