Mary Martin
@marymartin
awareness, imagination, futures thinking, and hope.
Mary Martin
marymartinphd.com
The ED is also one of the main people responsible for setting the norms for our organizational culture ( how we act ) as well as our goals ( what we act on ), and our mission ( why we act.)
Kirsty Henderson • I have stepped aside from my role as Executive Director because I think it will help more animals
leadership and culture
Adoption of potentially consciousness-altering practices may be leading to a rise in emergent phenomena (EP): sudden unusual mental or somatic experiences often interpreted as spiritual, mystical, energetic, or magical in nature. It is unclear how frequently these altered states of consciousness occur and what the clinical implications may be.
... See moreResearch has found that strategic foresight has a significant impact on an organisation’s bottom line – those who think about the future could be looking at up to 33% higher profitability and 200% higher market capitalisation within their industries.
Willow Pryor • 3 Benefits of Futures Thinking — Futures Platform
Video game players can boost their score by exercising, new documentary reveals
studyfinds.orgIf you do this long enough, if you tune this instrument on the meditation cushion long enough, after a while that does become more your default mode. You live in the room rather than living in the agitation of your conceptual reality.
Sean Illing • How mindfulness went mainstream
JKZ
Roshi Joan Halifax tells a story about witnessing a conversation in the early 1970s between Jonas Salk, developer of the polio vaccine, and Gregory Bateson, an anthropologist and systems theorist, about the mind. Bateson asked, “Where is the mind?” Salk pointed to his own head. Bateson chuckled, shook his head, and pointed to the space between... See more
What is Mind?
The Science of Savoring
saveur.com
Mindfulness and savoring
However, many people may not realize that during the last few years of his life Maslow believed self-transcendence, not self-actualization, was the pinnacle of human needs. What's more, it's difficult to find any evidence that he ever actually represented his theory as a pyramid .
Scott Barry Kaufman • Who Created Maslow’s Iconic Pyramid?
Maslow and
The discovery suggested to Robert that electrostatics can enable a plant-pollinator mutualism, a well-known example of coevolution. This dynamic — in which a bee feeds on a flower’s nectar and gathers pollen to feed larvae, and also propagates pollen from flower to flower, enabling plant reproduction — was already well established. The potential... See more