We at the stages are into mind remodelling or building new healthy visual models so that they represent the complexity and interdependence of reality accurately

The family unit has reached a crisis point. We are spending more time playing video games and texting then reading books or communicating with members of our family. Investment bankers and corporations seeking wealth and profit without concern for the health, happiness and well being of those who purchase their products or work for them. Consumers everywhere buying and throwing away materials in such a way that our planet is being treated like both an all-you-can-eat buffet table and a garbage dump.

How did we get to this point in our “evolution” as the dominant species on the planet? Can humanity change course, solve the problems we’ve created and become wiser? There’s no simple answer to this, but we will share some thoughts on what we see as a primary cause of the problem and a possible solution.

We start to think that we need to bridge the gaps that exist within us – between our hearts (compassion), our imagination (visual thinking) and the complex knowledge we still hold from our childhood. Bridging those gaps is how we make contact with the intuitive voice , .

Compassion means to care, to feel empathy and sympathy for ourselves and others. That’s pretty straight forward. Knowledge is the complex information we teach our child within and considered to be important as a culture. But what is imagination, and why is that so essential?

Most of us think of the imagination as something active only in creative people and artists, a tool for making ideas and things that do not yet exist. That is indeed one of it’s primary functions, but even more importantly, the imagination is the means by which we do visual thinking, how we spatially represent and understand the world around us. When used this way the imagination provides a kind of virtual landscape for organizing information and knowledge.

Our world view- our understanding of everything around us- makes use of mental models and visual representations of the world. We build these up over time, based on the information that comes in – from teachers, the internet, television, books, movies, friends- work, school, entertainment and play – all realms of human experience.

We at the stages are into mind remodelling or building new healthy visual models so that they represent the complexity and interdependence of reality accurately, and then becoming skilled at using these understandings effectively with us this basic skill has to be rediscovered and completed to have a fully functioning life.

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