What This Book is About Memes for the Creation of a New Culture is a book about how our species might systematically discover more peaceful and sustainable ways of living together.…
- The Story
Let’s start with The Story of the Hundredth Monkey, a tale I first heard 30 years ago, and have told and retold ever since. For those of you haven’t heard the…
- One Small Problem
Here is the small problem. This wonderful story with so man amazing and quite positive implications is not true, it is an urban legend that did not actually…
- The Hundredth Monkey and Morphic Resonance
Around the same time as the Hundredth Monkey story had begun being spread via Ken Keyes book, a British biologist Rupert Sheldrake proposed a theory called…
- Making the Connection
When I started writing this introduction, I planned to began by telling the story of the Hundredth Monkey. As with most of what I will write here, I began by…
- A Flashback
I would never have taken that 1983 Esalen workshop if not for the experiences I had two decades before, during the most eventful and intense period of my life…
- The Gene and the Meme
A meme is a theoretical notion, postulating the existence of core creative ideas or cultural knowledge, having a propensity for transmission between between…
Introduction A Head of His Time: An Introduction
This is the introduction to the book in progress.
As in every other section of the book, I ask for your feedback,…
1. The Lao Tsu Syndrome In my post on my blog Vision Thing in November 2009 about my mother’s passing Remembering My Mother, I told the story of how a dream at age four provided me…
- Synesthetic Memories of a Dream
There is a theory I read about when I was a psychology graduate student that each of us is born with a fixed amount of long-term memory, in the same what that…
- Does Ecstasy Drain Your Spinal Fluid?
The question: “Does ecstasy drain your spinal fluid?”
This question seems odd now (and even then) and resulted from a rumor provoked by the publication…
- The Dream
It was not a long dream nor was it filled with a lot of drama. When I remember the dream, what was most distinct were the vivid colors, and detailed images.…
- The Tao That Cannot Be Named
Lao Tsu left behind his teachings however, which came to be called the Tao Te Ching (translated as the Way of Virtue or sometimes the Way of Life). Although…
- Our Minds Make Models of Reality
What Lao Tsu is saying is similar to an observation by modern day philosopher, Alfred Korzybski originator of a study which he called General Semantics.
The…
- Believing in Your Beliefs
These mental models can also be seen as constellations of ideas. These clusters of ideas are beliefs that we hold.
A variety of academic disciplines have…
- A Skeptic on Beliefs
Michael Shermer, who I introduced at the beginning of this book, in the context of the Hundredth Monkey Story calls himself the world’s only professional…
- When You Believe that You Must Believe
The phrase believing in your beliefs was first coined by philosopher William Dennett. However, as you will see, he uses the term in a more limited way than the…
- Beliefs as Theories
Aaron Davidson in his online essay, Science as a Belief System says:
As humans we are born into this world without any preexisting knowledge about our…
- When The Map Does Not Even Represent the Territory
While our ability to develop on the fly complex maps and models to guide us gives us advantages, it also has turned out to provide us with some of thorniest…
- Cultural Belief Systems as Paradigms
One way to view the history of Western Civilization is to see it as moving through a series of collective and common systems of belief. These clusters of…
- So What Should You Believe?
I don’t believe in magic,
I don’t believe in I-ching,
I don’t believe in bible …
… I don’t believe in Kennedy,
I don’t believe in Buddha,
I don’t…
2. Reality is an Opinion For someone frequently afflicted with that particularly nasty version of writers block I nicknamed Lao Tsu Syndrome, I have flung a lot of words at you.…
3. Planet of the Smart Monkeys This page is a placeholder. The section has not yet been written.
Questions for this section
What do you mean by smart monkeys?
Do you really think…
- Becoming Human
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- The Nature of Human Nature
When we discuss human nature, we are not talking about personality or temperament, which are about individual differences, but more a kind of species-wide…
4. That Meme Stuck Inside Your Head This page is a placeholder. The section has not yet been written. Below are rough notes
Introduction to the chapter about memes.
Biologists interested in…
- Mind Genes and Media Viruses
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In order to infuse our society with innovate new memes, we will create through intellectual…
- What Does Meme Mean?
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This section goes into more detail on what exactly a meme is.
5. What Happened to the Counterculture? As long as there have been people, there has always been a counterculture. The counterculture is that part of the society which has a different idea about how…
7. Tomorrow Never Knows Turn off your mind, relax and float down stream,
It is not dying, it is not dying
Lay down all thought, surrender to the void,
Is it shining? Is it…
- The Future of Evolution
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- Flapping Their Wings
Five hundred years before the Wright Brothers flew the first heavier aircraft, Leonardo di Vinci was drawing diagrams and pictures depicting these future…
Epilogue Epilogue: Some of My Views, Visions and Inspirations
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