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I am interested in writing a collaborative and cooperative unabridged textbook on psychology. Minus propaganda, minus psychology history, minus psychology personalities,
and minus the usual ego bickering that is usually presented.
Anybody here interested in that?
What would you list as major chapters?
Any thoughts on how to write a better textbook?
I am interested in writing a collaborative and cooperative unabridged textbook on psychology. Minus propaganda, minus psychology history, minus psychology personalities,
and minus the usual ego bickering that is usually presented.
Anybody here interested in that?
What would you list as major chapters?
Any thoughts on how to write a better textbook?
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Re: unabridged psychology textbook
Sat, September 30, 2006 - 10:16 AMWhy would anyone do a textbook that didn't discuss the history of psychology or who the various theorists were? I would be interested in contributing to such a text, but I think it's misguided to omit the history of psychology or a discussion of the lives and ideas of the main theorists.
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Re: unabridged psychology textbook
Mon, October 2, 2006 - 2:08 PMWhy would anyone do a textbook that didn't discuss the history of psychology or who the various theorists were? I would be interested in contributing to such a text, but I think it's misguided to omit the history of psychology or a discussion of the lives and ideas of the main theorists.
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"fools talk about vices, normal people talk about other people, the wise talk about ideas."
My experience is that most textbooks talk about the theorists, and that this is just noise.
Talking about people is different than talking about ideas, and, i am very interested in talking about ideas, which don't get enough time in my opinion.
Most psychology textbooks are so overly focused on people rather than understanding the psyche that the book becomes a tome about people and their petty dramas, instead of being about psychology, its about 20 white men, a token woman, a token black man, and the false dillemmas created when people fail to see how the puzzle fits together instead of focusing on what only appear to be paradoxes of personal perspective.
Like the three blind men and the elephant, what we are left with is bickering from the place of egotism, not a real exploration of what the elephant actually is.
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Re: unabridged psychology textbook
Mon, October 2, 2006 - 2:11 PMUnabridged?
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I'd like to cover every aspect of psychology in depth, from the perspective of a direct exploration of the mind, the brain, and the psyche. Thats a very large amount of ground to cover.
For instance, shadow psychology, abnormal psychology, evolutionary psychology, neural psychology, and personality theory are each usually put into their own independant boxes,
and the connections between them are not well explored.
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Re: unabridged psychology textbook
Mon, October 2, 2006 - 6:45 PMso your talking about an encyclopedia not a text book.
as posted in one of the other myriad forums where you cross posted this post, you cant take the psyche out of history. gotta have history of ideas because ideas are formed within a context and we dont know everything. its important to be able to critique a theory with appreciation for the strengths and limitiations of the millue out of which it grows.
there are alot of great books out there.
why a text book per se? why cant people just follow the ideas they are interested in and read folks futhering those particular feilds of inquiry? -
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Re: unabridged psychology textbook
Mon, October 2, 2006 - 7:08 PMthe best answer i can give that is because psychology information has been intentionally watered down into near drivel. We DO know a whole heckuva lot now about the psyche, and
its time that we quit letting special interest groups like luxocrats, repugnicons, and satanic christians turn psychology into a noise and circus propaganda game.
The only solution to the problem is to put all of the solid information in one place.
You can take the psyche out of history, there are a gazillion texts that present it that way,
don't worry. They will still be around, mucking up the real dialogue no matter what i do.
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Re: unabridged psychology textbook
Mon, October 2, 2006 - 7:09 PMFor instance;
Qm prooves consciousness....
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness
www.nonlocalizedconsciousness.net/
www.quantumconsciousness.org/pen...html
consc.net/online3.html
psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/v2/psy...rs.html
plato.stanford.edu/entries/...s-higher/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impl...David_Bohm
http://66.218.69.11/search/cache?p=+Non+localized+information+holographic+entanglement&prssweb=Search&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-500&x=wrt&u=www.physics.helsinki.fi/%7Ematpi...&.intl=us
www.helsinki.fi/~matpitka/...tanglement'
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hundredth monkey phenomenonhttp ://search.yahoo.com/search?p=hundredth+monkey+phenomenon&prssweb=Search&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-500&x=wrt
skepdic.com/monkey.html
www.uhh.hawaii.edu/~ronald/HMP.htm
www.wowzone.com/monkey.htm
www.heartlandsangha.org/100thmonkey.html
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heisenberg uncertainty principle
search.yahoo.com/search
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unce..._principle
scienceworld.wolfram.com/physi...e.html
schroedingers cat
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr...nger's_cat
search.yahoo.com/search
www.lassp.cornell.edu/ardloui...cat.html
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holographic universe
search.yahoo.com/search
www.earthportals.com/hologht...rinciple ram.html
quanta-gaia.org/reviews/bo...iverse.html
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collective unconscious
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coll...nconscious
search.yahoo.com/search
www.kheper.net/topics/Jun...scious.html
www.eupsychia.com/perspecti...ctive.html
fusionanomaly.net/collectiv...cious.html
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morphogenic feilds
search.yahoo.com/search
www.mgtaylor.com/delphi/sheldrake.html
members.aol.com/ridematrix/mfields.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morp...etic_field
tiferet
www.inner.org/sefirot/seftifer.htm
search.yahoo.com/search
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Re: unabridged psychology textbook
Tue, October 3, 2006 - 9:13 AMwell i have to agree with you about managed care and the pharmacofascists who run the country tweeking/spinning applications of psychological knowledge to control the masses to benefit their privilaged fancy, but I dont know that putting all the info in one place is going to solve that problem. then all they (those with a vested interest in one version of truth) have to do is outlaw that book, burn it and kill the authors, and whalla! new world order.
and i remain skeptical. what are your reading that is watered down to near drivel? not that you have to really answer that question, im sure its out there, but i also know there is alot of excellent work out here in this big world. like do people no longer have research skills or the capacity for critical reasoning so we need to baby sit their development of mind by giving them "everything true" in one place? and if we did that, would that not make us like the other egonaughts trying to run the country/world for their own personal gain? the idea that one book could hold "the truth" because it denies its own subjectivity scares the crap out of me. the physics you seem to prefer has already collapsed the objectivist fanstasy so acknowledgement of our subjectivity, which includes our location in the history of thought is less ego centric than claiming the one true vision. postmodernism, despite any critiques people may level against it, does remind us that being human, we are always in a point of view and that perspective is always relative. from my reading in quantum physics and consciousness studies, which is not my area of expertise, but appears to be your area of interest, so i address that, supports/furthers this postmodern imperative, theories such as multiple worlds and observer created reality for instance...
instead of one book, what about becoming a publishing house, like some of the excellent small publishers out there, be very selective about what you publish. then consumers know that when buying a "promethian publications" volume on csns or quantum psychology (these seem to be your primary interests, a narrow slice of current psychological theory, which is a good thing, publishing wise, an area of expertise and excellence if your not too broad) it will be a publication they can trust. there are several such publishers in archetypal and depth psychology and when i see their lable, i know its a solid piece of thought and worth the purchase.... even if i am not familiar with the author.
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Re: unabridged psychology textbook
Tue, October 3, 2006 - 1:32 PMwell i have to agree with you about managed care and the pharmacofascists who run the country tweeking/spinning applications of psychological knowledge to control the masses to benefit their privilaged fancy, but I dont know that putting all the info in one place is going to solve that problem. then all they (those with a vested interest in one version of truth) have to do is outlaw that book, burn it and kill the authors, and whalla! new world order.
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er, the reverse point is if the books distributed on the net before they realize it and faster than they can stop it, it generates a paradigm shift.
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and i remain skeptical. what are your reading that is watered down to near drivel?
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Any psych 101 textbook. Take your pick.
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not that you have to really answer that question, im sure its out there, but i also know there is alot of excellent work out here in this big world. like do people no longer have research skills or the capacity for critical reasoning so we need to baby sit their development of mind by giving them "everything true" in one place?
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Personally, i think research as such is vastly over-rated. It makes more sense to give people better and denser information. all of that alleged goodness of having people do research is cover for a multitude of sins, including the propagandization of psychology.
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and if we did that, would that not make us like the other egonaughts trying to run the country/world for their own personal gain?
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No, it would make us harbingers of truth and social evolution. i'm not talking about much personal gain here, i'm talking about the best and purest form of information out there, distributed for free. (and maybe a follow up level 2 text for 29.95$...)
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the idea that one book could hold "the truth" because it denies its own subjectivity scares the crap out of me.
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I'm not thinking of denying subjectivity, i am thinking of shooting for more objectivity, which wouldn't be hard, considering that right now, its just a bunch of egotism and noise.
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the physics you seem to prefer has already collapsed the objectivist fanstasy so acknowledgement of our subjectivity, which includes our location in the history of thought is less ego centric than claiming the one true vision.
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Its mind boggling to hear people come to such defense of the status quo, and, it simply makes zero rational sense.
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postmodernism, despite any critiques people may level against it, does remind us that being human, we are always in a point of view and that perspective is always relative.
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Distal and proximal stimulus, schema, epistomology problem, 101 material, yada yada yada.
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from my reading in quantum physics and consciousness studies, which is not my area of expertise, but appears to be your area of interest, so i address that, supports/furthers this postmodern imperative, theories such as multiple worlds and observer created reality for instance...
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well, i find multiple world theory an intellectual exercise of merit, but i'm not reifying the concept.
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instead of one book, what about becoming a publishing house, like some of the excellent small publishers out there, be very selective about what you publish. then consumers know that when buying a "promethian publications" volume on csns or quantum psychology (these seem to be your primary interests, a narrow slice of current psychological theory, which is a good thing, publishing wise, an area of expertise and excellence if your not too broad) it will be a publication they can trust. there are several such publishers in archetypal and depth psychology and when i see their lable, i know its a solid piece of thought and worth the purchase.... even if i am not familiar with the author.
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That would not accomplish a paradigm shift, or defeat the propagandization of psychology.
I fail to understand what in any way that idea has more merit than an unabridged encycloepdic treatment.
However, i had allready considered that single chapters could be good to offer independant
of the whole text.
:)
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Re: unabridged psychology textbook
Tue, November 21, 2006 - 5:49 PMtribes.tribe.net/conflictr...bd3bf79596
mob psychology
tribes.tribe.net/conflictr...d3021bf415
groupthink
tribes.tribe.net/conflictr...f76738d56f
pack psychology
tribes.tribe.net/conflictr...b76b0a9814
herd psychology
tribes.tribe.net/conflictr...b4b043888f
logical fallacies
tribes.tribe.net/psychonau...6d1aa00690
brain region and state
tribes.tribe.net/psychonau...5dd7a91171
basic brain anatomy and 3 selves
tribes.tribe.net/psychonau...e1b3304416
altered states of consciousness
tribes.tribe.net/psychonau...fcc518e43e
brain waves
tribes.tribe.net/psychonau...cf7c3e512c
quantum mechanics and consciousness
tribes.tribe.net/psychonau...1a2dc7eb04
eclecticism
religiouscrossroads.tribe.net/thr...f673
the mysteries of matter
religiouscrossroads.tribe.net/thr...2071
how big is god?
religiouscrossroads.tribe.net/thr...b0f5
gems of christianity and etc. esoteric
religiouscrossroads.tribe.net/thr...96b0
gems of christianity, modern
religiouscrossroads.tribe.net/thr...75a7
gems of judaism
religiouscrossroads.tribe.net/thr...38e5
1001 fatal flaws of christianity
religiouscrossroads.tribe.net/thr...6c51
flaws of judaism
religiouscrossroads.tribe.net/thr...9e3d
does anybody really believe in god?
religiouscrossroads.tribe.net/thr...9004
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Re: unabridged psychology textbook
Sun, April 15, 2007 - 4:21 PMThe important thing in my mind is to offer people the chance to learn as well as vent,
And possibly to do some good by educating people about what they are venting over.
There is a sort of critical mass point where such a blog could become a sort of super
Think machine, and where the participants could start really driving off into extraordinary problem solving process. The question is how to facilitate that. If I play
My hand the way god dealt it to me, I am sort of a propaganda warrior VS all propaganda. Unfortunately, the scent of soldier sometimes throws people. Lol. On the other hand, if I have a person who is a good counterbalance, who asks me the hard questions driving from the moderate conservative sort of perspective, it can work really well. On the other hand, I can do more self censorship depending on the meta-program parameters you provide. Let me know how best to serve you so that we can serve the
Community together well.
Well, Here they are; hope you like them.
ETHICS General
1. Endeavor to do the least possible or no harm to all persons, property, life, liberty, livelihood, environment, self, others, family, community, Country, World, Economies,
Children, Elders, Workers, Voters, and Ecosystems. (And so forth.)
2. Endeavor to make all of ones labor to meet ones own needs also coincide with the maximum energy potential of benefit to others. Practice the law of charity and reap
the rewards of the law of karma. Give your best to others and go the extra mile, for the
good of all, for the benefit of all of ones relations.
3. Emotions derive from primary instincts. Flight renders fear and fight renders Rage.
4. Emotional Energies are best resolved via right action problem solving process, not
allowing emotion to guide or control ones thinking or process.
5. The 1st and second principle applies as a matrix to the whole Needs Pyramid. That Pyramid consists of Physical needs at the base, social needs, emotional needs, mental
needs and spiritual needs at the top.
6. We only move up through the pyramid of needs one need at a time and in order of
priority for survival. Needs are coded as instincts that drive all of human behavior. All
behavior is tactic to meet ones needs. Behavior which harms others or which fails to benefit the whole of society is unethical behavior, but it must be understood to exist
as a psychology which is an instinct attached to a bad problem solving tactic. People
only act to meet their needs, if they act badly, what they need to act better is a better
tactic.
7. Thus do no harm and work for the good of all as you climb your pyramid of needs
and be cognizant of what your needs are, and lucid in terms of having good tactics that
are socially beneficial for meeting your needs.
8. Most morality can be expressed as iterations of the do no harm rule. Do no harm against ones relationship with spirit, Do no harm which would kill another person, do no
harm by stealing or thieving, do no harm by potentially transmitting STDS i.e., law against
Adultery, the list goes on etc; most of the Ten Commandments can be rewritten as specific details of the do no harm rule.
9. Ethics is the process of reconciling the needs of society with the drives of the Reptilian
and Mammalian Brain and thus Ethics are the laws of nature which allow us to exist in
peace as a culture or society instead of continuing the law of the jungle.
10. We are spirits in animal bodies, and there is a law of the jungle under our skins which must be somehow evolved and cultivated into cooperation (and cooperative
process) rather than violence (and violence as a problem solving process.) The law of the jungle is violence. The law of Angels is Cooperation.
11. Everything is connected to everything else, thus anything you do to another you do
to yourself. This becomes increasingly true as the law of karma carries out its permutation selections of what would otherwise be random chance rendering thus
synchronicities.
12. A person cannot obtain waking altered states of consciousness until they resolve
the assorted shadow issues of the Mammalian and Reptilian Mind.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics
www.journals.uchicago.edu/ET/
www.utm.edu/research/iep/e/ethics.htm
www.scu.edu/ethics/pract...isethics.html
ethics.sandiego.edu/
www.suite101.com/article.c...ase/112259
www.pbs.org/now/shows/22...n-ethics.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primum_non_nocere
www.conbio.org/cip/article74har.cfm
www.ascensionhealth.org/ethics...ood.asp
skeptically.org/ethicsutility/id10.html
search.yahoo.com/search;_y...oBelxXNyoA
www.globaljusticemovement.org/mis....htm
www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/1C...13.html
scriptures.lds.org/1_cor/13
scriptures.lds.org/en/1_cor/13/1a
scriptures.lds.org/en/bd/c/41
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_Corinthians_13
www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/karma1.htm
world.std.com/~aditya/BB/...20KARMA4.htm
www.ncf.ca/freenet/root...s/karma2.html
www.thebuddhadharma.com/issues...l02.htm
www.purifymind.com/YogaKarma.htm
www.purifymind.com/UnderstandKarma.htm
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_of_a_needle
www.eyeoftheneedle.net/Church...dle.htm
www.debunker.com/texts/needleye.html
www.shamar.org/articles/camel-needle.php
dictionary.reference.com/browse/instinct
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instinct
www.actualfreedom.com.au/libra...ts.htm
drbeetle.homestead.com/mindrules.html
www.neurosemantics.com/Stutte...ern.htm
www.barrettdorko.com/article...ress.htm
www.fortunecity.com/milleniu...rain.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masl...y_of_needs
crs.uvm.edu/gopher/nerl/.../b/c/PyN.html
www.age-of-the-sage.org/psycho...id.html
www.businessballs.com/maslow.htm
www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sume...4.htm
www.commondreams.org/views04/0817-13.htm
www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/Anth...ctice.htm
www.atam.org/SerpentBrain.html
www.psycheducation.org/emotio...lex.htm
www.geocities.com/somewhere...Brain.html
PSYCHOLOGY General
1.Psychology is the study of the human mind. Most specifically the psyche, most generally All of human behavior.
2. The human Brain is composed of between 40 and 70 different organs, depending upon
how you define differences. These are called brodmanns brain areas. Each brain area
is responsible for specific types of brain processes and mental functions.
3. The human mind has four main operational conditions, they are beta brainwave states, alpha brainwave states, delta brainwave states, and theta brainwave states. Each of these might be further subdivided into waking or sleeping states of consciousness.
4. Beta brainwave states are those in which the dominant area of the brain is the frontal lobes. Alpha brainwave states are those in which the dominant area of the brain is the Mammalian brain or Occipital lobes, and Delta brainwaves states are those where the brain is dominated by the Reptilian Brain or brain stem. Theta brain wave states are
a second waking condition in which the body is healed, or, in which the normal flow of
dominance from top of brain to bottom of brain is reversed, and the bottom of the brain
loads information into the top, which is then experienced as dreams.
5. We have instincts which compel us to seek out gratification of our needs. All behavior is motivated by a conscious or unconscious belief that said behavior will get some need met.
6. Psychology involves first an instinct, which compels a thought process, and then a planning or strategizing session in which the individual uses their maps of reality and belief systems as well as learned knowledge and social conditioning to arrive at an end
product of doing something to get what you want. Schema are maps of reality which we
use as tools to meet our needs .Social Conditioning and personal experience and learning
play vital roles in helping the mind to think up tactics to meet needs.
7. Criminal behavior is behavior which that person believes will get their needs met. Punishment was well demonstrated to have little or no effect on learning curve. What is required for a person to change their behavior is a functional tactic that does work to get their needs met.
8. Groupthink is a social phenomenon of psychology where a group uses false
consensus process to end up behaving stupidly as a group. Groupthink occurs when
people cave into social pressures, where propaganda replaces knowledge or facts, and where group identity is created out of participation in group delusions, lies, codependency, or criminality. Groupthink is how a mob drifts to the lowest common denominator, and why a mob is potentially vicious, evil, and sociopathic. Group
authority ameliorates and dissolves personal conscience, and by having their emotions
manipulated and their social identity threatened, people give up their own better judgment and accept the judgment of the most psychopathic member of the group.
9. Pack Psychology is the psychology exhibited primarily by mammals in small groups
in which 3 primary roles are assumed by social participants. The roles are Alpha- the leader, Beta- the followers, and Delta- the orbiters. In human society that translates in a super-simplified way into bullies, cliques, and nerds.
10. Problem solving psychology must contend against groupthink and pack psychology in the arena of opinion. Problem solving psychology is emotionally neutral and uses the mind and logic to look at all aspects of a problem and try to come up with a viable problem solving process. Problem solving psychology is the worst enemy of both
Rightist and Leftist Dogmatists. True problem solving psychology comes from the place of the radical middle. It takes in all sides and all viewpoints, and it gives each its fair dues
And attention in creating a problem solving process that works from the big picture down through into the nano details.
Psychology;
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology
psychology.about.com/
www.psychology.org/
psychology.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1...lgy.html
www.socialpsychology.org/
Brodmanns brain areas and etc;
www.umich.edu/~cogneuro/j...rodmann.html
spot.colorado.edu/~dubin/ta...dmann.html
www.whale.to/b/brain.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brodmann_area
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List...uman_brain
thebrain.mcgill.ca/flash/ca...ne05.html
www.csuchico.edu/~pmccaff/...unit4.html
faculty.washington.edu/chudler/qa2.html
brainwaves;
www.brainwaves.com/brain.html
pages.prodigy.net/unohu/brainwaves.htm
brain.web-us.com/brainwavesfunction.htm
www.crossroadsinstitute.org/eeg.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainwaves
PSYCHOLOGY General
1.Psychology is the study of the human mind. Most specifically the psyche, most generally All of human behavior.
2. The human Brain is composed of between 40 and 70 different organs, depending upon
how you define differences. These are called brodmanns brain areas. Each brain area
is responsible for specific types of brain processes and mental functions.
3. The human mind has four main operational conditions, they are beta brainwave states, alpha brainwave states, delta brainwave states, and theta brainwave states. Each of these might be further subdivided into waking or sleeping states of consciousness.
4. Beta brainwave states are those in which the dominant area of the brain is the frontal lobes. Alpha brainwave states are those in which the dominant area of the brain is the Mammalian brain or Occipital lobes, and Delta brainwaves states are those where the brain is dominated by the Reptilian Brain or brain stem. Theta brain wave states are
a second waking condition in which the body is healed, or, in which the normal flow of
dominance from top of brain to bottom of brain is reversed, and the bottom of the brain
loads information into the top, which is then experienced as dreams.
5. We have instincts which compel us to seek out gratification of our needs. All behavior is motivated by a conscious or unconscious belief that said behavior will get some need met.
6. Psychology involves first an instinct, which compels a thought process, and then a planning or strategizing session in which the individual uses their maps of reality and belief systems as well as learned knowledge and social conditioning to arrive at an end
product of doing something to get what you want. Schema are maps of reality which we
use as tools to meet our needs .Social Conditioning and personal experience and learning
play vital roles in helping the mind to think up tactics to meet needs.
7. Criminal behavior is behavior which that person believes will get their needs met. Punishment was well demonstrated to have little or no effect on learning curve. What is required for a person to change their behavior is a functional tactic that does work to get their needs met.
8. Groupthink is a social phenomenon of psychology where a group uses false
consensus process to end up behaving stupidly as a group. Groupthink occurs when
people cave into social pressures, where propaganda replaces knowledge or facts, and where group identity is created out of participation in group delusions, lies, codependency, or criminality. Groupthink is how a mob drifts to the lowest common denominator, and why a mob is potentially vicious, evil, and sociopathic. Group
authority ameliorates and dissolves personal conscience, and by having their emotions
manipulated and their social identity threatened, people give up their own better judgment and accept the judgment of the most psychopathic member of the group.
9. Pack Psychology is the psychology exhibited primarily by mammals in small groups
in which 3 primary roles are assumed by social participants. The roles are Alpha- the leader, Beta- the followers, and Delta- the orbiters. In human society that translates in a super-simplified way into bullies, cliques, and nerds.
10. Problem solving psychology must contend against groupthink and pack psychology in the arena of opinion. Problem solving psychology is emotionally neutral and uses the mind and logic to look at all aspects of a problem and try to come up with a viable problem solving process. Problem solving psychology is the worst enemy of both
Rightist and Leftist Dogmatists. True problem solving psychology comes from the place of the radical middle. It takes in all sides and all viewpoints, and it gives each its fair dues
And attention in creating a problem solving process that works from the big picture down through into the nano details.
Psychology;
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology
psychology.about.com/
www.psychology.org/
psychology.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1...lgy.html
www.socialpsychology.org/
Brodmanns brain areas and etc;
www.umich.edu/~cogneuro/j...rodmann.html
spot.colorado.edu/~dubin/ta...dmann.html
www.whale.to/b/brain.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brodmann_area
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List...uman_brain
thebrain.mcgill.ca/flash/ca...ne05.html
www.csuchico.edu/~pmccaff/...unit4.html
faculty.washington.edu/chudler/qa2.html
brainwaves;
www.brainwaves.com/brain.html
pages.prodigy.net/unohu/brainwaves.htm
brain.web-us.com/brainwavesfunction.htm
www.crossroadsinstitute.org/eeg.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainwaves
EDUCATION REFORM General
1. Curiosity drives learning if it is allowed to do so and not shut down.
2. Curiosity is shut down via the current system, creating the ADD disorder sudden appearance on the charts. One half of ADD is a person who can’t pay attention. The other half is a boring culture, delivery of information modus
operandi.
3. Curiosity driven learning involves more brain area participation. If a person doesn’t really like their experience, the subconscious mind edits it and doesn’t learn from it. Using curiosity driven learning potentially accelerates the learning curve such that it would not be unreasonable for the society of the future to expect the equivalent of a multiple PhD education from High School.
4. The largest obstacle to curiosity driven learning is the current student to teacher ratio. Curiosity driven learning requires a personal curriculum to be developed per child, an enormous labor process for most teachers. The cure is to use peer tutoring, and older child tutoring in conjunction with professional testers. Teachers are being asked do two different jobs, Teaching and Testing. Testing is incredibly underutilized. How can you know what a child is ready to learn if you have not learned from them who they are and what they know already?
5. The second largest obstacle is a lazy educational system which must be corrected
and re-educated itself. The educational paradigm being taught for use is not the one which is being taught in reform education psychology and sociology classes.
6. The first battery of tests should be; IQ tests, aptitude tests, Sanity tests, Type of intelligence per intelligence tests, learning style tests, performance tests, peer skills tests, comprehensive topical subject tests, and in general, any test which can be used to effectively appraise an individual child for the purposes of creating for that child a personalized curriculum.
7. The topics of psychology, sociology, conversational logic, and ethics should be added to the current curriculum for all Middle School (ages 12 to 14 or grades 6 thru 8) and High Schools
8. Personality differences including learning styles and Types of intelligence
Can mean that people learn in very different ways. Groups of students should be organized without regard so much to age as to learning style. A class full of visual
Learners from 3 age groups is better than a class full of kinesthetic learners and visual learners who find each other distracting and each others interactions with the teacher bizarre. Throw in some introverts and some extroverts and a speed-reader or two, and a teachers modus operandi cannot hope to reach well the different types of Students that s/he is teaching.
10. Our society is composed of a population which is by about 50 percent Anti-intellectual. (As part of a deep and long term attempt at denial of science facts)
The sheeple will crucify the nerds, that’s the end result of pack psychology and anti-intellectualist mob events. Both alleged “Sides” in the great orchestrated argument between left and right are delusional dogmatist simple minded over simplified versions of reality, oversimplified problem solving process, and thus oversimplified and therefore
Usually counterproductive pseudo solutions. Polarity does not contain sanity, both sides are polarized via each other, but the line that connects those two dots at no point in time Ever gets around to the big picture or the whole truth. Evolution and mother nature will on the other hand favor the nerds.
Education reform;
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_reform
www1.worldbank.org/educatio...onreform/
www.education-reform.net/
dmoz.org/Society/Issue...cation_Reform/
Curiousity driven Learning
www.csl.sony.fr/~py/develo...obotics.htm
www.idsia.ch/~juergen/interest.html
www.childtrauma.org/ctamater...osity.asp
www.csun.edu/~vcpsy00h/s.../explore.htm
Types of Intelligence;
www.macalester.edu/psycholo...ypes.html
www.ldpride.net/learningstyles.MI.htm
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mult...elligences
Learning Styles;
www.ncsu.edu/felder-publ..._Styles.html
www.ncsu.edu/felder-public/ILSpage.html
www.chaminade.org/inspire/learnstl.htm
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_styles
www.funderstanding.com/learni...les.cfm
Student Teacher Ratio:
www.edspresso.com/
www.edreform.com/index.cfm
www.dreamagic.com/jesse/isedurat.html
Anti Intellectualism;
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti...lectualism
chronicle.com/free/v47/i15/15b00701.htm
www.amazon.com/Anti-Intel.../0394703170
www.csmonitor.com/2003/0121...-lehl.html
mtprof.msun.edu/Spr1997/TROUT-ST.html
www.wayofthemind.org/2006/07...tualism/
urresearch.rochester.edu/retri...sm.pdf
www.boston.com/news/local...her_ratios/
CIVIL ENGINEERING General
Civil Engineering is about how to build society or civilization from the nuts and bolts pragmatic perspective. A civil engineer is unconcerned with personally understanding
The social impact of their work unless they are specifically asked to think about that.
Rather, what a Civil engineer thinks about is how to build a structure, have it last, have
It mesh with its environment, have water flow around it, have wind not push it over. A Civil Engineer builds what society asks for generally, adding the details that make a description into an operational reality.
Many social and civil problems have civil engineering components. Energy usage
And creation, for instance, has both a social and a civil level as problems to be solved. Zoning laws and other social considerations limit what a civil engineer can do. And, rightly, civil engineering realities create limits for sociologists. Civil engineers are concerned with how efficiently resources are used, how much load a structure can bear, how well a structure accommodates traffic, and other details such as environmental impact.
Civil Engineering has aesthetic components, resource management components, construction components, and other issues which must be juggled for a good overall design and implementation.
Serious solutions for assorted problems are implied by depth understanding of civil engineering issues. Poverty for instance can in theory be out civil engineered by building the structures that are needed to house people, employment, education, and social welfare systems. The solution for instance to the Palestinian problem once diplomacy has finished is civil engineering; building the new State of Palestine and simultaneously building a strong Israel. Eco Villages, Tribal Arcologies, Permaculture,
Cable cars, Solar power, Geothermal power, Wind power, Tidal power, and other such
Civil engineering solutions can solve myriads of problems that would be untenable from the sociologist’s desk alone. Simultaneously, Good civil engineering requires us to be honest about things that don’t work, such as fossil fuels, bio-fuels, nuclear power, hydroelectric power from rivers and dams, and individualized mass transportation.
Ideally, most people should live in communities rather than in nuclear families
Cut off from community support, and communities should maintain community gardens
And local employment to increase the efficiency of civilization as a whole.
Civil Engineering;
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_engineering
www.icivilengineer.com/
engineering.purdue.edu/CE/
www.unm.edu/~civil/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cate...ngineering
whatiscivilengineering.csce.ca/
Economic Social Justice;
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_justice
indymedia.us/en/topic/ec...rchive.shtml
www.commondreams.org/community.htm
www.cesj.org/thirdway/ec...-defined.htm
www.cesj.org/
Eco-Village;
www.gaia.org/gaia/
gen.ecovillage.org/
www.ecosustainablevillage.com/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eco-village
Arcologies;
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcologies
www.arcosanti.org/theory/ar.../main.html
www.arcology.com/
www.halfbakery.com/idea/Sel...rcologies
Permaculture;
www.attra.org/attra-pub/perma.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture
www.permaculture.net/about/d...ons.html
www.permaculture.net/about/b...ion.html
www.permaculture.org/nm/inde...e/index/
Cable Cars;
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_car
www.rickly.com/sgi/cable_cars.htm
www.cable-car-guy.com/html/ccmain.html
www.photovault.com/Link/Veh...me01.html
Solar Power;
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power
www.solarelectricpower.org/
www.montanagreenpower.com/solar...x.html
Geothermal Power
geothermal.marin.org/pwrheat.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal_power
www1.eere.energy.gov/geother...nts.html
geothermal.marin.org/
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15749933/
Wind Power;
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power
www.otherpower.com/otherpower_wind.html
Tidal Power;
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_power
inventors.about.com/od/tstar...power.htm
waterpower.hypermart.net/tidal.html
www.esru.strath.ac.uk/EandE/W...ower.htm
POLITICAL SCIENCE General
What kind of government does the USA have? What kind of government does Santa Barbara have? Because while it is intended to be an approximation of democracy, via
The process of representation, how much representation does the common person have
In a false dilemma war between republican and democrat? How much access do we have
To our representation? How much does our representation really work to represent us? And are they loyal to the people, or, are they loyal to that fraction of the people who can afford to belong to the aristocrat class? In theory, the political process is where and how society codes ethics and social and civil engineering into actual laws and rules and actions of the government. Politics might be defined as that sphere of social reality devoted to government, and in a democracy, Political science becomes the complicated process of getting social participants to fully invest in their own self governance.
Political science is thus about the cycle of communication, ideation, and manifestation of social and civil self administration. In America, this is a dialogue allegedly between any and all, but in reality, it is a monologue with two sock puppets
Taking up all of the air space. What difference is there between the $rich$ leftists and the
$rich$ rightists? Both rule over the under-caste of laborers and Workers, who in truth end up having little or no say in government. The masses are drowned out by two sock puppets screaming at each other.
Political Science combines all other sciences in one way or another. It involves Ethics, Morality, Physics, Architecture, Psychology, Sociology, Law, communications, Logic, and in one way or another every other science or paradigm. The subtopics of Political science are therefore Political Science sub all of the other Sciences and paradigms. But do our representatives have the information they need to juggle so many
Problems and issues? Do we as a society have a problem solving process, and are we solving problems? Or are we mostly making social problems worse by complicating society?
Perhaps more importantly, all of the sciences have bearing on Political Science.
Communications theory gives us solutions to most problems in government which we simply fail to employ. Civil Engineering tells us with mathematical certainty what the
Consequences are of building or failing to build any given thing. Sociology has the answers easily to almost all serious social problems. Hard Science can solve the energy
Crunch. The problem is that people are allowing money to make the decisions, not a lucid
Problem solving process. The problem is that the answers the sciences have to give us are being ignored, so that power hungry fools can continue to stay on top of their power-play games, and stay cozy, unaffected by truth or knowledge or reason.
All opinions were not created equal. The perspective of a sociologist is simply a more well formed perspective than a laypersons is if we are to seriously consider solving social problems. Opinion is based in emotions, in simplifications, and usually, in leftist or rightist sponsored propaganda. But neither left nor right side is interested in solving problems, as much as they are trapped in a net of their own making of lies they told themselves often enough that they believed them. The saddest part of ignorance is that if
People would just slow down, they could take the time to educate themselves.
Political Science;
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_science
ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Polit...nce/index.htm
www.apsanet.org/
www.britannica.com/eb/artic...l-science
Propaganda
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda
www.propagandacritic.com/
www.sourcewatch.org/index.php
www.esrnational.org/whatispropaganda.htm
www.britannica.com/eb/artic...ropaganda
answers.yahoo.com/question/index
www.sourcewatch.org/index.php
www.serendipity.li/more/propagan.html
mason.gmu.edu/~amcdonal/P...hniques.html
www.readwritethink.org/lesson...iew.asp
Types of government;
stutzfamily.com/mrstutz/Wo...ofgovt.html
news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/h...2151570.stm
home.earthlink.net/~kingsid.../id2.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form_of_government
www.twyman-whitney.com/americ...ent.htm
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List...government
Oligarchy;
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligarchy
www.britannica.com/eb/artic...oligarchy
www.bartleby.com/65/ol/oligarch.html
dictionary.reference.com/brows...garchy
www.oligarchyusa.com/
www.theatlantic.com/doc/prem...005-03-30
www.democracymatters.org/article.php
familyrightsassociation.com/news...y.htm
www.shoutwire.com/comments/..._Oligarchy
www.irregulartimes.com/oligarchy.html
Class warfare;
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_Warfare
www.therationalradical.com/outr...e.htm
www.disenchanted.com/dis/tec...are.html
www.thenation.com/blogs/capitalgames
www.nytimes.com/2006/11/26...6every.html
answers.yahoo.com/question/index
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