Charlotte Iserbyt: Societies Secrets

[Ed Jewett]

Magda and Gary: There are over two hundred source books (plus notes from about 20 hours of post-graduate classroom lecture) in "Summon The Magic". I look forward -- delivered in a new thread, or by PM or e-mail, but subject to publication -- to your explanations and support for the argument where, in all of that, there is any discussion about socialism, the state, duty to the state or the people of the state.

Have you read all 200 books? Do you have the list?

The mind-map for the totality of the concept is a graphic that links 226 key words; in those 226 words, how many of them have anything to do with the state, government, political systems or approaches, or society?

Ed, I do not have the list. It may have been on my previous and now expired computer :damncomputer:

The bibliography was posted at EPU, and has been sent tonight by e-mail. I tried putting the mind map into an online mind-mapping program but without much success. My old PC fried as well, so the old copies of the totality I had on CD are not going to be read easily on an iMac. I have been able to resurrect the preface, the biblio, the introduction, the mind map, and the expanded table of contents, and I still have the original text plus many of the appendices in print form. It will eventually all go online.

I did mention in the Evica WWUH recordings thread that the University of Hartford holds a special place in my heart. I drove down there one Saturday afternoon for a ballgame and somehow had the knowledge that something very special was to occur later that day. When I arrived, I hung a "poster" with one of the "nuggets" I had discovered on the back of the chain-link backstop where all the visiting players could read it; they all did. The catcher, who had been getting the nuggets all along, went 3-for-3 that day, tying an NCAA record with three home runs in three at-bats, one to left, one to center, and the last to right. The other team's catcher asked the player who went to the plate right after the third round-tripper and said "What on earth can you throw to this kid that she can't hit out of the park?"

The poster:

"If You Want to Achieve Excellence...

You must have total intention
to create it here and now.

Total intention is the powerful combination
of desire, belief and acceptance.

You must not only desire it,
but you must believe that you
are capable of bringing it about.

And you must be willing to accept
the positives and the responsibilities that will come when it arrives, as well as the responsibilities when it does not."

Thus ends this diversion from the original thrust of the thread.