Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Question?
“Not I,” cries the emerging visionary, as he dives off the edge of the bridge.
For some, life is an escape from the big questions. Perhaps even for most, to seriously question one’s fundamental conclusions about one’s self and the world is akin to bungee jumping from a tall bridge with an untested cord. For these people, jumping up and down on solid ground with a bungee cord attached to their feet, or watching someone else bungee jump, is about as close as they’ll ever get.
Psychologically, this is the extent of how daring most of us early 21st century humans are when it comes to questioning the intellectual ground we walk on. We have no safe tools to leap from the bridge, and so we dare not risk the survival of our psychological identity by inquiring deeply into the nature of things and ourselves.
Indeed, life to this point has been a battle of idealogical positions. We’ve each managed to survive by finding solid footing and holding our ground. To leave the ground we stand on is anything but safe–and anything but fun… without the right tools that is.
Beginning with a new on-line course, tentatively called, Visionary Thinking, VisionForce will present tools for the visionary thinking.
Have you ever thought about the psychological dynamics behind your thinking processes? What, for you, makes one answer more valid than another? Or one question more valid than another? Consider that we all have thinking habits, which we are not conscious of, that guide our thinking. Trying to become a truly visionary thinker without questioning these hidden processes is akin to someone trying to become a champion golfer without questioning their golf swing, taking lessons or getting coaching. Up until now, the visionary thinkers have been those born with the both the “talent” and the “luck” of an environment that developed that talent.
What might VisionForce have to offer the sport of Visionary Thinking? We have thinking tools that might just make this game so fun that visionary thinking eventually becomes “the next big thing.” A sport anyone can become proficient in. Visionary Thinking is not what is taugh inside our on-line programs or our first-level boot camp. Those programs awaken and evolve you as a visionary, and give you tools to continue your evolution, but what we are talking about here is something altogether different. Tools for thinking about your thinking. Ways to see your visionary “golf swing,” and learn concepts and skills to improve your score.
The impact of such thinking tools on your life (and the future of the world) could be enourmous. But without such tools, not only can such a game be as scary as bungee jumping with unproven equipment (so scary that we never even seriously consider doing it, thus avoiding the fear), but it’s not fun either.
Modules for this new course are in the works as we speak, and we’ll be looking for beta-testers. Oh, and our new home for visionary beta-testers is coming very, very soon (and yes, it’s free.). Are you interested? Post your comments and questions below.
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Thinking vs. knowing outside of time. I was free climbing, working across a nose of rock, and my holds were by finger and toes. I peeled off as I hung there wondering what to do next. It was close to 40 feet down, and about half way down I was thinking about my friend, having to haul my broken body out! Something deep inside just totally rejected this senario. The wee small voice screemed out, “NO_O_O_O.” I poped out of my body and was floating there, like a mear point of view. My body hit the slope below, head down,and on my back. It bounced! It was like a perfect dismount off a pommel horse. As soon as it took the position, arms upraised,and looking up at the nose I just was on a moment earlier, I popped back into my body, and cracked up laughing. It was like the proverbial cat being thrown out of a second story window. sometimes its not about thought at all. There is no time. You just act spontaneously without the luxury of intermediate process. The thought simply manifests. I call it, “effortless-effort.”
I am interested in the Visionary Thinking Course/training and would be willing either to have the course downloadable or better yet another ‘Course in the box’ like the Visionary Mind Concept made real. Maybe you can add either DVD’s or video tapes to increase the power of the teachings/living ideas. Theo. PS, Sometimes I feel like an recipient of some killer idealogical viruse(s) placed in my mind and body as early as the age of 6 or 7. I’ve been spending the past 38 years trying to free my self from restrictive idealogical Bull-ca-ca that like the HIV/ AIDS virus just changes shape to fit ones belief or current perceptions, usually safe perceptions. My Dad and much later after their seperation my mom by their previous upbringing and modeling used corporal punishment and scare tactics, like “Big Brother” and his supporters to instill these morals and so-called values permently into my body-mind
as safety devices to keep us(and me a) safe little primate(s) unable to improve the homo-sapien gene pool beyond basic technological toys/machines and paying the bills. It makes me sad, and sometimes I feel powerless, and less important to LIFE. Nietzche’ implied that we are all, man and women potential Supermen, so did Frank Ward aka Frank R. Wallace, and Ayn rand, Edward Crowley aka Aliester Crowley. Like these super heroes, I want to LIVE, to do great things, to create valuable things and life experiences, I do. I think I’m experiencing blue balls in my being, whole person. Again help?! Is it really supposed to be this way?
There are time when confidence is different than conceitedness. Ask John Galt. I think I was fortunate enough to grow up in a life that promoted deep challenges to thinking, deep challenges to the status quo, and deep challenges to my own established beliefs. I know that throughout my life of 27 years, I have continually challenged and adapted my beliefs. In my education, I have had several unique opportunities to have my peers, friends, relatives, coworkers evaluate me anonymously, through a process called 360 review. In all of my reviews, the people around me all agree that I’m the first to question life around me, the first to question the status quo, the first to propose new ideas for the sake of having new ideas.I I may not be the most popular, but few can argue with my success or vision. Call it luck, call it good education, call it what you will, but I will tell you I’ve only met a couple of souls that are similar to my own on this planet.
For me, the course I need is how to continue this track. I don’t need a class on how to be a visionary. I get that. I need a course on how to take it to the next level. How do I go beyond visioning? I have some ideas I’ve tried, but I want to know how to take it beyond. John Gaul, Howard Roark, Dagny Tagart, Francisco DeAconia, they all knew how to take their vision to world changing levels, but Ayn Rand admits her characters were the “ideal vision of man”. How do I take it to that level? That’s the class I want. And, looking at human history as my guide, I don’t think everyone can get there, via education or otherwise. More people can get there than have in the past, but it is a sacred realm. So, how do I find out if I’m one of those special people? If so, where do I go next? It isn’t conceitedness, but it is ego.
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