Hi All. I am announcing here a project spurred by Osinakachi A. Kalu in Africa and colleagues, where they are putting on "The International Conference of Techno-Scientific Awareness 2019." It is a conference intended to bring the the best futurist thinkers, across disciplines, to bring a renewed infusion into Africa especially, but also could be other countries who are falling behind in innovation especially in techno-scientific education and advances.
I am speaking online at this…
Dr. Christopher Bollas, psychoanalyst-theorist
In 2016 the internationally renowned British (and American) psychoanalyst Christopher Bollas (one of my fav. of this school of psychology) has given an excellent lecture on "Mental Pain" and offers his decades of clinical experience, his creative original thought, and what I see as a profound wisdom of understanding the…
I am inviting any new students out there to apply for The Fearology Institute Course TFI-118 "Expanding the Fear Imaginary". If you want to learn more about TFI just enter "The Fearology Institute" into the search box on the front (upper right) of the FM ning home page and you'll get several articles I have written about it.
Since a year ago opening, I have had…
"I'm very grim, and down and out," says Emeritus professor Cornel West in a recent interview. He was responding to Anderson Cooper's (CNN host) about the current Trump rally in the US and people chanting to "send her home" referring to a Congress Woman (of color). Indeed, West has long been a Left intellectual and anti-racist advocate and scholar and he is no doubt reflecting a…
Mind Pollution cause for Environmental Pollution Human Mind Pollution Introduction: Human: Relating to or characteristic of humankind. Mind: the element of a person that enables them to be aware of the world and their experiences, to think, and to feel; the faculty of consciousness and thought Pollution: the presence in or introduction into the environment of a substance which has harmful or poisonous effects. What is the Human Mind Pollution? Kama (desire), Grodha (anger), Loba…
Read more…So hi all, Arguably, i am the most uneducated...most simple member of the Fearlessness Movement...perhaps this affords me some licence to roam a little, and learn through trial and error rather than serious consideration of well researched articles. This will always be my disclaimer...that is, i am certainly not the brightest...but i do mean well. I really want things to be better in the world, and this fearlessness project is where I have set up my stall, because intuitively for me, this is…
Read more…Hello... I have been working on a theory of consciousness and the experience of fear forms a important part of my understanding of consciousness. I'm glad to be sharing my ideas on this group. An excerpt from my book about fear is as follows..... The relation between perception of the stimulus as a potential threat and the experience of fear.... "A body executes the fight-flight response to get itself out of danger quickly. Persistent presence of threat or prolongation of perception of…
Read more…The following Index of my blogs on the FM ning continue the listings from prior FORUM blogs if you want to get quick access to all my FM ning blogs since 2015. "The Faces of Fear": A New East-West Dissertation Posted by R.Michael Fisher on May 9, 2019 at 8:41am RMF Technical Papers: Complete List Since 1995 Posted by R.Michael Fisher on April 23, 2019 at 8:26am Fearless Leadership - Excerpt from 2003 by RMF Posted by R.Michael Fisher on April 19, 2019 at 7:06pm "Fearism" Coined in 1990: New…
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