Month: October 2023

“Idea Enhancement Project” — “Who would have thought?”

“Who would have thought?”

Experts are always marveling at what people in the past were able to accomplish with limited technology. The answer is simple – they thought more than we do. When you add up the percentage of our modern technological and scientific endeavors that are given over to thinking: it’s shockingly little.

And yet, isn’t thinking is the first/best tool we should be reaching for to solve our problems and build the future?

And thinking is not only necessary to decide what we should do – but also to decide what we shouldn’t do.

Just as newer technologies race to correct the damage that their earlier iterations have created – so do we race to complete all the steps we need to ensure our existence for the completion of future steps – ever climbing out of a mess that is ever growing.

We’ve become hoarders of experts and authorities, fear and anxiety – until we can’t move around in our own lives for the detritus of decision making.

Will Artificial Intelligence save us? — Will the model in the display case stop the Titanic from sinking?

“Idea Enhancement Project” — “What’s The Big Idea?”

What’s The Big Idea?

Ideas don’t come from nothing – they come from everything.

As I walked into a community meeting last week; someone in the back called out: “Are you still causing trouble?”

“I never cause trouble” I replied and kept walking – denial is usually the best response until you can appraise the situation – but now, and in public, I’ll make an admission: I have a “command center.”

Everywhere these days; there’s a command center: so I got four cameras, pointed them at nothing in particular, and had split-screened a command center on my monitor.

When I started watching “The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch” – they too had a “command center” – and I felt like part of the club. But then they opened a coded lock to their “inner sanctum” – “Shit! They have an inner sanctum!” – but short of putting a coded lock on my bathroom [which isn’t “visitor friendly”] or lining my garage with foil – I’ll have to wait on that.

“Skinwalker Ranch” has many secrets; and the first of these is why it was sold. I believe in the simple case that overrides the boundary conditions; and if there was any evidence of extraterrestrials or portals: government fears of First Contact, or even first discovery, would have kept it out of private hands, and public scrutiny.

Although the show’s experiments are carried out on a landfill of previous, undisclosed government experiments; the results and data are consistent with a high incidence of low probability electromagnetic phenomena [and perhaps magnetic theories of ball lightning could provide an insight into the observed incidents of “orbs” and their seeming ability to pass through solid matter.]

So where’s the “Idea Enhancement” thing? Since Idea Enhancement’s “qualitative thinking” leaves no tracks; I can only present the idea: Carry out cold fusion experiments at Skinwalker Ranch. That’s it, that’s what I would do.

“Idea Enhancement Project” — “It’s a mistake”

It’s a mistake.

When I check the statistics of visitors to the Idea Enhancement website; they invariably visit for “less than 5 seconds” – it’s a mistake.

Something must immediately contradict their expectations or ‘unfulfill” their need for scientific merchandise and merchandising.

In adopting Science’s recycled vision of a mechanistic Universe – modern authorities are eager to gain power and compliance by promoting the idea that they can gift us with happiness and self-worth through material means. Just as Ingmar Bergman’s magician was unable to gain an admission of his powers from the village Minister of Health; while the crone in his traveling show made a profitable business of selling love potions and charms in his kitchen – so are we unwilling to shoulder the burdens of a complex and subtle human reality; and cling to the storybook simplicity of our ‘magic bullet’ scientific “potions.”

When I want to organize something; I just put it in the first place I would look for it – it works. Why worry about the methodologies and proscriptions of experts to fix a problem that the mind so effortlessly solves? The same is true of Idea Enhancement.

“Idea Enhancement” is no more than a name to describe the effortless process of creation – an exhortation to “try it before you deny it.” The “Scientific method” is a self-fulfilling methodology that only sees building steps to get over a wall that you could walk around.

“Idea Enhancement” is practical: it works. So, take a walk around the wall and see what’s there — you can always go back and see what progress “science” has made.

Next: I will share some of the results from my totally unmethodical “qualitative thinking” for your imagination.