Idea Enhancement Project – Rural Tompkins County

“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.

The Roads from Cornithaca County — The Idea Enhancement Project

The last page in Cornithaca County is a preface for a new chapter in the Idea Enhancement Project; and the reappearance of an old dilemma:

“There are none so deaf as those who will not hear.”

How do you gain belief for novel ideas in a comfort-zone world of encyclopedic compartments and the scientific ordering of minutiae?

In practical terms; find those who can think for themselves and decide for themselves.

The Project’s greatest need is to contact and collaborate; and receive the feedback needed to move forward as an accessible and practical means “for increasing innovative and creative thinking.”

For those who have not read it; I will reproduce that page as an introduction to the Project and its goals.

The Idea Enhancement Project

The Idea Enhancement Project is a unique undertaking that explores the use of art as a practical tool for increasing innovative and creative thinking. This project is visionary, but not theoretical: the results must be practical; because the process itself is unknowable to the conscious mind.

The unconscious mind is often portrayed as a wild beast; an uncontrollable and destructive atavism

Artists and creative people know that this is untrue, and many have personal and individual techniques for exploring this richest part of the human mind; allowing them to achieve what they could not with the conscious mind alone. The Idea Enhancement Project’s mission is to find ways that have the greatest chance of success; and are the most universally practical.

This process has too many “true” ways of looking at it to have an “explanation” that fits all viewpoints. And it is far too complex to be reduced to quantitative analysis. It cannot be “reverse engineered” because there are no measurable and discrete steps. One way I like to look at it is that art and ideas share the same level in your mind and can communicate and interact directly with each other.

One must leap into the unconscious and grab ahold of some connection to that area where ideas are born — but this is just what art does. With an increase in the frequency of connection; comes the ease of making that connection — until it happens “unconsciously.”

Problems can be left to “simmer” and various solutions will appear for inspection.

Visualizing the results of “quantitative” thinking as a nodule or accretion of pieces is a useful analogy because it describes a way in which the results of qualitative thinking is presented to the thinker. There is no conscious effort involved; but practical results can be achieved.

Like a daydream; it produces a world of its own, and its own feeling; a texture that the mind can sense.

It is practical, and it is useful: it generated much of the material in this book.

The results of this ongoing investigation are immediately available for “real world” use by everyone. All that is needed is a sustained contemplation of the images.

All artwork is original and free to download for any use at IdeaEnhancement.org

“Cornithaca County” Book Preview – Third “Find the differences . . .”

In this third “find the differences” activity I decided to focus on faces. Since human beings have an understandable predilection for gathering information from faces; it would be interesting to see if this helps or hinders the recognition of differences in these two pages.

The study of imagery as a means of promoting innovative and creative thinking is outside the Cornithaca County theme of the book. However, I plan to add a section on the Idea Enhancement Project’s work to provide a practical framework for achieving and using “qualitative” thinking.

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