A short introduction to the 1st Earth Battalion written for the World Business Academy Project Earthrise.
Submitted by frank on Mon, 2006-05-22 16:56.
Editor's Note: The FIRST EARTH BATTALION was called into being during the early 1980's by TASK FORCE DELTA at the Army War College to give the Army a way to see its full potential as an instrument of the future.
The charge was "to think the unthinkable."
This mythological force has functioned as a free service think tank to the Army ever since. As an instrument of creative thinking it has found its way into various current Army projects. Most recently, principle Academy Fellow Jim Channon, Lt. Colonel, US Army (Ret.), visually summarized the OBJECTIVE FORCE WARRIOR findings and teamed up with Army Chief of Staff Pete Schoomaker to open the mindset of future Army leaders at the School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS) course at Command and General Staff College (CGSC). Jim also helped shape the future vision efforts of the new Secretary of the Army using his summarizing strategic graphics techniques.
Jim has led the World Business Academy fellows for three years on a quest to create the most positive future vision for the planet for the next 100 years. There is a direct correspondence between the academy's vision and focus on the "whole planet" and the efforts of the world's most effective action agent and institution, the United States Army.
NEW RESEARCH ON CAPACITY BUILDING INTELLIGENCE FOR THE 21 CENTURY
Submitted by Jim on Sun, 2010-01-10 21:28.clues to a 21st century capacity builder ...white paper
JIM’s WAY
We know he is rampantly creative …. But, how did he get that way?
Jim's personal vision 2010
Submitted by Jim on Thu, 2009-12-31 18:29.Tis the eve of the blue moon and lunar eclipse ...tis the time to bundle your dreams up my Arcturus family. I open your interest to the vision I have chosen for this year, as an invitation for you to follow: Boldness has its own Magic as it has been said:
2010
This
My Vision
I now accept
that I am fully alive.
at the mercy of rapture.
So, I will “crank the Dude”
To unleash my playful genius.
& ride the glory train in my own mind.
To unite the people of planet earth to approach
this planet as the most suitable place for paradise ever.
I fully accept my divinity
Crop Circles . A civilizing INTELLIGENCE
Submitted by Jim on Mon, 2009-12-21 00:15.Crop Circles
A CIVILIZING INTELLIGENCE
I am constantly ashamed to see the academic communities of the world shun the work of analyzing the crop circle phenomenon for what it seems to me to be as an uncompromisingly consistent, aesthetically constant, and playful exchange of visual language from a civilized source. It is also disappointing that those who have been on site, who have witnessed the circles firsthand, have very incomplete understanding of what they are looking at. The descriptive power of our human observers seems so very limited to date.
PLATFORM SIX jim's notes for coast to coast radio
Submitted by Jim on Wed, 2009-10-21 01:03.PLATFORM SIX
THE NEW STORY
WE ARE AT THE CUSP
JIMCHANNON
IN THIS CENTURY WE GO FROM THE WORLD THAT BUILT A FULLY CONNECTED PLANET TO THE WORLD THAT RECOGNIZES THAT PARADISE IS IN SIGHT.
THE GLOBAL AGE WILL NOW PASS THRU THE FLORAL AGE AND MOVE TOWARD THE GOLDEN AGE
WE HAVE BEEN IN A WORLD OF DOING AND THEN HAVING AND NOW WE WILL MOVE INTO AN AGE OF KNOWING AND BEING
DESPITE OUR MASSIVE INFO SPHERE THERE ARE MANY UNRECOGNIZED OPPORTUNITIES AND MANY UNTHANKED PEOPLE IN OUR MIDST.
the NEWEARTHARMY.com is a new source of ideas and gear ....check it out
Submitted by Jim on Tue, 2009-09-29 21:00.REFLECTIONS ON eight years of work as a designer of positive futures
Submitted by Jim on Mon, 2009-09-28 19:21.When I am asked what studying a positive future for eight years with the aid of the minds of two thousand other global thinkers, has brought me to think…I say:
THE NEXT POSSIBLE WORLD
As we awaken to the next world … we follow an ancient arc of time that sets one age after another. The transformation soon to come will celebrate the pivotal moment for any emerging planetary civilization and that is the moment it celebrates its global unity. From that stance we may rededicate our lives to a new world beyond the strife of nations.
WHO IS JIM CHANNON by Susanne Sims
Submitted by Jim on Wed, 2009-07-22 23:31.JIM CHANNON
Renaissance Man of the Twenty-First Century
By: Susanne Sims
© 2009
Often referred to as the “Fastest Magic Marker in the West,” Jim Channon is an out-of the-box strategic visionary and a high-speed graphic illustrator. His unique combination of imagination, wit and intellect has been likened to that of Walt Disney, Jim Henson and Bucky Fuller. Channon’s career of 50 years spans the military and corporate worlds where he has developed far-reaching ideas, beauty, and conceptual tools to make Spaceship Earth a better place for us all.
