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?

I am a polynatural Intelligence !!!! Some use the term omnologist (being interested in everything in particular says Neal Rogin) or comprehensivist! It is the bane of my existence that I insist on renaming everything. Unfortunately as one mentor Bucky Fuller discovered … many things now are simply not adequately described to fit within the best thinking I can imagine for myself or others. There are new ways to understand new phenomena and they need thoughtful new names.
They called Bucky a polymath, for a person who studied many “patterns” and I do think that is more accurate for him. In my case I am a person who accesses multiple realities at all times and in all ways. It assists me in being agile, versatile, and able to shift gears rapidly in new situations. I think it actually contributes to my ability to design the reality and being I want in order to fit the situation at hand.
For me “situational awareness” comes first as a type of intelligence and then my more normal calculated response comes later but with the best possible idea of what’s possible. It is I suppose a type of coping strategy. It certainly seems helpful in changing times. This think piece may help me and hopefully you better translate the details of such an approach to being the rennaisance kind of man I aspire to.
Sourcing the creative world
Its one thing to have a creative outlet like writing or painting or music. It is entirely another thing to have a creative worldview, a creative business, or an entire creative gardenscape all together. I am sure there are more things to understand about this mega creative lifestyle than I can capture in a short piece … but one has to begin somewhere. This is my process:
Morning dreaming, The first thing I am sure of is that my creative world has a beginning everyday early in the morning that often begins with a short spree of lucid dreaming, then some healthy “what if” musing followed by some coffee and a chance to write or draw the key ideas revealed during that morning time.
Constant scanning I have a habit of resourcing my mind with lots of predictably renaissance materials. I watch Ted, I scan specific magazines and websites, I network with edgy people, and I also scan my garden for new volunteer plants and wildlife.
Wild writing , drawing, and storywork Occasionally I will I will source the muse by just getting out a recording device and mindlessly begin making sketches, phrases, or mumbling a new story to music. In the garden it is wildcrafting where I take green waste, clippings, or old wood and craft some impromptu garden feature.
I cook from scratch I always grab whatever is fresh or in site to craft a meal. I am fond of using only one pan or Wok. The creation includes things cut in the right way to regulate the cooking time, and of course create a colorful collections of shapes and designs. I value texture, sound, slide, and color almost before taste. I am excited to find entirely new combinations and have been known to make eggnog soup and gummi bear salads.
I dress with an eye to new combinations My dress pallet is all about producing “a look”. I rarely focus on appropriate or expected attire. I also like a classic look. I am very at home dressing like a king. My jewelry is closer to a woman’s approach than a mans. I mix asian with latin and I mix military with tribal …its all about the rake. I have a closet full of costumes made with fine material.
I appear as many characters Within any given day a half dozen characters will appear … repleat with voices and gestures to match. Often they are comedic. There are a dozen hats on the rack and a collection of masks all over the walls. I play music from a dozen countries as I pursue my day. They are mixed to tempo not star power.
I scat to music that has holes in it I am accustomed to playing dramatic music with movie soundtrack style themes. I imagine the scene evoked by the music then I choose a voice and launch. I love the 960 radio stations on the internet. I also have music designed for nonsense singing where I make up the words or just scatting language as I go. While driving I will launch into and over any radio piece that inspires me. At moments I cry when I surprise my self with a beautiful phrase.
I collect a wide range of doodads This is the part that often signals total distress in the people I might be co-habitating with. As an artist who most often assembles things in arrangements for the tables, the walls, the shelves, and the sides of buildings, I occasionally look like the mindless packrat who doesn’t know when to throw things away. Truth is I almost always find an assemblage that can house the doodads as my kids call them. This ranges from jewelry to constructed sculpture and totem poles. My living areas almost always look like antique shops.
I treat each room and each façade differently Ever see a house where every side has a different look? And then every room has a theme from a different movie? Mind you they are never seen as very disjointed since each is feathered into the next with shrubbery or trees or house plants etc. The roadway to my house has ten pieces of sculture that signal the history of the place, its use, and the style of the family lodged here.
I am poly-technic, poly-artistic, poly-phrenic, and pretty much a poly-morphic mind. This is why I am creative. I settled on poly-natural to encompass all that variety. Everything I do and surround myself invites another creative act. It ain’t a gift so much as it is a lifestyle.
LAB TIME
I spend a couple of afternoons doing what I call lab time. It is another way for me to acquire new ways to experience the world and then play into it. This requires a private space, sometimes visual stimulation, music, and exercises that open me up. I find myself involved in WILDSENSINGS. This is musing in radical ways. Allowing myself to be taken on a ride in my daydreams or playing off a dream I have had recently in my sleep. The act of value here is noticing what’s different or works in a new combination!
I may also take some ideas I have been focusing on and after creating them as a paradigm I may flip them about mentally to make further lateral or radical CONCEPTUAL PARADIGM SHIFTS. The trick here is to make good mental or graphic notes or they may slip away again into the subconscious.
Often I will begin moving randomly but fully until I contact resistance somewhere in the body and then begin to playfully stretch and then relax the area till I feel the ENERGY HEALING move in to sate the strain.
When I am lucky and in the tiniest of moments I can capture REMOTE SENSINGS or knowings sometimes called claire cogniscence These notions often will springboard into an entire mindset that is distinctly oblique from the world I am familiar with. Often I then lose them completely. I tell myself they are in my subconscious and expect they will revisit when appropriate. At the minimum I am exercising other realities. That for me is in itself an act of creative courage. Some people would say that that could be a version of insanity …heh heh … so what about life as we know it that is so very sane?
Occasionally I will imagine the interior of my body and nearby auric fields. I REWORK MY ENERGY CONNECTIONS by imagining them as tubes of light or shafts of energy that move through me. This not greys anatomy at work here but other channeled light paths that seem to me more like an energetic anatomy that operates at a spiritual and emotional level. I have an intuitive consultant who helps with this since she can see said pathways.
Sometimes in a more conscious state I will review and upgrade the positive elements of my most desired future states. When I am sharp, I will remember to EXPECT A MIRACLE in these areas and accept that miracle with a prayer.
More and more I sense entities close by. No physical shapes appear but there is a faint knowing I use to NOTICE NUMINOUS ASSISTANCE.
I FANTASIZE as a way of seeing and feeling more luscious situations and sensations as I imagine I can grow my own state of heaven on earth.
Then I get goofy. I exercise in MOVEMENT PLAY including silly sounds and other radical gestures to let more of the less natural neural connections get some room to grow.
In the end I ask myself what else I am doing to become more awake. We know that the largest category of knowledge is the world that we don’t know that we don’t know. So again to improve my situational awareness I ask if there is a protomythical other being I might entrain. All this again is to increase my SITUATIONAL AWARENESS and increase the RANGE OF CREATIVE RESPONSES I might have.
Warning … if you feel you have gotten something from this approach so far….stop and tackle the next part if when you feel another opening.

PROTONAUTICS
THE STUDY OF AQUIRED GENIUS
Its time to recommend an important piece of research. We shall begin this at Arcturus and this is a draft of the approach. I want to unpack the specific ways advanced thinkers and life force players like Leonardo, Bucky Fuller, and a host of improv -masters, singer-dancers, artists, and athletes have acquired their genius. These are “the be all you can be “ exemplars of our time. I would hope then to show how we take such intelligence, articulated performance, and awareness to the farthest reaches of their potential.
So, what are the new kinds of genius we might want to include? Let me instantly recognize that humorists, athletes, and entertainers are fair game to also study here because they have demonstrated a polymorphic or polynatural ability to present their skills at high speed and include very integrated ways to bundle their genius into articulated acts of body mind integration. We want high performance humans here not just more “knowledgeable” humans. College professors can be incredibly narrow role models for human development since many of them are merely data repositories and poor life models. The models for sensing, knowing, being and then doing all in one sparkling integral human performance package are the choices I choose to define and draw from.
To me, having a polynatural bias, there is more. Its time to look at what’s behind the capacity to deliver solutions not just have them, Then we must go deeper into these polyarchytypical genius beings and look at their primary capacity builders or how they acquired their genius. Simply put… genius … first, has goal driven components and second, a continuous and evolving process improvement function at the very least. It … genius … ideally should become a capacity building skill set that everyone can acquire if they so desire. This, to me , is higher education.
The initial white paper attempt won’t aim for too much order or progression rather just sparks of intuitive and reflective awareness. I am assembling the field of inquiry. I will organize simply under the general frame of reference of:
INPUT > PROCESSING > OUTPUT > PERFORMANCE.

INPUT
FULL SPECTRUM AWARENESS In the beginning there is noticing what the universe outside has to offer. The least taught skill set in modern schools is how to consciously acquire the qualities of life that exist around us. Because when and if we can notice them and their inherent value we can pursue the object of civilized design which is to place these qualities in membranes of pleasure and function around our daily life.
HERE OBSERVATION, LISTENING, FEELING, AND SENSING ARE PRIMARY SKILLS.
The average humans capacity here is limited to the near non-existent treatment such skills get in the school system. Talking heads don’t get it. This also implies that the most informed people live or study inside a full-spectrum environment positioned about them to give them constant access to what is. Studying nature in a classroom is obviously like walking uphill backwards ….way off the subject at hand.
ESSENSUAL AWARENESS Nothing is more persuasive as a service to humanity as the way some people can coalesce elements that serve the senses. Think of a modern bed for example. The kinesthetic and tactile ingredients assembled beneath and above the sleeping body are of supreme value in enjoying at least a third of our life experience. Where do you place yourself most of the day? Is it in the midst of a paradise like environment? Really? Why not?
LIFEFORCE LIVING The value of sensing accurately the life force inside us is that we can then bring together elements that empower our experiential awareness on a moment to moment basis. This means we can have and feel life to the maximum. This is how we nourish and develop our state of being. Again the academic world is lost in this department.
This skillset includes:
INTEGRAL AWARENESS, ENERGY AWARENESS, EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE, ESSENSUAL FEELING INSIDE AND OUT, AND INTUITIVE INSIGHT.
This is mastering our state of being so we can continue to chose more and more the supporting surroundings and partners we can grow with.

PROCESSING

LINGUISTIC AGILITY The grandest tyranny I see in limited thinking is the dependence on words as the only real language or the meta language we use to describe all other forms of inquiry. The English language for example has very weak verbs when compared to others and that is where thinking happens. When processing we need to include gesture, tone, stance, color, symbols, dance, music etc as “real languages” and therefore won’t be bound to the limits of ideas that already have words or phrases attached to them but the actual shape,energy, and dynamic progression they flow in. This literal tyranny is also followed by association with like ideas which can freeze into a hardening of the categories. Interdisciplinary education is an oxymoron. The ship is listing too much.
CREATIVE ASSEMBLY is the single most important organizing tool I see in all the grand design across all categories and I see that as a premier quality of the next world genius or polynatural or polymath. Math comes from the greek for patterns. Every event in the Galaxy can be recognized by its pattern language. The secret for being up on everything is therefore to recognize its pattern and process dynamic. In most cases visual representation of symbols and 3D architectural conventions are the most fluid way to capture new territory for study, refinement, and action. If you cannot appreciate the whole system as a simple map before you then the chances of integrated design solutions are rough choices at best.
VISUAL LANGUAGE AND DESIGN SCIENCE seem to be one of the most versatile organizing combinations for the acquisition of new ideas and concepts. It seems to me to provide for the largest container in which to design future events or built habitats for example. In the end a civilization is survived by its built playing field. The association of mixed phenomena can be well handled mentally by visual language and then that language illustrated fir others serves as the best communications tool I have found. Disney called it Imagineering. Some would call it mapping.
COMPRESSENCE another grand function of the intellect is the way a polymath can reduce many grand elements into their quintescent value. E=mc2 is an example where symbolic language can serve nicely. At the systems level you need a kind of shorthand to subsume other equally complex sets of information. Operations research has a basic approach with its diagrammatic language PERT. Buy it is still episodic and mostly discrete with a poor chance to mix elements proportionally.

OUTPUT
CONSCIOUS EXPRESSION In the simplest way we should master the understanding of how we appear and effect others with our presence. That includes the many forms of communication we chose and the non-verbal language we exhibit or imply. Why are we so shocked when we see ourselves or listen to ourselves on a videotape? Imagine if that taping happened during intimate discussions? Do we have an opportunity to see those behaviors early enough to recalibrate them? The intent here is congruence or to have the meaning of what we are communicating be understood in the same way it was intended to be understood. Mean what you say and say what you mean.
FULL SPECTRUM EXPRESSION Here I want to convey that the genius should not get stuck at the thinking level. The genius should have and use a wide selection of communication modes. Here its important to watch the improv geniuses in our world. They can go from talking to joking, to an accent, to a new attitudinal behavior, to a little physical comedy, into a song, then add a drawing of the idea to the mix. Athletes combine running, dodging, jumping, spinning, faking , and then shooting all in quick succession. The decathlon has hundreds of thousands of postural moments that must be assembled in quick succession to succeed. People who write long carefully examined papers on isolated events may qualify as the least likely to succeed in the genius department. They certainly are not sought out for leadership positions. A great quarterback can make a decision a second.
Enuf ….. this is a starter piece to attract players or people who can recommend great resource works. Thanks for reading this far.
A rich polynatural intelligence is my capacity builder of choice for the 21st century!!!