Showing papers on "Vision published in 2001"
TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the tension and solidarities between gay and bisexual men by looking at the representation of a dialogue between two men in the film Together Alone, and explore these ident...
Abstract: This article considers the tensions and solidarities between gay and bisexual men by looking at the representation of a dialogue between two men in the film Together Alone. By exploring these ident...
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01 Jan 2001
TL;DR: This chapter discusses the dynamics of teaching and learning in the classroom through the lens of language, as well as some of the techniques used to achieve this goal.
Abstract: Chapter 1. A CHANGING PERSPECTIVE ON LANGUAGE TEACHING Chapter 2. THE DYNAMICS OF TEACHING AND LEARNING Chapter 3. VISIONS OF LANGUAGE Chapter 4. VISIONS OF LEARNING Chapter 5. VISIONS OF THE CLASSROOM Chapter 6. METHODOLOGY AND CONTEXT Chapter 7. EXPLOITING LOCAL DYNAMICS Chapter 8. NEGOTIATION IN THE CLASSROOM Chapter 9. LIVING WITH COMPLEXITY
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a vision of the economy as a system of structured information flow, where firms are the institutional embodiment of the visions of individual entrepreneurs who believe that they have found a better way of allocating resources.
Abstract: This book offers a vision of the economy as a system of structured information flow. The structuring is effected by institutions, and in particular by firms, which specialize in processing the information needed to allocate resources properly. Firms are the institutional embodiment of the visions of individual entrepreneurs who believe that they have found a better way of allocating resources. Entrepreneurial vision is only a partial vision, however, in the sense that it does not encompass the entire economy, but only a subset of it. Free market economies encourage the exploitation of such partial visions because they encourage intermediation---it is by mediating between potential buyers and potential sellers that entrepreneurial visions are realized. A legal framework of private property, coupled with a moral framework to control the incidence of cheating, allows very sophisticated structures of information processing to emerge. These structures effect an elaborate division of labour in the dimensions of information and control. Each firm is a small component of the overall structure of information flow. This structure is highly flexible and evolves continuously as circumstances change. Efficient adaptation is encouraged by rewarding entrepreneurs who create new firms to be slotted into the existing structure. This vision has evolved over the last fifteen years, during which the author has researched a variety of topics connected with the theory of the firm----entrepreneurship, business culture, multinational enterprise, joint ventures and the like. In each of these areas he has identified the ways in which the orthodox theory of the firm needs to be modified in order to make it work properly. This book represents a major intellectual synthesis of that work.
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TL;DR: The authors examines rural restructuring from two perspectives: as an analytical approach that emphasizes the need for a holistic view of change processes, and as a statement on the character of change in the countryside.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined eleven radical innovation projects in nine large, mature organizations in a real-time field setting, augmented by interviews of four additional individuals who have repeated experiences in linking advanced technologies to markets.
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TL;DR: Competing visions for the future of the book in the digital environment are examined, with particular attention to questions about the social implications of controls over intellectual property, such as continuity of cultural memory.
Abstract: This paper examines competing visions for the future of the book in the digital environment, with particular attention to questions about the social implications of controls over intellectual property, such as continuity of cultural memory.
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TL;DR: In this paper, four different "visions of nature" emerged through dialogue with stakeholders, each emphasizing a different set of characteristics related to the landscape's perceived structure and function as well as its human values and uses: nature as designed landscape, where the concern was to restore the original 1938 naturalistic design for the site by a noted landscape architect; nature as habitat, where individuals sought to restore a hedgerow created during the 1950s that has since become a magnet for migrating birds; and nature as recreation, where a variety of interests sought to balance nature restoration goals with the preservation
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01 Jan 2001
TL;DR: The encyclopaedic tradition has been studied extensively in the history of the world as mentioned in this paper, including the Encyclopaedia Britannica and the Scottish Enlightenment, and it has been used to communicate arts and sciences.
Abstract: Introduction: the encyclopaedic tradition Part I: 1. Encyclopaedias in the Republic of Letters 2. Scientific dictionaries and 'compleat' knowledge 3. Containing knowledge Part II: 4. From commonplace books to encyclopaedias 5. 'The best book in the universe': Ephraim Chambers' Cyclopaedia 6. Communicating the arts and sciences 7. The Encyclopaedia Britannica and the Scottish Enlightenment Part III: 8. Copyright and public knowledge 9. Why dedicate an encyclopaedia to a king? 10. Editors and experts Conclusion.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a coarse-and fine-grained conceptualization of intergenerational innovation in the family enterprise is presented. But despite significant advances, a conspicuous gap remains in family business research concerning the practice of innovation in family firms.
Abstract: Despite significant advances, a conspicuous gap remains in family business research concerning the practice of innovation in family firms. After reviewing innovation and family business literature, we offer coarse- and fine-grained conceptualizations of intergenerational innovation in the family enterprise. Given the fine-grained distinctions inherent in our resulting definition of family firm innovation, we move on to an in-depth study of one family involved in the innovative activity of jazz improvisation. After offering our analysis of the core dynamics apparent in this family's interactions, we conclude this paper with a research agenda for future work on family firm innovation.
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TL;DR: In this article, a qualitative survey on images and values of nature and a qualitative study consisting of in-depth interviews on the relationship between childhood experiences in nature and adult visions of nature were conducted in the Netherlands.
Abstract: Summary Visions of nature are the subject of much philosophical and policy debate. The present paper focuses, however, on the visions of nature held by people not professionally involved in the issue, namely those of the general public. These visions constitute the democratic basis of environmental conservation and the frame for effective two-way communication between professionals and communities on nature protection and management. It appears that the general public in Europe and the USA has developed a strong general ‘biophilia’ (nature-friendliness). One indicator of this is that in quantitative research, 70‐90% of the population recognize the right of nature to exist even if not useful to humans in any way. In qualitative research settings, lay people reveal a remarkable richness and depth of views and experiences of nature. A quantitative survey on images and values of nature, and a qualitative study consisting of in-depth interviews on the relationship between childhood experiences in nature and adult visions of nature were conducted in the Netherlands. A factor analysis revealed a classification of types of nature, which included ‘wild nature’, ‘arcadian nature’, ‘penetrative nature’ and other such images that, with wild nature in the lead, were ascribed a smoothly decreasing degree of naturalness. Asked to rank the values and functions of nature, the top three were formed by the value for human health, the intrinsic value and the value for future generations. In the qualitative interviews, indications were found that more intense childhood experiences with nature could be associated with later ascription of a high degree of naturalness to wild nature, and less intense experiences with later ascription of a high degree of naturalness to arcadian nature. Many significant experiences took place beyond the reach of parental supervision. Findings such as these are of obvious relevance for environmental education and the design of ‘experiential nature’ in and around protected areas. Social science research concerning nature protection is often triggered by frictions between local people and protected area authorities. Such situations tend to be dominated by the airing of grievances, demands for economic compensation and so on, and these then also tend to dominate the research findings. Taking place away from these specific hot spots of conflict, social science research of the types discussed in this paper shows that many nonconflictual lines of communication are open for nature protection agencies.
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22 Jan 2001
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe a vision of rationality as a weed-killer in a world of irrationality and rainbows, and explain why there is such a thing as society.
Abstract: Part 1: Visions of Rationality 1. The Sources of Thought 2. Knowledge Considered as Weed-Killer 3. Rationality and Rainbows 4. The Origin of Disillusion 5. Atomistic Dreams The Quest for Permanence 6. Memes and Other Unusual Life-Forms Part 2: Mind and Body The End of Apartheid 7. Putting Our Selves Together Again 8. Living in the World 9. The Strange Persistence of Fatalism 10. Chess-Boards and Presidents of the Immortals 11. Doing Science on Purpose 12. One World but a Big One 13 A Plague on both their Houses 14. Being Scientific about Our Selves Part 3: In What Kind of World? 15. Widening Responsibilities 16. The Problem of Humbug 17. Individualism and the Concept of Gaia 18. Gods and Goddesses The Role of Wonder 19. Why There is Such a Thing as Society 20. Paradoxes of Sociobiology and Social Darwinism 21. Mythology, Rhetoric and Religion
TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that under certain conditions, it is both meaningful and efficacious to ascribe the competency for conscious and intentional behavior to organiza- tions.
Abstract: It is common for organizational theorists as well as business practitioners to speak of an organization's visions, strategies, goals and respon- sibilities. This implies that collectivities have compe- tencies normally attributed to individuals, i.e. to reflect, evaluate, learn and make considered choices. The article provides a series of reflections on the concept of consciousness in an organizational context. It is argued that, under certain conditions, it is both meaningful and efficacious to ascribe the competency for conscious and intentional behavior to organiza- tions. The arguments provided are based on empir- ical observations, common sense and deductive reasoning.
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01 Jan 2001TL;DR: In this paper, the past in the present: history-making in Banda is discussed, and the changing social fields of Banda villagers c.1725-1825 and c.1825-1925 are discussed.
Abstract: List of figures List of Plates List of tables Preface 1. Refracted visions of Africa's past 2. Envisioning Africa's lived past 3. The past in the present: history-making in Banda 4. The political-economic context 5. Local life in the context of the Niger trade c.1300-1700 6. The changing social fields of Banda villagers c.1725-1825 7. The changing social fields of Banda villagers c.1825-1925 8. Reflections: historical anthropology and the construction of Africa's past Notes References Index.
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01 Jan 2001TL;DR: Grimshaw's exploration of the role of vision within modern anthropology engages with current debates about ocularcentism, investigating the relationship between vision and knowledge in ethnographic enquiry as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Grimshaw's exploration of the role of vision within modern anthropology engages with current debates about ocularcentism, investigating the relationship between vision and knowledge in ethnographic enquiry. Using John Berger's notion of 'ways of seeing', the author argues that vision operates differently as a technique and theory of knowledge within the discipline. In the first part of the book she examines contrasting visions at work in the so-called classical British school, reassessing the legacy of Rivers, Malinowski and Radcliffe-Brown through the lens of early modern art and cinema. In the second part of the book, the changing relationship between vision and knowledge is explored through the anthropology of Jean Rouch, David and Judith MacDougall, and Melissa Llewelyn-Davies. Vision is foregrounded in the work of these contemporary ethnographers, focusing more general questions about technique and epistemology whether image-based media are used or not in ethnographic enquiry.
TL;DR: In this paper, a preanalytic vision of the world and how the world works and how we would like the world to be is proposed, together with systematic analysis appropriate to and consistent with the vision, and implementation appropriate to the vision.
Abstract: Practical problem solving in complex, humandominated ecosystems requires the integration of three elements: (1) active and ongoing envisioning of both how the world works and how we would like the world to be, (2) systematic analysis appropriate to and consistent with the vision, and (3) implementation appropriate to the vision. Scientists generally focus on only the second of these steps, but integrating all three is essential to both good science and effective management. Subjective values enter in the vision element, both in terms of the formation of broad social goals and in the creation of a preanalytic vision, which necessarily precedes
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22 Aug 2001
TL;DR: Giroux as discussed by the authors discusses the culture of politics in the age of Privatized Visions and argues that "something's missing": from Utopianism to a Politics of Educated Hope.
Abstract: Chapter 1 Introduction: Collective Hopes in the Age of Privatized Visions Chapter 2 Cultural Studies and the Culture of Politics: Beyond Polemics and Cynicism Chapter 3 Youth, Domestic Militarization, and the Politics of Zero Tolerance Chapter 4 Private Satisfactions and Public Disorders:Fight Club, Patriarchy, and the Politics of Masculine Violence Chapter 5 Pedagogy of the Depressed Chapter 6 "Something's Missing": From Utopianism to a Politics of Educated Hope Chapter 7 Afterword: Reading Giroux: Cultural Studies, Critical Pedagogy, and Radical Democracy Chapter 9 Notes Chapter 10 Index Chapter 11 Afterword: Reading Giroux: Cultural Studies, Critical Pedagogy, and Democracy
01 Jan 2001
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the imaginative geographies of the new millennium through a critical reading of cyberfiction, arguing that cyberfiction through its use of estrangement and defamiliarization, and its destabilization of the foundational assumptions of modernism, provides a cognitive space in which to contemplate future spatialities given the present postmodern condition.
Abstract: In this article, we examine the imaginative geographies of the new millennium through a critical reading of cyberfiction. This fiction, we argue, through its use of estrangement and defamiliarization, and its destabilization of the foundational assumptions of modernism, provides a cognitive space in which to contemplate future spatialities given the present postmodern condition - a cognitive space which is already providing an imaginal sphere in which present-day individual and institutional thought and practice are partially shaped. Using a detailed reading of 34 novels and four collections of short stories, we illustrate the utility of this cognitive space, and its appropriation, through an exploration of fictional visions of postmodern urbanism in the early twenty-first century. We assess the viability and utility of these visions by comparing them to academic analyses of the sociospatial processes shaping present-day urban form and spatiality.
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05 Jan 2001
TL;DR: The individual, the citizen and the consumer advertising knowledges advertising, texts and textual strategies as mentioned in this paper, advertising, time and privilege female visions - advertising, women and narrative visual epistemologies and new consumer rights
Abstract: The individual, the citizen and the consumer advertising knowledges advertising, texts and textual strategies branding vision - advertising, time and privilege female visions - advertising, women and narrative visual epistemologies and new consumer rights
TL;DR: This paper explored how teachers' visions of ideal classroom practice can be used to understand the development of teachers' work and their careers, and suggested that these visions can help explain what assumptions teachers make; what they learn about those assumptions; why and how they may choose to change their practice; and even whether or not they elect to remain in the profession.
Abstract: This paper explores how the concept of ``teachers' vision'' – or, teachers' images of ideal classroom practice – may be used to help us better understand the development of teachers' work and their careers. Drawing upon data from surveys and interviews with high school teachers, the author describes four different types of visions. By examining differences in the focus, range and distance of those visions, she shows how vision can serve as a guide for directing practice as well as a means of measuring how far teachers may be from their ideals. In the process, she suggests that teachers' visions can help explain what assumptions teachers make; what they learn about those assumptions; why and how they may choose to change their practice; and even whether or not they elect to remain in the profession. In conclusion, the paper considers how vision might function as a powerful tool for helping teachers surface and interrogate their beliefs as well as to imagine and elaborate pathways to promising new practices.
TL;DR: For several polynuclear urban areas (Randstad, Ruhr, Flemish diamond), loose visions, images and planning discourses have been conceived as mentioned in this paper. But no or very few of them have been implemented.
Abstract: For several polynuclear urban areas (Randstad, Ruhr, Flemish Diamond), (loose) visions, images and planning discourses have been conceived. Nevertheless, one has to conclude that no or very few of ...
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01 Jan 2001
TL;DR: The Way of the Artist as mentioned in this paper is one of the most well-known ways to learn from artists and to explore the way of the artist in the modern world, as well as to make sense of one's self.
Abstract: Preface Introduction 1. Learning from Artists 2. Driven to Explore 3. Making Sense of Oneself 4. Art as Spiritual Practice 5. The Circle of Life 6. Body and Spirit 7. The One Earth 8. Millennial Visions 9. The Way of the Artist Appendix Notes Index
TL;DR: In this article, Peter Ludlow extended the approach he used so successfully in High Noon on the Electronic Frontier, offering a collection of writings that reflect the eclectic nature of the online world, as well as its tremendous energy and creativity.
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In Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias, Peter Ludlow extends the approach he used so successfully in High Noon on the Electronic Frontier, offering a collection of writings that reflect the eclectic nature of the online world, as well as its tremendous energy and creativity. This time the subject is the emergence of governance structures within online communities and the visions of political sovereignty shaping some of those communities. Ludlow views virtual communities as laboratories for conducting experiments in the construction of new societies and governance structures. While many online experiments will fail, Ludlow argues that given the synergy of the online world, new and superior governance structures may emerge. Indeed, utopian visions are not out of place, provided that we understand the new utopias to be fleeting localized "islands in the Net" and not permanent institutions.
The book is organized in five sections. The first section considers the sovereignty of the Internet. The second section asks how widespread access to resources such as Pretty Good Privacy and anonymous remailers allows the possibility of "Crypto Anarchy" -- essentially carving out space for activities that lie outside the purview of nation-states and other traditional powers. The third section shows how the growth of e-commerce is raising questions of legal jurisdiction and taxation for which the geographic boundaries of nationstates are obsolete. The fourth section looks at specific experimental governance structures evolved by online communities. The fifth section considers utopian and anti-utopian visions for cyberspace.
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31 Dec 2001
TL;DR: The authors explored the ways in which images of the poor appeared and the policy debates of the retrenchment era, recounting the ways that images of poor people appeared in the media.
Abstract: To understand the welfare policy debates of the last half of the 20th century, the various images of poor people that were present must be considered. This work explores these images and the policy debates of the retrenchment era, recounting the ways in which images of the poor appeared.
TL;DR: This article used symbolic convergence theory to analyze 2,000 political cartoons on the investigation, impeachment, and trial of the president and showed that multiple, independent, rhetors can create a rhetorical vision.
Abstract: –We used Symbolic Convergence Theory to analyze 2,000 political cartoons on the investigation, impeachment, and trial of the president. The cartoonists' vision incorporates components from Starr's and Clinton's visions: “Our public figures (Clinton, Starr, Congress, the news media) are engaged in a tawdry burlesque drama.” The number of levels in a rhetorical vision depends on the vision's complexity. We show that multiple, independent, rhetors can create a rhetorical vision. These messages, highly visual and generally critical, freely use metaphor and allusions, allowing multiple interpretations and rendering the fantasy themes in these dramas accessible to readers with widely divergent attitudes. Despite their fictionality, these messages concern important issues and make moral judgments on these public figures.
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12 Apr 2001
TL;DR: Caroline Rody's The Daughter's Return as mentioned in this paper offers a close analysis of an emerging genre in African-American and Caribbean fiction: the novels of black women writers who have returned to their ancestral pasts.
Abstract: Caroline Rody's The Daughter's Return offers a close analysis of an emerging genre in African-American and Caribbean fiction: the novels of black women writers who have returned to their ancestral pasts. In novels like Toni Morrison's Beloved, Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea, and Maryse Conde's I, Tituba, 'magical' black daughters return to sites of trauma through visions, dreams, and memories. Rody reads these texts as allegorical expressions of the desire of writers newly emerging tinto cultural authority to reclaim their difficult inheritance, and finds a counter plot of heroines' encounters with women of other racial and ethnic groups running through these works.
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18 May 2001
TL;DR: Mystics of the Christian Tradition as mentioned in this paper examines the mystical experiences that have determined the history of Christianity over two thousand years, and reveals the often sexual nature of these encounters with the divine.
Abstract: From divine visions to self-tortures, some strange mystical experiences have shaped the Christian tradition as we know it. Full of colourful detail, Mystics of the Christian Tradition examines the mystical experiences that have determined the history of Christianity over two thousand years, and reveals the often sexual nature of these encounters with the divine. In this fascinating account, Fanning reveals how God's direct revelation to St Francis of Assisi led to his living with lepers and kissing their sores, and describes the mystical life of Margery Kempe who 'took weeping to new decibel levels'. Through presenting the lives of almost a hundred mystics, this broad survey invites us to consider what it means to be a mystic and to explore how people such as Joan of Arc had their lives determined by divine visions. Mystics of the Christian Tradition is a comprehensive guide to discovering what mysticism means and who the mystics of the Christian tradition actually were.
01 Jan 2001
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the role of interpretation, ritual, and gender in the development of the human dream experience, and the relationship between interpretation, meaning and gender.
Abstract: Introduction Contemplating Freud's Navel PART I: TRADITIONS Buddhist Dream Experience: The Role of Interpretation, Ritual, and Gender S.Young Dreams and Nightmares in Ancient Egypt K.Szpakowska Dreams in the Hebrew Bible M.Tanner Sending a Voice, Seeking a Place: Visionary Dreams Among Native Women of the Plains L.Irwin Dreams in American Personal Religious Accounts: 1600-1980 J.Alexander Dreams of Purposes: An Analysis of Dream Narratives in an Independent African Church S.Charsley The Role of Dreams in Religious Enculturation Among the Asabano of Papua New Guinea R.I.Lohmann PART II: INDIVIDUALS Penelope as Dreamer The Perils of Interpretation K.Bulkeley Kagwahiv Mourning: Dreams of a Bereaved Father W.Kracke Dreams as 'Good to Think': Visionary Experiences in the Life of an Indian Sufi M.Hermansen Wish, Conflict, and Awareness: Freud and the Problem of the 'Dream Book' B.Cohler The Mystical Dreams of Ramakrishna J.Kripal Dreams of a Jungian Therapist J.White-Lewis 'If it Were My Dream ': Experiences in Group Dreamsharing J.Taylor PART III: METHODS Western Dreams About Eastern Dreams W.Doniger The New Anthropology of Dreaming B.Tedlock Beyond Freud and Jung: A View from Cognitive Psychology G .W.Domhoff A Content Analysis of Mehinaku Dreams T.Gregor Modernity and Dream Content: A Ugandan Example K.E.Johnson How Metaphor Structures Dreams: The Theory of Conceptual Metaphor Applied to Dream Analysis G.Lakoff The Dream Navel: Networks of Meaning and the Undermining of Foundations J.DiCenso Turning Aside at the Navel of the Dream: The End(s) of Interpretation D.Jonte-Pace Metacognition in Dreaming and Waking T.Kahan Conclusion: Responding to a Skeptic: A Conversation with Frederick Crews
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01 Jan 2001
TL;DR: Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness Illustrations by Jean Houston as mentioned in this paper, is a new evolutionary cosmology, inspired by the idea of a higher-dimensional attractor drawing the evolutionary process toward itself.
Abstract: Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness Illustrations Acknowledgments Foreword by Jean Houston Preface Chapter 1: Creativity and the Imagination The new evolutionary cosmology. The regularities of nature as evolving habits. The basis of cosmic creativity. The cosmic imagination as a higher-dimensional attractor drawing the evolutionary process toward itself. The Omega Point. Imagination welling up from the womb of chaos. Psychedelic experience and the mind of Gaia. Gaian dreams and human history. Dark matter as the cosmic unconscious. Chapter 2: Creativity and Chaos The chaos revolution. Chaotic attractors as eternal mathematical realities. Indeterminism in nature. Chaos and the evolution of order. Form in the cooling process. The organizing fields of nature as related to mathematics and the cosmic imagination. Mathematical models. Attractors, attraction, and motivation. The freezing of information in crystals and in written language. The primacy of spoken language and abstraction. Chapter 3: Chaos and the Imagination Chaos in Greek mythology. The myth of the conquest of chaos. Fear of chaos and the suppression of the feminine. The partnership society and the rise of patriarchy. Seasonal festivals of the repression of chaos, and the creation of the unconscious. The inhibition of creativity and its relation to global problems. The Eleusinian mysteries. Creativity and Christology. Plans for the recovery of chaos and the imagination. The significance of the chaos revolution. Chapter 4: The World Soul and the Mushroom Randomness in the evolutionary process. The limited nature of models. The computer and chaos revolutions. Coevolution of mathematics and the material world. The mathematical landscape. Sensory qualities in the cosmic imagination. The similarities of souls and fields. The primal unified field and the fields of nature. Rebirth of the world soul. Interplanetary transfer of the human psyche via the psychedelic experience and the spores of magic mushrooms. Chapter 5: Light and Vision Physical light and the light of consciousness. Light and vision. The location of visual images. Mind extending from the eyes.The sense of being stared at: a new kind of field or the electromagnetic field? Hierarchy of fields in nature. Coupling between electromagnetic and mental fields. Physical light and self-luminous visions. Tryptamine hallucinogens. The world soul. Fields as the medium of divine omniscience. Gaian mind and the light of the sun. Chapter 6: Entities Discarnate intelligences and nonhuman entities: creatures within the human mind or truly Other? Entities and shamans. The use of language by entities. Angelic communication in the birth of modern science. The dream dimension and entities. The effect of science and humanism on entities. Nature magically self-reflecting and aware. Chapter 7: The Unconscious The three great bifurcations. Creation of the unconscious, the origin of evil, and the rejection of chaos. Escape from evil by the resurrection of chaos. The suppression of psychedelics, the patriarchy, and the rise of booze. Partnership and dominator drugs the addiction to addictions. Habits and the formation of the unconscious. Holidays and the reinforcement of awareness. Prayer, magic, and astrology for enlightenment. Chapter 8: The Resacralization of the World Ralph's religious background. The sacred in India. Rediscovering the sacred in the West. The revival of ritual and the resacralization of music. Feminism and the archaic revival. Gothic cathedrals and animistic Christianity. The green movement, saving the Earth, the greening of God. Psychedelic churches. The resacralizing of science. Chapter 9: Education in the New World Order Education as initiation. The dominance of rationalism and humanism. Rites of passage. Summer camps. Testing and accreditation. Institutions and administrations. Workshops as a model for a new pluralistic and decentralized system of education. Religious initiations. Reform of existing professions. A possible pilot project. Chapter 10: The Apocalypse The apocalyptic tradition: a mythic model motivating religious history or an intuition of the ending of history or time? Modern millenarianism and scientific versions of the apocalypse. The possible end in 2012. The self-fulfilling quality of apocalyptic prophecy. The speeding up of history and the inevitability of planetary metamorphosis. Death and transformation on a cosmic scale. Intensifying conflict and the power of faith. Glossary Bibliography About the Authors
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that vision leadership is much more than simply articulating the vision, but few leaders give enough attention to the implementation of their vision, and that vision leaders and their visions are judged by how well they have mobilized commitment, by the extent to which new ways of working have become routinized, and by how the overall culture, including their own behavior, supports and reinforces their vision.
Abstract: We all know that vision leadership is much more than simply articulating the vision. But few leaders give enough attention to implementation. Leaders and their visions are judged by how well they have mobilized commitment, by the extent to which new ways of working have become routinized and by how well the overall culture, including their own behavior, supports and reinforces their vision.