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SLENTERS research
These
pages share information found
useful as a foundation for my teaching and coaching. Former students
tell me about the positive life changing experiences
resulting from my seminars and courses, sometimes years later. Although
I use
down to earth practical approaches which fit in the business
environment, they have a foundation based on some unique insights in
the nature of reality. These insights enable me to be highly
effective and innovative in the personal development field with
approaches fitting in the Western ways of thinking. Many of the
educational services listed on my SLENTERS
Action Learning website make good use of these foundations. The
purpose
of the story below is to share the insights in the foundations, since
they have great potentials almost everywhere.
Information on the SLENTERS-research website is a public donation and
you are free to copy and
use it. You will find no advertising on these pages and revenues from
book or
CD sales are donated to SOS Childrens Villages.
The
problem Educators in the field of personal development learn sooner or later that Western science is grossly inadequate in supporting their needs. This is illustrated by the fact that the overwhelming numbers of books published in the field of personal development have no support base in the Western scientific models. This has irritated me to no end since I was initially educated as an engineer in the information sciences, enjoying the comfort of rational thought. In my early years as engineer I benefited for instance from physics since it is an excellent support base for the innovation of material things. Subsequently
I moved into management and discovered that our
scientific foundations are no longer an asset when it comes to
understanding
ideas like people’s inner motivations. This is eloquently illustrated
by the
following quote from Abraham Maslow:
My full time involvement in education started 25 years ago, as European Training Manager for Hewlett-Packard. I became aware, through frequent examples, that the popularization of physics can be a barrier with respect to people’s abilities to discover their full potential. Because physics was holding the high ground in the domain of logical thought whereas it is often not compatible with contemporary and ancient insights in the mind-body relationships.
The opportunity My own training consultancy was formed
in
1992
and in spare moments I worked on the exploration of models for the
integration of mind, body, rational
thought
and science. Scientific reports emerged during
this period about
the self-organizing
nature of complex patterns. Hence I pondered the question: What kind of
universe would we have if all
interaction patterns evolve in the most complex way? Note however that this idea is not
compatible with Western scientific thought, which has its roots in a
long
European tradition going back to the days of Aristotle. It is not
surprising therefore that I found no existing philosophy of science
where
‘complexity’ is
taken as its starting assumption. Do we really need another theory? Starting
assumptions During 1995
and 1996, I closed my practice
in order to work
full-time on the development of a model based on three starting
assumptions:
The results were published in 1996 in my book ‘The Origins of Mind, Space and Time’. Do we need another
theory? Alternative 1 If you are happy with the things you
have
been told about
the nature of time, matter, gravity, energy and the big bang, you are
very
welcome to explore the SLENTERS Action Learning pages because these programs
will
work rather well for you. My advise then is to read no further on the
SLENTERS-research website since it will merely make you uncomfortable
with no
benefits
for you.
Alternative 2 What will you get? A model, published in 1996, with predicting
power. It
predicted the potential for signals faster than the speed of light and
the
potential to tap into the background energy of the universe. Both are
now
(2006) part of our established facts in science, with commercial
applications just around the corner. You will find some references in
the link
pages to
the relevant experiments and emerging applications. These ideas were
very controversial in 1996
and I
still have the correspondence with several highly respected scientists
to
prove
it. They did not pull any punches and my predictions were declared
wrong. Hence
science seems to be moving in the direction of the model. Indeed the
original book
version is still as valid today as it was in 1996.
Where is
this predicting power coming from? It requires a
carefully crafted design approach in order to arrive at an architecture
that is
built from only the three assumptions mentioned earlier. Hence theories
about
the nature of the universe involving words like time, matter, gravity,
energy
or the Big Bang are a waist of time because we really do not know what
these
things
are.
They are to be seen as merely derivative aspects of reality once the fundamental architecture is established from the three basic assumptions mentioned earlier. It is a good way to reduce your reading list since it cuts out a large portion of the publications. Easy to learn The model is easy to learn and it will
set
you off on a
lifetime of fascination. Learning times are in the order of hours and
days, not
weeks, months or years.
Integrator in science The
model is an excellent integrator for the
sciences,
because it relates rather elegantly with any science discipline I have
come
across, even when there are incompatibilities among these disciplines.
Excellent tool for mind-body research and applications The model is an excellent support tool for those involved in the mind-body relationships. It is highly practical for these types of applications and leads to new innovations quickly. Links
to the research pages There
are three complementary branches to
choose from
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