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Integral Mindfulness, Wisdom Society, and Collective Sentience

Posted on February 15, 2015 by George Pór

Integral Mindfulness, Wisdom Society, and Collective Sentience: an exploration into the next stage of human consciousness Abstracts of my paper for the Mindfulness & Compassion conference in San Francisco, 3-7 June This contribution to the “Mindfulness & Compassion” conference is focused … Continue reading →

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From Integral Mindfulness to Collective Intelligence to Collective Sentience

Posted on January 24, 2015 by George Pór

From Integral Mindfulness to Collective Intelligence to Collective Sentience: signposts to the later stages of our evolutionary journey  by George Pór   Abstracts This essay is a wide-ranging exploration into the conditions for realizing the next-level potential of human and … Continue reading →

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2014 in review

Posted on December 30, 2014 by George Pór

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 11,000 times in 2014. If it were a … Continue reading →

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The comparative advantages of online dialogue

Posted on December 14, 2014 by George Pór

I wrote up the following points originally, in an online conversation on Facebook, related to Frederic Laloux‘ upcoming lecture on “How to Become a Soulful Organisation“: • We can pause for a moment of contemplating ( ) before answering to what has just been written, thus … Continue reading →

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2015 Collective Intelligence Conference

Posted on October 15, 2014 by George Pór

The annual interdisciplinary conference that brings together researchers from the academy, businesses, non profits, governments and the world at large to share insights and ideas from a variety of fields relevant to understanding and designing collective intelligence in its many … Continue reading →

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Europe’s big chance

Posted on October 12, 2014 by George Pór

Some of you read the transcript of my keynote address at 57th conference of the International Society for Systems Sciences, last year, on Augmenting the Collective Intelligence of the Ecosystem of Systems Communities. The title of the conference was “Curating the Conditions for … Continue reading →

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A note about the personal and transpersonal meaning of increased technical connectivity

Posted on April 21, 2014 by George Pór

I like to watch YouTube vids while working out on my exercise bike. Since YouTube’s algorithms are getting as good at suggesting vids for me as Amazon does with books, usually I graze its recommendations page before jumping on my bike. … Continue reading →

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Somewhere, on our way to humankind’s awakening…

Posted on April 17, 2014 by George Pór

Somewhere, on our way to humankind’s awakening to its collective wisdom, global heart, and sentience… self-organizing communities of co-creation and practice will master the combination of swarm intelligence ( see also starlings as teachers ) with wildfire learning (see chapter 7 in my Federated Framework for … Continue reading →

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Dysfunctional Collective Intelligence

Posted on February 12, 2014 by George Pór

Below is an excerpt from How to Create a Group Mind | 100 Trillion Connections, by Duncan Work. “A dysfunctional society, or group mind, is full of emotion-laden biases, fears, animosity, internal hostilities, greed, bitter or violent competitions (winner-take-all), or … Continue reading →

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Participatory wisdom and sustainability

Posted on June 18, 2013 by George Pór

See on Scoop.it – The Wisdom Frontier George Por‘s insight: In this blog Tom offers a useful checklist for those wanting to create wiser communal and social institutions and systems. See on http://www.tomatleeblog.com

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