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Questions for Connection
Are questions a key to create deeper listening and comprehension?
Are questions a key to create clearer articulation and expression?
Are questions a key to create stronger communion and connection?
Are questions a key to recreate our conversational and relational reality?
May these questions open up new paths to consider, new paths to travel, new ways to live, and new ways to learn.
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Critical Questioning
What assumptions does a question assume?
What questions did we NOT ask?
Why is the question important?
What might the answers allow us to do?
Critical Thinking
What is critical thinking? What is NOT critical thinking?
What is critical? What is NOT critical?
What is thinking? What is NOT thinking?
How did we think critically about critical thinking?
Critical Feeling
What about critical feeling instead of, or in addition to critical thinking? How about critical being?
How about creative being?
How about courageous being?
How about compassionate being? Compassionate feeling? Compassionate thinking?
Critical Comprehension
How do we know we're seeing, listening, and observing accurately?
How do we know we're comprehending clearly?
How do we know we're under or oversimplifying?
How do we know we're under or overcomplicating?
Decolonizing Decolonization
How do we revitalize our hearts, minds, and movements?
How do we revitalize our lives, lifestyles, and livelihoods?
How do we revitalize our philosophy, our politics, and our practices?
How do we revitalize our thinking, feeling, and being?
AI
Have you considered Axiological Intelligence?
... Awakened Imagination?
... Authentic Intuition?
... A+Original Intention?
Food Sovereignty
Why is food sovereignty freedom?
How do we maintain food sovereignty?
How do we maintain food autonomy?
How do we maintain food affluence?
How do we maintain food security?
Food Slavery
Why was food slavery slavery?
How did we decimate food slavery?
How did we decimate food dependency?
How did we decimate food poverty?
How did we decimate food insecurity?
IDea Complex
What is an idea complex?
What is an idea?
What is an ideal?
What is an identity?
What is an ideology?
What or Who is the ID at the center?
WHO?
Who is ID?
Who am I?
Who are you?
Who are we?
BE
At the center of your BEing, who do you BE?
At the center of your BEliefs, who do you BE?
At the center of your BElonging, who do you BE?
At the center of your BEhaviors, who do you BE?
Recognition!
How did we replace cognitive dissonance with cognitive resonance?
How did we replace cognitive bias with cognitive fairness?
How did we replace cognitive inertia with cognitive momentum?
How did we replace cognitive apathy with cognitive vibrancy?
How did we replace cognitive atrophy with cognitive capacity?
How did we replace cognitive potential with cognitive potency?
Learning Teaching
What is the learning+teaching process? How is it kept active?
What is the UNlearning+teaching process? How is it sped up?
What is the RElearning+teaching process? How is it deepened?
Teaching Learning
What is the teaching+learning process? How is it kept active?
What is the UNteaching+learning process? How is it sped up?
What is the REteaching+learning process? How is it deepened?
Informing Biases
What informs the cognitive biases that activate your cognitive dissonance?
What are your primacy biases? What did you learn first or earliest?
What are your authoritative biases? What did the 'authorities' tell you?
What are your social biases? What did you claim to 'believe' to belong?
What are your redundancy biases? What are you told repeatedly?
What are your implicit biases? What do you believe that you don't know you believe? How do you make your implicit biases explicit?
ReMapping Mental Maps
How did we recreate our minds and mindsets?
How did we recreate our ideas and idea complexes?
How did we recreate our beliefs and belief systems?
How did we recreate our thoughts and thought processes?
…our feelings and feeling processes?
…our living and living processes?
…our being and being processes?
Doubting Democracy
What if Democracy was a bad idea?
What if Civilization was a bad idea?
What if Humanity was a bad idea?
What if Human Rights was a bad idea?
What ordeals birthed these ideals?
What if the ideals perpetuate the ordeals?
Biocratic Beginnings
What if Biocracy is a ecological fact?
What if Gaiafication is a biological fact?
What if Vitality is a Gaialogical fact?
What if Vital Will is a living fact?
What fiction buried these facts?
What if these facts were embedded in our fiction?
Free Thinker
What is freedom? What is NOT freedom?
What is peace? What is balance?
How did we create world freedom and peace?
Leaving a "Better" World
What was the cause of the world’s ills?
What was the cause of all the injustice and inequity?
Emotional and spiritual turmoil?
Domination, colonization, and enslavement?
Mental and environmental decline?
Creating a Weller World
What caused the world’s wells?
What caused the balance and equity?
Emotional and spiritual tranquility?
Determination, vitalization, and enfreement?
Mental and environmental well being?
RECreation
How did we avoid catastrophic collapse?
How did we recreate ecological intact?
How did we complete controlled deconstruction, controlled demolition, a gradual controlled collapse?
How did we create a vital reconstruction, a vital recreation, a global vital replant?
Is It Just All In Your Head?
Where do societal systems fundamentally exist?
Where do governments fundamentally exist?
Where do societies fundamentally exist?
Where does culture fundamentally exist?
WELLTH Mindsets
What is wellth?
What is success?
What is prosperity?
What is abundance?
Sex BOTS
How do we recreate a Ballad Of The Sexes?
How do we recreate a Ballet Of The Sexes?
How do we recreate a Balance Of The Sexes?
How do we recreate a Beauty Of The Sexes?
Principles of Psychodynamics
If possible, how can the principles of Psychodynamics be simplified?
How is our sociology intertwined with our psychology?
How are our cultural expressions intertwined with our psychology?
Principles of Sociodynamics
If possible, how can the principles of Sociodynamics be simplified?
How is our psychology intertwined with our sociology?
How are our cultural expressions intertwined with our sociology?
Principles of Cultural Evolution
If possible, how can the principles of Cultural Evolution be simplified?
How is our sociology intertwined with our cultural expressions?
How is our psychology intertwined with our cultural expressions?
Biocracy NOW
What are the principles of Biocracy?
How does Biocracy recognize Ecodynamic Laws?
How does Biocracy recognize food sovereignty?
How does Biocracy represent A Booklet of ReGenIsis?
Which IDs represent, reenact, and reembody Biocratic being?
Ecodynamic Laws of Life
If possible, how can the laws of ecodynamics be simplified?
How does food sovereignty keep the ecodynamics laws in fluid motion?
How does food slavery disrupt ecodynamic flow?
How is the will of life central to fluid ecodynamic motion?
Which IDs represent, reenact, and reembody ecodynamic law?
A Booklet of ReGenIsis
What are key verses in ReGenISIS?
What principle of biocracy are represented in ReGenIsis?
What laws of ecodynamics are represented in ReGenIsis?
How is food sovereignty represented in ReGenIsis?
Which IDs represent, reenact, and reembody ReGenISIS?
Asking Enacts
Does changing the way we act, change the questions we ask?
Does changing the questions we ask, change the way we act?
Do our questions determine our quests?
Do our quests determine our questions?
About the Creator
We the PPUL
"We live these Truths as self evident, that All Kind are created equal; that All Life are endowed by Creator with a certain Will of Life, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Promise of Harmony." E Pluribus Plures ; In Gaia We Trust
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