On Emotion-Fueled Conflict and the Mind.

We spend a great deal of time posting on the publications of others and noting the mental tools revealed within that particular article or scholarly paper. The reason we do so may not be clear. We believe that better use of available thinking tools will eventually resolve unresolvable global conflicts.

Despite any difference in race, gender, culture, religion or any other factor that comes to mind, each member of our Global Human Family works out of a strikingly similar mental tool box, choosing the appropriate tool for the way they personally perceive and conceive their experience.

The mental tools used by people all around the globe gives us a unifying language to circumvent the long-standing traditional tensions and violent conflicts between feuding cultures, States and peoples.

Conflict occurs entirely within the mind of the conflictor's and there are no physical-world aspects, no matter what either side says, until physical theft, death, violence and/or rape is inflicted upon one by the other.

Expectations are mental structures we carry around and those expectations can drive an argument into violence. A black male or female American, a resident of Mumbi, a tribal villager from Afghanistan and a lilly-white Wall Street banker all use the same mental equations and tools to assess the world.

We don't care what our enemy thinks...big mistake. We don't care what our brother or sister thinks...big mistake. We don't care what our children think...thats their business...a truly tragic mistake. We don't care what our customer thinks...utterances of dying dinosaurs.

Meanwhile the vast majority of people do not know how their mind works, do not understand how their mind shapes their experience and believes the World acts on them without their having any control and and does things to them.

All conflict is a mental phenomenon until 'my bad attitude leads to throwing a punch, or someone elses bad attitude leads them to shoot their gun.'

Both sides for instance in the Arab/Jewish conflict with Palestinians squeezed by opposing sides, use the same mental tool box for understanding their plight and engaging in conduct they hope will achieve justice. Yet, neither side cares what the other thinks or how the other side feels.

Solving global conflicts will begin in the minds of men and women, and developing this socially adaptable trait will not come from the barrel of a gun or just killing those who disagree with us.

We must develop public policies that recognize the role of each individuals mental assessment of their world and their experience in perpetuating several thousand-year conflicts that are still boiling on the Global Stove-top, killing members of our Global human family.

Martin Luther King Day 2010 St. Augustine, Florida

Speaking at the City Plaza today (documented slave market of yesteryear), Mayor Boles waxed eloquently on his children's incredulity that "black" children didn't used to go to school with white children here in St. Augustine. He was, he said, part of the 1963-64 St. Augustine High School class that was fully integrated.

As his city police use the color of law to discriminate on access to public accommodation in the city plaza regarding any first-amendment activity or first-amendment sales specifically allowed by the most recent Federal Court ruling, he speaks about justice. I wanted to throw up, but I stood firm and filmed the event.

I am ashamed of Mayor Boles and all the members of the St. Augustine Police Department.

I will upload video footage of the main speaker and of the West Augustine group meeting up with the Lincolnville group of marchers, marching to the former Slave Market.

Expanding our social networking outreach, choosing a blog home

As we near the purchase of our Domain name and web space, we are experimenting with these two blog sites to see which may work for our writers. So far, we have not employed our discussion board on FaceBook which if it is effective could even replace either blog.

Our Board of Directors met early this month and will open our bank account before the end of the month. We have a CPA in mind for our auditor and the record system is already set up on Quickbooks. I want to welcome our new Board member Dawn Silvario who is working as both Secretary in charge of records, and as our senior VP.

We are looking forward to a more active New year once these essential organizational foundations and legal frameworks are securely in place.

Important new film on the city of St. Augustine's role in the Civil Rights Movement

http://darenotwalkalone.com/index.html

No Twilight for Award-Winning Indie Doc: Wal-Mart has "Dare Not Walk Alone" on Sale

No Twilight for Award-Winning Indie Doc: Wal-Mart has "Dare Not Walk Alone" on Sale

Maintaining a difficult course under uncertainty

We are all faced with an increasing challenge these days that we tend to internalize as "my problem, nobody's business but my own."

Yet, many of the challenges we face in our daily decision-making and choice behavior are shared by millions and are not our personal problems alone.

Each of us are understood by our common behaviors and categorized as groups, such as the group of over-eaters, or the soccer-mom group, or the group of artist and street-performers largely run out of town (City of St. Augustine, FL) by corrupt city and state law enforcement.

If you know of our shared behaviors and our shared challenges, it can give you fresh insight and add to your internal worry mode we use to brood over our fears and such, that internal dialogue we all indulge.

We need to understand how our personal viewpoint at any given moment can be swept up in an emotional frenzy or focused on adapting as needed within the mental framework.

Rigidly holding on to a set mind just drives you into a rut. We all have to learn first how to accept rapid change, then how to look for alternatives to the set-mind, it's always been done this-a-way way of thinking.

Practically, the idea is not to indulge generalizations about your condition (I'm broke and can't pay all my bills), and keep an open mind about your condition without that limiting conclusion.

Which bills, when are each of them due, how far behind are you, how good is your relationship with creditors, can you call and work something out? There are many variables and each represent an alternative way of solving whatever your original problem was thought to be.

The emotion invested in your heartfelt conclusion sets your mind and shuts off your higher creative powers you might otherwise learn how to access.

More later on our mind-skills and life-skills program under development.

Social Networking put to work for the St. Augustine Community

We are proud to announce our FaceBook, Twitter and Blog presence, a presence for which we have a business process in place to sustain it.

With this humble beginning, with your help and God willing, the human race will grow a new, more helpful institution that may actually protect and serve us, the flesh-and-blood human family.