OGDEN'S LAWS A MAP TO THE FUTURE? 

Today, all around us, what we once thought secure and everlasting is disintergrating as we watch. However, it is not quite as frightening as may first appear. We are entering unusual times. Times of massive change and great opportunity. These are not only revolutionary times but also evolutionary times. The massive amounts of information being almost forced into all of us will likely cause a quantum jump in the use of our brains. Up to now our brain capacity has been almost totally underused. This is about to change. To handle this change we need to observe from a different vantage point than required in industrial times.

Listed below are what are grandly called, Ogden's Laws. They are good guides for dealing successfully with this era of change as to what is happening. You may want to consider them during the year ahead.

OGDEN'S LAWS The law of unintended results: Any law, rule, regulation or sanction conceived with industrial age thinking reverses itself in a communications age environment. Intuition, or the alpha state, rather than logic, is the more likely route to creativity, innovation, discovery and new age thinking. Governments are becoming increasingly irrelevant. They can no longer protect their citizens against terrorism at home or abroad, guard their borders against illegal immigrants, defend their currency, their technology or the jobs of their citizens. And, they have failed to create a shield against the environmental degradation and vast cultural changes now sweeping unhindered across their borders". The ability of small groups to stop any activity greatly exceeds the power of large groups to get something moving. The American Constitution is wrong: All people are not created equal. Modern brain wave equipment, such as the PET (Positron Emission Tomographic), the MRI (Magnetic Resonance Image) and the QSI (Quantified Signal Imaging) scanners, show that brain capacity of individuals varies widely. These machines are indicating that recordable organic differences in the human brain may be responsible for much of the violence, crime, illness, erratic political decisions and financial crisis encountered in today's world. The Brain Atlas will replace the resume for job applicants of the future. When we enter a new environment, the quantity of new information can not only evoke change but transformation. Countries can no longer expect to manage their own economies. That control is now in the hands of external forces and variables over which they have no authority". The same applies to municipalities, cities and states or provinces. As the market place globalizes in an information age environment, so do the cultures of those countries participating in that marketplace. Economic and cultural transfers are similar to genetic transfers in the organic world. The net effect, to a greater or lesser degree, becomes permanent. In times of panic, chaos or rapid change, the bizarre rapidly becomes acceptable. Travelling to the future is like any other trip. It is hard to know all about the destination until you arrive.

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