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Overview
Significance of the domain name: www.un-imagine.org
Emergence
Contrasting organizing principles: international, intelligible, imaginative
Strategic context
Knowledge management evolution
Nature of Union of Imaginable Associations
Associations
Imaginable
Union
Institutional context
Historical origins
Three-stage emergence
Psychosocial energy from polarization
Emergent higher-order symbol
Operational implications
Indicative examples
Intent
FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
Themes
Aesthetic associations and sustaining patterns
Music
Plastic arts
Poetry
Challenge of "the pattern that connects"
Recognizing it
Entrainment by it
Communicating it
Creativity and design
Dynamics of collective imagination
Challenge of groupthink and premature closure
Challenge of unchecked divergence
Challenge of quenching enthusiasm
Incorporating variety
Sustaining the imaginative process
Identity and destiny as a process of (re)imagination
Imaginary identity and destiny
Reinventing oneself
Image management
Credibility reinforcement
Cultivating an image ("talking it up")"
Image makeover ("rebranding")
Negative campaigning (vs positive campaigning), rumour-mongering
Imaginative engagement with the "real"
Imaginary groups, places and relationships
Imaginary and mysterious groups
Conspiracies & Illuminati
Secret societies
Société Imaginaire
Imaginary and mysterious places
Atlantis
Camelot
Places of power / Points of pilgrimage
Shangri-La, Shambhala
Imaginary relationships
Friends of the spirit
Imaginary friends
Totemic animals
Imaginative education & imaginal training
Imaginative leadership & governance
Imagining explanations
Alternative explanations and revisionism
Future (Armageddon, etc)
Historical
Long-term human development accounts
Channelled
Religious doctrine
Traditional
Hypothesis formation
Omens (auspiciousness, inauspiciousness)
Traditional superstition
Innovative environments
Artists' & writers' colonies
Hermitages
Intentional communities
Research laboratories & Technopoles
Solitude
Paradigm change and new thinking
Metaphoric parallels and correspondences
Biomimicry
General systems implications
Possible parallels and their replication
Esoteric parallels ("as above, so below")
Galactic and extraterrestrial parallels
Historic parallels and replication
Ensuring image coherence
Paradoxes of imagination management
Ensuring image coherence
Resources for imaginative processes
Fantasy (books, movies)
Insights from magic
Nature
Tools and processes for enhancing creativity
Virtual reality
Artificial life
Artificial worlds
Virtual communities and societies
Resources
Specific documents
Collections of documents
Other documentary resources
Visuals
Selected presentations of interrelationships between UIA databases
Selected Screen-shots of Problem and Organization Networks in Virtual Reality (PDF images)
Network visualizations (PDF images)
2001: Spring maps (organizations, problems, strategies, values)
2002: Network analyses (organizations, problems, strategies, values)
2003: Network analyses (organizations, problems, strategies, values)
2004: Network analyses (organizations, problems, strategies, values)
Gallery of screen shots of virtual reality displays (interrelated problems or organizations)
Experimental representations of entity interrelationships (using SVG)
NetMap visualizations of questions, world problems, global strategies, and values
Problems and strategies: Energy / Water / Strategies against violence
Questions: Peace-related / Faith/Prosperity-related
Pattern-language
Human values
Context
Association context (map)
Complementary initiatives
Cognitive Fusion Reactor (ITER-8)
Union of Imaginable Associations
University of Earth
Union of the Whys
Research resources
Laetus in Praesens
Historical associations
Union of Intelligible Associations
Union of International Associations
Mankind 2000 / Humanité 2000
Associates
Contact
FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
Contact
2008
Documentary Resources
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Specific documents and presentations
Moving Symbols: radical change in religious psycho-social energy policy?
(2008)
Where There is No Time and Nothing Matters: cognitive challenges at the Edge of the World
(2008)
Interweaving Demonic and Daimonic Associations in Collective Memory
(2008)
Memory Challenges at the Edge of the World
(2008)
Import of Nothingness and Emptiness through Happening and Mattering
(2008)
Transforming the Edge of the World through Voiding the Centre
(2008)
Shorter People: Reducing effects of overpopulation on resources and climate change by major reduction in the height of people
(2008)
Imagining the Real Challenge and Realizing the Imaginal Pathway of Sustainable Transformation
(2007)
In Quest of Mnemonic Catalysts -- for comprehension of complex psychosocial dynamics
(2007)
Interrelating Metaphors -- to enable a cycle of transformation between epistemological modes
(2007)
Psychosocial Work Cycle: Beyond the plane of Möbius
(2007)
Psychosocial Energy from Polarization -- within a Cyclic Pattern of Enantiodromia
(2007)
Enactivating a Cognitive Fusion Reactor: Imaginal Transformation of Energy Resourcing
(2006)
Imagination, Resolution, Emergence, Realization and Embodiment: iterative comprehension ordered via the dynamics of the Mandelbrot set
(2005)
Imaginal education: Game playing, science fiction, language, art and world-making
(2003)
UIA -- Virtual Organization: Paul Otlet's 100-year Hypertext Conundrum ?
(2001)
Imaginal education: Game playing, science fiction, language, art and world-making
(2003)
Authentic Grokking: Emergence of Homo conjugens
(2003)
Collections of documents on
laetus in praesens
website
Documents relating to
Synthesis, transdisciplinarity and integration
Documents relating to
Knowledge organization and classification
Documents relating to
Comprehension and communicability
Documents relating to
Culture and aesthetics
Documents relating to
Visualization, presentation, mapping
Documents relating to
Criticism, bias, dissent
Documents relating to
Polarization, dilemmas, duality
Documents relating to
Metaphor for governance
Documents relating to
Patterns of I Ching / Tao te Ching
Other documentary resources
To be provided
Antonio de Nicolas. Powers of Imagining: Ignatius de Loyola. A Philosophical Hermeneutic of Imagining Through the Collected Works of Ignatius de Loyola with a Translation of these Works. State University of New York Press, Albany N.Y., l986.
Gareth Morgan. Imaginization Bibliography [
resources
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