Tag Archives: outsider research

Four Square Matrix – Metaverse Four Square

Posted on August 9, 2012 by

The explanation for this Four Square Matrix is below. (I’ve been exploring the format of the Four Square Matrix for over five years on the squareONE Explorations blog: Revisiting the Matrix Part 1 / Class of ’72 / Periodic Table … Continue reading →

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Revisiting the 2×2 Matrix – Part 1.

Posted on May 1, 2012 by

What I term a ‘four square,’ or matrix, derives in modern times from The Boston Consulting Group’s Growth-Share Matrix. I devise my own four squares and collect any others I encounter. At times the 2×2 Matrix in either its ‘cross’ … Continue reading →

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NECESSITY

Posted on December 7, 2007 by

Utopian thought in general, and anarchist thought in particular, could be dismissed quite easily were it not for two factors. For one thing, as Moos and Brownstein (1977) pointed out, utopian solutions are now a necessity rather than a luxury. … Continue reading →

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CHARLES OLSON

Posted on October 28, 2007 by

I, Maximus of Gloucester, to You HUMAN UNIVERSE Introduction There are laws, that is to say, the human universe is as discoverable as that other. And as definable. The trouble has been, that a man stays so astonished he can … Continue reading →

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DELICATE TURNS

Posted on August 17, 2006 by

Arthur M. Young wrote two little read albeit influential and (to me) essential books, both published in 1976: The Geometry of Meaning and The Reflexive Universe. Along with the alchemical writings of C.G.Jung, they are the most important contemporary books … Continue reading →

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AND YOU THOUGHT THEY WERE OVER-STIMULATED

Posted on May 16, 2006 by

“Yes, it’s a physical atrophying of the whole sensory system.” I don’t know if the research Joseph Chilton Pearce refers to in this interview at the always mind-bending Rat Haus has been satisfactorily verified. But, I have long wondered about … Continue reading →

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SOFTLY HARD PROBLEMS

Posted on November 22, 2005 by

Dana Gaynor’s The Journal of Psychospiritual Transformation has some fairly ‘hard’ minded articles about its subject matter. For example, on the contents page of vol.1 you’ll find an article by Charles Tart, “An Emergent Interactionist Understanding of Human Consciousness”. It … Continue reading →

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EXCLUDED KNOWLEDGE

Posted on March 26, 2005 by

While I was working on the links page on the SQ1 web site, I revisited many sites I look toward when I want to appraise or roll around in the vast tracks of outsider or excluded knowledge; what one isn’t … Continue reading →

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STRAIGHT TO THE PLAYFUL HEART

Posted on March 19, 2005 by

In my trolling for items of interest, I happened upon a terrific resource, the web site of Yannis Karaliotas. He’s an explorer and scholar with very similar affinities to my own. His paper, “The Element of Play in Learning” is … Continue reading →

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