Paul: Values specialist, engineer, social planner, writer, cook and keen masters athlete
Wednesday, 21 November 2007
Malcolm Davies Says
I liked it so recorded it here for posterity.
Tuesday, 20 November 2007
Links to the Past
Talk about links to the past! Two days ago, I found a Brazilian cherry tree, loaded with fruit. I've picked quite a few. They have an interesting taste - both sweet and sour at the same time. As a child I well remember eating fruit off the Brazilian cherry tree in my grandfather's back yard. We didn't plant this one, so it must have grown from birds dropping a seed. Does anyone have any recipes for making anything out of Brazilian cherries?
While taking the photo of the Brazilian cherry I noticed some wild verbena in flower:
And, I mentioned last week our frangipani trees are in flower:
That's all for now.
Applying Energy Field Theory - Notes
Notes:
Newton’s world of cause and effect required great effort (forces) to make things happen. Since the emergence of the quantum world, we see that it is possible to accomplish this through manipulating non-material structures – i.e. fields – which are the basic substance of the universe. (Wheatley 1994, p. 48)
One explanation of the way fields work is to consider fish in an ocean. As the water moves in synchronism with the swell, the fish all appear to move together from side to side or up and down as though connected by some invisible connector. We know that it is the water of the ocean, however, fields in space behave the same way, we cannot see them and they (unlike the water of the ocean) have no material substance, however, they link all material objects in space. “Physical reality is not only material. Fields are considered real, but they are not material” (Wheatley 1994 p. 50).
The laws of motion, in field language, are rules for flows in the ‘cosmic ocean’. The rules for transformation are telling us what reactions occur among the components in this ocean (Wilczek & Devine cited Wheatley 1994, p.51).
The Newtonian Science Organisation | The Quantum Science Organisation |
"An organisation is a collection of choices looking for problems, issues and | Organisational order is generated through fields. These fields are conceptual controls – it is the ideas of a business that are controlling, not some manager with authority. One of the most powerful fields is shared meaning or the unconscious common ground within an organisation. |
Reference List
Wheatley, M 1994, Leadership and the New Science: Learning about organization from an orderly universe, Berrett-Koehler, San Francisco.
Tosey, P. & Smith, P. 1999, ‘Assessing the learning organization: part 2 – exploring practical
assessment processes’, The Learning Organization: An International Journal, Vol
6, No 3, pp.107-115.
Wednesday, 14 November 2007
Outside my office
Tuesday, 13 November 2007
Beautiful day at Park Ridge
There's a really bad drought here at present with severe water restrictions, so my younger son, Jason, and I have spent the past few weeks getting a bore we've had for years, but which hasn't bee working for the past 10, working again. We added a small pump near the house and connected it via pipes to the bore (30 metres away from the house).
The bore is 30m (100ft) below ground level and the water is crystal clear as you can see from the pool photo. The spin off with using bore water in the pool is that we will now be swimming in mineral water - sounds healthy!