Archive

This Archive tab is a convenient place to post content that I want available online without creating a specific page for each.

Yogic Contributions to a Comparative Psychology of Knowledge Processes is a position paper I wrote for Donald T. Campbell’s graduate course in Evolutionary Epistemology at Northwestern University in 1966.

Alternative Futures and Educational Policy is a 1970 research report by Willis Harman that essentially laid the intellectual “keel” of our Educational Policy Research Center (EPRC) at the Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International), and subsequent writing about alternative futures by both him and myself.

The Forecasting of Plausible Alternative Future Histories: Methods, Results and Educational Policy Implications  is a detailed description of the early work of the EPRC at SRI.  Written by W.W. Harman, O.W. Markley and Russell Rhyne, it is a chapter in Long-Range Policy Planning in Education, Paris: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1973.

Unity with Diversity: Toward Social Policies for a Future World Order is a revised version of a presentation I made to an International Seminar on Human Unity held in celebration of the Sri Aurobindo Centenary, New Delhi, December 5-7, 1972.  It was published in World Futures Vol. 17, pp. 121-155, 1981.

Contemporary Societal Problems is an exploratory study to identify promising topics for high leverage policy research.  Written by O.W. Markley, D.A. Curry & D.L.Rink,  it identified four categories of societal problems: Substantive, Procedural, Normative (Ideological) and Conceptual; suggesting that the latter two categories may have exceptionally great promise for further investigation.

Changing Images of Man is a two part summary of the SRI research report “The Societal Consequences of Changing Images of Man” that was written by Joseph Campbell, Duane Elgin, Willis Harman, Arthur Hastings, Oliver Markley, Floyd Matson, Brendan O’Regan and Leslie Schneider.  I published it in the Renaissance Universal Journal, Vol. 1, No. 3 & 4, Summer & Fall,1976.

The Omniverse Center for Cultural Development is a knowledge repository beyond time and space for evolutionary activists. I was given a guided tour of it during a waking out-of-the-body experience while riding home on a bicycle from my work at SRI in 1973.

Experiencing the Needs of Future Generations: A Step toward Global Consciousness is my first experiential visioning process, and the one most frequently used to introduce audiences to this way of looking at the future.  This version is a chapter I contributed to the book, Thinking About Future Generations. Kyoto: Institute for the Integrated Study of Future Generations, 1994.

Experiencing the Needs of Future Generations with Adults and Children  is an experiential research article that my graduate student, Sandy Burchstead and I published in the Journal of Futures, Vol. 29, pp. 715-722, 1997.  It features a number of drawings by children that illustrate their experience with the process.

Foundational Concepts for Visioning Integral Co-Creative Partnerships is a draft white paper setting forth the intellectual underpinnings supporting the vision of integrating intrapersonal/interpersonal/transpersonal/ transcendent aspects of consciousness for the crowdsourcing of positive solutions to emerging global crises and conscious evolution.  A 15 minute guided meditation to experientially explore how to energetically empower this concept  is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUXDi-QZcKM.  Based on feedback on this first draft, the term “integral” may well be dropped from subsequent writing on this approach.

My-Work-with-Nature-Spirits-ver-3.1 is an unpublished narrative of experiences I had during a one-year meditative retreat on the Hawaiian island of Kauai.

Gradient Model of Emancipation Brief ver. 3.2 is an unpublished white paper on the nature of evil as seen in the transformative ascension across four zones of consciousness: personal, transpersonal, transcendental, and integral.

Rescuing-Elephants-in-the-Living-Room-Ver-11-25-08 is an unpublished PowerPoint deck prepared for an “Integrity Project” that received much positive feedback, but little interest in collective action.

Why Do We Dream” is a brief writeup of an extraordinarily informative lucid dream published in the Whole Earth Review (Fall 1991, pp. 10-12).

A_New_Methodology_for_Anticipating_STEEP_Surprises_(Type_II_Wild_Cards), is a full-length refereed article in the journal, Technological Forecasting & Social Change, Vol.78 (2011), pp.1079. It describes a new family of wild cards.  Futurists define a wild card as an extremely unlikely event that would have an extremely high impact should it occur.  An asteroid hitting the Earth is a poster-child example.

In this article, Type II Wild Cards are defined as possible high impact events that have a very high probability of occurrence as seen by experts who can give logically coherent reasons why, but with low credibility for most others.  It further defines Type III as the stage when the low credibility of a Type II  Wild Card becomes sufficiently known about as to become controversial.  And Type IV, when finally well-accepted, assuming that it reaches this final stage of wide-spread acceptance.  Global Warming is described as the phenomenon that led to the formulation of this new theory, with many other Type II Wild Cards also listed.

More About a New Typology of Wild Cards is a “white paper” type article carried in a 2015 issue the Compass online journal of the association of Professional Futurists.  It briefly describes the development of “Type II Wild Card” theory and practice, dealing with a class of possible “high impact” future events that a few knowledgeable experts can say why they are are highly likely, even though most others believe their emergence to not be credible.

The Sleep Apnea Exercises Program – Scanned Manual Excerpts and Selected Exercises I used describes a specific program that significantly reduced my sleep apnea biPAP pressure settings and associated “AHI” readings.

Transformative ReVisioning Case Studies is a preliminary documentation about this depth-intuition tool for shifting your point of view from victimization to well-being.

Integral Co-Creative Partnerships White Paper describes the intellectual underpinnings supporting the credibility of Integral Co-creative Partnerships as a useful operational concept for the crowdsourcing of positive solutions to emerging global crises.

 Lucid Dreaming  as a method of approach to investigate “Levy’s Premise” is a description of how I used lucid dreaming to experientially verify the premise that reality as we know it is, in fact, a dream that each of us co-dreams into existence with all other aspects of reality that we are “entangled with” (cosmically connected to).

Preparing for the professional futures field is an article published in  at the journal Futures (1983, pp. 47-64), on how, as chair of the new graduate program in Studies of the Future at the University of Houston-Clear Lake, I transformed its curriculum to prepare students for professional careers in this field.

Using Depth Intuition in Creative Problem Solving and Strategic Innovation, published in The Journal of Creative Behavior  (Vol. 22, No. 2, 1988, pp. 85-100), describes my first set of organized visioning methods on which much of my subsequent visioning work has been based. It was was reprinted as Selection Forty in the Creative Education Foundation’s (1992) Source Book for Creative Problem-Solving—A Fifty Year Digest of Proven Innovation Processes, edited by Sidney J. Parnes.]

Accessing the ‘True’ Self in IFS and in Life is a technical white paper of autobiographical exploration, with links to key sources. It describes my personal journey with Internal Family Systems (IFS) work; specifically, how I sought to resolve an experiential ambiguity between what, in IFS, is called the ‘true’ Self and a Self-like part.  The resolution I found is embodied in the teaching of Loch Kelly, a prolific IFS therapist, whose “Effortless Mindfulness” approach involves the realization what he calls “Self-essence.”

Lucid Dreaming Ver 3.4 is a prepublication draft essay that features several of my most revealing lucid dreams; plus an annotated listing of key information resources on lucid dreaming, my bio and examples of my previous writing on related topics.

Meridian Counseling Services, founded by my daughter, Alison Davis, is a center whose goal is to help you feel fully alive, authentic, and in alignment with your deepest values. Their therapists use a variety of proven counseling techniques to achieve this end – including Cognitive Behavioral, Experiential, EMDR, Internal Family Systems, Narrative Therapy, Solution-Focused, Psycho-Dynamic, Sensorimotor, Polyvagal, Lifespan Integration, and Post Inductive Therapy.

Accessing The Gateway Experience Inexpensively Rev. 2.1 is a brief introductory listing of links through which to both learn about and to get an inexpensive set of eleven Gateway Experience instructional CDs through which to do this course on your own. 

Combined Liner Notes is a single pdf file containing the liner notes for each of the eight Gateway Experience Wave-specific CD packets.

 About Robert Monroe’s “Loosh story” As a Radical Evolutionary Myth for Life on Earth is a narrative based on Monroe’s 1985 book, Far Journeys. It offers much at this time in history, as well illustrating the power of the Gateway Experience® technology.

Gateway Experience Wave III-Freedom, Exercise #4 – Five Questions is a February 15, 2029 journal entry documenting my personal experience doing Robert Monroe’s “Five Questions” exercise.  It illustrates the transcendental reach of the “Focus 12” level of consciousness for personal exploration, as well as my own persona as something of a “consciousness wonk.”

Gateway Experience Wave IV-Adventure #2, Five Messages is a February 29, 2024 journal entry documenting my personal experience doing Robert Monroe’s “Five Messages” exercise.  It illustrates the transcendental reach of the “Focus 12” level of consciousness for personal exploration, as well as my own persona as something of a “consciousness wonk.”