Having proposed 'an idea worth sharing' in response to a challenge issued by this year's TED Prize winner-The City 2.0; Group Epignosis is pleased to announce its launch of Project Epignosis. A version of this PowerPoint presentation was shown at a public briefing and reception detailing the initiative's plan to transform the (global) City 2.0 -- beginning in Roanoke. You're invited to read, "Transforming the City 2.0 - An Idea Worth Spreading" at: http://theemergenteconomist.blogspot.com/p/transforming-city-20-idea-worth.html

1. Project Epignosis
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2. “What is the Integral Movement?”
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3. Group
Epignosis
Public Briefing
and Reception
Saturday, July 7th, 2012

4. Introducing: Brian McConnell
• Project Epignosis Co-
visionary (Soul Force).
• Author affiliated with the
Integral Institute and
Integral Without Borders as
a Researcher/ Practitioner
in the study of Integral
Sustainable Development
(SDv).
• Learning, leadership, and spiritual development
command the central focus of Brian’s work.
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5. Introducing: Richard Cook
• Project Epignosis Co-visionary
(Soul Force).
• Former U.S. Treasury Department
analyst and author of
We Hold These Truths.
• In addition to being a ‘leading spokesman for
Economic Democracy’, Rick is also a recognized
authority in Gnosticism and the Kabbalah.
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6. What is Project Epignosis?
Citizen-learners
transforming
communities
into vibrant eco-
systems . . .
The project was
initiated in
response to a challenge issued by this year’s
(2012) TED Prize winner – The City 2.0
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7. . . . an idea worth spreading
• Our project helps
city members learn
how to create
integral economic
laboratories to
transform
impoverished urban communities into vibrant
social ecosystems.
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8. The ‘White Paper’
The Problem
“For too long the debilitating effects of
material poverty have been divorced
from the spiritual causes of poverty
that begin with what we value, with
the way we think, and with the
resulting economic systems and
practices. In this book, we have
revealed that the greatest poverty is
that of our economic thought,
encapsulated today in ‘Western’ neo-
liberal economics.” from Lessem and
Schieffer’s, Integral Economics
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9. Wilber’s Integral Framework - AQAL
The Problem
“For too long the debilitating effects
of material poverty have been
The way I Economic divorced from the spiritual causes
(we) think practices of poverty that begin with what we
value, with the way we think, and
with the resulting economic
systems and practices. In this
Economic book, we have revealed that the
systems greatest poverty is that of our
What we value Economic economic thought, encapsulated
thought today in ‘
Neo-liberal Western’ neo-liberal economics.”
economics from Lessem and Schieffer’s,
Integral Economics
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10. Aspects of the Four Quadrants (AQAL)
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11. Aspects of the Four Quadrants (AQAL)
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12. Holarchic Quadrants
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13. The Great Chain of Being
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14. Inspiring Global Transformation
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15. Inspiring Global Transformation
“These spiritual sciences
include the contemplative and
meditative traditions of a
collective humanity, East and
West, North and South,
traditions that have been
carefully collecting ‘interior’
spiritual data for at least three
thousand years, and traditions
that, in deep structure analysis,
show a surprising unanimity as
Lessem and to the basic architecture of the
Schieffer’s ‘higher’ or ‘spiritual’ stages of
‘Four World
Model’
human development.” from
Wilber’s, The Marriage of Sense
and Soul: Integrating Science
and Religion
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16. ‘Vital Forces’ – The Four World Model
Southern (Humanism) –
ubuntu: ‘I am because
your are’.
Eastern (Holism) – kyosei:
‘co-existence and co-
evolution’.
Northern (Rationalism) –
naringsliv: ‘economic and
Lessem and social network’.
Schieffer’s
‘Four World Western (Pragmatism) –
Model’
individuation: realizing our
individual and collective
selves.
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17. Tikkun olam – ‘repairing the world’
“Tikkun olam is a Hebrew phrase that
means “repairing the world” (or “healing
and restoring the world”) which suggests
humanity’s shared responsibility (with
the Creator) “to heal, repair and
transform the world.” In Judaism, the
concept of tikkun olam originated in the
early rabbinic period. The concept was
given new meanings in the kabbalah of
the medieval period and further
connotation in modern Judaism.”
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18. An ‘Integral Economics Ecosystem’
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19. Group Epignosis
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20. Project Epignosis – Project Plan
“The Project Epignosis
action plan entails
initiating a suite of
interrelated components
including a complementary
(e.g. ‘local’, ‘festival’)
currency, a
trade and barter exchange
, and community land trust
to invigorate urban
(economic) well-being.”
from The City 2.0 Award
Application
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21. Community Involvement
Project Epignosis will support and
collaboratively interact with community groups
whose organizational objectives and
subsequent projects are mutually consistent
with its own. These partnerships might
typically include those already practicing
sustainable enterprise and include, for
example, complementary currencies (e.g.
‘time banking’), alternative transportation (e.g.
bicycling), and food (e.g. urban gardening).
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22. Transforming to ‘the more beautiful world
our hearts tell us is possible’ . . .
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23. Project Epignosis
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