Myster Summer Campus
Project
The
Myster Campus is an initiative to study and offer facilities for research and education concerning Conciousness, Identity, Ecology and Magic. Some would
call us a university, agora, but we don’t want to fit in with the traditional ‘scientific’
format. We want to understand
and share, in whatever way, the interactions, mechanisms and energies that really shape
our World and lives much
more than the dry and rational
materialist knowledge.
Myster will and has
been offering courses and events, and is actively looking for people
with the talents and an inclination to help us achieve our
ideals of connectivity between all.
The Myster
Campus project in 2015 was: “cyberspace recon “(the book the students made in 2015
in 4 weeks is here)
Myster Campus August or September 2017:
Identity Project
Summer coming up,
planning a new Myster Campus project. In cooperation
with prof. Stan Krippner we
are looking for participants for a 4 week project concerning identity. The
general focus is:
What are the relevant issues in the study and practice of identity
transformation? This covers consciousness, self-images, PTSD, the substitue identity model, generational identity, ayahuasca
and other psychedelics, meditation and other spiritual disciplines,
psychotherapy, electrical stimulation of the brain, cults and mass political movements, war and trauma, paradigm shift,
fanaticism and terrorism, religion and spirituality, and perhaps a few other
actualities as well.
We are looking for some students (at least graduate level) or great
out-of-the box thinkers, interested in joining, with the aim of producing
(together) a book about the subject, maybe video too, in the 4 week timespane (has been done before). There are scholarships
available. There will be overseas participants in a group of maybe 6 or 8.
August till September 22, 2017 timeframe.
The subject: What
are the most actual and relevant questions
concerning Identity ?
)
People refer to the hard challenge in science as understanding the relationship between consciousness and matter. It is a
subject neurologists, quantum
physicists and philisophers
are looking at, and there
are many theories, approaches and experiments trying to come up with answers. The tangents vary from
classic ESP experiments to neurological
experiments to vague links
to quantum-physics processes
and the need fora
conscious observer
in quantum experiments.
One angle to look at the issue of consciousness
is to look at how it relates to identity, at the cell, personal,group , organizational , societal or other
levels. Identity has an inner and an outer perspective, the isness of things and the relationship with the outer go hand in hand.
This is the
subject of biological, evolutionary
sciences but also of psychology, sociology, pedagogy and systems theory, but is rarely observed
from a multi-disciplinary perspective. Yet identity is such a common angle, and so much related
to change, progress, transformation and even causation,
that it may
serve as the coathanger for consciousness
studies, but also yield relevant insight for healing, psychosocial
trends and offer ‘hooks’ for
big data analysis of demograhic
data.
The proposed
Identity project is looking
at what, looking at it very broadly,
could be discerned as the common thread in
the various perspectives,
kind of redefining ‘identity’
as a root category or dimension. Are identity problems at cell, organ, mind and society level resonating, could understanding identity clashes at one level yield insight or
even agency to deal with identity at other levels. From cancer
cells to terrorists, identity is at the root of what
happens.
This approach is not limited to a materialistic point
of view, it includes looking at the spiritual, at ethics,
at the wisdom of our ancestors
and remaining indigenous
and esoteric societies, and
this could include those using
cyberspace, ritual of any
kind and exploration of the various
states of consciousness, could tell us
about consciousness. When we think of consciousness in the very general perspective as related to identity, things like learning, transformation, intitiation naturally come up. These are fashionable and relevant angles,
of interest to a wide audience.
The project at hand is looking for a few motivated people to work together to establish such a multidisciplinary perspective, in
a month long retreat, with eminent assistance and supervision.
We are inviting
people in academia, but not limited
to that as there are
independent researchers and even entrepreneurs looking into this
subject, to help us create
and debate the helicopter-view
we think is needed to advance this field.
The challenge
we start with is not very complicated, we want at first just list like ten questions or issues that might be relevant, to structure
the project.Every question or issue can be
accompanied by a very small pragraph
explaining why this was chosen, but serves as the basis for a chapter in a book.
We will organize a month long summer-campus event in a German center (near Dusseldorf), inviting 2 USA and 3
or 4 UK amd maybe some more NL participants, who will be reimbursed
for reasonable airfare and travel costs plus
room and board and local expenses,
and who will cooperate with each other to discuss
these questions with some clear and practical goals, being to produce video,
multimedia and ‘paper’ results. There
can be individual
books, articles or presentations, but also communal
ones. It will be
a team effort, but we are not aiming at a unified opinion, it is the debate that matters. Each
will be credited
for participation and, if the resulting material would turn out to be profitable, a share in the proceeds.
We assume English will be
the common language, the
place is a nice villa with library, facilities, indoor swimming pool, bikes, amidst nature reserves and
close to larger cities, places like Amsterdam, Cologn, Bruxelles will be targets for weekend outings. There will be
an opportunity to invite
private guests, but the clear aim is to create insights, research directions, write papers, make video, in short produce tangible content.
Creating a tangible result for individual participants and
the group, be it a book, a novel, a video documentary, articles or a manifesto,
but doing so in a small group (max 6-8 people) that share inspiration,
stimulate an help each other.
Open to: people with an interest in the subject of
creative expression and a need to create and produce
Cost: donation based and/or scholarship, so don’t hesitate
Applicants : Email sala@dealerinfo.nl
PS concerning my work and interests http://www.lucsala.nl
gives you an idea, also at www.academia.edu
and Youtube, my latest book is at www.share-shop.nl/sacredjourneys.pdf
but there is a lot of
material, also look at www.myster.nl for
the place