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Micko thinks it’s important to remember that Clown evolution is still in our adolescence.
Like teens who often struggle with handling all the new potentials that are emerging, clown evolution is still struggling with all the great potentials that are emerging.
Micko points out that we often do wonderful things to share our Love, such as risking our lives to save other clowns, creating organizations to help others, and, of course, inventing ice cream.
But we also sometimes engage in behaviors that are harmful to ourselves, others, or Clown Nation as a whole.
Micko believes that we need to take charge of our thoughts and actions to minimize hurtfulness and maximize our Love Flow in our world.
For Micko, Love Flow happens every time a clown feels empathy for other clowns or animals, cares about other clowns or animals, feels positive connections with other clowns, animals, or the world, or feels compassion for other clowns or animals and tries to help them.
What do you think?
Can you think of some things that clowns are already doing to make the world better?
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Can you think of some things you would like us to do more?
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The next phase of Love Flow
We are already seeing small signs of increased Love Flow in Clown Nation, and as time goes on we will see bigger signs:
-More clowns will process the idea of Love Flow and relate it to their lives
-More clowns will think about their personal Love Flow, their Love Flow in interactions with others, and their World Love Flow as well
-More clowns will join clownsforpeace.org, create their persona profile and engage with othre clowns on the site.
-More clowns will lose interest in the Movement, leave the site, and never come back.
-But gradually more clowns will join the site and continue working with other clowns to create a world of Love,
-More clowns will make friends on clownsforpeace.org, even across Earth.
-More clowns will join or form groups, on the site or off the site.
-More clowns will get tired of hearing about Micko and go away forever.
-More clowns will take charge of their Love Flow and take steps to increase their Love Flow.
-More clowns will poke fun of the whole “Love flow” thing.
-There will be an increased number of micro-moments of connection and Love. At first, these will be deliberate attempts to connect (like Micko’s LovingKindness experiments [link]), but gradually they will be more spontaneous, automatic, habitual, and internalized.
-There will be an increased number of clowns volunteering, donating money, and ‘Paying it forward’ sharing.
Micko loves all the good things clowns are doing to make the world better, but has an idea that may help us move faster toward a World of Love.
Micko suggests that we help very young clowns and teen clowns understand and learn to guide their Love Flow!
The potential of young clown brains.
We can help young clowns understand and guide their Love Flow!
“Sponge” learning.
As all parents know, young clown brains soak up information like sponges.
What some parents may not know is this “implicit” learning process starts while a young clown is still in the womb and continues in the first years of life, before language and self-awareness develops.
What do you think?
You may be wondering what Micko means about the Flow of Love. For Micko, Love Flow happens every time a clown feels empathy for other clowns or animals, cares about other clowns or animals, feels positive connections with other clowns, animals, or the world, or feels compassion for other clowns or animals and
Role modeling.
That is why role modeling is so important for helping very young clowns understand the Flow of Love.
Does the young clown see the parent be impatient waiting in line at the store watching the clown in front of them dig in pockets for loose change, or does the young clown see the parent stay calm, take deep breaths and say Loving Kindness things about the rude clown digging for loose change?
Does the young clown see the parent yell and scream at the clown on the phone who is telling the parent that their order of fake vomit is out of stock, or does the young clown see the parent stay calm, do a gratitude routine and say Loving-kindness things about the clown on the phone?
Can you add something from your experience?
Explicit teaching, explicit learning, independent learning.
Young animals learn things about life in the same way young clowns learn about life: by watching their parents. For instance, young chimpanzees learn how to peel and eat bananas by watching parents.
But clown parents teach our young in ways that other animals don’t.
Explicit teaching,
For instance, clown parents and teachers demonstrate to very young clowns how to throw pies, monitoring and correcting and giving encouragement as needed.
Explicit learning
And even very young clowns watch parents and teachers teaching and learn to assimilate vast amounts of information.
Independent learning.
Some very young clowns try things on their own and thus learn things independently.
Build on new learning
This learning process builds upon itself as the young clowns learn more and more, learning to ride a bike, learning to juggle, then learning to Juggle while riding a bike.
Can you add something from your experience?
Mindsight
According to FlowingLove (Daniel Siegel) Mindsight is a way we can understand what is going on in our inner mind and the inner minds of other clowns- thoughts, feelings, perceptions, sensations, memories, and hopes and dreams.
Lovesight is a special type of Mindsight. Mindsight allows us to understand the inner workings of our minds and the minds of other clowns, things like thoughts, feelings, perceptions, sensations, memories, and hopes and dreams.
Lovesight allows us to see the Flow of Love within ourselves, within other clowns, and between us and other clowns, things like caring, empathy, sharing, compassion with the desire to help or fix others’ situations, and forming a connection with other clowns or animals.
11/18/23
-Spiral: self-love, other-love, world-love. diagram, can be many variations simple to complex, text boxes, boxes for clowns to write in
-should facilitate the internalization of the Love Flow Meme.
social networks from connected book 298
social networks from connected book 298
Cumulative learning over generations.
This difference between animal learning and clown learning has been called “cumulative learning” in the context of generation-to-generation learning.
What animals learn doesn’t change much over the course of generations, but what clowns learn continues to expand and build on past learnings.
One important thing that other species have not developed is the creation of institutions of higher learning, such as Clown Colleges.
This has resulted in a much faster pace of clown evolution. First, we invented the wheel, then just like that we created cars, airplanes, and spaceships, and put the first clown on the moon!
Micko thinks the same sort of rapid change will happen as The Flow of Love spreads across our beautiful planet!
[] relate to internalization of the Meme, see next boxWhat do you think?
Cumulative love Flow
More parents and caregivers:
– open minds to the idea of Love Flow
– open minds to the possibility that they can help their young clowns and teen clowns understand and increase their Love Flow
– talk with their young clowns and teen clowns about their Love Flow
– create Love Experiments for their young clowns and teen clowns so they can try things to increase their Love Flow
– For instance, volunteer work, personal growth, World Love…
More teachers:
– open minds to the idea of Love Flow
– open minds to the possibility that they can help their young clown learners and teen clown learners understand and increase their Love Flow
– talk with their young clown learners and teen clown learners about their Love Flow
– create Love Experiments for their young clown learners and teen clown learners so they can try things to increase their Love Flow
— For instance, volunteer work, personal growth, World Love…
–Site Materials
More schools
-integrate ideas about Love Flow and Love Experiments into their curriculum
-More Action projects [ink]
Media exposure
– traditional media:
— brief pieces on news shows about The Flow of Love, people helping others
–Sooner or later the clowns at 60 minutes will realize they need to catch up with other media outlets and do a story on The Flow of Love
–social media:
–increased discussion online about The Flow of Love
–more clowns blogging about their Love Flow
–More podcasts abut The Flow of LOve
Research
-some researchers will decide to do research into this Love Flow stuff
-Some schools will do their own Action Research projects (link)
Gradually…all of these different “little” things will accumulate and compound (as LoveBlossoms (Barbara Fredrickson) says, resulting in an ever-increasing number of micro-moments of connection and Love across the planet.
This may even lead to what LoveBlossoms calls mass positivity resonance, like when sports fans in a stadium, watching the World Pie Throwing Championship are all cheering and seem to be on the same wavelength (brain coupling).
Micko believes that all of these little things will feed on each other and create a global Love Spiral.
Micko wrote a dissertation on Upward Spirals of positive well-being when studying at Clown College, and thinks that this cumulative process is actually an Upward Spiral that includes upward spirals of individual clowns, classrooms and other groups, organizations, and global network spirals.
We will be learning more about Upward Spirals later. (? link?)
social networks from connected book 298
Clown cultural evolution.
Micko learned that cultural evolution is information that can affect individuals’ behavior that they acquire from other clowns through teaching, implicit learning, and other forms of social transmission.
But according to FlowingLove (Daniel Siegel), clown minds can also shape culture, saying that as communication between clowns changes, cultural evolution transforms the context in which young clowns develop and in which adult clowns structure the societies in which we live.
Micko points out that this becomes an ongoing back-and-forth process over many generations: clown culture influences individual clown learning and behavior and in turn clown learning and behavior influence cultural evolution.
FlowingLove says that cultural evolution is a major force shaping how the clown brain has developed in modern times, surpassing genetic aspects of evolution.
FlowingLove suggests that we all become ‘cultural evolutionists’ by creating healthy relationships within our modern societies that involve the honoring of differences between clowns and the cultivation of their connections through compassionate, respectful communication.
In other words, by adopting a MWe integrated identity.
FlowingLove and Micko believe that by adopting a MWe integrated identity we can overcome the I-them and We-them polarities in our world today.
We adult clowns can look at our own beliefs and attitudes about other people with different beliefs and attitudes, such as people from different cultures.
Do we have biases and prejudices? Do we feel we are superior to them? Do we treat them with the respect we want to be treated with?
Micko believes that any such biases we might have are barriers to our Full Love Flow.
We can help our very young clowns and teen clowns use Lovesight to understand any prejudices they might have and ask themselves if this is the way they want to be. (links)
In this way, we can help very young clowns and teen clowns become “cultural evolutionists” and become part of the process of making clown culture more Loving and Harmonious.
Parents, teachers, and caregivers will play a major role in this process. (links)
FlowingLove talks about the potential of adolescent clown brains, suggesting that the power of the adolescent mind has a spark of emotion, social drive, and push to explore new solutions to old ways of doing things, that may save life on our planet.
This is because adolescent clown brains question the status quo, and approach problems with ‘out of the box’ strategies, new ideas, and innovation. This is called divergent thinking.
FlowingLove suggests that adult clowns and adolescent clowns (Micko would include very young clowns) can work together across generations to discover and cultivate the hidden power and purpose of young clown brains- in a cultural rite of passage.
But younger clowns need the support of us old clowns and that working creatively and collaboratively in our families, schools, and communities, the emerging generations will have the vision to move away from just memorizing facts and figures to creating more imaginative and meaningful ways to inspire their generation and future generations.
What do you think? Be honest![]
Roles in Clown cultural evoution.
All clowns can play a role as a cultural evolutionist because every time one of us does something nice or helpful or minimizes negativity in the world we are adding to the balance of Love in the world.
This might not seem that important, but imagine a billion clowns squirting seltzer down another clown’s pants… wouldn’t that shift the balance of Love in our world?
There are many Love Experiments presented on this site for you to try if you are courageous enough to try some.
Plus, don’t forget how important role modeling is. As we all go about our lives very young clowns watch and listen and take it all in.
Parents.
Parents have an extremely important role in this evolutionary process because parents have a greater influence on young clowns’ forming their views of their world.
First: role modeling: How much do they show their Love Flow in their daily behavior?
Then, how much do they discuss Love Flow with very young clowns…their Love Flow and the Love Flow of young clowns?
Do they discuss the difference between being nice and being mean? Do they discuss how it feels to be nice or to be mean?
Finally, do they facilitate Love Experiments? For instance, do they create activities in which they can help very young clowns learn about the inner workings of their minds (mindsight), and their Flow of Love (lovesight)?
Or. do they take very young clowns to do volunteer work such as at a senior home or an animal center? Do they talk to them about it, about how they feel afterward?
Do they discuss with very young clowns the World as a whole and their place in their World? Do they discuss the role they could play in making the World a better place? Do they ask how very young clowns feel about this?
Do they help young clowns learn to make up their own minds rather than be influenced by other clowns who say they have all the answers? This is called critical thinking.
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Teachers.
Teachers also play an important role because it is their purpose and their job to help very young clowns and adolescent clowns learn about themselves and their World.
Micko thinks that along with teaching academic subjects teachers should help all young clowns understand and guide their Love Flow.
As with all clowns, role modeling is very important, as very young clowns watch and listen to teachers for many hours. If you cut your finger off with the paper cutter do you say some not-so-nice words, or do you calmly say “Oh look, I’ve cut my finger off. I’m sending Loving Kindness to my finger. Maybe I should go to the hospital so they can sew it back on”.
It’s also important to discuss Love Flow with very young clowns. Teachers facilitate classroom discussions all the time…discussions about the history of juggling, the best techniques for throwing pies, etc. They also often have discussions with individual students, such as when the student has difficulty using the nozzle on seltzer bottles.
So why not have discussions about the Flow of Love in each of our lives?
Like parents, teachers can facilitate Love Experiments, by creating activities that help students learn about their Love Flow in real-life situations such as field trips to animal shelters to share their Love with homeless animals.
Teenage clowns and younger clowns.
As FlowingLove (Daniel Siegel)and Micko have explained, teenage clown brains have tremendous potential. Teen brains don’t stop growing until about age 24.
One very important role teenage clowns and younger clowns can play in cultural evolution is helping their parents and other adults understand The Flow of Love. Adult clown brains tend to become rigid and adult clowns tend to become set in their ways. They are not always open to new ideas such as the idea that we can create a world in which all clowns can live in peace and love each other. So it is up to teen clowns to show them the way. (link to the earlier page?).
Teen clowns and younger clowns can also do many things to add to the natural growth of their brains and minds. For instance, they can do things to increase their personal Love Flow within their bodies, in their relationships with other clowns, and in the World. (links)
Teen clowns and younger clowns can use their emerging brain potential to come up with their own original ideas about Love Flow, and they can create their own love Experiments.
Micko believes this is the ripest area of clown cultural evolution, due to the potential of young clown brains, as FlowingLove has explained.
Over the coming generations, who knows how many brilliant ideas and Love Experiments will emerge as young clowns in every generation accept their role as ‘cultural evolutionists’?
Media.
Clowns involved in mainstream media as well as social media can also play a role in clown cultural evolution. Clowns love media. Some believe that too many clowns are addicted to media…sitting on the couch drinking seltzer and eating potato chips or hunched over their phones and other devices clicking away.
Why not cover the spread of Love Flow in the world? You never know, maybe one or two clowns would actually look inside at their own Love Flow! This is called Lovesight. (link to Lovesight)
Researchers.
Clown researchers can also play an important role. There may be some clowns who refuse to believe that Micko might be right…Nay-sayers who will point to all the bad things clowns have done in the past and say that clowns will never change.
Although it’s pretty obvious that clowns do change and learn new ways of being in the world, we need clown researchers to research The Flow of Love to see if Micko is right. Do clowns who buy into the idea of Love Flow and try some Love Experiments experience positive changes in their lives? Do very young clowns and teen clowns experience positive changes in their lives as a result of doing Love Experiments? And importanty, what is the true role of ice cream in clown evolution? Clown researchers can find the answers to these questions.
What do you think your role could be?
Early stages of clown cultural evolution.
We will know when the cultural evolution process has started when the meme “The Flow of Love” spreads across our planet in all the different cultures.
Greetings on the street:
Live long and prosper.
T-shirts.
Live long and prosper.
Research.
easel, big graph, Love flow up, sales of pies, seltzer
increase micro-moments..???
positivity resonance
Social media.
LoveyDovey
Products and advertisements: “Get your Love Flow Lotion here today!”
crime down, donut shop business up.
more clowns in nature, hiking trails, mountain tops.
crowds at animal shelters, waiting to walk dogs
Family volunteering.
fewer dogs and cats and other critters because clowns are becoming responsible concerning animals
increase in donations
bumper cars.
Family discussions.
mute clowns?
Family outings.
Classrooms.
mute clowns?
School field trips.
Media.
tv cameras filming? add to already viewed images?
Websites.
waiting lines…
more yoga etc.
celebrities ads
different languages, climates, clothes
snow, hot, mountains, desert, city
“Enough LoveFlow for you today” in desert
Tipping point.
[This is the third discussion about the growth of the Movement; Plus mentions of Upward spirals and one section now earlier than Tipping Point…A tipping point has been described as a critical point in a series of small changes or incidents beyond which a more significant change takes place.
Micko says this could happen in clown evolution if more and more clowns increase their Love Flow for themselves, others, and our world.
[] revisit previous examples of spread of meme
For instance, Micko suggests, crime rates will go down, which will then result in more changes. There will be less and less for police to do so they will hang out in donut shops more and more, which will then result in more business for donut shops as well as more donut shops.
Advertisements
bumper cars
money
fighting for helping
me/we
Any other ideas?
Too many problems to solve?
Some of you clowns may be thinking that there are just too many problems to solve.
Or, maybe you are tired of Micko’s Pollyanna ideas.
Well, Micko has some answers for you.
First of all, solving problems offers great growth opportunities for adult clowns and especially for very young clowns and teen clowns.
Adult clowns:
Even adult clowns, despite their inferior brain potential, can use the abilities they have to help solve problems.
In fact, it’s becoming well known that when adults use their brains they actually prevent further brain detioration!
Very young clowns:
Educators suggest parents help very young clowns before they go to school. Parents can work with very young clowns to solve real-life problems such as spilt milk, by saying “What can we do to fix this”. Even before a very young clown fully understands what the parent is saying there will be implicit learning going on in the young brain and mind.
Suggested steps in this process are:
1. Identify the problem
2. Brainstorm possible solutions
3. Identify pros and cons of each possible solution
4. Pick a solution
5. Test the solution
6. Analyze the results
Educators say that learning problem-solving skills results in happier, more confident, more creative, and more independent clowns.
In classroom settings and other group settings, young clowns can learn to work with other clowns to solve problems, thus learning to work with other clowns and to communicate effectively.
Educators say that this empowers young clowns to become engaged global citizens. FlowingLove (Daniel Siegel) would say that learning problem-solving skills empowers young clowns to become cultural evolutionists (links).
Teen clowns:
teen brain potential
FlowingLove’s ideas
cultural evolutionists
Micko’s ideas
clown potential, later emergence
Maslow, further reaches of clown nature
What are the limits to clown potential?
We don’t know, but Micko believe that over future generations teen clowns will find out.
After the Tipping Poing things will happen much faster.
Clown Nation will evolve into something different that it was before.
clowns’ believing that we really are creating a better world, a world of Love.
Spirals? growing larger and faster?
magnitude
Creating a World of Love
As you now know, Micko believes that over many generations clowns can create a world in which all clowns Love each other and have happy lives.
Micko realizes that it’s hard for many clowns to accept this.
And to tell you the truth, Micko realizes that Micko doesn’t fully understand this.
So Micko is asking for your help.
Micko believes that something special will be emerging in Clown evolution in the coming generations. In the following pages Micko will present some ideas and after each idea ask what you think.
Micko hopes that together we can come to a better understanding of our future potential.
social networks from connected book 298
The emergence of something new in the universe.
If we clowns collectively decided to adopt an integrative identity (MWe), it would be a brand new thing in the clown universe, because each of us will keep our personal thinking, beliefs, values, creativity, etc., while working together to creat a World of love.
And this would allow us to create our Love Spiral because it would eliminate the biggest barrier to the flow of Love: we/them thinking, behavior, and emotions.
Micko says emergence is the process in which things in nature get so complex that they turn into something brand new. Something new “emerges” that includes the things that were there before but now beooming something larger and more complex, with new laws.
The clown HyperLove (Laszlo) describes a building process in nature in which cycles interlock to form hypercycles that in turn allow two or more systems to jointly create a supra system on the next higher level, which sets up further evolution. HyperLove calls this building process convergence.
new rules
Rule: rule of the new emergent organism/ convergence/coherence: add positivity and connection/Love and minimize negativity and conflict.
increase connection and positivity
–self-Love
–other-Love
–world-ove
-MWe. all-encompassing ID
decrease negativity
–judgments
–WE/them thinking and behavior
Adding Love to the World Love Flow.
-Leads to Swarm, superorganism
Creating our superorganism
QuantumLove (Lynne McTaggart says our universe is a unified whole and that we should take charge of our own destiny by joining together in our common purpose. QuantumLove suggests we form communities of Loving clowns across our planet that would ultimately create a type of superorganism.
QuantumLove says that once we replace competitive polarities clowns begin to flourish as we create a larger, all-embracing identity, a bigger definition of who “we” are (MWe).
Swarm intelligence
Micko has recently read about “swarm intelligence”, which has been described as the collective behavior of self-organized systems. Examples from nature include flocks of birds, colonies of ants, schools of fish, and bee colonies.
What is common in swarm intelligence is that a group of individual critters can communicate in a way that results in behavior and accomplishments that the individual critters could not do on their own. Clown scientists believe that very simple rules in the behavior of the critters account for the working together of the group.
It’s been suggested that clowns didn’t evolve the ability to swarm because we lack the innate connections that other species use to establish feedback loops among individual members. For instance, ants use chemical traces, fish detect vibrations in the water around them, bees use high-speed gestures, and birds detect motions within the flock.
Also, clown evolution evolved in a way in which clown individuals became more independent, more intelligent, and more autonomous.
But Micko points out that clowns can make decisions together and communicate with each other, so clowns could choose to create connections that would allow a new form of swarm intelligence.
We clowns could decide to work together for a better world within a loose confederation of separate individuals and clown troups.
We clowns could decide to balance our self-assertive tendencies and our integrative tendencies by adopting a truly integrated identity as FlowingLove, LoveBlossoms, and Hoolahoop have suggested.
And, unlike examples of ants and fish and birds and bees, in which the individuals don’t really take part in the decisions-they are programmed to play their roles- clowns could retain their individual goals, values, ideas, thinking, and creativity and integrate those individual qualities within our new integrated identity (MWe).
The amazing slime mold
thousands of distinct singe-celled units, each moving separatesly
certain conditions theycoalesce into a single, larger organism
“they” becomes an “it”, then back to”they
coordinated group behavior
ai and bottom up forces (Emergence book)
Omega Point
OmegaLove (Teilhard de Chardin) believed that evolution is an ascent towards consciousness and that it therefore it should culminate in some sort of supreme consciousness, which he called Omega Point. And he referred to this process as a spiral that is ascending to higher and higher levels.
Love plays a major role in this view of clown potential. OmegaLove stated that Love alone can unite living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them because only Love can join them by what is deepest in themselves.
OmegaLove points out that clowns in Love can become lost in each other, and asks if that can happen on a small scale with a few clowns, why shouldn’t it be possible on a worldwide dimension?
OmegaLove suggests that such a universal love is not only psychologically possible; it is the only complete and final way in which we are able to love.
Clowns For Peace Movement
Micko created Clownsforpeace.org so that like-minded clowns can have a place to work together with other clowns who want to help create a World of Love and to find their personal role in this process.
This will be our “swarm intelligence” or our “swarm behavior”.
You don’t have to join in any official way, all you have to do is find your role. Micko believes each of us will experience greater outcomes if we engage with each other, but after all, Micko is just another bumbling clown, and maybe is wrong again.
Clown identity: We-Them vs. MWe
But there are some significant barriers in our way as we work toward a World of Love. Maybe the biggest obstacle is We-Them thinking and behavior.
Individual identity.
All of us clowns have our own personal identity, Micko is Micko, FlowingLove is FlowingLove, LoveBlosoms is LoveBlossoms, etc.
And you are you. You have your own personal identity.
Group identity.
And most clowns also have some sort of “social identity”…some social grouping that we identify with, feel close to, or are part of…such as our family, our troupe, our juggling team, or our species. For instance, Micko thinks most clowns identify with the social group “clowns”, but not with kangaroos.
Positives of group identity.
Group identity is a good thing. In groups, we have feelings of closeness with others, we give and receive support, and we experience solidarity and camaraderie.
Negatives of group identity.
But there is a downside to group identity. Sometimes conflicts emerge between different groups. This can lead to feelings of animosity and anger. fear, distrust. prejudice, hate, and sometimes violence.
Micko believes that these conflicts are the single biggest barrier to creating a world of Love.
Integrative Identity.
FlowingLove (Daniel Siegel) says it is extremely important to our clown evolution to integrate our individual identity (Me) and our group identity (We), by conceiving ourselves as MWe.
FlowingLove says the more we help others, the healthier and happier we ourselves become.
Furthermore, Flowing Love suggests that our individual needs for meaning and belonging and feeling happy and fulfilled can actually be satisfied by expanding the way we define ourselves–which creates a win-win situation. Thus, developing a MWe identity will make us happier, and it will give our world a good chance to also become healthier.
Micko agrees with FlowingLove that our world’s challenges can most effectively be addressed by helping expand our sense of identity beyond a separate self.
LoveBlossoms (Barbara Fredrickson) says that once clowns forge connections with others (shared positivity resonance) the clowns can view one another as part of a unified whole—a single ‘us’ rather than two separate me’s.
QuantumLove (Lynne McTaggart) suggests that once clowns stop competitive aggression between social groupings, clowns will flourish and create a larger, all-embracing identity, a bigger definition of who “we” are.
And let’s not forget that many years ago BeingLove (Abraham Maslow) talked about the importance of synergy between individual clowns and larger social groupings.
Micko believes that by adopting a MWe integrated identity we can overcome We-Them thinking and help clown evolution move forward to a world of Love and Harmony.
Mass positivity resonance
Love 2.0, connection, highest form of Love, micro-moments, positivity resonance
emotional contagion 1 see disertation
– infected with other’s emotion or behavior
-understand and feel the emotions of others
-cognitive and affective
-kids roleplay 4
-empathy…enhances connected ness …unconscious sharing of neuropathways that dissolve barriers between self and other
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brain coupling, resonance
mirror neurons
empathy,
roots of empathy
sympathy, compassion
empathy as a powerful, natural force, if not prevented, hardwired
dogs play and love if not beaten
we can help young clowns learn empathy
brain coupling in groups
mass positivity resonance
Quantum, empathy; Micko read someplace that empathy…and Micko thinks that empathy is Love, therefore…The Flow of love…..
unified field, LM
mass positivity resonance
empathy as a powerful, natural force, if not prevented, hardwired
dogs play and love if not beaten
Micko thinks about how much dogs have when they have not been abused, and wonders, if clowns remove all the things that prevent The Flow of Love…what will that be like
Upward spirals.
Micko wrote his dissertation on Upward Spirals of Positive Well-being while getting his degree at Clown College.
It took him so long to finish that they kicked him out of the program for lack of progress. Micko is a slow processer as you may have figured out by now.
Luckily, Micko’s adviser, LonganimousLove (Larry Ryan), had faith in Micko and helped with the appeal.
Micko finally figured it out, mostly.
As you know, sometimes events lead to other events.
When undesirable events lead to more undesirable events, which then lead to more undesirable events, this is a downward spiral.
When desirable events lead to more desirable events, which then lead to more desirable events, this is an upward spiral.
These events can happen within a clown’s body or mind, between clowns, within or between troupes of clowns, within or between organizations, or within or between clown cultures.
Reciprocal Love Flow…share Love, get Love back
win win, give get, goal of all-win
-but also rippling Love, others view, process, BF example
-3 levels of influence
Micko says the cool thing about upward spirals is that clowns can do things to start an upward spiral.
That is what this website is all about. There are already many clowns in Clown Nation doing good things, and in many of these cases there are little spirals growing.
Micko envisions more little spirals as more people engage on the site, and gradually little spirals will merge with other little spirals, creating larger spirals, etc.
This process will be like starting a campfire: start with paper and twigs to start a little fire, and then add larger pieces of wood as the little fire grows.
Of course, with a fire, we don’t want it to grow and grow, but with our Love Spiral, we do want it to grow and grow and grow.
[] Decide how much to put here vs. later.[] glean from Grand Love Spiral, and modify for here as an in-between section-number of members sharing their Love; self-love, other love, world love, connection/brain coupling
-number of Love Experiments tried, outcomes, discussion
-the amount of sharing of ideas, comments, forums, friends,
-Number of groups, sharing
-these are all variations of the spread of Love Flow on our planet
-research
-media coverage
-clownsforpeace.org
Grand Love Spiral
Earlier we learned the basic information about upward spirals. Now we will learn about the actual spiral dynamics that Micko expects to happen over future generaations.
Personal spirals
Self-LOve
–RC mind and body,
–interventions (Love Experiments). an example, laughing meditation
—outcomes, changes,
——increase in positive emotions, decrease in negative emotions
——decrease in negative hormones (cortisol, others), increase in positive hormones (oxytocin, others)
——shifts in self-representations/Perceived identity,
——growth,
—–increased motivation,
—–improved performance/new skills
—–Improved health
— Each of these outcomes have the potential to influence other outcomes, this is what creates the spiral! Positive outcomes leading to more positive outcomes, which lead to more positive outcomes.
— increased magnitude of the upward spiral, similar to constructive interference in physics
magnitude: number of positive outcomes, perceived value of outcomes
All of these positive outcomes, viewed as a whole, become the Flow of Self-Love within the individual clown.
–If we teach our young clowns about How to increase their Love Flow over future generations…[] more? here or later?
BF, Micko
interpersonal spirals–
Self-Love AND Other-Love,
-Personal spirals still in effect, making this interpersonal spiral even more powerful; like another hose added to one hose to increase the flow of water!
Added to personal Love Flow:
–micro-moments connection, brain syncing/mirror neurons, positivity resonance
–interventions (Love Experiments) example,..playing tricks. laughing chess
and
—outcomes, changes,
positive emotions, fun
caring, sharing
shifts in
—-self-representations of relationship;connected, intune
—-perceived identity of the relationship, MWe?
—-growth for individuals and relationship,
—-mutual leaning in, nodding, smiling, listening
—-mutual increased positive emotions,
—-mutual increased motivation re. relationship
—-mutual improved performance/new skills
[] relate “mutual” to BF video re. research, pos. resonance.
–the power of Flow of Love…magnitude! Each of these outcomes has the potential to influence other outcomes, this is what creates the spiral!
All of these positive outcomes, viewed as a whole, become the Flow of Self-Love within and between other individual clowns.
–If we teach our young clowns about this over the generations…
Micko
Small group spiral
Personal spirals and interpersonal spirals still in effect, making this small group spiral even more powerful; like another hose added to one hose to increase the flow of water!
laughing yoga group.
Add:
-multiple connections/Love
-multiple RC dynamics
-multiple brain coupling
-multiple positivity resonance
-multiple leaning in, nodding, smiling, listening
-multiple interactions
-multiple RC, win[win, give get,
magnitude-many more water hoses
-group ID becomes part of a spiral, working together, –RC clowns and group ID
–MWe
–Multiple-level ID-individuals, pairs, group
–multiple level RC, spirals
—Individual ID
—Interpersonal ID
—small or large group ID: perception of working together as group, common purpose
–All unified, in harmony
interventions (Love Experiments) and
-outcomes, changes,
–shifts in self-representations of individuals, pairs, and group
–growth of individuals, pairs, group
–increased positive emotions,
–intrapersonal spirals and interpersonal spirals still in effect, making this small group spiral even more powerful; like several hoses added to one hose to increase the flow of water!
–spiral dynamics are what allow Love to Flow
–the Flow of Love…magnitude! Each of these outcomes have the potential to influence other outcomes, this is what creates the spiral!
Flow of Self-Love within and between other individual clowns, and within groups
–If we teach our young clowns about this over the generations…classroom spirals
—Part of something larger, BF, Koestler now?
— Positivity resonance:
—BF suggests maybe mutiple dyad positivity resonance
Small group Love Experiments
-discussion groups in classroom
-discussion groups in community
-action groups in classroom
-action groups in community
larger group? no leader, network of ind. and small groups, online networks?
-Personal spirals, interpersonal spirals, and small group spirals still in effect, making this larger group spiral even more powerful; like another hose added to one hose to increase the flow of water!
weaker close connection but stronger group ID.
-spiral dynamics are what allow Love to Flow
small groups? cells?
–If we teach our young clowns about this over the generations…
mass positivity resonance
Multi-level group, nested hierarchy,
-Personal spirals, interpersonal spirals, small group spirals still in effect, making this multiple level spiral even more powerful; like another hose added to one hose to increase the flow of water!
leaders,managers, organizations, businesses
-virtuous spirals, author
-2 way responsibility,
-2 way positive outcomes
-magnitude, cross-level, bosses/workers, –teachers/students?
-stronger group ID.
-feeling part of something larger.
–Mass Positivity resonance?…
– local contacts
– separate groups, but connected_
– perceived part of larger, real
-mass positivity resonance
-spiral dynamics are what allow Love to Flow
–the Flow of Love…magnitude! Each of these outcomes have the potential to influence other outcomes, this is what creates the spiral!
Spiral networks…
-Personal spirals, interpersonal spirals, small group spirals, multilevel spirals still in effect, making this spiral network spiral even more powerful; like another hose added to one hose to increase the flow of water!
-less personal contact
-more perceived part of larger, not just coceptual, real networks, real sharing etc.
-clownsforpeace.org
_mass positivity resonance? something to research.
–the Flow of Love…magnitude! Each of these outcomes have the potential to influence other outcomes, this is what creates the spiral!
global Love Spiral-global
-Personal spirals, interpersonal spirals, small group spirals, multilevel spirals, and spiral networks still in effect, making this global spiral even more powerful; like many more hoses added to the other hoses to increase the flow of water!
pos. resonance
–Global ID
stronger group ID.
-feeling part of something larger.
-spiral dynamics are what allow Love to Flow
–the Flow of Love…magnitude! Each of these outcomes have the potential to influence other outcomes, this is what creates the spiral!
–If we teach our young clowns about this over the generations…
Generational Love Spiral
-Personal spirals, interpersonal spirals, small group spirals, multilevel spirals, and spiral networks, and the gobal spiral still in effect, making this generational spiral even more powerful; like many more hoses added to the other hoseseach successive generation to increase the flow of water!
–Generational, evolving Universe ID
-many generations
-stronger group ID.
-feeling part of something larger.
-Mass positivity resonance…
-increased integrated ID
-spiral dynamics are what allow Love to Flow
–the Flow of Love…magnitude! Each of these outcomes have the potential to influence other outcomes, this is what creates the spiral!
–If we teach our young clowns about this over the generations…
Mass Positivity Resonance,
Mass positivity resonance at football game 70
100000 people sharing boisterous euphoria
group synchrony
So, there you have it…Micko’s vision of the future of clown evolution.
What do you think?
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The potential we have.
The future of Clown Nation depends on what each clown does now and over coming generations.
Micko has studied clown potential, and although sometimes it seems complicated, it finally comes down to one rule for each of us: increase connection and positivity and decrease conflict and negativity.
We increase connection and positivity by increasing our Self-Love, our Other-Love, and our World-Love. ,
We decrease conflict and negativity by stopping judgments and and by embracing an all-encompassing social identity: MWe.
Each little step each of us takes will be adding Love to the World Love Flow.
As more of us join the Movement we will gradually be creating a living, evolving “superorganism”, in the same way that thousands of distinct singe-celled units of slime mold, each moving separately,
coalesce into a single, larger organism.
“They” becomes an “it”, or”MWe”.
Each of us, by increasing positivity, connection, and Love Flow in our own lives, will literally be helping guide our new “superorganism”!
Micko has suggested that each of us try Love Experiments of our own. Micko believes that this process in which each of us adds Love to the World will actually be a Global Love Experiment…to see if it really is possible to create a World of Love.
Good luck in your Love Experiments!