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Integrated Identity

Micko thinks that we can take steps to create more Love Flow in our world and that each of us clowns should find our own way to do this.

Micko thinks one of the most important things we can do is to adopt what FlowingLove (Daniel Siegel) calls an “integrated identity”. For short, FlowingLove calls this ‘MWe”, signifying an identity that includes me, we (other clowns) as well our world. FlowingLove points out that we do not lose our personal identity when we do this, it becomes integrated into a larger identity.

This is a mental act.

Some clowns already understand that each of us individual clowns are connected to every other clown and to our world. But many clowns believe that each of us is a separaate being with no connection with others.

Micko believes that if we are to move forward toward a World of Love we need to adopt an identity that integrates ourselves, others, and our world. FlowingLove, LoveBlossoms, and QuantumLove all believe this. [link] add comment box

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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.

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 Lovesight

Micko says that 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.

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Micko believes there are many actions we can try to increase our Love Flow, either our self-love, our other-love, or our world-love. Micko calls these things “Love Experiments”, because not everything will work with every clown so every clown should try things that make sense to them and see if their love Flows more freely.

For instance, many clowns love to do Laughing Yoga [link] groups because it increases their self-love AND their other-love AND also adds Love to the Flow of Love in the World.

However; some clowns think this activity is silly and doesn’t work for them.

Every clown has to find things that work for them.

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Micko thinks we should start a movement…The Clowns for Peace Movement! That’s what this website is all about!

This movement will have no leaders or rules; each clown will find their own way to increase Love Flow while other clowns all over the planet find their way to increase Love Flow. We can work together to increase Love Flow across our planet.

You don’t have to Join this website to be part of the Movement, you just need to share your Love with yourself, with others, and with our world, within that larger integrated identity (MWe)!

But if you do join this site you can create your personal profile, make friends, message other clowns, join groups or create your own group! Just click “Register” at the top left of the screen!

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Micko thinks we can help young clowns understand and guide their Love Flow for many generations to come, and over time we can create a world of Peace and love.

As you know, young clown brains are like sponges: they will absorb what they see, hear, smell, and touch in their world, and they will absorb what adult clowns present to them.

If their parents sit on the couch all day watching TV or spend all their time on their cell phones, that is what they learn about the world. But if their parents go around throwing pies in other clowns’ faces, thus sharing their Love, that is what they learn about the world and how they, too, can share their Love!

Micko believes that if we help young clowns understand and guide their Love Flow, the amount of Love across our planet will gradually increase until there is a world filled with Love.

FlowingLove calls this “inner education” and suggests that we teach young clowns in Kindergarten or earlier about the inner workings of their minds and the inner workings of other clown’s minds. FlowingLove calls this “mindsight”,  which focuses on thoughts, feelings, sensations, dreams, etc. [link]

Micko believes we should help young clowns understand their Love Flow, which Micko calls “Lovesight”. [link] This is a special type of Mindsight that allows clowns, even very young clowns, to understand their Love Flow–their feelings of caring, empathy, compassion, and connection with themselves, other clowns, and our world.

Micko believes this is the key to creating a World of Love, over many generations. For more info check out Parents and Teachers and Young clowns.

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Clown cultural evolution.

Micko learned that cultural evolution is information that can affect individual clowns ‘ behavior that they acquire from other clowns through teaching, implicit learning, and other forms of social transmission.

However 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.

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Micko thinks that we create cultural change through how we change our minds and how we change our culture.

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 our connections through compassionate, respectful communication.

In other words, by adopting a MWe integrated identity.

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FlowingLove LoveBlossoms, QuantumLove, 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 clowns 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 biases we might have are barriers to our Full Love Flow.

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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)

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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.

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By creating our Clowns for Peace Movement and each of us finding our way of sharing our Love, over many generations, we are creating a special type of “Swarm behavior”.

Micko describes “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.

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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.  

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.

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We clowns could decide to work together for a better world within a loose confederation of separate individuals and clown troupes, each finding their own way of sharing their Love.. 

We clowns could decide to balance our self-assertive tendencies and our integrative tendencies by adopting a truly integrated identity as FlowingLove, LoveBlossoms,  QuantumLove, and Micko 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 would retain their individual goals, values, ideas, thinking, and creativity and integrate those individual qualities within our new integrated identity (MWe).