Verbal Level
January, 2003
Come spend an evening with the most beloved friend, wittiest companion and wisest "executive coach" of all time. Socrates is a real blast from the past - who can help you forge your future! |
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You'll experience what it was like to live amidst "the glories that were Greece," as Socrates shares his adventures wielding his famed "Method" in the marketplace, out-drinking and out-philosophizing his friends at the most famous dinner party in Western history, fighting or his life at age 70 at his famous trial and making the decision to take the hemlock (which launched our tradition of Civil Dis-obedience). |
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Enlivened with video, slides, costume, and theatrics, this unforgettable encounter with "The Gadfly" will inspire you to apply his seven master keys to using your mind to the utmost. Socrates has been featured in the New York Times, Newsday, and on ABC-TV News. Ronald Gross is the author of Socrates' Way: Seven Master Keys to Using Your Mind to the Utmost, and chairs the Seminar on Innovation at Columbia University in New York City. For a preview, visit Socrates on the web at www.SocratesWay.com. |
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Socrates (as portrayed by Ronald
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EVIDENCE OF VAST POTENTIAL
HUMAN MENTAL ABILITIES
Thursday, February 20, 7:00 PM
Dr. Edith Jurka is a psychiatrist whose studies of the work of researchers in the field of autistic savants show their astonishing mental capabilities.
They show how a blind child could tell exactly at which corner any specific Milwaukee bus would be at any moment or that someone who could not read could quote accurately every word of a book. These are related to extensive deficiencies in some parts of the brain and abilities in other parts. These studies describe how evolution may eventually increase human mental ability and change the world.
Dr. Jurka previously spoke to us on personality differences and the necessity for "whole brain thinking," an experiential evening of learning about ourselves and how to predict what other people will "listen to."
Dr. Edith Jurka is a graduate of the Yale School of Medicine, a psychiatrist in private practice in New York and the founder of an institute to help people develop their intuition. She is on the Board of the Intuition Network, and a member of many professional organizations. She is listed in "Who's Who in America" and "Who's Who in Medicine and Health Care."
GS BOOK SHELF
Ronald Gross, Socrates' Way: Seven Master Keys to using Your Mind to the Utmost. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam 2002. Foreword by Michael Gelb.
Martin Levinson, PhD, The Drug Problem: A New View Using the General Semantics Approach. Foreword by Paul Dennithorne Johnston. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 2002
Available from Institute of General Semantics
718-921-7093
Alfred Korzybski, General Semantics Seminar 1937: Olivet College Lectures. Third Edition, edited by Homer J. Moore, Jr. Brooklyn, NY: Institute of General Semantics 2002. Transcription of notes from lectures in General Semantics.
Isabel Caro and Charlotte Schuchardt Read, editors. General Semantics in Psychotherapy: Selected Writings on Methods Aiding Therapy Foreword by Albert Ellis. Brooklyn, NY: Institute of General Semantics, 2003. A collection of outstanding articles drawn from many years of writings on research and practice in General Semantics, cognitive therapy and related approaches.
ADVANCE ANNOUNCEMENT
THE SEVENSIMPLESTEPS™ WAY TO A STRESS FREE DAY
JEFF MORDKOWITZ
President and Director,
Institute of General Semantics
Saturday, May 17, 10 AM -4 PM
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12th
international
conference on general semantics
Confronting the challenges of conflicting world views
October 31 - November 2, 2003
Las Vegas, Nevada
The San Francisco Chapter of ISGS
1/10 Jeremy Klein, longtime editor of ETC, spoke on "The Three Questions to General Semantics," an introduction to the basics.
2/14 Lew Friedman, computer programmer, on "Modal logic," a multi-valued update of two-valued symbolic logic.
3/14 Robert Wanderer, editor of The Map, "Fun and Games with General Semantics," assumption demonstration and audience participation study.
4/11 Muriel Wanderer, "Science and Insanity," questioning various "scientific" models which are dangerous or even insane, yet used for years and even centuries before being corrected.
Out of state subscription to The Map, $3 to:
San Francisco
Chapter of ISGS
248 Alma
San Francisco, CA 94117-4224
If we live in a modern world, but keep the emotional attitudes of primitive bygone days, then naturally we are bound to be semantically unbalanced and cannot be adjusted to a fundamentally primitive 'civilization' in the midst of great technical achievements."
Alfred Korzybski
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