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by Stephen K. Goobie. Very close to my think and work spaces so not wonder there is great synchronicity and common mindprints – or thoughtprints abound.
It was published in Green Teacher ! Winter 2011 and Mother Pelican already in May 2011. The greatest surprise is to find it in the same volume of Mother Pelican, paper 5, right before my Ignorance or Compassion?

Alerted I immediately ask “Mother Wikipedia” and find Forensic Thoughtprints as maybe the term mindprint we found late in the night in Bonn was a little “off” as it was with “aliens” who have not the propper command of the English Language…

But now I am convinced you can use both terms and maybe we can learn from its uses and start a dialog on what can be done with shared “prints” – patterns and schemas we create beyond the real and the already agreed.

I strongly recommend to read: From Footprints to mindprints

and maybe “Show or Schau?” as this has lead me to think about the imaginary prints we create, share, and are responsible for ! – for the better or for the worse…

http://books.google.de/books?hl=de&lr=&id=6ZAZU_2bdR8C&oi=fnd&pg=PA173&dq=ignorance+and+compassion&ots=GFQh8VmU1t&sig=AtFakTvrsYfnskH87COHOy4Pszs#v=onepage&q=ignorance%20and%20compassion&f=false

“The Handprint analyses positive impacts on three interrelated aspects of action towards sustainability ; viz.; environment, society and the economy.” [more at: http://www.handsforchange.org/]

Mindprint looks into the design behind, how our thinking impacts our impacts, positive and negative, anthat we need to look into the “design” or “next-design” behind our actions. It is about bringing together the tangible and intangible, the exact and fine arts and sciences, nature and the humanities. Here is a nice “Call” for such work and a LOI for:

Harnessing Virtual Worlds for Arts and Humanities Research

See also work in 1996 outlining such a thinking and modeling in around the communities working on Creativity & Cognition and Visions and Design Conferences and how this is based on earlier work on metaphors (1994″ and later on analogies and agents (1998).

We have worked in the 90ies on T-personalities, lateral and diagonal thinking, mindscapes and a mind-book and how to augment the human intellect to be better able to share the new challenges of Cyberculture and Globalisation. Please come back as we will provide here some references.

Mindprint is about much more than just physical print-outs, it is about including the manifestations and representations, senses and sign systems, as using only one “channel” or one way of perception or expression is not enough and definitely not how living things work, eat, breathe, and exists. It is about resuming and resonnating to oneselves and others and all living and material things.

To address unprecedented challenges we have to not only in old and news ways of thinking and acting, but gain again some shared orientations. We called it an embodied covenant. http://benking.de/covenant/ more below…

As times are busy and critical we have little time to open and rewriting all there is already, this new book or internet portal is not about re-inventing the wheel but trying to help to connect, co-create and expand to be better able to tackle the challenges we face.

Maybe start here to get an idea what is meant and what we are basing our efforts on:

1001 Dialoges, 100001 Diversities, 10001 Seeds of Change http://open-forum.de/10001-Seeds.pdf

Earth Charter and an Embodied covenat, called also a House of Eyes, a World-House, or a common construct between Oikos, Ecumene, Ecudomy: http://benking.de/covenant/tagore/

sorry some of the above is only available in German or only on the way to translations:

http://benking.de/hagia-chora2005/english.html

http://benking.de/play/IPA-Benking-PANORAMA.htm

http://benking.de/systems/oikos-bamberg-Dateien/frame.htm

http://benking.de/cob-paris.html

http://benking.de/dialog/r-benking.html

http://www.inst.at/berge/virtualitaet/benking.htm

http://benking.de/gebser2001.html

http://benking.de/futures/Benking-ECOTHEE-2008.pdf http://benking.de/religion-ethics-ecology/ECOTHEE-2008-Dateien/frame.htm

or the recent Humanities Research Proposal highlighted above, hoping to give an idea of the width and magnitude, sectors, level, proportiaons and consequences we are talking here about “here and there”: http://quergeist.info/