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Oct 25, 2012, 6:14:24 PM10/25/12

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I've been researching and trying to find info on the MGM program and its hard to find much.

I did find the following and I encourage everyone to look up the following info. Its very interesting.

Project Coordinators for the MGM program were:
Joseph P. Rice
Paul D. Plowman
Irving Soto

Contracting agencies (that helped with the formation and curriculum, etc.:
Brooks Research Foundation (Santa Barbara)
San Fernando Valley State College Foundation
USC

Principle Agents:
Donald D Bushnell
John Gowan (VP of Brooks)
James Magary (The Exceptional Child, 1960)
Mary Meeker (SOI Institute)

I have started digging and there are some interesting finds when you search the above names.

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Oct 25, 2012, 10:20:14 PM10/25/12

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Strange link between John Gowan and Dr. Stanley Krippner

http://creativeprocess.iwarp.com/

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Oct 25, 2012, 10:21:45 PM10/25/12

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People who received Distinguished Service Awards from the NAGC:

http://www.nagc.org/index.aspx?id=1540

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Oct 25, 2012, 10:24:44 PM10/25/12

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Interesting Quotes attributed to creators of the MGM Program and their mentors.

... everyone is gifted, in the sense of having special potentials in the genetic repertoire, but that most of these gifts are not elicited by the environment ...

"... Jung said, ... The creative person is overpowered, captive of and driven by a demon. Unless one assents to the power of the inner voice, the personality cannot evolve. Although we often mistreat those who listen to that voice, he said, still 'they become our legendary heroes.' "

" ... in a society that doesn't support creativity (and prefers consumerism instead), people are encouraged to deny their own creativity and buy objects at Walmart to decorate their homes." -- Eric Fromm @ Psych Bites.com

"We have been the benefactors of our cultural heritage, and the victims of our cultural narrowness. Our concepts of the possible are mired in the heavy materialism, the obsolete mind-body dualism, of our cultural perspective." -- psychologist Stanley Krippner

Educator John Gowan, whose special concern is creativity, said: 'Heretofore we have harvested creativity wild. We have used as creative only those persons who stubbornly remained so despite all efforts of the family, religion, education, and politics to grind it out of them ... "

http://origin.org/ucs/message.cfm?messageid=31332

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Oct 25, 2012, 10:25:57 PM10/25/12

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Psionics

http://ionatopia.50megs.com/custom2.html

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Oct 25, 2012, 10:31:41 PM10/25/12

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Names and Addresses of

the Gifted Child Establishment:A. Officers and Directors of the National Association for Gifted Children 1979

http://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/an-informal-listing-of-names-and-addresses-of-the-gifted-child-5yrtMBMhsm

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Oct 25, 2012, 10:36:39 PM10/25/12

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...Dr. Stanley Krippner, and Iona Miller have conducted trainings in co-consciousness (Erickson, Rossi & Rossi, 1976) and theta training at Asklepia Foundation, also in Southern Oregon. A deep state of rapport is used in psychotherapeutic journey processes, employing shamanic hypnotherapeutic techniques. Theta is reportedly the psychic range of the mind, generated largely in the temporal lobes. Co-consciousness is a shared virtuality, a telepathic rapport wherein both participant's brainwaves become synchronized into a single holographic biofield (Miller and Swinney, 2000).

John Curtis Gowan (1975) catalogued the entire spectrum of extraordinary phenomena related to trance, art, and creativity. In his taxonomy, he called these distinctive modes or domains of human dynamics Prototaxic (Trance), Parataxic (Art), and Syntaxic (Creativity).

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/ciencia_psycho07.htm