There is a saying that 'everything takes longer than it is supposed to'. That is certainly the case with the Working Minds Philosophy Institute. (The Working Minds Philosophy of Empowerment was created in 1998.)
        It is also true that the Working Minds Philosophy Institute is not yet necessary. Elements of the Working Minds Philosophy of Empowerment are available online, in various forms – such as the Essays Index and the Essays By Topic Index.
Not necessary – yet.
        Meanwhile, I have devised a Curriculum for visitors who want to add to their Life the advantages provided by philosophy in general, as well as the advantages that pertain by practicing Objectivist philosophy, Existential philosophy, and the Working Minds Philosophy of Empowerment.
        The Universe works in non-mysterious ways. The seeming mysteries in Life derive from the godawful non-Objective and non-Existential apparatus of the Culture Structure that feeds garbage (propaganda) to the citizenry and pretends that obedience to the makers of this mess will produce anything but more such mess.
        Outside of Existentialism or Objectivism, you can have no clue as to how the Universe, this bio-sphere, actually works. The Universe is an existential/objective event, therefore: the best access to Power is existentialism/Objectivism.
Working Minds Philosophy Institute Purpose
To research the existential nature of the Universe
To practice reason-based thinking
To communicate our findings to the world
To cause transformational change in local, state, federal & international institutions
The W.M.P.I. Curriculum
Absent the publication of the 600-page "Working Minds Philosophy of Empowerment" book, this curriculum was begun in May 2011 so that visitors who wander in here can get to work. Such work will provide existential advantages over their fellows who do not have these various tools. The plan is for each visitor to select several elements, to read and-or to begin practicing such, and to then return for the next several tools.
The Working Minds Philosophy Institute does not guarantee results; but any person who institutes these elements
as a practice in his/her Life will be astounded at the positive difference that occurs. (Just do the homework!)
FIRST CUT 5/26/2011; revised 7/12/2011
BASIC ELEMENTS OF WORKING MINDS
1) Read the WM Source Document
free ebook download {3 formats}
click here for Kindle Edition from Amazon [7/2011] for $3.00
2) Visit the Working Minds book Table of Contents to see where we are headed
3) Take on your personally-chosen Meaning & Purpose
4) Look over the Working Minds Essays Index - May 2011 was Essay #94
PHILOSOPHY & SCIENCE
1) Read the WM Source Document
free ebook download {3 formats}
click here for Kindle Edition from Amazon [7/2011] for $3.00
2) Learn about Ayn Rand & Objectivism
3) Learn about Martin Heidegger [1889-1976]
4) Learn about Quantum Physics
5) Learn about Charles Darwin [1809-82] & Evolution
6) Read "The Dancing Wu-Li Masters"
PEOPLE / BEHAVIOR / PSYCHOLOGY
1) Take courses of Landmark Education
        a) The Landmark Forum (or Spanish 'El Foro') is the beginning course
        b) The Landmark Advance Forum course
        c) Any and all of several dozen Landmark Education 10-session seminars
        d) The Landmark Education Communication Curriculum
2) Read "Scripts People Live" [1970] by Claude Steiner
the best extant overview of Eric Bern's Transactional Analysis
3) Learn about sociologist C. Wright Mills [1916-62]
4) Learn about Transcendentalist author Ralph Waldo Emerson [1803-82]
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotations Page
"The Oversoul" [1841 essay] by Ralph Waldo Emerson
ECONOMICS
1) Learn about Reason-Based Taxation
2) Get the facts on the continuing G.O.P. Economic Meltdown of 2008
3) Learn about Adam Smith [1723-90]
4) Learn about John Maynard Keynes [1883-1946]
5) Learn about John Kenneth Galbraith [1908-2006]
  | "The Essential Galbraith" [2001] by John Kenneth Galbraith Kindle Edition from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt [2001 edition] for $8.80 Mariner Books pb [10/2001] for $10.77 |
  | "Galbraith: The Affluent Society and Other Writings, 19521967" [2010] Edited by James K. Galbraith Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [9/2010] for $26.40 includes "American Capitalism" [1952], "The Great Crash, 1929" [1954], "The Affluent Society" [1958], and "The New Industrial State" [1967] |
6) Learn about Thorstein B. Veblen [1857-1929]
  | "Veblen In Plain English: A Complete Introduction To Thorstein Veblen's Economics" [2006] by Ken McCormick Cambria Press 9x6 pb [4/2006] for $29.95 Cambria Press 9½x6¼ hardcover [10/2006] for $79.95 |
NATURE
1) Learn what to do about Global Warming
a) Visit the Union of Concerned Scientists [est. 1969] website
b)
2) Learn about eco-activist Rachel Carson [1907-64]
3) Learn about eco-activist Aldo Leopold [1887-1948]
4) Learn about eco-activist Edward Abbey [1927-89]
5) Learn about Dr. Helen Caldicott
THE PERPETUAL CLASS WAR
1) Join the United Federation of Indentured Servants: website & Facebook
2) Learn about the modern Class War
3) Read about the modern Class War
4) Learn the cultural background of Class War
a) "We: A Novel" [1921] by Yevgeny Zamyatin [1884-1937]
b) "Brave New World" [1932] by Aldous Huxley
  | c) "It Can't Happen Here: A Novel" [June 1935] by Sinclair Lewis [1885-1951] Signet Classic pb [3/2005] for $9.99 Signet Classics pb [12/93] out of print/used Doubleday hardcover [6/1935] out of print/used AMS/Collier hardcover [6/1935] out of print/used |
d) "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" [1945] by George Orwell [1903-50]
e) "Nineteen Eighty-Four" [1949] by George Orwell [1903-50]
POLITICS
1) Learn about Progressives versus Barbarians & Fascists
2) Learn about the history of Labor Movements
3) Read about Labor Movements in America
4) Participate in America's national elections {or same in your own country}
"An Essay Concerning Human Understanding" [1690] by John Locke
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Essay_Concerning_Human_Understanding
"A Treatise of Human Nature" [1739] by David Hume
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Treatise_of_Human_Nature
"An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding" [1748] by David Hume
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Enquiry_Concerning_Human_Understanding
"An Enquiry Concerning The Principles of Morals [1751] by David Hume
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Enquiry_Concerning_the_Principles_of_Morals
There are no guarantees in this existential Universe. Likewise, in Nature there is no punishment, only consequences.
Delve into any of the line items above and that self-education will deliver to you an advantage over your fellows,
who are blind sheeple complaining that the Universe makes no sense.
[copyright 2011 by Gary Edward Nordell, all rights reserved]
G.E. Nordell's Dateline Chamesa weblog [est. 2005]
Working Minds book Table of Contents
Working Minds Philosophy homepage
Working Minds Philosophy of Empowerment Source Document
a free ebook {choose from three formats}, to read & give away to others
(the first four chapters of the book "Working Minds: A Philosophy of Empowerment")
free eBook downloads