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      A Sorcerer's Apprentice Guide To The G.O.D. That Helps Us When
         We Are Good Enough -- And Hurts Us When We Are Bad Enough

 but only for all you apprentices, sojourners and masters who already know
that Disney's "Big Bad Wolf" sees himself as a large misunderstood canine.



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           The following "secrets" are dedicated to Walt Disney, and to his
great Corporation  which even now profits at your and my (willing!) expense
from this knowledge once employed by ancient god-kings,  priesthoods, and
many a caravan of successful merchants:

  The real magic of Magic is that there is no such thing as "magic", and,
                                therefore,
      all is Magic -- but in a super well-organized, super-connected &
                             super-natural way.

For example, the magical way that rightly observing the right kinds of
goals, plans and actions conjures up great profits for any "Magic Kingdom"
-- when we put in enough effort in the right directions per the easily
overlooked business "secrets" of the G.O.D. revealed below.

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                    Generative OTHOGONAL Dimensionality

                                  Part I

           How Even Walt Disney Does Business With A G.O.D. That
          Helps People (As Well As Corporations) Help Themselves!

            Copyright (c) 2000 by Yale Landsberg (yalel@iop.com)



                                Chapter One

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           How To Change Predictions Into Prophecies By Working
           With Walt Disney's G.O.D. -- And Maybe Everyone Else's

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    We cannot go from darkness to light (or from anywhere else we are now
to where we want to be) without being aware of the positive as well as
negating consequences of all fears, concerns and other kinds of fright. So
come, if you dare, to where students and teachers of Generative Orthogonal
Dimensionality share with new-comers the art and science of doing more
right. And a good place to begin is with three examples of what helps Walt
Disney World do lots of things "right"...

"Not too far into parenthood, a great need to go to Orlando FL will dawn on
                  the next generation of moms and dads."

   "Soon after 'Are we there yet?' is replaced by Disney World, an extra
             dimension of family fun will expensively appear."

  "Some day after a 'Snow White' finishes her show a casting director will
               discover her and promise to make her a star."

    As prophecies are simply predictions that come true, look closely at
each of the predictions above and you will notice that each of these is a
prophecy -- although not a religious one. And fortunately for Michael
Eisner, by being self-fulfilling prophecies, they contribute to Disney's
CEO fulfilling stockholders' expectations.  Yet notice as well that even
though Walt Disney has things flowing its way, for example, in terms of
theme park demographics, it still is very highly regarded for choosing the
right goals, and making the right plans and undertaking the right actions -
instead of leaving its successes to either chance or for your God or mine
to do the heavy-lifting.  Disney World and the rest of Disney know how to
make predictions come true.

    Thus, another prophecy: you also will become more effective at making
your own optimistic predictions come true and keeping those you don't want
from happening, once you are doing what it takes to be more "at one" with
what stands behind the similarities and differences of self-defeating
predictions vs. self-fulfilling prophecies. E.g., you may have assumed that
those above have nothing in common other than serving in one way or another
to help Michael Eisner meet his numbers. Yet "going from being childless to
becoming parents", "vacating home for a week of living with Mickey and
Minnie, and "going from being naïve to becoming experienced" all do share
the same two-part "union-of-complementary-opposites template": the same
meta-goals of both "moving from an initial state x" while also "moving
towards some orthogonally opposite state y". Therefore, each of these
prophecies is an example of "Generative Orthogonal Dimensionality" at work;
Generative Orthogonal Dimensionality (aka, "G.O.D.") being the over all
process of continuously yet also discontinuously going "from x" and "to y",
and also something that you are about to re-discover is the not so secret
"arbiter" of whether a prognostication about the future goes or does not go
from being a bad bet to becoming a "money in the bank" sure thing.

    BTW, if you would like a more mechanical example of "G.O.D." at work,
how about this one from perhaps your own childhood: you as a youthful
stand-in for Walt Disney rapidly and continuously, but also note,
discontinuously, flipping successive pages of a flip-book's different yet
similar pictures in order to see your first animation? Just one of
thousands of magical moments we've all had which by subtly slipping through
our networks of neurons before we could grasp their momentous value serve
to make us paupers instead of prodigies when it comes to getting the most
knowledge from our everyday experiences.  Much like a second-rate scientist
engaged in a key experiment, who is not paying enough attention to be able
to observe a perhaps science-changing "Good God!" result.

    Therefore, as you are not a child, nor are likely to be an old-time
Free Mason, you probably do not remember much about what you once knew
about Generative Orthogonal Dimensionality. Not much of a prophecy as we
all tend to grow up encouraged by religious traditions to look away from
"G.O.D.", plus by traditional sciences to not look for G.O.D., let alone
see it. That is why small children are able to follow the simple logical
path to it so much more easily than "adulterated" adults. To prove my
point, try this out on a small child you know. Just ask him or her to trade
you some x of his/hers for some y of yours, and then offer him or her two
choices: either give you x first and then get y from you, or get y from you
and then give you x!  Most likely the first one will be chosen (and for
almost universally overlooked reasons which turn out to be as fundamental
to exchanges of energy and changes in positions of the planets as per
trading baseball cards. For more about that it is suggested you read the
next few chapters.) In any case, the fundamental challenge for those who
are up to to re-discovering and this time holding onto this "G.O.D." -- of
orthogonal/complementary/perpendicular "goings and comings" -- is not so
much a matter of finding it (because we find it all the time), but rather
the more "conducive to comprehending it" question of how to keep it when we
do find it?

    A good way to see Generative Orthogonal Dimensionality up close is to
study familiar "y comes from no more x" changes. A common example is what
you had to do, are doing now, or one day may be doing to complete all
credits required (x) for a college degree (y): i.e., your -- simultaneously
-- satisfying the two-part complementary goals of "wholly moving away from
needing to complete x credits, and "totally moving towards obtaining one
brand new college diploma y". So start with that example, and label the
part of your goal that describes wholly "zero-ing out" your list of
required credits, "0x"'; and label as "1y" the part describing your
predicted result: incrementing by one the number of degrees you will
possess after you have fulfilled all of your college's requirements by
wholly crossing all items off of the list. And do not fall into the trap of
thinking of "0" & "1" as numbers, or even logical symbols, as they stand
for the more fundamental operations/operators of physics and meta-physics,
i.e., "moving away from" and "moving towards". BTW, other chapters explain
just why there are subtle, important differences between the way G.O.D.'s
"0" and "1" operations operate on each other (and its changees) as compared
with the way in which mathematical and symbolic logic operators operate.

    Don't plan to get to the bottom of this mystery without putting enough
effort in the right direction -- as trying to observe Generative Orthonal
Dimensionality at work in the college example above, for example, is like
trying to solve a "Who Done It" mystery. But if you are up to the task, the
first of two seemingly non-sensical questions will present itself,
especially if you enjoy playing with clues. And by answering these two only
seemingly questionable questions with no help from any of your beliefs --
as if you were a child again), you rediscover something profoundly
familiar.  Of course, not the "Old-Man-With-A-Long-White-Beard" of Sunday
School fame.  And yet, as you will discover in following chapters, it is a
very logical candidate for being super -- natural -- source of awe and joy,
as it is something that we feel especially close to whenever time stands
still for us; i.e., whenever we are overcoming our greatest challenges or
undergoing our worst losses.

    The first question that arises is this, "As the above '0x' & '1y'
denote wholly "going from" some list of required credits x which needs to
be zero-ed out, and also totally coming to a complementary y representing
attainment of a new college degree, what if anything might "10x", "00x",
"11y" and "01y" mean/describe/reveal with regard to your moving towards
and/or away from your goal of removing required courses from your to-do
list -- and -- moving towards and/or away from your college-degree
objective? For example, is one of these a "Must do" and another a "Should
Not do", not necessarily in terms of "morality", but rather in terms of
necessity vs. likelihood?

    And the second one is this, "What is being defined, described, revealed
if you repeat the use of these "0" and "1" notations to now come up one
more rung on this "Jacob's Ladder" of Change"?  That is, what might "110x",
"000x", "111y", "001y", "010x", "100x", "011y" and "101y" be bringing to
light for you regarding the comings & goings and ups & downs of the typical
college career, where students often do what they should not do, and do not
do what is imperative?

    BTW, as "110", "000", etc.  are each triplets and as they are
collectively involved with incremental results, are they, collectively, a
hint of a kind of triune wholly "oneness"; one implicit in at least
orthogonal changes from x to y? Maybe even "divineable" changes in some
perhaps not so mysterious way, at least in the way Walt Disney's CEO uses
goals, plans and actions to turn his revenue predictions and profit into
"prophecies" -- thus more often than not actually "divining" their future
and fortunes! Although not an Archangel, perhaps Walt Disney's Michael
really is working more closely with this "G.O.D." than you may have
originally supposed -- even as Walt Disney himself seems to have created
animations and run his business via his own discovery of this flip-book
revelation, much needed for personal as well as business successes: "The
magic of "magic" is that there is no "magic", and therefore ALL is magic!"
Which now leads us to a grandly unifying possibility.  What if the process
of continuous discontinuities as found in all kinds of changes and
exchanges including flip-book animations is not just the source and soul of
Walt's Magic Kingdom -- but maybe as well everyone else's?

    Which now goes from the not yet sublime to the not necessarily
ridiculous. Might this "110x", "000x", "111y", "001y", "010x", "100x",
"011y" and "101y" tri-unity which defines "wholly going from x to a totally
next y" be related to the Trinity revered by a diverse, yet wholly one
spectrum of good Christians, and might it also be found within other
religions like Judaism (with its 3x4 matrix of gemstones), Buddhism (with
its Four-Fold Path and Eight Noble Truths), etc.?  These really are not
totally ridiculous questions.  For if you ever take a moment to exchange
each "0" in the triplets above for two small dashes, and each "1" above for
a twice as long one, and rotate your results orthogonally (by a "right"
angle of ninety degrees), you will immediately end up with the eight pu kua
of the Yh Chng -- the basis for Taoism's "Book of Changes".  And that's no
prediction, it's a prophecy.

Continue away from all that non-sense you've been conditioned by your
non-G.O.D. up-bringing to think makes sense, and move on towards a much
deeper understanding of Generative Orthogonal Dimensionality. And simply by
learning more about what these 10x, 00x, 11y and 01y tuples are -- and how
the triplets 111y, 110x, etc., describe behaviors as diverse as those of
electrons and electrical engineers. But first you will have to do your part
to spread the word about what you have read and hopefully learned via
http://www.iop.com/~thanedfane.