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This issue of Metanoia features the Vancouver Web Fest. VWF has become an integral part of a strategic alliance formed by Mountainview Wellness Centre, Metanoia Magazine, Sparkling Hill Resort, and of course Suzanne Laqua’s Vancouver Web Fest. Sparkling Hill Resort has implanted its name in this triad of organizations by providing the awards they had designed by Swarovski Crystal Jewelry. Mr. Swarovski himself is the owner of this prestigious hotel. On the cover we have photos of Dr. Allison Patton co-owner of Metanoia and Mountainview Wellness Centre, Suzette Laqua CEO of Vancouver Web Fest and Kayla Carlson, Sales and Marketing Manager of Sparkling Hill Resort.

Todd Talbot, host of the hit TV show Love It or List It Vancouver, provides insights into what its like to have a hit show and still be true to oneself. The interview has 2 sections – the first being about the process of becoming a successful actor, the other about the business aspects.

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he Greek origins of the word Metanoia [met-uh-noi-uh] convey the notion of an experience or a moment that is transformative. In fact the change itself would be so remarkable as to shift paradigms and these shifts actually would cause a change in behavior and ultimately the consequences of those behaviors. The articles in this magazine are intended to introduce a different way of thinking so that ideas and notions we take for granted can be reframed in such a way as to renew our life by making it more interesting, challenging and rewarding.

Many of us have abandoned our intelligence, our ability to think, our various gifts for being able to create and instead joined the masses whose only goal is to perpetuate the species and dwell in a complacent and apathetic state amounting to nothing more than mere existence.

We at Metanoia believe we are all capable of more than that and more importantly are able to generate epiphanous moments for you. We hope that our plethora of deep-thinking writers will be able to transform your life into something meaningful and wondrous. Every one of us, to a varying degree, has experienced these moments and most of us who have been so transformed are driven to rediscovering the process that first allowed us our enlightened clarity of mind.

In the last decade, scientific advancements have given insights into human phenomena that were previously thought science fiction, such as the viral theory as a contributing factor in the feeling of “love”. Anthropologists may have noticed nuances in human behavior early in our development, but these scientific discoveries now actually explain the physiology of “metanoic thinking”. Our own behaviors are being re-examined in light of these discoveries about brain function, and in particular that our usual way of thinking leads us to our usual results. Moreover mostly we do not think- but react- not unlike reptiles- and this process does not always serve us well.

Humankind is evolving, and more and more the primitive fears that govern our behaviors are being discovered to be limiting rather than opportunistic. What we are discovering about ourselves is what our evolution is all about; the beast within will soon be quelled and what will emerge is anybody’s guess.

Individually, the context of one individual within a population of seven billion suggests his/her insignificance – let alone a lifetime in the span of eternity.

And yet we still have this narcissistic sense that our existence is of tremendous relevance. And while there may be something to this belief, how do these enormous discrepancies in size and time fit together to explain the relevance of this epic story? Simplified, what is the relevance of a person making a living to pay for food and shelter to the formula E=mc2. Our mission, certainly for Metanoia is to explore all those ideas, and to change ourselves and you in pursuit of this intelligence. To put it another way, we want your brain to be engaged in way it never has been before. Are you ready for the challenge?

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A Conversation with Todd Talbot, host of Love It or List It Vancouver Interview by Hank Leis and Britany Snider

We interviewed Todd Talbot from the TV series Love It or List It Vancouver at a very noisy downtown hotel. Talbot is a very unassuming young man, likeable with a pleasant demeanour. He is not a difficult interview. He explodes with information when he responds to questions. His answers are well thought out, almost as if he has been contemplating his place in life forever.

He began his career with Nickelodeon at the age of fifteen. His start immediately catapulted into star status- at least with the teenagers.

He and Ryan Reynolds were the stars- but Talbot knew he was inexperienced and wanted to learn more about acting. He received a scholarship to go to acting school in London which opened his eyes to live and musical theatre.

He returned to Vancouver but did not reveal his new-found passion for musical theatre until he got a part in She Loves Me. Later doing West Side Story he met Rebecca Codling. Fast-forward twelve years later, he is married to Rebecca and they have two children.

You spent some time in London, studying acting. What was that experience like and how did that help with your career?

I knew I was inexperienced in acting so I applied to acting school. I received a scholarship to acting school in London. I left at eighteen, and I had never been overseas. I struggled with culture shock and being alone but I stayed for three years. It gave me a love of performing as well as a passion for musical theatre. I’m comfortable on stage and know how to engage an audience and understand what is going on and make them laugh, which are skills I bring to Love It or List It Vancouver.

What lead you into choosing a career as an actor?

The reason I chose to go to London to study acting was because I struggled with making decisions that were best for me. I grew up with a great support

system, but I found out I was relying on them too much and could not find a way to make decisions on my own. The independence and experience I gained were the highlight of my life, I always wanted to be in film and TV, but going there opened my eyes to live theatre. When I came back to Canada, I felt like I couldn’t tell anybody about my passion for musical theatre. I would love to go back to England to work. She Loves Me, a musical, was my first job back in Canada. I met my wife Rebecca at the Stanley Theatre doing West Side Story. We have been married for twelve years and have two kids.

In the early nineties, you were described as a teenage heart throb.

How did this come about and subsequently how did your career evolve with this background?

I am always looking for new adventures. The context in which

people first see you might be because the loudest voice shapes these views which become the assumptions people make about you. Within this context, great opportunities revealed themselves which lead to Love It or List It Vancouver. I have always struggled with embracing 100% of the world I happen to be in. It is complicated. I hate being labelled as one thing or another. I spend a lot of time and effort trying to share myself or my story of the diverse passions that I have. I think a lot of people struggle with the concept that people can be more than one thing. People are seeing more and more in life, as they explore things it leads to other things. We all have rich and diverse backgrounds which can lay the groundwork for the next thing. So you

end up like a chameleon, embracing the opportunities that come to you and I like change which a lot of people don’t.

That being said, women are my primary demographic, especially due to the network our show is on.

However, the franchise is successful because of its nature as a cross-over show. It appeals to men and women.

The dynamics between genders is an interesting exploration, I’m very fascinated by relationships and parenting and those kind of dynamics, which I often think a male voice isn’t heard from enough in that realm.

I’m very interested in doing some sort of show for being a part of that conversation in that realm. I haven’t quite figured out what that is going to look like, but I think that does speak to both men and women.

Currently you are the co-star of the TV show Love It or List It Vancouver. How much did you have to do with developing the show?

The concept was foreign to me.

It was interesting for me to be introduced to reality TV. This format does bring my two worlds together.

It was a serendipitous event. I was comfortable in front of the camera and could think on my feet, which primed me for a job as co-host. We are relied on to create the content for the show. Part of that is to serve the story that we are telling in the episodes but the ability to do it is augmented by the fact that I do understand how stories are told in a different context, in say a play or a scripted show. You’re

looking for entertainment value because at the end of the day, TV is entertainment.

The chemistry between you and your co-host Jillian Harris comes across as being very affectionate- is this the intent of the script?

I think the ultimate genius of the show started with a conversation with the producers. I know my wife and I have found ourselves having that conversation. I think people at one time or another do. Our home, whatever it means to us, is about whatever the environment is. The house; is it too big or too small, what is the proximity to jobs, is it too expensive? All these are part of the drama for our show.

We truncate things down to present in a black and white fashion. The grey area in the middle is where most of us live. In the show we have 42 minutes to renovate. We combine two different shows, a house hunting show and a renovation show all into one. A story of a family or the dynamic between Jill and I also add layers- so we are trying to accomplish a lot. Sometimes the nuance of the relationship and the journey needs to be simplified.

Both you and Jillian Harris have now moved on into additional business arenas. Obviously Love It or List It Vancouver is the main generator of your fame- but how much of this has contributed to the other ventures you are engaged in now?

I’ve always had, at my core, a creative pulse to me. That’s what gets me going, to create things, that’s what drives me. However, I’ve also had a weird dichotomy of being fiscally responsible, understanding from a big picture that I am my business and really getting the fiscality of the business. This is how my experience with Real Estate started. I fell into the investing side of it and I took care of my financial life in a way that I didn’t

need to feel panicked about when I was going to get another acting gig. This allowed me to take the jobs I wanted to take, and work with the people I really wanted to work with, which is something I know not a lot of actors have the luxury of having. Eventually I started doing workshops in the theatre community in Vancouver which led me to Shell Piercy, the producer for Love It or List It Vancouver and he called me for the show. He saw that I talked to the theatre community about what worked for me financially

(which happened to be investing in Real Estate) I showed I had a passion and was able to express to others how to manage their finances. The balance between business and art is a conversation that we perpetrated and that’s what has kept me going. I’m so interested in striking that balance and Love It or List It Vancouver has helped me play with it.

Love It or List It Vancouver is not only about listing and fixing up homes- but as well about relationships. There is of course the friendly competition between you and Jillian- but also the drama between the owners of the home.

How much of this is scripted and how much is real?

We don’t have a script, like an actor would. There is an arc to the story and some of it is predetermined. We know certain elements of the story and some of it we just have to deal with as circumstances happen. As

for the competition between Jill and I, that is not real life.

We adopted the format from Love It or List It Toronto but decided to steer clear of aggressive competition between the hosts. Jill and I aren’t combative and we also believe that the process can be fun. House hunting should be fun, but there are fundamentals that are important. You are dealing with a lot of money and you want to be intelligent from a renovation and design side. Generally speaking, we think it’s more interesting and more well-received for us to be ourselves and it has been an evolution!

In watching the interactions between the spouses, often times one suspects that at the end of the show for them- the best solution would be to divorce. Has this happened?

You mean, are most people really as rude as they appear?

No. Barring a few, most people are gems. I have met a lot

of great people on this show. I think my job is to make them feel comfortable so I try and forge a relationship with these people so we can have fun on camera and feel comfortable. We do ask a lot of them, from their schedule, money, and standing in front of a camera, which is nervewracking for a lot of people. Most people are great sports and I am usually impressed with how well they do on camera!

to open a number of doors for myself, including film, TV, theatre, Bard on the Beach, even musical theatre. So for me, procuring work has never been an issue. It’s more about finding a balance between those opportunities that feed my soul and feed my family. My career has obviously taken a big trajectory towards me as a person as opposed to me as a gun to hire. In this genre your career is built who you are, what you are passionate about, and what skill set you can bring to the table. My style of business is through relationships, and I like to work with people I like, so whatever my next project is, I would like to build it with that criteria in mind. If I could create a career exactly how I wanted, I would somehow find a balance between being in this genre, the hosting lifestyle, and being 50% in the scripted world, with films and TV. I think it is possible so I hope to get to that point one day.

What is next for you?

Right now, we are shooting Love It or List It Vancouver Season 4, which is 26 episodes. The show comes first, there is a contract involved but it’s been really fun to build and continue to explore different opportunities. I do MC’ing for various charity organizations and host galas and award shows which has been a great fit for me. I’ve also been building my own personal website and brand around that and Todd Talbot Living.com which is more home-focused. I’m always thinking about new shows I can develop as well and I’m a pretty big believer in saying yes to pretty much everything and seeing where it goes. If there is a will there is a way, so I keep putting myself out there. Something will take shape but I don’t know what it is yet. That being said, there are a few things on my bucket list. I would love to do a Broadway show, maybe transforming into something different that I would never have imagined. There is an interesting journey to be had, where the scripted and non-scripted worlds may move together in some weird capacity. No one has seen this kind of new brand of Todd Talbot, no one has seen me put my tap shoes on, so it will be interesting to see what the world thinks of that when I’m tap dancing somewhere.

Are you building a career on this, what seems to be a very successful project- or do you intend to expand your repertoire of acting jobs (say the next James Bond)?

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For as much as I am a planner and I work day and night to create what is happening in my career, I have never been able to predict what is going to happen. I have internal strife about my career all the time but it has always been very kind to me. I was diversified enough in my acting career

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The Dan Walker Chronicles Tatooga Lake, Yukon, Canada to Victoria, B.C.

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Tuesday July 28, 2009 Miles for the day: 222 (357 km) Miles to date: 2,051 (3,301) The lodge owner joined us at breakfast – they have owned the lodge for about a year, and still have their home in Vancouver. His wife really likes it here, so becoming year round residents seems to be in their future.

The drive today was through beautiful mountainous country, and the road was quite good. There were few services of any kind – we had planned to gas up at the junction of the road to Stewart, but the gas station was no longer open. The hour’s drive to Stewart was with the gauge on empty.

The scenery on this stretch of road surpassed anything yet – there are few places in the world that would match it. Various glaciers could be seen leaning over the top of snow capped mountains, and one which flowed down to our level was separated from the road only by a tiny lake.

The road was good except for one stretch of construction.

In Stewart we gassed up and checked into the excellent Ripley Creek Lodge, the best accommodation this trip! The visitor’s bureau informed us the road to the huge Salmon Glacier had been washed out, and that evening or early morning were the times to

see bears fishing for salmon, so we hired a helicopter for a 20 minute tour of the Salmon Glacier. The New Zealand pilot gave us an excellent look at the miles of glaciers covering the surrounding mountains, and then landed on the road above the Salmon Glacier so we could explore & take photos. Later we flew close to some waterfalls before heading back. It was great value - in reality we were gone for almost an hour.

Next we drove 2 km (1.2 mi) to cross US Alaska border at Hyder. There is no US border post here. The road is good pavement from Stewart to the border, then immediately becomes intensely pot holed dirt. The Glacier Hotel & Bar is almost at the border, and around the corner on the only other street is the other hotel and bar. We stopped for a drink on the patio, where we chatted with the administrator of the area. He said the road washes out about every 11 years, as a lake gradually forms under the glacier and when it reaches a certain volume it lifts the ice and empties itself, washing out the bridge. Apparently there is only one other place in the world this phenomena occurs.

The drive to the bear viewing area was over brutally rough, potholed, gravel road - the Rolls was back to pretending it was an off road vehicle! Admission to the railing protected boardwalks along the river was $5 US or $6 Canadian, so we paid in US to avoid the unfavourable exchange rate. Eventually a black bear came down to the river, followed a short time later by a female grizzly bear then a big male grizzly, who the park rangers call “dog bear”. The female they call “Monika”.

Returning through the border we had to go through a quick, friendly check by Canada customs before heading to the local pub in Stewart for a drink.

Wednesday July 29, 2009 After the low point breakfast we made an early start to see the bears. The fellow collecting admissions the night before had kindly put today’s date on our pass, so we didn’t have to pay.

in the hundreds of thousands of dollars per month. The Canadian revenue authorities eventually figured out there was no way the 60 or 70 people who lived there could be smoking and drinking that much. Taxis and other vehicles came from Canadian communities hundreds of miles away to provision bootleggers with cheap duty free products.

There are few bears this year, as the salmon run is light – about 15% of what was expected. We were lucky this morning, as a young grizzly appeared, followed by a large female who sent the young bear galloping off down the river. Apparently grizzlies 3-4 years old are regularly picked on by older bears.

The first Canada Customs building lasted 6 or 7 months before a miner threw a stick of dynamite through the window when it was closed one night. It was another 5 years before another was built, this time with bullet proof glass. There are bullet holes from restless locals who are still not keen on a customs post being there.

A young cub walked under the raised boardwalk, collected a partly eaten fish on the riverbank and brought it below us to lie down and eat. Monika and Dog Bear showed up to give a great display of teamwork as Monika chased the fish downstream towards the waiting Dog Bear.

The fishing wasn’t easy due to the small number of salmon.

The local crowd moved to the other pub in the evening – it seems they spread the wealth in this small, friendly town.

Marilynn and I had dinner and went back to the hotel, where she went to bed and I headed out to close the alternate pub with our new friends. Minutes after paying my bill at 2 AM the power went out. This was the start of a blackout that lasted 36 hours. The billions of stars above were incredibly bright and clear as I groped my way back to the hotel in darkness.

We stopped at the Glacier Hotel for lunch on the way back, as locals told us they made good burgers. After a couple of beer a biker came in and asked if this was the place to get “Hyderized”. This requires the downing of a good sized shot of near pure alcohol without pause. This seemed a good idea, so I joined him in the ceremony before having a good talk about his long distance motorcycle trip and various roads we had both travelled.

Back in Stewart we parked at the hotel and walked to the pub. The locals have a big table on the patio where they come and go throughout the day. Yesterday we chatted while sitting at an adjacent table but today we were invited to join them. The afternoon was hot – a digital thermometer showed 43 C (109 F).

I asked about the lack of US customs & immigration, yet the presence of Canadian customs. There is nowhere to go on the US side – the road goes past where we saw the bears, then swings back into Canada to access some mining operations. It was explained that Hyder, which during the gold rush had a population of over 10,000, is a duty and tax free zone. Truckloads of liquor and cigarettes used to come into town, and the local merchants had sales

Thursday July 30, 2009 Miles for the day: 184 (296 km) Miles to date: 2,235 (3,597 km) We awoke to a town without electricity. There were large gas generators in the street with cables to local businesses so they could run cash registers and credit card machines, but little else. Breakfast offerings were very limited, but everyone in town pulled together to make the best of things.

When we left town the construction was finished, so the road was in great shape. Back on highway 37 we took a detour on a dirt road to an unmarked fish ladder and waterfall just before the Nass River Bridge, information we had gleaned from our conversations in the pub last night. Campers were quite amazed to see the Rolls on this four wheel drive road! It was fascinating to watch the spawning salmon leap into the air to get above the waterfall.

Highway 37 ends at

Kwanga, a native Indian community on the Prince George to Prince Rupert Highway where Marilynn’s brother Rick was in charge of installing a sewer system. We met him on the highway and followed him back to his trailer for a cold beer. There is no accommodation nearby, but Rick knew the owners of a hotel in New Hazelton, about 45 minutes away, where he arranged a reservation.

While we were eating at a local restaurant a very tired group of about 20 young firefighters with smoke blackened faces came in. They had been fighting one of the 2,000 fires burning throughout BC. In this hot weather as many as 200 new fires were starting daily, most from electrical storms.

After finishing dinner Rick and I ordered Caesars, a Canadian drink like a bloody Mary but with clamato juice instead of tomato juice. When the waiter asked if we wanted large or small ones Rick asked if there was more vodka in the large ones, and the waiter said yes, so we ordered large ones. Sometime later our not so sharp waiter returned with two Caesar salads! Caesar salads with vodka? He was promptly sent back to the bar!

The evening ended in a local pub, where a native Indian girl sent over a pitcher of beer for Rick and I because she liked the Rolls, so we invited her to join our table. From the general drift of conversation I think she was looking for a father for her next baby, but it was interesting.

Friday July 31, 2009

of town we could see traffic stopped for miles ahead.

The next hour was spent crawling ahead a few feet at a time; something the Rolls shows its displeasure at by overheating. Fortunately some rain showers brought cooler temperatures. The road had been closed since morning due to an accident.

Shortly before the accident scene a flat deck truck passed us going the other way with a blackened ball of metal on the back that had been a car. At the scene a truck trailer burned halfway down its length was a few feet back from the remains of what had been the cab. The truck floorboards were another few feet ahead of the cab. We were sure no one could have survived. A crane was lifting the remaining pieces of scorched metal onto trucks to haul away.

In our hotel in 100 Mile House we turned on the TV news. One of the first people at the accident scene had a video camera, which showed people running towards the wrecked vehicles to pull out passengers right after the crash.

The car doors were bent too badly to open, so someone backed their pickup truck to the wreck, attached chains to the doors and pulled them off.

Everyone had been dragged clear of the wrecks when the last video shot showed both vehicles erupt in an ball of flame, presumably from gas tanks exploding.

Amazingly, no one died. A pub supper was followed by another early night to bed.

Sunday August 2, 2009

Miles for the day: 231 (372 km) Miles to date: 2,466 (3,969)

Miles for the day: 268 (431 km) Miles to date: 3,006 (4,838)

The drive to Vanderhoof was broken by a gas and lunch stop in Burns Lake, where we also picked up some supplies at a supermarket. We checked into the nice Hillview Hotel, before having foot long hot dogs for dinner at a recommended take-out restaurant. We made an early night of it!

We gassed up at Clinton, the last gas stop for a long way.

I remembered driving this road on fumes during last year’s Rolls & Bentley rally! It is a pretty drive to the town of Lillooet, the former Mile 0 of the famous Caribou Road that took many prospectors north during the gold rush.

Today Lillooet was covered in smoke from the many forest fires burning in the mountains a short distance from town.

The residents were on 60 second evacuation notice, and in fact were evacuated the next day. Helicopters shuttled back and forth to the fire from a nearby lake, dumping water from large buckets suspended beneath them.

Saturday August 1, 2009 Miles for the day: 272 (438 km) Miles to date: 2,738 (4,406) The gas and lunch stop was at Quesnel, but shortly out

Once out of the fire zone the drive through snow capped mountains and along gorgeous lakes was beautiful. We stopped at a lake, where Marilynn walked a fair distance back looking for a perfect photo. A pickup driven by a native Indian man pulled up alongside her to ask why she was so far from her car. She said I was just up the road, but he said that wouldn’t do much good if she was attacked, as the area was full of bears and cougars. She made a quick retreat back to the car.

Lunch was in Pemberton, a town near the future site of the 2010 Olympics at Whistler Mountain. There was lots activity and road work on the highway to Vancouver.

Before Vancouver caught the Horseshoe Bay ferry to Nanaimo on Vancouver Island.

The wait of a little over an hour, passed pleasantly in a pub near the dock.

Monday August 3, 2009 Miles for the day: 106 (171 km) Miles to date: 3,112 (5,008)

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Rant Rant Mea Culpa

By Hank Leis

I have been under the mistaken impression that it is the natural desire of every human being to regain their sanity. The word “regain” of course implies that it was once there, but then somehow it was lost or stolen, so insanity prevailed when sanity abandoned us and decision-making and communication became more about getting one’s way than being understood or making things work. The reason for this state of affairs is that since there is no longer a self to monitor one’s own behaviour- we end up monitoring everyone else’s. We regard change in behaviour as that which is desired in someone else but rarely in ourselves.

We regard ourselves as being the gold standard.

The story that we tell ourselves is the story we tell others- and it is that our lives would be perfect if others do not constantly interfere to mess it up. I have experimented on myself and others to see how long and how permanent a commitment to change takes place. The simple act of changing the computer access number may take weeks, to months before it becomes automatic- and even then, regression to the mean takes place if not practiced regularly.

In asking one subject of my experiments to stop a specific activity for 30 days, even with his agreement and desire to change, this specific activity resurfaced within minutes of his agreement not to do it for 30 days. Moreover, it resurfaced each subsequent day.

Our behaviours make others crazy and in return they do the same to us. For this reason, we rarely succeed in our endeavours- and even those who manage to succeed, inevitably fail because we are unable to sustain the pressures of wanting to cut loose and be crazy rather than commit ourselves to the continued path of glory to the rewards that only sanity begets.

In the novel The Ninth Wave Eugene Burdick, the author, describes through his main character Mike, the need for human beings to just screw things up. There is something about us that makes us want to make others feel bad about themselves as we do about ourselves. As an observer of my lab rats, their actions seem untenable- but still I have some empathy for the

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rats. Otherwise it would be just an observation- this is how rats behave.

Even scientists who by scientific definition- should not be crazy in order to produce valid science- are. Science is as flawed as are the scientists- as is the purity of thoughts that we ascribe to the scientific method.

Once an organization begins to collapse (even a family) there is no internal mechanism (sometimes even external) that can stop it. There are too many flaws to adjust- and changing one behaviour exacerbates the influence of the others on the system. Detroit for example is a collapsed city- because its once enormous success inevitably brought out the toxicity and insane decision making, that brought it down.

No one was culpable. It may take as long as a century to create a whole new city (New Detroit) with a different base and systems that work. Detroit was too big to fail- but fail it did.

We are, in a sense more programmed to resent other’s success- than our own. The division between the rich and the poor is a manifestation of this mindset. Contentment is relative, not specific, and that profundity reflects our insanity. ISIL is not content unless it accomplishes its goal of total subordination of everyone else to its cause. ISIL is not an extreme example.

But at the individual level- who is going to monitor the excessive demand of our insanity, except for someone else’s equally insane will perhaps desirous to keep the lid over us. Perhaps it would be better we do it for ourselves, and the incentive might just be to live our life well.

Sir Ken Robinson, in his Ted Talk series, addresses the subjects of creativity, illness and free will- particularly in his speech entitled “Do Schools Kill Creativity?” The reason for beginning this Rant with the notion that sanity needs to be regained is because parents, teachers, professors and others who are in a position of authority having taken what we naturally have and imbedded it with craziness; but only because they love us, care about our fate and want to create a better world. Much more of that and it will be the insane running the asylum. Perhaps they already are.

The problem with my little diatribe is that almost anyone reading it will at least to some extent, agree- because they see all kinds of evidence around them to validate my statements on the human condition. Why a problem? Because they do not see it in themselves.

So here is the re-solution to it all- because I do understand and see my own insanities. I confess I am entirely to blame for everything. Let the games begin.

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By Dr Allison Patton

Dr Allison Patton

My name is Allison Patton. I am a founding partner and a naturopathic doctor at Mountainview Wellness Centre. I am also publisher of Metanoia Magazine.

We are one of the many supporters of Vancouver Web Fest and will be publishing interviews and photographs of the finalists and the winners of the Vancouver Web Fest as we did last year.

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3D Portrait Artist Stefan Pabst Interview by Salme Leis

Stefan Pabst, 36, has mastered the “trompe l’oeil”(“trick the eye”) technique to create amazing works of art that seem to jump off the page. This 3D artist has a YouTube channel and an official website where you can witness the works of art, each piece taking roughly three hours to make. Pabst also specilizes in portraits, including celebrities and other faces that inspire him on a daily basis.

You have said that you want to inspire people. Tell me about your life in Russia and the various influences that lead you into becoming an artist.

I was born in Russia (Siberia). Ever since I could hold a pencil, I’ve been drawing. My grandmother saw that my talent was apparent from the age of 5, when I drew complicated drawings from a 250-year old Bible. They were realistic elaborate pen and ink drawings, and their quality inspired me.

What is the connection between the images featured in your Bible in inspiring your 3D drawings?

In the Bible were elaborate pen drawings. This fascinated me and I discovered my love to draw. Then I was constantly drawing at school. I drew objects in the classroom, my classmates, the teacher speaking, even a bird on the windowsill.

How did your visualization from 2D to 3D take place?

Did a kind of epiphany occur or was it more a technical realization?

For eight years I had painted portraits day after day, more than 6000 faces. That was fun, but I was not challenged creatively. I wanted to do something new. So I started experimenting, trying to find something. I did not want to paint what had already been painted by thousands of other artists. I wanted to create something completely new and unprecedented. I wanted to leave the boundaries of the paper. So I started to paint 3D images. I put a glass of water on the table and tried to draw it from the side that looked the most genuine. After several attempts, I finally figured it out. The glass looked like the real thing!

You regarded yourself as a portrait artist but it is the creation of the 3D effect that has made you stand out and given you international fame. Is this transformation complete and has it given you what you were looking for?

I put a video of the glass painting on the Internet and that video has been viewed more than a million times. The picture appeared all over the world in various newspapers and on

television. Then every week, I had a new image painted and uploaded on my YouTube channel. As of now, my videos have been viewed more than 30 million times and I have about 200 thousand subscribers. Since then, I receive orders from large companies and advertising agencies who want me to paint their products in 3D. Orders even come in from book authors who want illustrations for book covers. My work is something new in the art world and it has been well received!

What were you doing to support yourself prior to becoming a full time professional artist?

After I finished school, I did not have much time for painting.

I started working in construction and although I was making a living, I knew I wanted something more. So I started to do what I did best. I began to draw. I wanted to make money and so I put ads in the newspaper saying “portrait painting from photograph to order!” The customers were satisfied and would recommended me to friends. I got more and more jobs through word-of-mouth.

After a few months, I was able to making a living by painting and feed my family. I am married and have three children.

Do you have a muse for inspiration? Where do you get your ideas from?

I am inspired to create something that is not there, but it looks as if it is really in front of you. For a minute anyway. I am always getting new ideas of what else I can paint in 3D: snakes, spiders, a hole in a sheet of paper, a little boy jumping, a dove, etc. I have more ideas as I can handle!

What do you see for yourself in the future?

In the future, I want to paint a full human portrait in 3D.

For more information on Stefan Pabst go to: www.facebook.com/stefan.pabst.167 or see his YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/PortraitPainterPabst

What is Primal Therapy?

From The Primal Scream by Dr. Arthur Janov

Painful things happen to nearly all of us early in life that get imprinted in all our systems which carry the memory forward making our lives miserable. It is the cause of depression, phobias, panic and anxiety attacks and a whole host of symptoms that add to the misery. We have found a way into those early emotional archives and have learned to have access to those memories, to dredge them up from the unconscious, allowing us to re-experience them in the present, integrate them and no longer be driven by the unconscious. For the first time in the history of psychology there is a way to access feelings, hidden away, in a safe way and thus to reduce human suffering. It is, in essence, the first science of psychotherapy.

- Dr. Arthur Janov

Basic Theory The following is taken from Why You Get Sick How You Get Well by Dr. Arthur Janov, and reviews some of the basic theory behind Primal Therapy.

“There is one neurosis, many manifestations and one cure ‘feeling’.”

Repressed pain divides the self in two and each side wars with the other. One is the real self, loaded with needs and pain that are submerged; the other is the unreal self that attempts to deal with the outside world by trying to fulfill unmet needs with neurotic habits or behaviors such as obsessions or addictions. The split of the self is the essence of neurosis and neurosis can kill.

That pain is the result of needs and feelings that have gone unfulfilled in early life. Those early unmet needs create what I call Primal Pain. Coming close to death at birth or feeling unloved as a child are examples of such Pain. The Pain goes unfelt at the time because the body is not equipped to experience it fully and deal with it. When the Pain is too much, it is repressed and stored away. When enough unresolved Pain has occurred, we lose access to your feelings and become neurotic.

“The number one killer in the world today is not cancer or heart disease, it is repression.”

Primal Therapy is important in the field of psychology, for it means, ultimately, the end to so much suffering in human beings. Discovering a way to treat Pain means there is a way to stop the misery in which so many of us are mired every day of our lives. After two decades of research, after dealing with thousands of patients with every imaginable psychological and physical affliction, we have arrived at a precise, predictable therapy that reduces the amount of time one spends in treatment and eliminates all the wasted motion. It is a therapy that has been investigated by independent scientists and the findings are consistent.

Primal Therapy is able to reduce or eliminate a host of physical and psychic ailments in a relatively short period of time with lasting results.

“Feeling Pain is the end of suffering.”

We have found ways to measure the ongoing presence and chronic effects of early trauma. We have observed time and again that even though it is not felt, the force of the memory remains in the system, reverberating on lower brain levels and moving against the body wherever it happens to be vulnerable. It shapes our interests, values, motivations and ideas. By reliving these traumas, patients can return back to early events and know with certainty how they formed adult behavior and symptoms.

“Repression is the hidden force behind illness.”

We can see how buried memories constantly activate the system, putting pressure on vital organs and creating disruptions which can eventually result in serious illness.

The problem for too many of us is that suddenly we find ourselves with afflictions or obsessions and have no idea how it all happened. We don’t know why we can’t sleep, why we can’t find a mate, why we are obsessed with this idea or that or why we don’t function as we want to, sexually. Primal Therapy can clarify these seeming mysteries.

It sometimes seems that everyone is suffering in their own way and few are aware of it. Television is riddled with ads for ibuprofen, aspirin, sleeping pills and other pain killers, implicitly acknowledging the Pain we are all in but without ever acknowledging it explicitly. Nothing dramatic happens but so many of us have developed this disease or that, from high blood pressure to allergies, colitis, anxiety attacks, asthma, circulation problems and heart palpitations (our history literally becomes palpable).

So many ailments that seem inexplicable -- depression

and phobias, ulcers and migraines -- may all stem from the same source. So might many of our personality quirks, our habits and behavior patterns, our drives and obsessions. One powerful piece of evidence for the fact of the same kinds of Pains being behind so many different afflictions and behavioral problems is that the same kinds of tranquilizers or pain killers are used to treat all of them.

In the fields of medicine and psychotherapy today doctors deal with symptoms. Just look at the DSM-IV, the psychiatric diagnostic and statistical manual, with page after page of every conceivable variation of neurosis.

And in Washington, D.C., they have erected monuments to symptoms, a building for each one “drug abuse, alcoholism, heart disease, cancer” and so on. Experts specialize in treating colitis, ulcers, migraines, diabetes, high blood pressure, asthma, anxiety, depression, marital problems, eating disorders, etc.; knowing more and more about narrower and narrower subjects. They add salt, take away salt, add thyroid, remove thyroid, speculate about the reasons for one’s allergies or unhappiness, analyze dreams and nearly always prescribe medication.

They are trying to normalize the symptom instead of normalizing the person who has it; trying to normalize the manifestation instead of the system that makes it manifest.

Delving deep into the unconscious has allowed us to clarify the basis of adult behavior. We have a good idea what lies in the unconscious and it doesn’t seem to be the mystical emporium so often described. We have learned in Primal Therapy that irrespective of whether the Pain is manifest in the body or in the mind, the person is not himself; there is a dislocation of function which is global. Both emotional and physical pain deform cells and cause alterations which show up in measurements of vital signs, brain function and chemistry, the immune system, hormones, peripheral blood flow and in a person’s behavior. Everything is askew.

Primal Therapy works in reverse of the normal approach.

Instead of working from symptoms to possible causes, we work from causes to symptoms. The focus is always deep.

From this approach we have developed a more profound understanding of who we are and what drives us, our basic, hidden, unconscious motivations.

The Discovery of Primal Pain “Some years ago, I heard something that was to change the course of my professional life and the lives of my patients.

What I heard may change the nature of psychotherapy as it is now known --an eerie scream welling up from the depths of a young man lying on the floor during a therapy session.

I can liken it only to what one might hear from a person about to be murdered. This book is about that scream and

what it means in terms of unlocking the secrets of neurosis. The young man who emitted it will be called Danny Wilson, a twenty-two-year-old college student. He was not psychotic, nor was he what is termed hysteric; he was a poor student, withdrawn, sensitive, and quiet.”

“During a lull in our group therapy session, he told us a story about a man named Ortiz who was currently doing an act on the London stage in which he paraded around in diapers drinking bottles of milk.

Throughout his number, Ortiz is shouting, “Mommy!

Daddy! Mommy! Daddy!” at the top of his lungs. At the end of his act he vomits. Plastic bags are passed out, and the audience is requested to follow suit.

“Danny’s fascination with the act impelled me to try something elementary, but which previously had escaped my notice. I asked him to call out, “Mommy! Daddy!”

Danny refused, saying that he couldn’t see the sense in such a childish act, and frankly, neither could I. But I persisted, and finally, he gave in. As he began, he became noticeably upset. Suddenly he was writhing on the floor in agony. His breathing was rapid, spasmodic; “Mommy!

Daddy!” came out of his mouth almost involuntarily in loud screeches. He appeared to be in a coma or hypnotic state. The writhing gave way to small convulsions, and finally, he released a piercing, deathlike scream that rattled the walls of my office. The entire episode lasted only a few minutes, and neither Danny nor I had any idea what had happened. All he could say afterward was: ‘I made it!

I don’t know what, but I can feel.’

“What happened to Danny baffled me for months. I had done standard insight therapy for seventeen years, both as a psychiatric social worker and as a psychologist.

I was trained in a Freudian psychiatric clinic, as well as in a not-so-Freudian Veterans Administration department.

For several years I had been on the staff of the psychiatric department of the Los Angeles Children’s Hospital.

At no time during that period had I witnessed anything comparable. Since I had taped the group session that night, I listened to the recording frequently over the next several months in an effort to understand what had happened. But to no avail.

“Before long I had a chance to learn more about it.

“A thirty-year-old man, whom I shall call Gary Hillard, was relating with great feeling how his parents had always criticized him, had never loved him, and had generally messed up his life. I urged him to call out for them; he demurred. He ‘knew’ that they didn’t love him, so what was the point? I asked him to indulge my whim. Halfheartedly, he started calling for Mommy and Daddy. Soon I noticed he was breathing faster and deeper. His calling turned into an involuntary act that led to writhing, near-convulsions, and finally to a scream.

“Both of us were shocked. What I had believed was an accident, an idiosyncratic reaction of one patient, had just been repeated in almost identical fashion.

“Afterward, when he quieted down, Gary was flooded with insights. He told me that his whole life seemed to have suddenly fallen into place. This ordinarily unsophisticated man began transforming himself in front of my eyes into what was virtually another human being. He became alert; his sensorium opened up; he seemed to understand himself.

“Because of the similarities of the two reactions, I began listening even more carefully to the tapes I had made of Danny’s and Gary’s sessions. I tried to analyze what common factors or techniques produced the reactions.

Slowly some meaning began to emerge. Over the next months I tried various modifications and approaches in asking the patient to call for his parents. Each time there occurred the same dramatic results.

“I have come to regard that scream as the product of central and universal pains which reside in all neurotics.

I call them Primal Pains because they are the original, early hurts upon which all later neurosis is built. It is my contention that these pains exist in every neurotic each minute of his later life, irrespective of the form of his neurosis. These pains often are not consciously felt because they are diffused throughout the entire system where they affect body organs, muscles, the blood and lymph system and, finally, the distorted way we behave.

“Primal Therapy is aimed at eradicating these pains.

It is revolutionary because it involves overthrowing the neurotic system by a forceful upheaval. Nothing short of that will eliminate neurosis, in my opinion.

“Primal Theory is an outgrowth of my observations about why specific changes take place. Theory, I must emphasize, did not precede clinical experience. When I watched Danny and Gary writhing on the floor in the throes of Primal Pain, I had no idea what to call it. The theory has been expanded and deepened by the continuing reports of one patient after another who has been cured of neurosis.

This book is an invitation to explore the revolution they began.”

Neurosis The following paragraphs cover Dr. Janov’s theory of neurosis: We all are creatures of need. We are born needing, and the vast majority of us die after a lifetime of struggle with many of our needs unfulfilled. These needs are not excessive--to be fed, kept warm and dry, to grow and develop at our own pace, to be held and caressed, and to be stimulated. These Primal needs are the central reality of the infant. The neurotic process begins when these needs go unmet for any length of time. A newborn does not know that he should be picked up when he cries or that he should not be weaned too early, but when his needs go unattended, he hurts.

At first the infant will do everything in his power to fulfill his needs. He will reach up to be held, cry when he is hungry, kick his legs, and thrash about to have his needs recognized. If his needs go unfulfilled for a length of time, if he is not held, changed or fed, he will suffer continuous pain either until he can do something to get his parents to satisfy him or until he shuts off the pain by shutting off his need. If his pain is drastic enough, death may intervene, as shown in studies of some institutional babies.

Since the infant cannot himself overcome the sensation of hunger (that is, he cannot go to the refrigerator) or find substitute affection, he must separate his sensations (hunger, wanting to be held) from consciousness.

This separation of oneself from one’s needs and feelings is an instinctive maneuver in order to shut off excessive pain. We call it the split. The organism splits in order to protect its continuity. This does not mean that unfulfilled needs disappear, however. On the contrary, they continue throughout life exerting a force, channeling interests, and producing motivation toward the satisfaction of those needs. But because of their pain, the needs have been suppressed in the consciousness, and so the individual must pursue substitute gratifications. He must, in short, pursue the satisfaction of his needs symbolically. Because he was not allowed to express himself, he may be compelled to try to get others to listen and understand him later in life.

Not only are unattended needs that persist to the point of intolerability separated from consciousness, but their sensations become relocated to areas where greater control or relief can be provided. Thus, feelings can be relieved by urination (later by sex) or controlled by the suppression of deep breathing. The unfulfilled infant is learning how to

disguise and change his needs into symbolic ones. As an adult he may not feel the need to suck his mother’s breast owing to abrupt early weaning but will be an incessant smoker. His need to smoke is a symbolic need, and the essence of neurosis is the pursuit of symbolic satisfactions.

Neurosis is a symbolic behavior in defense against excessive psychobiologic pain. Neurosis is selfperpetuating because symbolic satisfactions cannot fulfill real needs. In order for real needs to be satisfied, they must be felt and experienced. Unfortunately, pain has caused those needs to be buried. When they are buried, the organism goes into a continuous state of emergency alert. That alert state is tension. It propels the infant, and later the adult, toward the satisfaction of need in any way possible. This emergency alert is necessary to ensure the infant’s survival; if he were to give up hope of ever having his needs fulfilled, he might die. The organism continues to live at any cost, and that cost is usually neurosis--shutting down unmet bodily needs and feelings because the pain is too great to withstand.

Whatever is natural is a real need--to grow and develop at one’s own pace, for example. This means, as a child, not being weaned too soon; not being forced to walk or talk too early; not being forced to catch a ball before one’s neurological apparatus can do so comfortably. Neurotic needs are unnatural ones--they develop from the non satisfaction of real needs. We are not born in this world needing to hear praise, but when a child’s real efforts are denigrated virtually from birth, when he is made to feel that nothing he can do will be good enough for him to be loved by his parents, he may develop a craving for praise.

Similarly, the need to express oneself as a child can be suppressed, even by the lack of anyone listening. Such denial may turn into a need to talk incessantly.

A loved child is one whose natural needs are fulfilled.

Love takes his pain away. An unloved child is the one who hurts because he is unfulfilled. A loved child has no need for praise because he has not been denigrated. He is valued for what he is, not for what he can do to satisfy his parents’ needs. A loved child does not grow up into an adult with an insatiable craving for sex. He has been held and caressed by his parents and does not need to use sex to satisfy that early need. Real needs flow from inside out, not the reverse. The need to be held and caressed is part of the need to be stimulated. The skin is our largest sense organ and requires at least as much stimulation as other sense organs. Disastrous consequences can occur when there is insufficient stimulation early in life. Organ systems may begin to atrophy without stimulation; conversely, as Krech has shown [D. Krech, E. Bennett, M. Diamond, and

M. Rosenzweig, “Chemical and Anatomical Plasticity of Brain,” Science, Vol. 146 (October 30, 1964), pp. 610-19], with proper stimulation they may develop and grow. There must be constant mental and physical stimulation.

Unfulfilled needs supersede any other activity in the human until they are met. When needs are met, the child can feel. He can experience his body and his environment.

When needs are not met, the child experiences only tension, which is feeling disconnected from consciousness.

Without that necessary connection, the neurotic does not feel. Neurosis is the pathology of feeling.

Neurosis does not begin at the instant a child suppresses his first feeling, but we might say that the neurotic process does. The child shuts down in stages.

Each suppression and denial of need turn the child off a bit more. But one day there occurs a critical shift in which the child is primarily turned off, in which he is more unreal than real, and at that critical point we may judge him to be neurotic.

From that time on, he will operate on a system of dual selves; the unreal and real selves. The real self is the real needs and feelings of the organism. The unreal self is the cover of those feelings and becomes the facade required by neurotic parents in order to fulfill needs of their own.

A parent who needs to feel respected because he has been humiliated constantly by his parents, may demand obsequious and respecting children who do not sass him or say anything negative. A babyish parent may demand that his child grow up too fast, do all the chores, and in reality become adult long before he is ready--so that the parent may continue to be the cared-for baby.

Demands for the child to be unreal are not often explicit.

Nevertheless, parental need becomes the child’s implicit command. The child is born into his parents’ needs and begins struggling to fulfill them almost from the moment he is alive. He may be pushed to smile (to appear happy), to coo, to wave bye-bye, later to sit up and walk, still later

to push himself so that his parents can have an advanced child. As the child develops, the requirements upon him become more complex. He will have to get A’s, to be helpful and do his chores, to be quiet and undemanding, not to talk too much, to say bright things, to be athletic. What he will not do is be himself. The thousands of operations that go on between parents and children which deny the natural Primal needs of the child mean that the child will hurt. They mean that he cannot be what he is and be loved.

Those deep hurts I call Primal Pains (or Pains). Primal Pains are the needs and feelings which are repressed or denied by consciousness. They hurt because they have not been allowed expression or fulfillment. These Pains all add up to: I am not loved and have no hope of love when I am really myself.

Each time a child is not held when he needs to be, each time he is shushed, ridiculed, ignored, or pushed beyond his limits, more weight will be added to his pool of hurts.

This pool I call the Primal Pool. Each addition to his pool makes the child more unreal and neurotic.

As the assaults on the real system mount, they begin to crush the real person. One day an event will take place which, though not necessarily traumatic in itself - giving the child to a baby sitter for the hundredth time - will shift the balance between real and unreal and render the child neurotic. That event I call the major Primal Scene. It is a time in the young child’s life when all the past humiliations, negations, and deprivations accumulate into an inchoate realization: “There is no hope of being loved for what I am.” It is then that the child defends himself against that catastrophic realization by becoming split from his feelings, and slips quietly into neurosis.

The realization is not a conscious one. Rather, the child begins acting around his parents, and then elsewhere, in the manner expected by them. He says their words and does their thing. He acts unreal--i.e., not in accord with the reality of his own needs and desires. In a short time the neurotic behavior becomes automatic.

Neurosis involves being split, disconnected from one’s feelings. The more assaults on the child by the parents, the deeper the chasm between real and unreal. He begins to speak and move in prescribed ways, not to touch his body in proscribed areas (not to feel himself literally), not to be exuberant or sad, and so on. The split, however, is necessary in a fragile child. It is the reflexive (i.e., automatic) way the organism maintains its sanity. Neurosis, then, is the defense against catastrophic reality in order to protect the development and psychophysical integrity of the organism.

Neurosis involves being what one is not in order to get what doesn’t exist. If love existed, the child would be what

he is, for that is love-letting someone be what he or she is. Thus, nothing wildly traumatic need happen in order to produce neurosis. It can stem from forcing a child to punctuate every sentence with “please” and “thank you,” to prove how refined the parents are. It can also come from not allowing the child to complain when he is unhappy or to cry. Parents may rush in to quell sobs because of their anxiety. They may not permit anger--“nice girls don’t throw tantrums; nice boys don’t talk back”--to prove how respected the parents are; neurosis may also arise from making a child perform, such as asking him to recite poems at a party or solve abstract problems. Whatever form it takes, the child gets the idea of what is required of him quite soon. Perform, or else. Be what they want, or else--no love, or what passes for love: approval, a smile, a wink. Eventually the act comes to dominate the child’s life, which is passed in performing rituals and mouthing incantations in the service of his parents’ requirements.

It is the terrible hopelessness of never being loved that causes the split. The child must deny the realization that his needs will never be filled no matter what he does. He cannot live knowing that he is despised or that no one is really interested in him. It is intolerable for him to know that there is no way to make his father less critical or his mother kind. The only way he has of defending himself is by developing substitute needs, which are neurotic.

Let us take the example of a child who is being continually denigrated by his parents. In the schoolroom he may chatter incessantly (and have the teacher come down hard on him); in the schoolyard he may brag nonstop (and alienate the other children). Later in life he may have an uncontrollable craving for and loudly demand something as patently symbolic (to the onlooker) as the “best table in the house” in an expensive restaurant.

Getting the table cannot undo the “need” he has to feel important. Otherwise, why repeat his performance every time he eats out? Split off from an authentic unconscious need (to be recognized as a worthwhile human being), he derives the “meaning” of his existence from being greeted by name by various maitre d’hotel in fancy restaurants.

Children are born, then, with real biological needs which, for one reason or another, their parents do not fulfill. It may be that some mothers and fathers simply do not recognize the needs of their child or that those parents, out of a desire not to make any mistakes, follow the advice of some august authority in child rearing and pick up their child by the clock, feed him by a timetable an airline would envy, wean him according to a flow chart, and toilet train him as soon as possible.

Nevertheless, I do not believe that either ignorance or methodological zeal accounts for the bumper crops of neurosis our species has been producing since history began. The major reason I have found that children become neurotic is that their parents are too busy struggling with unmet infantile needs of their own.

Thus a woman may become pregnant in order to be babiedwhich is what she has actually needed to be all her life. As long as she is the center of attention, she is relatively happy.

Once delivered of her child, she may become acutely depressed. Being pregnant would serve her need and have nothing to do with producing a new human being on this earth. The child may even suffer for being born and depriving his mother of the one time in her life when she could make others care. Since she is not ready for motherhood, her milk may dry up, leaving her newborn with the same raft of early deprivations which she herself may have suffered. In this way the sins of the parents are visited on the children in a seemingly never-ending cycle.

The attempt of the child to please his parents I call the struggle. The struggle begins first with parents and later generalizes to the world. It spreads beyond the family because the person carries his deprived needs with him wherever he goes, and those needs must be acted out. He will seek out parent substitutes with whom he will play.

Psychological needs are neurotic needs because they do not serve the real requirements of the organism. The man in the restaurant, for example, who must have the best table in order to feel important is acting on a need which developed because he was unloved, because his real efforts in life were either ignored or suppressed. He may have a need to be recognized by name by the maitre d’ because early in life he was referred only to by category-“son.” This means he was dehumanized by his parents and is trying to get a human response symbolically through others. Being treated as a unique human being by his parents would obviate this so-called need to feel important. What the neurotic does is put new labels (the need to feel important) on old unconscious needs (to be loved and valued). In time he may come to believe that these labels are real feelings and that their pursuit is necessary.

The fascination of seeing our names in lights or on the printed page is but one indication of the deep deprivation in many of us of individual recognition. Those achievements, no matter how real, serve as a symbolic quest for parental love. Pleasing an audience becomes the struggle.

Struggle is what keeps a child from feeling his hopelessness. It lies in overwork, in slaving for high grades, in being the performer. Struggle is the neurotic’s hope of being loved. Instead of being himself, he struggles to become another version of himself. Sooner or later the child comes to believe that this version is the real him. The “act” is no longer voluntary and conscious; it is automatic and unconscious. It is neurotic.

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Many parents make the mistake of not picking up their child sufficiently out of fear of “spoiling” him. By ignoring him, this is precisely what they do, and later they will be swamped by the child’s insatiable demands for symbolic substitutes--until the day they crack down on him. The consequences of that are both inevitable and dreadful.

Out of his neurotic drama, he will make almost anyone (including his children) into parental figures who will fill his needs. If a father was suppressed verbally and was never allowed to say much, his children are going to be listeners. They, in turn, having to listen so much, will have suppressed needs for someone to hear them; it may well be their own children.

The focus of struggle shifts from real need to neurotic need, from body to mind, because mental needs occur when basic needs are denied. But mental needs are not real needs. Indeed, there are no purely psychological needs.

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Dr. Arthur Janov American Psychologist, Psychotherapist and the creator of Primal Therapy, Academic Hall of Fame.

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The Institute is pleased to publish this exploratory approach to the analysis of Canadian educational policy.

Mr. Wadsworth brings to his subject the point of view of an observer outside the organized structure of education. From this vantage point he examines policy in education from three distinct but overlapping viewpoints, which he describes as the rational, the pragmatic, and the research approaches.

Such an analysis is of particular consequence today. Education costs have reached the point where the taxpaying public is questioning the entire educational structure, and at the same time, many within the structure have expressed profound discontent. The need for fresh analyses of our schools and school systems is paramount.

Mr. Wadsworth’s study is being published in order that his ideas and recommendations may receive attention.

R. W. B. Jackson, Director.

The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education Toronto, June 1971

Continued from previous issue Normative forecasting is active rather than passive; it attempts to generate a range of alternatives to the present activities so that advantage may be taken of the opportunities afforded by the future. Normative forcasting functions by questioning the fundamental nature of the activity with a concern for substantive detail rather than with the gross manifestation of the activity. It attempts to compensate for the failure of the imagination which may be stated via Clarke’s law. (“When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.”)

Therefore, normative forecasting is an essential activity for

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the policymaker in its essential attempt to stimulate innovation and breed extensive research. The main disadvantage of normative forecasting is that it is of little immediate pragmatic use, although it is indispensable to the policy analyst. ln summary, descriptive forecasting attempts to reduce the surprises of the immediate future, while normative forecasting is an attempt to take advantage of the opportunities afforded by the more distant future.

Descriptive forecasting in education. That the results of descriptive forecasting in Canadian education, particularly at the postsecondary level, form much of the concern at federal-provincial meetings indicates the immediate usefulness of the technique. Since much of these results have been comprehensively reported elsewhere, it is felt that little purpose will be served in repeating the typical results here.

While the disadvantages of the descriptive forecasting approach have been listed above, the final summation - that it tends to preserve the status quo of an existing policy or practice (even if the results of the forecast are somewhat frightening so far as their ultimate extrapolation is concerned) - implies that Canadian education, particularly in its higher forms, is the provision of a public good as a reaction to expressed demand. The elasticity of this demand has been discussed extensively elsewhere from several points of view.

A significant advantage of the descriptive forecasting approach, in the event of its producing a very frightening description of the enormous magnitude of expenditures to be expected by pushing the extrapolation towards the ultimate, is its ability to act as a forcing function for normative forecasting. It is difficult, though, to determine at what stage this switchover will take effect.

Normative forecasting in education. The need for performing normative forecasting in Canadian education can be appreciated readily from the results of descriptive forecasting and much of the analysis presented in the previous sections. This has not only questioned the desirable trend in Canadian education but has also questioned its fundamental justifications.

The policymaker therefore needs the results of the policy analysts’ consideration of the opportunities that may be taken advantage of in the future. The possibility of redirecting Canadian educational effort in a fundamental and revolutionary manner is implied.

Although it is not possible within the confines of this report to perform normative forecasting on Canadian education, certain areas of opportunity must be stressed. These opportunities arise from simple considerations of normative technological forecasting techniques that are now very well documented. One of the techniques that has immediate application to the field of education is Delphi. Scenario writing has been extensively practiced by Kahn, who points out that, although emphasis on education opens the possibility for increased personal creativity and fulfillment, continued rapid economic growth, and (perhaps even more important) peoples’ vocations being interesting, intellectually demanding, and filled with nonmonetary rewards, there can be serious problems associated with such a trend.

An overemphasis on formal education can result in shallow intellectualism and mandarinism (the intellectual as “father and mother of his country“); in an overemphasis on book learning (conceptual world and documented information rather than existential world and perceived or orally transmitted information); in an expansion and prolongation of the adolescent subculture; in excessive theorizing;

in meritocracy, parochialism, alienation from one’s own culture or subculture, and other alienation from the practical world. In view of Kahn ‘s observations, it is interesting to highlight the following specific opportunities as areas for analysis.

A fascinating scenario has been produced by Young in The Rise of the Meritocracy. The reason that substantial notice should be taken of this semi-fictional work is that an extrapolation of egalitarian socialistic trends for the provision of equal educational opportunity for all emphasizes the fact that all men are not equal.

Meritocracy would certainly provide for a natural social structure, in a society concerned with monetary equity. Meritocracy is another simple solution to the inefficiency of selection presently practiced throughout the North American educational system.

There is much interest in the possibility of rendering the educational system less labor-intensive, by placing greater emphasis upon the use of technology -computers and visual aids that approximate individualized instruction. Perhaps the most promising use of the computer within the teaching system is as a research tool to determine precisely what the mechanism, efficacy, and efficiency of learning are. Appendix A is a superficial review of the field of computer-aided instruction.

The fact that technology and society are evolving at a rate that forces rapid obsolescence of formal academic qualifications emphasizes the aspect of on-the-job training, learning by doing, and other kinds of education that are essentially nonformal. The proliferation of the printed word in the inexpensive paperback further exaggerates this nonformal aspect of learning. Perhaps the function of the formal education system will be to render the product flexible by instilling the characteristic of educable rather than educated. Educability is particularly important at the lower levels of meritocracy.

The ability of the mass media to have enormous social and political effect renders them a fruitful area of investigation so far as their ultimate possibilities in the provision of education, going beyond closedcircuit TV, etc., are concerned.

A consideration of the future of education via descriptive forecasting emphasizes the need for the greater utilization of normative forecasting approaches. Normative forecasting allows advantage to be taken of opportunities that are revealed by a detailed analytical study of the processes of education, together with their trends. By this mechanism, the policymaker not only is not taken by surprise by the future but may be presented with alternative policies by which he can direct education in the direction in which he wants it to go.

Conflicts in Education The purpose of examining conflicts within the current education system is to derive a deeper insight into the nature of the educational process itself and perhaps to identify the implicit objectives of contemporary education.

There would seem to be few significant conflicts within the contemporary educational system that are peculiarly Canadian, and therefore the following discussions are based upon general North American experience. It is not too difficult to identify four significant areas of conflict: the struggle for the control of the educational system, the myth of the efficacy of the provision of equal opportunity, the struggle between the role of the school and the role of the family, and the disequilibrium that exists between the theory and practice of education as has been produced by the comparatively sudden widespread practice of education.

The politics of education. In view of the economic significance of education, it is not too surprising that there should be political struggles to gain the alleged concomitant power associated with control of the system.

In other words, the educational system is politically interesting merely because it is big. Naturally, political struggles would be expected to be veiled in altruism associated with motherhood and the welfare of the carefully reared child.

MacKinnon has incisively pointed out that the educational system is the largest instrument in the modern slate for telling people what to do. Since it enrolls five-year-olds and tries to direct their mental and much of their physical, social, and moral development for twelve or more of the most formative years of their lives, its importance is irresistible as another tool for political influence and power. With some exaggeration, it can be presented that the state gives no power of their own to the schools; and the teaching profession is a kind of lowdrawer civil service, trained, licensed, hired, inspected, and directed by the state. No other activity, institution, or profession is in this extraordinary position; education in North America is now the most completely socialized activity in modern society. Therefore, superficially, it can be appreciated that the control of the educational system is a very attractive political aspiration.

It should be appreciated that, even if it were convincingly demonstrated that education had no significant ability to indoctrinate, the education system would still be politically attractive merely because of its size!

Historically, the essentially differing aims of centralized and decentralized administration of education have been recognized as, in the former case, to indoctrinate for political reasons, and in the latter, to preserve the advantages of being able to adapt the pedagogical process to different needs, abilities, and interests of the pupil or to the various environrnents in which the live. In a federal political system, there may be overtones of both. The ideal Simons-Stigler view of federalism would probably

favor decentralization of education. The attractiveness of this form of federalism lies in its ability to preserve and encourage individualism, by allowing like people to migrate freely and congregate into local, provincial, or other types of political jurisdiction. Here the role of majorities will tend towards unanimity, since minorities can always emigrate to political units of similarly inclined people. Perhaps the realities of the Canadian federal system would treat education as pedagogically justifiable of decentralization as a mask for expected political gains.

Although the present Canadian constitution allows the provinces to maintain sovereign authority over education taking place within their boundaries, this division of authority cannot be maintained on rational grounds. These rational grounds are the increasing interdependency of all regions in a modern state and the desirable nonrestriction of mobility of population between all regions. Perhaps a certain amount of reason and expediency has allowed some central government encroachment in certain aspects of vocational training and higher educa tion, but it is considered unlikely that provincial political reality will allow any central form of control in education. This is confirmed by the definition of a federal state as one where there is an agreed division of sovereign authority between the central and regional gover ments, and where the basis for this agreement is political bargaining. Since education is such a significant economic involvement (which promises to increase its significance even more), and therefore politically desirable to control, it is unlikely that such a strong political bargaining position will be easily relinquished by the provinces. In all reality, even though central control of education is a desirable, rational requirement in Canada, such political power would be relinquished only by some extreme occurrence -such as would render the control of education politically unattractive by establishing convincingly to the electorate that education was somehow negatively efficacious and harmful to the individual, society, and the economy!

Indubitably, the study of the politics of education generally and of Canadian education particularly will be a fruitful source of material useful in the derivation of the implied objectives of Canadian education and in the determination of the political feasibility of a proposed alternative policy. Usdan would seem to represent the latest reading in this particular area.

Left:The late Dr. Jack Wadsworth Centre: Julie Yap Wadsworth with daughter, Jackie Wadsworth Right: Hank Leis and daughter of the late Jack Wadsworth, Jackie Wadsworth Jackie Wadsworth was born on Jack Wadsworth’s birthday, 70 days after Jack Wadsworth’s passing.

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