Jerry

I'd like to meet:

philosophers, scientists, psychologists, sociologists, physicists, historians, anthropologists, astronomers, educators, writers, motivational speakers, social activists, musicians, artists, movie directors, actors, celebrities, comedians, certain politicians, talk show hosts, radio personalities, agnostics, atheists, free thinkers, "enlightened believers", open-minded people of any religion, anyone who likes having meaningful conversation, deep or critical thinkers, intelligent and creative people who want to make a difference, people who experience social anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, schizophrenia, or other mental or emotional difficulties, people who want to improve any of the negative conditions in our world, anyone else who wants to meet or talk with me.......................................................... ............................................................ .

............................................................ ........................................................... "The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably, thought and act." ~Orison Swett Marden ............................................................ ..........................................................."Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters." ~Nathaniel Emmons ............................................................ ..........................................................."Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits. He possesses power of various sorts which he habitually fails to use." ~William James....................................................... ............................................................ ...."I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor." ~Henry David Thoreau..................................................... ............................................................ ......"There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion." ~Carl Jung........................................................ ............................................................ ..."If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves." ~Thomas A. Edison...................................................... ............................................................ ..... "The past is but the beginning of a beginning."
~H.G. Wells....................................................... ............................................................ ....
We Have Infinite Possibilities_______________________________________________ _______________
"Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities." ~Robert H. Schuller ............................................................ ............. "Our aspirations are our possibilities." ~Robert Browning ............................................................ ............. "Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities." ~Orison Swett Marden ............................................................ ............. "We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do." ~Dale Carnegie ............................................................ ............. "The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good." ~Brian Tracy ............................................................ .............

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Music:

The Beatles, XTC, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Modern English, REM, A Flock of Seagulls, Til Tuesday, Bauhaus, Love and Rockets, The Dream Academy, House of Freaks, David Bowie, Strawberry Alarm Clock, The Sundays, U2, Simon and Garfunkel, The Cure, The Damned, Pink Floyd, Enya, Enigma, The Church, Depeche Mode, The Smiths, Echo and the Bunnymen, Dido, Avril Lavigne, The Primitives, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Velvet Underground, The Smithereens, Concrete Blonde, Duran Duran, Book of Love

"Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual." ~Arthur Koestler

"The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility."
~John Lennon

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Movies:

Dead Poets Society, Oh God!, Phenomenon, The Fisher King, I.Q., The Fountainhead, The Yellow Submarine, Imagine: John Lennon, The Doors, The Wall, Hard Day's Night, The Monkees-Head, Lord of the Flies, The Lawnmower Man, Groundhog Day, Raise Your Voice, It's a Wonderful Life, The Lion King, Rain Man, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, A Beautiful Mind, 18 Again!, Shallow Hal

Here is The U.S. vs. John Lennon
(a great movie!)

Howard Roark's courtroom speech in the film The Fountainhead..

The ending scene of
Dead Poets Society

The full-length movie
The Yellow Submarine
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Books:

The Mind in the Making, The Human Comedy, and The Humanizing of Knowledge, by James Harvey Robinson (each of which is out of print, but if you desire you can click here to read The Mind in the Making), all of Ayn Rand's non-fiction, most books by Bertrand Russell, Awaken the Giant Within by Anthony Robbins (click here to listen to this book), The Enneagram books by Don Richard Riso, Reason and Nature by Morris Raphael Cohen, Intelligence in the Modern World: The Philosophy of John Dewey, Socrates Cafe by Christopher Phillips, The End of Faith by Sam Harris, The Big Bang Never Happened by Eric J. Lerner, The Ominous Parallels by Leonard Peikoff, The Human Animal by Phil Donahue, The Birth of God by James Kavenaugh, On the Bible, Religion, and Morality by Steve Allen, Ideas and Opinions by Albert Einstein, The Learning Revolution by Gordon Dryden and Jeanette Vos, I'm OK, You're OK by Thomas A. Harris, The Myth of Neurosis by Garth Wood, Why You Act the Way You Do by Tim LaHaye, From Panic to Power by Lucinda Bassett, Fully Human, Fully Alive by John Powell
"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries." ~Rene Descartes "Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge." ~Abraham Joshua Heschel "Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance." ~George Bernard Shaw

Heroes:

"Self-trust is the essense of heroism."
~Ralph Waldo EmersonThere are various individuals no longer living I would have loved to have met. I'm not sure I would consider them all my "heroes", but they have had a great deal of influence on me, affected my view of the world, or I just admire them a lot: John Lennon, Salvador Dali, Jim Morrison, Timothy Leary (well, actually I did meet him at his book signing in 94), Ayn Rand, Bertrand Russell, James Harvey Robinson, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Galileo, Isaac Newton, Giordano Bruno, Carl Sagan, Morris Raphael Cohen, Sigmund Freud, Gandhi, Martin Luther King,Jr., Jim Henson, Dr. Seuss, Walt Disney "It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."
~Albert Einstein
"Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." ~H.G. Wells..

"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions."
~Oliver Wendell Holmes
"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives."
~Henry David Thoreau
Here is "How to Operate your Brain" by Timothy Leary.
Here is Carl Sagan speaking about the future of civilization.
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This is a video montage involving Ayn Rand and popular culture, set to the song "Mission" by Rush.
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.. You scored as Cultural Creative. Cultural Creatives are
probably the newest group to enter this realm. You are
a modern thinker who tends to shy away from organized
religion but still feels as if there is something greater
than ourselves. You are very spiritual, even if you are
not religious. Life has a meaning outside of the rational.
Cultural Creative

Existentialist

Modernist

Materialist

Postmodernist

Idealist

Romanticist

Fundamentalist