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\tIt\nwas Friday. There was school in the morning for Omicron… However,\nhis mind was focused on the afternoon when he would be with Aura. \nSteve, Sylvia… and Rex and Dorothea Meadowlark would be meeting\nwith Philemon and Candace Jasmine of Jupiter Nation University\nTribe…to discuss progress of the report Love Song Band was\npreparing for the President. Philemon was an I-type…a professor at\nthe University in sociology, specializing in the theory of\ninstitutions. Candace was an A-type… a biologist, conducting\nresearch for the University concerning the behavior of rats. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\tThe\nclothes the Jasmines wore contrasted sharply with the robes and\ntunics worn by Golden Sun Band. In the history of the Western world,\nrapid rise from the darkness of the early Middle Ages was due to the\napplication of two phases of intellectual forces…First, there was\nthe introduction of ideas from the past in a rapid fashion during the\nRenaissance…The powerful first steps which the Greeks had made in\nevery area of scholarship had been eclipsed and then lost by Roman\npreoccupation with conquest and engineering…and then by the almost\ncomplete fall of Western civilization itself…For one thousand\nyears, roughly from 400 A.D. to the year 1400…humankind was\nshattered into fiefs and castles in the care of local strongmen who\nfought off thugs of every type that flooded in from the east and\nnorth to capitalize on the appearance of a sudden vacuum in\npower….In the 1400s…the Renaissance recovered these powerful\nideas from the past …to vitalize an emerging middle class of\nmerchants and then scholars who formed the first universities…This\ninflux of knowledge which in concrete form was actually the formation\nof libraries filled with manuscripts which were copies of\noriginals…that were suddenly available from the care of Islamic\nmonasteries… led directly to the Enlightenment which began roughly\naround the year 1600…a period which took the powerful ideas from\nthe Greeks and transformed them into intellectual tools which would\nultimately lead to economic revolution in England around 1760…an\nindustrial explosion which would create an entirely new, mechanized\nsociety of metropolises… The founders and leaders of the Change\nstrove to emulate the creative energy of these two successive periods\nin history… all in one swoop…The leaders encouraged tribes and\nbands to assume different personalities and ways of life…based on\nverities from the past..and in some cases from the deep\npast…Perhaps in the future the best of the ideas that were\nentertained might be winnowed from the rest and become the complexion\nof an entire world culture…In a way this strategy was far too\nsuccessful, as some bands were found to be pursuing several\nexperiments at once… For example …there were the University\nbands, which were around fifty in number… each representing a\ndiscipline or area of scholastic specialization…based upon the\nrealization that scholars in a discipline…could make far faster and\nefficient progress working together…instead of living\nseparated…sometimes at great distances… as they had been in the\npast…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\tHow\nthe universities were organized now spoke to decisions that had to be\nmade in this New Age….There were the concerns of the mind…and\nthere were the concerns of the body…..those of Will…those of\nLove….concerns of scholarship, the furtherance of the creation of\ntools….and concerns of community and the joy and happiness that\ncomes from living significant portions of one’s life within the same\nband…within what would ultimately become an intentional extended\nfamily…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\tThe\nmajority of bands in the country were involved in creative work…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and\neach band generally focused upon making breakthroughs in one\nparticular discipline…In this new era Golden Sun Tribe was\nexperimenting with a new approach…they were conducting a mode of \nresearch…in which the Science of Everything was supreme..an\napproach in which almost all creative work was now interdisciplinary\n\u2026 Each band in the tribe had taken a problems approach to\nconducting research…Instead of studying a field in depth…which\nwas necessary for scholarship to progress in general…the focus of a\nband’s research could change over time as challenges such as cancer\nwere overcome and new problems would rear their ugly heads to be\nsolved….In attacking these problems, the bands would start from\nseveral different disciplines at once…increasing the speed and\naccuracy of determining the cause of problems which in turn would\nlead more quickly to cures….<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\tIndividuals\nin the country would decide which bands they would live in… if they\nwould change residence at all…at the time of marriage…Of course,\nin the couple, one would probably have to give up cherished closeness\nwith family and friends and live in a new band….and then there was\nthe power of I and A interactions…marriages could be based on this\ninteraction of the different sides of the brain…Still one person in\na couple might work well with a person from another couple….and a\nlife-long pairing might result in an outpouring of creativity….It\nwas once thought that difficulties in this new life might be\nameliorated by virtual interaction by means of Cerebrum…However, as\nwas the case the Beatles in yesteryear and many other famous\ncouplings…it was obvious that being together in the same\nroom…that live contact was desirable in all creative\ninteractions…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\tThe\nuniversities were still in transition…research in the university\nbands, as was said, was specialized more clearly and completely in\none discipline than was normally the case in band work…Members of\nuniversity bands would take turns giving lectures in university\nclasses….research was primary the concern of the university bands,\nnot lecturing….as students could receive most of the knowledge they\nrequired from Cerebrum…as was the case throughout all of their\nmatriculation…Students would live in student bands where they would\nstudy uninterrupted, were tested regularly, promoted when such\nprogress was earned…finally, the revelation and development of\nmental strengths and intellectual proclivities would allow them to be\nancillary members of the professors’ bands…Living and working with\nprofessionals in a field acquainted students quickly with the skills\nand tools they would require to operate successfully in that\nfield…Upon graduation, students would select the research bands\namong the various tribes…in which they would perform their life’s\nwork.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\tOf\ncourse one of the major tasks of the professors in the university\nbands was presiding over and guiding the creative work that was done\nin the bands spread across the geography of the tribe….<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\tNone\nof the ‘mind versus body’ questions…that is living in a band in\nwhich research in a given field could be conducted…versus living\nwith family and friends that might yield a more satisfying and even\nmore creative life… none of these problems were easily addressed or\nsolved…These problems were part of the conversation that the group\ngathering under the guidance of Steve and Rex would be considering\ntoday…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\tSo\nit was that the university band that the Jasmines belonged to was a\nsociologically oriented one…although Candice spent much of her time\nconferring with a colleague in a biologically oriented band…Yet in\nspite of the intense specialization among university bands… the\nbands still desired an overarching feeling of unity among the\nbands…Thus it was decided that each band would select costumes\nfrom history…celebrating different periods in the past… The\nJasmines’ band wore clothing of French peasants around the time of\nthe French Revolution. Philemon usually wore rough trousers and a\ncotton shirt which slipped over his head without buttons, Candace\nwould probably be in a beautiful peasant dress today with an apron\ntrimmed with flowers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\tHowever,\nas was the wont of people who were being stirred creatively too\nmuch… many of these university bands…as well as many other bands\nthroughout the country…ended up looking in too many directions at\nonce for allegiance, yet independence…and were confused anyway by\nthe fact that marriage always seemed to mix disciplines or areas of\nexpertise in a band… For instance…the band that Philemon and\nCandace were a part…sought an identity that they could call more\nuniquely their own….consequently, the name of their band was the\nChimp Savvy Band…more anthropologist in flavor than that of\nsociologists who generally concentrate on modern human\nconfigurations…yet the band felt that humans’ true nature resided\nwith the Great Apes and in particular with chimpanzees with whom\nhumans shared around ninety-nine percent of their DNA…sociological\nexperiments could be made in this artificial group\ncreation…simultaneously along with their other research…thus\nutilizing truths from their primal physiology…So it was that this\nfine couple…who were dressed as peasants before the\nworld…actually lived in a tree sort of architectural\nassemblage….And as if all of these contrary forces to occupy one’s\nattention were not enough…Candice in addition had devoted long\nperiods to devising a theology for females in the Tribe\ngenerally…one based on truths gleaned from a shamanic past…the\nwisdom of female Cosmic Priestesses …Women throughout the\ntribe…had pounced upon Jasmine’s great work…and had added these\nideas to the mix of ideas that were permeating each band….<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\tSam\nWolf, the leader of Golden Sun Tribe, would constantly counsel and\ntry to calm band members…advising that they should focus, focus,\nfocus more…in order to maintain intellectual progress in one\ndirection at least…instead of in their enthusiastic thrusting into\na new creative age…attempting to try many new things at once… \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\tSteve\nand Rex usually were in a purple and a yellow robe, respectively,\nwhen they were in the process of presiding over the creativity of the\nband. Sylvia and Dorothea wore simple tunics with flowers in their\nhair. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\tBecause\nof some of the problems that bands were encountering, that have been\naddressed above…it was Philemon’s task, as a representative of the\nUniversity, to work with a band of his choice…This task force was\nto look at some of these problems…as they were affecting the\nprogress of all scientifically oriented tribes since the Change in\nterms of papers published…and in terms of their progress in general\nworking with the universities… The group today were to specifically\nenumerate difficulties that were being experienced in the\ntribe…such as that of spouses possessing specialties which were\noften different from what was require for the band they resided in…\nhow they fit in, whom they worked with. Finally, the report was to\nlist improvements that might be made to ameliorate the situation\n…and provide a list of activities that should be studied in depth. \nGolden Sun Tribe was uniquely qualified to work on this report as\nthey specialized in the strategies associated with the Science of\nEverything,…how one could work in every field at once… in a\ncontemplative, philosophical manner… Philemon had selected Steve’s\nband to work with…as the band had impressed him when they had taken\nas a focus of study…the practical use of The Science of Everything\nitself…in the creative work of the day…he had been impressed with\nhow successful it had been in addressing various problems…and how\nthe band conceived of and selected strategies which were most\nefficient and powerful. Steve had secured prominent scholars and\nimminent scientists in many fields to live and work in Love Song\nBand… thus it was staffed to investigate band creative work\ngenerally, in a comprehensive way. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\tLove\nSong Band was comprised of a core community of fourteen families with\na total of 52 members. There were many genetic dispositions\naccounted for in the band…For example, there were an\nAfrican-American family, the Meadowlarks; an Oriental family, the\nHyacinths; a Hispanic family, the Swallowtails; a Middle Eastern\nfamily, the Robins; an East Indian family, the Marigolds…and\nothers. These nationality designations were approximate… as\nintermarriage was rife among every genetic origin…. ‘This is the\nmajor reason the United States was leading the rest of the world,’\nSylvia would always say. ‘We are heterogeneous… that is we have\npeople from all over the world… with every ability… yet, we are\nhomogeneous in a way also…We have everybody… and we are\nthoroughly mixed.’<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\tThere\nwere also twenty-four ‘affiliate’ members, living in the band. These\nwere spouses of core members of other bands who had petitioned Steve\nto work with the band in its creative work for short periods of time.\n There were five multiple-clusters where these affiliates could stay\nalone or with spouses if they were married. However, their first\nallegiance was to their spouses’ bands and their relationships with\nmembers of Love Song Band were more business than family in nature. \nThe role of affiliates and problems with spouses of core members in\ngeneral was another of the areas that the President had asked Steve\nand Love Song Band to address in its examination of the bands and to\ngive recommendations for improvements. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\tIn\naddition, there were satellite bands located throughout the tribal\narea that supplied laborers to any production and research bands that\nneeded them. Many people lived in such bands. They chose and were\nchosen for residence in these bands on the basis of friendship and\nnot because of the work they did. These bands were hired and\nterminated in the production research bands as needed, so it was good\nthat most central in these groups were loving relationships that were\ncontinually present. The production and research bands were more\nlike the groups of employees in bureaucracies in former years and\nmembers were not generally terminated and the bands’ memberships\nremained fairly constant over long periods of time. At the time of\nthe Change, ten percent of the population was unemployed. It would\nseem that it would be to be difficult to find work for people whose\njobs were now automated. The fact is…there were many things that\nonly humans could do…creative things…research…the fine\narts…artisan craft-oriented skills…So it was the case now…that\nmost people could find work to do. If people were unemployed, they\nreceived a minimum income from their nation. All the nations now\nwere very prosperous because of the gigantic revenues generated by\nthe mechanized Cities they each possessed. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\tThere\nwere approximately 100 bands in a tribe and 200 tribes in a nation. \nThere were 450 nations in the United States. Each research tribe\nspecialized in a scientific area with each band working on a specific\npart. As has been said, Golden Sun Tribe conducted research with the\nJupiter Nation University Tribe… concerning the Science of\nEverything…It had been found that rich treasure could be reaped\nfrom interdisciplinary work..attacking recalcitrant problems from\nmany angles at once…thus this one tribe was devoted to\neverything…each band would take a discipline and attack it from\nmany angles at once…Love Song Band investigated The Science of\nEverything…itself…. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\tResearch\nwork conducted in the research bands was coordinated, assigned,\nmonitored and paid for by each nation’s university. Students\nenrolled and lived at the universities for various periods of time to\nundertake intensive learning in the bands of the university away from\nthe pressures of the bands they came from. Many became acquainted\nwith disciplines different from their bands of origin, which\nqualified them for admission to other bands and tribes when they\ngraduated. Such dislocation could be very disconcerting in an age\nwherein primal bands were closely and emotionally tied. Still people\ncould choose new fields for research and keep close association with\nthe bands their families were in. Universities were still required\nfor teaching at the highest levels, for making certain that research\nin the bands proceeded in an orderly and productive manner, and then\nfinally for making certain that progress in all disciplines was peer\nreviewed…and then recorded and published in a systematic and\norganized way and distributed by means of Cerebrum. Other tribes\nspecialized in entertainment… creating stories, music and movies of\nall lengths and types for sale. The Cities manufactured most goods\nthat were needed… the tribes did things that only humans could\ndo…creativity…culture…but also other skills, practices, and\nservices needed for tasks not undertaken by the Cities..such as\nmedical, engineering, construction, and architecture. These tribes\nwere located near the nations’ creative centers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\tRex\nMeadowlark was Steve’s right hand man in writing the report for the\nPresident. Rex possessed 17 years experience working in a governance\nband in Washington D.C., which worked with the Congress and the White\nHouse in helping to write drafts of proposed legislation in many\nfields. Steve had chosen him deliberately to help with the numerous\nGovernment projects his band had been asked to undertake. As was\ncustomary, in the new style of research work, the families of\nparticipants were involved as much as possible in the spirit of\nfamily, affinal relationships…of bands united in one blood, ..\nunited with all of Nature…united with every particle in the\nuniverse…all of which possesses Light from the Source. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\tSteve\nloved to listen to Dorothea’s stories about her relatives, especially\nabout her grandmother who was famous for her contributions to racial\nequality and to the development of systems and methods that were\nselected to be used in this new age. Dorothea’s gift was music. \nSymphonic music was not written any more as society now felt that\nmusic should be a vehicle for communicating ideas, not just for\nfilling auditory space. Also a twelve-tone theory was advocated\nnowadays, although its development had just begun… which required a\ntempered scale which allowed one to compose in all keys at\nonce…thus only keyboards were utilized that could simulate any\nsounds that were desired. Dorothea’s songs were placed in their own\npresentation place on Cerebrum. Following in her grandmother’s\nfootsteps, she sang of provocative issues… being an\nAfrican-American in a modern age, and being a woman in this new world\nof creativity. Also in her grandmother’s footsteps, she conducted\nresearch for the band concerning institutions and was a member of\nseveral committees in the world government concerned with\ninstitutional change. The report the band was writing for the\nPresident was related to her research strengths and thus, she was as\nimportant to the meetings with Steve, Philemon, and Jasmine, as her\nhusband was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\t‘Yes,\nGrandma Cicely, as we called her,’ Dorothea was saying, ‘was\ninstrumental in making the existing band-university relationship\npossible. She was a professor at the University here in\nAfrican-American studies. One of the professors was given the\nchallenge by the Chancellor at that time to come up with an\nalternative to the bureaucratic organization that was rife and was\nconstricting the work of the universities. This was around the year\n2030. She sat in a meeting that the professor called to begin\ndiscussions on this topic. The other professors hummed and hawed,\npretty much tried to discourage the lead professor’s pursuit of this\ninvestigation. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\t‘\nGrandma Cicely, however, felt that events were occurring out on the\nedges of the metropolises that might be a key to a future world. She\nhad fought all her life for a place for African-Americans, so her\ncomments were always couched in provocative, ethnic language. She\nsaid, \u201cAs a woman of color, I would like to say that there is a\nphenomenon building out on the land that we must investigate and\nconsider its possibilities. As a woman of color, I say that people\nare beginning to live in bands of families on the margins of the\nurban landscape. There are around a dozen of these living groups,\nnorth, south, and east of us. I would like to take you out there and\nshow you what is happening. Many are growing their own food, some\ndon’t eat meat, some live like chimpanzees as our DNA encourages. \nSome are attempting to eke out an existence making videos for Web\nsites. However, the members of most have to travel towards the urban\ncore for employment every day. Many of these band members have had\ncollege training, the writings of many are on the Web…\u201d that is,\nthe Internet… which Cerebrum was called back then… \u201ctheir\nwritings are fascinating as far as the topics addressed and\nconclusions reached. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\t‘\u201dOur\nuniversities are some of the best in the world,\u201d she would say. \n\u201cHowever, and I know it is almost scandalous to say this, their\noutput has been paltry. Our universities are isolated from the\nworld. The brightest minds in the country would rather speculate on\nWall Street than be locked up in our ivory prisons; consequently, the\naverage I.Q. of a Ph.D. is 120, not 180, as it should be. Groups of\nresearchers are always the most efficient at making progress,\nresearchers should be living together and working together… not\ncommuting thousands of miles to each others’ schools. Our modern\nuniversities!… Yet when I walk down a hallway, it is like monks\nfrom the Middle Ages in their cells. When I go to a commencement,\nthe professors are dressed like bats from an age long past. Our\nuniversities should be working with these new bands out on the\nland…in every discipline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\t‘\u201dO\nmean it all makes sense…and it seems that it is the direction\nthings are going anyway,\u201d she would say, \u201c Our cities are\nbecoming automated, This is a trend to be encouraged, not\ndiscouraged. But where will our people be employed? The obvious\nsolution is for them to be involved in creative, stimulating work. \nChina has created Avenues of Innovation…where they can locate\nthousands of people to conduct research…Ther charge of these\n‘Avenues’ is to generate ‘mass entrepreneurship’ and ‘mass\ninnovation’…It is a major change that is altering the very texture\nof metropolitan areas and signaling a change in the development of\nthe Internet. However, the real change that is happening right now,\nright here…is something different…the Internet is indeed moving\nfrom one phase to another…and I have always maintained…that the\nInternet will not be mature…until major changes are made on the\nground….People should be starting to work in bands…and they are. \nThe Internet now is moving from infrastructure…like Google and\nFacebook…to content…to entertainment, education, and\nresearch…to culture…not schlock…to real education, which I’ll\naddress in a moment…to real breakthroughs in research every\nday…not just a big step here, one there…that everyone immediately\ncopies or rides the obvious ramifications of in every direction. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\t\u201cThe\nrelationship between China and Silicon Valley has always been\nimitation, competition, and catch-up. But now we must shift\ngears…and emphasis…We can solve problems…really big ones…like\ncancer…like making computer chips even faster…but how!?…The\nChinese were right…for several reasons…we need armies of\nresearchers…not just to copy and explicate obvious next-steps….we\nneed an explosion…we need to get our hands dirty…we must get used\nto ;pushing research further and further…from ‘light’ first\nsteps…to ‘heavy’ next steps…like Edison…he invented the light\nbulb…but he was not afraid to follow that bulb on to the\nelectrification of the entire northeastern United States….this will\nincrease progress…thousands of times…\tYes…we have a world of\nproblems….but as I say..people are already moving…moving on to\nthe next step…Let us form bands…and change the world….solve\nproblems…Move on to the next big step in the evolution,\ndevelopment, of man and woman and their tools…the next big step in\nthe challenge of making the earth…a place where we can live…and\nprosper….<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and\nin addition, put people to work… let us encourage a strategy…that\nis already underway… that will focus research in small, vital,\ninnovative groups,…like animals,…living, loving, fighting like a\nfamily…for existence. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\t‘\u201dAnother\nthing is education,’ she would say, \u201cAs a woman of color, I am\nappalled at the way intelligence in this country is identified,\ndeveloped, and then utilized in thought-related work. First, let us\nconsider identification…When I was young, I thought I was stupid. \nNow I know I have a 200 I.Q. How can such a thing be? The answer\nis…right and left hemispheres of the brain. This notion is\ndisparaged by those in control… by the left brain tyrants in our\nuniversities. Long ago, right brain children were encouraged with\n‘Dick and Jane’ books in elementary school. Now there is nothing. \nEverything is deduction, analytical,…which is fine for the\ntwo-thirds of the population that are left brained. Right brain\nchildren are disparaged and consigned to second tier jobs… these\nare some of the brightest minds that our country routinely produces. \nFortunately, by mistake almost, I was given the Wechsler-Bellevue\nBlock Test. Oh, I know, if children are deprived, have few books to\nread, if their parents don’t speak correctly, they tend to do better\non performance tests. No! The Wechsler-Bellevue test is the only\none that is spatial… related to the right hemisphere of the\nbrain… and you know my work, it is not the work of a deprived\nchild! I took the Stanford-Binet test one time,\u201d my grandma said. \n\u201cYou know, the I,Q. test everyone respects. I got a 120 I.Q. on\nit. I was fortunate to have a situation where I could question the\noutcome of the test and go over each answer with the person who had\nadministered it…because I thought that I had answered all the\nquestions correctly. Well, she told me that in each case, there were\n3 circles with sprockets on them and the sprockets indicated a\nmathematical series – you know, like 1,3,6, and I was to pick the\ncorrect fourth circle with its sprockets from four choices. ‘Circles\nwith sprockets? \u201c my grandma asked. \u201cI see shapes. For some of\nthe sequences, I can see what you are talking about. But for others\nI see a series of shapes … I would look at the first shape…then\ngo the second, pick it up and turn it upside down, then this\ndirection and then it would make sense with respect to the first\nshape…then I did the same thing with the third and the fourth until\nI had a sequence of four shapes that reflected a sequence in which\nthe first shaped turned this way and that but remained the same\nshape….! Well, the lady said, \u201cyou aren’t supposed to pick\nanything up and turn it around.\u201d \u201c Well,\u201d’ my grandmother said,\n\u201cthere is nothing in the instructions that say that.’ ‘ Well,\u201d\nsaid the lady, \u201cmost people wouldn’t think of doing what you did.’ \nHowever, given what my grandmother had done, it appeared to the lady\nthat my grandmother had gotten all the answers right. This indicated\na superior spatial ability, which she said, was confirmed by the\nWechsler-Bellevue test my grandmother had taken. \u201cThe 200 I.Q. on\nthe Wechsler-Bellevue test…what kind of I.Q. is that?\u201d my\ngrandmother asked. \u201cI.Q. is I.Q.,\u201d the lady replied. \u201cHowever,\nif you can make sense out of all this… maybe there will be a\nbreakthrough.\u201d Subsequently, my grandma read about Roger Sperry at\nCal Tech, who was looking at schizophrenic patients whose corpus\ncallosums<\/em> or connections between the two hemispheres of the brain\nhad been severed in an experimental remedy for schizophrenic\n‘storming.’ The Wechsler-Bellevue test was identified as the one\ntest that could measure the abilities of the right hemisphere of the\nbrain. A fellow named Paul Bahin at the University of Michigan found\nthat people have different cognitive styles and these are related to\ntwo different alpha charges present in their brains, which were\nrelated to which hemisphere was dominant in their brains. That is,\nto state things clearly…a person cannot be dominant in both\nhemispheres at once…You are either one…or the other…The\ncognitive styles that Professor Bahan found… possessed\ncharacteristics that matched the abilities that Sperry had found for\nthe two sides of the brain. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\t‘\u201dNow\nthe problem here, \u201c my grandmother continued…\u201dis that\nscientists think all this hemispheric dominant stuff is\npseudo-science…but the complicating factor here is…that the\nscientists making these assessments are left hemispheric dominant\nwhich biases their conclusions….the right side of the brain is\nexcluded from most university entrance protocols….This must\nstop…now!…The U.S. is blessed with having people of both\nabilities and we must take advantage of this situation…to\naccelerate the pace of research…to accelerate progress in the world\nin general!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\t‘\u201dNow,\nI’m not saying that African-American people are this or that,\u201d\nGrandma would continue. \u201cThere are some anthropological theories\nthat would back up a psychological theory like that a bit. Primates\nin Africa are right hemispheric dominant…thus, it is probable that\nthe first primal man and woman were right hemispheric dominant also. \nAs humans migrated from Africa, they went north into the Middle East,\nand then either west into Europe or way up into arttic Asia. The\nweather in much of Europe was similar to that in Africa so the\nevolutionary pressures upon the brain to change hemispheric dominance\nprobably wasn’t great. However, as people migrated into Asia, they\nencountered circumstances where the invention of fire and other\ninventions were required for survival, which could have exerted\npressure to favor a different hemispheric dominance. Thus, for a\ntime, the world inhabited by humans may have been right hemispheric\ndominant to the west and left hemispheric dominance to the east. It\nis possible that civilization emerged in the Middle East because that\nis where the two hemispheric dominances overlapped. Also, Europe was\nsubject to incursions from the east, so you were left with a back\nbone of right hemispheric dominance up from Italy to Germany to\nHolland to England. These countries are surrounded by countries that\nare more left hemispheric dominant, which would explain their\ninability to get along for quite a long time. This pattern also\nmirrors the economic development of Europe from Venice in Italy, the\nHanseatic League in Germany, the windmills of Holland and finally,\nindustrial revolution in England. Right hemispheric abilities or at\nleast the mixture of both abilities in these countries may have been\nresponsible for this. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\t‘\u201dBut\nI’m not saying that anything is anything,\u201d my grandma continued. \n\u201cWhat I am saying is that children should be tested with these two\ntests, abilities identified, then abilities should be developed in\naccordance with curricula specifically designed for the strengths of\neach and then these abilities should be utilized in creative work to\ncapitalize on the explosion that apparently results from having\npeople with different abilities work together.\u201d \t‘Yes, my grandma\nwas a revolutionary. But not one in the streets. In time, her ideas\nwere listened to and a whole new world arose.’<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\tWhile\nthe adults worked, their children were together. And there she<\/em>\nwas,… with Caesar Gemstone, her inseparable companion nowadays. \nAura smiled politely at Omicron. She considered him to be a nice,\nbrotherly type of male,…handsome, intelligent… however, she was\nirritated at his inability to exhibit to this point characteristics\nof being a producer… of being a leader as his father was. Her\nsimple dress possessed a subtle, exquisite rainbow cast, falling\nprettily and demurely to just below the knee. Her hair was a long,\nflowing river of ashen blond, broken by brilliant rivers of gold. \nHer skin was the most exquisite blending of pale, delicate alabaster\nwith golden warm tones of races from the west and east. Her parents\nwere an I-A-type couple …and her intellect benefited from that\nbreeding. Her body was slowly forming a figure similar to the\nbeautiful fashion models in the Creative Center. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\tThe\nchildren of the conferees… Omicron, Aura, Jason… along with\nGemstone and Anthony Meadowlark, were left to occupy a couple of\nhours of time together. First, they visited the band’s creative\ncenter where the termites were being administered to by the ‘owls.’ \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\t‘Well,\nhow are your charges, mister?’ Aura asked Omicron in a professional\nmanner, looking at the white dots swarming over the plastic surface. \n‘They were all alive and healthy the time I saw them last week. \nCaesar was here last time, too, remember?’ \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\tLike\nother ‘owls,’ Aura had slept during the morning after intense\nindividual creative work from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. She was skipping the\ngroup work in her own band, the University Sociology Band, known as\nthe Chimp Savvy Band, to be with her parents this afternoon. The\nseparation and integration of biorhythmic type and hemispheric\ndominance would continue the rest of their lives. Omicron cringed at\nthe mention of Caesar Gemstone, whose parents were in the University\nEconomics Band. He had to admit that he was more than just a bit\nupset about her being with him so much. Of course, he had no right\nto object at all. However, Gemstone was effeminate… strong,\nwiry,…very intelligent, also, it was true… however, he was an\nA-type as Aura was. In a world where A-types outnumbered I-types by\na ratio of 2 to 1, such couplings were not uncommon. Still the most\nexciting couplings, he felt, were between I-and A-types. And he had\nhis secret dream…. Somehow he was able to quiet his jealousy and\nenjoy proximity to his ‘goddess’ during the time they were together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\t‘Hey,\nyou guys,’ said Omicron. ‘Why don’t we take a walk to the tribal\nrecreation center?’<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\tThey\nconsented and the five walked briskly to the center where spontaneous\nmusical improvisation of some sort was often alive. The tribal\ncenter was located overlooking a lagoon to the north of Love Song\nBand that stretched far inland from the Bay… to valleys and hills\nwherein and whereon… much of Golden Sun Tribe was located. One\nvalley was previously occupied by African-Americans who were\ndescendants of laborers who had been utilized in ship-building\nactivity during World War II. Now people of all races were mixed\nthoroughly among the tribes and bands, as all people now were valued\nbecause of their creative abilities, all of which were developed and\nutilized in collaborative work without a thought for the color of\npeople’s skin. Another valley was once a prestigious suburb that had\nbeen populated by highly-paid professionals who worked in the City. \nNow bands lived upon and roamed the multitudinous hillsides that\noverlooked the ruins of a past age below. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\tInside\nthe tribal creative center, three girls and two boys were playing\ndrums, piano, trumpet, saxophone, and bass. Omicron picked up a\nguitar from among the many resting against the wall. Jason walked\nover to the marimba and began to gently vibrate mellow tones with the\nmallets on the dark wooden slats. Anthony found some tabla which he\nplayed more in a modern popular manner than according to eastern\nIndian principles. Aura found a violin, an instrument she was highly\nproficient with. Gemstone started playing riffs on a saxophone. The\nten of them worked into a wide-open jam. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\tAfter\ntwenty minutes or so, Aura walked over to Omicron. She motioned for\nhim to follow her into an adjoining room where the grand piano stood.\n She closed the door connecting the two clusters and motioned for him\nto sit at the piano. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\t‘So\nyou are the great composer… and you have played nothing for me,’\nshe said. ‘I hear you run about the hills every day. What are you\ndoing, you lazy thing you. Great arias aren’t inspired out running\nin the grass, you know. You need inspiration, and then work. And if\nyou are short on inspiration then you need even more work,’ she\nteased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\t\nOmicron turned red and was unable to articulate a response. He was\nnot aware that she knew about his musical efforts. Also significant\nto his mind was the play on the words between “aria” and\nher name. Gemstone entered and came over to see if he could coax his\ncharge back into the other room. Gemstone was dressed as was\nappropriate for his band… in Liederhosen of seventeenth century\nGerman peasantry. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\t‘Omicron\nBlue,.. Come blow your horn,’ he said. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\tAura\nlaughed… as Gemstones words spoke to more than one aspect of\nOmicron’s abilities and personality. Omicron was red-faced and arose\nto leave. Aura pushed him back down onto the seat. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\t‘Caesar,\ngo back to your saxophone. I need to talk to Omicron for a while\nabout pianos and composition.’ \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\tGemstone\nreluctantly left and Aura sat on the bench next to Omicron. All of\nthis surprised him greatly. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\t‘So\nwhat would you have me play?’ he asked. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\t‘I’ve\nheard your works,’ Aura replied. ‘They are available on Cerebrum…\nI want to talk to you about theoretical matters. I play the\nviolin…I have perfect pitch. However, I took piano lessons for a\nwhile. I wasn’t that interested in the playing aspects of it. My\nfather found me a teacher who is proficient in 12-scale harmonics. I\nwas swept away by the scientific aspects of the music as I am with\nall scientific things.’ \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\t‘Scientific,\ntheoretical,….The groups give me lyrics and I write music for\nthem,’ Omicron responded. ‘I know the keys and chords in each\nkey,…I know there is more, but no one has ever taught me those\nthings. I guess when I get to the Academy, I’ll be taught things\nlike that.’ \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\t‘No,’\nsaid Aura. ‘The universities and academies are not strong on\nharmonics. They will teach you voice leading, like how melodies are\nwoven together in Baroque music. That kind of stuff is of limited\nuse in writing songs or any music, in general. Joseph Haydn\ndeveloped seven-tone scale harmonics. My teacher said that few\npeople realized that. He said that if you go through Haydn’s\nsymphonies one by one, you will see how he started with lines of\nmusic overlapping like Baroque music. But quickly, he started\nwriting some of the lines in thirds, which are formative triads. \nFirst, he experimented with melodies…which notes can follow the\nother in a particular scale. He found that you could use any\nsequence of notes in the key of C, for example, as long a you start\nwith C and end on C or G. Then he experimented with the triads or\nchords and he found that triads could be played as chords in any\norder, as long as you start with C and end with a C or G chord. \nThere is one exception, however. The seven-tone scale of C has three\nmajor chords, three minor chords, and one diminished chord. The\ndiminished chord must always go to the tonic, that is, back to C. \nThen he began to overlap chords. Some lines of the score for a\nsymphony would play a chord for several beats while the other lines\nplayed different triads, that is chords, on every beat. We will come\nback to overlapping later. He found that the diminished chord was\nspecial because if you added one more minor third, you added a black\nnote and you are in C, which uses only the white keys on the piano. \nHe could have jumped to twelve-tone scale right there. Once you have\none note outside of the scale, one can theoretically start using\nchords in another key. But he didn’t do that. Instead, he used\ndiminished chords to modulate, that is, go to other keys. And that\nwas the state of seven-tone harmonics when Mozart and Beethoven came\nalong. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\t‘Mozart\ncleaned things up,…he put the melody in one hand on the piano and\nchords that stayed the same for measures at a time in the left hand. \nMozart and Beethoven were popular because they were using a new,\nrevolutionary harmonics. With music it is difficult to write A’s.\nYou know, like A,B,C,D and F in school. Mozart and Beethoven had\nonly three A’s each. John Sebastian Bach had twenty A’s,\nTchaikovsky, twenty A’s, the Beatles, thirty A’s. Did you know that\nevery Beatle song except two are in sonata form, the form Mozart\ndeveloped. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\t‘Now\ntwelve- tone scale. My teacher said that if one followed the system\nthat Haydn used to develop seven-tone scale, he or she could develop\ntwelve-tone scale harmonics. My teacher tried to make some progress.\n The Beatles made progress in this. They didn’t really realize what\nthey were doing. Now when I say twelve-tone harmonics, I know there\nare twelve-tone composers like Schoenberg. What I talking about is\nwriting twelve-tone music that is not horrible to listen to, but is\nconsistent with the physiology of our ears. That is what Haydn was\ndoing. He would keep playing things until his ear said, \u201cO.K.\u201d \nNo one thinks of twelve-tone harmonics when they listen to the\nBeatles music as we still do today. That is because they wrote\n12-tone chord sequences that are acceptable to our ears. My teacher\nfelt that harmonic breakthroughs were the reason for their success. \nHe feels that an I-type must develop this new music. That is why I\nam talking to you. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\t‘A\nreal help, my teacher feels, would be to study the music of Fats\nWaller. Waller shows you some sequences chords can be played in and\none can play all twelve chords between the C’s on the piano keyboard.\n Since the piano has a tempered scale, each note on the keyboard is\nreally a compromise between two notes separated by a small distance. \nI can hear that distance, because I have perfect pitch. Therefore,\nFats Waller’s key of C, utilizing all the black notes, doesn’t have\nseven chords, it has 12 x 2 = 24 chords. Plus he overlapped chords\nlike Haydn did. He would play a C chord in the left hand and then\nplay 24 chords in the right hand. Each one of those 24 overlapped\nchords were new chords. He could play a D chord in the left hand and\nplay 24 chords and he would have 22 new chords, and so on. \nTheoretically, you can overlap chords three, maybe four deep and\nobtain a million chords in one key instead of the original seven. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\t‘Witness,\nsir, what I am saying,…this means that each key has the same\nchords, although you have to play them in a different order. This\nmakes it extremely easy to modulate to a new key. It seems to me\nthat it would be a joy to try all this out and discover this new\nworld. A first step might be to play in the key of C and overlap a C\nchord with a B flat chord. I have tried this and it makes beautiful\nmusic. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\t‘So\nmister, I have heard your music,…it all sounds so much like stuff\nwe’ve heard before. Perhaps if you added some new harmonics, it\nwould spice things up.’ \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\t‘To\nme,…and I am an I-type… music is magic,’ said Omicron… ‘ It\nrises from my brain, I know not how. I am reluctant to think\ntheoretically about it.’\t‘Another thing,’ Aura said. ‘My teacher\nsaid that the evidence is that an I-type can develop the ability to\ncreate a new melody every time he or she hums. Tchaikovsky was an\nI-type. He probably did this. Johann Strauss whistled. The Beatles\nwhistled back and forth to each other. Try this, as you are wasting\nyour time in the hills,… hum and then attempt to write down what\nyou hum when you return home. You may be surprised. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\t‘And\nabout mixing science with art. For me life is theory, theory,\ntheory. I envy those who can appreciate beauty outside of theory. I\nwish I could bring passion to what I do. Maybe someday. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\t‘I\nwant you to experiment… Haydn was able to write with passion and\nstill create an entire science of harmonics. Perhaps you can, too.\nMillions of chords,…it would give you a tremendous palette of\ncolors to paint your musical paintings.’<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\tSoon\nit was time for the Jasmines to leave… however, before they left he\nreceived a look from Aura which he had received from her before. It\nwas a look as if she were puzzled by her own interest in a person she\nrationally had eliminated from serious romantic consideration. Later\nthat night, Omicron looked out the window of his bedroom. The moon\nwas sinking below the mountain, which was silhouetted dimly by an\nominous red glow. Before him was a vision of Aura, with that look,\nthat facial expression of warmth and interest that she was able only\nwith difficulty to finally turn to more substantial matters at hand. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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