Think about the split that exists today between the so-called 'alternative culture' and the mainstream academic culture. Could there be other useful and potentially impactful memes or insights, beyond our immediate focus on creativity, that our collective mind may lift up and academically found and socially redeem and integrate? Could we do better as academia, and as culture, than turning a deaf ear (here we must remind ourselves of the dialog)?
Dr. Grigori I. Brekhman speaking at the Knowledge Federation workshop at QIM 2011.1 At the point when this photo was taken, Dr. Brekhman, who is a researcher at The Interdisciplinary Clinical Center, University of Haifa, Israel, and State Medical Academy, Ivanovo, Russia, was showing a slide with the nervous system and the acupuncture system side by side, and discussing their probable roles and interaction.2
It has turned out that while many of the pertinent themes such as acupuncture and bioenergy were virtually an academic taboo in the West, this was not the case on the other side of the Iron Curtain, where it was found that those can be explained as quantum phenomena, and used in therapy and in the development of suitable experimental and therapeutic technology. Building upon his Russian contacts (having done part of his dissertation work in Moscow), in 2011 Dejan Raković co-organized a conference titled Quantum Informational Medicine in Belgrade, where some of the leading researchers mostly from Russia and Ukraine were joined with field experts representing a broad variety of therapeutic schools and traditions, ranging from chiropractic to shamanic healing.
On the last day of the conference we had a Knowledge Federation workshop, to see if we can do some good foundations work. But we lacked a collective mind! And so the event ended up producing a wealth of material, without us being able to to jointly process it further.
Now that we have our collective mind — can we continue this process?