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Cultivating Human Potential

4/22/2021

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Are perception and reality two different things? Are our realities actually our perceptions? Does reality truly exist? How many times a day do you say “really”, or describe and explain what you or others say or do as real and facts?
Although reality, perception, and truth have been the focus of science, philosophy, mysticism for centuries, it appears that most if not nearly all of us as human beings live our daily life automatically, ruled by our perceptions through our five known external senses. Potentially, one could argue that there are inner senses as well, mostly mentioned in mystical stories and literature, such as dreams, imagination, wonder, etc.
Rumi, the thirteen-century mystical poet among others speaks about yet another sense which may be considered as the catalyst, connecting our external senses with those inner senses, called the “shared & common sense”. 
It appears to me then, that in order for us as two-legged social animals to begin the journey of growth and development with the intention of becoming an extraordinary human being, we must first practice mastery in experiencing this “shared and common sense”.
Comparing these different senses, one can say that we know a lot more about our five mostly externally triggered senses than the inner senses. We now mostly know how these work, we know how to measure them and in fact, we increasingly know how to fix them when these are not working or at least improve their potential. We have in fact been quite successful to enable the congenitally deaf and blind to hear and see with the help of medical and surgical treatments. Additionally, we also know that at least in some instances our seeing and hearing are achieved not only by eyes and ears alone but also at least a few other organs are contributing.
However, we are just at the inception of finding out that our senses may also be influenced by our past experiences, fears, agreements, traditions, manners, and attitudes to name a few.
Oh, wait! aren’t most of these influential conditions, experienced out of being with others? Is it possible that you and I can see, hear, touch people around us differently, based on these influential conditions? Is it possible that the catalyst, ” The shared common sense” plays a critical role here?
Would it be possible and useful to further examine, the common sense and above conditions in order to better understand our potential as extraordinary human beings?

​ EXPLORING and CULTIVATING HUMAN POTENTIAL
This is what Fana Global Foundation stands for and committed to,
​​DO YOU WANT TO PLAY?
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Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

1/23/2021

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Mozart at age six. Leopold Mozart playing music with his children Wolfgang Amadeus and Maria Anna in Paris in November 1763.Watercolour by Louis Carrogis Carmontelle (1717–1806) 1763 (Musée Condé, Chantilly) Source: Wikimedia
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Cultivating Human Potential

1/14/2021

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Jan. 29,2021
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What if I start sharing a personal example of why I don’t swim, while I’m clear that to me swimming is one of the most enjoyable sport/physical activity! This is a question that comes up for me at least a couple of times a week!


When I was around 4 or 5 years old, one day during fall season, I was playing with my brother and his friend at our house. We had a small but rather deep pool at our house. The game was that, while one person gets blind folded, others would instruct him/her to go to the right, left, straight, backward or stop, of course just as a fun game. It was my turn to be blind folded and I was instructed to go to the left and further left and I was suddenly in the pool! of course I didn’t know how to swim then, which was very natural thing for a child like me, 65 years ago! This is what I clearly remember, but I am not sure what really happened when I was pulled out by someone, may be our house keeper, while my brother was angrily chasing his friend who just played the game and gave the instructions as he was supposed to!


I have never known and learned how to swim! That was and is “my reality’. In fact I have never asked myself about my limitation in swimming until couple of decades ago. I didn’t even see this event as the probable cause of my fear of swimming!


I am now much more aware and present to my other fears in life and their immense impact on my potential to be extraordinary! And yes, I have since learned and practiced many strategies around my fears and managed to be very successful member of society and community I live in!


What about you, do you have stories like mine to justify not being the artist that you are who everyone enjoys your artistic expression, the athlete that you are, who everyone follows as a role model, or the scientist that you are with the great sense of exploring and discovering many unknown areas of your life and the life of your fellow human beings?



Let’s begin the journey of exploring and cultivating human potential!

​fred@fanaglobal.org

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The picture is a photo by the artist Gene Schiavone
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