Protons do not appear to be as friendly as electrons. They have a fierce 'resolve' to stick
together. Protons and neutrons are made up of 3 quarks which are believed to be the
most fundamental baryonic particles. Baryonic particles are those affected by the strong
nuclear force which holds everything together in the nucleus of the atom.

We mentioned baryons. Leptons, of which electrons are the most prevalent by far, are
the other major form of matter. Leptons are not affected by the strong nuclear force but
they may be affected by the 'massiveness' of the baryonic structure, according to
Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. This again relates to our discussion of the
IMPACTS. IMPACTS have an independent streak no matter where they are located in
society but the peripheral P-IMPACTS are less affected by the pull of the 'SN' force. It is
the valence electron situation again.

Why do the mysteries of the universe feel so unsolvable, so complicated, so
overwhelming when everywhere we look we see the same basic design-a structure
revolving around a much smaller nucleus? We see it in atoms, in galaxies, in bee hives
and ant colonies, sometimes in families, in modern businesses and organizations, and in
the makeup of societies where a tiny core governs the people whether cities, states, or
countries. Look at a professional football team. It usually has one or two owners,
hundreds of employees, and then tens of thousands of loyal fans supplying copious
amounts of energy that help drive the team forward. It all happens around a tiny core. It
is the same with a hurricane.

We will also see the same template in the development of human civilization, first as an
ill-defined nucleus and then as a clearly-defined nucleus. Shouldn't the ubiquity of the
model give us important clues about the overall workings of nature and the universe?

Before the emergence of agriculture about 10,000 years ago, people lived mostly in
bands of 20 to 50 people as hunter-gatherers, pursuing a harmonious relationship with
nature and each other. This was the time of the ill-defined nucleus, which presents a
very important point: creative-formative-productive energy usually exists in ill-defined
structures or where there is practically no structure. Within a structure itself, it usually
resides where it has room to operate. That is why we find IMPACTS around so many
situations and organizations that may appear unorganized or structure-less.

Let me give some examples:
1)    Immigration--entering a situation that is ill-defined
2)    Entrepreneurialism--the process of potentially creating and forming a
structure
3)    Teachers and administrators at a charter school-trying to build a structure
that will help those who are being left behind
4)    Special education teachers--dealing with situations that are not clearly
defined or predictable
5)    Home schooling--avoiding the typical hierarchal world of education and
maintaining the creative-formative-productive and protective environment
6)    The emergency room of a hospital
7)    The aftermath of a natural disaster
8)    A sculptor
9)    A developmental editor.

All of the situations above operate with little structure; they are all kind of making it up
as they go along; they are all trying to achieve the best possible outcome; and they are all
on the periphery of the predominant structure. Most are at 'beginnings' or 'new
beginnings', including the emergency room and natural disaster. Each is a beginning in
recovery.

The IMPACTS are the bacteria of the human world; bacteria were early creative-
formative-productive energy. As noted, bacteria can exchange DNA with each other
even across species and therefore adapt to new conditions and circumstances. It was
probably one bacterium which learned how to extract energy from its environment and
store it, and then the DNA got passed around-quickly. The storage of energy shows a
planning ability of sorts--the extraction shows a mining 'mentality'.

Today we continue to see creative-formative-productive energy and the IMPACTS
exhibiting bacteria-like behavior. It is the best way to create, form, and produce the
beginnings of a structure. It all harks back to the valence electron that is in an ill-defined
situation on the periphery of the atom where it can potentially create and form a new
structure, or in effect add to the existing structure. Perhaps we should think of the
'mining mentality' as being integral to the electron. It is mining for balance and
optimization. So are the IMPACTS.

This kind of rapid transmission of information among bacteria has its precedence in the
physical world of subatomic particles with a phenomenon known as entanglement.
Though it appears that no actual information is exchanged between these particles, what
do we know? Our definitions of 'information' and 'exchange' are very limited. The
entanglement phenomenon is such that when subatomic particles interact and then go
'their separate ways', they behave as one, even at vast distances-theoretically at any
distance, even the other side of the universe. One seems to know what the other one is
doing. Experiments have proven this many times. In a recent experiment, five electrons
became entangled meaning that all five were behaving as basically the same electron.

So entanglement could actually be the ultimate progenitor of this phenomenon of rapid
proliferation of information that we see among bacteria. Remember, the living world
appears to operate on the same model as does the physical world but at a much slower
pace. The structure slows everything down just as the proton captures the electron and
slows it down.

We will see the same entanglement phenomenon among the IMPACTS also. IMPACTS
have always been strong proponents of meetings and gatherings where information and
ideas could be exchanged. Though they would then go their separate ways, they had
become 'entangled' and in many ways were very much acting as one. This behavior
continues today as IMPACTS constantly search the horizon for new contacts with new
ideas. But these 'entanglements' go back over 100,000 years as we will see in the next
chapter about the San.


Modern humans have been around for well over 100,000 years, but the feeling of special-
ness appears to be a late addition to our perception of ourselves. The development of
agriculture allowed the emergence of a structural-nucleus (SN) which attracted some
pretty unsavory characters, many of whom seemed to think they were chosen and
special. If you could assemble a team of aggressive brutes, you had a good chance of
being a leader, qualified or not. It is still basically the same formula in use today though
the brutes take different forms.

So the so-called leaders probably introduced the special-ness attitude, and it grew from
there. Whoever controls the structure generally sets the tone. Post-agricultural leaders
were not the same kind of people as pre-agricultural leaders, as we will see.

The philosophy of life, if you want to call it that, of early modern humans before
agriculture was an evolving one. Rigidity and dogma had no place in a world that
demanded flexibility. As agriculture advanced along with a developing hierarchal
structure and an SN core, rigidity and dogma advanced with it. Flexibility became the
odd man out. But all of this is really the same battle between the two forces that exists in
the atom, one flexible and the other rigid. A nucleated structure breaks up the cohesive
creative-formative-productive energy within its sphere of influence and redirects it in
ways that enhance the nucleus.

The same is occurring in the hydrogen atom; the proton nucleus is dividing and
mitigating the energy of the electron. Plus she has been stolen away from the company
of other electrons. Her attitude however appears to be--"How can I make the best of the
situation to where the best possible outcome is achieved?" The answer is to find another
electron and bond with its energy.

There are different energy levels for electrons in an atom, depending on the total
number of electrons. The first energy level holds two electrons. That is why the electron
in the hydrogen atom is a valence electron--it wants to be paired. The next energy level
can hold eight electrons. If it has only four as carbon does, it wants four more and in the
case of carbon it likes nothing better than to bond with other carbon atoms when
possible. When carbon atoms bond with each other and other atoms such as oxygen,
nitrogen, and phosphorous, some of the complex molecules of life are formed such as
sugars, proteins, and DNA. These are examples of covalent bonds, the strongest type of
chemical bond. So it appears if you can get a few carbon atoms along with a few other
specific atoms and they all get tied together with their valence electrons, you have the
makings of life. None of it can happen without those searching, connecting valence
electrons.

Carbon makes a particularly good atom for building these complex molecules of life
because it has 4 electrons in its outer shell and therefore needs 4 more in order to be
balanced. Hence, it is stable and reactive, a nice condition on which to build. In that way
it exemplifies the dynamic that we said started with the valance electron of the hydrogen
atom and went all the way through life to us. Things happen when there is stability
mixed with reactivity. Many of the IMPACTS exemplify the same, but it started in
modern humans with the San tribe.

Atoms can also form ionic bonds and metallic bonds. Ionic bonds form when a metal
bonds with a non-metal. Generally, the difference in numbers of valence electrons is
high; e.g., in sodium chloride. Sodium has one valence electron in its outer shell and
chlorine has seven. This ionic bond produces table salt. Metallic bonding found in
metals is another form of electron sharing where the electrons are shared with all atoms
in the material. Hence, they are good conductors of electricity. The important point is
that everything is happening because electrons are being shared.

Looking closely at the atom will help us see the forces at work in human society. The
nucleus of the hydrogen atom contains only one proton. The nucleus of any other atom
(element) contains protons and neutrons, usually the same number of each. When it is
not the same number, we have an isotope of the element. Neutrons are an amalgam of
proton energy and electron energy. That is a clue to the functioning of society. There is
some electron IMPACTS energy within the nucleus (SN) of society too but not much. A
neutron outside the nucleus decays rapidly--in about 15 minutes--into a proton, an
electron, and an electron antineutrino, a particle that is also part of the lepton family.
Again, the particles associated with the nucleus and the strong nuclear force are called
baryons. So we have baryons and leptons dealing with each other in the atom.

With the neutron's rapid decay outside the nucleus, it appears that electron energy does
not have a natural home within a nucleus unless it is part of a neutron; in other words,
unless it is part of structural energy. It appears to be very much the same in the human
world. Human structures want creative-formative-productive IMPACTS energy to be
tightly controlled because 'running-free' innovative energy can lead to unpredictable
results, and an SN hates unpredictability.

In addition to the strong nuclear force within the atom, there is also the electromagnetic
force, which is not nearly as strong as the strong nuclear force. The EM force exists
between charged particles such as a proton and electron or a proton and proton or an
electron and electron. A force has to have a force-carrier particle and in the nucleus this
particle, appropriately named a gluon, is charged just as the nucleus is charged. The
electromagnetic force is carried by the photon, which has no charge. This is instructive
also as it concerns human society. Tremendous thick-as-glue-thinking exists as you get
closer to the SN of society but as you move towards the periphery, you usually find
more openness and lightness and independent thinking.

Within the nucleus is also found the weak force, but it is not as weak as its name
suggests. Without it we would have no stars and no sun as it allows for the
transformation of neutrons into protons and vice-versa, and for fusion between nuclei
which powers the stars. So the weak force aids in transforming the nucleus so energy
can be produced. It is believed to be part of the electromagnetic force and together they
are often referred to as the electroweak force.

The fourth known force is gravity but it is very weak within the atom. Scientists are still
looking for gravitons, the theoretical force-carriers of gravity. But Einstein's general
theory of relativity explained gravity in another way. It was not really a force but rather
the distortion of space-time by mass and energy. Everybody did not get the memo-or
did not believe it.

All of this is going on in human society too. It is the exact same model. We turn away
from it because we do not want to believe it. I say WE but I really mean most of us. Some
of us, mostly IMPACTS, want to explore all options. The human groups that lived before
agriculture would mostly have welcomed such thoughts. Their views of the universe
constantly evolved. That was before the structural-nucleus formed and distorted the
space and time around it, capturing the creative-formative-productive energy as well.
The nucleus (SN) of a structure does not create. If the structure is separated from its
creative-formative-productive energy, it will die just as a baby will die if separated from
its mother.


If Einstein could not figure out the mysteries of the universe, what chance does the guy
on the street have? Einstein was brilliant, yes, but certainly millions of Einsteins have
been born in the last 100,000 years. All we have to do is look at Stonehenge, the 'healing'
center in England constructed over 4,000 years ago and aligned with the winter solstice;
or the pyramids in Egypt, perfectly situated to north, south, east, and west; or the
Parthenon in Greece which was constructed with the use of mega-cranes; or individuals
such as the Greek Archimedes who invented integral calculus and mathematical physics
in the third century BCE. The examples are almost endless.

There have been many brilliant people born within the last 100,000 years and more, most
of whom have made their contributions in obscurity--one reason being that they did not 
care whether they got any attention or not, and another being that they were too far out
on the periphery for anyone to notice. Some of course never had a chance to contribute
their talents to the human race. As we are seeing, the very talented and the very
rebellious are often housed within the same person, and rebels can have a relatively
short lifespan, especially so since the onset of agrarianism and a controlling SN. The SN
tries to destroy energy that is antagonistic to it. That is what wars are all about.

Many Einsteins in the post-agricultural era were undoubtedly too rebellious. We hear
about the Einsteins who survived and whose brilliance made it through the SN filters.
The prevailing SN can distort the surrounding environment and destroy the brilliance
within it as it attempts to pick and choose the energy that will enhance its position.
Therefore it will generally reject anti-status-quo energy unless it can be turned into
'enhancement' energy--which it can be in the economic, scientific, and engineering
arenas in particular. The energy that the SN does not want or use settles to the
periphery. That is why we see the disabled and other challenging human conditions on
the periphery of society-the SN is not being enhanced. Therefore they are kicked to the
curb.

Archimedes, the brilliant mathematician, was not on the periphery of society in the third
century BCE in the Greek city-state of Syracuse on the island of Sicily. His father Phidias
was an astronomer and an aristocrat. So Archimedes already resided close to the
nucleus; he was an SN-IMPACTS-person and a friend of the king of Syracuse, King
Hieron II. When the king asked Archimedes to put his inventive ability to work on
practical weapons that could be used to defend the city against the Romans, Archimedes
complied though he took no satisfaction in doing so. He really just wanted to be a pure
mathematician--to acquire knowledge for its own sake--to solve problems. Engineering
weapons was not his thing.

Doubtless, there were thousands more in his time much like Archimedes though maybe
not his equal, many of them gathered in Alexandria, Egypt. The SNs of course existed
BECAUSE of the efforts of IMPACTS such as Archimedes, and the continuing SN
challenge would be to get as many of them on its side as possible. They were needed not
only for war and weaponry design and construction but also for civil engineering
projects such as canals, aqueducts, and roads. Plus the personal needs of the rulers could
get pretty extravagant as well--tombs, pyramids, statues, gardens, and palaces just to
mention a few.

It is the story of the modern world too. The more powerful SNs in today's global
political arena try to draw out the kinds of intelligence that will maximize their power
and control, and presently that is mostly economic, scientific, and military intelligence.
In today's world, economic success gives a country a better chance of attaining military
security-but there are certainly no guarantees.

You will notice where Archimedes was located on the societal map of the time--at a
very critical point (weapons inventor) and closely aligned with the king. That proximity
is where the SN wants all of the talented IMPACTS to be--close but not too close.

Energy
Einstein proved that everything, including matter, is energy. There is also something
called dark matter which is actually about six times more abundant in the universe than
conventional matter but nobody really knows much about it. When I refer to matter, it
will be the conventional kind.

Conventional matter is the stuff we see--stars, the sun and moon, clouds, the earth and
everything on it. It is made up mostly of protons, neutrons, and electrons, which we
generally think of as components of atoms. But most matter in the universe is not atomic
in structure--it is in a state called plasma where the protons and electrons are separated.
Plasma makes up 95-99% of matter in the universe, or so it is believed. Even the upper
atmosphere of the earth consists of plasma as the sun's energy in the form of
electromagnetic radiation knocks electrons off of atoms. Atoms are an aberration in the
universe though they are prevalent on earth along with molecules formed by electron
sharing.

Atoms did not form until about 380,000 years after the Big Bang--when the universe
cooled enough to permit it. Plasma is made up of separated protons and electrons
because it is too hot for them to form into atoms. For that reason, there are no atoms in
our sun or other stars, none in lightning on earth or anywhere else, none in fire.

Stars form in clusters in cold molecular hydrogen gas clouds, usually it appears through
turbulence such as from a supernova. Without the valence electron forming molecules of
hydrogen gas, there would be no stars. The dissatisfaction of the valence electron with
its lonely predicament--its imbalance--seems to be the starting point for much of what
we see around us.

Does this mean that the good stuff in the universe only happens when atoms and
molecules are formed? I do not know. I guess it depends on what good stuff is. But good
stuff does seem to occur often where forces butt up against one another. The imbalance
appears to put creative forces in motion that attempt to bring more balance to the
situation. If there was complete balance in the universe, nothing would happen.
Imbalance gets the ball rolling, and probably started it rolling in the first place.

For our purposes, let's say that the hydrogen atom was the first structure. Most
structures thereafter are based largely on the energy configuration that we see in that
particular atom which is the male proton and the female electron. Through the actions of
the electron, the structure can be increased in size. It is the same with the female and the
human family. But as we know, the male initiates the process of human duplication that
can only be accomplished through the female. Likewise in the hydrogen atom--without
the proton 'capturing' the electron, there would be no molecule formation or
'duplication'. So therefore, the proton actually initiates the process.

Usually structural design will include a small but dense nucleus surrounded by
'working' energy close to the nucleus with creative-formative-productive (CFP) energy
within the structure and often on the periphery as well. This CFP energy will maintain
and improve the structure, but some of it may break away and form a new structure or
join another structure. You see it in business all the time--some of the original founders
often split away and form their own companies.

The universe appears to be built around opposites, what some refer to as the yin and 
yang. There is matter and antimatter, positive and negative, light and dark, hot and cold, 
peace and violence, benevolence and greed, production and accretion, and many others.
Electrons and protons appear to be in that group also, not only because of their opposite
charges but also in the way the energy of each behaves. The male energy in the proton is
keeping everything tightly bound in the nucleus, but the female energy within the
electron wants to share and cooperate with other electron energy which will result in
duplication (molecules) and balance. But the enlargement of the structure precipitated
by the actions of the electron(s) is again captured by the nucleus. I think the opposites
that many philosophers have written about over the ages regarding the universe and
reality are actually the proton and electron energies that lie at the foundation of the
atom.

The electron does not change its characteristics; it is always the same. As the change
agent, it is predictable. The change comes about through its connections with other
electrons. So it is with the human valence electrons also, the IMPACTS. As we will see,
the IMPACTS have maintained their same basic characteristics ever since the San tribe
and shaman emerged over 100,000 years ago. Just like the electron, the IMPACTS are
mostly predictable and are the initiators of change, though our living world is not nearly
as precise as is the physical world of the atom.

The Greek philosopher Plato thought there were really two realities: the everyday kind
that we see all around us and the ideal state. He believed that everyday reality was a
poor imitation of the ideal--that the 'real stuff' existed out there somewhere. He also
thought that mathematics was part of the poor imitation and thus had no credibility as
far as its ability to make sense of the universe. You can see why the Christians loved
Plato even though they came 300-400 years after him. His thinking fit right in with
theirs--to a degree. His had no religious connotation.

I believe Plato was just another in a very long line of IMPACTS that started way back
with the San as we will see in the next chapter. Therefore he was always looking for
ways to improve his world, and as IMPACTS do, he first tried to figure out how it all
worked. As we will see, the San and their shamans also believed that the answers were
to be found in another reality. As a matter of fact, that is the derivation of the spirit
world and ultimately what came to be called heaven--the San-shaman.

In the atomic world, the 'between worlds' valence electron appears to stabilize the
forces. In the molecular world, carbon provides an excellent balancing agent of sorts
because it too is 'between worlds' because of its stable-reactive condition--4 electrons in
the outer energy level and 4 more needed for 'satisfaction'. So far, so good. But in the
everyday world of human beings, that balance is still very elusive as the 'between
worlds' IMPACTS are yes, bringing everything together just as valence electrons and
carbon atoms do, but they are not providing the balance that is needed. The SN is firmly
in control and elements of it are behaving recklessly. If the creative-formative-
productive energy isn't strongly embedded at the outset, the structural energy can
rapidly take control and imbalance will reign. That is where we find ourselves today, a
missile spiraling out of control because the balancing agent lacks the strength to rectify
the problem.

In our Milky Way galaxy, massive stars form in proximity to the black hole, displaying a
tenacity which seems to surprise many astrophysicists. In our human world, massive
IMPACTS-type structures are not being formed or surviving close to the SN. To me that
is a sign that things are askew from the operations of the rest of the universe. The
distribution of human energy is clearly out of balance.

Earth's Development
The universe as we know it is believed to have been born about 13.7 billion years ago
with the Big Bang, though it was not a bang as much as it was an expansion. It would be
another 9 billion years or so before our solar system would form--about 4.5 billion years
ago. Our solar system is located about two-thirds of the way from the black hole at the
center of the Milky Way to the edge of the galaxy, situated between two spiral arms (our
galaxy is believed to have four) on a kind-of dead-end street called the Orion spur. That
position may not seem significant at this juncture, but we will revisit it later.

It was not long after the earth formed that water made its appearance. Five hundred
million years after its birth, 90% of the earth was covered by water with tiny volcanic
islands dotting the landscape. But the atmosphere was toxic with a carbon haze, and the
earth's surface temperature was about 200 degrees Fahrenheit.

Many believe that a large percentage of the water arrived extra-terrestrially--from
comets and asteroids--which is the story of creative-formative-productive energy
coming from the periphery again.

The peripheral principle may have been at work in the beginnings of life on earth.
NASA's Stardust mission returned to earth with thousands of tiny particles from the tail
of a comet named Wild 2. These particles contained organic molecules essential to amino
acid formation, the building blocks of proteins, which are in turn the building blocks of
DNA. The thinking is that such molecules could not have formed in the scorching
environment of early earth and would theoretically have had to find another way to get
here.

It appears that these building blocks of amino acids are formed in the same dust clouds
as stars and planets. More than 70 varieties of amino acids have been found in
meteorites so it is quite possible that life-forming material arrived here with comets from
the distant fringes of the solar system or with asteroids. Recently a sugar molecule was
discovered near the center of the Milky Way galaxy in a gas and dust cloud where new
stars were forming. The more we see the peripheral element at work, the less unrealistic
it seems that maybe the origins of life were immigrants from afar. Remember, we and
the solar system we inhabit are a tiny interconnecting part of the whole. We are isolated
from the rest of the universe only in our own minds.

I mentioned the asteroid belt. The reason there are space rocks between Mars and Jupiter
instead of a planet is because Jupiter is so massive that it prevents a planet's formation.
And even the rocks that remain are a tiny percentage of what existed early on as
Jupiter's gravity has flung most of them out of their orbits. That is the way it works with
the powerful SN in the human world too--it keeps cohesion to a minimum and tries to
allow no space to those who might promote it, unless it serves the SN. Mostly the
'cohesionists' get flung out of the system the same way that asteroids have been
projected to peripheral locations by the gravitational forces of Jupiter. I used to wonder
why capitalists hated socialists so emphatically. Now I know. They are 'cohesionists'.

The same occurs in the international realm also. The big SNs want to become so
powerful that their 'gravity' disassembles any efforts to compete with them within what
they consider to be their sphere of influence. You will note that we have two sets of
vocabularies, one for the physical world and one for the human world. But it should be
increasingly obvious that we could drop much of the human vocabulary and only use
the physical wording to explain both worlds. The processes and forces are identical.

Seven hundred million years ago, as volcanoes in current-day Panama produced a new
land mass which blocked the circulation of warm-water currents to northern latitudes, it
is believed that the earth became a snowball of one-mile-thick ice blanketing its entire
surface. Bacteria and other very small life forms were trapped under the ice. But
gradually over many millions of years, volcanoes caused the breakup of the ice around
the world. Volcanoes have played an integral role in the development of the earth and
life itself, including human beings. We will see how humans followed the volcano trail
as they moved around the world.

About 550 million years ago, the Cambrian Explosion occurred when life literally
exploded across the earth, developing the forms more similar to what we see today.
Oxygen reached today's levels in the atmosphere, and an ozone layer formed.
From 230 million to 65 million years ago, dinosaurs ruled until a six-mile-wide asteroid
slammed into earth, ending their reign and clearing the way for mammals to develop
about 50 million years ago. Another significant peripheral event had changed the
structure dramatically. But as you can see, it is unlikely that change would have come
from 'inside' the prevailing structure because the dinosaurs had already dominated the
earth for 165 million years. It looks like the probabilities caught up with them.

If a huge meteor has only one chance in a million of colliding with earth, and enough
time passes, eventually it has a pretty good chance of happening. The structure (the
dinosaur world) had become so big and so strong that only something extremely
powerful from the periphery could break through the barriers and cause the 'nucleus' to
disassemble. The same is true today among humans--'dinosaur' behavior is not easily
changed. It has become entrenched when it is the IMPACTS behavior that needs to be
entrenched.

The peripheral element, such as the valence electron in the hydrogen atom or the outer
valence electron energy level of the carbon atom, is often the stabilizer and the change
agent simultaneously. Our moon is another example. The moon is believed to have
formed about 50 million years after the earth when the earth was struck by another
planet-sized body, sending debris outward which coalesced into the moon. At first the
moon was only about 15,000 miles from earth compared to 239,000 miles today. When it
would rise, it would cover about half the sky. But it has been moving away ever since,
currently about 1.5 inches per year.

This is a good example of how a peripheral creative-formative-productive agent enters
the scene, creates conditions for a new, more stable structural environment, is captured
and embedded, and then slowly moves away--to the periphery again.

Without the moon, the earth would wobble and not be able to sustain the conditions for
life as presently constructed, if at all. We will see the same change effect--and
stabilization--from the periphery in human society with the IMPACTS.

Creative-Formative-Productive > Structure and Structural-Nucleus (SN) > Capture of
Creative-Formative-Productive
This is the most important point in the book: a creative-formative-productive agent
creates or enables the development of a structure, which forms a controlling nucleus,
which then captures (accretes) the creative-formative-productive agent as a primary
source of energy for ongoing operation of the structure. The creative-formative-
productive energy also serves as the maintaining-improving energy. Again, think of a
mother and her role in the developing structure, the family-creative-formative-
productive-maintaining-improving. It is also the same model for a successful
entrepreneur.

After the formation of the solar system, it is believed that life started emerging early-
3.5 to 3.9 billion years ago. Early life was simple, mostly bacteria and archaea, both of
which are prokaryotes, one-celled organisms which have no defined nucleus. Archaea
are often characterized as extremophiles because they can survive in extreme
environments such as volcanic hot springs. But they also live in our guts too as do
bacteria.

Instead of a nucleus, prokaryotes have a nucleoid which is an irregularly-shaped area of
the cell where the genetic material (DNA) is kept, itself in basically a circular
configuration. Bacteria thrive in water but they are also found in sulfuric acid, oil
beneath the earth, and other seemingly toxic environments. That is also instructive about
the foundation-laying IMPACTS. We will see that the ancestors of modern humans lived
and survived all over the globe in every imaginable environment-caves, deserts,
jungles, islands, rocky cliffs, 12,000-foot mountains, arctic tundra, underground
dwellings that they carved out of volcanic rock--you name it, modern humans have
lived there at sometime or other.

About 3.5 billion years ago cyanobacteria started forming living rocks known as
stromatolites in shallow waters all over the globe. These rocks were formed as
cyanobacteria utilized the sun's energy along with hydrogen that they extracted from
water to produce their own food, the process today known as photosynthesis. The slimy
texture of the bacteria captured sediment which combined with calcium carbonate in the
water to produce layer upon layer of rock. The 'waste' product of photosynthesis,
oxygen, was released into the oceans and the atmosphere. Two billion years of work
turned earth into the beautiful blue planet that it is today. But it did more--oxygen
paved the way for more complex forms of life because it is extremely efficient in the
production of energy. Why? Because of its rapacious appetite for 2 more electrons which
are needed to fill its outer energy level. Oxygen combines with just about every element
except the noble gases which are not reactive because they have the required number of
electrons.

Stephan Harding explains in Animate Earth--"Oxygen is the passionate Italian of the
chemical world--its urge to gather electrons is so powerful that it can literally burn up
the complex molecules of life, releasing copious quantities of solar energy originally
locked up by photosynthesis. Respiration, without which multicellular life, such as us,
would be impossible, uses oxygen to burn up food molecules in a gradual, controlled
way and stores the energy in special molecules such as phosphorus-rich ATP." (Animate
Earth, page 94.) Nothing happens without the electrons attempting to fill that outer
energy level.

Stromatolites are rarely seen today except in areas that have too much salinity for most
sea life.

An important aspect of the energy-producing process of photosynthesis should be
noted. This is also the same process used to produce energy in mitochondria and almost
all living organisms. It is the electron transport chain. The process begins in
photosynthesis when sunlight heats an electron and in mitochondria when respiration
occurs in the cell. The electron transport chain produces an excess of protons on one side
of the membrane. This imbalance of protons drives the production of adenosine
triphosphate or ATP, the currency that enables the cell to function. So we can see clearly
that electrons get the ball rolling but protons are also essential to the process, basically as
a structure that stores energy.

This is another example of what can happen when an imbalance is created between
these two different energies, protons and electrons--when their atomic and molecular
worlds are disturbed. In this case, a structure of potential energy (ATP) is formed much
as a star can be formed as a cold molecular hydrogen gas cloud experiences turbulence
from the effects of a nearby supernova. In each instance a source of energy is created.

Stromatolites are a good example of a structure which would start dissolving
immediately if the creative-formative-productive energy was removed. The most
important contribution of cyanobacteria was creating oxygen that set the stage for the
future. When life started evolving into bigger and more diversified forms, some of these
fed on the bacteria that had enabled their creation. Others utilized bacteria to aid in their
own existence, as we do. While a portion of the creative-formative-productive life forms
like bacteria got captured, others remained free, working for the greater good as they
had before. We will see the exact same thing happening among human beings. Some of
the IMPACTS and their energy get captured by the SN and its supporters; other
IMPACTS stay on the periphery where they avoid capture and continue their work for
the greater good. We have already seen examples with Linus Torvalds, Tim Berners-Lee,
and others.

About 2 billion years ago, life took a gigantic step. A cell formed with a nucleus though
the exact way it happened is unclear. Nucleated cells are called eukaryotes. A virus
could have taken over a cell, becoming the nucleus, and then capturing bacteria to be its
energy producer. Or an archaeon could have combined with a form of bacteria in a
process known as endosymbiosis. No matter--the important thing is that a nucleus was
formed, capturing bacteria as its source of energy. These captured bacteria morphed into
what we call mitochondria, which are found in most living cells. Not only do
mitochondria produce energy, they also regulate cellular metabolism and perform a host
of other functions.

The same utilization of an existing energy source occurred with plants. The chloroplasts
that enable photosynthesis within plants are captured cyanobacteria, which started the
whole oxygenating process.

When eukaryote cells formed, the nucleus and mitochondria basically kept their own
DNA. Mitochondria had to produce energy for the cell, and the cell was dependent on a
peripheral agent to supply its energy needs. They were locked together, much more than
are the nucleus and electron of an atom. Life-forces replicate the model of the atom, but
they 'structuralize' the forces, making change difficult.

There are far fewer genes in the mitochondrial genome than are seen in its bacterial
cousins because some genes have been lost and others have been absorbed by the DNA
of the nucleus of the cell. That absorption increases the control of the nucleus over the
mitochondria and entwines their activities more tightly. They are joined as one.

The exact same thing has occurred in the human world as the SN has captured the
innovative, energy-producing IMPACTS. It too is like they have different DNA. But just
like the nucleus of the cell, the SN has been steadily accreting the genome of the
IMPACTS; hence, the SN-IMPACTS. The P-IMPACTS largely retain the original
IMPACTS genome. As mentioned, the subconscious goal of the SN is to capture all
useful IMPACTS energy and ignore or discard the rest.

Cells might contain a single mitochondrion, or they might contain thousands of
mitochondria; it depends on the needs of the cell. If more energy is required,
mitochondria will grow and divide by binary fission, similar to bacteria. When less is
required, they become inactive or simply dissolve. Mitochondria can also fuse with
other mitochondria when more energy is required. Also, new mitochondria will
sometimes be synthesized in areas of the cell rich in certain proteins and polyribosomes.

It almost seems as if mitochondria have their own little brain. But the more we look at
life, the more of that we see-many parts appear to have their own brain. I think it starts
with the valence electron and its dissatisfaction with its imbalance--and its attempts to
rectify that imbalance. But electron energy in general may be brain-like.

Bacterial remnants, chloroplasts and mitochondria, are still performing these two critical
functions that are so necessary to life on earth today: photosynthesis and energy-
production for the cell. It is part of the great recycling, frugality, and efficiency of life in
its utilization of energy. Life does not reinvent the wheel-it uses what is already on the
shelf, efficiently conserving energy.

Bacteria help us digest our food and fend off bad bacteria. We could not survive a day
without them. Amazingly, there are more bacterial cells on us and within us than there
are human cells. Is it possible for this inter-species dynamic to be operating within the
human species--two very different elements working together, almost like two different
human species? Yes!


A business is a good example of the creative-formative-productive energy leading to the
formation of a structure and structural-nucleus. First there is a creative-formative-
productive agent or agents who start the business. In the beginning the business may be
small with considerable chaotic energy and no real signs of a nucleus. But gradually the
business grows (hopefully), and a structure forms around an infrastructure along with a
nucleus which handles day-to-day operations. Usually this creative-formative-
productive energy (the entrepreneur) stays with the business for a considerable time,
making sure the energy is embedded within the structure. To continue optimizing the
realization of the potential of the business, there must be continual assessment and
continual creation and delivery of needed elements. This means being open to new
ideas, continually learning, encouraging innovation, exercising restraint when required
and boldness where appropriate, letting passion take over in measured ways, and
encouraging freedom of thought and expression in the entire working environment.

Let's look at an early adversary of Bill Gates, Steven Jobs, who like Gates while he was
still with Microsoft, is a large part of the creative-formative-productive energy and the
structural-nucleus. Did you know that Steven Jobs was adopted? His adoptive mother
had a high school education and his adoptive father did not have that. His biological
father was Syrian and a professor and his biological mother was American Caucasian
and a speech pathologist. Many IMPACTS are adopted. Why would that be the case?
Because IMPACTS parents are usually trying to do the right thing, and though giving
up a child for adoption is never easy, an argument could be made that sometimes it is
the right thing to do.

As noted earlier, IMPACTS are often found around serious challenges or rifts, between
things, perhaps semi-detached or detached from the normal structure. It is another
manifestation of the peripheral element. The valence electron is trying to fix the
imbalance that exists; IMPACTS are trying to do the same. That is why we often find
them in situations that are in need of repair and extra care.

After completing high school in the Silicon Valley of California, Jobs attended Reed
College, a small, highly respected liberal arts college in Oregon. He dropped out, as did
Bill Gates from Harvard, and then traveled around India briefly. That is not surprising
as IMPACTS will frequently retrace the steps of other IMPACTS who were asking
similar questions.

Jobs worked at Hewlett-Packard for a while, a company we mentioned in Chapter 1 that
began with copious amounts of IMPACTS creative-formative-productive energy and
attitude, but little else. An IMPACTS-person will often work at a company with
significant IMPACTS characteristics before he or she goes off and starts his/her own
business. Jobs's founding partner, Steve Wozniak, also worked at HP. You will find
IMPACTS in clusters, attracted to the same types of companies, organizations, and
values-even living environments.

Why would computers attract the eyes and brains of IMPACTS? They are efficient; they
allow energy to be conserved and they allow it to be stored as potential energy. They can
duplicate and they improve communication and connections among people. They are in
the same family as robots. That is why when you see an emphasis on robotics, you see
IMPACTS. Japan is a good example as it is the world's leader in robotics.

Jobs and Wozniak started Apple, makers of Macintosh computers, but after a few years
Jobs was fired from his own company. The embedded creative-formative-productive
energy was gone, and the company suffered as is often the case when the founder leaves
for whatever reason. Jobs then founded a multimedia company and made it very
successful, whereupon Apple bought his new company and hired him back in the
process.

We saw that Gates's parents contributed their time and energy to the community, and
that Jobs's mother was a speech pathologist. Nurturing genes and innovative genes
generally reside together though there will be different levels of manifestation within a
group such as a nuclear family. One child may want to save the world--another may
want to make himself the center of the world. You never know. But generally if you find
genuine caring and compassion, you find innovation close by. Think of it this way--if
you really want to help people or animals or anything else in need, you will find ways to
do it, even if you have to invent them. And that is often what happens with IMPACTS.

You can see the swirling activity around Steven Jobs as he attracts followers and creates
mostly positive upheavals. Electrons have a characteristic called spin which causes them
to act like tiny magnets. IMPACTS are the same-their 'always in motion' energy and
mental makeup often create movements around them, sometimes big and sometimes
small. Obvious examples are Martin Luther King and Mother Teresa, but the same
applies to any field of endeavor whether business, art, medicine, science, non-profits,
sports, philosophy, or anything else.

Note the regular people that were around Steven Jobs early in life, the immigrant aspect,
the early challenging environment (the rift), the reaching out from others, the rebel
issues, technological innovation, artist-orientation (Macs are loved by artist-types),
recovery from bitter disappointment, and the unceasing creative-formative-production
and delivery. IMPACTS like Jobs are often enthusiastic marketers because they believe
that others will benefit significantly from their products and ideas. IMPACTS are driven
to improve the world, and that means impacting its structure-just as the valence
electron impacts the structure of the atom.

Everyone of course does not love Steven Jobs or Bill Gates for that matter. IMPACTS are
not in a popularity contest; they are here as they see it to get things done and hopefully
change the world for the better. Worrying about whether people like you or not can
detract from that mission.

Today's structural-nucleus leaders welcome SN-IMPACTS like Steven Jobs with open
arms because it means more power and prestige for them, not to mention that there
might be military applications, a major consideration of the SN since the emergence of
nation-states, and even before. But if Steven Jobs or Bill Gates or Warren Buffet or Oprah
or other IMPACTS like them have recommendations on a different process that could be
utilized to choose political leaders, one which would assure more quality and integrity
in the system, those recommendations would generally not be welcomed by the
structural-nucleus (SN) leaders. They want people to 'know-their-place'. They also want
anti-status-quo attitudes to remain inside the economic arena, focused on producing
more and better products and services. And the SN does not want to hear any comments
about the setup of the economy itself with its fairness, ethical, and environmental issues.
The emphasis is on creative-formative-production because that means power, control,
and enhancement for the SN. Remember, the SN produces nothing; it depends entirely
on others for its ability to exist and function.

The structural-nucleus sets the guidelines for what is valued and what is not, and those
who follow and succeed are supported and rewarded, and those who do not adhere to
the guidelines and do not accept the structure as is get little sympathy from the SN
leaders.

Leptons such as electrons are not affected by the strong nuclear force. It is the same with
people; the IMPACTS have no natural connection to the SN. They are similar to visitors
to the party; the SN has to convince them to stay but the IMPACTS are not sure if the
party is right for them. The more the SN can entangle them, the more apt they are to
stay. These machinations are rarely conscious; it is just the way a hierarchal structure
operates as it tries to capture its sources of energy. We can be sure that the same process
occurred as the nucleus of the cell tried innumerable strategies to keep the energy-
producing bacteria (eventually mitochondria) inside the cell. It no doubt took quite a
while but it obviously succeeded.

A structure develops its own momentum. Look at our galaxy, the Milky Way. It
becomes more powerful with each star that is created. Without stars, there would not be
much of a galaxy. The stars give the universe its light and they give it its diversity
through the production of new elements, most of which are released through
supernovae. Stars, though they make up most of the mass of a galaxy, appear to have
absolutely no control over it. The super-massive black hole at the center 'manages' the
galaxy--everything revolves around it. It is very similar to what we see with our
country. The 300 million people or so are managed by a tiny few. Do we have any
control over the structure? Not unless we develop cohesion which the hierarchal
structure is always trying to prevent.

Does that mean there is no hope for balancing the forces on earth between the SN and
the IMPACTS? No. The 'pulling-inward' forces may be in overall control of the galaxy
but even massive stars are being formed 'right outside the black hole's front door'. That
is what we need on earth--stronger IMPACTS forces to rival the SN and limit its
'pulling-inward' power-control actions and results.

We have noted how the SN is a product of significant creative-formative-productive
IMPACTS energy--the SN comes after the IMPACTS energy has laid the foundation.
The black hole at the center of our galaxy may have formed after the demise of a massive
star, as millions of other black holes have also formed. So the black hole is the opposite
of a star--it is its death--but it depends on stars for its survival. While it grows in
strength from eating them, it also grows in strength as they are produced, enlarging the
galaxy. This enables it to potentially capture other galaxies, which it will also feed on
and thus become even more powerful. But it all really appears to be for naught because
galaxies are moving away from each other. So what is the point? Bigger is better? We ask
the same questions in regard to SN actions on earth and we are left with the same
unsatisfactory answers.

Such is the universe, two distinct variables at work-production and consumption, more
manifestations of the energies of electrons and protons. We see it in the people world
too-one segment of the population is the main production center and the other is the
main consumption center, sucking up the energy and production from the producers.

Another aspect of black holes reveals more of their paradoxical role in the universe. As
incoming matter interacts with the magnetic field of the black hole, tremendous jets of
energy can be released into the surrounding cosmos. These jets warm the environment
and dramatically limit star formation. You will recall that stars form in cold molecular
clouds of mostly hydrogen gas. So the black hole uses the stuff of which stars are made
to prevent stars from being made. It is the 'cosmos planning department'.

The same thing happens on earth. The SN is deeply concerned about what is essentially
IMPACTS star-formation outside of its current sphere of influence. Therefore it attempts
to enlists IMPACTS and others in its efforts to 'control the neighborhood', which really
means limiting the influence of 'their' IMPACTS. Many domestic IMPACTS can see
through this gamesmanship and want no part of it. Yes, they want to create and produce
but they do not want to strengthen the SN. That is why many P-IMPACTS remain on the
periphery, away from the SN-empowering zone.

It appears that early in a galaxy's formation, the black hole at the center consumes the
equivalent of ten average-size stars per year. As the galaxy develops, it eats less. The size
of galaxies largely matches the size of the black holes; the bigger they are, the bigger the
galaxy. The same occurs in people institutions. Early on, the organization will require
many IMPACTS 'stars'; e.g., the founding fathers of this country. But as it develops it
will assume its own momentum and require less input from IMPACTS. This is not
because it does not need the input; it is just the way most hierarchies operate. IMPACTS
energy is embedded in varying degrees but generally it is held at bay. It is needed and
feared at the same time.

And you thought that it was mainly human beings who were in constant conflict? We
are just a manifestation of the forces operating throughout the cosmos. The universe
appears to be an entity composed of adversarial parts. But that increasingly makes sense
as we learn that the universe and the people world are following the exact same model.
As I said, the more we learn about ourselves, the more we should learn about the
universe.

As the structure develops further, it becomes more and more difficult for a creative-
formative-productive agent to influence the whole just as the formation of a new star
does not put a dent in the power of the galaxy and its black hole. What if Thomas
Jefferson came back tomorrow and ran for President--would he be elected? Not a
chance. The structure--the U.S. government--has moved in a different direction.
Besides, Jefferson espoused a 'revolutionary' attitude towards government, believing it
required continuing re-invigoration. No such attitude would be acceptable today.
Jefferson would be wiretapped, his email would be read by the National Security
Agency, and many other aspects of his personal life would make him 'unworthy' to
serve.

Creative-formative-productive energy obviously has a strong influence in the early
developmental stages of any structure, but it appears that so-called dark (divisive)
energy may be inevitable as the structure grows and a nucleus forms. We saw it in the
first eukaryotic cell as the nucleus captured bacteria, now called mitochondria, to be
used as the energy producers for the cell. In the process, it broke the natural cohesion of
the bacteria, thereby forcing the bacteria to work for the nucleus rather than for their
own bacterial colony. It did to bacteria what Jupiter does to the asteroids--it kept them
separated. But even inside the cell, if more energy is required, the bacterial mitochondria
will merge together or divide and increase in population.

Bacteria were not brought into the nucleus but rather kept in the cytoplasm. The nucleus
did however gradually absorb some of the mitochondrial (bacterial) DNA, ensuring
control by accreting what it wanted.

In the family, the mother creates the structure and becomes the primary part of the
nucleus at the same time, and slowly the baby grows and moves away from her and the
father. Their influence is strong in the beginning but it gradually begins to wane. But
through strong creative-formative-productive energy, the mother along with the father
can prepare the child for life in another structure beyond the family, a structure over
which the parents have very little control. That structure today is hierarchal and male-
dominated while the nuclear family is mostly circular with embedded female energy.

Creative-formative-productive energy usually works best in a circular environment with
loose boundaries. This allows information to flow in and out unimpeded. Examples are
a prokaryotic bacterial cell, an entrepreneurial startup business, a colony of emigrants in
a faraway land, and a nuclear family where flexibility is required.

The exact same thing has occurred in the development of the structure called human
civilization. The creative-formative-productive energy that enabled the species to grow
and develop was mostly female-oriented and circular with an ill-defined nucleus, as we
will see in the next chapter. The structure that formed along with its structural-nucleus
was hierarchal and male-oriented. Therein lies a formidable challenge for the IMPACTS
and the SN. The IMPACTS profile formed in a loosely-defined nuclear environment
with no hierarchy, and now it has been thrust into the male-oriented hierarchal world to
play the role of mitochondria--supplying energy for the structure. It is no wonder the
world does not run smoothly. The energy part was not designed for the structural part
that emerged after agriculture. That is why there has been such discord in the past 5,000
to 8,000 years. The fuel was developed for one type of vehicle and it is being used for a
completely different kind.

Just as the mother's influence wanes as the structure of the family develops, so it has
been and continues to be the case with the IMPACTS and human civilization. Their
creative-formative-productive energy is powerful, and they are still exerting an
indispensable influence on the structure of human civilization. But like the mother their
ability to affect events in certain areas diminishes as the structure and its structural-
nucleus grow.

The question today though is this: Is the residual influence of that creative-formative-
productive energy strong enough to save us from the serious shortcomings of the
structure of human civilization that have developed over the past few thousand years?
Nobody knows, but hopefully by the end of the book we will have a clearer idea of what
is really happening and what needs to happen in order to enhance survival.

It sounds as if I am casting all SNs around the world as villains. No-not all of them.
There are some good ones I am sure, but probably not many. It is just the way the world
has developed; the SN has too much influence. The pursuit of power and control is a
nasty business just as a black hole is nasty business. Now you can see why our solar
system is out near the periphery of the galaxy--for the same reason that IMPACTS are
out near the periphery. Good stuff in the universe, including here on earth, appears to
happen more frequently away from power-control centers, which are generally
anathema to creative-formative-productive IMPACTS aspects. And to make the point
once again, valence electrons, the stuff of molecules and therefore of life, are as far away
as possible from the nucleus of the atom.

Economies around the world have become the fuel for the various SNs and their
attempts to predominate, one against the other or one block against the other. Economic
production is up because large numbers of innovative, rebellious IMPACTS have been
tamed and are 'inside the cell'--working hard for the SN while still retaining many of
their independent genes.

This is still a man's world and male primate behavior is about alpha dominance. It is on
display worldwide for all to see. Even the women who are coming on the world stage
often sound more like men than men. But that is easily explained. The male-dominated
hierarchy is only going to open its doors to 'male-acting' women.


We saw with Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Steven Jobs, Oprah, and others that the creative-
formative-productive energy and the structural-nucleus were essentially the same in
their organizations. That is why their accomplishments have been so prodigious. The
creative-formative-productive and the structural-nucleus have grown together like a
double helix DNA strand. That is what life itself may be-the manifestation of the
struggle between creative-formative-productive energy and structural-nucleus energy,
the electron and the proton.

In countries, however, creative-formative-productive energy rarely grows together in an
equal fashion with the structural-nucleus energy. A cursory glance at history tells the
tale--the SN grows in a direction away from IMPACTS principles and then overreaches,
resulting in extreme pressure on what is left of cohesive IMPACTS energy. Once the SN
oversteps, it is very difficult for it to reclaim its 'powerful' position. The graveyard of
historical powers provides some examples--the Greeks of Pericles and the Greeks of
Alexander the Great, the Roman Empire, the Mongols and Genghis Khan, Britain during
its colonial period, Germany, Japan, the Soviet Union, and others. They have all had
their day in the sun, and though most have recovered, they have not assumed their
previous lofty status. But that lofty status was built on the currency of power in use
since agriculture, and that is military strength.

Military strength is tempting for the SN guys to utilize, but it is a double-edged sword.
After the inevitable overreach, many countries will recover as we saw with Japan after
World War II. What enabled the overreach also enabled the recovery, and that would be
the IMPACTS. When the militaristic SN head has been chopped off, a solid foundation
of IMPACTS remains to put things back together if possible, which they have a better
chance of doing with a new SN.

Is the U.S. next-in-line? A quick look at the U.S. today reveals what has occurred time
and time again the last 6,000 years or so. The structure of the country was founded on
varying amounts of creative-formative-productive IMPACTS energy, from the
periphery--in this case as in many other cases by an armed rebellion against a distant,
overreaching SN. A nucleoid of sorts quickly formed, committing the creative-
formative-productive principles to paper in the form of a Constitution. But this work
conspicuously omitted equal rights for women, and freedom and rights for slaves.

Today the U.S. does provide more rights to women and minorities, but overall the
frequency of IMPACTS principles in the post-agrarian world does not compare
favorably with that of the pre-agrarian world. In people-relations, human civilization
has gone distinctly backward since the emergence of agriculture and the SN. We will see
in the next chapter that people have to struggle every day around the world for rights
that the San took for granted for over 100,000 years.

After the dust settles following a revolution, the structure may start to look very
different from the principles on which it was founded. The energy needed to create and
form a country is not the same kind of energy that emerges to rule it. Yes--early on
there were solid IMPACTS characteristics in George Washington, Thomas Jefferson,
James Madison, and many others. But it did not take long for the gap to widen between
the creative-formative-productive principles and the SN realities.

When everything was about to fall completely apart, another IMPACTS-person,
Abraham Lincoln, was needed. That is the way it works--at the most critical times,
IMPACTS emerge. But unfortunately Lincoln was to suffer the same fate that many
IMPACTS over the years have suffered when they have been thrust into deep
ideological divides. Those chasms and states of deep dis-ease cry out for IMPACTS
leadership because usually only they can build a bridge between the two sides. But it is a
dangerous place to be in the post-agricultural world.


If we have a human profile that fits the valence electron, which is the most extreme
electron energy in that it is farthest from the nucleus and most apt to semi-escape from
its pull, then we most likely have its opposite--a black-hole-type profile that mirrors the
extremes of the nucleus, the power-control center. And a brief look at history and the
contemporary world makes the case strongly. So we have both extremes casting their
energy on the world, one possessing innovation though loosely engaged with the
structure and the other more like a black hole, trying to suck everything into its domain.
Most of human life operates in the middle.

Unfortunately for the U.S. and consequently the rest of the world, our political system is
set up to generate conflict and separation rather than compromise and cohesion. But we
know how it works--a hierarchal structure divides, and there is no more pure example
of that than American politics. The black hole extreme is firmly entrenched but the
innovative, loosely-engaged IMPACTS are in short supply. A black hole is anathema to
them. Barack Obama has gotten through but he is up against a powerful, solidly
entrenched structure and SN. It is extremely difficult to significantly change a structure
after it has assumed its primary shape. Will he change the structure or will the structure
change him, or will it be a draw?

Today the country is run by two political parties though there is not one word in the
Constitution about them. The little guys and gals have been shut out because a
hierarchal structure such as the U.S. government has a distinct fear of creative-
formative-productive IMPACTS energy--unless it is controlled. The best way to control
it is not to give it a voice.

The story of human life today and post-agriculture has been how to live with and
address the inequities of the SN, no matter the time or place. Like the nucleus of an
atom, it is a small core but it is powerful and casts a very big shadow. We will see later
that the Romans 'conquered' the Greeks, but the Greeks were actually the civilizing
influence on the Romans. The Greeks were the IMPACTS. That is the story of civilization
in a nutshell. The IMPACTS are trying to civilize the SN and it is an extremely difficult
job.

Right Brain-Left Brain
The human brain appears to be a good example of the creative-formative-productive
and structural-nucleus (SN) duality at work. It is the atom manifested.

Let's draw a line to represent human behavior. On the left end we will put engaged with
the external environment, and on the right we will put autistic, or not engaged, with the
external environment. In our society, the engaged behavior is considered normal and
valued and the unengaged abnormal because it is not seen as contributing value, and
today that generally means economic value. Behavior and/or thought patterns that do
not conform to the prevailing accepted model of modern mental health are likely to be
considered abnormal and therefore 'treatment' may be prescribed. The goal is to get the
person to function in a way that fits the definition of the healthy model and to contribute
to society in accepted manners.

But again that is part of the continuing trend that developed after the advent of
agriculture when the emerging SN 'naturally-selected' the kind of people that it wanted.
It saw no value in those who could not produce goods and services. Much of what we
are as modern humans however appears to have originated from the autistic side of the
spectrum or very near to it. And that also appears to be the origin of the IMPACTS
profile. But that should not surprise us. We are continuing to see that creative-formative-
productive energy emanates from the 'loosely engaged, beginning in the hydrogen atom
with the lone electron.

Leonardo da Vinci, who possessed one of the greatest minds in recorded history and
perhaps one of the greatest ever, would certainly today have been classified as abnormal
and in need of treatment. Among other psychiatric difficulties, he may have had
Asperger syndrome, a high-functioning form of autism that has afflicted many of the
truly great contributors to human civilization, including possibly Einstein, Thomas
Jefferson, Archimedes, and millions of others. Da Vinci cared little for traditional
education and had a habit of not finishing what he started. There may not have been a
space for his particular kind of genius energy in the contemporary world. How many Da
Vincis are being cast aside today in the SN quest for homogeneity? Homogeneity has no
place for loose engagement. Those who are loosely-engaged have little value because
their contributions are relatively low, by SN-standards. Therefore they end up on the
periphery.


Let's look at the two hemispheres of the human brain for a moment to see how the
makeup of the brain fits in with our SN versus IMPACTS theory. These are some traits
generally associated with each hemisphere.

Left-brained
Analytical
Objective
Detail-oriented
Present and past
Math and science
Responds to verbal instructions
Processes information from parts to whole-takes pieces and lines them up to form a
sort of logic--sequential--rational 
Looks at differences
Planned and structured
Controls feelings
Prefers ranked authority structures
Draws on previously established, certain, and organized information
Realistic and rigid--reality-based--facts rule
Forms strategies
Practical
Safe

Right-brained
Responds to demonstrated instructions
Imagination rules
Solves problems with intuition and hunches-looks for patterns, similarities, and
configurations
Is fluid and spontaneous
Prefers elusive, uncertain information
Prefers open-ended questions
Freer with feelings
Prefers collegial authority structures
Connectedness is important
More flexible
Processes information from whole to parts--sees the whole picture first
Appreciates art-music-culture
Philosophy and religion
Present and future
Non-verbal
Uses metaphors and analogies, symbols and images
Emotional
Random yet holistic
Synthesizing
Subjective
Empathic
Drive-oriented
Creative
Global
Sees the Big Picture
Can "get it" (the meaning)
Appreciates
Believes
Looks at possibilities and potential
Impetuous
Risk-taking


The right brain clearly looks more female and loosely-engaged while the left brain
appears more male, structured, and engaged. As is the case in the atom, the two forces
are separate, but in the brain the two hemispheres are connected through a large body of
nerve fibers known as the corpus callosum, which is generally thicker in females.

Looking at the list above, I can see many typical IMPACTS traits on both sides. That may
appear to be a deviation from the IMPACTS Concept but in actuality it is not. The
IMPACTS bring things 'into being'; they invent; they are generally working with real
'stuff' in a hands-on manner. Therefore there has to be a solid structural element to the
profile. IMPACTS women usually have a strong male side, and IMPACTS men have the
structural side and a strong female side. But still the profile definitely leans to the right
side of the brain just as it leans to the electron.

Today's world is a male structure with clear instances of nucleus- or SN-formation. Pre-
agriculture was more prokaryotic in makeup with only a loosely-defined nucleus, more
right-brained. Our current world is left-brained-the right-brain is embedded in service
to the left. The creative right-brain people are utilized to enhance the structure--to make
it stronger, more efficient, more productive, and more appealing. It is true for any
structure-a business, a country, the theatre, the Super Bowl.

Autism
There has been a surge of reported autism cases in the past few years. Simon Baron-
Cohen, director of the autism research center at Cambridge University in England and
author of The Essential Difference: The Truth About the Male and Female Brain, has
some theories. But first a little background.

The corpus callosum, being thicker in women, may be the reason that, according to a
study from Yale, women are more likely to activate both hemispheres when performing
language tasks whereas men generally activate only the left hemisphere. Men seem to
do better in math and mechanics overall, and women score higher on people issues such
as emotion recognition and social sensitivity, and higher also on language ability. But
IMPACTS men and women will often be the reverse from the model above-women
very adept in math and mechanics, and men more aware of nuances in the social
environment than the average male.

Baron-Cohen believes that on average females have a stronger drive to empathize, and
men a stronger drive to systemize. Identifying how a system works may allow you to
control it or predict its behavior. Empathy allows you to have a better understanding of
the needs of others and to respond appropriately. Again, IMPACTS men and women
often seem to have both--empathy and a systemizing-orientation. IMPACTS are closer
to androgyny than the rest of the population; therefore, they will have clear male and
female elements.

It has also been found that the amount of prenatal testosterone produced by the fetus is
a determining factor in the kind of brain that is produced. If a male's testosterone levels
are low he may have more of a female brain, and if a female's testosterone production is
high she may have more of a male brain.

Baron-Cohen believes that the autistic person has a particularly strong drive to
systemize and little drive to empathize; in other words, an extreme version of the male
profile. His research has found that both parents of autistic children tend to be strong
systemizers, and that the father of each parent is more likely to be a systemizer. So
systemizing appears to be in the genes.

In the vast majority of cases, autism is found in males. Why would that be the case?
Perhaps the 'autism gene' has value for humanity in that it houses immense innovation
as demonstrated throughout recorded history, particularly from those with Asperger
syndrome. Nature will keep that which enables its survival. That would also explain
why males come up with most inventions--because of the autistic remnants. Don't get
me wrong--I am a strong supporter of females but I am trying to look at all of it with as
much science and as little bias as possible.

Instead of extreme maleness there may be something else at work in autistic males-a
stripped down male ego. That may be what we are seeing--the 'absence' of the left
brain. That would also account for the frequency of right-brain innovation.

Generally there appears to be little 'macho' behavior in autistic males, another sign of an
absence of the male ego. So-called low-functioning autistics appear to literally be stuck
in 'no-man's-land'--in another world. But as we will see in the next chapter, 'another
world' is what modern humans were built on. I believe nature has probably kept autism
because it has tremendous survival value for our species, and I believe the IMPACTS are
likely not that far away from autism on the spectrum.

Comparison of Valence Electrons to IMPACTS
Let's briefly look again at the similarities between IMPACTS and valence electrons.

*    Both environments are basically circular.
*    The electron field is huge. Same with the IMPACTS; they have no borders.
*    The valence electron is on the periphery where many IMPACTS also reside.
*    The valence electron, if it is being shared with another atom, is responding to a
critical need for balance which will bring symmetry--same with the IMPACTS.
*    Both are optimizing the situation or attempting to.
*    Both bond well with like-energy though they both have a natural independence.
*    Both are creative-formative-productive agents of the structure.
*    Both transform their environments.
*    Both forms of energy are different from that of the nucleus.
*    Much of what happens in the physical world happens because of valence
electrons; same with the IMPACTS in the human world.
*    The strong nuclear force does not attract the electrons; electrons are held to the
atom by the opposite charge and probably by Einstein's general theory of relativity
which says that mass and energy bend space-time. Same with the IMPACTS. Their ties
to the nucleus can be tenuous; there is no natural affinity there. But the power of the SN
sucks many of the IMPACTS in just as happens in an atom where there are multiple
levels of electron energy.
*    There is a strong nuclear force holding the nucleus together; the electrons have
no such force holding them together. They are more independent-like the IMPACTS.
But electrons do like to be paired with another electron. Likewise, IMPACTS are
energized by working and socializing with other IMPACTS.
*    Valence electrons are mobile; so too the IMPACTS. This mobility allows for
continual dissemination of creative-formative-productive energy and ideas.
*    Valence electrons are the glue that holds molecules together; IMPACTS are the
social glue.

Everything is based on the model of the atom. But then how could it be anything else?
Remember, we are just a manifestation of the natural forces operating in the universe. It
has taken the struggle between those natural forces a long time to produce what we are
today.

The Human Manifestation of the IMPACTS Dynamic
The IMPACTS Dynamic or energy is a bottom-up force rather than a top-down force; it
is part of the structure but behaves as if it is separate from it also--kind of like the
valence electron or mitochondria. It appears to step back and assess what is needed.
Then it fills in the gaps in the structure, sometimes bringing in elements from the
periphery--or beyond.

If you have ever watched water filling up an aquarium, searching out and covering
every little crack and crevice, wrapping itself around all the rocks and stones, that is a
good picture of the attitude of the IMPACTS--making sure nothing is missed and
everything is covered. That also appears to be the attitude of life itself, finding a way to
live-to optimize potential-in almost any environment, even extreme ones like bacteria
living in sulfuric acid or oil. Life may actually have started in such conditions and
evolved as environmental conditions changed.

Some human structures are so rigid that it appears that the IMPACTS Dynamic has been
snuffed out completely. We can all think of examples: the family that is run like a
dictatorship, the business that refuses to modernize, bureaucracies, governments-the
examples are all around us in abundance. That is SN-structural energy, and it is strong
and resistant to change. IMPACTS people in those situations usually look for a way out.
IMPACTS need freedom in order to become themselves and produce their best for the
family, the company, the country, humankind. That is one reason you see IMPACTS
moving about-they are looking for the environments that best suit their needs for
freedom, expression, and creative-formative-production. If it is not where they are, they
will go find it. They are very much like bees looking for nectar.

The Struggle: IMPACTS as Rebels
We are going to take a different view of history. From this view, we will see history
more as the development of art and culture, economy, science, humanities, practical
inventions and discoveries that serve humankind, and the battle for justice. Where the
SN leaders see power and control as the defining elements of history-making, IMPACTS
might see service to humanity through hands-on creative-formative-production-totally
different views of the world. The SN guys just want to make sure that THEY control
what is created and produced--and they do to a very large degree. But IMPACTS have a
very independent streak as do mitochondria.

The actual story of recorded history is not what we have been taught. Yes, there is a
struggle between cultures and states, but it did not start out that way. The first war that
occurred after the development of agriculture was between the hierarchal, mostly
patriarchal SN, and the circular, community-of-humankind IMPACTS forces. An excerpt
from Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel provides an example of what has
occurred thousands of times since the SN emerged.

"On the Chatham Islands, 500 miles east of New Zealand, centuries of independence
came to a brutal end for the Moriori people in December 1835. On November 19 of that
year, a ship carrying 500 Maori armed with guns, clubs, and axes arrived, followed on
December 5 by a shipload of 400 more Maori. Groups of Maori began to walk through
Moriori settlements, announcing that the Moriori were now their slaves, and killing
those who objected. An organized resistance by the Moriori could still then have
defeated the Maori, who were outnumbered two to one. However, the Moriori had a
tradition of resolving disputes peacefully. They decided in a council meeting not to fight
back but to offer peace, friendship, and a division of resources."

The offer was never delivered, but it would not have mattered. The Maori killed
hundreds over the next few days, even deciding to cook and eat some of the bodies.
They killed most of the remainder over the next few years, as it suited them.

The Moriori were a small isolated group of peaceful hunter-gatherers, very much like
the San that we will discuss in the next chapter. The Maori were farmers from a dense
population on New Zealand's North Island who engaged in constant war. Both peoples
had diverged from the same Polynesian group less than a thousand years before.   

This is the ugly story of history that has not been told. It happened all over the globe in
thousands of different locations--and it is still happening today though the victims are
rarely hunter-gatherers. Sometimes there has been a less violent assimilation of groups
but unfortunately this was often the outcome--death to the entire peaceful IMPACTS
group. And when they died, their peaceful, innovative genes died with them.

The Maori killed the Moriori because they objected to being slaves. The Maori wanted
the creative-formative-productive energy of the Moriori and if they couldn't have it,
they would destroy it. Honestly, it is not so different today. The same dynamics are
operating but they have been dressed up a little. It is all about the SN getting the energy
that it wants--one way or the other. Slavery, colonialism, and the subservience
demanded from women were different aspects of the same thing.

As Jared Diamond makes clear in his book, Guns, Germs, and Steel have destroyed huge 
swaths of humanity, including I might add its IMPACTS innovators. The SN has been
naturally selecting its own favored mealybugs and discarding the rest. The SN needs
natural resources and it needs IMPACTS to develop them, if it is to have a well-
functioning machine. The countries throughout history that have attained that level
have had access to both.

You can see why we have the world we do--the peaceful genes such as those of the 
Moriori do not stand a chance against passionate SN desires to capture what it wants.
The only reason that the IMPACTS are still around is because they are indispensable to
the functioning of this civilization. If all IMPACTS like the Moriori had been killed, the
fuel--and light--needed to run the species would have been extinguished.

The first war was won by the SN--the correct IMPACTS were gradually captured, and
the recalcitrant or rebellious ones were discarded or killed, when possible. Of course,
millions were able to get away and flee to the periphery. The SNs with their captured
IMPACTS could then proceed to the next war--against each other. It would be my-
captured-IMPACTS against your-captured-IMPACTS. That war is clearly still ongoing,
but the first war is not over either. Around the world, insurgency groups are fighting
against oppressive SN actions. Again, the power-control SN uses its IMPACTS to defeat 
the goals of other IMPACTS, which is a tragedy because IMPACTS almost always get
along well with other IMPACTS anywhere in the world--if they are left alone. But the SN
will not leave them alone; if it needs them, it will go out and get them, and it will continue
to pit one against the other when necessary.

Of course all insurgencies are not IMPACTS-led, and all SNs are not snuffing out
IMPACTS. But it is clear that much of it is going on and has gone on. The story of the
universe is the attempt to strike a balance. It is also the story of the sharing valence
electrons and the IMPACTS. Human civilization is not exempt from that struggle
though the SN people would have us believe that their actions are honorable, and those
who are objecting are terrorists. We must remember that the SN is often a fearful entity
with little conscience and that its primary goal is power and control. Therefore we can
expect to hear almost anything from the SN--and we do.

In Animate Earth-Science, Intuition, and Gaia, Stephan Harding says that hydrogen is
so light with its one proton and one electron, that if it was not captured in molecules, it
would just float off into the cosmos. And as we know, if we did not have hydrogen, we
would not have anything. Likewise for its electron; if it was not captured by the proton,
it would probably fly away also--to reunite with other electrons. It is the same with the
IMPACTS--throughout human development they have been residing on the periphery.
If they were not captured by the SN, they would still be out there. Many of them still are.

The struggle between the IMPACTS and the SN is the friction that has driven the engine
of human civilization--forwards and backwards. Now you see why history repeats
itself--SN-types grab the controls and make the decisions, and learning from the past is
not a priority. It is for the IMPACTS, but their counsel is rarely sought.

We will find that there are important conditions that bring out the best in the IMPACTS
personality profile. We mentioned the most important one earlier: freedom--freedom to
innovate and produce, to help others and humankind in general, to trade, to learn and
teach others, to create and enjoy art and culture, to avoid wars and conflicts, to live
independently in a community environment, and to roam or travel. And one more--
freedom from hierarchy or an overbearing structural-nucleus. In other words, IMPACTS
need the freedom to be themselves and to work for the betterment of all--that is the key
condition. They need room to breathe just as any plant needs room to grow. But just as
plants can still grow in a crack in the road, so too can IMPACTS survive the most
extreme conditions and still contribute to humankind. IMPACTS are tenacious and
resilient--and resourceful.

Punctuated Equilibrium
The late author and biologist Stephen Gould introduced the concept of punctuated
equilibrium as it relates to evolutionary pressures. Yes, he said, changes are sometimes
gradual, but often major morphology changes come in spurts. Sometimes these
alterations can produce new species. This new species might continue basically
unchanged for the duration of its existence. An example is the tuatara, a reptile that has
seen very little morphological change in 200 million years. Many species reveal the same
pattern: develop for a period of time, then remain in stasis for the duration or until
another spurt occurs.

Gould claims that the mutations of individual members of the species generally have a
minor impact on morphology because a certain homogeneity is reached in the
population, and the homogeneity and the environment generally negate the mutations
before they can become fixated in the genome. He states that new species and major
morphology changes form at the periphery of existing species.

"Selective pressures are usually intense because the peripheries mark the edge of
ecological tolerance for ancestral forms. Favorable variations spread quickly. Small
peripheral isolates are a laboratory of evolutionary change." (Gould, 1977)

The periphery appears to be a major factor throughout the universe. One such place is
on the fringes of the solar system. All of the creative-formative-productive energy did
not get sucked in by the gravity of the sun. Trillions of comets reside in the spherical
Oort Cloud that surrounds the solar system. These comets are left-over creative-
formative-productive energy from the early days of the solar system. The nucleus, the
sun in this case, can capture most of the energy but it has more control over the energy
that is closest to it, as is the case in the atom with the nucleus and the electrons. Comets
can still affect events as occasionally they will get knocked out of orbit by a passing star
or other massive object or energy and enter the inner solar system. Many of these have
certainly hit earth, and others will in the future. Change resides on the periphery.

Wolf pack
In order to survive and not spend endless time fighting over food, wolves over a couple
of million years have developed the structure of a small pack with clearly defined roles.
An alpha male and female lead the pack, which includes their offspring and occasionally
other wolves which have joined the pack for one reason or another. A beta male or
female, second in the power structure, is the glue for the pack. He or she helps to settle
conflicts (peacemaker), cares for the new pups when needed (caretaker), and looks out
for the needs of the group that might be missed by the others (protector). Betas may or
may not try to assume the alpha role in the course of their lives.

The rest of the pack constantly struggles for a position in the pecking order but the lowly
one, the omega, has the worst of it by far. The omega cannot eat until the alpha gives it
permission. Sometimes permission is not granted even though the alpha may be directly
related to the omega. The omega's existence is one of constant abuse, and he or she is
expected to be totally submissive to the others, just as the others are expected to submit
to the alphas. But roles can change. Nothing is set in stone. An omega can run away,
find a mate, and become an alpha.

Sometimes, alliances within the pack will try to overthrow the alpha, which does
succeed on occasion. Wolves will remember how the alpha behaved towards the pack
and will sometimes banish him. It does not sound that different from human society
does it? We kid ourselves by thinking we are so different.

The humans with the most IMPACTS energy are going to be similar to the beta wolf.
They are going to be the glue that holds human society together and the world society
together as much as is possible at the moment. IMPACTS are the innovators, the
caretakers, the peacemakers, the searchers for the truth-those who are not satisfied
with the status quo. In other words, IMPACTS will try to reorient the energy field when
they sense that it is not working optimally which it never is as far as they are concerned.
That is why they continually work for improvement.

In the next chapter, we will take a close look at the San tribe of Africa and discover how
the IMPACTS profile formed. All of this is simple, following very basic patterns and
principles. Like Europe before Copernicus, it only appears difficult because the wrong
model is being taught. The Church is still in control though now it takes the form of an
overpowering SN.

Summary
If we forget what we have been taught and look at ourselves with the same objectivity
we would use in studying a pack of wolves, I think we will discover some new patterns
that we have not seen before--in ourselves and in the universe at large.

The process and results of the IMPACTS Dynamic and of the work of the IMPACTS can
be characterized in different ways: renewal, recovery, renaissance, rebirth,
transformation, unwell to well, unusable to usable, the best it can be--all in the quest for
balance and optimization, which also means realization of potential. It is almost always
about new beginnings.

As we go forward, I would like for you to remember the model of simple bacteria--how
they created the conditions for more complex life forms and were then captured by the
structure that they had enabled to develop. We will see this again and again throughout
our discussion. A creative-formative-productive agent begins the process of structural
development. Then a structural-nucleus forms which usually captures the creative-
formative-productive agent, using this innovative energy to maintain and improve the
structure. Keep the mother of any species in mind--creates, forms, produces, maintains,
improves, and protects.

Everything we see is a structure from the universe on down to the simplest hydrogen
atom. Every structure needs an embedded change agent or agents if it is to deal with the
changing needs of the environment, and the embedded change agent for structures
appears to be their creative-formative-productive energy. This is a key point to
understanding what the IMPACTS are all about. IMPACTS behave just like the
dissatisfied and unfulfilled valence electron outer energy level. They seek, connect,
share, expand the structure through their efforts and actions, and try to realize the
potential that exists in the surrounding environment. In the process, IMPACTS
transform the structure and are transformed themselves, from the catalyst to the glue
that holds the new structure together. Again, think of the mother-she is the creative-
formative-productive energy, and then she is the glue.

IMPACTS DELIVER results. In that regard, they are like the photon, the force-carrier
particle for the electromagnetic force. And just as the photon has no charge, the
IMPACTS can generally see both sides of the coin too. This helps them settle disputes
and get along with most people--which enables survival and further DELIVERY of
whatever is critically needed. In the course of history, IMPACTS have had to navigate all
kinds of danger. Often they have not succeeded but when they have, it has generally
been due to their sincere desire to understand all sides and to build bridges between
people.