Here’s the dots that bring together computational biology, basketball, millennials, chaos, random thinking, sports talk radio, teamwork, Uber and sustainable success.

First Dot… A computational research institute in Paris has discovered that a person’s ability for decision-making and “random thinking” peaks at age 25. According to this study, randomness is a mentally difficult task, requiring sustained, focused attention and cognitive skill. As the study states,  “If you can think randomly, you’re at the top of your ‘game.’” What game I ask, basketball?  Meanwhile, other studies have shown that this kind of thinking is associated with brainstorming, solving problem and thus, “creativity.”

Second Dot…  A sports writer, Chris Herring, in five-thirty eight.com, describes the Warrior basketball offense as “organized chaos.”

Third Dot… Warrior assistant coach, Mike Brown, says that the Warrior offense is a high-level form of “unscripted playground basketball.” Brown continues to say, “when you have something that’s not scripted, your opponent breaks down because it’s different every single time.”

Fourth Dot… Colin Cowherd, in his national sports talk show, said this morning that the Warriors are in fact a young team, a “millennial team” (age 21-33). As he correctly says, millennials are team oriented. Indeed, “‘Me’ is a disease and there’s no ‘I’ in team.”  Look around and notice the flourishing of mostly millennial, collaborative co-worker spaces, project economies, startup businesses.

Fifth Dot… Gregg Popovich, Hall of Fame basketball coach, says of the Warriors, “No team is more unselfish, finding the open man…they get credit for that. They’re way, way more than just their talent.”

Sixth Dot… Utah Jazz Coach says of the Warriors, “They’re great shooters, but beyond that ‘they’re great thinkers.’”

Connecting the Dots… When you have a true “team” of “millennials” and “thinkers” who “create chaotic randomness,” plus the age-old requirement of talent, they are the “team of the times!”  And as a young team, if they stay together with “purpose,” they may have the greatest team of all.

Now, it takes an adaptive, renewable coach and management to direct this show and grow “young themselves,” which is my life path and business strategy. Don’t grow old, think neoteny.  Be the future, now. And if you can build a team, like my nascent “Voyager Collabo” company, you will be on “top of your game” for a sustainable while.

Lo and behold, Golden State  is essentially a “Silicon Valley” based franchise. The Warriors are the basketball version of young companies like Facebook, Twitter, Snapshot, Instagram, and like Uber which drives around, stays in motion, and finds the open man.

The moral of the story is organize your chaos into a productive system, where even you are not sure where you’re going next, except score!

Case Studies by me are condensations of consultations that include  Cards and their Interpretation for a Client’s Situation, Diagnosis, Prescription, and Resolution.

(This session was conducted on the phone for an hour-long session using my “Question and Answer Conversation with the Cards” technique. All Cards chosen facedown in response to my questions)

SITUATION: Client is Hollywood movie production guy.  Worked very successfully with “Avatar” blockbuster film, which was a full-time, pressure cooker, over-the-top situation.  Has a new stable job with another successful production company.  Has just had his second son.  Has dreams about working with Avatar team again as they gear up for producing Avatar 2.  Wonders about this.

DIAGNOSIS

What about working again with Avatar?  – Negativity (5 Crystals)

Has negative thoughts about going to work again with that Avatar team. Not a healthy situation for him. Has bouts of depression.  

But why the dreams he gets about working with Avatar again?  – Devil’s Play  XIV

High times, amazing times, professional breakthrough creating an awesome, revolutionary film.

But has family, new child, stable marriage, good work. Was single when he worked on Avatar. Knows that present situation is great, really.

PRESCRIPTION

How to let go of Avatar ambitions and dreams? – Time-Space XX

Time heals.

Same Question: How to let go of Avatar ambitions and dreams and fully embrace his life as is?  – Player (Child of Worlds)

– Have fun with his kids (he goes to Disneyland, etc. with them).

– Have his own fun and play his own Dionysian (Devil’s Play) way!!!! He needs time-out from stable life to live out his wild side.

– He recommends to himself that he go out to the desert for some “soulitude” and with some mind enhancements.

What about that? – Harmony (Eight of Wands)

YES, YES, YES!  The sound of silence, the rocks of ages, the song of space, transportation to a different world.  (This client is known to dive into past lives and sermonize about the meaning of it all).

RESOLUTION

Don’t leave present work; Live with the inner ambiguity about Avatar desires and memories and the reality of his great life.

AND FULFILL THE FREE SPIRIT IN HIM BY OCCASIONAL FORAYS TO THE “DESERTED WILD SIDE.” (which is actually doable, as he says).

Card for this Resolution Action: LOVERS

By embracing both and all sides of himself (the responsible rational Apollonian and wild Dionysian subpersonality archetypes) he is fulfilled, complete, whole, healed!  

Several months ago I wrote this part below of the “THE EXCEPTIONAL ROOSTER.”  It’s about “Roosta the Rooster” becoming the “ruler of the roost” and his acceptance speech.  In my talk to the chicken coop, I got political and very resistant to the ways human were treating us chickens.

Read this below and then I will fill you in with the rest of this amazing turn of events!

“Hens and Roosters, It’s a new day! Cock-a-doodle-DO – WE DO TOGETHER!

We are not going to be just a “chicken in every pot,” like some human’s use as their political campaign slogan. Like a famous car maker Henry Ford once said, “Our business is healthy, when like a chicken, we scratch around.” Yes, we are healthy. Our roost is busy and active. We work together to create our nest egg. We are not putting all our eggs in one basket, we are diversifying. We are not going to count our chickens before they hatch. With our rooster industry, we are going to have more to live on than just our lousy and toxic chicken feed. We have pride in ourselves but not like a “hen who struts like a rooster and so is invited for dinner.” We don’t want to be strutting around like a banty rooster. We need to stick our necks out to support each other. Resourceful and resilient, we will use everything but the crow. We are not going to waste time trying to hatch rooster eggs. And one other thing, no chickenhawks! Those who talk brave and want to fight like some rooster politicians and not participate are not welcome here. If you want to put up a squawk, let’s talk about it.

Our first act as a unified coop is that we are going to boycott all artificial chicken feed full of chemicals. Who do they think we are? They ain’t gettin’ no eggs from us until they feed us properly. We ain’t making no more babies until they feed us right. We can do this and we must do this. We are going to die anyway, but not because of the poison we are fed. We are committed to dying on our own terms

Please don’t get the impression that we are pushy chickens. In fact, we are humble and very giving and generous. We can even live and give you eggs in your backyard. We are no trouble, except when I wake everyone up at dawn’s early light. We are are making a stand for our rights so that everyone else will have better chicken and eggs to eat. We all win!

Cock-a-doodle-US-FOREVER AND EVER!”

Lo and behold, on May 1, Tyson Foods, the largest poultry producer announces that it will go antibiotic-free!

Amazing!  What can we learn from this? When something is in the air, it’s in the air for all to breathe. If you are feeling something, it’s guaranteed that others are feeling it too. Remember the #wanlesswildwisdoms “rule of life” that “everything is connected to everything.” Hence, synchronicity.  So, if you are feeling passionately about anything, share it!  Putting it out there is getting it out there for others to pick up.

To have impact in the world and make a difference, tell your story. The “x-factor” that gives your words power is to make it mythic.  Myths are archetypal, eternal and universal which gives it enhanced impact.

Don’t “be a chicken,” live your MYTH – acronym for “Make Yourself The Hero.”  

For even more power, portray yourself and your myth with symbolic imagery. As the great psychologist C.G. Jung once said, “The mechanism that moves energy is the picture-symbol.” Having actual photos of “Roosta the Leader” and having embodied Roosta myself has given me and my voice and story and myth a greater and deeper transmission and thus contributing to Tyson’s listening and following Roosta’s call for justice!

Nevertheless, my doctor prescribed some tiny little pills that are testosterone blockers. Testosterone is a driving force for prostate problems. Since taking these, I have cried, I have screamed, I have gotten supremely pissed of, deeply loving, very anxious (and not just because of Trump’s gross ignorance and delusional, duplicitous ego).  Every feeling has become magnified.

As an optimist and opportunist because I follow the wisdom of the “Fortune Maker” archetype in Voyager, I am finding this a wondrous journey into the emotions associated with the feminine.  I see now why women are the feelers and empaths, the tarot readers and therapists.  Maybe women’s intuition is a physical product of the female brain mixed with estrogen?  Read “The Female Brain” by Louann Brizendine for more understanding about this.

On the other hand, perhaps my growing emotionality has nothing to do with hormones and is just a result of my calamitous situation of being wanless, car-less, and almost moneyless and homeless.  Remember one of the greatest “rules of life” – “Everything is connected to everything.”  Is it any wonder that as I lose my man-force, I am losing just about everything else?

Parenthetically, in my “U.S. Presidential campaign of 1992″ running on the platform of Tarot for All, Archetypes as Advisors, and April Fools Day as National Holiday, I stated “Wan(t) Less, Get More!” So now I’m feeling that pledge.  And btw, instead of “Tarot,” we got candidate “Perot.”  It was close, too close.

But let’s not forget this “rule of life” – “Everything, every moment, every event, every person no matter how smarmy, every every” is all energy!” – thus, supremely useful as a resource for the most imperative skill of the 21st century – to be “renew-able.”  As I say about doing the Cards, “less is more.”  Everything we own, owns us. So, “losing it all is actually gaining more” – more lightness, freedom, autonomy, purpose, and more mobility for renewal and regeneration.

Life is a learning process and so my new adventure is all about personal growth and evolution. I once remember taking some psilocybin (a mushroom psychedelic compound) back in the day and had 24 hours of total paranoia, and can now absolutely understand the trauma and insanity of those having such mental issues. It was terrifying and terrific!  As they say, “if it doesn’t kill you, it makes you stronger” and certainly more aware.

My own spiritual path of “ever-renewing aliveness” is being tested now. Taking my own mind-medicine, I turn my worry into presence and preparation and my anger into passion and purpose.  I do the “Magician’s magic manifestation” ritual: I see myself in gold light being completely healthy and more expansively integrated and whole. I recall my motivation for wanting to live and really live, fully alive!. I believe in myself and affirm that I can and am revitalizing and resurrecting myself. I am “doing the do,” like going out to get a small, light affordable car. Doing so,  I expect all good things to happen.  As a result, I am already feeling more alive now with even more gusto  – the aliveness of a turned on mind, pumping heart, robust body, and inspired spirit. And of course, I am becoming more integrated by uniting my yin and yang.  Maybe it’s a “sign” that for the first time ever I saw a sign on a bathroom door recently that said “gender neutral.”  How about being “gender whole” – healed, healthy, and happy.  

I love you prostate. You have awakened me.  I am grateful and not dead!  For some of you who might get this…Where’s Jerry?  There’s “fire on the mountain!” Cockadoodledo!  Get my “Exceptional Rooster Cards and Story” and get fired up!  www.james-wanless.com

Just having read a neuroscience study about “superaging, count me in. I can still remember names and write articles. So far, so good. But what do the neuroscientists say are the activities that keep us mentally nimble like a 25 year old?  And is that it?  Is “superaging” only about playing bridge at 85 or just warding off dementia?

I like what the neuroscientists say though.  They espouse the old “work ethos,” but this time it’s working on yourself. It follows the universal eco-principle of “use it or lose it.”

To stay mentally fit, it’s not playing Sudoku (unless you want to be good at Sudoku). It’s about pushing your thinking mind. Neuroscience is on the right path, but from my experience of working at being a “superager,” it’s using your “whole brain.” This includes applying the mental faculties of creative and analytical thinking, picturing the past while imagining the future, and exercising the intuitive and emotional parts of our intelligence.

As part of mental fitness, sustain your “EQ,” which in addition to being mindful of emotions, it’s “emotional fitness.”  For a real energizer workout, express your feelings with gusto the way a bird cries an alarm or chirps a love ballad.  It’s a “sonic tonic.”  Do your “CQ,” which is the intelligence of actively following your curiosity.  And be “intuactive” – spontaneously act on intuitive impulses which are located in the emotional part of your forebrain.  This all means not to get sedated with the same old thinking and way of thinking. Grow your brain, which in fact occurs when your work it out holistically by as much sounding as thinking, and feeling your way along as much as logic would have it.

The super secret of “superaging” is to not be sedated by a sedentary lifestyle.  Neuroscientists have come to the conclusion that to keep the mind alert and attentive, you must move the body.  Even psychologists recognize that “sedentary behavior disorder” is a pathology.  A workout a day keeps the shrink away.  But what kind of workout?  Actually, the “fountain of youth” is right under your nose. It’s conscious breathing in harmony with physical movement.  Study after study has declared that aerobic workouts with intentional heavy and rapid breath make you creative, more intelligent, and a quick learner. Just going for a walk, but walking fast and breathing hard, is the single greatest habit and practice to follow.  Your brain gets younger because it grows new brain cells and it has changed my life.

Don’t be one of those 50% who join a gym but then don’t go. The best to keep working out is to get the endorphin hormones to kick in. Exercising hard gives you the “feel good” sensation gives you a healthy and natural opioid craving for it’s ecstatic high!

The “superager” grows young mentally, emotionally, physically.  It takes “attitude” for sustaining youthfulness by working out your whole self!  It seems like work and it is, but the key to this entire path is motivation!  This to me means “inspiration” – in-spirited and infused with the life force, which is inherent within us to keep growing to fulfill our life purpose and potential to be all that we can be. All of nature, except for us humans, do their very best to be who they are.  We however, get complacent and conflicted. As I say, it’s “death by comfort.” so get going to work on yourself to do your “lifework” and harvest yourself, ike all of nature, to become more resourceful, richer, and sustainable.  Become better with age into a sage. This takes a “breakout” from the concept of retired life into a state of “refirement.”

To get energized and re-energized to live the full life, turn on the power of your mind.  Exercise your imagination to picture your healthy, enlivened self years in your future. Feel it in your heart and throughout your body. Believe and affirm this in your thoughts. Take action. This has been my superager “wholistic” formula – see it, feel it, believe it, do it, expect it.  It’s the magic elixir.

Remember, not only are we our thoughts, our feelings, our actions, we are the people we live and socialize with. To stay young of heart and spirit, body, and mind develop a circle of fellow life-enthusiasts, seekers, explorers, creatives.

JAMES WANLESS, PH.D. is 74 years-young who authors, speaks, and counsels. He is the author of “The Sustain Ability,” an eco-psychologist who has created Sustain Yourself green wisdom cards, corporate trainer with Intuition@Work, and human potential mentor with his best-selling Voyager tarot Life-Master cards.

Balance.  endorphins

Growing young.

There’s alot to agree with in this study and

I am doing what the article says and more. According to the latest studies of our brain, it shows that by certain activities, we actually grow more neurons, which leads to a longer “wellthy” life.

At 74, it’s so far so good.

It’s getting fit for life, work out your brain and body. Use it or lose it.

Because I am more creative, more motivated, more mobile, more purposeful, more profitable, more passionate than ever before.

Conscientious stanford study

which first means loving life!

My brain is more creative, my heart is more motivated, my body is mobile, and I am inspired. I love life.

Sustain…

Work yourself… use it or lose it.

Fit for Life

Physically…. Aerobic walk, no sedentary behavior

Mentally… harvest what you know and keep creating

Emotional Fitness. Express emotions which put us into motion

Spiritual purpose of growth to be you and all of you.

The life force of curiosity, exploration

Make work you.. Harvest you!

Productive and useful to the end.. Nature.

Grow young

I use the Cards “face-up” to give me inspiration and counsel for successfully completing my endeavors, and I pick cards “face-down” to break me free of my habitual assumptions and projections. It’s a wondrous whole-brain tool for new insight and innovative thinking.  I call this process “fortune creation,” an evolution far beyond fortune-telling prediction fiction.

Voyager Cards are all nuggets of information that are holistically organized in an archetypal way that nudges the psyche in a deep, positive and grounded way. The surprise, the synchronicity, and the visual symbols collaged into a dreamlike landscape pique our curious intuition, which is the x-factor for evoking brilliance.

The most amazing corporate event I’ve ever had with the Cards was an afternoon with Oracle, Inc. Their accountants went creatively bonkers loving the play of possibilities as a team-building exercise by interacting intuitively and mythically as they chose Cards for the “Hero’s Journey” process I gave them.

The “Whole Self Mandala” in my short video presentation is a way of reading the cards to determine the state of our wholeness, healthiness and synergy of mind, heart, body and spirit; and to reflect upon the condition of our finances, work, home and love life.

This ten-card layout is a perfect mandala for assessing and manifesting our visions and dreams for this coming year, which in 2016 is the “Year of Harvest.”

In the short video, I actually picked a couple of cards facedown from the Mandala layout and they were Nine of Crystals “Narrowness” and the Ten Card “Fortune.  Both of these Cards are “perfect” because my message in this number nine “Year of Harvest” is stay focused and go the whole nine years (Narrowness) and take the entrepreneurial risk of breaking out and taking a chance (Fortune). “Why We do Cards ” is because we learn to trust the mystery of synchronicity and embrace uncertainty and the wisdom of letting go of control.  In this world today of continuous change, those are the right and necessary qualities to have.

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Nature’s Wisdom for Self-Sustainability

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Number nine, however, has a deeper meaning for all of us.  It’s important to take note that as a culture, we have a tendency to not finish and not fulfill.  In our time of speeding and expanding media and consumer barrage, we get easily distracted by another new and different shiny object, or an alert on my phone, or because things take too long, or I lose belief, or, or… We have so many excuses for not completing what we start.  And it’s not healthy psychologically.  We are born of nature and everything in nature strives to complete its business except we humans because our world of artifice and technology has disconnected us from the natural cycle of starting, maintaining, and finishing. Losing our own nature leads to all kinds of pathologies. Think of this time as an opportunity to reconnect with your true self and be healed by getting it done.

Go the “whole nine yards” and you will feel more whole. It’s not about trying to be perfect. It’s about completing things to be a more complete person. Whether your castle is only made of sand makes no difference. Just finish what you started, and feel good about yourself and life.  The sense of completion is a very real sense.  Respect it, relish it and be healed.      

But then the plane became green and reborn again like Green Man!  It was like angels descended and saved the plane.

Taking off was crazy wild. I prayed. and up and up we went.

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and all of a sudden we were free and clear and there was light 

and as i looked at the wing go from deathly winter white to green new life to clear blue, i thought of angel wings and how many angels had helped us get up in the air and safely on our way home.

It was like the heavens opened 

and demanded my infinite gratitude for so how many everyday people just doing their job – the mechanics, the de-icers, the engineers, the pilots, the manufacturers, the controllers, the attendants – were my celestial angels.

and as i was enveloped by the night, i know now that all of us are protected by the light held within the hearts and hands of the everyday angel

that take us into the forever fold of mother nature, father sky, and mystery night

holy, holy, holy

A dear friend once called me “Mythos.” Fitting because life for me is a “hero’s journey,” a mythic story that calls for us to live our MYTH… anacronym for “Make Yourself The Hero.” (If you don’t already know, “Voyager Tarot” is a mythic story – in an interactive card form – about an archetypal, universal Voyager seeker on the path of wholeness).

The Mythic Path to Transformation the Point and Click Way

So, on a free day in the great northwest, I found the “mything link” for breaking out of my habitual life. My purpose was to simply rejuvenate myself on the Columbia River outside Portland, Oregon. Within me, however, there was some deep discontent, but I was seeking to shake it by enjoying a spectacular beach day, swimming in one of the mightiest rivers on earth.

I loved chronicling the day by taking lots of photos of the beach, the water, the trees, the stones. But looking over the 300 pictures later, my lingering malaise was triggered! I was so moved by easily an quickly observing an underlying pattern and theme to the photos (which is my gift as a card analyst) that I came to a difficult decision.

This account shows how allegorical stories, symbols, walking, metaphor, nature, and reflection not only reveal latent desires and dissatisfactions, but are catalysts to transformation waiting for activation. The subconscious can indeed be evoked by “the power of point and click.”

Ambling along the miles of shoreline, I came across a stone that was almost lost by an incoming wave. “The stone is me and I am at risk,” I subconsciously knew to be true. The risk being washing away my known and comfortable path to a new, uncertain self-identity and professional expression.

I carry that stone with me now.  

Further along, I discovered an amazing labyrinth of stones half buried in earth. I walked it as a symbolic journey to find my own “center,” while encountering the maze-like opportunity of becoming “lost.”

In the middle of this sacred walk, I picked some cards from my nature deck, Sustain Yourself Cards, for reflecting upon this experience.  

They were “Spiral,” “Fungus,” and “Mother of Creation” – these telling me that I am “spiraling” back to earth and like what a mushroom does, become “decomposed” so that I would be “reborn” again from the ever-renewing life force of creation.

This is not an easy or ordinary task. It is the road less traveled, full of barriers and obstacles, which as bushes, briars and faint trails represent my own self-doubt!

Though I felt alone, I was not alone. My mythic ally, Green Man, was evident in the shadows.  

And I was fortified by my own E-book work, “Adventures with Greening Man” which tells the tale of me beginning to break free to have a renewable lifestyle by following the coaching of “green wisdom.”

But change often does not come swiftly. I’ve felt for a while that I was going nowhere like the Hanged Man. I saw this clearly in my shadow side reflected in the waters.  

In retrospect, going through the photos, I was as angry as those red-hot trees. “Enough is enough,” I screamed silently to myself.

The cards on the stump told it all – “Reflect” on yourself, have the backbone to stand up for you “Integrity,” and like a “Lightning” bolt, break free. “It is my breakpoint,” I declared.    

(By the way, one of the best books I have ever read is called “Breakpoint and Beyond “ by George Land, which shows how each and every living organism on earth has to experience a breakpoint to become who they are truly meant to be, whether it’s a redwood tree, a caterpillar, or a crystal).

The old pattern, the old habit, the old me is broken!

It is my time to live my apotheosis, to be reborn and new again

It’s my time to walk my talk, be the path maker that I am meant to be, and leave my legacy!

And so it is.