Eleven dimensions in M-theory and Poop Bags

I think I understand about the extra dimensions necessary to make m-theory (look it up) work. Not that I know what they were created for. Just assuming they ARE, I think I figured out what their effect is.

I was walking with Wally, my black and white terrier mix, as I do every morning, around the school up the street. I always carry poop bags (we wouldn't want to be responsible for some 3rd to fifth grader coming in with that on his or her shoes..) in my coat pocket. When I subscribed to the Globe, I had a ready supply of freebies. Since I gave it up (after they doubled the price!!), I must rely on the odd produce bag or buy garishly colored biodegradable ones at Petco. Anyway... if I can, I use the bag as a glove (mitten really) and pick up the turd and heave it into the woods beyond. Then I can dispose of the empty (more or less) bag in either the school dumpster or one of many large barrels on the athletic field. OK... I found from experience that on a windy day, such a bag is likely to take flight out of the barrel or dumpster, so, not wanting to see it out there another morning, I have learned to knot the bag as many times as possible to anchor it better.

So one morning, don't ask me why...Eureka! It came to me that the extra dimensions, which are believed to be tiny knotted up things, serve as extra mass to keep this universe tied down so it won't blow away out of existence. Maybe it is also what accounts for dark matter (look that up too). I thought further that these dimensions are probably knotted up and we are limited (?!) to 3 spacial and one time dimension, because when the universe blew into being from the singularity, it didn't fully blow out as much as it could have. I am guessing that this is a good thing, a lucky turn of events because if we did exist in seven or nine or eleven dimensions, things would be pretty wierd.

Not that I am comparing the universe to a dog shit bag....

Skill In Means

So what is Skill in Means? From the Buddhist concept, Upaya Kausalya... the story goes, a man's house was burning and he was not having success getting his family out. He went to the first, who loved horses, and told her there was a pony outside for her. To the next, who loved money, he said there was a pile of gold outside, and so on with whatever the family members most desired. Though it was all a lie, it was enough to get them out of the house.

The point is not so much that it is OK to lie for a good reason, but that one has to use the method which will work best given the person one is working with. It is seen as a melding of Wisdom and Compassion, the ascent of the many to the one and the descent of the one to the many...

So for me skill in means involves using the proper language out of the particular world-view out of which a given person is operating. THis involves assessing what that world view is and speaking its language. And to paraphrase Bob Kegan, it involves welcoming a person at the level they're AT and simultaneously sewing the seeds for that level's breakdown (toward upward movement to the next higher and more encompassing level of being).

Use Wilber's Integral Operating System, Beck's Spiral Dynamics Integral, Armour/Browning's Systems Sensitive LEadership, whatever works as a VERTICAL TECHNOLOGY.

Vertical- transformative
Horizontal - translative (maintain and enhance the status quo

The Game

Oh crap! I lost the game.