Bottom Up Show

Jeremy Clifton university of PA Department of Psychology
Co-author of an article, Primal World Beliefs, Published in the Journal of Psychological Assessment
Yourmorals.org
A class of primary beliefs that shape and influence wellbeing, behavior and personality

Weltanschaung”an amalagam of political, religious and moral doctrines

Beliefs about everything?
Primals
Conceptual dimensions anchored by opposites
Six criteria: Simple,
Adjectival,
Goal relevant,
Maximally general,
Automatic”operating primarily beneath cognitive awareness in the system 1 family of cognitions
Active: directing attention, organizing, simplifying filtering and filling in information (Top down cognitive processing?)

Primals are ones implicit answers to the question what sort of world is this?

A collection of primals could lead to creating a personality.

BJW Belief in a just world
BDW Belief in a dangerous world
How they explored descriptions of world, universe, everything, nothing and life (Seinfeld)

14 sacred texts, 100 novels, 10o=0 films, 100 speectes and 71 treatises
80, 677 tweets beginning with The WORLD IS, The Universe is or EVERYING IS

six studies
Bottom-up Show host Rob Kall Interviews some of the world’s smartest, most dynamic people on his Bottom Up Show with the goal of getting them to share their wisdom and knowledge AND to stretch and challenge the focus of THEIR vision.

Rob explores two themes:
1-the bottom-up revolution, bottom-up mind and their patterns and ideas. The world is transitioning from a top-down to a bottom up world. Rob explores this with brilliant minds who have a take on how this is happening and how it is being used– from web culture analysts to media experts to protest leaders.

2-Progressive activists, leaders and thinkers– from economics to Occupy, revolutions to Fracking, Rob interviews leading progressives and activists.

His guests often appear on prime time TV shortly before or after being on Rob’s show. They have included Senator Bernie Sanders, Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Marianne Williamson, Chris Hedges, Daniel Ellsberg, Linda Kohanov, Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, Jodie Evans, Howard Gardner, Frans De Waal, Arianna Huffington, Joseph Nye, Bill McKibben, Medea Benjamin, Darcia Narvaez, Clay Shirky, Phil Donahue, Ann Marie Slaughter, Greg Palast, Lawrence Lessig, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mairead Maguire, Lawrence Wilkerson, Dennis Kucinich, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Jeff Sharlett, Riane Eisler, David Korten, Ethan Zuckerman, Douglas Rushkoff, Jean Houston, Thom Hartmann, John Dean, Mike Medavoy, Derek Jensen, Mary Pipher, Wendell Potter.

Rob Kall is the author of The Bottom-Up Revolution; Mastering the Emerging World of Connectivity,(bit.ly/Bottom-upREV) an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect, connector and visionary. His work and his writing have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, the HuffingtonPost, Success, Discover and other media. Hes given talks and workshops to Fortune 500 execs and national medical and psychological organizations, and pioneered first-of-their-kind conferences in Positive Psychology, Brain Science and Story. He hosts some of the worlds smartest, most interesting and powerful people on his Bottom Up Radio Show, and founded and publishes one of the top progressive news and opinion sites, OpEdNews.com

Check out Rob’s article/interview series on Bottom up Bottom-up Article Series http://opednews.com/bottomup

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