My Vision Statement

The aim of the Power as Knowing Participation in Change Theory is to wake up our human consciousness to the potential difference we can make in our world and the world of others by participating knowingly in change.  By becoming aware, making choices, feeling free to act on our intentions, and involving ourselves in creating change, we are using our power.  While I propose there are two types of power existing in the world that I named power-as-control and power-as-freedom, my vision and my work is dedicated to enhancing power-as-freedom by teaching people this new understanding of power. By living the four dimensions and twelve characteristics of power, people can design ways to make the changes they want to make.  To assist in this effort, I developed a process called Health Patterning. 

I designed this logo to convey the meaning of my work in both Power as Knowing Participation in Change and Health Patterning through the clockwise spiral. The spiral has many symbolic meanings and, for me, the primary meaning is freedom.  Power-as-freedom not only enhances our own freedom, it also does not interfere with the freedom of others or bring harm to others in any way.   The clockwise aspect of the spiral signifies the creative nature of power. The freedom of the spiral represents the non-repeating rhythmicities of the continuity of life, the manifest and the non-manifest, the feminine and the masculine, the dynamic weaving and spinning of the web of life, and the alternating rhythms of life and death.

The colors have both personal and professional meaning for me.  Cobalt blue is the color of healing.  Mediterranean blue was chosen to represent the blue gate of Colette Aboulker-Muscat’s apartment in Jerusalem, where I studied imagery with her before she passed over in 2003, as well as the blue door of my office at Dr. Gerald N. Epstein’s American Institute for Mental Imagery in New York City.  Both lavender and purple reflect the farther end of the light wave spectrum signifying, according to my mentor, Dr. Martha E. Rogers, whose physical form left this earth in 1994, the continuous emergence of potentials of unitary human beings during the life process.

^{Photo by Max E. Howell}