Re: The Arlington Institute
Subject: Re: The Arlington Institute
From: Clark Robinson <robinsonchicago@gmail.com>
Date: 7/16/10, 23:20
To: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>

I dunno, Barrett -- their website has some strange stuff on it:

The "Whether Map" which collects reports of intuitions and dreams from just about anybody?

http://www.arlingtoninstitute.org/tai/whether-map
http://www.arlingtoninstitute.org/Dream/Intuition-Entry-Form

Or this paper on pre-cognizant dreaming?

http://www.arlingtoninstitute.org/files/Dream%20Report.pdf

Futurists have been around for a while, they seem to me to resemble the motivational speaker industry.  The motivational speakers popularize scholarship in psychology and get big fees urging roomfuls of rubes to increase productivity (or sales), and the futurists I have encountered write books and speak profitably, popularizing scientific and economic scholarship. This group seems to go a little further afield than popularizing -- intuition and pre-cognition, whoa.

My worry is that you could lose credibility with a true scholar like Juan Cole if you associate yourself incautiously with these folks.






On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 9:13 PM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm going to get in touch with the head of this think-tank. He would be our most valuable asset.

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