Author Archives: robert schram

About robert schram

Currently I am writing a sci-fi thriller called 'World Peace II' : expected release April/May 2015. I am coordinator for United Earth and 'COM21, a Conference of the Movements' to take place in Paris Dec. 2015 and participating with the development of the Search & Share App. Before my writing period, I worked for several engineering firms in the Netherlands and Germany. This as a freelance project coordinator HVAC-installations. I have managed over 50 projects, the last one was from 2005 until 2010 concerning the building of a new Central Station and subway lines of Rotterdam. Plans for the coming years: - Coordinating COM21 (Conference of the Movements) and UE (United Earth); - Promote alternative social (RBE) models / movements / projects like: The Zeitgeist Movement / The Free World Charter / Iceland Money-free; - Participatory development of auxiliary tools such as search engine / app. Search & Share; - Participate in (sustainable) innovative projects; - Give lectures about the options for a new world; - Continuing personal growth; - Write several books; Specialties: Intuitive thinking and practicing, Coordinating & Navigating.

From Dogma to Freethinking

Presenting a vision / idea of a new (or better) society is often done by the old paradigm of thinking, meaning the movement/org is fixated on its own belief, that their model is the best ‘Utopian’ one. This is however a thinking trap. If you present your model in the same way as it’s done in the old way of thinking, nothing is ever really going to change. Why? Because there will never be a consensus on which model to implement or in what way or manner to do so. Limiting to only ONE model within, beside, or instead off the current one, is bound to fail eventually. Understanding this is crucial. 

The only way to really change things, is to step out of your ‘comfort’ zone of old AND new way of thinking, and step on a neutral ‘open source, open mind platform’. It is key to step out of the model you have designed, and you so deeply feel attached to, to create a distance between you and your beliefs. Only if you do so there can be room for overall debate and discussion, taking a good look at all pros and cons, for which models to implement, and in what quantity/mixture this will work best.

This is the only platform were consensus can and will be found. Change will come only from a cocktail of good ideas, reinforcing and supporting one another, also ‘weighing’ (balancing) how they will influence one another.

Change will not come from one idea only. It would be madness to think only one of the new models would work for all. To think that everything could work at the same time (if properly balanced) is a much more ‘common sense’ approach. If we do not understand this, real change will never happen and we will keep on discussing our new models in the old ways of thinking forever…