My definitions and usage of various terms in the following essay (e.g. “waking up,” “leap-frogging,” “The Force”) are found in the initial essays in this blog collection. See the entries posted as Front Matter and Introduction, Waking Up and Leap-Frogging. “In the Grip of the Daimon” The title of this essay is a […]
My definitions and usage of various terms in the following essay (e.g. “waking up,” “leap-frogging,” “The Force”) are found in the initial essays in this blog collection. See the entries posted as Front Matter and Introduction, Waking Up and Leap-Frogging. Time, Space and Patience The process of waking up involves many […]
My definitions and usage of various terms in the following essay (e.g. “waking up,” “leap-frogging,” “The Force”) are found in the initial essays in this blog collection. See the entries posted as Front Matter and Introduction, Waking Up and Leap-Frogging. The Faces of Denial A woman is involved with a man […]
My definitions and usage of various terms in the following essay (e.g. “waking up,” “leap-frogging,” “The Force”) are found in the initial essays in this blog collection. See the entries posted as Front Matter and Introduction, Waking Up and Leap-Frogging. Why “Helping” Is Not Appropriate There’s an old adage that expresses […]
Waking Up In this essay I define what I mean by “waking up,” so that the many references made to it in later essays will be more clearly understood. I begin by considering a variety of definitions of what “waking up” is and is not. Then I examine some of the components of […]
The Face of Future Change Waking Up and Leap-Frogging by Susan E. Mehrtens © 2001 Susan E. Mehrtens All […]
Leap-Frogging In an earlier book, Wake Up, South Africa!, I defined the “leap-frog option” in relation to South Africa and its future, as a way for it to avoid falling into the “catch-up option” that most people assume must be how South Africa will “succeed.” In choosing to “leap frog,” rather than play […]