NOTE: This is a working site for holding various.pdf formatted copies of my writings posted here before being reorganized into various categories and prepared for submission to a permanent site for archiving such as archive.org.
1971 Social Experiment: Testing the WFS Premise that Open Discussion of Personal Views About the Future Will Lead to Agreement About the Preferred Future (2024) is a July 25 “Perspectives” essay in the Journal of Futures Studies.
Accessing The Gateway Experience Inexpensively Rev. 2.1 (2024), is a brief introductory listing of links through which to both learn about and to get an inexpensive set of eleven Gateway Experience instructional CDs through which to do this course on your own.
Gateway Experience Wave III-Freedom, Exercise #4 – Five Questions (2024), is a February 15 journal entry documenting my personal experience doing Robert Monroe’s “Five Questions” exercise. It illustrates the transcendental reach of the “Focus 12” level of consciousness for personal exploration, as well as my own persona as something of a “consciousness wonk.”
Gateway Experience Wave IV-Adventure #2, Five Messages (2024), is a February 29 journal entry documenting my personal experience doing Robert Monroe’s “Five Messages” exercise. It illustrates the transcendental reach of the “Focus 12” level of consciousness for personal exploration, as well as my own persona as something of a “consciousness wonk.”
About Robert Monroe’s “Loosh story” As a Radical Evolutionary Myth for Life on Earth (2024), is a narrative based on Monroe’s 1985 book, Far Journeys. It offers much at this time in history, as well illustrating the power of the Gateway Experience® technology.
Lucid Dreaming Ver 3.4 (2023), is a prepublication draft essay that features several of my most revealing lucid dreams; plus an annotated listing of key information resources on lucid dreaming, my bio and examples of my previous writing on related topics.
Accessing the ‘True’ Self in IFS and in Life (2021), is a technical white paper of autobiographical exploration, with links to key sources. It describes my personal journey with Internal Family Systems (IFS) work; specifically, how I sought to resolve an experiential ambiguity between what, in IFS, is called the ‘true’ Self and a Self-like part. The resolution I found is embodied in the teaching of Loch Kelly, a prolific IFS therapist, whose “Effortless Mindfulness” approach involves the realization what he calls “Self-essence.”
Transformative ReVisioning Case Studies (2019) documents early uses of this tool for shifting your point of view from victimization to well-being.
Lucid Dreaming as a method of approach to investigate “Levy’s Premise” (2019) is an unpublished white paper describing of how I used lucid dreaming to experientially verify the premise that reality as we know it is, in fact, a dream that each of us co-dreams into existence with all other aspects of reality that we are “entangled with” (cosmically connected to).
Integral Co-Creative Partnership Guided Meditation (2016) focuses on integrating three levels of consciousness for the crowdsourcing of positive solutions to emerging global crises and conscious evolution. It was given to the Austin TX Chapter of the Institute of Noetic Sciences.
Integral Co-Creative Partnerships White Paper (2016) describes the intellectual underpinnings supporting the credibility of Integral Co-creative Partnerships as a useful operational concept for the crowdsourcing of positive solutions to emerging global crises.
More About a New Typology of Wild Cards (2015 ) is an article carried in the Compass online journal of the association of Professional Futurists. It briefly describes the development of “Type II Wild Card” theory and practice, dealing with a class of possible “high impact” future events that a few knowledgeable experts can say why they are are highly likely, even though most others believe their emergence to not be credible.
A New Methodology for Anticipating STEEP surprises (2011) was published in Technological Forecasting & Social Change 78, 1079–1097. (doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2011.01.008)
A New Methodology for Anticipating STEEP Surprises (Type II Wild Cards) (2011), is a full-length refereed article in the journal, Technological Forecasting & Social Change, Vol.78, pp.1079. It describes a new family of wild cards. Futurists define a wild card as an extremely unlikely event that would have an extremely high impact should it occur. An asteroid hitting the Earth is a poster-child example.
In this article, Type II Wild Cards are defined as possible high impact events that have a very high probability of occurrence as seen by experts who can give logically coherent reasons why, but with low credibility for most others. It further defines Type III as the stage when the low credibility of a Type II Wild Card becomes sufficiently known about as to become controversial. And Type IV, when finally well-accepted, assuming that it reaches this final stage of wide-spread acceptance. Global Warming is described as the phenomenon that led to the formulation of this new theory, with many other Type II Wild Cards also listed.
Integrity, Sustainability and Integrative Activism (2008) is a series of PowerPoint slides about my Integrity Project meant for off-line reading.
Rescuing Elephants in the Living Room (2008) is a PowerPoint deck whose slides are meant to be read online from which you can explore various hyper-links of documentation.
Integrity and Integrative Activism for Sustainability (2008) is a PowerPoint presentation Introducing the Imaginal Manifestation Process.
Rescuing-Elephants-in-the-Living-Room-Ver-11-25-08 (2008 ) is an unpublished PowerPoint deck prepared for an “Integrity Project” whose pilot test received much positive feedback, but little interest in collective action.
Getting Real About Integrity Booklet, Ver 2.3 (2007) is a collection of supporting materials for a pilot workshop presented in Austin, Texas.
The Gradient Model of Emancipation (2003/2015) is a working paper featuring a sequential mapping across four ascending levels of consciousness: Personal, Transpersonal, Transcendent and Integral.
Gradient Model of Emancipation Brief ver. 3.2 (2003) is an unpublished white paper on the nature of evil as seen in the transformative ascension across four zones of consciousness: personal, transpersonal, transcendental, and integral.
My-Work-with-Nature-Spirits-ver-3.1 ( 2003 ) is an unpublished autobiographical narrative of experiences I had during a one-year meditative retreat in 2002 on the Hawaiian island of Kauai.
A Gradient Model of Emancipation (2003 /2014) is a unpublished working paper that maps ascension across four zones of consciousness.
A Body-based Intuition Process for Choosing Among Alternatives (2003) is an unpublished note written detailing the 20 steps involved this specific process.
Journey Inward to Source (1998) is an unpublished brief white paper on how to experientially connect with your inner-most Self.
Experiencing the Needs of Future Generations with Adults and Children (1997) is an experiential research article that my graduate student, Sandy Burchstead and I published in the Journal of Futures, Vol. 29, pp. 715-722. It features a number of drawings by children that illustrate their experience with the process.
The Fourth Wave- A Normative Forecast for the Future of “SpaceShip Earth” (1995 ) is a paper prepared for the Strategic Avionics Technology Working Group, NASA Johnson Space Center.
Experiencing the Needs of Future Generations: A Step toward Global Consciousness (1994) is the first experiential visioning process I have designed, and the one most frequently used to introduce audiences to this way of looking at the future. This version is a chapter I contributed to the book, Thinking About Future Generations. Kyoto: Institute for the Integrated Study of Future Generations.
Experiencing Your Impacts on Future Generations (1994) is a unpublished working paper containing an experiential exercise I used in my teaching; leading to Experiencing the Needs of Future Generations with Adults and Children (Markley & Burchstead, 1997).
Experiencing the Needs of Future Generations: A Step Toward Global Consciousness (1994) is a published chapter in Thinking About Future Generations; Kyoto, Japan: Institute for the Integrated Study of Future Generations.
“Why Do We Dream” (1991) is a brief writeup of an extraordinarily informative lucid dream published in the Whole Earth Review (Fall, pp. 10-12).
Using Depth Intuition in Creative Problem Solving and Strategic Innovation (1988), published in The Journal of Creative Behavior (Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 85-100), describes my first set of organized visioning methods on which much of my subsequent visioning work has been based. It was was reprinted as Selection Forty in the Creative Education Foundation’s (1992) Source Book for Creative Problem-Solving—A Fifty Year Digest of Proven Innovation Processes, edited by Sidney J. Parnes.]
A Brief Technology Assessment of the Carbon Dioxide Effect co-authored with Thomas Hurley (1983), published in Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 23, 185-202. It is something of a “whistle blowing” disclosure that global warming and climate change are likely to be more severe than conventionally forecasted to be.
Preparing for the professional futures field (1983) is an article published in at the journal Futures (Vol.,15, No. 1, pp. 47-64). it describes how, as chair of the new graduate program in Studies of the Future at the University of Houston-Clear Lake, I transformed its curriculum to prepare students for professional careers in this new field.
Changing Images of Man (1976) is a two part summary of the SRI research report “The Societal Consequences of Changing Images of Man” that was written by Joseph Campbell, Duane Elgin, Willis Harman, Arthur Hastings, Oliver Markley, Floyd Matson, Brendan O’Regan and Leslie Schneider. I published it in the Renaissance Universal Journal, Vol. 1, No. 3 & 4.
Minimum Standards for Quality of Life ( (1975) is a report, co-authored with Marilyn Bagley, to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, No. EPA-600/5-75-012. It is a policy research exploration of setting minimum QOL levels, beyond which life can be considered intolerable.
The New Image of Man (1974) is a December 16, 1974, New York Times OpEd essay, based on the 1973 SRI Study, The Societal Consequences of Changing Images of Man.
Campbell, Joseph, Elgin, Duane., Harman, Willis, Hastings, Arthur, Markley, O.W., Matson, Floyd, O’Regan, Brendan & Schneider, Leslie. (1973). The Societal Consequences of Changing Images of Man, Stanford Research Institute Research Report No. 4 May, 1974. For information about this study, please see https://www.imaginalvisioning.com/changing-images-of-man/.
The Forecasting of Plausible Alternative Future Histories: Methods, Results and Educational Policy Implications (1973) is a detailed description of the early work of the EPRC at SRI. Written by W.W. Harman, O.W. Markley and Russell Rhyne, it is a chapter in Long-Range Policy Planning in Education, Paris: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
The Omniverse Center for Cultural Development 1973/1994/2009) is a knowledge repository beyond time and space for evolutionary activists. I was given a guided tour of it during a waking out-of-the-body experience while riding home on a bicycle from my work at SRI in 1973. This writeup is of a 1994 speech about it. This story was also published as Chapter 10, “Visiting the Omniverse Center: A Mind-Transforming Akashic Experience” in Laszlo, Ervin (2009), The Akashic Experience: Science and the Cosmic Memory Field. Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions.
Unity with Diversity: Toward Social Policies for a Future World Order (1972) is a revised version of a presentation I made to an International Seminar on Human Unity held in celebration of the Sri Aurobindo Centenary, New Delhi. It was published in World Futures Vol. 17, pp. 121-155, 1981.
Markley, O.W., Mackinney, Dorothy & Rink, Dan. (1972). Future-Oriented Program Alternatives for the National Institute of Education, working paper prepared for the U.S. Office of Education’s NIE Planning Unit.
Markley, O.W., Mackinney, Dorothy & Rink, Dan. (1972). A Needs Assessment for Educational R&D, working paper prepared for the U.S. Office of Education’s NIE Planning Unit.
Contemporary Societal Problems (1971) is a exploratory study to identify promising topics for high leverage policy research. Written by O.W. Markley, D.A. Curry & D.L.Rink, it identified four categories of societal problems: Substantive, Procedural, Normative (Ideological) and Conceptual; suggesting that the latter two categories may have exceptionally great promise for further investigation. This white paper inspired the Kettering Foundation to fund the SRI study of “The Societal Consequences of Changing Images of Man” in 1973.
Markley, O.W., Curry, David & Rink, Dan. (1971). Contemporary Societal Problems. Stanford Research Institute Research Report EPRC-6747-2. Posted at https://archive.org/details/ERIC_ED068425.
Markley, O.W. (1971). Alternative Futures: Contexts in Which Social Indicators Must Work. Paper prepared for a Session on Social Indicators, Annual Meeting of the American Statistical Association, Detroit, Michigan, December, 1970. Printed as Stanford Research Institute Research Note ERPC-6747-11.
Markley, O.W. (1971). Latitude of Rejection: An Artifact of Own Position, Psychological Bulletin, 75(5), 357-259. Showed that the theory behind the Latitude of Rejection was based on a measurement artifact.
Markley, O. W. (1968). A note on experimenter sampling in the graduate department of psychology. American Psychologist, 23(9), 691, proposes that experimenter bias could be reduced by having graduate students cooperatively share in the facilitation of experiments.
Markley, O.W. (1967). A Simulation of the SIVA Model of Organizational Behavior. American Journal of Sociology, 73(3), 339-347. Demonstrated that mathematical simulation can be an economic substitute for behavioral testing of a model.
Yogic Contributions to a Comparative Psychology of Knowledge Processes (1966) is a position paper I wrote for Donald T. Campbell’s graduate course in Evolutionary Epistemology at Northwestern University.