MOUNT

MASLOW MENTORS (3Ms Mind, Meaning, Maturity)

Speaking from the Peak of Mount Maslow
Mentoring Minds and Linking Our Separate Selves
Aging as the Achievement of Mature Adulthood
Welcome, this is Jack Carney, 71 years aged, in
Santiago, Chile and Worldwide on the Internet.

Jack, Santiago, 2016

I want to introduce you to a

new online service based in
Santiago I call Mount Maslow
Mentors. This free service is
for those over 65 years of age
who want to be part of a
Volunteer Community created to link those languishing in lonely
isolation as well as those satisfyingly connected with meaningful
relationships. All are invited to explore and express Mature
Adulthood as Self-Actualization.

"Psychological Maturing is our most triumphant way of human fulfillment; and the
Adult years are the only years in which that triumph can be experienced. Children and
adolescents cannot yet experience the mature insights of Adulthood. They can only
prepare for them. One of the fatalities of our culture has been that it has idealized
immaturity. Childhood has seemed to be the happy time. The passing of youth,
therefore, has seemed to mean a passing into dullness of routine and into the anxie ties
of a life caught variously in an economic trap. Thus led to think of Adulthood as a time
of glory departed, it is no wonder that adults have no buoyant and courageous impulse
to seek ways of achieving a new significance in their Adulthood.
Even such adult education as has been offered to adults has been chiefly aimed at
amelioration, not transformation. A course here and there; a bit of craftwork; a
hobbysomething to enliven a few hours and maybe stir the mind a little. What
Adulthood needs is not hobbies for immature grownups, but Projects toward
significant and happy maturing. We talk of preparing youth to enter the life ahead of
them. We never talk of preparing adults to enter the peculiar new dignity of a
maturing Adulthood. H.A. Overstreet, The Mature Mind
"Our deepest need is to overcome our separateness, to leave our prison of aloneness.
This awareness of the self as a separate entity, the awareness of our own short life
span, of our aloneness...would drive us insane could we not liberate ourselves from this
prison and reach out, unite ourselves with others and the world outside. Eric Fromm,
The Art of Loving
While we are alive, what we have to give to each other is at one and the same time the
simplest yet most sublime giftourselves. James J. Lynch, A Cry Unheard

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MOUNT MASLOW MENTORS intends to be this new PROJECT as a COMMUNITY
enabling the fulfillment of MATURE ADULTHOOD that Overstreet challenged Americans
to establish in his best selling 1949 book. Our Community will Link Our Separate Selves
(L.O.S.S.) as Fromm described, helping those suffering in isolated loneliness to connect to
SELF-ACTUALIZING MENTORS. There will be a FREE, ANONYMOUS CALL-IN SERVICE
available 24/7/365 in multiple languages via an Application. The VOLUNTEER
LISTENERS will be MATURE MENTORS who hear and heed Lynchs A Cry Unheard. We
will help all generations CLIMB TO THE PEAK OF MOUNT MASLOW.
There are two qualifying conditions to become a member of Mount Maslow Mentors:
1. You are 65 or older.
2. You want to communicate with other over 65s to ease your isolation and
loneliness and/or to make better use of your time and energy by exploring
Mature Adulthood and Self-Actualization.
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L.inking O.ur S.eparate S.elves: L.O.S.S.
Mount Maslow Mentors (3Ms) is created for over 65s for two essential purposes:
1. To explain, explore, and express Mature Adulthood and Self-Actualization at the Peak of
Mount Maslow as the highest value for Humans to aspire to and attain.
2. To support those over 65s worldwide who may feel isolated and lonelywithout
others to talk with and feel cared for. The Internet holds out a Limbic Lifeline for those
in need of someone to talk with. Our online Talk service will offer select over 65s who will
act as Mentors to re-connect the lonely to meaningful life as part of the 3Ms Community.

The broken hearts of adults, the proportionately higher death rates of single,
widowed and divorced individualscommon to all these situations, I believe, is a
breakdown in dialogue. Our common plight is that it is becoming increasingly difficult
to share the most basic of all human truths: that people desperately need each other,
that we really are dependent on one another. Dialogue is the essential element of every
social interaction, it is the elixir of life. The elixir of life somehow dries up, and without
it people begin to wither away and die. No material substitute can fill the human need
for dialogue. Someone must respond. Someone has to care.
James J. Lynch, The Broken Heart
The first responsibility of love is to listen. Paul Tillich
We are the Lessons learned from the Tests of Time dispensed by Life. The ultimate
Test is Loss. What you have learned from Loss is Who You Are. EveryManJack
Of all the things that wisdom tells us can insure happiness throughout life, by far the
most important is the acquisition of friends. Epicurus

The reality is that around the world in the developed economies an increasing
percentage of over 65s are becoming isolated and lonely and dying prematurely of
the results of being cut-off from communicating with others. In Japan they have
invented a word, Kodokushi which means lonely death. It is estimated up to
30,000, mostly men, die a lonely death each year in Japan. In England, the number of
older men living alone is set to increase by 65 per cent in the next 15 years. In the
U.S. 26% of over 65s live aloneand lonely older adults also were 45 percent more
likely to die than seniors who felt meaningfully connected with others.
Today in developed economies, we prematurely die of Communicative Diseases
(missing or destructive relationships) more than Communicable Diseases
(physically transmitted diseases like influenza). Communicative Disease was first
defined by the Medical Researcher and Cardiologist, James J. Lynch as the absence
of heartfelt communication in human relationships which leads to loneliness and
social isolation.
LOSS is the fundamental Condition of the Human Condition. LOSS is the Common
Denominator for Humanity--the one condition all humans will face sooner or later.
The paradox is that the LOSS caused by unwanted separation from another also
provides the cause for wanting to be connected to another.
It is when we allow ourselves to truly experience Loss that we become aware of its
curative power to cause us to bring our separate selves together. It is when we
admit and embrace the fear and pain of LOSS that we become most Human. That is,
we allow ourselves to act out our fundamental need to be intimately connected to
another.
L.O.S.S. as an acronym reminds us to choose to be freely responsible for L.inking
O.ur S.eparate S.elves. The common element to all LOSS is the unwanted separation
of one person from another. Human Relationships are the ultimate value. What we
are most fundamentally always trading as Goods and Services is each other. True
Wealth is Human Relationships. When we are deprived of them we suffer.
All self-and-other destructive acts come from the absence of enabling and fulfilling
relationships. This absence is THE LOSS. All "addictions" and "mental illnesses" are
second best substitutes for satisfying relationships. The only truly effective way to
manage loss then is to L.ink O.ur S.eparate S.elves to others in healing and healthy
ways. We will only do this if we truly CARE--to take care and give it.
Etymologically, Care means to "cry out for help"; and Cure means to care. The only
CURE for the Human Condition of inevitable LOSS is CARE.

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Mature Adulthood as Alternative to a Second Adolescence
What has generally constituted Retirement/Old Age in the advanced economies of
the Welfare State worldwide, I call the Obsolescence-Adolescence model. To grow old
is to become Obsolete. That is, you have enacted your Part in the Statist-Corporate

Market Machine and now are either worn out and/or superseded by a more
efficientYoungerPart that must replace you. In terms of the Machine you are
considered a liability and burden unless you can afford to buy the goods and
services targeting the retirement segment.
If you can afford it, you get to play out Second Adolescence as a reward from a life of
unpleasant work and household duties. Leisure and Recreation: golf, travel,
entertainment, political activism, body renovation/rejuvenation. Transposing the
Cyndi Lauper song: Old Agers just want to have fun when the working day is done.
As an alternative to the Obsolescence-Adolescence model, I propose my C.A.R.E.
theory of Mature Adulthood, an acronym that stands for C.ommunicative
A.utonomous R.eciprocal E.xchange. In this approach, Persons over 65 represent
unique and irreplaceable Personal Values and are supported and encouraged to
Communicate those Personal Values with/to Others. Older persons are approached
not as Market Consumers or Welfare Burdens but as Relationship Resources. The
goal is Personal Character Maturity: the Maslow models Self-Actualization.
This different way to view Aging as a Consummate Sum at the Summit of
Maturitythe Peak of the Maslow Mountain of Humanityexplores and
expresses what it means to become truly HUMAN and ADULT. The goal is to pursue
Education as Self-knowledge and Self-mastery, to widen ones Social linkages from
Family to Community to Humanity, and to Mentor ones Self, Peers and earlier
Generations to create a Culture of Conscious Reason, Freedom and Responsibility
actualized as Care given beyond the confines of Money, Family, or Government.
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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. Soren
Kierkegaard
There are many people who imagine that what they experience they also understand.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Here is a definition of Self-Actualization by Abraham Maslow, creator of the famous
Maslow Hierarchy Pyramid of Needs, that the above visual turns into a Mountain:
The desire for self-fulfillment, namely the tendency for the individual to become
actualized in what he is potentially. This tendency might be phrased as the desire to
become more and more what one is, to become everything that one is capable of
becoming.
Human life will never be understood unless its highest aspirations are taken into
account. Growth, self-actualization, the striving toward health, the quest for identity
and autonomy, the yearning for excellence (and other ways of phrasing the striving
upward) must by now be accepted beyond question as a widespread and perhaps
universal human tendency.
I confine the concept very definitely to older people. By the criteria I used, self-
actualization does not occur in young people. In our culture at least, youngsters have

not yet achieved identity, or autonomy, nor have they had time enough to experience
an enduring, loyal, post-romantic love relationship, nor have they generally found
their calling, the altar upon which to offer themselves.
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Why have I set up Mount Maslow Mentors?
Because I have reached the Peak of Self-actualization and practice it in my daily life.
I consider this achievement to be of benefit to me and to the rest of us on this planet.
I believe those of us who claim to be Self-Actualizing will wish to share our bounty
with those who have not yet begun its practice.
Go here to watch my appearance on Queensland, Australian TV in 1997 when I
launched my Mentors Brisbane community group: https://youtu.be/-hlpg3kDAhA
-- note: begin the Youtube video at 15:53 as the previous two segments were on my
other two Brisbane community projects, Widowers and Palliative Care. The
Mentors I discuss here is essentially what I want to establish in its more mature
phase as Mount Maslow Mentors online and in Santiago, Chile.

CLIMBING MOUNT MASLOW WITH ITS MENTORS AT THE PEAK

Here are the Characteristics of Self-Actualized Persons as specified by Abraham

Maslow:
1. They perceive reality efficiently and can tolerate uncertainty;
2. Accept themselves and others for what they are;
3. Spontaneous in thought and action;
4. Problem-centered (not self-centered);
5. Unusual sense of humor;
6. Able to look at life objectively;
7. Highly creative;
8. Resistant to enculturation, but not purposely unconventional;
9. Concerned for the welfare of humanity;
10. Capable of deep appreciation of basic life-experience;
11. Establish deep satisfying interpersonal relationships with a few people;
12. Peak experiences;
13. Need for privacy;
14. Democratic attitudes;
15. Strong moral/ethical standards.
Behavior leading to self-actualization:
(a) Experiencing life like a child, with full absorption and concentration;
(b) Trying new things instead of sticking to safe paths;
(c) Listening to your own feelings in evaluating experiences instead of the voice of
tradition, authority or the majority;
(d) Avoiding pretense ('game playing') and being honest;
(e) Being prepared to be unpopular if your views do not coincide with those of the
majority;

(f) Taking responsibility and working hard;

(g) Trying to identify your defenses and having the courage to give them up.
http://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html

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MATURE ADULTHOOD: ACTUALIZING THE SELF

To have a Self to examine you must have lived a Self in Time. Those over 65 have
enough years lived to have enough Self worth to examine and the time to examine
their Time on earth.

The Past made Present Opens to the Future of You: the ongoing Self-Actualization of
Self-Discovery as Uncovering to Recover and Renew. In this perspective, a persons
Past has potentially as many Possibilities as does the Future.

When we remember something, our body goes through processes similar to the ones it
experienced when we lived the situation. Our life experiences, our bonds, the significant
moments of our existence are building our brain structure and it is in this brain
structure where remembering is like reliving". Neurolink

You Discover a new Self as you Uncover your Past experiences to understand them
from the perspective of Human Adulthood, thus Recovering the Lessons that heal
you into Wholeness and Renew your Self to a new Level of Consciousness. You bring
your Past to be a Present opening you to a new Future.

Then you may find your Self at the Peak of Maslows Mountain of Needs as a Self that
has been Actualized and continues to be in a Present of your Past being Opened into
its Unknown Future. This is the Great Adventure of First Human Adulthood, the
Mature Mentoring of Your Self and Others.

As Lewis Mumford in The Conduct of Life wrote, "We must live once in the actual
world, and once more in our minds...it is only by constant reflection and evaluation
that our life, in fact, becomes fully meaningful and purposeful." Or as Plato has
Socrates say in The Apology, the unexamined life is not worth living.

I invite you to join me in gathering together to examine our lives and society and
thus help make our persons ever more richly meaningful gifts to be opened,
exchanged and enjoyed.

I am there Now as my Past a Present Opened to the Future. Join me?

I invite those over 65s who consider themselves to be Self-Actualizing on the Mount
Maslow Peak as I do, to share with the Adult Community their version of what this
means to them. We can compare the various personal forms of Self-Actualization
and communicatively exchange who we are as well as offer our Minds and Models to
provision and guide those still climbing the slopes of Mount Maslow to the Peak.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are
afraid of the light. Plato

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The wisdom of Humanity is stored in the etymology of its words. When you trace
the tracks of the word OLD back to its beginning you find its true meaning to be
about ALTITUDE and ALIMENTATION.

To have grown OLD is to have grown UP to the High Home of Humanity,
Maslows Mountain Peak, and Speaking from there to guide those adolescents and
adults who have yet to grow up as well as Provisioning them with the nourishment
to follow the Oldsters tracks to the top.
Note the original, true, meaning of OLD is the key to understand Adult and
Adolescent. Old means fully grown up as in experienced by years maturely lived. It
also means to have been nourished and to have grown up, grown tall as in altitude,
heightwith the secondary meaning of then nourishing others as well to likewise
grow up. All of which hints at why I chose the name Mount Maslow Mentors for this
new Human Service. Mature Adulthood requires truly grown up, matured, ripened,
fully nourished, Maturely Aged Human Beings who then are capable of helping what
I call Adolescentsthat is to say, Immature Adultsto grow up into Mature
Adulthood too if they so desire.
From the Etymonline.com, the online etymology dictionary:
Old, Altitude, Alimentary, Provision, Vision, Wise
(Note: for the etymology of the other key words-- Mind, Mentor, Mean, Man,
Remember, Memory, Adult, Adolescent, Maturesee near the end.)

old (adj.)
Old English "aged, antique, primeval; elder, experienced," from Proto-
Germanic *althaz "grown up, adult". German"grow, nourish"; Gothic alan "to
grow up,"; from PIE root *al- (3) "to grow, nourish" Latin alere "to feed,
nourish, bring up, increase," altus "high," literally "grown
tall," almus "nurturing, nourishing,"
altitude (n.)
late 14c., from Latin altitudinem (nominative altitudo) "height, altitude,"
from altus "high" (see old).
alimentary (adj.)

Medieval Latin alimentarius "pertaining to food," from

Latin alimentum "nourishment," from alere "to nourish, rear, support,
maintain," from PIE root *al- "to grow, nourish" (see old).

provision (n.)
late 14c., "a providing beforehand, action of arranging in advance"
Latin provisionem "a foreseeing, foresight, preparation, prevention,"
providere "look ahead" (see provide).
provide (v.)
early 15c., from Latin providere "look ahead, prepare, supply, act with
foresight," from pro- "ahead" (see pro-) + videre "to see" (see vision).
pro-
word-forming element meaning "forward, forth, toward the front"; "beforehand,
in advance; "taking care of"; from Latin pro "on behalf of, in place of, before,
for, in exchange for, just as,"

vision (n.)
c. 1300, "something seen in the imagination or in the supernatural," from
Anglo-French visioun, Old French vision "presence, sight; view, look,
appearance; dream, supernatural sight" (12c.), from
Latin visionem (nominative visio) "act of seeing, sight, thing seen," noun of
action from past participle stem of videre "to see."
This is from the productive PIE root *weid- "to know, to see"
wise (adj.)
Old English wis "learned, sagacious, cunning; sane; prudent, discreet;
experienced; having the power of discerning and judging rightly," from Proto-
Germanic *wissaz (source also of Old Saxon, Old Frisian wis, Old Norse viss,
Dutch wijs, German weise "wise"), from past participle adjective *wittos of PIE
root *weid- "to see," hence "to know" (see vision). Modern slang meaning
"aware, cunning" first attested 1896. Related to the source of Old Englishwitan "to
know, wit."

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"What is my life if I am no longer useful to others?" Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Every person bears the whole Form of the Human Condition." Michel De Montaigne
"He who is unaware of his ignorance, will only be misled by his knowledge." Richard
Whately
A person remains wise as long as he searches for wisdom. As soon as he thinks he has
found it, he becomes a fool. Talmud
He has well profited who learns by loss. Michelangelo
Educate yourself, do not let me educate youuse me, do not be used by me. Robert
Henri

"Then what is freedom? It is the will to be responsible for ourselves." Friedrich

Nietzsche
Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is
the inability to use one's understanding without guidance from another. This
immaturity is self- imposed when its cause lies not in lack of understanding, but in lack
of resolve and courage to use it without guidance from another. Sapere Aude! Have
courage to use your own understanding!-- that is the motto of enlightenment.
Immanuel Kant
The short-lived self, teetering on the edge of irrevocable extinction, is the only thing
that can ever really matter. Thus the renunciation of the self is felt as a liberation and
salvation. How much easier is self-sacrice than self-realization. Eric Hoffer
Nothing to conceal, nothing to reveal, only Reality with which to deal. EveryManJack

FROM THE MATURE MIND

On The Linkage Theory Of Maturity

The Linkage Theory of Maturity sees man as a creature who lives by and through
relationships; who becomes himself through linkages with the non-self. The life that
is rich and happy is one that is fulfilling its possibilities through creative linkages
with reality. A mature person is not one who has come to a certain level of
achievement and stopped there. He is rather a maturing personone whose
linkages with life are constantly becoming stronger and richer because his attitudes
are such as to encourage their growth rather than their stoppage. The life that is
psychologically poverty-stricken is on that has few such linkagesand these
routine and noncreative.

The human being is born irresponsible. One of the strong ties that must
progressively link the individual to his world is that of responsibility; resentment
against that fact, or inability to realize it in action, indicates a stoppage in
psychological growth. Mature responsibility involves both a willing participation in
the chores of life and a creative participation in the bettering of life. The individual
has to learn to accept his human role. To mature is progressively to accept the fact
that the human experience is a shared experience; the human predicament, a shared
predicament.

This linkage theory sees the individual, not as finely mature in one phase of his
being and woefully immature in another, but as possessed of a character structure in
which the several maturities or immaturities are closely related to one another. We
have liked to believe that a person can be ruthless in his business dealings and yet
be a good husband and father. We have defended our illusions in this respect by
making the definitions of success and goodness so narrow that even fairly flagrant
immaturity can qualify. Thus, by ordinary standards, a man is a vocational success if
he earning a good living. He may achieve his success by means that do profound

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hurt to other people. But he will not commonly be called a failure unless he loses his
position or wealth. We must rid ourselves of such illusions as have made us accept
immaturity as maturity. Because of the interdependence of our powers, maturity in
one area of our life promotes maturity in other areas; immaturity in one area
promotes immaturities in other areas. In fact, the human individual is a fairly tight-
knit pattern of consistency. This, then, is the first basic fact about the linkage theory
of maturity: it does not measure psychological maturity by any single, isolated trait
in a person, but by a constellation of traitsby a total character structure.

The linkage theory does not make maturity synonymous with adjustment. While it
recognizes that an immature person who is also unadjusted is in a miserable state
and needs help, it recognizes no less that, given certain cultural conditions, the
immature person is likely to effect a smoother adjustment than is the mature
person. Such a person is not on that account a more genuinely fulfilled person. Nor
is his influence any less disastrous: his immaturities may be so like the accepted
immaturities of the people around him that he and they will move in remarkable
harmony; but his immaturity and theirs will continue to create situations in which
human powers are frustrated. The standards these immature types set will reward
grown men and women for acting like children: ignorantly, irresponsibly,
eogcentrically, and so on. It is no longer safe or sufficient to judge immaturities and
maturities of men by the average practices of any institutions or any total culture.
Rather, institutions and cultures must be judged by the extent to which they
encourage or discourage maturity in all their members. Homes, schools, churches,
political parties, economic and social institutions, nationsthese are made for man;
not man for them. Human nature arrived on the scene first. The test of any
institution is the releasing service it renders to that nature.

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From the Etymonline.com, the online etymology dictionary:
Mind, Mentor, Mean, Man, Remember, Memory, Adult, Adolescent, Mature

mind (n.)
late 12c., from Old English gemynd "memory, remembrance, state of being
remembered; thought, purpose; conscious mind, intellect, intention," Proto-
Germanic *ga-mundiz (source also of Gothic muns "thought," munan "to think;" Old
Norse minni "mind;" German Minne (archaic) "love," originally "memory, loving
memory"), from PIE root *men- (1) "think, remember, have one's mind
aroused," with derivatives referring to qualities of mind or states of thought
(source also of Sanskrit matih "thought," munih "sage, seer;" Greek memona "I
yearn," mania "madness," mantis "one who divines, prophet, seer;"
Latin mens "mind, understanding, reason," memini "I
remember," mentio "remembrance;"
mentor (n.)
"wise advisor," 1750, from Greek Mentor, friend of Odysseus and adviser of
Telemachus (but often actually Athene in disguise) in the "Odyssey," perhaps

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ultimately meaning "adviser," because the name appears to be an agent noun

of mentos "intent, purpose, spirit, passion" from PIE *mon-eyo- (source also of
Sanskrit man-tar- "one who thinks," Latin mon-i-tor "one who admonishes"),
causative form of root *men- "to think" (see mind (n.)).
mean (v.1)
"intend, have in mind," Old English mnan "to mean, intend, signify; tell, say;
complain, lament," from West Germanic *mainijan (source also of Old
Frisian mena "to signify," Old Saxon menian "to intend, signify, make known,"
Dutch menen, German meinen "think, suppose, be of the opinion"), from
PIE *meino- "opinion, intent" (source also of Old Church Slavonic meniti "to think,
have an opinion," Old Irish mian "wish, desire," Welsh mwyn"enjoyment"), perhaps
from root *men- "think" (see mind (n.)).
man, n. ME. man, fr. OE. man, 'human being, man', rel. to OS., Swed., Du., OHG.,
MHG. man, G. Mann, ON. madr (for *mannr), Dan. mand, Goth, manna, 'man' OS.
men- nisco, OFris. manniska, MDu. mensche, Du. Mens. All these words probably
meant orig. 'one who thinks', fr. I.-E. base *men-, 'to think', whence also OI.
matifi, mdtih, 'thought', L. mens, gen. mentis, 'mind', Goth. muns, 'thought', munan,
'to think", ON. minni, 'mind', OE. gemynd, 'memory'. See mind

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remember (v.)
early 14c., "keep in mind, retain in the memory," from Old
French remembrer "remember, recall, bring to mind" (11c.), from
Latin rememorari "recall to mind, remember," from re- "again" (see re-)
+ memorari "be mindful of," from memor "mindful" (see memory). Meaning
"recall to mind" is late 14c.; sense of "to mention" is from 1550s. Also in Middle
English "to remind" (someone).
memory (n.)
mid-13c., "recollection (of someone or something); awareness, consciousness,"
also "fame, renown, reputation," from Anglo-French memorie (Old Frenchmemoire,
11c., "mind, memory, remembrance; memorial, record") and directly from
Latin memoria "memory, remembrance, faculty of remembering," noun of
quality from memor "mindful, remembering," from PIE root *(s)mer- (1) "to
remember" (Sanskrit smarati "remembers," Avestan mimara"mindful;"
Greek merimna "care, thought," mermeros "causing anxiety, mischievous, baneful;"
Serbo-Croatian mariti "to care for;" Welsh marth "sadness, anxiety;" Old
Norse Mimir, name of the giant who guards the Well of Wisdom; Old
English gemimor "known," murnan "mourn, remember sorrowfully;"
Dutch mijmeren "to ponder"). Meaning "faculty of remembering" is late 14c. in
English.

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adult (adj.)
1530s (but not common until mid-17c.), from Latin adultus "grown up, mature,
adult, ripe," past participle of adolescere "grow up, mature" (see adolescent).
As a euphemism for "pornographic," it dates to 1958 and does no honor to the word.

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adult (n.)
"adult person," 1650s, from adult (adj.).
adolescent (n.)
mid-15c., "youth, young man," from Middle French adolescent (15c.) or directly
from Latin adolescentem (nominative adolescens) "growing, near maturity,
youthful," present participle of adolescere "grow up, come to maturity, ripen,"
from ad- "to" (see ad-) + alescere "be nourished," hence, "increase, grow up,"
inchoative of alere "to nourish" (see old).
1785, from Latin adolescentem (nominative adolescens) "growing, near
maturity, youthful," present participle of adolescere "grow up, come to
maturity, ripen" (see adolescent (n.)).
ad-
word-forming element expressing direction toward or in addition to, from
Latin ad "to, toward" in space or time; "with regard to, in relation to," as a
prefix, sometimes merely emphatic, from PIE *ad- "to, near, at" (cognate with Old

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mature (adj.)
mid-15c., "ripe," also "careful, well-considered," from Latin maturus "ripe,
timely, early" (see mature (v.)).
mature (v.)
late 14c., "encourage suppuration;" mid-15c. "bring to maturity," from
Latin maturare "to ripen, bring to maturity," from maturus "ripe, timely,
early," related to manus "good" and mane "early, of the morning," from PIE
root *ma- (1) "good," with derivatives meaning "occurring at a good moment,
timely, seasonable, early." Meaning "come or bring to maturity" is from 1620s.




JACK CARNEY--CREDENTIALS
Below is a summary description of Jacks work record in Business
and Human Services arranged in 4 Areas.

I. ENTREPRENEURSHIP & BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
Started up and managed these businesses:
a. Credible ContractingGeneral Contractor-Builder, Self-taught Architect 1975-1981
(Canada)
b. International Shell & MembranesHyperbolic Paraboloid Modular Building System
1981-1986 (Australia)
c. Inventor and Marketer of New Household ProductPotmate 1991-1992 (Australia)
d. Clearly YoursWindow Washing Company 1992-1993 (U.S.A.)

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e. Kali DesignWomens Boutique Clothing Design & Manufacture 1989-1991

(Australia)
f. Connections/Partners for LifeRelationships Consultancy Promoting Permanent
Partnerships for Single Men & Women 1996-1998 (Australia)
g. Creative Connections for LifeTraining for Health Care Workers 1999-2002
(All the above referenced in my Resume and elsewhere)
II. LOSS & CARE (Australia 1996 to 2002)
1. Palliative Care
a. Member of the Palliative Care Association of Queenslands Upskilling Course for
General Practice Doctors
b. Educator for Medical Professionals on Personally Caring for the Terminally Ill
c. Advocate for Palliative Home Care including starting the The Suncorp-Metway
Katharos Palliative Care Project
d. Member of Blue Nursing Curriculum Advisory Committee
e. Public talks including TV and Radio on the Value of Palliative Care
f. Member of Blue Nursing Curriculum Advisory Committee
g. Founding member Community Loss & Grief Committee
h. Community Activist and Advocate started up and managed Widowers for men only
who lost their wives

2. Aged Care (Australia 2000 to 2003)
a. Older Persons Advocacy ServiceCommunity Advocate
b. Trainer for Certificate III Aged Care WorkersTwo Companies: Challenge Learning
Institute and East Coast Training

3. Mental Health (Australia 2000 to 2003)
a. Research Assistant for School of Population Healths and Queensland Healths
Queensland Alcohol and Drug Research and Education
b. Research Assistant for Queensland Health Supervision Project for Allied Health,
Nursing & Medical Staff
c. Co-Founder & Co-Trainer for Creative Connections for Life Creating and Delivering
Workshops on Stress and Burnout for Mental Health Workers

III. RELATIONSHIPS & LOVE (Australia 1997 to 2003)
1. Chief Educator and Public Relations Spokesman for Relationships Australia
Queensland
2. Started up and managed Connections/Partners for Life, a Permanent Partnership
Singles Introduction and Personal Development Company

IV. ADULT COMMUNITY EDUCATION (Australia 1995 to 1998)
1. Adult Community Education at Technical And Further Education (TAFE) Institutes
creating and delivering courses on Personal Development
2. Community Activist and Advocate started up and managed Community Program
Mentors for older persons to connect with younger as Life Coaches and Guides

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