Dear Madam/Sir,
European Movement Croatia in cooperation with University of Oslo are inviting you to participate at the
round table dedicated to
Congress of Europe and 60th Anniversary of International European Movement
Building the Europe of the Future Together
The Cultural Revival Dialog - Zagreb 2008
The website http://WiKeyPoDia.org, will provide the details you may need in order to prepare for this event.
Friday, June 6th from 6 to 9 PM
Europe House Zagreb, Jurišićeva 1
Author of the project:
Dino Karabeg, Ph.D.
University of Oslo, Norway
Guests:
Li Jun Feng – Majstor Sheng Zhen Qigonga
and
Li Jing
About the Author: Dino Karabeg, Ph.D. in computer science/algorithm theory, University of California
at San Diego, 1988. M.S. in oceanography/environmental systems modeling, University of Zagreb, 1979.
B.S. in electrical engineering/control theory, University of Zagreb, 1977. Main research interests
Knowledge federation, information design. Work experience: Associate Professor at the University of
Oslo Computer Science Dept., 1992 - current.
About the Project: “The future will either be the inspired product of a great cultural revival, or there
will be no future,” wrote Aurelio Peccei, the co-founder and the first president of the Club of Rome, in
1981. And Albert Einstein’s familiar observation, that we cannot solve our problems by thinking in the
same way as we did when we created them, expresses a similar sentiment: Typical contemporary
problems, both the global ones such as the environmental degradation, and the local ones such as the
rising costs of healthcare, can only be solved by a new way of thinking and being.
The question remains, how will this still abstract and latent possibility, of finding and following a new
direction, be practically realized?
The key point dialog is a technique developed at the University of Oslo, whose purpose is to facilitate
such development. The goal of a key point dialog is to discover the ‘key point’—an insight that is
sufficiently strong and profound to initiate ‘a great cultural revival’. With this letter we would like to
invite you to take part in the Cultural Revival Dialog Zagreb 2008 where this technique will be applied.
The dialog will be held in Europe House Zagreb, Jurišićeva 1, on Friday June 6, from 6 to 9 PM.
To ignite and energize the dialog we have arranged for an inter-cultural meeting. We will benefit from
the presence of Master Li Jun Feng, the Headmaster of Sheng Zhen Qigong, and his daughter Li Jing,
who will introduce us to an uncommon way of thinking and being. Works of quantum physicist Werner
Heisenberg, futurologist Aurelio Peccei, medical researcher Werner Kollath and author and social critic
Aldous Huxley will provide a suitable context for this meeting of worldviews, which will allow us to
embed our guests’ seemingly esoteric ideas in contemporary, mainly scientific thinking. Insights into the
practice of Sheng Zhen Qigong, of which our guests are the most respected teachers, will broaden our
understanding of human and cultural possibilities that may now be available to us.
The dialog will then proceed through four stages called Awareness, Responsibility, Freedom and
Renaissance, during which all of us will have an opportunity to share related thoughts, experiences,
reservations or enthusiasm. The messages and impulses created in our dialog will subsequently spread
and grow in Croatia and worldwide through Internet and other media.
The question remains: How will this still abstract and latent possibility, of finding and following a new
direction, be practically realize?
We will appreciate being informed about your possibility to attend on e-mail: renata.bacic@europe.hr
Renata Bacic and Dino Karabeg
European Movement Croatia and University of Oslo