Consciousness raising technology

• US 8,708,705 B1
• Filed: 04/04/2013
• Issued: 04/29/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/06/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Conscious Dimensions, LLC
• Original Assignee: Conscious Dimensions, LLC
• Inventors: Baker, Myra, Grant, Robin, Hatic, Dorothy, Ooten, Deborah, Rhodes, Mary Barr, White, Lance
• Primary Examiner(s): GEBREMICHAEL, BRUK A
• Application Number:
  US13/856,650
• Time in Patent Office: 390 Days
• Field of Search: 434/236, 434/238, 463/23, 463/37
• US Class Current: 434/236
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/00 Video games, i.e. games using an electronically generated display having two or more dimensions gaming systems which provide a financial reward G07F17/32
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/00 Teaching not covered by other main groups of this subclass teaching or practice apparatus for gun-aiming or gun-laying F41G3/26

Abstract

An individual can be presented with information which could provide such individual with an improved understanding of how people with different personality types and levels of consciousness could perceive and address disruptive events. This presentation of information can be in the form of a computer game in which a player can guide an avatar through increasing levels of consciousness, observing how the avatar perceives and addresses disruptive events at each level. Such a computer game can include multiple avatars representing different personality types, and can be configured so that the player would use avatars representing each personality type in the course of completing the game.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon a set of instructions operable to configure a computer to perform an intra-type consciousness raising process, the intra-type consciousness raising process comprising:

a. allowing a user to control a consciousness raising user avatar presented in an interactive computer environment, wherein the consciousness raising user avatar corresponds to an enneagram personality type;

b. providing the user, via the interactive computer environment, information indicating a disruptive event;

c. presenting an implementation, by the consciousness raising user avatar in the interactive computer environment, of a course of action responding to the disruptive event, wherein the course of action is based on the enneagram personality type corresponding to the consciousness raising user avatar and a level of consciousness for the consciousness raising user avatar;

d. determining, based on physiological information for the user received from a physiological measurement device comprising a physical device communicatively connected to the computer and external to the interactive computer environment, the user'"'"'s contemplation of deficiencies in the course of action responding to the disruptive event;

e. increasing the level of consciousness for the consciousness raising user avatar based on the user'"'"'s contemplation of deficiencies in the course of action responding to the disruptive event; and

f. repeating the acts of clauses a-e until the level of consciousness for the consciousness raising user avatar is a maximum level of consciousness;

wherein;

A. the consciousness raising user avatar from the intra-type consciousness raising process has a head orientation, a heart orientation, and a body orientation;

B. the intra-type consciousness raising process further comprises modifying, based on input data received from the user, the head, heart and body orientations for the consciousness raising user avatar;

C. the intra-type consciousness raising process further comprises performing a compatibility determination, wherein performing the compatibility determination comprises determining compatibility between the consciousness raising user avatar'"'"'s head, heart and body orientations, and head, heart and body orientations for a level of consciousness subsequent to the level of consciousness of the consciousness raising user avatar; and

D. the act of increasing the level of consciousness for the consciousness raising user avatar from the intra-type consciousness raising process is performed only after the compatibility determination from the intra-type consciousness raising process indicates that the consciousness raising user avatar'"'"'s head, heart and body orientations are compatible with the head, heart and body orientations for the level of consciousness subsequent to the level of consciousness of the consciousness raising user avatar.

2. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the set of instructions is further operable to configure the computer to, for each enneagram personality type, perform the intra-type consciousness raising process with a user avatar, taken from a plurality of user avatars and corresponding to the enneagram personality type, as the consciousness raising user avatar.

3. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 2, wherein the intra-type consciousness raising process further comprises playing music, the music having a theme determined by a solfeggio frequency corresponding to the enneagram personality type corresponding to the consciousness raising user avatar.

4. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein:

a. the input data received from the user comprises user orientation physiological information reflecting at least one of the user'"'"'s head orientation, heart orientation and body orientation; and

b. the act of modifying, based on input data received from the user, the head, heart and body orientations for the consciousness raising user avatar, comprises modifying the head, heart and body orientations of the consciousness raising user avatar to match the user orientation physiological information.

5. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein:

a. the input data received from the user comprises commands for the consciousness raising user avatar;

b. the act of modifying, based on input data received from the user, the head, heart and body orientations for the consciousness raising user avatar, comprises modifying the head, heart and body orientations of the consciousness raising user avatar based on head, heart and body values for actions performed by the consciousness raising user avatar based on the input data received from the user.

6. A method comprising performing an intra-type consciousness raising process, the intra-type consciousness raising process comprising:

a. allowing a user to control a consciousness raising user avatar presented to the user in an interactive computer environment via a display located proximate to the user, wherein the consciousness raising user avatar corresponds to an enneagram personality type and is taken from a plurality of pre-defined consciousness raising user avatars stored in a database;

b. providing the user, via the interactive computer environment, information indicating a disruptive event;

c. presenting an implementation, by the consciousness raising user avatar in the interactive computer environment, of a course of action responding to the disruptive event, wherein the course of action is based on the enneagram personality type corresponding to the consciousness raising user avatar and a level of consciousness for the consciousness raising user avatar;

d. using a processor, determining, based on physiological information for the user obtained from a physiological measurement device comprising a physical device communicatively connected to a computer comprising the processor and external to the interactive computer environment, the user'"'"'s contemplation of deficiencies in the course of action responding to the disruptive event;

e. increasing the level of consciousness for the consciousness raising user avatar based on the user'"'"'s contemplation of deficiencies in the course of action responding to the disruptive event; and

f. repeating the acts of clauses a-e until the level of consciousness for the consciousness raising user avatar is a maximum level of consciousness;

wherein;

A. the consciousness raising user avatar from the intra-type consciousness raising process has a head orientation, a heart orientation, and a body orientation;

B. the intra-type consciousness raising process further comprises modifying, based on input data received from the user, the head, heart and body orientations for the consciousness raising user avatar;

C. the intra-type consciousness raising process further comprises performing a compatibility determination, wherein performing the compatibility determination comprises determining compatibility between the consciousness raising user avatar'"'"'s head, heart and body orientations, and head, heart and body orientations for a level of consciousness subsequent to the level of consciousness of the consciousness raising user avatar; and

D. the act of increasing the level of consciousness for the consciousness raising user avatar from the intra-type consciousness raising process is performed only after the compatibility determination from the intra-type consciousness raising process indicates that the consciousness raising user avatar'"'"'s head, heart and body orientations are compatible with the head, heart and body orientations for the level of consciousness subsequent to the level of consciousness of the consciousness raising user avatar.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the method further comprises, for each enneagram personality type, allowing the user to perform the intra-type consciousness raising process with a user avatar, taken from a plurality of user avatars and corresponding to the enneagram personality type, as the consciousness raising user avatar.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the intra-type consciousness raising process further comprises playing music, the music having a theme determined by a solfeggio frequency corresponding to the enneagram personality type corresponding to the consciousness raising user avatar.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein:

a. the input data received from the user comprises user orientation physiological information reflecting at least one of the user'"'"'s head orientation, heart orientation and body orientation; and

b. the act of modifying, based on input data received from the user, the head, heart and body orientations for the consciousness raising user avatar, comprises modifying the head, heart and body orientations of the consciousness raising user avatar to match the user orientation physiological information.

10. The method of claim 6, wherein:

a. the input data received from the user comprises commands for the consciousness raising user avatar;

b. the act of modifying, based on input data received from the user, the head, heart and body orientations for the consciousness raising user avatar, comprises modifying the head, heart and body orientations of the consciousness raising user avatar based on head, heart and body values for actions performed by the consciousness raising user avatar based on the input data received from the user.

11. The method of claim 6, wherein:

a. allowing the user to control the consciousness raising user avatar comprises;

i. allowing the user to provide commands associated with causing the consciousness raising user avatar to engage in an active behavior; and

ii. allowing the user to provide commands associated with causing the consciousness raising user avatar to engage in a receptive behavior; and

b. the act of increasing the level of consciousness for the consciousness raising user avatar from the intra-type consciousness raising process is performed only after the consciousness raising user avatar has engaged in both active and receptive behaviors during the intra-type consciousness raising process.

12. A machine comprising:

A. a database;

B. a computer;

C. a display; and

D. a physiological measurement device;

wherein the computer is configured based on a set of instructions stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium, wherein the set of instructions is operable to configure the computer to perform a intra-type consciousness raising process, the intra-type consciousness raising process comprising;

a. allowing a user to control a consciousness raising user avatar presented to the user in an interactive computer environment via the display, wherein the consciousness raising user avatar corresponds to an enneagram personality type and is taken from a plurality of pre-defined consciousness raising user avatars stored in the database;

b. providing the user, via the interactive computer environment, information indicating a disruptive event;

c. presenting an implementation, by the consciousness raising user avatar in the interactive computer environment, of a course of action responding to the disruptive event, wherein the course of action is based on the enneagram personality type corresponding to the consciousness raising user avatar and a level of consciousness for the consciousness raising user avatar;

d. using a processor, determining, based on physiological information for the user obtained from the physiological measurement device, wherein the physiological measurement device comprises a physical device communicatively connected to the computer and external to the interactive computer environment, the user'"'"'s contemplation of deficiencies in the course of action responding to the disruptive event;

e. increasing the level of consciousness for the consciousness raising user avatar based on the user'"'"'s contemplation of deficiencies in the course of action responding to the disruptive event; and

f. repeating the acts of clauses a-e until the level of consciousness for the consciousness raising user avatar is a maximum level of consciousness;

wherein;

i. the consciousness raising user avatar from the intra-type consciousness raising process has a head orientation, a heart orientation, and a body orientation;

ii. the intra-type consciousness raising process further comprises modifying, based on input data received from the user, the head, heart and body orientations for the consciousness raising user avatar;

iii. the intra-type consciousness raising process further comprises performing a compatibility determination, wherein performing the compatibility determination comprises determining compatibility between the consciousness raising user avatar'"'"'s head, heart and body orientations, and head, heart and body orientations for a level of consciousness subsequent to the level of consciousness of the consciousness raising user avatar; and

iv. the act of increasing the level of consciousness for the consciousness raising user avatar from the intra-type consciousness raising process is performed only after the compatibility determination from the intra-type consciousness raising process indicates that the consciousness raising user avatar'"'"'s head, heart and body orientations are compatible with the head, heart and body orientations for the level of consciousness subsequent to the level of consciousness of the consciousness raising user avatar.

13. The machine of claim 12, wherein the set of instructions are further operable to configure the computer to for each enneagram personality type, allow the user to perform the intra-type consciousness raising process with a user avatar, taken from a plurality of user avatars and corresponding to the enneagram personality type, as the consciousness raising user avatar.

14. The machine of claim 13, wherein the intra-type consciousness raising process further comprises playing music, the music having a theme determined by a solfeggio frequency corresponding to the enneagram personality type corresponding to the consciousness raising user avatar.

15. The machine of claim 12, wherein:

a. the input data received from the user comprises user orientation physiological information reflecting at least one of the user'"'"'s head orientation, heart orientation and body orientation; and

b. the act of modifying, based on input data received from the user, the head, heart and body orientations for the consciousness raising user avatar, comprises modifying the head, heart and body orientations of the consciousness raising user avatar to match the user orientation physiological information.

16. The machine of claim 12, wherein:

a. the input data received from the user comprises commands for the consciousness raising user avatar;

b. the act of modifying, based on input data received from the user, the head, heart and body orientations for the consciousness raising user avatar, comprises modifying the head, heart and body orientations of the consciousness raising user avatar based on head, heart and body values for actions performed by the consciousness raising user avatar based on the input data received from the user.

17. The machine of claim 12, wherein:

a. allowing the user to control the consciousness raising user avatar comprises;

i. allowing the user to provide commands associated with causing the consciousness raising user avatar to engage in an active behavior; and

ii. allowing the user to provide commands associated with causing the consciousness raising user avatar to engage in a receptive behavior; and

b. the act of increasing the level of consciousness for the consciousness raising user avatar from the intra-type consciousness raising process is performed only after the consciousness raising user avatar has engaged in both active and receptive behaviors during the intra-type consciousness raising process.