Person's pursuit for happiness in modern world is tightly connected with the idea of owning and consuming. It is believed that delusion that genuine happiness can be found this way. According to the 1999 UNHDR, the percentage of Americans who considered themselves happy peaked in 1957, despite the fact that consumption per person has more than doubled since then. At the same time, studies of U.S. households have found that between 1986 and 1994 the amount of money people think they need to live happily has doubled! That seems paradoxical, but it is not difficult to explain: when we define ourselves as consumers, we can never have enough. For reasons we never quite understand, consumerism never really gives us what we want from it; it works by keeping us thinking that the next thing we buy will satisfy us.

Higher incomes have certainly enabled many people to become more generous, but this has not been their main effect, because capitalism is based upon a very different principle: that capital should be used to create more capital. Rather than redistributing our wealth, we prefer to invest that wealth as a means to accumulate more and spend more, regardless of whether or not we need more. In fact, the question of whether or not we really need more has become rather quaint; you can never be too rich.

From the other hand, poverty is a source of unhappiness in itself and also makes it more difficult to grow spiritually and intellectually. Who would pay for Internet and electricity? So, some wealth IS needed for a person to be happy not to borrow, mounting debts and ever-increasing suffering.

But the truth is in the middle. Not growing consumerism or poverty makes a person unhappy. That's why I would like to quote Dalai Lama: "I was thinking for whole my life: what is necessary for happiness? And came up with the conclusion: nothing can be done without freedom. Everything else is secondary, even faith..."

Since most early literate civilisations were located around the warm Mediterranean region, the first mention of an iceberg in world literature did not come until the ninth century A.D., when an account of the travels of the Irish monk St. Brendan in the North Atlantic, three centuries before, appeared. It mentioned that he saw a "floating crystal castle." What else could that have been?

The way people get aquainted with something new, describing it with the words they used for other phenomena, we are trying to describe the creative force of the human mind - Imagination. Why capitalized? Because Imagination is the most pervasive thing, a kind of energy to shape the world we know. It can be developed and used to organize and innovate the environment. Imagination sees, foresees and being applied creates. GlobalPuzzle makes it possible for you to develop this Universe driving force. The GlobalPuzzle territory is purposely unmapped for you to create it and seek for the treasures your imagination hides by solving the wisdom pieces and challenging the world with that of yours.

As Robert Anton Wilson, a writer, says: "The development of the highly developed is a matter of highly developed only".

Imagine the sound of one hand. It's from famous zen koan "Two hands clap and there is a sound; what is the sound of one hand?" How can you imagine the thing containing aspects that are inaccessible to rational understanding? This is the puzzle!

According to buddhist teachings, there are a lot of dimensions a human lives in. Actually, these dimensions correspond to the senses a human body has - the world of the visible, the world of sounds, the world of tastes, the world of tactile senses, the world of scents, and the world of the inner perception (emotions, intuition). They are also the sources of the life energy. Zen puzzles, or koans, can be accessible only to intuition. To our sixth sense.

How can we answer koan having such an imperfect instrument as words? Koan can be solved only if you are in the buddhalike state of mind, when you understand that the only way to percept the unimaginable is to use your sixth sense. Zen buddhists promise Enlightenment to those who solve a koan. What does it mean? It means the way out of your artificial mind boundaries which were created by the way of thinking you got used to. Difficult to comprehend, but try. Try to solve at least one koan and see the results.

GlobalPuzzle is such a koan until it is solved. It is designed to combine the questions and the answers that are of all the mind accessible spheres. The access level depends on one thing - your imagination.

DaVincis are the change-agents of society. Da Vincis are the world's greatest leaders, artists, entrepreneurs, inventors, revolutionaries and entertainment stars. Da Vincies are the ones who know first than others, who sense earliest the trends, the patterns, the fashions, the revolutions that are afoot, the coming groundswells of popular demand.

DaVincis are often the most sensitive of our population, the most creative, and potentially the most destructive.

DaVincis have very little self-repression. Where the vast majority of the population may be quite repressed and content with that, the mere 10% of the population who are Da Vinci types abhor any inner self-repression. Da Vincis are only really content when operating at 100% threshold of their physical, mental, emotional and spiritual capacity with virtually no self-repression holding them back.

Since lack of self-repression is often perceived to be socially unacceptable, DaVincis may develop the maladaptive approach of holding everything back until there is a crisis - a socially acceptable excuse to throw 100% of themselves into that situation - as a result, DaVincis often find or generate crisis in order to feel fully engaged, happy or alive.

DaVincis can be successful in any sphere of their interest and here is the case that if they aren't interested in something they are involved in they do not succeed. Mental capacity of this people type of personality is highly-developed because DaVincis "eat all the interesting pieces of information" to digest it and transform into their creative activity.

Asking and seeking the answers mind of DaVincis needs continuous challenges to grow into something bigger. DaVincis believe that all the doors CAN be opened, that the knowledge CAN be obtained and that THEY CAN DO IT!

It is difficult for DaVincis teachers to teach them, because DaVincis do not take the information for granted and if they see any mismatches they speak about them. This kind of reaction is typical for Indigo children as well. The Information age started and the needs for personal development have been changed according to the new challenges the world faces nowadays. The appearance of the new type of people - DaVincis of the Information age, - gives the world a chance. Are you a DaVinci?

During the time humanity exists there were a lot of periods people made discoveries to influence their culture and society for many centuries. These discoveries were connected with the opportunities of getting knowledge. Who would say the knowledge is not the power? It is! First, it was the language to share the important information about hunting and living in a certain place. Language made it possible to gain much life experience than a person could have living not so long, if we compare ancient people with the modern. Information was shared orally and to keep in their memory a lot of information people invented songs to share it by the singing. This way poetry appeared.

The second stage was the invention of writing. The centers of scholarship appeared with the people who wrote first books. The books were rare and only the first priests and kings had access to them. Time passed and books spread across the world, although very expensive and difficult to find for simple people.

Printing press invention became the third stage - information at last became available almost to every wishing person and it had its consequences. A person could educate himself to have experience in all the spheres he or she wished to have. The Renaissance started and a very interesting phenomenon appeared - a human type of "Uomo Universale", or, in simple words, a person who has got profound knowledge in different spheres to develop his potential in full. One and maybe the best-known Renaissance man is Leonardo Da Vinci. He became the archetypal personality to incarnate the realized human potential leaving behind the design of the parachute, anatomical sketches, not speaking about his paintings. He, the brightest example of a human genius, was the result of the Information revolution of the printing press. Most national languages in Europe appeared with literature. Printing press ruined the monopoly of the Catholic church on the information and information became available for the people to realize that they can create their own churches and countries, independent and free in their strive for happiness.

XX century has brought a lot of geniuses, but the last Information revolution which started with the invention of the PC and Internet just started to show its results. Internet made the information available for every person in the world. Knowledge has become unsorted and, so to say "postmodern", ideologies which ruled the yesterday's world have been shaken with the relativistic approach of a modern person. At the same time, smart people started to realize this hidden potential of the internet for their personal development.

"Da Vinci people" appeared. Richard Branson, Steve Jobs, Ben Cohen, George Lucas, Bono... You can't count them all. These people have something in common which makes the world a different place. A better place.

If you are reading this, you know that you are different - creative person of high-potential. Find out what you wish to accomplish in your life and think your way. Realize your dreams and change the world! It's time for you!