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Direct connection on complex networks. The number of connections increases exponentially on a global basis. Almost everything connects to almost everything else. What you see is that the most outstanding feature of life's history is a constant domination by bacteria. Very complex systems decrease rapidly in times of environmental instability and sudden change.
- social theory and political analysis - real chairs you can sit on, the design of chairs to be beautiful, and essence of chairness - Or deductive trained enlightenment in Popper's open society and used in intuitive creation - for the true, there is evidence - the beautiful there is form, and what is good for the soul and social synergy may be really true.
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“Synergy in the Society and Individual” An Esalen, Penguin Books
1976 ISBN 0 14 00.4265 2 Chapter 14, Page 191
Ruth Benedict (Patterns of Culture; Race, Science and Politics)
an essay on holism, invented and developed the idea of synergy at
lectures at Bryn Mawr College in 1941. Maslow had the only copy
which was to be published with the assistance of Margaret Mead in
1970.
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The History of the Future:
Friday, December 04, 1998
AE21, Education for century twenty-one:
Human resources are the critical prerequisite to the process of building wealth, prosperity and the civil open society. The reasons for the "Wealth of Nations" or the relative poverty of "backwardness" has to do with the character and skills of the population.
Curiosity and a positive image of the future are the reasons for the industrial revolution, first, second and third. The religious and political changes in England and the Low Countries in the 15th century made for the possibilities of the modern world.
What is less well understood are the "qualitative" nature of human abilities. There are the following stages, each not replaced by the next advance but over-layered with each becoming dominate in turn but not replacing previous models. As canals and bicycles still play an important role in European transportation, augmented by trains, cars and planes.
The first level is the "skilled crafts" - a long apprenticeship with hands on methods produces a high level of abilities - Cathedrals with stained glass, Columbus, clocks, water wheels and the first tools and factories of the first industrial revolution. Education was literacy - Grammar schools and basic accounting, drafting and organizing shills.
In the 19th century, higher education in the Agricultural and Mechanical arts began to pay off. The newly unified Germany began to surpass England because of excellence in technical training while Great Britain stayed with the Classical educational process - founded on Latin and Greek rather than Science and Math.
The United States quickly adjusted to technical training but "trade schools" have always have low status compared to "liberal arts" college preparation. High level technical Universities such as Georgia Tech, MIT, Cal-Tech, IIT, Stanford and Polly -tech parts of the mega-universities have made extraordinary contributions to economic welfare in this country and world wide. The second industrial revolution of electrical, biological and chemical engineering is based on formal training in math and science. The MBA in business maybe useful in production of rational "corporate people" and culture. The majority of mangers still come from the technical, legal and accounting professions.
The third level of human skill for Century twenty-one has to do with creativity in a global communications technology. We still need skilled craft people, we need to improve basic literacy and grammar, enterprise, with science and technology in complex engineering tasks.
Computer people carry the unhappy title of "software engineer" because they are trying to fit into an older model of categories in human resource management. Is someone who creates games and innovative web practices doing arts or sciences or applied technology ? If you visit a trade show in the computer - consumer electronics - communications business you find new younger people doing new things with a "strange" mixture of backgrounds, including a lot of "rock and roll music" nationalities - and very unclear standards of higher education and training. Smart is as smart does - and "stupid is as stupid does".
Japan can not solve most of its basic economic problems.
Bank reform requires a fundamental shift from combines of firms centered around banks and holding each others shares to corporate capitalism within trading groups and well as between trading groups. This requires a change from the way Japan Inc. has worked since the beginnings of modernization. The government is a committee of high level administrators that work within the system and have very little control of the system.
There is no way to pay the costs of social security and medicare for those currently in the labor force.
The shift from income and payroll taxes to VAT ( consumption taxes ) will help, the nationalization of education and medicine could help. What would make a real difference is politically unlikely, what is politically possible is unlikely to do any good. The American political system can not take fundamental decisions in advance of crisis and slow to respond to important changes in the society.
Alan Greenspan, in his recent testimony to congress, repeated a lesson in basic economics. The economy welfare of any nation depends on three factors:
The skill and educational character of the labor force,
The capital stock the company and the society provides to make work productive
The ratio of fixed to variable costs of social overhead.
In a fully developed industrial society the costs of social security and health care are transferred to workers and the overhead of everything produced. As the population shifts from a pyramid to a column the social overhead costs become very high. The relative costs of work shifts to less developed, labor rich areas.
The long term investment in human and physical capital is the reason for increases in productivity - better trained people working smarter with better tools are the reasons for wealth or poverty. At the same time the cost of payroll taxes alone becomes higher than world wide base hourly wages.
How much each person, each hour’s labor, how much each unit of input produces in goods and services is directly related to the income from work and the return on investment. The machine that digs increases digging productivity and the wages of people with hand shovels or power equipment, airplanes increase travel productivity and the wages of wagon drivers or pilots, the word processor increases writing productivity, the Internet increases communication productivity. The cost per unit of computer power declines by half every 18 months ( Moore’s Law ) increases the whole of the economy’s efficiency.
The current period of growth with low inflation, where the labor force has growth by 300,000 a month, 4 million a year ( 3 % ) has been possible because of better trained women’s wide participation, more women are now in college than males and minority workers acting as a reserve along with moving jobs to lower costs areas of production and immigration.
The larger labor force has new and improved tools provided by the "information" revolution. Productivity in some areas of high technology have been very impressive. As we become more global, the labor force becomes global. Low skilled occupations move to low wage areas - China being the great labor pool.
Networks of product design, original equipment manufacture (OEM), distribution and marketing become more complex and integrated.
Three central concepts:
Punctuated Equilibrium In Action!
Complex system are slow when adapting to changing environments and subject to periods of rapid degeneration and extinction.
Complex system are slow when adapting to changing environments and subject to periods of rapid degeneration and extinction.
Inter-connections:
Direct connection on complex networks. The number of connections increases exponentially on a global basis. Almost everything connects to almost everything else. What you see is that the most outstanding feature of life's history is a constant domination by bacteria. Very complex systems decrease rapidly in times of environmental instability and sudden change.
The Internet Revolution: Disintermediation
The future of established institution to control economic, social and political events is very limited. The Political process everywhere, national and international, can not keep pace with the rapid, changing, complex, counter-intuitive, non-ideological, global policy problems and issues. Among these issues are global warming, international finance, trade, ethnic and class conflict, population, education, health, welfare, pollution, warfare etc..
Peter E. Pflaum, now in Bali, Indonesia is interested in being a consultant on Bioenergetics to resorts and yoga or Zen centers. His interest is in establishing as a resident and having annual visas. He has practiced Die Gestalt which is a German word for form or shape. It is used in English to refer to a concept of 'wholeness'. Gestalt may also refer to: Gestalt psychology Dr. Pflaum has used for 50 years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioenergetics
Peter E. Pflaum, now in Bali, Indonesia is interested in being a consultant on Bioenergetics to resorts and yoga or Zen centers. His interest is in establishing as a resident and having annual visas. He has practiced Die Gestalt which is a German word for form or shape. It is used in English to refer to a concept of 'wholeness'. Gestalt may also refer to: Gestalt psychology Dr. Pflaum has used for 50 years.
Bioenergetics: The Revolutionary Therapy That Uses the Language of the Body to Heal the Problems of the Mind [Paperback] Alexander Lowen
- The Way to Vibrant Health: A Manual of Bioenergetic Exercises, 1977
Dr. Pflaum's education and experience
Florida State University, Department of Government, Ph.D., 1972 fields include Educational Administration, Regional and Urban Planning and Human Resource Economics. Dissertation topic: "
The Use of Geographic Coding in Public Policy and Planning, a computer application of districting and Redistricting."
Harvard University, Graduate School of Education, Center for Education and Public Policy, Ed. M., 1969 Human Resource Planning and Economics, Master's papers on National Assessment Program.
University of London School of Economics, International Modern History and Economics, Papers on Economic, Political and Social Impacts of Science and Technology from the 18th century to present.
University of Chicago,
The College, A.B. degrees, in Liberal Arts and Social Science, American History and Economics.
Graduate work at Columbia, General Studies. Teaching
Certificates, some Spanish and French - Some computer languages Fortran and Basic
HIGH SCHOOL: EVANSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS, ILLINOIS
1978+1982 PROFESSOR/DIRECTOR, BUREAU OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, COLLEGE OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS, MBA/MPA
1975 +1978 ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, California State University at Long Beach, CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY AND ADMINISTRATION; Director of Institute of Health and Social Policy
1969+1972 Associate Professor/Research Associate, Mankato State University, Minn.
Assistant Professor, Inter-American University, San Juan Puerto Rico; Hato Rey and San German Puerto Rico, Assistant Professor of Social Sciences, Political Science and History. Lecturer in St. Albans, England; FIET Institute, Turin Italy
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ON THE JOB TRAINING in computer analysis (systems analysis) and small area data and graphics; social program analysis; investment strategies; workshops and seminar planning and training methods in basic supervision management planning (goals and objectives), stress workshops, training of trainers.
Bioenergetics is the subject of a field of biochemistry that concerns energy flow through living systems. This is an active area of biological research that includes the study of thousands of different cellular processes such as cellular respiration and the many other metabolic processes that can lead to production and utilization of energy in forms such as ATP molecules.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioenergetics
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Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad "V. S." Naipaul, TC (born 17 August 1932) is a Trinidadian-British writer of Indo-Trinidadian heritage of Brahmin[1][2] known for his novels focusing on the legacy of the British Empire's colonialism. He has also written works of non-fiction, such as travel writing and essays.
Now that's easy - good morning from Amed, Bali, Indonesia 12 hours that is 1/2 around the world from New Smyrna Beach Florida where I lived for 30+ years but now Wherever I lay my head is home
I have no base - there is no home to go back to: so I can't go home again !
Divorced after being in the same place 30 years or more - 1982 - 2012 with a settlement that she gets the house which I built (the contractor built it but we were involved and I paid for $150,000 and the "wife" contributed the lots where she grew up. I get a pension just big enough to live in a low cost place - so I am in Bali...not homeless but without a fixed home - home is where you can always go and always return and they have to let you in.
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Benedict tried to overcome the idea of cultural equality ( not everything is right ) and the doctrine of cultural relativity, what ever works for you is OK by me. Societies she said have a flavor, character and are not all equally functional. Some societies are “anxious”, surly, nasty, aggressive, and hateful, this come from insecurity and causes low morale. ( such as the Chuckchee, the Ojibwa, The Dobu, and the Kwakiutl) Other societies were “nice” people, affectionate, kind, secure and with high morale. ( Zuni, Arapesh, The L(d)eKota, Eskimo ).
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Planning for the decline of progress, big complex systems grow more slowly with age after they go over their limits; ecology of human society.
Three mega trends:
1. Shift of populations with urbanization of many unmanageable mega cities of the 20 million range
2. Game chancing technology, whole ways of earning a living decline in context of high underemployment, unemployment of masses of people – focus on youth
3. massive instability in less developed countries, underemployment of youth, loss of economic opportunity, crisis of populations, environment, and resources
4. Paul R. Ehrlich educator outlines the direct threat to human survival and the environment of the planet. ...
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5. It's a big world out there – going to nine billion people which cause conflict
1. resources – materials and water – force higher prices among income limited people
2. environmental disasters, natural disasters from climate change
3. negative feedback – things getting worse causes violence, anti-democratic ideological fringe
groups – inter-group conflicts
The native Americas faced social collapses from the advantage of iron weapons by the invaders and germs from Europe, created the white Buffalo cults. The Seneca Effect: Why Decline Is Faster Than Growth and the breaking of the social, psychology, physical niche to allow people to earn a living. ^ Anthony F.C. Wallace, The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca (New York: Vintage Books, 1969). ISBN 0-394-71699-X Seneca people From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
So what is to be done?
How to be on the right ideological attitude to change and uncertainty, high risk environments.
Saving over consumption stored in basic commodities (not gold or silver but farm land, materials that will be required – survival materials but not the kook stuff)
Moving with the tide – one wave ahead – information industry – online working – shopping – learning – where the money is -
Wealth inequality in the United States, also known as the "wealth gap", refers to the unequal distribution of assets among residents of the United States. Wealthincludes the values of homes, automobiles, personal valuables, businesses, savings, and investments.[2] The top 10% wealthiest possess 80% of all financial assets.[3]Although different from income inequality, the two are related.
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SYNERGY (term coined by Ruth Benedict): A situation or society is set up so that when I am pursuing my own self-interest, I automatically benefit you (or everyone else), whether I intend to or not. And you do the same or me. Sharing vs. exploiting "Daron Acemoglu is co-author of the book “Why Nations Fail,” the simple thesis of which is that nations thrive when they develop “inclusive” political and economic institutions and fail when those institutions become “extractive” and concentrate power and opportunity in the hands of a few. Egypt, with its heavy state, notes Acemoglu, is a classic extractive society. What it needs most is a leader who can combine a spirit of inclusion with a brutal honesty to tell the people they have wasted so many years and really need to start over, by strengthening education, shrinking the state, stimulating entrepreneurship, empowering women and reforming the police and judiciary."
that for now ; the next note will take off from here;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wAmericaiki/Democracy_in_AMERICA
Alexis de Tocqueville
Further thoughts about synergy (sharing) greed is bad vs. extraction - greed is good
The instruction in democracy, if possible to reanimate its beliefs, to purify its mores, to regulate its movements, to substitute little by little the science of affairs for its inexperience, and knowledge of its true instincts for its blind instincts; to adapt its government to time and place; to modify it according to circumstances and men: such is the first duty imposed on those who direct society in our day. [I]nstruct democracy, if possible to reanimate its beliefs, to purify its mores, to regulate its movements, to substitute little by little the science of affairs for its inexperience, and knowledge of its true instincts for its blind instincts; to adapt its government to time and place; to modify it according to circumstances and men: such is the first duty imposed on those who direct society in our day.[5]
Democratic of hearts and minds - how we treat each other the spirit of equality ennobled by the frontier. This spirit existed in the Soviet Union in the 1920's, in Spain in the 1930's, in Alaska before 1970, cooperative recognition of others as difference and their freedom to be different. This spirit seems to be going as inequality and shobness of wealth's gated communities, private clubs, private banks, tax advisors, private rooms at hospital, and the disdain of the 47% and the resentment and venue of powerlessness of the 47%.
"But one also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down to their level, and which reduces men to preferring equality in servitude to inequality in freedom".[11] He continues to comment on equality by saying "Furthermore, when citizens are all almost equal, it becomes difficult for them to defend their independence against the aggressions of power. As none of them is strong enough to fight alone with advantage, the only guarantee of liberty is for everyone to combine forces. But such a combination is not always in evidence."[12]
Tocqueville's main purpose was to analyze the functioning of political society and various forms of political associations, although he brought some reflections on civil society too (and relations between political and civil society). For Tocqueville as for Hegel and Marx, civil society was a sphere of private entrepreneurship and civilian affairs regulated by civil code.[14] As a critic of individualism, Tocqueville thought that through associating, the coming together of people for mutual purpose, both in public and private, Americans are able to overcome selfish desires, thus making both a self-conscious and active political society and a vibrant civil society functioning independently from the state.
Tocqueville did not originate the concept of individualism but changed its meaning, and saw it as a "calm and considered feeling which deposes each citizen to isolate himself from the mass of his fellows and to withdraw into the circle of family and friends ... with this little society formed to his taste, he gladly leaves the greater society to look for itself".[3] While Tocqueville saw egotism and selfishness as vices, he saw individualism as not a failure of feeling but as a way of thinking about things which could have either positive consequences such as a willingness to work together, or negative consequences such as isolation, and that individualism could be remedied by improved understanding.[3] When individualism was a positive force and prompted people to work together for common purposes, and seen as "self-interest properly understood", then it helped to counterbalance the danger of the tyranny of the majority, since people could "take control over their own lives" without government aid.[3]
Tocqueville warned that modern democracy may be adept at inventing new forms of tyranny, because radical equality could lead to the materialism of an expanding bourgeoisie and to the selfishness of individualism. By advIn such conditions we lose interest in the future of our descendents...and meekly allow ourselves to be led in ignorance by a despotic force all the more powerful because it does resemble one.[15] Tocqueville worried that if despotism were to take root in a modern democracy, it would be a much more dangerous version than the oppression under the Roman emperors or tyrants of the past who could only exert a pernicious influence on a small group of people at a time. In contrast, a despotism under a democracy could see "a multitude of men", uniformly alike, equal, "constantly circling for petty pleasures", unaware of fellow citizens, and subject to the will of a powerful state which exerted an "immense protective power".[3] Tocqueville compared a potentially despotic democratic government to a protective parent who wants to keep its citizens (children) as "perpetual children", and which doesn't break men's wills but rather guides it, and presides over people in the same way as a shepherd looking after a "flock of timid animals".[3] As done by Walt Disney and consumerism
LEVELS OF REALITY – WELL consciousness.
TRUE BELIEVERS The right has created a nightmare: He who troubles his own house will inherit wind, and the foolish will be servant to the wisehearted. http://bible.cc/proverbs/11-29.htm
Republican right could mobilize anger to win elections – ANTI science
Sunday, May 01, 2005
The last wave; the themes are in this film:
The nature of socialization - the dream land - and the reality of belief -
The law is a living tradition of many 1000's of years that have cycles
The Last Wave - Rotten Tomatoes www.rottentomatoes.com/m/last_wave/
Rating: 87% - 15 reviews
Review: Peter Weir follows up on his critically acclaimed masterpiece Picnic at Hanging Rock with this surrealist psychological drama. The film opens with a...
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LEVELS OF REALITY – WELL consciousness.
TRUE BELIEVERS The right has created a nightmare: He who troubles his own house will inherit wind, and the foolish will be servant to the wisehearted. http://bible.cc/proverbs/11-29.htm Republican right could mobilize anger to win elections – ANTI science
Sunday, May 01, 2005
The Robespierre factor:
Benedict tried to overcome the idea of cultural equality ( not everything is right ) and the doctrine of cultural relativity, what ever works for you is OK by me. Societies she said have a flavor, character and are not all equally functional. Some societies are “anxious”, surly, nasty, aggressive, and hateful, this come from insecurity and causes low morale. ( such as the Chuckchee, the Ojibwa, The Dobu, and the Kwakiutl) Other societies were “nice” people, affectionate, kind, secure and with high morale. ( Zuni, Arapesh, The L(d)eKota, Eskimo ).
The critical element in the concept of synergy is aggression vs. cooperation. Synergy is where individual benefit and groups welfare are in sink. Farming, fishing, hunting can product mutual benefits of cooperation. Selfish self-interest (winner/losers) vs. unselfish, altruism (win/win).
Siphoning vs. funneling of wealth, use vs. ownership, Comforting vs. Frightening Religion, high energy or low energy institutions, are characteristics of synergy, where are we ? We have had a out break of win/lose - me and mine - the hell with the hind most,
winner take all, activity. This discourages the losers, causes aggression, and is socially dysfunctional. A few institutions maintain high energy but the society is winding down. Synergy is spirit and systems for successful cooperation, institutional means of using aggression (learning for conflict), and rewards for all from social success (tide lifts all boats).
Seeking to preserve a religion based on the notion of a higher power that would replace Christianity, Robespierre organized the Festival of the Supreme Being held in June 1794, casting himself in the title role.
In retrospect, this attempt to arrive at a compromise between deism and atheism seems to have precipitated Robespierre’s fall and the end of the Terror. Robespierre’s proposed synthesis of Enlightenment views on religion and republican values troubled some, who thought that “The Incorruptible” had now lost all self-restraint and was paving the way for a dictatorship. Others feared that he was abandoning the dechristianization campaign and that their activities would now expose them to the Terror. These fears mounted when two days later Robespierre pushed through the Law of 22 Prairial (10 June 1794), which put the apparatus of the Terror directly under the control of the Committee of Public Safety and thus increased the possibility of explicit political prosecutions and executions. Robespierre justified the new law as a necessary instrument to instill virtue in the citizenry, but these remarks merely persuaded people that he sought to eliminate his opponents and establish a personal dictatorship. By the end of July, Robespierre’s enemies had begun circulating false rumors in Paris suggesting that he intended to make himself king. Even his base of support at the Jacobin Club was eroding because he continued to rely on Terror to achieve his political goals. Those who feared another purge helped his detractors pass a resolution in the Convention condemning him and his followers, which led to their arrest and execution. The leaders of the coup against Robespierre acted to save themselves from the Terror, not to end the Terror as such or to dissolve the Committee of Public Safety. It would take several months before this fear of further purges would bring the authorities to repeal the law of 22 Prairial, emasculate the CPS, eliminate the revolutionary tribunals, and abandon the maximums. By the late fall, however, this transition would be complete and a new era of the Revolution would have begun.http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/chap7c.html
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RE: A.H. Maslow: The Farther Reaches of Human Nature
Benedict tried to overcome the idea of cultural equality ( not everything is right ) and the doctrine of cultural relativity, what ever works for you is OK by me. Societies she said have a flavor, character and are not all equally functional. Some societies are “anxious”, surly, nasty, aggressive, and hateful, this come from insecurity and causes low morale. ( such as the Chuckchee, the Ojibwa, The Dobu, and the Kwakiutl) Other societies were “nice” people, affectionate, kind, secure and with high morale. ( Zuni, Arapesh, The L(d)eKota, Eskimo ).
The critical element in the concept of synergy is aggression vs. cooperation. Synergy is where individual benefit and groups welfare are in sink. Farming, fishing, hunting can product mutual benefits of cooperation. Selfish self-interest (winner/losers) vs. unselfish, altruism (win/win).
Siphoning vs. funneling of wealth, use vs. ownership, Comforting vs. Frightening Religion, high energy or low energy institutions, are characteristics of synergy, where are we ? We have had a out break of win/lose - me and mine - the hell with the hind most,
winner take all, activity. This discourages the losers, causes aggression, and is socially dysfunctional. A few institutions maintain high energy but the society is winding down. Synergy is spirit and systems for successful cooperation, institutional means of using aggression (learning for conflict), and rewards for all from social success (tide lifts all boats).
Seeking to preserve a religion based on the notion of a higher power that would replace Christianity, Robespierre organized the Festival of the Supreme Being held in June 1794, casting himself in the title role.
In retrospect, this attempt to arrive at a compromise between deism and atheism seems to have precipitated Robespierre’s fall and the end of the Terror. Robespierre’s proposed synthesis of Enlightenment views on religion and republican values troubled some, who thought that “The Incorruptible” had now lost all self-restraint and was paving the way for a dictatorship. Others feared that he was abandoning the dechristianization campaign and that their activities would now expose them to the Terror. These fears mounted when two days later Robespierre pushed through the Law of 22 Prairial (10 June 1794), which put the apparatus of the Terror directly under the control of the Committee of Public Safety and thus increased the possibility of explicit political prosecutions and executions. Robespierre justified the new law as a necessary instrument to instill virtue in the citizenry, but these remarks merely persuaded people that he sought to eliminate his opponents and establish a personal dictatorship. By the end of July, Robespierre’s enemies had begun circulating false rumors in Paris suggesting that he intended to make himself king. Even his base of support at the Jacobin Club was eroding because he continued to rely on Terror to achieve his political goals. Those who feared another purge helped his detractors pass a resolution in the Convention condemning him and his followers, which led to their arrest and execution. The leaders of the coup against Robespierre acted to save themselves from the Terror, not to end the Terror as such or to dissolve the Committee of Public Safety. It would take several months before this fear of further purges would bring the authorities to repeal the law of 22 Prairial, emasculate the CPS, eliminate the revolutionary tribunals, and abandon the maximums. By the late fall, however, this transition would be complete and a new era of the Revolution would have begun.http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/chap7c.html
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RE: A.H. Maslow: The Farther Reaches of Human Nature
“Synergy in the Society and Individual” An Esalen, Penguin Books
1976 ISBN 0 14 00.4265 2 Chapter 14, Page 191
Ruth Benedict (Patterns of Culture; Race, Science and Politics)
an essay on holism, invented and developed the idea of synergy at
lectures at Bryn Mawr College in 1941. Maslow had the only copy
which was to be published with the assistance of Margaret Mead in
1970.
Peter E. Pflaum Ph.D., Headmaster GLOBAL_VILLAGE_SCHOOLHOUSE
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I found in archives a copy of a draft of the Synergy book -
I found in archives a copy of a draft of the Synergy book -
The first e book that used links rather than footnotes.
It is written in HTML from word that was a MS program bought from a Dutch company. WYSIWYG what you see is what you get -
I was a part time futurist and did so much better than the engineers using Delphi models Really take a look - nothing
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Paradise on Earth?
Every warm tropical island and many scenic places call themselves “A Paradise on Earth”
This is very unlikely – there is no - utopia - Promised Land – but only never-never land - end of the rainbow – You and I are not going to Xanadu, Shanghai-la, and the garden of Eden and because you know how that turned out.
There is always a rub.. nothing is perfect – here comes the double whammy of the romance and Paradise LOST... dreams shattered and pending bills to pay.
So dream on oozy ship of state – great dreams strong and great, as they crash on the rocks of how things are in reality –
Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State!
Sail on, O Union, strong and great!
Humanity with all its fears,
With all the hopes of future years,
Is hanging breathless on thy fate! Longfellow
–Level one: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. It has to do with appearances and performance. That was a beautiful .. hit, run, jump, a song, a talk, a sermon, trick. A good looking man, beautiful woman, we know what we like. Earth tones – pastels brown and yellowish
Systems dysfunction – not so beautiful
the clash of cultures – expectations and reality
1.the state or quality of being real. Just A=A it is what I say it is no more or less
2.resemblance to what is real. It walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, but is a real duck – real ducks don't quack (only females males hiss)
3.a real thing or fact. Fact = evidence not opinion – not personal and not a consensus but proven by independent data – such as evolution – global warming – communism doesn't work
4.real things, facts, or events taken as its whole; state of affairs: the reality of the business world; rationalizing to escape reality or not very real at all but only common knowledge and common sense which maybe true or false, the statements of the lawyers is not evidence. I think I know what I know, it's in the manual – I think I know what I don't know – the market is not what ever the reasons given for ups and downs – but what about the unknown unknowns?
Keeping up appearances......
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/metastuff/wonder/ch7.html A Mad Tea Party
Level two
Good is about outcomes – a transitive verb; good book, good dog, good leader, good idea, good product or services that are well designed (pretty) and performance. Blue colors light and dark
Is not so GOOD – material limitations – in paradise there are no Walgreens or Walmarts, supplies are different – and services limited – Roads and transport bad so you need your own set of wings – visas or residency is a headache - money and banking troublesome God's Government is dysfunctional as the Vatican, a constant crisis between Michael and Lucifer; there are vast inequalities, life among the quick and the dead is not fair
Level 3: NOT SO TRUE:
Level three:
What is true for you my not be true for me, we all have our own sense of truth in context of who and where we are “where you stand depends on where you sit” Will you be you be true (faithful) for ever? The concept of TRUE as an essence that does not depend on anything else but whole of itself. Not very practical but essential if we want to go from information and skill to understanding and knowledge, mastery, meritoriousness that creates quality from the inside out. Color orange to red crimson
There are black(4) death and white(5) faith but these levels but not for apprentices, accolades learning being and becoming by practice and paying attention.
Then gold (6) of reincarnation or born again
An essence IS something but not a thing, god is not a person or object but a holy ghost that exists independently of ideas concerning it. Therefore can't be tied down but float endlessly in the ether of dark matter and energy.
An essence that exists independently of all other things and from which all other things derive: the basic, real, and invariable nature of a thing or its significant individual feature or features: Freedom is the very essence of our democracy.
Since the words freedom and democracy do not have an agreed reference – you just know it when you see it like pornography .
2. a substance obtained from a plant, drug, or the like, by distillation,infusion, etc., and containing its characteristic properties inconcentrated form.
3. an alcoholic solution of an essential oil; spirit.
4. a perfume; scent.
5. Philosophy . the inward nature, true substance, or constitution ofanything, as opposed to what is accidental, phenomenal, illusory,etc.
So this is the beautiful, the good and the true tough love
Baby Born Under Bombs:
I was born in Barcelona during a complex three sided war in the Generaladad de Catatonia involved the anarchist, the republicans, the communist, and the nationalist (Fascist). ( See Orwell's Homage to Catatonia). I am the only native born America anarchist since the anarchist were the official government of a short lived independent Catatonia. My father, Irving Peter Pflaum, was the UPI reporter in Madrid during a three year battle, mother, Melanie Lowenthal, was with my older brother and her parents in Barcelona. In a month or so we took the last train from Spain to France and stayed in a small town near the border - Collioure that remains today a charming artist colony and fishing village.
Irv returned to Chicago to become the foreign editor of the Times (then the Sun-Times). I went to the University of Chicago in the last days of the Roberts Hutchin's program. I receive a form of a classical education, organized on Aristotle principles.
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BLUE Welcome Prepare your self, sit down, get yourself ready for the class, church, life, business, change, learning and doing
Blue is the first step, showing up and willing to listen and learn.
YELLOW Now pay attention to the lessonthe lesson is the content but people need more that just information.
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RE: It's a matter of choice:
The Grand Illusion
The only point is to live with a constructive happy illusions and avoid destructive unhappy ones. Beyond our common illusions is a magnificent illusion. We are not the center of the Universe. The sun does not stand still. We are a part of the animal kingdom, descended from the apes. We act on all kinds of impulses below our awareness, we confuse dreams, stories, and wishes with external reality. Our societies are often determined by social class, ruled by special interests, oppressive and unfair. Even the most hard nosed science has the illusion of power and understanding of profound mysteries, and the false belief in control and progress. There are great and wonderful benefits of all the illusions, of freedom, of justice, or "truth", and what good comes from shattering these dreams ? If one can choice ones illusion, or be retrained or programmed into beliefs, should they not be happy ones. Can I not prefer to avoid and ignore unhappy "truth" ? Where does mercy and the law error on the side of the angels.
A.H. Maslow in "The Farther Reaches of Human Nature" article "Synergy in the Society and Individual" An Esalen, Penguin Books 1976 ISBN 0 14 00.4265 2 Chapter 14, Page 191
Ruth Benedict (Patterns of Culture; Race, Science and Politics) an essay on holism, invented and developed the idea of synergy at lectures at Bryn Mawr College in 1941. Maslow had the only copy which was to be published with the assistance of Margaret Mead in 1970.
Benedict tried to overcome the idea of cultural equality ( not everything is equal or right ) and the doctrine of cultural relativity, what ever works for you is OK by me. Societies she said have a flavor, character and are not all equally functional. Some societies are "anxious", surly, nasty, aggressive, and hateful, this come from insecurity and causes low morale. ( such as the Chuckchee, the Ojibwa, The Dobu, and the Kwakiutl) Other societies were "nice" people, affectionate, kind, secure and with high morale. ( Zuni, Arapesh, The L(d)eKota, Eskimo ).
The critical element in the concept of synergy is aggression vs. cooperation. Synergy is where individual benefit and groups welfare are in sink. Farming, fishing, hunting can product mutual benefits of cooperation. Selfish self-interest (winner/losers) vs. unselfish, altruism (win/win).
Siphoning vs. funneling of wealth, use vs. ownership, Comforting vs. Frightening Religion, high energy or low energy institutions, are characteristics of synergy, where are we ? We have had a out break of win/lose - me and mine - the hell with the hind most, winner take all, activity. This discourages the losers, causes aggression, and is socially dysfunctional. A few institutions maintain high energy but the society is winding down. Synergy is spirit and systems for successful cooperation, institutional means of using aggression (learning for conflict), and rewards for all from social success (tide lifts all boats).
RE: Personal responsibility: (and character)
In the Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevski describes a scene where the Grand Inquisitor interviews Christ who has returned to Earth in the 16th Century. He tell Jesus that ordinary people just aren't up to the challenge of making up their own minds and finding their own way to salvation.
Therefore, the Church takes it upon itself, at the sure loss of their own souls - to giving them only part of the way. The Inquisitor knows he can't save souls by formulas and ritual. But this is all people understand and it would be cruel and dangerous to take illusions away from them. Jesus is just going to have to die again - maybe it can be different next time.
All Ideologies say the same thing - we know better - do this or that and all will be well. People like that. Freedom is not much fun it carries responsibilities.
No one can impose freedom on another. Their is no solution from above - right - left - center - The freedom is a state of mind. I think, at the moment, it takes magic. The other text is Wallace the Death and Rebirth of the Seneca.
When the current power structure doesn't work there are ghost cults and belief in magic. The way of the Sufi - is to be in the world but not of it - people need - leadership - hope - guidance - but also freedom to be stupid and wrong. The "fakir" can be different things to different people and appear to be what is not - and at the same time not have any doubts about what is real and what is "illusion". The magician know its a trick and doesn't belief in magic. This is the way to power - but it's not easy.
Martin Luther King says in the I have a Dream speech - One day my little children will be judged - not by the color of their skin but the contents of their character. For those that want rights (back, gay, women, fat, etc) I say that day has come. I do not judge you by the color of your skin, who you sleep with, your sex or gender but the contents of your charter. The Rodney King (no relative) rule "Can't we just get along." The planet and our souls need attention. The moral and political system needs leaders - let's focus on the prize, folks. The current word is "Sustainable";
The only point is constructive happy illusions and destructive unhappy ones, beyond our illusions is a greater illusion. - In general system terms biological systems tend to exponential growth only restricted by negative feedback - (Like in Central Africa). Balance is a dynamic process of each genetic organism pushing its limits and being pushed back by environmental factors and competition. Human evolution through social technology has temporarily pushed the limits on a planetary scale. The Club of Rome report in the 1960's may not be wrong only a little off in timing. (Limits to Growth = sudden collapse of whole systems )
There are no moral problems, or political problems, or economic problems, scientific or technical problems but real problems - which come with all these considerations. For academic and technical reasons, we have divided reality up into departments. (one problem is that the liberal arts have been pushed out by specialist) The blind are feeling the elephant - with CAT scanners, satellites, remote probes, macro and micro models - but they do not understand the nature of elephants?
Edward O. Wilson - Socio-biology argues that there are genetic programmed groves - like language. One major grove in the troop or clan or human group. The natural size of this group us under 80 members. Groups over a certain size become impersonal. The solution to almost everything is decentralization. A Global economy and ecology but people making decision in small groups, in neighborhoods, in regional organizations, as small as possible. This was called community action and self help projects.
Intervention - receivership - mandate - what ever you call is an answer when all else fails. We do not live in and Island home - but are part of all humanity - a community of nations. Global problems will not go away and can not solve themselves. The General Assemble has been very shy of intervention - there are a number of members in bad shape themselves - but without the cold war a East-West agreement is hard to stop. Russia wants UN cover for intervention in areas of the USS-was that are in chaos. We want UN cover in Haiti, and international caretakers after we take over. Such a caretaking operation needs to be in place for years - Their are no easy and quick answers in a country without independent institutions - infrastructure - tradition of law and civil administration - poor - illiterate and independent.
The ecological - environment conditions in Haiti and parts of Central Africa - can be the cause - The reason for intervention is not just political, or refugees, or humanitarian but to stem a ecological disaster.
There are good people working today in Rwanda and Haiti - they are doing what they can - what more could be expected of them. What more do we expect of ourselves? I have suggested there are first principles and they can be applied to work toward improvements in real situations (there are no answers or solutions only some actions that do more good than harm). I would like to work on this is a non-directive group of about a dozen.
RE: Books and materials a REVIEW:
Covey, S.R. "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" Record (1991), Covey Leadership Center PO BOX 19008, Provo, UT, 84605-9925 1-800-655-6839 Audio Tapes and video tape materials
Wallace, Anthony F.C "The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca," New York Vintage Books 1972
Bennett, William John "The De-valuing of America New York Summit Books 1992
Deming, W. E. (1986). Out of the Crisis. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Handy, Charles The Age of Unreason - Harvard Business school Press 1989
Maslow, National Training Center Higher Reaches of Human Behavior and Motivation B-values
Fiske, Edward B. Smart Schools, Smart Kids, Why Do Some Schools Work (Simon & Schuster, New York 1991)
Frankl, Victor "Man's Search for Meaning"
Reich, Robert B. The Work of Nations: preparing ourselves for the 21 st Century capitalism (New York, A.A. Knopf 1991) The Next American Frontier(New York, Times Books, 1983)
Senge, P.M. The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization (New York, Doubleday 1990)
Sergiovanni, T.J. Moral Leadership, Getting to the Heart of School Improvement (San Francisco Jossey-Bass 1992) and Moore, J.H. Schooling for Tomorrow (Boston: Allyn & Bacon) 1989
- Facts follow vision -
Logos, pathos, ethos - the bringing together of brain knowledge (ideas in the head - many of which are illusions ) body knowledge ( feeling safe and secure enough to explore new worlds) being in touch - and spirit - that which motivates us beyond ourselves and give meaning and purpose to all activity.
The global context - Earth values?
How much of our time, our lives is spent on activities of our own determination, doing what we determined to do, actions selected with our own purposes and goals in mind, time and effort spent with a firmness, perseverance, sense of mission, based on our own volition and choice. Not much ! The question is how to expand the area where we govern ourselves, where we have control, where we have a real free choice.
We are controlled by socialization. We filter our world with many screens. We understand only the information, propaganda, greed, desires, passions, needs, loves, hates, fears, false ideas, demands and expectations of others; by their prejudice and limited perceptions, by the limits of our knowledge and skills, by events, the environment, biology, mortgages, car payments, and the boss and society's demands. It's not so easy to gain command of our selves and our lives. We are in a waking dream, sleep walking, unaware of whole ranges of choices and possibilities.
For the 35,000 years of human culture, people knew the forces that controlled their lives and went with the flow. They knew in their glands and in their entrails that they were part of a larger force field, one element of the life force, a part of a tradition going before and coming after. It would be crazy to think you could force your will on nature and the gods, on the spirits that surround you. The `spirit man' taps into a flow of the universe, he does not make personal choices. If he uses `the force' for himself it doesn't work and he loses `the power'.
The industrial, political, social, scientific revolution of modern times is based on a false, too thin idea of freedom, choice, power and control. The more we try to force our petty needs and desires as THE be all and end all of social and ecological existence the less power and less control we have and the system breaks down. Most of our problems, crime, poor schools, un-wed mothers, dysfunctional families, stupid politics, dumb media, decline in the meaning of language, thought and action; all this is do to the breaking of the bands of biology. We have tried over reaching evolution for temporal and false hopes. We all know that.
Power comes from integration, from mobilization of focus, of facing ourselves as we are, from finding true self beyond self, from sounds, from music, from being rock, water, air, sky, stars, plants, reptile, hunter, mixed bag of biology that we are. We all know we get jerked around, get our strings pulled, put up a false front, pretend, avoid, become angry, lose control. For 35,000 years culture has built systems of integration of the human spirit into larger wholes. That is the power of Japan, that is the force field of good schools, communities, and larger spirits. Freedom comes for within the bands but not of the bands. Tribal limitations need to be integrated not ignored. That's not easy but has been done a 1000 times in a 1000 ways.
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Understanding comes from practice of good habits, caring about the result, wanting to do better so we need the next step
RED Think again - there maybe new ideas, challenges, confessions; remorse the act of contrition
RED Think again - there maybe new ideas, challenges, confessions; remorse the act of contrition
if you think you have all the answers, that there is only one right way, are afraid to go out on your own or speak up, nothing interesting is going to happen. We all need a little humble pie, a little perspective on what's important. To get perspective we need the next step:
BROWN It's OK, forgive yourself and others, the act of absolution grounding, centered I'm OK, your OK.
I know who I am, what's important to me, my family, my community and country, my values. I can't be jerked around and will hang in there for what I believe. In order to get a well grounded set of valuesSEE STYLES PAGE we need the next step:
WHITE The peace that passes all understanding, you have come into the family of believers.
We can't just make up anything that suits us at the moment. We need some universal and long lasting truth, beauty and wisdom. We need to place ourselves in a meaningful relationship with the universe so we mirror reality from out there, inside out, we become a mirror. To make the wine the grapes must be squashed, emptied. To be a mirror, a true reflection requires a smooth surface, ground down. To learn new habits we must empty ourselves of false belief but to do that we need the next step.
BLACK, reunion, union, quiet means over coming the fear of failing, failing, even death itself.
GREEN remember - you have courage, see you have a medal, a testimonial, a degree, honors to remind you to be honorable, because sometimes we forget
CLEAR beyond reminders, rewards, living in a corrupt and petty world without becoming that way - being in the world but not of the world.
What does the Mass of St. Benedict, the book of common prayer, boot camp, the Canterbury tales, Stephen Covey, and the Blue Lodge have in common ?
The Seven steps...
Hermes of Egypt, Mary the Hebrew, Democritus of Greece, Morienus
of Rome, Avicenna (Ibn Sina) of Arabia, Albertus Magnus of Germany, Arnold of Villaneuve of France, Thomas Aquinas of Italy, Raymond Lully of Spain, Roger Bacon of England, Melchoir Cibienis of Hungary, Anonymous Sarmata (Michael Sendivogius ) of Poland. Christians associated with St. Augustine and St. John of the Cross (Palacios) St. John the Baptist - the wool carter and Jesus as a Teacher. (Hallaj)
of Rome, Avicenna (Ibn Sina) of Arabia, Albertus Magnus of Germany, Arnold of Villaneuve of France, Thomas Aquinas of Italy, Raymond Lully of Spain, Roger Bacon of England, Melchoir Cibienis of Hungary, Anonymous Sarmata (Michael Sendivogius ) of Poland. Christians associated with St. Augustine and St. John of the Cross (Palacios) St. John the Baptist - the wool carter and Jesus as a Teacher. (Hallaj)
Dante, Robinson Crusoe, Chaucer, William Tell, Freemasons, Tarot Cards,
Arabist School of Montpellier (Jews from Spain) Medicine - Dr. D. Campbell) The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Lawrence of Arabia) Abu Bakr, Umar, Ali, Bilal, Ibn Riyah, Abu Abdullah, Salman the Persian (Zoroastrians)
The Rose, Rosicrucians, Rosary from the Spanish illuminist (Saracens the Reciter) Jungian archetypal from Ibn El-Arabi (Modern Man in Search of a Soul" C.C. Jung) Robert Graves "The Crowning Privilege"
Arabist School of Montpellier (Jews from Spain) Medicine - Dr. D. Campbell) The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Lawrence of Arabia) Abu Bakr, Umar, Ali, Bilal, Ibn Riyah, Abu Abdullah, Salman the Persian (Zoroastrians)
The Rose, Rosicrucians, Rosary from the Spanish illuminist (Saracens the Reciter) Jungian archetypal from Ibn El-Arabi (Modern Man in Search of a Soul" C.C. Jung) Robert Graves "The Crowning Privilege"
"Mankinds' moral sense is not a strong beacon light, radiating outward to illuminate in sharp outline all that it touches. It is, rather, a small candle flame, casting vague and multiple shadows, flickering and sputtering in the strong winds of power and passion, greed and ideology. But brought close to the heart and cupped it one's hands, it dispels the darkness and warms the soul." James Q. Wilson ************************************************************ RE: Humor #1 Scholars I am asked "are you the secret teacher?" "Yes, I am." I say "But you don't know anything about Sufi teaching." they say. "That's right - but that's the secret."
A Sufi camping one night put a bottle under his head for a pillow. His student said "surely that is going to be too hard?" "as an ordinary bottle, Yes," the Sufi said " but I am going to stuff it with straw before I put my head on it."
A computer translation system is set up for the Russian Republic - the message is sent "The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak." The terminal in Moscow quickly types " The Vodka is ready but the meat is devitalized."
Time fly s like an arrow but
Fruit Flies like Bananas (Chompsky)
Unconsidered Trifles = Neglected Puddings
A famous Professor was demonstrating, before fellow-members of the learned Academy, a remarkable discovery. First he took three flies out of a match box. Then he commanded them to fly three times around the table. Then. on his command, they jumped five times. Finally they danced a silent tap dance on the table, their /images magnified through a gigantic apparatus devised for the purpose of making such demonstrations visible to a large audience.
The onlookers were spellbound. "and now," said the scholar, "I will give you the real demonstration. It is the illustration of my discovery." He took the flies and placed drops of honey on their feet, sticking them to the table. Then he shouted "FLIES JUMP!" The flies went on licking the stick stuff. "And that ladies and gentlemen," concluded the Professor "demonstrates that flies, when their feet are covered in honey, cannot hear!"
A whole band of Sufis were being admitted to heaven. Each was admitted without any ceremony, the doors simply closed and open for the next. Right at the end came a scholar, with a reverent look and majestic gait, full of confidence. He was the most respected academic of his age. As he step forward the gates swing wide, the trumpets sounded, there was tremendous applause from the assembled multitude. The shining figure of St. Michael himself came to escort him within. "This is most gratifying", said the scholar, " to know that the learned are recognized for their importance. But why all this ceremony?" "Well", said St. Michael, "it is something of an occasion. You see, this is the first time that we have had an academic among us.."
Idries Shah - Octagon Press ******* WELLNESS SEMINARS Issue No. 1 August 1994 INSTITUTE OF HUMAN RESOURCES 225 Robinson Road New Smyrna Beach (P.O. Box 2176) FL 32069 (904) 428-1355
DR. PETER E. PFLAUM
Human Potential Training and Education: This is a unique and highly successful program of human development. Participants learn how to integrate their personalities, solves personal problems and develop more powerful interrelations with others. Who should attend? Anyone who wants to live a better life and gain control over their lives will benefit from these programs. Counselors, teachers, supervisors, parents, religious people, couples, students, just interested people. The Teacher (Guide) is Peter E. Pflaum, Ph.D. who has twenty years of experience and practice with his unique system. Others will enrich the Yoga, and other special methods (Zen).
WELLNESS SEMINAR: THE BODY - Summary: Stage one: The practice is to work directly on the stoppages - the blocks - then rational thought can begin to solve problems - not before. People didn't talk their way into blocks and can't talk them selves out of their problems. The words such as; centered, balance, grounded, mean some thing in practice. You do it, not talk about it. The Way to Vibrant Health by Alex and Leslie Lowen is based on the process of increasing the life force. New energy is released by proper respiration and metabolism. The new energy is great for lasting weight control.
The mind and body are identical, one is a reflection of the other. How you feel effects how you think and how you think effects how you feel. ( Norman Cousins interesting book on Health - Bill Moyers series on public T.V. Benison on Stress are good examples.) Level One (Steps 1 to 9) Each session contains a warm up, a lesson from a 350-page work book, individual and group exercises.
1.) Getting in touch - breath
2.) Getting in Touch - metabolism - (great for weigh control)
3.) Bioenergetics - (Alexander Lowen) grounding - charging
4.) Self-possession and self- expression - being in touch
5.) The Exercises - getting loose - getting the energy flows unblocked.
6.) The expressive Exercises and Gestalt - Feelings (mind - the body)
7.) Sexual exercises (optional) massage and setting up a regular schedule.
8.) Autogenic - relaxation techniques
9.) Meditation and Imagination *
Alexander Lowen, Bioenergetics - (Harper & Row) a form of Gestalt - Autogenic and other names (Mind as Healer, Mind as Slayer by Pelletier, Kenneth) and Wilhelm Reich - Every "Shaman" I know has a simple and direct approach.
Emotions are feeling - feelings are NOT thoughts - they are physical. (Thoughts exist in the brain but I am talking about the fight/flight syndrome, a series of body reaction to emotions, This has been called the Stress syndrome - )
THE MIND - Stage two: IN TOUCH WITH FEELINGS -
INDEPENDENT TO INTERDEPENDENT Out of touch means not only with our feeling but with reality. We are not conscious of how uptight we are, how afraid, how uncertain. As in a popular ad with the kid inside who wants the frosted side, we are out of touch with the "child within ," we fail to communicate with our spouses, our kids, our students, or communities. Our behavior is established in the "dream world" - the sub or un-awareness - most of the forces that controls our lives are out of sight and out of mind.
INDEPENDENT TO INTERDEPENDENT Out of touch means not only with our feeling but with reality. We are not conscious of how uptight we are, how afraid, how uncertain. As in a popular ad with the kid inside who wants the frosted side, we are out of touch with the "child within ," we fail to communicate with our spouses, our kids, our students, or communities. Our behavior is established in the "dream world" - the sub or un-awareness - most of the forces that controls our lives are out of sight and out of mind.
The "real" world is an illusion created by social norms, language, advertising, political interests, etc. The real world is in our dreams. For those who don't know, this is hard to believe but when known is obvious. Did you ever have a tightness that you only identified when it let go? You say, I didn't know it was so tight. You get used to being in knots, off balance, out of tune.
Stress and THOUGHT control:
Level two - getting control of your thoughts -
10.) Thought stopping - assertiveness training
11.) More effective - listening - parent - teacher - person
12.) Dealing with Irrational ideas and passions
13.) Coping skills - proactive
14.) The seven habits of Effective People (Stephen Covey)
15.) Biofeedback - nutrition - advanced exercises (Yoga)
16.) Getting unstuck - independence - freedom from reactions
17.) Yoga (Shalom) Love - cloud - visualizations and breath
18.) No Fatigue, no sore muscles, perfect posture, the sounds
19.) Introduction to Zen and the art of paying attention
Stage Three: BEYOND SELF -
four - DREAMS and UNION Magic is real - real is magic. THE SOUL - Magic is the perception of forces AND REALITIES that we may not be aware of today. Life is full of tricks - things are different from what they appear to be. For example physical matter - the stars - other people often give false impressions - The President - social conventions - et al. How do I know? I don't. You have to practice - gain body knowledge - and feel what you feel. How do we treat the problems and the world - by practice - by example - by doing - not talking? We will work directly on the emotional base of behavior and the nature of being.
STUDIES ON THE WAY - the path of knowing Level three - The path to knowledge 20.) The world of illusions and /images
21.) The Aesop fables and Sufi tales - the three levels of knowledge. Reading and meditations 22.) Morals, character, independence - beyond self - loves
23.) Total experience - peak experiences Discovering Values: To learn new values you will experiences new feelings or remember feeling you have forgotten.
24.) See twice - Peter Weir's "The Last Wave" - Rhino-Home
25.) Wallace's "The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca," (In paper reprint from Random House about $10) read it, twice? This will be our introduction to the dream world.
26.) Steven Halpern - Music Halpern Sounds, Visualization of the perfect self -
27.) Relaxation tape - to take home 28.) Yogi Shalom - Charles Schoelen, a set of tapes. The first one is on LOVE, then the rock, the cloud and other meditations.
29.) Herrigel, Eugen ZEN (Zen in the Art of Archery). The Method of ZEN (McGraw-Hill)- and/or OM Creative Meditations - by Alan Watts - (Celestial Arts, MillBrae, CA) Electronic Education Program P.O. Box, Mill Valley, CA 94941 A couple of Sufi books -
THE ANSWER IS MAGIC: Level four: THE DREAM TIME - 30.) Out of touch - The dream world - reality - illusions When people have profound psychological problems - the general belief is that you need to deal with the emotional basis as the cause. While there are many theories of Psychological practice, we focus on direct experience - by exercises and psychodrama, rather than analysis, talking or running away. To help someone with a stutter you practice the stutter until it is under control.
We are going to learn mind control. Certainty for our Time:
31.) LAWS OF PHYSICS: Imagine the atom; the core of particles held together by great force, the fields of electrons vibrating in their courses. The electrons can only operate in certain fixed Quantum, they can be in only certain ways in relationship to each other and the nucleus. These fixed ways allow for chemistry. The elements can combine with Certainty depending on the fixed nature of physics. God cannot do things against his nature. The laws of nature are not imposed from outside but re side within the nature of things.
32.) SCIENCE: The ways the elements combine, the very order of the Cosmos itself defines the possible. Science and technology are doing the possible. The difference between alchemy and chemistry, astronomy and astrology, is the knowledge of the possible. Knowing, some thing of the ways of nature is knowledge.
33.) IDEOLOGY: The evil and false pride that people have when they think their ideas are equal to the ways of nature. The ways of the universes exist in a grain of sand. The natural processes in a drop of water are infinitely more powerful than any human belief. Science endeavors to put our beliefs in tune with reality. The electrons change their quanta in fixed patterns. They do not move through the intermediate space. We cannot go from here to there without passing through the intermediate space. Particles do not conform to our concepts but we try to understand the reality as best we can.
34.) FALSE PRIDE: It is a source of evil and false pride to foolishly believe our ideas of nature are just relative. The " anything goes approach" and "do you own thing," encourages the belief that anything is possible. We must live with the really possible not in illusions and fancy. The covenant is the fixed law of nature where possible becomes real. Reality is the wisdom of Gods' creation, his own presence. Human wisdom shrinks before the infinite. The unity of all things appears in the billions of stars and atoms, the Eternal essence. I am God, you are Gods also is a rather special way. We are perfect in harmony with the universe and nothing, a small spark outside the rules of nature. Is there a contradiction here - our ideas are not reality - so how can we know God?
RE: Arrogant and foolish: I have false pride and am immensely stupid. I believe that my pathetic ideas are a authentic representation of reality. How could my shallow thoughts reflect the order of nature itself. How could my thoughts comprehend the true nature of life, physics, the cosmos, time, and even my own being. To think my ideas are reality, is indeed most arrogant and foolish. It is said that the beginning of wisdom is awareness of ones ignorance. I am worse than rocks, than beasts and savages because I try to impose my foolishness on the world.
I come to believe that what I think is - it is indeed a "grand Illusion" of false power and fake glory. I even believe that - that is all there is - nothing more! I could try to allow my being, mind, body and spirit rest in its own existence. I could come to terms with myself but I am too busy with needs and desires. I could come into some kind of meaningful relationship with creation if... I could feel the proper respect for the other but I am too afraid of letting go of my false faces, defenses, passions, and hidden doubts. Sophist are those who adjust, subconsciously perhaps, their ideas to their interests. They reflect the popular beliefs and glow in reflected self-admiration. They think they are smart because of the praise of fools. I am a sophist, and bask in the false light of praise. I think the thoughts that will be rewarded and reject hard truths that will get me into trouble. I am devious, untrue to my self or others, can not be trusted, I forget the little wisdom, I once knew, I flounder in new and fashionable theories.
I could be more than a beast and less than an angel but am afraid of what others might think. I am caught up in angers, prejudices, tricks, and overwhelming greed. I want things my way are refuse to listen to advice. I will do anything to get what I want, first my self deception then by fooling others. I subdue or seduce the unwary and fool myself. I am indeed arrogant and foolish - I am humanity.
35.) REMEMBER - The particles of corporal existence do not have a personality. Reality is not confined to man. If we are transformed into vanquished space and are no longer self but a new being, we can come close to looking into the face of God. If this is not clear it is because it is very difficult to express. The truth is said often and many different ways but while many hear only a few, listen. 36.) It is difficult to explain to the Bat who lives only at night and avoids the bright sun what shadows are like. Maybe some time in your life you knew you were in tune - had certain know ledge of being - Being just what you are, MASLOW in the Further Reaches of Human Behavior explored this aptitude. He called it transcendence, beyond self to being or B values. He said it gave life meaning and purpose. Effective people knew the meaning of B-values and therefore had focus and energy that created a successful life. Beyond self. So simple and so hard. Can you explain to the blind about the colors of the world? The drunken, desire their drunkenness and do not desire the truth. If is not this or that: then what is it?
37.) The Perfect Truth: To go from the possible (the ways of nature ) to the essential is the spring of reason. First we gain true perception and then a sense of being and passing through and beyond personality to real character. We can be worse than beasts, fiends, stones or storms - we have the avarice, envy, pride opposes knowledge. We do not overcome these by an act of will but by rites of passage. In Joseph Campbell's hero with 1000 Faces, these "all too human" passions and monsters are passed in the mythical JOURneys in the underworld (clearly a representation of our reptile unconscious minds). The Hero emerges from thinking and feeling to being and knowing.
38.) BEING READY: There are few shortcuts. If you love God, God will love you. You are beloved, the union with all exists in you and all around you. In pure obedience, there is true freedom. When you are master then you are slave. You are the sweet fruit in the shell, ready to ripen, the suns warm beams has put us into the right stage of life. Our estate is prepared and we are ready. 39.) If this is obscure to you, it is meant to be clear. The vail of metempsychosis passes and you sees clearly the obvious - AH HA! The circle is complete, I am what I am, and feel good about it. (Union) The seal is broken and the secret reveled - it was here all the time but you weren't looking, you did not listen, I guess you were too busy with more important business. Faith and peace, and eternal wisdom are not so important? They require truth and justice and cannot be used for personal gain. They have no market value.
40.) The dream that becomes reality is in the union of mystic lore and the way. The doors are open, are you ready for no-existence. If you give up existence you will find it. If you cling to the things of life, you cannot pass this way. That is the myth of the "grateful dead." To win you must surrender, to triumph, give up. You all know that. The phantoms pass away, nothing but the truth remains. THE UNION Comes when the possible have passed its ordered limits and become the essential - science has become knowledge and certainty. (This is beyond 40 and me at the moment). Who firmly grasps the mystic meaning of the union of possible and the promise of the essential has a higher wisdom than plain mortals. More is less, far is near, we are no longer afraid of our own shadows, the fire has no terror and the book of changes.
(To be continued - Mahmud Shabistri "
The Secret Garden," only 57 pages - A Dutton Paperback) Be Careful - Notes from The Secret Garden: Mahmud Shabistari, (E.P. Dutton & Co, 1974)
Sufism is not a religion. The Sufi practice is a the science of man, or the "Science of Certainty." In most societies, most of the time, the Sufi could not find acceptance or a fair hearing. Any ideas that were not devoted to the service of the state and the prevailing ideology were regarded as not only odd but dangerous treason, and was feared as subversive. The Moslem cults, the brotherhood, and many others are mixtures. Will the real Sufi please stand up. Sufi cloaked their teaching and activities in the outward garb of religion.
The ability to pretend and remember what is image and what is real, is a critical Sufi art - but many cults came to believe the outside as inside. Sufis focused on cultural pursuits which in authoritian societies allows certain freedoms and contacts with different people. The Persian-speaking Sufi's dominated the classics, which became convert Sufi text books. The public forms of Sufism are imitations. The desire for fantasies led to groups and activities that are popular and acceptable to the dogmatic climate.
Imitation Sufis abounded. Scholars and the public are naturally confused on what is true Sufism and what is mystic popular imitations. The Christians have the same problem - the unreal imitations of Christ and popular but weaken practices. People want to believe that their "cult" has a special and secret way. Spain became a Sufi center in the Middle Ages, and still in the south reverberates in songs and stories. The spread of Culture from Spain and the Renascence brought Sufi practice to Europe. The Freemasons were partly based on these traditions. The Sufi have a special science in psychology and the study of man. All Sufi activity in the West until after WWI was private. Sir Richard Burton (1001 Nights) only saw imitation cults and did not know of the small private non-cultist Sufis. The Russo-Armenian philosopher Gurdjief published the first western text about a origin in Central Asia with links to the distant past, early forms of Christianity and the monasteries in the Hindu Kirsh. Ouspensky, a disciple, transmitted these ideas in lectures, demonstrations, and books. This became popular with the Kennedy crowd and actors.
Dr. Maurice Nicholl and Dr. Kenneth Walker used the psychologically-oriented to attempt a system of practice. The authors of the Blooms bury group brought Sufi ideas to literature which continues today by many writers - Borges, Lesing, Kipling and many more. The true Sufi potential was largely untouched. Sufi does not have authority figures, a or a set of customs or habits. It is more open than Zen and even more difficult to fix in place. Hadrat Sayed Idries Shah in the major book "The Sifis" brought light to the confused situation. His work has brought the Sufi tradition back into focus for the West. The all too human desire to have a talisman, a messianic figure who would transform the world is not true Sufi but many cults still seek such a ideal. Idries Shah would not confine himself to closed groups who thought they had key to wisdom. The desire to feel special, to have secrets, ceremonies and special
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Firm foundation the Basics - high standard test scores 80% or better;
Higher level thinking and problem solving;
Technology and communications saturation - lots of links and free enterpise
Inventive, creative - flexible - ( See John Dewey )Small - stable - smart - un-graded - individualized on-task focus of the one-room school house Mostly private, religious, charter, voucher schools and a few public "site based management" institutions ( See Fiske and Harlem schools in a school )
Higher level thinking and problem solving;
Technology and communications saturation - lots of links and free enterpise
Inventive, creative - flexible - ( See John Dewey )Small - stable - smart - un-graded - individualized on-task focus of the one-room school house Mostly private, religious, charter, voucher schools and a few public "site based management" institutions ( See Fiske and Harlem schools in a school )
Human resources are the critical prerequisite to the process of building wealth, prosperity and the civil open society. The reasons for the "Wealth of Nations" or the relative poverty of "backwardness" has to do with the character and skills of the population. Curiosity and a positive image of the future are the reasons for the industrial revolution, first, second and third. The religious and political changes in England and the Low Countries in the 15th century made for the possibilities of the modern world.
What is less well understood are the "qualitative" nature of human abilities. There are the following stages, each not replaced by the next advance but over-layered with each becoming dominate in turn but not replacing previous models. As canals and bicycles still play an important role in European transportation, augmented by trains, cars and planes.
The first level is the "skilled crafts" - a long apprenticeship with hands on methods produces a high level of abilities - Cathedrals with stained glass, Columbus, clocks, water wheels and the first tools and factories of the first industrial revolution. Education was literacy - Grammar schools and basic accounting, drafting and organizing shills.
In the 19th century, higher education in the Agricultural and Mechanical arts began to pay off. The newly unified Germany began to surpass England because of excellence in technical training while Great Britain stayed with the Classical educational process - founded on Latin and Greek rather than Science and Math.
The United States quickly adjusted to technical training but "trade schools" have always have low status compared to "liberal arts" college preparation. High level technical Universities such as Georgia Tech, MIT, Cal-Tech, IIT, Stanford and Polly -tech parts of the mega-universities have made extraordinary contributions to economic welfare in this country and world wide. The second industrial revolution of electrical, biological and chemical engineering is based on formal training in math and science. The MBA in business maybe useful in production of rational "corporate people" and culture. The majority of mangers still come from the technical, legal and accounting professions.
The third level of human skill for Century twenty-one has to do with creativity in a global communications technology. We still need skilled craft people, we need to improve basic literacy and grammar, enterprise, with science and technology in complex engineering tasks.
Computer people carry the unhappy title of "software engineer" because they are trying to fit into an older model of categories in human resource management. Is someone who creates games and innovative web practices doing arts or sciences or applied technology ? If you visit a trade show in the computer - consumer electronics - communications business you find new younger people doing new things with a "strange" mixture of backgrounds, including a lot of "rock and roll music" nationalities - and very unclear standards of higher education and training. Smart is as smart does - and "stupid is as stupid does".
Japan can not solve most of its basic economic problems.
Bank reform requires a fundamental shift from combines of firms centered around banks and holding each others shares to corporate capitalism within trading groups and well as between trading groups. This requires a change from the way Japan Inc. has worked since the beginnings of modernization. The government is a committee of high level administrators that work within the system and have very little control of the system.
There is no way to pay the costs of social security and medicare for those currently in the labor force.
The shift from income and payroll taxes to VAT ( consumption taxes ) will help, the nationalization of education and medicine could help. What would make a real difference is politically unlikely, what is politically possible is unlikely to do any good. The American political system can not take fundamental decisions in advance of crisis and slow to respond to important changes in the society.
Alan Greenspan, in his recent testimony to congress, repeated a lesson in basic economics. The economy welfare of any nation depends on three factors:
The skill and educational character of the labor force,
The capital stock the company and the society provides to make work productive
The ratio of fixed to variable costs of social overhead.
In a fully developed industrial society the costs of social security and health care are transferred to workers and the overhead of everything produced. As the population shifts from a pyramid to a column the social overhead costs become very high. The relative costs of work shifts to less developed, labor rich areas.
The long term investment in human and physical capital is the reason for increases in productivity - better trained people working smarter with better tools are the reasons for wealth or poverty. At the same time the cost of payroll taxes alone becomes higher than world wide base hourly wages.
How much each person, each hour’s labor, how much each unit of input produces in goods and services is directly related to the income from work and the return on investment. The machine that digs increases digging productivity and the wages of people with hand shovels or power equipment, airplanes increase travel productivity and the wages of wagon drivers or pilots, the word processor increases writing productivity, the Internet increases communication productivity. The cost per unit of computer power declines by half every 18 months ( Moore’s Law ) increases the whole of the economy’s efficiency.
The current period of growth with low inflation, where the labor force has growth by 300,000 a month, 4 million a year ( 3 % ) has been possible because of better trained women’s wide participation, more women are now in college than males and minority workers acting as a reserve along with moving jobs to lower costs areas of production and immigration.
The larger labor force has new and improved tools provided by the "information" revolution. Productivity in some areas of high technology have been very impressive. As we become more global, the labor force becomes global. Low skilled occupations move to low wage areas - China being the great labor pool.
Networks of product design, original equipment manufacture (OEM), distribution and marketing become more complex and integrated.
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Complex system are slow when adapting to changing environments and subject to periods of rapid degeneration and extinction.
Complex system are slow when adapting to changing environments and subject to periods of rapid degeneration and extinction.
Inter-connections:
Direct connection on complex networks. The number of connections increases exponentially on a global basis. Almost everything connects to almost everything else. What you see is that the most outstanding feature of life's history is a constant domination by bacteria. Very complex systems decrease rapidly in times of environmental instability and sudden change.
Direct connection on complex networks. The number of connections increases exponentially on a global basis. Almost everything connects to almost everything else. What you see is that the most outstanding feature of life's history is a constant domination by bacteria. Very complex systems decrease rapidly in times of environmental instability and sudden change.
The Internet Revolution: Disintermediation
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Benedict tried to overcome the idea of cultural equality ( not everything is right ) and the doctrine of cultural relativity, what ever works for you is OK by me. Societies she said have a flavor, character and are not all equally functional. Some societies are “anxious”, surly, nasty, aggressive, and hateful, this come from insecurity and causes low morale. ( such as the Chuckchee, the Ojibwa, The Dobu, and the Kwakiutl) Other societies were “nice” people, affectionate, kind, secure and with high morale. ( Zuni, Arapesh, The L(d)eKota, Eskimo ).
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