Exceptionally Performing Teams
0My own (company sponsored) research into ‘exceptionally performing teams’ exposed how BALANCE is the NATURAL substitute for TITLE-based organizational structure. The following is a summary of the TEAM research findings;
In about 1993, I maneuvered my way, in my work, to undertake a study of ‘exceptionally performing teams’. I had been asked to develop a workshop for producing managers [within a petroleum exploration and production operational setting] on ‘how better to invest in ‘information technology’. My idea was to explore exceptional team operations, to see how they were ‘drawing in technology’ into their operations, so that the investigation didn’t have to start from the various current strains of technology and specify ‘how these should be used’.
A lot of things fell out of this investigation, and a successful workshop was developed, which was run two or three times prior to truncation by a major company re-organization. But there was an important ‘philosophical finding’ that I was left ‘holding in my hands’, that needed to ‘go somewhere’, to be communicated and then more deeply understood, but I did not know where to take it, or exactly how to share it, since it was very subtle.
My early ‘retirement’ in March 1, 1996, was strongly influenced by my desire to ‘work on’ a continuing investigation into this ‘philosophical finding’ and developing ways to generally share it. One place I took it was to ‘Complexity’, the Journal of the Santa Fe Institute which was a new ‘university’ orienting to the ‘sciences of complexity’. This institute was created by scientists-philosophers who felt that universities were pre-occupied with ‘linear theory’ and that ‘nonlinear dynamics’ was being largely ignored.
This seemed like a very appropriate ‘home’ for my ‘orphaned’ philosophical finding and I tried to capture it in an essay entitled ‘Complexity and the ‘Learning Organization‘: Addressing team performance in new science terms’. The ‘new science’ referred to modern physics, relativity and quantum physics, which opened the door to ‘re-connecting’ the ‘team’ and the ‘environment’ that it was situationally included in, in the manner of [and this came to my attention later] Mach’s principle; “The dynamics of the inhabitants are conditioning the dynamics of the habitat at the same time as the dynamics of the habitat are conditioning the dynamics of the inhabitants.”
That is, the ‘orphaned philosophical finding’ I was left ‘holding in my hands’ was that the ‘identity’ of the exceptionally performing team ‘blurred’ by virtue of its building resonance into its interfacing with the world [with its host community; its suppliers, customers, service contractors, employee families etc.].
The orthodox ‘best practice teams’ were more like precision engines, ‘things-in-themselves’ with clear stand-alone identities and well defined component parts [employee roles] while the three teams that were identified as ‘exceptionally performing’ that we [myself and a colleague] ended up ‘investigating’ were distinguished by BREAKING ALL THE RULES, having thrown away their business cards [abandoned their defined credentials and position descriptions; i.e. their TITLES] and put the organization chart in the blender [The largest of the three teams, ‘team X’, was comprised of 150 members and used an unused aircraft hanger to have their ‘general assemblies’] . They had also blurred the interfacing between their ‘self’ and the ‘others’ they were engaging with, dragging portions of the activities of the others inside of their team operations and letting part of their own activities be drawn into the operations of the others. This was an operation in which everyone’s spirits soared. In fact, one of the hourly union workers who was made a full member of the team like everyone, extolled the process saying how happy he was to work in this team-X environment since it had ‘put his head back on his shoulders’.
[To put this person’s comment into context, hourly workers in typical operating situations are simply ‘told what to do’ and are not privy to what the operations are all about much less the business, and in team-X’s reinventing of itself, everyone was given instruction in all aspects of the operation, including the financial/business aspects, and union workers found themselves sitting beside engineers after hours, on their own hook, watching the vital statistics of the operation on computer monitors and using their on-site knowledge to kibitz on how to solve performance problems and devise performance improvements].
So the philosophical problem was at the same time a quasi-mathematical problem. As always, headquarters management scrutinized the production of all of the teams, giving rise to a ‘system performance’ curve as a function of ‘time’. This curve was outstanding in the case of the team under study, and seemed to be almost doubling the performance of the best ‘normal’ teams. Headquarters management, far from the teams themselves, were ecstatic and naturally wanted to promote the members of the team most responsible for this remarkably high production, and clone the team.
The members of the exceptional team realized that HQ management was ‘getting it wrong’, the high performance was not coming from them, the team components/members in the sense of the team as a ‘thing-in-itself’ with its own locally originating, internal process driven and directed ‘production’, … the exceptional performance was coming from the team’s deliberate attempt to be defined more from the outside-inward, by the needs of those they were engaging with. They were moving away from being locally defined; i.e. they were moving towards letting the defining of the team = ‘the universe expressing itself’, in the sense that the web of relational engaging they were included in was influencing them outside-inwardly at the same time they were influencing the relational web inside-outwardly [Mach’s principle].
What ‘the numbers said’ was clear in a historical graph of production. The production of ‘team X’ had climbed up to where it was doubling the performance. Even after describing the ‘complex source’ of this rising production, headquarters management regressed to the view that the rise in production had to be attributed to ‘improvements in the team’; i.e. improved skills and commitment of the team members, improved cooperation, teamwork, synergy within the team, improved leadership in the team. In other words, the increase in production, they attributed to the team seen as a ‘thing-in-itself’ with its own locally originating, internal components and processes driven and directed productive behaviour.
Headquarters’ management selected those team members who most impressed them, promoted them and transferred them to other operations so as to ‘clone’ this high performing ‘team X’. But it didn’t happen. It turned out that it had been a rare exception in team X’s middle management having let team X ‘break all the rules’ and blur their positional role plays within the team and blur the boundaries where the team operations ended and the supplier, customer, service contractor operations began. The middle management in the case of team-X not only provided this umbrella protection beneath which team X was breaking all the rules of engagement, but in their [middle management’s] interfacing with headquarters management, they translated everything arising in the new mode of team play into the orthodox format thus presenting a continuous picture of what was going [in the usual numbers based format]. Team X could not be cloned because such umbrella protection and translation was a rare item and it had been a necessary prerequisite to what had been the spontaneous emergence of the exceptionally performing ‘team X’.
The philosophical problem I was left holding on to was;
‘how does one explain that the source of ‘local’, ‘visible’, ‘material’ physical results derives from purely relational dynamics; i.e. from influences that are ‘non-local’, ‘non-visible’ and ‘non-material’ as seemed to be the case with ‘team X’?
HERE IS THE LAYOUT OF THE NEEDED WAVE-BASED WORKING STRUCTURE OF THE WORLD
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INTRODUCTION: to THE LAYOUT OF THE NEEDED WAVE-BASED WORKING STRUCTURE OF THE WORLD.
RIGHT NOW, we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS ARE USING A FORM OF LANGUAGE THAT IS FRAGMENTATATIVE, as Bohm has pointed out (as will be discussed in the body of this message that follows this INTRODUCTION). THIS FRAGMENTATION in our LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING IMPACTS OUR “AWARENESS” (are we intently engaging in a game of Bridge in the comfortable confines of a transatlantic ocean liner, or are inside of a metal torpedo rocketing through iceberg filled seas? EVIDENTLY we have the power of AWARENESS that is capable of multiple LEVELS OF AWARENESS.
For us WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS TO UNDERSTAND, COMPREHENSIVELY [AWARELY] WHAT IS GOING ON, WE HAVE TO SHIFT GEARS (IN OUR LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING) FROM OUR USE OF TOO-SIMPLE BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC OF THE EXCLUDED MEDIUM … TO LESS SIMPLE NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC of the EXCLUDED MEDIUM. This UPGRADE FROM THING-BASED LANGUAGE TO FLOW-BASED LANGUAGE GETS US OUT OF OUR CONSERVATIVE-LIBERAL POLARIZED HEAD-BUTTING STANDOFF which has us ARGUING about the REALITY that “WE ARE ACTUALLY INCLUDED IN”. WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS SPLIT INTO TWO POLAR OPPOSED AWARENESS CAMPS that we label CONSERVATIVE and LIBERAL, an EGO-based SPLIT deriving from the notion of LOCAL AUTHORING of actions and DEVELOPMENTS that DOES NOT EXIST in indigenous aboriginal cultures with their sense of inclusion within an ALL-INCLUDING TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM which is akin to a STRANDS IN A WEB situation wherein everything is INTERCONNECTED and INTERDEPENDENT (as captures in the aphorism MITAKUYE OYASIN [everything is related]). EVIDENTLY, there are DIFFERENT STROKES for DIFFERENT FOLKS, as has been described by ERICH JANTSCH and his “THREE LEVELS OF AWARENESS” (TRANSFORMATION is the LEAST SIMPLE LEVEL followed by the LIBERAL LEVEL (where we are all interdependent and thus it makes sense to coordinate and form ALLIANCES, followed by the SIMPLEST AWARENESS LEVEL, the CONSERVATIVE LEVEL (where we are all INDEPENDENT) and stuck in a SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST competition.
WE ARE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS, because we assume that we are INDEPENDENT, see ourselves as being CONSTRAINED TO ONE OR THE OTHER OF THE TWO SIMPLEST AWARENESS LEVELS, THE CONSERVATIVE LEVEL (LOWEST AWARENESS LEVEL 3 WHERE WE ARE INDEPENDENT) AND/OR LIBERAL AWARENESS LEVEL 2 (NEXT TO LOWEST AWARENESS LEVEL WHERE IT IS NATURAL TO FORM ALLIANCES). THERE IS A STANDOFF HERE BECAUSE THESE TWO AWARENESS LEVELS ARE BOTH BINARY EITHER/OR OPPOSITE BASED LEVELS, AND BEING BINARY, OFFER NO OTHER LOGICAL POSSIBILITIES.
HOWEVER, BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC, IS NOT THE ONLY LOGIC IN EXISTENCE. For example, the expression “To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose” EXEMPLIFIES NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM that is INHERENT and PERVASIVE IN NATURE (capturing the WAVE-FIELD base).
BY SHIFTING FROM SIMPLE BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC of the EXCLUDED MEDIUM to LESS SIMPLE NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM (as comes naturally to indigenous aboriginals with their “WE ARE ALL STRANDS IN THE WEB OF LIFE” understanding, which affirms an INTERCONNECTEDNESS and INTERDEPENDENCE consistent with MODERN PHYSICS CONDENSATIONS OF THE ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM, we OPEN THE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING DOOR TO THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF AWARENESS, LEVEL 1 AWARENESS OF TRANSFORMATION.
While LEVEL 3 CONSERVATIVE AWARENESS is based on THE INDEPENDENT NATION “DOING ITS OWN THING”, LEVEL 2 LIBERAL AWARENESS is based on an ALLIANCE of COOPERATING AGENTS where the participants are NOT all like DONALD TRUMP who insists on having everything HIS WAY. CONSERVATIVES are ATTRACTED BY SIMPLE POWER OF LOCKSTEP UNITY, BY THE NON-COMPROMISING, SINGLE-MINDED POWER of LEVEL 3 AWARENESS, whereas LIBERALS are WILLING TO MAKE COMPROMISES SUPPORT BROADER BUT LESS EXPLICIT GOALS that allow COMPROMISES THAT CONSERVATIVES WILL NOT ALLOW. Because BOTH CONSERVATIVES and LIBERALS are in the habit of using SIMPLE BINARY LOGIC, there are ONLY TWO CHOICES BOTH OF WHICH ARE BINARY LOGIC BASED i.e. TO ORGANIZE AS A LIBERAL ALLIANCE of COOPERATING AGENTS OR TO ORGANIZE AS A CONSERVATIVE LOCKSTEP UNITY DIRECTED BY A SINGLE LEADER.
NOTE THAT THESE ARE BOTH BASED ON SIMPLE BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC OF THE EXCLUDED MEDIUM where the OPERATING UNIT sees itself as an EGO-based INDEPENDENT GROUP (independent of the overall populace) which RATES their PERFORMANCE STRICTLY ON THEIR OWN POWERS, hence the reference to “THE LOGIC OF THE EXCLUDED MEDIUM“ BUT WHAT ABOUT THE “NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC OF THE INCLUDING MEDIUM”?
The understanding of the MINER’S CANARY exemplies the LESS SIMPLE “BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM”. WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS tend to AUTOMATICALLY employ BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC of the EXCLUDED MEDIUM where situations crop up which need LOGIC based SORTING OUT, which is continually happening. NOTA BENE! indigenous aboriginal culture adherents AUTOMATICALLY use the LESS SIMPLE BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM, an example of which is “THERE IS TOWNING IN THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE”. This captures the understanding that (A) EVERYTHING IS IN CONTINUING FLUX, and (B) THERE IS A BOTH/AND RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN the TOWNING and the TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE which means that the TOWNING IS AN “INCLUDED FEATURE WITHIN THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE”. That is why we speak of a “BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM” as the STRUCTURE of this FEATURE (the TOWNING in the INCLUDING MEDIUM).
QUESTION: WHO HABITUALLY USES “BOTH/AND AND LOGIC OF THE INCLUDING MEDIUM?” ANSWER; MODERN PHYSICS, INDIGENOUS ABORIGINAL CULTURES, TAOISTS/BUDDHISTS and ADVAITA VEDANTA ADHERENTS.
COROLLARY QUESTION: WHO HABITUALLY USES “EITHER/OR LOGIC OF THE EXCLUDED MEDIUM?” ANSWER: JUDAISM, CHRISTIANITY and ISLAM.
WHAT CULTURAL DIFFERENCES DOES THIS DIFFERENT LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING USAGE PRACTICE LEAD TO?
THE USE OF THE BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM leads to the development of RESTORATIVE JUSTICE which is used in MODERN PHYSICS UNDERSTANDING OF REALITY, INDIGENOUS ABORIGINAL CULTURE, TAOISM/BUDDISM and ADVAITA VEDANTA. In this understanding, we see ourselves as CONDENSATIONS in an ALL-INCLUDING ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM (this has the BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM RELATION) which is the equivalent of STRANDS in the WEB understanding of indigenous aborginals (this also has the BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM).
When we employ this BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM in our THOUGHT and LANGUAGE, we are understanding that WE ARE ALL RELATED (INTERCONNECTED AND INTERDEPENDENT) as with STRANDS IN A WEB and CONDENSATIONS in the ALL-INCLUDING ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM.
THIS IS WHERE “RESTORATIVE JUSTICE COMES FROM, because as A STRAND IN THE WEB, WE CAN MOVE IN A MANNER THAT ALLOWS DISSONANCE TO UNFOLD (as when we DO NOT JUMP INTO THE RAGING STREAM TO SAVE THE CHILD THAT HAS SLIPPED IN AND IS ABOUT TO BE SWEPT OVER THE FALLS).
STIR UP VIOLENCE or WHERE WE CALM DOWN (SUBSUME) VIOLENCE and SUBSUME DISSONANCE, and thus… AND WHERE WE CULTIVATE HARMONY
There can be NO AUTHORING CREDIT and NO AUTHORING BLAME. The THREE+ BODY PROBLEM IS ALWAYS OPERATIVE WITH STRANDS IN THE WEB.
“They were upright and correct without knowing that to be so was righteous. They loved one another without knowing that to do so was benevolence. They were sincere without knowing that to do so was loyalty. They kept their promises without knowing that to do so was to be in good faith. They helped one another without thought of giving or receiving gifts. Thus their actions left no trace and we have no records of their affairs” – Chuang Tzu
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to ORGANIZE “EITHER” as a MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING HIGH PRESSURE TRANSMITTER “OR” as a FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING SEDUCTIVE RECEPTOR is to SPLIT INTO TWO SEPARATE PIECES THE PEAK and TROUGH of the WAVE. That is the MISTAKE of CONSERVATIVES and LIBERALS THAT PUTS THEM INTO NEVER-ENDING POLARIZED OPPOSITION. THEY MUST ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE CONTAINING SPACE IS NOT EMPTY BUT FULL AND IS THE SOURCE OF BOTH PEAK AND TROUGH.
“Space is not empty. It is full, a plenum as opposed to a vacuum, and is the ground for the existence of everything, including ourselves.” (Bohm)
As we know from physical reality, these TWO BINARY LOGIC based LOCAL, EXPLICIT OPPOSITES OF CONSERVATIVE MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING and LIBERAL FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING are SECONDARY TO THE PRIMARY AGENCY WHICH IS TRANSFORMATION as associates with SOLAR IRRADIANCE which is NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT. WESTERN CULTURE, because it will NOT LET GO OF THE EGO-INFLATING NOTION OF LOCAL AUTHORING, which comes in TWO POLAR OPPOSITE FORMS (CONSERVATIVE and LIBERAL), cannot do as INDIGENOUS ABORIGINALS DO and ACCEPT THE NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM otherwise known as TRANSFORMATION.
BECAUSE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS HAVE ABANDONED THE NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC OF THE INCLUDING MEDIUM WHEREIN “TO EVERYTHING THERE IS A SEASON AND A TIME TO EVERY PURPOSE”, BY GIVING A FOUNDATIONAL ROLE in LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING TO “MATERIAL BEINGS” in “EMPTY SPACE”, BINARY LOGIC has NOT ONLY been given FOUNDATIONAL STATUS but it is NOW BLOCKING THE USE OF NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM; e.g. ONCE WE SPEAK IN THE BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC OF THE EXCLUDED MEDIUM based TERMS OF TOWNS as BEING-BASED THINGS that are GROWING, DEVELOPING and PRODUCING goods, WE HAVE ESTABLISHED A BEING based PSEUDO-REALITY IN WHICH THERE ARE “THINGS THAT GROW” SUCH AS A FIELD OF WHEAT as if within an ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE SPACE. Indigenous aboriginals would, by contrast, be using VERB-based language that acknowledges that everything is in flux, as with “WHEATING IN THE TRANSFORMING PLENUM”.
1 FRAGMENTATION AND WHOLENESS (from Wholeness and the Implicate Order by David Bohm)
“The title of this chapter is ‘Fragmentation and wholeness’. It is especially important to consider this question today, for fragmentation is now very widespread, not only throughout society, but also in each individual; and this is leading to a kind of general confusion of the mind, which creates an endless series of problems and interferes with our clarity of perception so seriously as to prevent us from being able to solve most of them. …”
THIS PROBLEM HAS NOT “GONE AWAY”, it is a PROBLEM that PERVADES WESTERN CULTURE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING and the (MIS-) UNDERSTANDINGS THAT ARE COMING FROM OUR WESTERN CULTURE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING, where we FRAGMENT into CONSERVATIVES and LIBERALS who are grounding our understanding in TOO-SIMPLE BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC of the EXCLUDED MEDIUM, … and as a result, are unable to GRASP (in our LINGUISTIC INTELLECTUAL CONCEPTUALIZATIONS) “TRANSFORMATION” which is LESS SIMPLE, being based on NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM as where we ACKNOWLEDGE IN OUR LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZATIONS THAT “EVERYTHING IS IN TRANSFORMATIVE FLUX” as with “THERE IS TOWNING IN THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE” which is the “BOTH/AND LOGIC OF THE INCLUDING MEDIUM kind of language employed by INDIGENOUS ABORIGINALS, TAOISTS/BUDDISTS and ADVAITA VEDANTA ADHERENTS.
This kind of language is like the OLD FASHIONED KIND OF ENGLISH WE USED TO USE where we said things like
“TO EVERYTHING THERE IS A SEASON AND TIME TO EVERY PURPOSE” (note our implied inclusion in a changing world that inductively shapes our actions. This does not say that WE ARE NOT IN CHARGE OF OUR OWN BEHAVIOUR, but it reminds of of the GOEDEL’S THEOREM “INCOMPLETENESS” OF ALL FINITE LOGICAL PROPOSITIONS; i.e. while it is generally TRUE that we are the AUTHOR of our actions and developments, it is INCOMPLETE as this aphorism, and the one below are telling us)
… and/or as in Shakespeare’s JULIUS CAESAR;
“THERE IS A TIDE IN THE AFFAIRS OF MEN,
WHICH, TAKEN AT THE FLOOD, LEADS ON TO FORTUNE;
OMITTED, ALL THE VOYAGE OF THEIR LIFE
IS BOUND IN SHALLOWS AND IN MISERIES.” (note our implied inclusion in a changing world that inductively shapes our actions)
THIS RELATES TO THE “FRAGMENTATION” THAT Bohm is referring to, because we MODERN WESTERN CULTURE folks tend to FOLLOW ORDER, as in THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE where our actions may be LEMMMING-LIKE in which case we DO NOT PAY ATTENTION TO THE AMBIENT UNFOLDING SITUATIONAL PARTICULARS, but have passed over control to our INTELLECT which is CONCENTRATING ON OUR “TO – DO” LIST OF CHORES, so that our ACHIEVING OF OUR DESTINATION “TAKES OVER” and puts the BIT in our TEETH, e.g. “Neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet, nor hail shall keep the postmen from their appointed rounds.”
WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS ARE BECOMING INCREASINGLY INTELLECTUALLY DRIVEN IN OUR ACTIONS. WE ARE IN A HURRY TO ACHIEVE OUR OBJECTIVES AND OUR HIGHWAY CRASHES DUE TO OUR PLAYING WITH OUR CELL PHONES WHICH IS BLOCKING OUR AWARENESS OF THE ENVIRONMENTALLY GROUNDED “TIDE IN THE AFFAIRS OF MEN” which calls to us from our unfolding environmental situation rather than from the calculations of our intellect, as suggested in Mary Oliver’s “WILDGEESE”
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting–
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
OK, I WANT TO KEEP THIS SHORT BUT NOT SO SHORT THAT THE POINTS IS NOT ‘WELL-MADE’. The POINT IS SUBTLE AND WESTERN CULTURE AS A COLLECTIVE “IS NOT GETTING IT”; i.e. you can see
HOW WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS ARE SCREWING UP (e.g. MASS SHOOTINGS ETC.)
0Author’s Preface: This essay is coming from the same NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM based understanding as is foundational in indigenous aboriginal cultures and in Modern physics, which is AT ODDS WITH common WESTERN CULTURE BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC of the EXCLUDED MEDIUM based understanding. So, for example, the indigenous aboriginal understanding wherein WE ARE STRANDS in the WEB (interconnected and interdependent) is understood as fundational to our sense-experience reality as is the understanding of Modern physics (where it is expressed in terms where forms are CONDENSATIONS of the all-including energy-charged PLENUM), which is once again the BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM as with STRANDS in the WEB. FRAGMENTATION in WESTERN CULTURE is rampant, and is due to giving the FOUNDATIONAL ROLE in WESTERN CULTURE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING TO SIMPLE BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC of the EXCLUDED MEDIUM.
The current JEFFREY EPSTEIN AFFAIR, that is giving rise to a lot of FINGER-POINTING based SOCIAL FRAGMENTATION, is MISSING THE BASIC REALITY that EVERYTHING IS INTERCONNECTED AND INTERDEPENDENT as with CONDENSATIONS in the energy-charged PLENUM, so that as POGO says, “WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY AND HE IS US”, in which case, RESTORATIVE JUSTICE is WARRANTED, NOT WESTERN CULTURE STYLE PURIFICATIONIST JUSTICE THAT SEEKS TO IDENTIFY and ELIMINATE the notional LOCAL, EXPLICIT AUTHORS of VIOLENT/HARMFUL ACTIONS.
In REALITY, the VIOLENCE of the VIOLENT STRAND IN THE WEB IS NOT LOCALLY AUTHORED. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS “LOCAL AUTHORING” of actions and developments. “LOCAL AUTHORING” is “APPEARANCE” (Schaumkommen in Schroedinger’s language) deriving from the “DOUBLE ERROR OF NAMING AND GRAMMAR” (Nietzsche). When we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS employ linguistic conceptualizations such as “The TOWN is GROWING”, we may be TELLING THE TRUTH but as GOEDEL’S THEOREM of the INCOMPLETENESS OF ALL FINITE PROPOSITIONS OF LOGIC informs us, establishing that which is TRUE is not equivalent to establishing that which is REAL; e.g. THE TOWN MAY BE GROWING but this fails to mention the conjugate SHRINKING OF WILDERNESS, that together with the GROWING of the TOWN co-constitutes the sense-experience affirmable REALITY of the TRANSFORMING of the LANDSCAPE.
The Epstein-Maxwell affair brings to mind the WESTERN CULTURE “PRACTICE OF SCAPEGOATING THE IDENTIFIED PATIENT”. As pointed to in Shakespeare’s Henry IV, one person’s misfortune (poverty and exposure to manipulation) can be another’s advantage (prosperity can become the instrument of manipulation of the impoverished). e.g.
PRINCE HENRY:
Why, then, it is like if there come a hot June, and this civil buffeting hold, we shall buy maidenheads as they buy hob- nails, by the hundreds.
“WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY AND HE IS US”
Is it NOT TIME for us WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS to STOP TALKING UP THE BULLSHIT OF ‘INDEPENDENT BEINGS” and “INDEPENDENT NATIONS” and OPENLY ACKNOWLEDGE OUR INTERCONNECTION AND INTERDEPENDENCE as is done by MODERN PHYSICS with its CONDENSATIONS in the ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM UNDERSTANDING, and by indigenous aboriginals with their STRANDS-IN-THE-WEB UNDERSTANDING?
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“IF WE REALLY WANT TO KNOW HOW IT COMES TO BE THAT WE WESTERN CULTURE FOLKS ARE SCREWING UP SO BADLY WITH MASS SHOOTINGS ETC.”
AND, LET’S FACE IT, “WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS” DO “NOT WANT TO KNOW”, BECAUSE AS POGO points out, it is a case of “WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY AND HE IS US!”
MANY HAVE SHARED THIS UNDERSTANDING, but “IT JUST SLIPS AWAY AND DOESN’T TAKE ROOT”. I will share herewith, THIS GREAT WESTERN CULTURE SCREW UP IN TERMS THAT ARE SIMPLE AND STRAIGHT FORWARD which I will NUMBER. While many have discovered what is going on here, I will follow the example that has been given by Lev Vygotsky who studied how children naturally learn guided by their own sense-experience (before WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS SCREW WITH THEIR MINDS). The WESTERN CULTURE PRACTICE OF SCREWING UP THE MINDS OF ITS YOUTH HAS BEEN POINTED OUT by R.D. Laing, Jules Henry, and Ernest Becker in my earlier notes. This time I will share what Lev Vygotsky has said. He wrote in RUSSIAN and that was translated into ENGLISH and Alex Kozulin evidently did a GREAT JOB of translating that into ENGLISH, but ENGLISH SPEAKERS will STILL NOT GET THE MESSAGE because we ENGLISH SPEAKERS are in the HABIT of SIMPLIFYING the messages we receive to make them fit our PRE-CONCEIVED IMPRESSSIONS OF REALITY.
For example, If Vygotsky were to express something using verbs which implies that we are living within a transforming relational continuum; e.g. “THERE IS TOWNING IN THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE” (wherein everything is in flux), when WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS HEAR THIS, WE WILL SPONTANEOUSLY “CORRECT” THIS TO “THE TOWN IS GROWING, DEVELOPING and PRODUCING goods” because we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS (influenced by the ABRAHAMIC RELIGIONS of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, with THEIR BEING-based LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME) will REDUCE and SIMPLIFY what has been said, to GIVE IT A “BEING” based FOUNDATION, … IN SPITE OF THE FACT; i.e. the SENSE-EXPERIENCE AFFIRMED REALITY WHEREIN “EVERYTHING IS IN TRANSFORMATIVE FLUX”, that we REQUIRE a FLOW-BASED LANGUAGE as acknowledged and employed in MODERN PHYSICS and indigenous aboriginal culture.
WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS are ADDICTED TO THE USE OF A LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME THAT REDUCES THE WORLD FROM A FLOW-BASED TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM TO A NOTIONAL COLLECTION OF MATERIAL ENTITIES THAT WE EQUIP WITH GRAMMAR-BASED POWERS TO MOVE ABOUT AND INTERACT WITHIN A NOTIONAL ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE SPACE.
The FOLLOWING ARE EXAMPLES OF HOW WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS ARE USING BEING-BASED LANGUAGE WHICH IS “TOO SIMPLE” TO CONVEY OUR TRANSFORMING REALITY, AND WHICH THEREFORE SCREWS UP OUR LINGUISTIC ONCEPTUALIZATIONS OF REALITY.
The EQUIVALENCE of WAVE-FIELD theory … TO… TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE
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Over the course of more than twenty years of pursuing philosophical investigations into WAVE PHYSICS, initially as a GEOPHYSICIST and later opening up the investigation to SYSTEMS SCIENCE, many understandings from various FIELDS OF INQUIRY have “COME TOGETHER” which has LED ME TO A COGNITIVE CONNECTING (EQUIVALENCING) of WAVE-FIELD theory … TO… TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE, and through this CONNECTION to a DEEPER UNDERSTANDING of WESTERN CULTURE SOCIAL DYSFUNCTION (due to the WESTERN CULTURE DROPPING OUT of the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING conjugate and EMPLOYING the INCOMPLETE MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING conjugate “ON ITS OWN”).
HOW DOES ONE SHARE SUCH FINDINGS? (they straddle different disciplines including those of EAST (and indigenous aboriginal BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM) AND WEST (mechanistic EITHER/OR LOGIC of the EXCLUDED MEDIUM) concepts. The distinction between these EASTERN and WESTERN LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING FRAMEWORKS manifests in the difference in our linguistic conceptualizing schemes where we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS give the FOUNDATIONAL ROLE to simple BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC of the EXCLUDED MEDIUM where one speaks in such terms as “THE TOWN IS GROWING, DEVELOPING and PRODUCING goods”, … VERSUS … the indigenous aboriginal culture adherents who give the FOUNDATIONAL ROLE to less simple NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM where one speaks in such terms as “There is TOWNING in the TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE”.
This DIFFERENCE relates to the WAVE-FIELD structure of our reality; i.e. in the first example, this language captures the PEAK but NOT THE TROUGH; i.e. the MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING PEAK but NOT THE FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING TROUGH, … while the latter example (the indigenous aboriginal linguistic conceptualizing approach) INCLUDES BOTH PEAK AND TROUGH. In terms of LOGIC, the first example “THE TOWN IS GROWING, DEVELOPING and PRODUCING goods” is SIMPLER in that it is grounded in BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC of the EXCLUDED MEDIUM, while the example “THERE IS TOWNING IN THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE” is LESS SIMPLE in that it is grounded in NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM.
ONE THING IS CLEAR, the FORMER BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC OF THE EXCLUDED MEDIUM based LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZATION is dependent on BEING based things-in-themselves called TOWNS while the LATTER NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDINGMEDIUM based LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING has “NO DEPENDENCY on BEING-based things-in-themselves” and implies that EVERYTHING IS IN FLUX including the TOWNING in the TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE.
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THE PROBLEM WITH WESTERN CULTURE IS OUR USE OF BINARY LOGIC IN OUR LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING
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The shift from Newtonian science to Modern physics involves an upgrade from BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC of the EXCLUDED (empty space) MEDIUM to NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING (energy-plenum) MEDIUM.
Supposing we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS had designed a LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME using the BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM. WE WOULD HAVE COME UP WITH MODERN PHYSICS like the indigenous aboriginal culture rather than the less capable BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC of the EXCLUDED (empty space) MEDIUM and we wouldn’t be having all of the troubles we are having with TRUMP and THE CONSERVATIVE – LIBERAL SPLIT because their differences derive from the simple EITHER/OR choice options of BINARY LOGIC and this constraining to the one or other of the TWO OPPOSING CHOICES would not arise if the popular logic was the more capable BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM (instead of offering us a LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING limits us to the choice of EITHER THIS OR THAT, we would have access to an expanded LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING including THIS, THAT and BOTH.
For example, we can describe a wave in LOCAL and EXPLICIT terms of EITHER its PEAK or TROUGH which is a BINARY LOGIC based conceptualizing approach, or we can describe a wave by including mention of its NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT (FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING) context within which the LOCAL and EXPLICIT (MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING) is INCLUDED.
EXAMPLE: the BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC approach supports simple logical propositions such as “THE TOWN IS OR IS NOT GROWING while the NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC approach supports less simple logical propositions such as “THERE IS TOWNING IN THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE” where we use the conjugate combination of BOTH MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING AND FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING propositions.
While INDIGENOUS ABORIGINALS and MODERN PHYSICS employ within the foundation of their LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME, the less simple BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM which conveys the conjugate combination of LOCAL and EXPLICIT within NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT, … We WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS are people who are using simple BINARY LOGIC in a foundational role in our THINKING and ACTING and at the same time, MODERN PHYSICS is now imposing on us an increasing need for the more capable BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM which acknowledges that material forms are condensations of the ENERGY-CHARGED INCLUDING MEDIUM. For example, while it is LOGICALLY TRUE to use BINARY LOGIC and state that THE TOWN IS OR IS NOT GROWING, but it is INCOMPLETE because if FAILS MENTION the CONJUGATE SHRINKING OF WILDERNESS and thus it FAILS TO CAPTURE ‘what is really going on as reported by our SENSE-EXPERIENCE which is that THE LANDSCAPE IS TRANSFORMING. In order to capture the reality of the TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE we need the NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM, we need a linguistic conceptualizing where we GO BEYOND simple BINARY LOGIC based propositions such as “THE TOWN IS GROWING, DEVELOPING and PRODUCING goods’, where we instead us the NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM where we say, THERE IS TOWNING in the TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE, as in the INDIGENOUS ABORIGINAL LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME..
The indigenous aboriginal linguistic conceptualizing scheme supports the less simple STRUCTURE of the STRANDS in the WEB wherein the STRANDS are BOTH THEMSELVES AND AT THE SAME TIME, THE WEB THEY SHARE INCLUSION; i.e. the STRANDS are INTERCONNECTING and INTERDEPENDENT and this is an IMPORTANT DIFFERENCE in how a social collective thinks of themselves, as is captures in the indigenous aboriginal aphorism “MITAKUYE OYASIN’ (everything is related).
MODERN PHYSICS is now teaching us WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS who have heretofore focused on SIMPLIFYING our LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME giving the foundational role to BINARY LOGIC , by way of our ‘bumping into the need’ to upgrade from TOO SIMPLE BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC OF THE EXCLUDED MEDIUM based propositions (the TOWN is GROWING) to LESS SIMPLE NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM based propositions (there is TOWNING in the TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE), … THAT WE NEED TO “UPGRADE” our common operative LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME.
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LANGUAGE AND LOGIC AS THE SOURCE OF SOCIAL CONFLICT
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My philosophical inquiries into the FRAGMENTATION of our WESTERN CULTURE based society REAFFIRM Bohm’s and Shroedinger’s findings that while we live in a world whose physical dynamic is beyond capture in a simple BINARY LOGIC basis, BINARY LOGIC has nevertheless been given a foundational role in our LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING by way of the SPLITTING APART of MATTER and SPACE. In addition to Bohm and Schroedinger who have cited the need for non-binary logic based (flow-based) languages (e.g. Bohm’s Rheomode and Schroedinger’s Advaita Vedanta based Atmavit-Mahavit combination), there have been ‘campaigns’ by Buddhist scholars such as Alan Watts that encourage WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS to BREAK FREE of DEPENDENCY on TOO-SIMPLE BINARY LOGIC based linguistic conceptualizing. By embracing INADEQUATE BINARY LOGIC as the “GOLD STANDARD” for WESTERN CULTURE linguistic conceptualizing, we BLOCK OUT ACCESS to the complexity needed for capturing the BASIC NONBINARY LOGIC OF THE INCLUDING MEDIUM that “DOES POSSESS” the capability of characterizing the foundational structure of the physical world we are living in.
SIMPLE BINARY LOGIC based linguistic conceptualization, while it is adequate in supporting linear concepts such as GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT and PRODUCTION of BEING-based entities as if within an EMPTY SPACE, LACKS THE CAPABILITY TO SUPPORT FLOW-BASED PHENOMENA, the complexity of which DEMANDS NONBINARY LOGIC in support of TRANSFORMATION of the OVERALL energy-charged PLENUM wherein there is no longer dependency on logcal material being that enjoys persisting local existence and operates ‘in its own mechanistic right’. For WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS addicted to the BINARY LOGIC GOLD STANDARD, the switch to NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM where ‘strands and web are one’ is non-trivial. At some level in the WESTERN CULTURE PSYCHE, there remains the acknowledgement of the FOUNDATIONAL ROLE of the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT with its lava-like capacity for REDUCTION into LOCAL and EXPLICIT structure, yet without ever losing its innate NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT TRANSFORMATIVE CAPABILITY.
THE DROP-OUT of essential understanding of the transformative nature of the physical world in which we share inclusion comes from the attempt, such as by Copernicus, and earlier (500 BCE) by Aristotle who introduced a foundational simplification into our linguistic conceptualizing of reality by SPLITTING APART into successive SEQUENTIAL components, the highs and lows of our wave-field world, a departure from Heraclitus’ understanding of the SIMULTANEOUS nature of highs and lows which captures the wave-field based physics of our sense-experience reality. (Note that the ‘peak’ and ‘trough’ of the wave are SIMULTANEOUS and only APPEAR SEQUENTIAL, an “APPEARANCE” (schaumkommen) that has ‘tricked’ influential WESTERN CULTURE researchers such as Piaget who, as pointed out by Vygotsky, has infused the error into his teaching/learning approach, of splitting into two separate parts the conjugates of LOCAL AND EXPLICIT (the peak) and NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT (the trough) as if they possessed separate ‘stand-alone’ existences.
Piaget has thus introduced into WESTERN EDUCATION a teaching approach that DROPS OUT the bothersome and seemingly unnecessary NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT (wrongly assuming its BINARY LOGIC based independence from the LOCAL and EXPLICIT) and thus infusing into the TEACHING APPROACH a simplifying one-sided emphasis on the LOCAL and EXPLICIT as if IT ACTUALLY EXISTED IN IS OWN INDEPENDENT RIGHT, WHICH IT DOES NOT! SPLITTING APART, for example, the LOCAL and EXPLICIT GROWTH OF THE TOWN from the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT “CONJUGATE” SHRINKING OF WILDERNESS. This is a SERIOUS ERROR that encourages the WESTERN CULTURE misguided focus on one-sided GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT and PRODUCTION!
(note in this regard, the concern of Dr. Iain McGilcrist [cited further on in this text] who argues that “many of the problems our society faces stem from the fact that the left hemisphere of our brains has come to dominate our minds and lives;” i.e. in modern physics grounded terminology, we are displacing the nonlocal and implicit with the local and explicit in our linguistic conceptualizations, as for example with the emphasis on growth, development and production, ignoring the conjugate shrinking of wilderness, decline of existing structure and consumption of nonrenewable rare materials.).
This type of WESTERN CULTURE EXCHANGE of SIMPLE BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC of the EXCLUDED MEDIUM, which reduces our understanding to EITHER MATERIAL PRESENCE OR EMPTY SPACE, does indeed achieve a SIMPLIFICATION in our LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZATIONS of physical reality, but at the COST of simplifying our UNDERSTANDING to such a degree that this is contaminating our linguistic conceptualization-guided PHYSICAL OPERATIONAL DYNAMICS. For example, the MAJOR CONFLICT in MODERN WESTERN CULTURE SOCIAL DYNAMICS between those with the CONSERVATIVE worldview and the LIBERAL worldview is ROOTED in the use of the TOO-SIMPLE BINARY LOGIC in the foundations of our linguistic conceptualizing.
This PROBLEM is NOT resolvable at the level where we are applying too simple BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC OF THE EXCLUDED MEDIUM which is being employed by BOTH CONSERVATIVES and LIBERALS and is unable, because intrinsically TOO SIMPLE, to engage as needed, in LESS SIMPLE issues involving NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM.
That is, instead of understanding material forms as independent of the space they occupy (the ARISTOTELIAN linguistic conceptualizing of the world which gives precedence to absolute material being as if in empty space), the actual physical complexity of (wave-field based) NATURE demands a linguistic conceptualizing capability that can deal with HERACLITEAN NONBINARY “BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM” relations. This less simple (NONBINARY) conceptualizing capability is needed where the material form is a CONDENSATION of an all-including energy-charged PLENUM. The linguistic conceptualizing requirements in this case include the BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM as was the understanding built into early linguistic conceptualizing schemes, including those of indigenous aboriginals (the BOTH/AND logical relation of STRANDS IN THE WEB wherein ‘everything is related’ [‘mitakuye oyasin’] as has been affirmed by the modern physics concept wherein material forms are CONDENSATIONS of the energy-charged PLENUM ).
OUR WESTERN CULTURE ADDICTION TO THE USE OF TOO-SIMPLE BINARY LOGIC IN FOUNDATIONS OF OUR LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZATIONS IS THE SOURCE OF FRAGMENTATION THAT IS UNRESOLVABLE WITH BINARY LOGIC.
Kristi Noem and the Conservative – Liberal CONFLICT
0POSTSCRIPT TO: KRISTI NOEM and the DEA ABSCONDITA
My guess is that FEW PEOPLE would NOT ‘pick up’ on the “EXTREME DIFFERENCE” between the outlook of KRISTI NOEM versus the outlook of Minneapolis mayor, Jacob Frey on the ICE shooting and killing of Renee Nicole Good. But perhaps even FEWER PEOPLE would be contemplating Nietzsche’s point that such events cannot be understood in a limited “LOCAL, EXPLICIT” context because of their “NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT MAKE-UP”.
Everybody knows that “TROUBLE HAS BEEN BREWING” and it involves POLARIZING ANIMOSITY between ADMINISTRATORS and the ADMINISTRATED where the ADMINISTRATORS are AUTHORIZED while the ADMINISTRATED are UNAUTHORIZED; i.e. this ORDER imposing approach is radically unlike an indigenous aboriginal HEALING CIRCLE where everyone is an equal. In this WESTERN CULTURE ORDER IMPOSING APPROACH some people are AUTHORIZED and others are UNAUTHORIZED. IMPOSING CHANGE through AUTHORITY is common in the WESTERN CULTURE VERSION OF “DEMOCRACY” which is radically unlike, for example, the indigenous aboriginal version of “DEMOCRACY” where Decision-making frequently emphasizes extensive community consultation and striving for consensus, rather than simple majority rule, to ensure harmony and broad community support.
These differences are underlain by the MORE RADICAL difference in that indigenous aboriginals have the understanding of ‘mitakuye oyasin’, that everyone is related in the manner of STRANDS IN THE WEB OF LIFE whereas WESTERN CULTURE has implemented a system based on the assumption that EACH PERSON, rather than being a STRAND in the INTERCONNECTING and INTERDEPENDENT WEB, as an INDEPENDENT BEING with “ITS OWN POWERS OF LOCAL AUTHORING OF ACTIONS and DEVELOPMENTS, which is of course UNREAL (ABSTRACT) LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZATION that has us WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS believing in the FALSE NOTION of “LOCAL AUTHORING” of actions and development. While Nietzsche has expounded on the DOUBLE ERROR foundation of “LOCAL AUTHORING”, HOWEVER, THE WESTERN CULTURE PRACTICE OF USING THIS “REALITY FRAGMENTING DEVICE” CONTINUES TO DISTURBE THE WESTERN CULTURE PSYCHE AND THUS SOCIAL DYNAMIC;
Our judgement has us conclude that every change must have an author”;–but this conclusion is already mythology: it separates that which effects from the effecting. If I say “lightning flashes,” I have posited the flash once as an activity and a second time as a subject, and thus added to the event a being that is not one with the event but is rather fixed, “is” and does not “become.”–To regard an event as an “effecting,” and this as being, that is the double error, or interpretation, of which we are guilty.” – Nietzsche, ‘Will to Power’, 531
In its origin language belongs in the age of the most rudimentary form of psychology. We enter a realm of crude fetishism when we summon before consciousness the basic presuppositions of the metaphysics of language, in plain talk, the presuppositions of reason. Everywhere it sees a doer and doing; it believes in will as the cause; it believes in the ego, in the ego as being, in the ego as substance, and it projects this faith in the ego-substance upon all things — only thereby does it first create the concept of “thing.” Everywhere “being” is projected by thought, pushed underneath, as the cause; the concept of being follows, and is a derivative of, the concept of ego. In the beginning there is that great calamity of an error that the will is something which is effective, that will is a faculty. Today we know that it is only a word.” – Nietzsche, ‘Twilight of the Idols’
SO, THIS DOUBLE ERROR OF NAMING and GRAMMAR, which has undeservedly been given a foundational role in WESTERN CULTURE LANGUAGE AND THOUGHT is the source of FRAGMENTATION in WESTERN CULTURE by way of its use in LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING. To say “THE TOWN IS GROWING” (this is an example of the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR) PROMOTES THE IMPRESSION OF THE TOWN AS A NOTIONAL “LOCAL ENTITY”, NOTIONALLY WITH “ITS OWN POWERS OF LOCAL AUTHORING OF ACTIONS AND DEVELOPMENT” (in this case, “ITS OWN GROWTH”). We WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS ARE SO ACCUSTOMED TO HEARING AND USING THIS “DOUBLE ERROR” THAT WE NO LONGER SEE THAT IT IS A “DOUBLE ERROR” in which case, we ACCEPT the NOTION of “LOCAL AUTHORING” which is a MASSIVE SOURCE OF FRAGMENTATION that does not occur, for example, in indigenous aboriginal culture where the use of FLOW-BASED (RELATIONAL) LANGUAGE captures the SENSE-EXPERIENCE AFFIRMED REALITY where “THERE IS TOWNING IN THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE” wherein everything is in INTERCONNECTED and INTERDEPENDENT FLUX, as affirmed by Modern physics (wherein material forms are CONDENSATIONS of the all-including ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM aka wave-field).
AS DISCUSSED IN PRIOR NOTES, and as underscored hereabove by Nietzsche, “EGO” is the SUSTAINER of this FALSE NOTION OF LOCAL AUTHORING given by the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR as in the example “THE TOWN IS GROWING” (here we have the LOCAL and EXPLICIT MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING ON ITS OWN) which eclipses the sense-experience affirmed REALITY that “THERE IS TOWNING IN THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE” (here we have the full complement of NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING in conjugate relation with the LOCAL and EXPLICIT MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING). The LATTER linguistic conceptualizing scheme with the full ANDROGYNOUS COMPLEMENT is found in indigenous aboriginal linguistic conceptualizing schemes (STRAND IN THE WEB schemes) but in WESTERN CULTURE, LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING has evolved in such a manner as to DROP OUT the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING conjugate hence reference to the DEA ABSCONDITA aka GODDESS IN HIDING.
NOW, WESTERN CULTURE IS HAPPY WITH THIS DROP OUT BECAUSE IT SHIFTS CREDIT FOR LOCAL AUTHORING AWAY FROM THE NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT AND FALSELY REPOSITIONS IT AS IF ORIGINATING FROM THE LOCAL AND EXPLICIT; instead of THERE IS TOWNING IN THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE which is the full ANDROGYNOUS conceptualization, WESTERN CULTURE has developed the habitual DOUBLE ERROR of going with ONLY THE MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIIZING conjugate consisting of the combination of NAMING-INSTANTIATED BEING animated by GRAMMAR-instantiated AGENCY. THIS WORKS AS A COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE but AT THE EXPENSE of SWAPPING OUT A FULL-BLOWN ANDROGYNOUS REALITY CONCEPTUALIZATION FOR A HALF-ASSED, MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING ONLY, CONCEPUALIZATION, which is EGO-INFLATING due to its FALSELY IMPLIED LOCAL AUTHORING POWER, and this EGO INFLATION IS WHY THIS SERIOUS DOUBLE ERROR BUILT INTO OUR WESTERN CULTURE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME “PERSISTS”.
DONALD TRUMP, EQUIPPED WITH THE DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR CAN CLAIM “I BUILT MAR A LAGO” AND “I CAPTURED NICOLÁS MADURO”. HERE WE HAVE THE MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING “ON ITS OWN” without acknowledgement of the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING as implicit in “TO EVERYTHING THERE IS A SEASON AND A TIME TO EVERY PURPOSE”. That is, I may put words together to say that I launched my Hobi-Cat from Fort Walton Beach, but SHOULD I ACKNOWLEDGE THE FACT THAT I waited for the gap between two breakers on the beach, picking the exact moment between the breaking waves to tighten the sheet and fill sail, scooting out into deeper water to avoid getting smacked by the next incoming breaker. What I am describing is the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING conjugate to my MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING agency. The FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING CONJUGATE is actually the PRIMARY REALITY while my MALE ASSERTING/ACTIONS are only APPEARANCE (Schaumkommen). It is our EUROPEAN LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME that has us DROP OUT the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING CONJUGATE and THIS DROPOUT DOES NOT OCCUR IN indigenous aboriginal and other flow-based linguistic conceptualizing schemes where one says something like; “THE WIND AND SURF PICKED UP THE SAILBOAT LIKE A TOY AND SCOOTED IT OUT INTO THE OCEAN as a sailor onboard rode it like a bucking bronco pulling on the sail-sheets like reins.
There is ambiguity here with respect to the AUTHORING SOURCE OF ACTION. While we are familiar with the verse “to everything there is a season and a time to every purpose” which clearly gives the highest level of influence to the transforming relational continuum we share inclusion in, we appear to have INVERTED THE ORDER of things when we say “I sailed the Hobi-cat from Fort Wilton beach to Destin harbour”. The point is that the linguistic conceptualizing scheme we are using seems to FLIP MODES without our announcing it.
MODES OF WHAT?
THIS IS A BIGGIE FOR ME, SO BIG THAT I THINK THAT IT WAS COMMUNICATED TO ME FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE!
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Erich Jantsch only lived to age 51 (1929 – 1980) and his obituary, written by a close friend, Milan Zeleny, says; “his work remains unfinished and his dreams unfulfilled”. How BRUTAL! A few weeks ago, I hunted for and found the only biography of Erich that I could find, which was more like a short notebook, “The Quiet Ganesh: finding Erich Jantsch”, by Leah M. Sciabarrasi, … which put together notes on 59 small pages, a gathering of comments from people who knew him or had views on his work. I was just ‘going with the flow’ as I tried to make sense out of how Erich and his amazing work with titles including “Design for Evolution (1975) and The Self-Organizing Universe (1980) seemed to be treated as a passing novelty, while my view was, based only on his THREE LEVELS OF AWARENESS, which he presented at the “International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences’ (ICUS) in Tokyo in 1973, where one can get a copy of his handwritten notes from his presentation (I have had this copy of his notes for some time and they are easy to read. One can download a copy from; https://icus.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Jantsch-Erich-Transexperiential-Inquiry.pdf )
THE EERY ‘COINCIDENCE’ was that after having reviewed ‘The Quiet Ganesh’ which was a skeletal review of his life and work, I searched the internet for an obituary for Jantsch, and found the two-pager by Zeleny which I printed out and showed, as it came off the printer, to my daughter Alison, who noticed in reading it, that Jantsch died on December 12, 1980 (I had no idea of his date of passing) but here I was printing his obituary out on this very same day DECEMBER 12, 2025, forty-five years after his passing. This might not mean much to most people, and I myself am not what one would call ‘superstitious’, but I have such a strong connection with the work of Jantsch, in particular, his understanding of LEVELS OF AWARENESS which more than make sense to me (these awareness levels answer many questions in regard to problems with our WESTERN CULTURE).
OK, Jantsch’s THREE LEVELS of AWARENESS is like the ROSETTA STONE in that it ties together OTHER WORK such as Nietzsche’s argument that there is no such thing as LOCAL AUTHORING, that it is just the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR so that when we use LOCAL AUTHORING in our language we are constructing a DISTORTED PSEUDO-REALITY where we say things like “THE TOWN IS GROWING” without mentioning the conjugate “SHRINKING OF WILDERNESS” and thus without CAPTURING THE SENSE-EXPERIENCE BASED REALITY of the all-including TRANSFORMATION.
OK, that is ONE OF THE THREE THINGS that when PUT TOGETHER, can help to give us an understanding wherein the SUM transcends the PARTS.
The SECOND THING can be gleaned from deserved attack on the LEGITIMACY of the notion of GROWTH. We WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS are making strong progress in digging ourselves into a hole which it is not going to be easy to climb out of by our pursuit of economic GROWTH. For example, as even economists are saying;
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0AUTHOR’S PREFACE: I would say, that for WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS (based on my former experience as such), one develops KNEE-JERK ASSUMPTIONS that are bound into our LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING practice that bring forth SIMPLIFIED INTERPRETATIONS of “REALITY”. For example, we say ‘THE TOWN IS GROWING” without mentioning that THE SURROUNDINGS MUST SHRINK in conjugate relation which entails overall TRANSFORMATION of the landscape. Goedel’s Theorem of the INCOMPLETENESS OF ALL FINITE LOGICAL PROPOSITIONS “WARNS US” that statements that are “LOGICALLY TRUE” such as “THE TOWN IS GROWING” are INHERENTLY INCOMPLETE and therefore WHAT IS “LOGICALLY TRUE” is not REAL due to its INCOMPLETENESS, and THIS CAN GIVE RISE TO CONFUSION. In an indigenous or Modern physics FLOW-BASED LANGUAGE where we AVOID the use of NAMING-instantiated BEING, where one says for example, “THERE IS TOWNING IN THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE”, we capture the reality of everything being in continuing transformative flux, which AVOIDS what Nietzsche calls ‘the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR’ which supports the abstraction of “LOCAL AUTHORING OF ACTIONS AND DEVELOPMENT”.
Because of the INCOMPLETENESS of our LOGICAL PROPOSITIONS involving “LOCAL AUTHORING” such as ‘the TOWN is GROWING’ which simply DROPS OUT MENTION of how what is REALLY GOING ON is “THE TRANSFORMING OF THE LANDSCAPE” which includes, as well, “THE SHRINKING OF WILDERNESS”, we are exposed to building SERIOUS MISTAKES into our LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZATIONS. For example, while those using VERB based linguistic conceptualizations such as indigenous aboriginals are using RESTORATIVE JUSTICE because, IN REALITY, THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS LOCAL AUTHORING (violent events derive from relational dissonance which IS CO-CULTIVATED by a relational social matrix and while relational dissonance MANIFESTS by VENTING THROUGH an individual, it is NOT AUTHORED BY THE INDIVIDUAL. For example, the RELATIONAL DYSFUNCTION in a social collective that manifests through an individual such as Ghislaine Maxwell who encouraged girls to participate in prostitution, while this dysfunction is a social relational community dysfunction (relational dissonance) VENTS through Ghislaine and others, it is NOT LOCALLY AUTHORED by Ghislaine and this is understood in indigenous aboriginal cultures where there the community response is to ACCEPT THAT THE RELATIONAL DYNAMICS OF THE COMMUNITY ARE THE SOURCE OF THE DYSFUNCTION (such as prostitution), so that a HEALING CIRCLE approach is in order, and NOT, as in WESTERN CULTURE, a SCAPE-GOATING OF THE IDENTIFIED PATIENT, the ALLEGED SICKO that, instead of being a LOCAL AUTHOR, is THE VENT for the manifest expression of TENSIONS building within the social collective. The INDIVIDUAL such as Ghislaine … IS THE VENT through which TENSIONS in the social collective are made manifest, but that individual IS NOT THE “AUTHOR” of the acts; the community is the AUTHORING source, hence the RESTORATIVE JUSTICE approach of indigenous aboriginals instead of WESTERN CULTURE SCAPE-GOATING of the person or persons through whom the community-cultivated TENSIONS are VENTED.
It is IMPORTANT to KEEP IN MIND that “THERE ARE NO LOCAL AUTHORS of ACTIONS AND DEVELOPMENT” in the real world of our sense-experience wherein we, the participants in the social dynamic are INTERCONNECTED and INTERDEPENDENT as with STRANDS in a WEB where the SOURCE of the VIOLENT VENTING OF a STRAND is NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT in origin and is LOCAL and EXPLICIT “ONLY IN APPEARANCE” (Schoroedinger’s “Schaumkommen”). WESTERN CULTURE JUSTICE IS BASED ON THE MISTAKEN ASSUMPTION OF LOCAL AUTHORING WHICH DOES NOT EXIST, IT IS A DOUBLE ERROR OF NAMING AND GRAMMAR. Yes, the INDIVIDUAL STRAND IN THE WEB is the VENT for VIOLENT ACTION that stems from the BUILDUP of TENSIONS in the WEB, but the STRAND IN THE WEB THAT IS VIOLENTLY VENTING IS NOT THE AUTHOR of the VIOLENCE.
Whether the manifest action is deemed BENEFICIAl or DETRIMENTAL, it must be understood that its REAL ORIGIN is NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT (coming from the WEB and merely VENTING through a STRAND), rather than being LOCAL and EXPLICIT (coming from the STRAND ITSELF). Thus, there is NEVER any such thing as LOCAL AUTHORING, there is only LOCAL VENTING that derives from NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT WEB-AUTHORING. This is the UNDERSTANDING of indigenous aboriginals, Taoism/Buddhism, Advaita Vedanta and Modern physics, and supported by NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM. The STRAND in the WEB is a metaphor for CONDENSATIONS of the ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM where the CONDENSATIONS are “BOTH” themselves “AND” the ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM THEY ARE FORMING (NONDUALITY). WESTERN CULTURE UNDERSTANDING is HUNG UP ON LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING based on the DUALISM of BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC of THE EXCLUDED MEDIUM; i.e. LOCAL, EXPLICIT MATERIAL OBJECTS IN ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE SPACE.
In the STRAND IN THE WEB UNDERSTANDING, RESTORATIVE JUSTICE MAKES SENSE rather than PUNITIVE JUSTICE. WESTERN CULTURE STANDARD PUNITIVE JUSTICE SCAPE-GOATS the IDENTIFIED PATIENT (the person identified by the finger-pointing community as an independent SICKO whose convicting and punishing effectively CONSIDERS the overall social collective, apart from the IDENTIFIED PATIENT, to be innocent-unless-proven guilty). The imposing of the abstraction of LOCAL AUTHORING by WESTERN CULTURE PUNITIVE JUSTICE is the imposing of a SCAPE-GOATING of the IDENTIFIED PATIENT WHICH IS A MISTAKE that ignores the REALITY of the INTERCONNECTION AND INTERDEPENDENCE of the STRANDS-IN-THE-WEB (aka CONDENSATIONS IN THE PLENUM). The DECLARATION of INDEPENDENCE of the INDIVIDUAL is a WESTERN CULTURE SUPPORTED ABSTRACTION that is NOT SUPPORTED by indigenous aborginal cultures, nor by Modern physics. Indigenous aboriginals have developed a system of RESTORATIVE JUSTICE based on the interconnected and interdependent STRANDS in the WEB wherein VIOLENT outbursts are understood as NONLOCAL and RELATIONAL in origin, unlike the MISTAKEN ASSUMPTION of WESTERN CULTURE which has assumed the LOCAL AUTHORING of ACTIONS AND DEVELOPMENTS based on what Nietzsche has pointed out is the DOUBLE ERROR OF NAMING AND GRAMMAR.
In the Genealogy of Morality and Twilight of the Idols. Nietzsche argues against the “superstition” that a discrete agent (the ego) exists prior to action, suggesting that “the doer” is merely a linguistic fiction superimposed upon the purported deed itself. For Nietzsche, this double error is a fundamental misinterpretation of reality driven by grammatical and psychological habits (a “superstition of logicians”). He argues that there is no independent, unified “subject” or “ego” that stands apart from its actions and causes them. Instead, actions and thoughts are part of a stream of becoming, a complex interplay of drives and physical processes, without a stable, internal “doer”. (In other words, Nietzsche argues against the “superstition” that a discrete agent (the ego) exists prior to action, suggesting that “the doer” is merely a linguistic fiction superimposed upon the deed itself.)
The reality is;… there is NO SUCH THING AS LOCAL AUTHORING OF ACTIONS and DEVELOPMENTS as is acknowledged in FLOW-BASED LANGUAGES. We can see WHY IT IS that indigenous aboriginals’ RESTORATIVE JUSTICE makes NO ASSUMPTION of LOCALLY AUTHORED CRIMINAL ACTIONS but instead understands VIOLENCE in terms of RELATIONAL DISSONANCE that emerges as TENSIONS that build in the community and are not resolved (as with the HEALING CIRCLE).
The NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT CONTINUING nature of the DYNAMIC WORLD of our sense-experience ARGUES AGAINST using a “LOCAL, EXPLICIT MATERIAL BEING based FOUNDATION for LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZATIONS of QUOTE/UNQUOTE “REALITY”.
The story of the old man and the horses is a Taoist parable about embracing UNCERTAINTY, illustrating how seemingly GOOD or BAD “EVENTS” are INTERCONNECTED, and we CAN’T KNOW THE ULTIMATE OUTCOME. When the farmer’s horse runs away (bad luck), he says “Maybe”. When it returns with wild horses (good fortune), he says “Maybe”. When his son breaks his leg training them (bad luck), he says “Maybe,” and when the son is spared from war due to the injury (good luck), he still says “Maybe,” reminding us that the world we share inclusion in is an ALL-INCLUDING TRANSFORMING CONTINUUM which our LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME “FRAGMENTS” in a SUBJECTIVE manner which is OPEN TO BIAS.
For example, the October 7 Hamas massacre that killed over 1200 Israelis and took over 250 hostages was masterminded by Palestinian Yahya Sinwar who was born in the Khan Younis refugee camp to parents who had been displaced from Ashkelon in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. The camp was densely packed with impoverished families, who lived in poor conditions and relied on the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for basic services. While the Isaeli-Palestinian conflict is part of a continuum, the linguistic conceptualizing habit which ISOLATES, EXTRACTS and GIVES NAMES to EVENT-SPIKES rooted in a continuing STRIFE as with the TITLE “OCTOBER 7 MASSACRE” re-presents a SPIKE in the CONTINUING STRIFE as “AN EVENT” or “VICIOUS ISOLATED ACT”.
The point is that while we use BINARY LOGIC to notionally TURN THINGS ON AND OFF to simplify our linguistic conceptualizing of such things as persisting tension instigated STRIFE, thereby reducing things (IN OUR LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING) to a SEQUENCE of SEPARATE BUT RECURRENT LOCAL EXPLICIT SPIKES in the uninterrupted continuing sequence of violent UPS-AND-DOWNS. Here we may ask; WAS OCTOBER 7th A LOCAL, EXPLICIT VICIOUS ACT OR NOT?
This ISOLATING OF A SPIKE in a continually TENSIONED RELATIONSHIP is like the mathematical operation of DIFFERENTIATION which isolates the LOCAL AND EXPLICIT by DROPPING OUT the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT, THUS “CREATING” a notional “LOCAL EXPLICIT EVENT” that will be ‘discussed and dealt with’ ON ITS OWN, based on its superficial appearance of something LOCAL and EXPLICIT which is only the TIP OF THE ICEBERG. Thanks to this intellectual-linguistic conceptual simplification, what results is RETRIBUTION for the VIOLENT EVENT which DOES NOTHING for the root source problem of persisting RELATIONAL TENSIONS, in which case RETRIBUTION aggravates the UNRESOLVED TENSIONS, SPRING-LOADING THEM in preparedness for the next violent outburst. Here is ANOTHER CASE where MANAGEMENT is LOCAL, EXPLICIT “EVENT-BASED” while the ISSUES are NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT RELATIONAL BALANCE/IMBALANCE based. Military force is used to PERPETUATE IMBALANCE and preserve SUPERFICIAL PEACE, but as with the FRENCH REVOLUTION, the unaddressed IMBALANCE maintains a LATENT TENSIONAL PRESENCE that will NEVER BE RESOLVED by PRETENDING that the PERIODIC ERUPTIONS of VIOLENCE are REALLY LOCAL, EXPLICIT phenomena, and NOT the product of unresolved NONLOCAL, IMPLICIT rather than LOCAL and EXPLICIT tensions. ARE WE MISTAKEN IN OUR LABELLING OF ERUPTIONS OF VIOLENCE IN LOCAL AND EXPLICIT EVENT based TERMS rather than acknowledging the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT influences which are their real but deeper origin? MAYBE, … MAYBE NOT! (There is a [Goedel’s Theorem] incompleteness to all finite logical propositions)
NOTE THAT WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS are commonly conditioned to think in terms of people as INDEPENDENT BEINGS, but the REALITY IS, as acknowledged in Modern physics, indigenous aboriginal, Taoist/Buddhist and Advaita Vedanta cultures, that we are INTERCONNECTED and INTERDEPENDENT by virtue of our being CONDENSATIONS of the all-including energy-charged PLENUM which means that we are like STRANDS in a WEB. This is THE REALITY that WESTERN CULTURE has NOT WIDELY WOKEN UP TO, largely due to the popularity and pervasiveness of BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC of the EXCLUDED MEDIUM based LANGUAGE and THINKING. BINARY LOGIC based linguistic conceptualizing IS TOO SIMPLE and cannot handle the NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM which supports the physical reality affirmed by Modern physics where the CONDENSATION (material form) is, AT THE SAME TIME, “BOTH ITSELF AND THE ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM IT IS INCLUDED IN”, which gives the STRAND-IN-THE-WEB relation.
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WE WESTERN CULTURE-CONDITIONED PEOPLE are “SO CONFIDENT” that “WE KNOW WHAT WE’RE TALKING ABOUT” that it makes MY JOB NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE, because MY JOB, THIS TASK I AM HEREWITH UNDERTAKING, IS TO EXPLAIN HOW WE WESTERN CULTURE-CONDITIONED PEOPLE are USING A WAY OF SPEAKING, WRITING and COMMUNICATING aka A FORM OF LANGUAGE, or “LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING” that is ROYALLY SCREWED UP.
Ideally, I should NOT be trying to share with you the STORY of HOW OUR LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME IS SCREWING UP OUR MIND, by a COMMUNICATION that is BASED ON WHAT I AM CLAIMING IS THE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME that is SCREWING UP OUR UNDERSTANDING. I think WE CAN GET AROUND THIS if we review the fact WE ARE CAPABLE OF LESS SIMPLE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING as well as the TOO-SIMPLE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING that does NOT SCREW UP OUR UNDERSTANDING. For example, YOU CAN UNDERSTAND ME if I say “TO EVERYTHING THERE IS A SEASON AND A TIME FOR EVERY PURPOSE”.
THAT IS, WE CAN UNDERSTAND THE TYPE (A) LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING wherein EVERYTHING IS IN CONTINUING FLUX so that our PARTICIPATION in the WORLD can be likened to getting one’s TIMING RIGHT as if getting into the CYCLIC REVOLUTIONS OF THE SKIPPING ROPE so that “MY ENTRÉES are in HARMONY WITH THE CYCLICITY OF THE SKIPPING ROPE”.
BUT THERE IS ALSO THE TYPE (B) LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING wherein WE ASSERTIVELY IMPOSE OUR NEW PLAN REGARDLESS of the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING situation by USING A ONE-SIDED MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING PROPOSITION such as WE ARE CONSTRUCTING A TOWN IN THE CLEARING WE MADE BY BULLDOZING DOWN TREES TO OPEN UP THE NEEDED “EMPTY RECEPTACLE” TO ACCOMMODATE OUR NEW CONSTRUCTION.
THE TYPE (A) LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZATION IS where the UNFOLDING RELATIONAL DYNAMIC WE SHARE INCLUSION IN “INVITES US TO PARTICIPATE”.
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting —
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
Wild geese by Mary Oliver
“TO EVERYTHING THERE IS A SEASON AND A TIME FOR EVERY PURPOSE”.
Emerson: Whilst a necessity so great caused the man to exist, his health and erectness consist in the fidelity with which he transmits influences from the vast and universal to the point on which his genius can act. The ends are momentary: they are vents for the current of inward life which increases as it is spent. A man’s wisdom is to know that all ends are momentary, that the best end must be superseded by a better. But there is a mischievous tendency in him to transfer his thought from the life to the ends, to quit his agency and rest in his acts: the tools run away with the workman, the human with the divine. (i.e. the human EGO runs away with the divine INSPIRATION).
Emerson is describing how EGO runs away with us, and this is the MISTAKE is the point I must bring to the fore and EXPLAIN “UP FRONT” in * * * THE WESTERN CULTURE PROBLEM and its REMEDY * * * , where we show how “WE” HAVE modified our LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME by DROPPING OUT the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING CONJUGATE and “GOING WITH ONLY THE MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING” as if in an ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE SPACE, a PSEUDO-EMPTY SPACE that we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS have SUBSTITUTED for the AMAZING WORLD THAT OFFERS ITSELF TO OUR IMAGINATION, CALLS TO US LIKE THE WILD GEESE, HARSH AND EXCITING, OVER AND OVER AGAIN ANNOUNCING OUR PLACE IN THE FAMILY OF THINGS.
HELLO, ONE-SIDED WESTERN CULTURE PSEUDO-REALITY BASED ON MALE ASSERTING/ACTIONS AND DEVELOPMENT AS IF WITHIN AN ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE (i.e. NON-PARTICIPATING) SPACE, where everything is FULLY AND SOLELY UP TO US thanks to the SIMPLIFIELD ONE-SIDED MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME WE HAVE DEVELOPED, …. GOODBYE FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING; i.e. the AMAZING WORLD THAT OFFERS ITSELF TO OUR IMAGINATION, CALLS TO US LIKE THE WILD GEESE, HARSH AND EXCITING, OVER AND OVER AGAIN ANNOUNCING OUR PLACE IN THE FAMILY OF THINGS.
The PRE-PUBLICATION DRAFT
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The data are coming together to say this to me, … WESTERN CULTURE is undergoing a kind of self-implosion which is captured by some (as in attached article by Gilchrist) as dropping out the RIGHT BRAIN and GOING SOLELY WITH THE LEFT BRAIN (in his two-brains model). Although I deal in wave-fields rather than split brain theory, he is clearly talking about a real shift in the general ‘understanding approach’ of WESTERN CULTURE which is tied to our differing LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING APPROACHES. That is, there are differences in LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING APPROACH between indigenous aboriginals who employ “FLOW-BASED” linguistic conceptualizing such as “THERE IS TOWNING IN THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE” wherein EVERYTHING IS IN FLUX INCLUDING OURSELVES, … to “BEING-BASED” linguistic conceptualizing such as “THE TOWN IS GROWING, DEVELOPING and PRODUCING goods”, and my friend HENRY is GROWING DEVELOPING and PRODUCING goods”.
I am ready to publish my understanding of what is going on here, which reviews the findings of Bohm, Vygotsky and others, and so I am open to receiving suggestions from anyone in regard to potential facilitators (people who edit and ‘coach’ the writer as to how to EFFECTIVELY present such materials). Or if anyone reading this may be interested in being a kind of EDITOR/ADVISOR, that could help me get these understandings of things into an appealing and digestible presentation form. (my contact address is emiliano@goodshare.org)
Basically, my presentation will take the reader (or listener or viewer) through an understanding of how our presentations to ourselves of our wave-field world, we have split into two conjugate parts (male asserting/actualizing and female accommodating/enabling AND THEN, DROPPED OUT THE FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING part (component) and SUBSTITUTED IN ITS PLACE, ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE SPACE, so that our LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING of REALITY has DRIFTED INTO a ONE-SIDED MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING based LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING scheme (e.g. we have shifted from ‘to everything there is a season and a time to every purpose’, to simply one-sided male asserting/actualizing constructs that DROP OUT the FEMALE ENVELOPE (the season which is somehow appropriate for certain types of action, as also implied in Shakespeare’s “there is a tide in the affairs of men…”. In terms of the conjugate relational combination of female accommodating/enabling (the appropriate season) and male asserting/actualizing action, what commonly happens in our WESTERN CULTURE linguistic conceptualizing is that while our actions continue to be inductively shaped by unfolding events, our language has shifted towards purely one-sided captures of WHAT WE DO (the male asserting/actualizing conjugate aspect) DROPPING OUT the predominating, ever-present female accommodating/enabling situation. YES, WE CAN MAKE OUR OWN ONE-SIDED PLANS OF MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING, AND CARRY THEM OUT without sensitivity to the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING conditions. For example, the CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE.
There is also the CONTRASTING views of ROBINSON CRUSOE who tried to reshape the SOUTH SEAS DESERTED ISLAND environment he was marooned on, into something more like what he had become accustomed to in European home situation, … and SUZANNE DE LA PACIFIQUE who was also marooned on a SOUTH SEAS DESERTED ISLAND and who, instead of imposing her FRENCH customs on her environment, opened herself up to a personal transformation putting her in HARMONY with the NEW ENVIRONMENT she found herself in. In other words, we are always in this confluence of what WESTERN CULTURE might call the NATURE-NURTURE influences based on the model of the HUMAN BEING which is notionally a SEPARATE and INDEPENDENT BEING with internal action asserting/actualizing powers as well as capabilities to respond and adapt to environmental influences. Such a model is BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC OF THE EXCLUDED MEDIUM based (there are either MATERIAL ENTITIES OR EMPTY SPACE and thus very different from the indigenous aboriginal and Modern physics understandings which are NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM based where the individual is an INTERCONNECTED and INTERDEPENDENT flow-feature in the TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM.
Vygotsky raises an important point (essential to in-depth understanding) here, in that WE CAN’T LEGITIMATELY SPLIT what is essentially the WAVE-FIELD into a PEAK (male asserting/actualizing) and a trough (female accommodating/enabling) and then KEEP THE MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING while TOSSING OUT THE FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING, … NOT BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE UNFAIR TO THE FEMALE COMPONENT but BECAUSE THESE TWO DO NOT SPLIT APART, THEY ARE FLIP SIDES OF A SINGLE COINAGE (which is why we have to have complex (real + imaginary) mathematics in dealing with our WAVE-FIELD reality. Vygotsky criticized Piaget for Piaget’s SPLITTING APART of SCIENTIFIC (local and explicit) and SPONTANEOUS (nonlocal and implicit) linguistic conceptualization, pointing out that these dual aspects of language are CONJUGATE and like the peak and trough of a wave, DO NOT SPLIT APART INTO TWO SEPARATE THINGS so that one could KEEP THE MALE ASSERTING PEAK and DROP OUT the encumbering FEMALE TROUGH as in our commonly used WESTERN CULTURE linguistic conceptualizing scheme..
This screw up appears to come from EGO supports the notion of LOCAL AUTHORING of actions and development which is NOT REAL but a fabrication based on the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR; e.g. ‘the TOWN is GROWING’ which makes no mention of the conjugate SHRINKING of WILDERNESS. ACHTUNG! NOTA BENE! We are making the same mistake that Piaget made that Vygotsky pointed out, THE GROWING OF THE TOWN and the SHRINKING of the WILDERNESS … ARE NOT TWO SEPARATE AND INDEPENDENT ACTIONS, they are CONJUGATE aspects of the ONE DYNAMIC of TRANSFORMATION of the overall LANDSCAPE. Vygotsky CATCHES PIAGET in making the MISTAKE of BUILDING INTO OUR WESTERN CULTURE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM the practice of teaching our children (too) SIMPLE BINARY LOGIC based linguistic conceptualizing. This is the source of many problems in WESTERN CULTURE social dynamics and it is the reason why WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS have NOT accepted, as makes sense and as the indigenous aboriginals and Modern physics have, the NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM as the foundation for linguistic conceptualizing. Vygotsky has pointed out this MAJOR ERROR which persists in the WESTERN CULTURE family of linguistic conceptualizing schemes.
“Though fundamentally different in nature, the development of scientific [local and explicit] and spontaneous [nonlocal and implicit] concepts represents two sides of the same concept formation” [implying a WAVE-BASED STRUCTURE].
“Our disagreement with Piaget centers on one point only, but an important point. He assumes that development and instruction are entirely separate, incommensurate processes, that the function of instruction is merely to introduce adult ways of thinking, which conflict with the child’s own and eventually supplant them. Such a supposition stems from the old psychological tradition of separating the structural from the functional aspects of development.” –Vygotsky
THIS is pointing to a FOUNDATIONALLY IMPORTANT ERROR in our WESTERN CULTURE linguistic conceptualizing scheme which Vygotsky is flagging; i.e. while our observations support a WAVE-FIELD based structure of the world we are living in and ‘talking about’, wherein the LOCAL and EXPLICIT MATERIAL FORMS AND THEIR ACTIONS ARE ONLY APPEARANCE (e.g. the TOWN is GROWING) while the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT ENERAGY-CHARED PLENUM is the REALITY (i.e. the LOCAL and EXPLICIT CONDENSATIONS of the PLENUM (wave-field) are only APPEARANCE (Schaumkommen, in Schroedinger’s language).
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