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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;
* * * THE WESTERN CULTURE PROBLEM and its REMEDY * * *
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.
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