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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