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Earth Day Call to ReGenesis

Eastern voices speak of suffering.

Western voices never,

nor death,

nor failure.

We groan with pain.

Eastern hearts speak gratitude.

Western voices seldom;

We talk the power of love.

An Eastern call to mindfulness

Draws Western starched effectiveness.

It is wrong to aspire effect

when not mindful of intent.

The cart leads the horse

graceless

imprisoned

bound to stumble.

It is wrong

to replace gratitude

with the hope of love

when love blooms only where gratitudes grow together,

for pleasure and grace,

beauty and laughter.

Gratitude is love’s leprechaun.

It is wrong to have so much

I can postpone my pain

by ignoring your suffering.

When I find grace,

gratitude,

leaving you to suffer

without the rest of us

embarrasses me.

Suffering seeks an inclusive fair;

Climatic shifts fuel despair.

It shrieks of separate.

Fair distance calls my gratitude

for hope

you will notice

and care for me

and I for you

and yours.

I,

last remnant of the Industrial Age,

stretch back with toxic baton.

Embarrassed,

yet not sure we could do better.

But you,

first glint of the Information Age,

Transitional Re-Generation;

Hear your Shambhala Call:

Regenerate our planet,

watch and hear yourselves

sing and march and dance

listen and understand and incarnate

We Are The World

synerlusciously

on every cell

every lap

every radio

every monitor

every prison

every asylum

every voice

every heart

every tear in every eye

a tear of gratitude

to belong together,

for respect

for caring for ourselves

each other

our Earth.

You can do this;

and you will.

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Faith Questions Fear

How do you hear me

without words?

How do you know what to hear?

 

Do you hear what I think

While I rinse out your sink?

Its more clear to be near how you hear.

 

Sometimes you’re up,

Most time you’re down;

I love your smile

But draw your frown.

 

We come alone

and so we leave

to flights of freedom

or fear.

 

It’s hard living queer

to not disappear,

out of sight out of mind,

out of faith, out of fear.

It’s more sane to be clear,

we all need

to be here

for each other’s real name to appear.

 

How do you see me

without eyes?

Where do you see what I feel?

 

When you lie there alone

While I drone on the phone,

I need to touch and be touched to be seen.

 

How can you know me

while you shout,

That its hard to be with me

so alone.

How can you show me

what you’ve not yet found,

That I need what you need to be here.

 

Why do I disappear

when you build the nerve

to draw near?

 

Why do you disappear

leaving me standing here,

frowning as I remember my name?

 

 

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The Regenerative Design Interview

I am working with a group of people who want to buy a 14-acre rotting estate and convert it into an ecovillage. As I pass by the half dozen log cabin structures, built around a rheumatic, yet lushly charming, apple orchard, my amazement at their intrepid courage propels me toward their future nearest neighbor.

Actually, their only future neighbor residing within a mile of the wildly abandoned estate. My job is to represent the Solidarity Ecovillage intention to this neighbor, and invite her to participate in a permaculture design interview.  Basically, we want to find out if she is with us, against us, couldn’t care less about us one way or the other, and, if her reaction suggests an ally, to include her, and her aspirations for her own property, in the Ecovillage development plan.

The neighbor’s name is Gaia. Gaia What, no one seems to know. There are rumors, mostly benign and gentle, that she roots back to the Iroquois, and is eccentric in a shaman-ish way. This should be interesting.

Gaia: Who are you?

Me: My name is Gerald Oliver, and I am here on behalf of your future neighbors to learn how we can be good neighbors for you.

Gaia: I have been expecting your question for rather too long. It is a good question, an important one, so I wrote them some suggestions about what I think would be helpful.

Here, take it with you. If you have any further questions after reading it, you are welcome to return any time. My home is your home.

And with that, Gaia handed me a scroll and gently, but firmly, almost abruptly, closed her heavy door.

Eventually I closed my mouth, turned around, headed back toward the orchard where I knew of the perfect log, and the perfect vista, for reading–most anything–but especially this Gaia scroll.

The late-morning sun radiated gentle October warmth as I opened the scroll:

Dear Neighbors,

Thank you for your compassionate intent to practice remembering that we are all in this mess, and this potential paradise, together.

There are 4 interdependent principles in learning how to live regeneratively on this planet.

The first of these you have heard from land use planners, real-estate agents, community and economic developers: Notice the potential highest and best use of all resources and nutrients, all property, all people, all species.

The second is similar,but moves from noticing, toward understanding, from using to sustaining. How can we achieve the most abundant effect, and affect, with the least effort, cost, dissonance, chaos?

Combining these first two principles results in the Golden Rule of Regenerative Development: Optimize integrity by deeply learning inclusively holistic potential. In other words, intend and practice today what we all want to wake up to tomorrow. 

Our greatest, most holistic, most resilient, most regenerative potential is discovered through Deep Listening together, the intentional practice of compassion. Deep Learning begins with deeply listening, noticing, and slowly, integrally, inclusively discerning a shared vision of optimized potential intent. This is true whether your shared vocation is to build a regenerative interior landscape, or exterior landscape. It is optimally and inclusively and resiliently true if your intent is to build a regenerative interior/exterior landscape together. Our species’ “Commons,” like the Commons of your Solidarity EcoVillage, expands inward and outward, fertilized by rich, abundant, diversity when we notice, listen, and fully value our current situation.

Fully valuing our current potential brings us to the 3rd principle of Regenerative Development: the Principle of Complementarity. Our Species’ Interior Landscape AND Exterior Landscape are complementary perspectives on one thermodynamically balanced NATURAL Landscape. Humans, at our best, bicamerally learn about our profoundly balanced and harmonious potential within a richly nutritious ecology of nutrients, energy. The “essential orientation of human nature,” to borrow a phrase from the 14th Dalai Lama is scientifically and religiously emerging as the essential orientation of all nature: thermodynamic balance is an Exterior Landscape way of cognizing the theo-dynamic balance of our Interior Landscape.

What we are trying to become, our teleological, and thermodynamic, mission as Earth’s bicamerally-reflective Species, with least effort and cost, suffering and resistance, violence and dissonance, is our highest and best regenerative potential. The most abundantly valued vocation for every intentional community, every faith community, every school, every farm, every government, every recreation center, every health care facility, every human service agency, every family, every individual, is to become the very best balanced Regenerative Research and Design Center possible, given current situations, developing compassionate understanding of complementarity between our natural Interior and Exterior Landscapes.

In our inclusive Research and Design ecology, we recognize communication and thought as information nutrients, with the potential to build up or dissemble, to increase confluence, or contribute to dissonance. The Principle of Complementarity is both spatially and temporally dimensioned. Its spatial dimension spreads across the Interior and Exterior natural landscapes. Its temporal flow dimension is either toward confluence, or toward dissonance, with complementary balance defined in physics and systems theory as intrinsic thermodynamically-valued polarity. What goes up must come down. What goes in must come back out.

The intrinsic value-balance within all religions, all faith paradigms, follows these same complementary patterns: As before, so after. As above, so below. As within, so without. If Self, then Other. If Yang, then Yin. If Becoming (regenerating), then Being. If sociotherapy, then sociopathology. If sociopathology, then sociotherapy.  If confluence, then the potential for dissonance. If dissonance, then the potential for confluence. As theo-dynamism within, so thermo-dynamism without.

The 4th principle of Regenerative Development is the Principle of Holistic Subsidiarity. In systems theory, optimized abundant values matriculate up from integrated/confluent individuals and families, through neighborhoods, to communities, sub-regions, regions, and globally inclusive ecological integrity. There is no such thing as a “natural” division between sustainable economic wealth and ecological integrity. Economies are value-transfer systems within the ecology of our relationships.

The Principle of Subsidiarity is commonly understood, and sometimes practiced, as retaining choice authority at the lowest effective level of function. The form of our self-governance wisely follows functional practice and intent. It is most holistically efficient to leave our current effectiveness at the lowest level of functional autonomy. If I find my life and environment to be richly nutritious, satisfying, meaningful, fulfilling, then it would be a violation of this Principle of Subsidiarity for the Solidarity EcoVillage to even intend to fix what I believe is not broken.

Our current suffering has to do with those times, places, situations, when there is disagreement about which is most important, the Principle of Holistic Subsidiarity or the Principle of Complementarity. For example, if I am a cancerously expanding tumor within your brain, then you and I would probably disagree about which is the currently effective lowest level of functional autonomy. If I am a parasitic species, overpopulating and devouring a planetary ecosystem, causing great trauma to the planet, such as climatic dissonance and the extinction of species diversity, then the Principle of Complementarity reminds us to listen to our pathology because it is our complementary and wise instruction.

We recognize communication and  thoughts as nutrient-value events. The lack of healthy, balanced nutrients is implicated, or potentiated, information of great value because of our faith in holisitic subsidiarity, and balanced thermodynamic complementarity. If we have a Whole System, then we have subsidiary parts. If the subsidiary parts forget the Principle of Holistic Subsidiarity, forget that efficacy is discerned within our intention for sustained whole-system regeneration, then our resulting sociopathology reminds us that our Internal/External health and wealth find therapeutic value by improving their complementarity. This provides us with both a positive and negative feedback loop. Both loops are needed for regenerative self-care, people-care, and Earth-care. Dissonance teaches us about the possibility of confluence. Confluence teaches us about the synchronization of balanced holistic subsidiarity.

The Principle of Complementarity is to Yang-imbalance as the Principle of Subsidiarity is to Yin-imbalance. The natural law of thermodynamic polarity balance, whole-system harmony, holds together all four Deep Ecology principles of regenerative systems development.

 

“Waste” is inefficiency, loss, dissonance and is heuristically held as a potential resource; a suffering that may teach us something we would like to learn. Waste, loss, harm management are all about planning sustained self-organization and self-maintenance through balanced sub-system subsidiarity and whole-system complementarity. This balance optimizes learning (highest and best use of our information ecology) while minimizing loss of thermodynamic balance, or dissonance, and ineffective sustenance, internally and externally.

Community builders, faith community organizers, intentional community developers, public dialogue facilitators, economists, ecologists, even lobbyists, recognize that where you end up is hugely and persistently boundaried by where you start out. Our self-regenerating landscapes value diversely entwined root systems, mutually defining and enriching, mutually protecting and promoting, nutritiously and lavishly seeded investments that will flower to reincarnate our Original Intent, our hope-filled active gratitude for Re-Creating most fully and bountifully together forever. Regenerative intention is the faith infrastructure that underlies the universe of religion, ecology, and Systems Design. Permaculture Design is our ecosystemic metaphor currently on pilgrimage toward a holistic, thermodynamic, Regenerative Systems Development Theory of permanent evolution.

Speaking of evolution, some of the Solidarity EcoVillage wanna-be’s are familiar with Thomas Kuhn’s Theory of Scientific Revolutions. Kuhn became somewhat obsessed with an issue about knowledge; the Problem of Incommensurability. How can we be sure that we are using language to signify the same thing, or different things, or things that stand in the same relationship to other things, or not? How can we predict if a new idea will lead to the evolution of an entirely new paradigm, a new scientific theory, or whether it will not really become part of our culture, our way of seeing the world? How can I be sure that my values are, or are not, commensurable with your values, your thoughts, your communications, what feeds you, or causes you despair or anguish and suffering? How can I reliably predict that what I propose, what I notice and try to understand, will inform your interior landscape in the same way that it informs mine?

A theory of regenerative evolution responds to Kuhn’s Problem of Incommensurability with recognizing dissonance and complexity as more than hopeless suffering and confusion. We intend and practice active Complementarity, a compassionate faith that within dissonance lies the fertilizer of potential information. The issue of imbalance between intentions, the disparities of diverse practices and pilgrimages and paradigms, contains the seeds of a universally commensurable meaning. In this way, our pathological fears and concerns point us toward hope and faith in the potential for a more deeply integrated relationship. Compassion, empathy, Deep Learning, plus significant dissonant complexity, inspires revolutionary development toward understanding, integrity, resilience, inclusively rich information and nutrition; solidarity.

Our thermodynamically-balanced exterior informs our theo-dynamic interior, as Permaculture Design potentiates Regenerative Creation.  The difference between Deep Learning and Deep Ecology is that one actively hopes for interior regeneration while the other also hopes for exterior regeneration.

Your grateful neighbor,

Gaia

As I rolled up the fragile scroll, I couldn’t think of any more questions, so I headed back home, not quite the same way I had arrived.

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Regenerative Allies: Habitat and Transition Teams

I sent this to the Hartford, CT, Habitat for Humanity chapter, Habitat International and to http://www.transitionnetwork.org. About regenerative and strategic partnerships informed by Bucky Fuller’s Trimtab, greatest effect for least effort, leverage design.  But, also related to land use policy of “highest and best use.”

To the Board of Directors, Habitat for Humanity—Hartford:

 

Warm greetings and congratulations on 200+ low-income homeownership units during your first 25 years!  Perhaps searching for a new Executive Director is not everyone’s favorite way of celebrating a 25 year anniversary; but there is much precedent and I want to encourage you to take this as an opportunity to look at this transition toward a vision that will serve the next several generations.

 

I have been around Connecticut and affordable housing, economic, and (0) carbon-footprint development since 1991. During the early 90s I was on the Board for Habitat in New Haven and did some consulting with the folks in Americus that led to federal grants for property acquisition, designed specifically to fit with the HforH mission. Then I worked with the YouthBuild-Hartford program for several years and, in that context, brought the first youth-targeted Individual Development Account program to the State of Connecticut.  I also helped form Cheshire Interfaith Housing to retain its indigenous Cheshire leadership and autonomy, while also working on projects in partnership with Habitat-New Haven.  This is a model that I believe has been used elsewhere to avoid the inefficiencies of balkanization of development corporations while enjoying the strengths of local faith-community leadership within each municipality. This organizational structure may be worth considering if you decide to move forward with a project in Cromwell that I have referred in your direction; the Tanner property.

 

With that as personal introduction, please forgive me for ruminating, perhaps at rather too much length, about the strategic issues faced by Habitat for Humanity globally, but also in Hartford County specifically.

 

Twenty-five years ago we defined “inadequate housing” much differently than we think about “unsustainable habitat” today, in North America. Back in the “growth-is-the-answer-to-all-systemic-problems” days of community development, we rightly gave priority to ownership and to affordability when we used adjectives like “decent” and “adequate” and “revitalized” in reference to housing and neighborhoods. Ownership and affordability remain tightly linked to sustainability, but continuing commitment to Business As Usual in the construction industry, use and reuse of materials and resources, the environment, our financial economy, our schools, our aging neighborhood infrastructures, our soaring fuel and energy costs, our continuing despair over health and child and elder care, and growing income disparity is evaporating within the religious sector. A permaculturally rich global and neighborhood habitat for humanity is increasingly informed by an interfaith eco-equity value system that asks “What on earth is adequate housing in Hartford County” from a profoundly different millennial perspective than Millard Fuller asked in Alabama.

 

So I arrive at Hartford Habitat’s mission, to “eliminate inadequate housing” in a 33-town Hartford area, thinking more like a soon-to-be-Certified Permaculture Designer, as well as an interfaith theologian, wanting to understand how we are going to jump from less than 10 units/year, on average, to address the habitat adequacy challenges of approximately 350,000 households in Hartford County.  A truly strategic plan must confront that question with candor, integrity, drawing on the strength of experience during the first 25 years, but also recognizing that habitat issues have moved into an environmentally critical arena of systems analysis.

My work in affordable housing, community, economic, and now permaculture systems development, has often benefitted from what Unitarian Buckminster Fuller called the “Trimtab” leverage question.  How do we get the most effect with the least effort? In a Deep Ecology, and faith, context, we are asking, both within our congregations, and without, Given our eco-equity challenges, where do we discover our most abundant hope for metanoia, for transformation, for regeneration? What is our shared habitat vocation?

 

The Tellus Institute (www.tellusinstitute.org) takes this question into the 21st Century of computer simulation to offer us some comparative projections linking economic and ecological sustainability. We find the most abundantly sustainable trajectory in their Great Transition paradigm:

 

  • Reuse/recycle/incorporate materials and energy to increase the ecosystem’s regenerative capacity.

 

  • Strategically envision for the long-term (i.e., the “7-Generation” perspective of Native American cultures).

 

  • Increase inclusion and diversity in socio-ecological systems therapy.

 

  • Reinsert “humans” into our holistically inclusive concerns for sacred-nature equitable outcomes: optimized and sustainable solidarity, community, health and well-being for all individuals and species.

 

  • Enhance public choice-making to improve consensus (decrease polarization) and eco² [my own symbol for the combination of “economic” and “ecological”] sustainability.

 

  • Strengthen our eco² outcomes by folding in habitat-strengthening cooperative approaches to child care, education, health, pensions, elder care, nutrition, energy-production, acquiring both perishables and non-perishables, landscaping, self-care, employment as vocation.

 

  • Increase public and private investment in cooperative research and design, with specific priority for eco² sustainable well-being.

 

  • Develop and advocate new tax and financial institution regulatory policies and incentives to increase social capital investments. Grow a policy and investment infrastructure that reverses the trend toward economic disparity by committing our wealth deposits and property to a new cooperative-oriented economy of long-term sustainability.

 

  • Remember the Principle of Subsidiarity, and keep it holy, or holistic. In Whole Open Systems Theory, optimized abundant values matriculate up from integrated/confluent individuals and families, through neighborhoods, to communities, sub-regions, regions, and globally inclusive eco² integrity.

 

  • Re-member the PermaCultured Principle of Complementarity: The human-natural interior landscape and the exterior natural landscape inform, and mutually define, each other in a Deep Learning and Listening sacred process of sustainable regeneration. This is our Species’ interfaith hope; it is permanently encultured in all religious traditions and faith paradigms. It is our source of gratitude for Creation as a sacred gift.

 

Religious institutions, congregations, mosques, synagogues, ashrams, intentional communities, scientific communities, and think-tanks, even bionic intelligence, are discovering greatest effect for least effort by noticing the sociotherapeutic value of Deep Eco-Justice, Deep Learning, Deep Ecology, Regenerative Systems design and development. Faith communities that have worked on their “Interior Landscape Design” and their “Exterior Landscape Design” are emergently aware of synchronization around a slower cooperative economic-ecology of nutrient value abundance. As a Regenerative Faith Species, we long for nature balance, for goodness and beauty within and without, while retaining our values for effectiveness, optimized system function, fairness, freedom, inclusion, diversity, gratitude, hope, faith, love.  Vibrant communities of intent, and intentional families, and intentional individuals, are those who holistically practice eco-equity caring for self, other people, and our planet. These three habitats, journeys, pilgrimages, are an integrally Trinitarian conversation.

 

We are remembering the permacultured time when what was good ecologically was understood as what was best economically because they were the same agrarian-natural value system.  Prior to currency, this was obvious in the short terms of life and death growing seasons, and in the longer terms of a “7-Generation” hope for the sustainable future. Economic values separated from ecological values as we forgot that human nature is intrinsically tied to all organic nature. We share RNA back to a tap root much older than the “self” consciousness of our species.

 

I wonder how many Habitat volunteers and property owners identify themselves as global citizens more readily than members of a particular religious institution. If we are many, what can all of us global-habitat citizens from diverse faith communities, and neighborhoods, and families, do to strategically enrich our interior and exterior habitats?

 

 

The Habitat Hartford strategic plan does look for strengthening the Interior Landscape of the staff culture, and does aspire to strengthen the Exterior Landscape through developing ally partnerships. Both of these strategies could be envisioned from a Business-As-Usual perspective, or from a more Great Transition perspective.  At this point it is probably clear where I would put my time and money, but I want to conclude with a more specific resource partnership suggestion. Theology, theory, even computer simulated scenario projections to the year 2100 are all fine and well, but Habitat for Humanity core volunteers tend to like something closer to nuts and bolts, hammers and nails.

 

Perhaps you are familiar with the Transition Network (www.transitionnetwork.org), which originated in the UK, and now has a National Hub in California. I have no direct experience with being part of a Transition Team, although I know there have been some projects in New England. I recently accepted an invitation to comment on their new strategic plan.  Perhaps that is why they come to mind as a potential resource for incarnating HH’s Interior and Exterior Landscape improvement goals.

 

The Transition Network has a fairly well developed eco²-equity culture, and their mission is to help local volunteer groups, with emphasis on building adolescent and young adult leadership, improve their ecological and economic habitats. They have many on-line resources, project stories, and the intent to increase on-line communication and financial resource networking, including, perhaps, the capacity to link projects internationally.  So, for example, if HH wanted to take on a neighborhood improvement and house renovation project while building communication and financial linkages to a Habitat project in Haiti, the Transition Network could probably help you with that.  If a cluster of Cromwell faith communities wanted to organize and support a HH new construction project in Cromwell, linked to a new construction project in South America, or Africa, or not, the Transition Network (TN) resources and fundraising and organizing support system is as accessible as a laptop or smart phone.

 

TN as a Habitat ally, locally, and internationally, seems particularly compelling to me because there is great potential for participating faith communities to develop an inclusive interfaith permacultured eco-justice formation that could capture the imagination and momentum of high school kids and young adults.  This is the age group most needed for a successful Great Transition, for successful Habitat projects, for vibrantly growing faith communities, and it is the age group of priority to the Transition Network.

 

If there were an interest in developing urban neighborhood interfaith, and suburban community interfaith youth EcoMinistry Teams working on HH and TN Interior-Exterior Landscape Care Designs for Self, Others, and Earth, while that is rather a mouthful, I might be able to help with that. These could also be urban/suburban yoked for increased eco²equity—greatest effect for least effort might also include international yoking, if HH might have a Habitat affiliate, or a TN affiliate, or everybody affiliated with everybody. In terms of religious maturation, this is also the time when we may be losing kids from intentional faith communities because they are more interested in spending some time discovering how their own spiritual path is informed by the “Religious Commons,” what is held as sacred by all faith traditions. This is precisely why Habitat and each of the religious traditions invested in Habitat and eco-justice need each other.

 

Resilient learning development systems help us understand “self” identity most effectively in an intentionally diverse environment, with others who we may primordially see as not like me. This seems to be true in all regenerative economies, whether they be pedagogical, spiritual, financial, communication, or possibly even genetic information systems. A Habitat-TN youth EcoMinistry, intentionally diverse and interfaith, could be regeneratively powerful at the local, national, and global levels.

 

 

The Tellus Institute forecasts an emergent Co-Operative CommonWealth. Some things that might emerge from Solidarity Habitat Co-Operatives:

 

Neighborhoods self-organize to cooperatively build solar or wind infrastructure, compost, organize Community Farm Associations, design organic, edible landscapes and gardens, open neighborhood cooperative stores and libraries to ReHabitat clothing, toys, books, tools, seeds, organic fertilizers, mulch.

Neighborhood cooperatives could fulfill multiple functions: child and elder care, employment support groups, homeschooling (maybe even with a “school nurse”), food banks, tax assistance, classes in nonviolent communication, writing, entrepreneurial development, natural construction and crafts, permaculture design, interfaith dialogue, cooking, yoga, Tai Chi, meditation.

With Habitat support, neighborhood cooperative centers might facilitate the formation of residential cooperative ownership in partnership with interested (and often absentee) property owners.

 

Faith communities might help individuals invest in CDFIs, cooperative loan funds, and do so themselves, if they have not already committed any investments in this direction (although many have been global leaders in disinvestment from sociopathology and reinvestment in sociotherapeutic economies).

 

Faith communities could work within their neighborhoods to convert lawns to beautiful and edible landscape designs that are self-regenerating and require no long-term care.  The plants provide shade to each other so watering is seldom needed, if ever.  They cross-pollinate and bring balanced nutrients into the soil.  They self-mulch.  Then the faithful may learn to see that, with sufficient diversity and some re-sourcing ingenuity, we can often take care of each other in ways that are analogous to the ways that our well-designed ecosystems take care of each other.

 

Faith communities might host the neighborhood cooperative schools and stores and libraries, as so many already do.

 

Faith communities might further develop our eco-justice agendas to attend more fully to public sector policies and procedures that would decrease income disparity while enriching the new cooperative, and regenerative, economy.

 

Habitat for Humanity is well-poised to help us move toward a more nutritious and inclusive, more affordable with less effort, regenerative interfaith journey. The Transition Network might be a useful ally, and the locally planted Habitat infrastructure and culture could help TN with some of their own sustainability concerns.  Their all-volunteer, no paid staff, model does help keep the momentum on youth leadership, but young people have a way of going off to college, transitioning to new jobs in new locations. Perhaps the combination of Habitat for Humanity and Transition Network and interfaith volunteer networks is just what we all need to cross-pollinate and regenerate ourselves into the Great Transition.

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Order of Universalist Unitarian Intent

I have a concept for a dissertation.  Want to “think it out loud” to you to get your visceral reaction about whether this feels like a fit for the Holistic Theology program and whether you would, could, recommend a “faculty advisor” for the topic.

Working Title: Regenerative EcoTherapy Development  and Universal Research and Design

[“Eco,” as in EcoTherapy, is a double-intent abbreviation for both ecology and economics. EcoMinistry always holds these two paradigms as inextricably bound values that became separated when humans began to perceive themselves as alien from nature; contrary to the aboriginal Original Intent understanding of Gaia.

Thesis: Universal faith paradigms, including OUnI and the Unitarian Universalist Association,  are explicit actors in the human species’ holistic therapy design process. They are also implicit explorers of a regenerative theory of global evolution. Whole Open Systems Development Theory is a universalist design paradigm now quickly, and ergetically, unfolding to reveal a Regenerative Theory of Integral Evolution.

 

Antithesis: Dividing the resources and continuing evolution, the EcoMinistry power and values, of integral interfaith networks, epitomized by OUnI, from the UUA infrastructure is transparently inefficient and costly, a sacrifice to the power of our shared Sociopathology Myth.

Implications: If EcoMinistry follows PermaCulture Design principles that are widely accepted as meeting Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) and LEED energy efficiency standards, then OUnI and UUA might want to give universal strategic planning priority to:

1. cross-recognition of each other’s ordinations–EcoMinisters would have dual ordination as UUA Interfaith EcoMinisters,

2. AIHT and UUA blended academic and M.Div. preparatory institutions offering interdependently accessible class offerings, incorporating face-time requirements for those who choose UUA physical classroom options and those who may also choose AIHT on-line-only options (retaining autonomous fee-structures),

3.  developing an inclusive public sector EcoEquity tax and public revenue global advocacy agenda.  This EcoEquity Universal Value Agenda will be carefully rooted in PermaCultured regenerative development principles of equity, nonviolence, and Cooperative-Gratitude Original Intent Prime Relationship Assumption. This Prime Relationship Assumption (geometrically, biometrically, and eco-theologically expressed by Buckminster Fuller, a Universalist) is continuously, and therapeutically, incarnated in proto-historic, aboriginal, nature-based, value systems. Earth, water, air, information, and health belong to the Holistic Gaia Commons; their intrinsic values are the basis for our species’ cooperative economy. This intrinsic value cannot be consumed, bought, or sold; but can be noticed, understood, explored, discovered, developed, enculturated, planted, harvested, facilitated, learned, synergized, replicated, and regenerated. The Gaia Commons is our bicameral species’ therapeutic design space for healing our pre-cameral Sociopathology Myth (see Julian Jaynes, John Bargh, and Edward Podvoll regarding sanity, pathology, and Right-hemispheric pre-conscious awareness).

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The Wealth Economy: Turning from Competition to Cooperation

Toward a PermaCultured Cooperative Financial Exchange Ecoministry

Just because someone is religious doesn’t necessarily mean that that person, or corporate person, doesn’t have an embarrassment of riches.

I look back over my 30 years in community building, 20 years as a grants and contracts researcher, writer, and manager, and have a profound discomfort with our philanthropic economy, with how it works as an economic system.  It is highly inefficient.  It has learned nothing about cooperative systems development theory; and seems to show no systemic value for the cost-effective benefits of returning to the community the wealth from which the wealth originated, as effectively as possible.

 I could probably write a book about cooperative economic theory; which no one would read.  So, let me give a specific example of an alternative model that has merit for consideration.

Today, if you are graduating from high school in the U.S., you can fill out one master application form and submit it to a central network for consideration.  I believe every college and university in the U.S. can acquire access to that information (not sure about information confidentiality boundaries, but let’s assume that this now becomes public information).  If a higher ed institution is seriously interested in having you join their student body, then they may ask you for a little supplemental info.

If a networked application system can work for individuals seeking a social investment in their personal contributions to society, then why on earth do we need 10 to 20 separate on-line sites for cooperative neighborhood and community, and regional groups to post who they are, what they have done to assess their shared values for the future, what they want to do, and what outcomes they expect, and how much money they need to do that?  Maybe diversity is a good thing in that regard.  Assuming that it is, why wouldn’t we want the stewards of our wealth to proactively harvest this information, organized so they could search for their specific social investment priorities and service territories, and consider these postings as applications for funding worthy of being treated like any customized application sent specifically to their overworked, tired, exhausted, frustrated grant officers who have a stack of applications sitting on their desks, most of which have only moderate synergy with what their Board of Directors wants to fund right now? I wonder how many grant officers have told me they feel like screening editors in a Publishing House, wading through stacks of material that they have to read just because somebody sent it specifically to them; not because it necessarily has anything to do with what they are hoping to support.

Perhaps the wealth deposit stewards could form a Cooperative Philanthropic Network that would help them figure out who gets to invest  how much in our intentional community vocations? The Ashoka Foundation comes to mind as one that has tried to blend their grants with a social investment format, but it is cumbersome primarily in its isolation from a broader network of opportunity.  And, the underlying economic assumption continues to be a competition between value outcomes that would work more optimally, and sustainably, within a cooperative economy.

The main beneficiaries of the current philanthropic system are grant writers and managers, foundation grant officers and senior executives, and the financial institutions that are managing the wealth deposits without (as a general rule) any consideration of value other than the accumulation of more capital, so the foundations can invest the interest only back into the community. But God only knows what permacultural crisis their stock portfolio is supporting in communities across our overheated planet.

Meanwhile fossil-fuel based wealth deposit growth is starting to slow down and our kids are increasingly recognizing that their adult reality will be lived out in a major realignment of social and economic systems, trending toward becoming information and communication-based. They will either re-learn how to live in a cooperatively balanced ecology and economy, or their kids will face some serious survival yuck.

If we have a shared vocation as a species to fix this, it seems like the prophetic voices are those who are participating in these stewarded public conversations.  Is it appropriate for the D&D practitioner community to profile our wealth management system as a shared social investment values problem? Do communication facilitators inappropriately step out of their role if they speak collectively as a community that has been listening to regular people talk about what they want and don’t want for their futures and their childrens’ futures, and what that implies about a better, more efficient and effective, system for social investment than what we do now?

I’m not trying to bite the hand that has fed me so effectively during my career, but I do wonder if our wealth investment system is cancerously leaking our own life blood.  And, it seems like it would be fairly easy to fix, if we wanted to.

One week later:

I am currently trying out a prototype survey to use with individuals, families, and project teams.  I need to be a bit more sure that this will be viable as a format to begin what the Mondragon educators refer to as personal development.
 I am waiting for a book I just learned about that is something about spiral and integral learning and communication development process.  It sounds like there might be considerable confluence with sociocracy.
I had a highly resonant reaction to the Mundukide Foundation’s mission statement and what it sounds like they are trying to do.  I am wondering if it would be possible to gather religious sector philanthropists into a collaboration with cooperative and permaculture/ecological network agencies at  national and international levels to rethink our philanthropic economy as one that could be based on direct meme-value, rather than capital value. It seems like we might need an incarnation of this collaboration at a regional level to draw on as a resource for a more global aspiration. In other words, if a permaculture cooperative network were learning how to invest in shared social value enterprises and vocations in the CT River Valley (its only obvious advantage being that is where I happen to live right now–not that there is any infrastructure in place that looks particularly promising) and beginning to sync and develop more cooperative efficiency and economic inclusiveness for marginalized populations, then we could tell that story as a way of helping each other think about what that might look like globally.
Both the research and philanthropic grant sectors are increasingly drawn toward cooperative enterprises for learning, and for providing services. However, both grant sectors still use competitive processes to attract and process proposals.  Even as enlightened an entity as the Buckminster Fuller Institute’s Fellowship program uses this model (and if institutional culture should understand the efficiencies of synergetics I would think it would be the BFI).  I was reading through a list of their 10 finalists in 2013, of which they were probably only going to actively work with one.  That is their structure.  But, there were 3 of those 10 that were basically the same idea (something to do with a new design to bring potable water to villages with dysfunctional wells, if I remember correctly), but the focus was on three different areas of the planet, and their design concepts were probably not entirely redundant.  Even so, if I could take a cursory glance at their list of finalists and see how much more bang for their buck we could all potentially get by helping those 3 finalists work together, well, you can finish that sentence for yourself.
Imagine what might happen if we had 10 seasoned grant writers actively scanning the 10 most active social investment websites for cooperative potential between proposed projects with similar missions and compatible outcomes.  These grant “brokers” are acting as a collaborative team, sharing information about emergent trends and shaping potential multiple partners into effective cooperative partners with a shared revenue resource. If this Cooperative Research and Philanthropy Team was connected to a network of philanthropists, they could act as a communication hub between the wealth deposits and a portfolio of synchronized cooperative ventures needing grants and, possibly, loans.
There are a couple of advocacy dimensions to this cooperative economic development proposal.  One is that religious and other “we are all in this together” oriented wealth deposit managers really need to talk to their grantor and social investor colleagues about their investment portfolios; encouraging more and more of them to invest larger and larger portions of their portfolios in community-value-driven vocations/enterprises, rather than financial bottom-line corporations that may be using our capital wealth for purposes that are not sustainable, potentially doing far more harm with the philanthropist’s money than the interest that they spend on grants does good.  Most religious sector philanthropists have divested of investments that are ecologically counter-productive. If this trend became normative for wealthy foundations and individuals all across the planet, then a capital-accumulation valued economy might begin turning around toward a cooperative development valued economy and ecology.
The second area of potential advocacy has to do with tax structure. If wealth deposit managers took the lead in talking to government officials and other people in the top 1% globally about the havoc their accumulation is causing to the entire ecosystem, perhaps we could arrive at some consensus that the top 1% of earners each year (after taxes) could afford to either invest maybe 80% of that after-tax net income in cooperative/environmentally sustainable enterprises/vocations/habitations or pay that amount in taxes.  In this way, the top 1% (subtracting last year’s income from last year’s taxes/social investments) would cycle each year.  It would be only the most cancerously growing, self-isolating, wealth deposits that would pay the ultra-high pay-back tax, or social investment, rate in consecutive years.
Then maybe we could think about doing something similar, but at a lower rate, for the top 2 to 5%, then the top 6 to 10%.  Reverse-trending wealth deposits toward a cooperative and inclusive economy might mean that the meme, or Information, value of currency would self-balance, if done globally and incrementally.  Maybe we wouldn’t need Community Currency barter-exchange transfer records if we re-oriented our wealth deposits to actually serve our sustainable socioeconomic and cultural values.
But, this all needs to be talked about, especially by people who are already invested in permacultured systems-analysis and design, cooperative workers and residers, New Economy and Natural Resource and Whole Systems thinkers, and the religious/spiritual sector.
My personal paradigm is what is emerging under the label “EcoMinistry.” The difference between human service and ministry is that service is something a provider brings to a client while ministry is something that two or more people do together, from a position of solidarity. Eco is short for ecology, but it also works for economy; as an ecologically informed economy.  So, in my sometimes not-so-humble perspective, we are an emerging species of ecoministers. This is about how we live sustainably together under the assumption that the Golden Rule always and inclusively applies to all species and all systems and all paradigms and all traditions and all memes, and all communication. It is a philosophy of mutually-assured nonviolence and affinitive hope.
 I believe I know of a handful of foundation people regionally and nationally who would like to have this agenda spelled out theoretically and then described in terms of project activities, development trajectory, and budgeting. That is the direction I am taking and I am actively looking for a core design and consulting team toward that end.
None of this is intended to distract from the primacy of working directly with small groups of marginalized kids and young adults, more or less following the Mondragon pedagogical model of personal development, leading to social development, leading to shared vocational teamwork and intentional community-building.  I find myself drawn to “deep listening” and “deep learning” models that are confluent with nonviolent communication and lifestyle paradigms. My 17 year old son and I are taking a University of Stanford MOOG starting on January 20th on the Deep Learning pedagogical model. We are also both taking a Permaculture Design Certification class. We are planning to apply what we learn with kids and young adults failing to thrive in the transition from poor learning environments into employment.  Our emphasis will be on developing core healthy relationships to build shared, sustainable, vocations. (which I will choose to think of as ecoministry, but I won’t scare everyone with that concept, I think; at least not the first day). Our local headquarters is called the Auerfarm 4H Education Center, an independent non-profit, but part of the Cooperative Extension Service here in Connecticut.  It is also a cooperative farm and includes some ingredients of an intentional residential community, with potential for more of the same.
I am learning to trust the process and let a big vision unfold in its own time.  If it is not built together, then it is not worth building.  The valuable feedback I am getting (and not always accepted with grace) is that I get too far ahead of myself, too impatient with development process, and too unrealistic about deadlines for implementing good public discernment and engagement design.  To be less driven by grantor’s deadlines, and more in control of what has internal design integrity.  If the design and theory and inclusive process are meant to be permanently sustainable, and revolutionary, then I must trust that money and other needed resources (nutrients) will be there when we need them. Whether it grows legs or not will ultimately not be about cash flow; it will be about good inclusive sustainable, permacultured design.
This feels like a highly promising opportunity to globally improve the effectiveness for health and well-being by working with philanthropic leaders to develop a cooperative grant information exchange network.  This, rather than continuing to ask for cooperative proposals while setting up competitive application processes that are highly inefficient at a global scale, if our species’ goal is to optimize sustainable well-being by increasing the effective flow of our rather too calcified wealth deposits.  No biological system can optimize nutrient flow and health when fuel-resources are hoarded for self-selecting subsystem nutrition, leaving the remainder of the planet to scramble for the crumbs.

We, the big WE, might benefit from inventing a variation on the stock exchange brokerage model that would be rooted in well-being value, rather than capital value; the exchange would be in the form of grants and low-interest loans rather than stocks, and a broker would be someone who works within a cooperative social investment ecoministry team, scanning on-line, internationally for cooperative investment opportunities that show high synergetic value (using something like Hubbard’s Whole Systems analysis, Spiral Development Theory, etc.), looking for resources to achieve significant permacultural optimization outcomes all over the planet, packaging these independent projects, adding a budget using cooperative synergy assumptions, and sending out the umbrella grant/loan package to appropriate philanthropists, within a religious, cooperative, ecological, peace, and public discourse investor network. A network of ecoministry (I think ministry can work in the British secular humanist way here) philanthropists to consider the umbrella investment portfolio collaboratively, each taking the piece most appropriate to their individual priorities, usually geographic.

There is something in here not only about shifting from competitive capital values to cooperative well-being values, but also to re-framing religious/spiritual ecology into its permanently encultured, proto-religious economic system roots; a regeneration of planetary information-transfer development systems. Not a species capacity before  the current evolution-potential of the WWW.

From one guy trying to learn his ecoministry vocation, hopefully to another.
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Cider Hill

The road back down Cider Hill, about 1/10 mile.

s The road back down Cider Hill, about 1/10 mile.

Another view of southern guest house.  Probably where Eleanor Roosevelt stayed.

Another view of southern guest house. Probably where Eleanor Roosevelt stayed.

On the drive up toward the compound. Apple orchard is up and on the left side.

On the drive up toward the compound. Apple orchard is up and on the left side.

Southern guest house, also log structure. 4 bedrooms, 2 baths

Southern guest house, also log structure. 4 bedrooms, 2 baths

North side of rustic log cabin.

North side of rustic log cabin.

Very rustic one-room log cabin. Probably original structure.

Very rustic one-room log cabin. Probably original structure.

The tool shed

The tool shed

Most northerly log cabin, and most recently occupied.

Most northerly log cabin, and most recently occupied.

Another view of northern guest house.

Another view of northern guest house.

Beatrice Fox Auerbach's summer cottage, field stone structures in front.

Beatrice Fox Auerbach’s summer cottage, field stone structures in front.

Main residence from front. Roof needs immediate attention.

Main residence from front. Roof needs immediate attention.

South side of Auerbach cottage.

South side of Auerbach cottage.

The beginning of the ascent

The beginning of the ascent

Looking away from Cider Hill, across the northern sector of the Auerfarm Education Center

Looking away from Cider Hill, across the northern sector of the Auerfarm Education Center

Standing at top of Cider Hill, in the apple orchard, looking east across the CT River Basin

Standing at top of Cider Hill, in the apple orchard, looking east across the CT River Basin

Looking west toward the Berkshires.

Looking west toward the Berkshires.

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Coming toward the apple orchard on the crest of Cider Hill, on a rainy January afternoon.

Coming toward the apple orchard on the crest of Cider Hill, on a rainy January afternoon.

Looking west, from the top of Cider Hill, in October.

Looking west, from the top of Cider Hill, in October.

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The Global Cooperative Development Network: CQI PermaCulture Design Team Project

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I woke up this morning remembering my Time Traveling Math Historian dream, wondering, actually kind of obsessed about it, like a schizophrenic trying to see through his meds.

 

But, Ivy had a poopy diaper, and so did Daquan, and Sunday morning rudely returned to Business As Usual.  Which is OK, I think.  I rather like Business As Usual at home.  It helps when we are all here, rather than just some of us.  It helps even more when all of us work together, rather than choosing not to invest in each other, at the time, and in the ways, and amounts of time, that I prefer.  Although, of course, I have never bothered to tell any of them what those ways and means might be.  Anyway, Business As Usual.

 

Today I have to design a PermaCulture Development class for the global Cooperative Economy Network, started by a consortium of social investors, public facilitators and community organizers, new economists, permaculture and ecology-missioned groups, intentional communities, including research cooperatives and funders, some public sector, most of the grant-making entities. In a sense I guess each of these subgroups is an intentional community, with its own language and justice issues, priorities, concerns, specific missions and vocations on behalf of our planet. Yet it feels like they share a common value and active disvalue infrastructure. I can see why this social constellation wants to look clear-eyed at their shared mission: to optimize Continuous Quality Improvement, natural growth, re-establish a global permacultured economy and ecology, inclusive of all species, with this Transition Generation, and the 7 generations to follow.

 

So that’s why I told them I would write up a cooperative contract proposal with them (not for them) and that proposal begins with asking each adult participating in this PermaCulture System Design training to bring one person under the age of 25 with them, if at all possible one of their own children, or a younger relative, down to the age of 12. These are the people that we all need to listen to about how to design their PermaCulture Planet.  In Group Development Theory they act as a Lie Group, but that is certainly not appropriate for this event.  I don’t know.  For now, let’s just go with the “Shaman Team” and the “Observing Team.”

 

OK, so let’s see. 

 

 NSF, Division of Social and Economic Sciences: Science of Organizations

 

Organizations — private and public, established and entrepreneurial, designed and emergent, formal and informal, profit and nonprofit — are critical to the well-being of nations and their citizens. They are of crucial importance for producing goods and services, creating value, providing jobs, and achieving social goals. So, how do we improve the design and emergence, development and deployment, and management and ultimate effectiveness of organizations of all kinds?

 

The Cooperative Economy Network (CEN) is committed to our fundamental understanding of how cooperative systems develop, form and operate. The PermaCulture Design Project will develop and refine Regenerative System Development Theory, and  develop new measures and standards for Continuous Quality Improvement of community and global development projects. Educational, Communication, and Information Systems implications may be of value to the business practitioner, policy-maker, educator, parent, and research communities.

 

The PermaCulture Design Project will illuminate aspects of organizations as organic systems of coordinated diversity, self-management, and inclusive governance.

 

Germane theoretical paradigms include (but are not limited to) organizational theory, behavior, sociology and economics, business policy and strategy, communication sciences, entrepreneurship, human resource management, information sciences, geometrics and Group Theory, Synergetics (B. Fuller), managerial and organizational cognition, operations management, public administration, social and industrial psychology, and technology and innovation management.

Phenomena studied will include (but are not limited to) value and power structures, iteration frequencies, choice-making effectiveness, competitiveness, innovation, communication  and Binary Information System dynamics, change and evolution.

Levels of analysis will include organizational, cross-organizational cooperative relationships, and global implications, and will include individual and team value metrics.

Research methods  include archival analyses, surveys, simulation, comparative case studies, and network analyses.

 

Intellectual merit: The Cooperative Economy Network’s final report will further articulate a Cooperative-Appositional System Theory of Evolution.

 

This Cooperative Development Research Project has the potential to provide globally inclusive societal benefits, meeting sustainable value optimization standards for a socially, culturally, and ecologically balanced cooperative economy.

 

First Day:

 

Facilitator:

 

Welcome, and thank you for saying yes to our invitation to spend some time listening and speaking with each other. Those around the walls are our Observer Team. They are also your parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents, or maybe even that crazy adult who asked you to do this with them, as a partnership. You around this inner circle are members of a Transition Generation, ages 12 to 24.

 

Here is what David Orr predicted for your future:  “The generation now being educated will have to do what we, the present generation, [this was published in 1997, so you would be 22 now if you had been in kindergarten at age 5 in 1997] have been unable or unwilling to do: stabilize a world population that is growing at the rate of a quarter of a million each day, stabilize and then reduce the emission of greenhouse gases, which threatens to change the climate—perhaps disastrously; protect biological diversity, now declining at an estimated rate of one hundred to two hundred species per day, reverse the destruction of rain-forests (both tropical and temperate), now being lost at the rate of one hundred and sixteen square miles or more each day; and conserve soils; now being eroded at the rate of sixty-five million tons per day.” You must “learn how to use energy and materials with great efficiency.” You “must learn how to utilize solar energy in all its forms.” You “must rebuild the economy in order to eliminate waste and pollution.” You “must learn how to manage renewable resources for the long term.” You “must begin the great work of repairing, as much as possible, the damage done to the earth in the past two hundred years of industrialization. And, you must do all of this while addressing worsening social and racial inequities. No generation has ever faced a more daunting agenda.” (Hannum, ed. Environmental Literacy: Education as if the Earth Mattered)

 

I believe the life trajectory situation of your children and their children has reached a transition era of crisis. Those of us in this room are hear to listen to what your experience has been like so far, and what you think you might like to do as a Transition Generation before your kids arrive (if kids are in your future) and maybe even with your kids as you imagine your adult futures.

 

We begin today with three fundamental questions for each of you.  In the first round we will ask these questions in reference to what happens in this room, with and to these people.  Then we will talk about the same three questions in reference to what happens outside this room, with everybody else.

 

1.  What interests you most? What is the creative or learning scenario that feels most compelling to you? You would do more of what if you could?  If you had the resources, time, money, property, health, education? What seems most compelling to you right now, in this situation, that we might even be able to do together here?

 

[High faith power indicator.]

 

2.  What makes you angry, gets you really riled up? What is the specific scenario that is most likely to get you to erupt, that could conceivably happen to one or more people in this room, yourself included? What will really tick you off if somebody does it, or doesn’t do it, today?

 

[High hope for justice, equity, mutual respect.]

 

3. What makes you sad.  What is the scenario in which you are most likely to imagine yourself as lonely, isolated, incapacitated, depressed that could happen to you today?  What would really shut you down and out, and make it impossible for you to care to participate any further? Imagine yourself really sad and hopelessly bored by mid-afternoon today, what happened to get you into that mental space?

 

[High enthymematic reverse-resolution.  Compare to “1” above.]

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Regenerative Communication Systems: PermaCultured Design and Development Theory

Science is to Metaphysical Systems as Information is to Communication Systems:

As Perelman’s Soul Theorem is to Thurston’s  Geometrization Theorem, 4-base assumption

Professor Max Tegmark, of the Physics Department, MIT, in Our Mathematical Universe (Knopf, 2014), hypothesizes that the Universe is mathematically designed.  Development, but not evolution, follows metrically predictable, and repetitive, patterns. William Thurston’s 8 Geometrization Conjecture and Grigori Perelman’s Soul Theorem suggest that we might live in a Prime Relationship (0) Core Vectored self-defining ellipse, where the numeral 1 is equivalent to  1Qbit of Information in any 100% inclusive Universe. In our internal, bicameral, Information System Universe, 0 = -1 NonPolynomial Qbit in our Right hemisphere, while 0 = +1.00% Polynomial System Qbit in our Left hemisphere. Logos-Yang plays Polynomial “form” to Mythos-Yin’s Nonpolynomial Time-reversed “function”. Or, using metric language from earliest proto-history, As without, so within translates As Yang, so Yin, and as Yin+Yang within our successfully communicated bicameral mind, so Tao (Information Binary Coded as +0/-1) without.

Applications of this globally emerging theory of Regenerative Communication System Development include a deductively accessible value standard for sustainable spiritual, economic and ecological development; communication improvements for nonviolent listening, speaking, pedagogy, health service delivery, and living; design implications for “choice-making” and Wisdom Councils, and a cooperatively inclusive balance of power, energy, values, and nutrition, more generally.

A chicken or a duck is a mistake, when you do swan lake.

Funny Girl, Bob Merrill

“Legein,” from the Greeks, means to permeatively bind, to incarnate, impregnate, involve, create, inform, enact, cause to systematize, to pattern, to grow, to enculture.  Legein is to mythos as rhetoric is to logos. Religion may be linguistically rooted in RheLegein : to reincarnate, to ritualize, to reenact, to iconize, to sacramentalize, to rebirth, to re-create, to re-member, to synergize, to recall our regenerative species-memory. Prior to the Cartesian severance of the Physics Department from the Metaphysics Department, religious experience included mental, mathematical, and physical reformation, regeneration, synchronization, synergization; a journey that followed confluence across all paradigms.   The diastatic empowering heart of religion propelled our synergetic creation story toward our confluent future paradise.

In this millennium new questions about the relationship of cognizable reality and mathematical structure are seeping into our culture. If the study of Physics can be reduced to the study of mathematic systems, where does that leave us about understanding God, and what would we mean by Religion? What mathematical system could also be a religious system?  Could a Perpetually Regenerating Systematic Theology meet exegetical gold standards for future exploration, research, creativity, learning, wisdom? If we can get that far, with some bicamerally organized reality help from Julian Jaynes, psychologist, then we might conclude with a permanently encultured (PermaCultured– think of permeating yeast, enzymes, awareness) Information System in which Polynomial Time is Non-Polynomial Time in reverse awareness sequence, using a 4-Based spatial assumption.[1]  Whether this narrative journey on a very PermaCultured Communication string results in a Black Swan or an Ugly Duckling, or probably both, will undoubtedly require extensive further exploration.

I am not sure of our journey’s trajectory if, at the end of the day, our Creation Story is a Math System Development Story.  I have trouble imagining that Story as a regenerative journey toward, well….toward anything, or anywhere.  Quantum physics theory is turning its epistemological back toward Form to embrace inscrutable Metric Function, processed by a Bicameral Communication System (that would be us chickens, working together to get all our eggs in just the right nest).  Will Universal Love be Value Binary Coded As 0, so 1, and as -1, so -0? While all that may very well be both real and true, as Tina Turner opines What’s love got-ta do with it!?

External Physical and Metaphysical Information Systems

The re-incarnation of Physics into its old home, Metaphysics, under the rubric of a universal metric system, is currently well represented in the New York Times Bestseller Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality (Knopf Doubleday Publishing), by Max Tegmark, Ph.D., professor of cosmological theory at MIT. Tegmark’s theory is that the universe is mathematic structure; perhaps Form over Function, or maybe even Form as Function. While the thesis is advertised as potentially revolutionary, and I expect it is, the premise goes back to the days before math and metaphysics were handed their divorce papers by epistemologists and scientists.

In Taoism, for example, Yang plays the leading role of Form while Yin plays her silent, implied, tacit role of Function. She is the Earth Mother who knows how to get stuff done, quietly, while Mathematicians measure, and re-measure our static Forms. The conjoining of this binary Pair opens the door toward calculation. Mathematicians calculate; the rest of us think life is for living, not so much for measuring.

The vast majority of our Math-as-Metaphysics: Metaphysics-as-Math historical tradition went by the wayside with the advent of the Industrial Revolution and contemporary scientific method. Religion is that part of Metaphysics that focuses on the beginning and end of our Creation Story. We look for explanations, predictions with proof (spelled logically consistent with all known experience) about how our Story started, and how it might end, and why, and how to predict what happens next.  It turns out there are perhaps an infinite number of possible numeric/quantitative systems. So which metric system are we living in? Does it evolve, revolve, end vaguely in dissonant irrationality?

How did this metric system get started? Is this system bound by structural laws? If not, then what sense can we make of an unstructured system, and if it does have structural pattern, then why is it this pattern, and not some other pattern? And by the way, can we get that pattern in wallpaper, or the other way around?

Perhaps we are overdue for a post-quantum cultural resurgence of reality is math, and vice versa. However, some of Tegmark’s fellow physicists are concerned about whether his proposal to re-marry Physics and Metaphysics as a Universal Mathematics Field (or Manifold, or Boson, or Set, or System—depending on your frame of reference) may be no more than an anachronism worthy of the label superstition or, perhaps worse, magic, or even, dare I mention the word,…myth.

One of Tegmark’s strengths is his capacity to include his reader in his own development story. He wants us to know that he was able to write his metaphysics while drawing his paycheck from the Physics Department.  However, his decision to publish Our Mathematical Universe may be something of an ugly duckling move by a swan in the chicken coop. Meanwhile, Tegmark continues with his revolutionary egg, calmly laid with candor. “If you can lay your egg while those around you are losing theirs and blaming it on you….”

Tegmark’s Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

Physical structures are explicated mathematical structions[2], the law and order of syntax. These structions are sometimes longer, sometimes shorter, “formed” energy frequencies. Forms are diastatically infused with boundary-pattern frequencies. Deviance (dissonance) is allowed, but when it reaches a critical threshold of frequency, then it trends in a complex direction.  Explicated, as we find it in Physicist David Bohm’s work, is on the without side of Form, with Implicated syntax-frequencies on the within side. Buckminster Fuller, in his Synergetics, uses the geometric definition of convex for “explicated,” and concave for “implicated.” When my mental picture has me standing in God’s position, outside the physical bubble, then the stuff of Physics is concavely implicated within my crystal egg. This is the perspective of the Greek god/esses peering at us from Sirius.  When I go back to imagining myself as Gerald Oliver, then physical structures are convexly explicated—they stand out from a background Manifold, like the sky, for example.

In this view of an egg within a space-bubble, Physics and Metaphysics can be perceived as a 3-dimensional Binary appositional spectrum, with the Physics Core being the explicated egg, and the Metaphysics Boundary of our Universe being the implicated Progenitor of our Mathematical Syntax, a Universal Bubble[3] that has a great deal to keep in Form-Function balance lest the entire Bubble collapse.

What we notice with our sensory receptors are explicated, or Formed, energy structures with steady-state, Business-As-Usual, energy function patterns. This pattern and flow equilibrium is predicted to continue, until something changes.  When we have the power to predict a change, then we can explain why it happened.  However, when we cannot predict a change in Business As Usual, this is the problem that erupts with speciation (in evolutionary theories), and revolutions, and disease, and death, and fusion, and regeneratively sustained change.  However, our incapacity to predict continuation of Formed function v. systemic change may follow a Function syntax-pattern that can be predicted through Bayesian trend analysis.

Physical Bosons (Bosons equals Set in Group Theory, and system in In-formation Theory) that are closest to the energy-frequency Balance center of any Group, are those with well-articulated, comparatively stable, boundaries, or skins such as solids, then organisms. Liquids are a mid-range between solid-frequency functionality and gaseous frequency. Plasma is the Boundary-frequency syntax between Explicated functions and Implicated Systems, or Groups.  When we look at plasma within a Boundaried System, like blood, then it flows like a liquid.  Unboundaried plasma acts like a gas. Once we arrive at gaseous frequencies, including unboundaried plasma, we are looking before and within the Boundary Information skin toward the ultra-frequencies of the NonPolynomial, implicated, Order. This is the enthymematically embedded metaphysical function of ExFormed Struction. Quantum (think UnFormed and OutFormed and enthy-memed) quarks and leptons usher us into the ExFormed Function side of our mathematical rainbow, heading toward dark matter and the Great Black Hole.

In other words, what we perceive with our sensory receptors, staying as far away from the Black Hole of Religious Study and Metaphysics as possible, are geometric Group Theory instructions. Anyone who is really good with origami might be able to sort all this out. The within, concave view of Fuller’s Spaceship Earth is a memory boundary of ExFormed space (1979, pp. 120-122).  This is familiar.  It does not seem quite revolutionary, in the sense of being without significant metaphysical precedent.

In a section of Synergetics 2, entitled “Special Case: Energy and Information” (1979, p. 446), Fuller describes energy as ExFormed information; and information as explicated-only energy.

An energy event is always special case….Metaphysical includes all the experiences that are excluded by the definition of physical.  Metaphysical is always generalized principle.

            Physical is always special case. Energy is physical [Formed] and always special case. Information is always special case. Energy is information: information is energy. Special case is always realized by its energetic information. Dimension is unique frequency information. Time incrementation is special case information.

Finally, Fuller arrives at the point where perhaps he would have more effectively started, “Concept is general [ExFormed]: information is quantitative (special case) [InFormed].” Just as mythos is conceptual and qualitative and implicated; logos is informational and syntax-bound and quantitative (Boundaried, Labeled, Languaged, Incarnated).

Translating Fuller into Tegmark’s Universal Hypothesis: Information structures are mathematical structions, or confluence-rules, special case.  The implied corollary: non-mathematical structures are irrational, chaotic, dissonant, oxymorons, and metaphysically anti-Formative.  These are the Mathematician’s Ugly Ducklings and also, perhaps, in special cases, the prime relationship Black Swans of our Re-Membering Story.

Blending Tegmark with Fuller:

What Is (Explicated, standing inside our Physics egg, looking outward toward the plasmatic Boundary between the outside of the egg and the inside of the surrounding gas-bubble Manifold): Special Encultured (think enzyme,yeast, embryonic, diastatic, aptic awareness, or affinitive-energy), Boundaried Energy = Polynomial (P) Information System; a rational ellipse, in Group Theory. Polynomial Information is a functional smooth-structured, symmetrical confluence-syntax, that can predict an outcome in Real Time. Physical events are Special Case rational ellipse events.

What Is Not (Implicated, still within the Egg perspective, but taking a peek beyond the Boundary, toward astrology): Mythos/Conceptual Affinitive[4] Exformed (Not Boundaried) System = Not Polynomial (NP) Information.

In other words, NP = -(P) + P. The Physics Department lies within the Metaphysics Department. The Information in our egg is encoded, it is predicated in unfolding confluent-syntaxed predilections, instincts, within the egg’s RNA. But, until the chick hatches, that Code is exformed—enthymematically potentiated, but without any individuated systemic “START DATE” until actually fertilized, encultured, created, alive, looking back at you, and not part of a scrambled egg sandwich.

Like Fuller, Tegmark also has a Special Case: Physical Universe hypothesis.

External Reality Hypothesis: There exists an external physical reality completely independent of us.

Here is where Tegmark’s Special Case parts company with Fuller’s, in the way they each understand Metaphysics.  For Fuller, the Physics Department of our cognitive coding embryo shares a (0) Core Vector within the Universe-as-Metaphysics Department . Our Prime Core Egg acts like a Lie Group, in Sophus Lie’s theory of continuous transformation groups.  It is smooth-structured and dense with enculturating, incarnating, regenerating ExFormed Syntax. ExFormation is Information in reverse temporal sequence. ExFormation is liminal Boson-definition.  It negatively defines each Boson like a confluent system of functional molds surrounding a cognitive “Mass Gap” filled with affinitive-frequency ExFormed pattern.  (0) Core Vector Physical Universe lies within an enveloping, revolving, elliptically balanced, Metaphysical Bubble, and travels through our Bicameral Species Memory Processer, looking for home.

If he were still with us today, post Higgs Boson discovery, Fuller might replace Bubble with Ergetic Inductive-Information Boson.  Synergetic is propulsion toward a synaptically fusing event, as ergetic is implosion toward an aptic, enthymematic non-event. This is a new verse in the Nature abhors a vacuum logos. But, in reverse of course. Information adores Enthymematic ExFormation, as Yang adores Yin; as an inhaled breath yearns for the exhale to complete. The egg bears an enthymematic relationship to the duck, the chicken, the swan, and all God’s creation. A without, looking-back-inside, view of our (-P) Exformed + (P) Information Universe requires imagining the egg wombing the chicken-Code within, Advent waiting to regenerate what has always been, the mystic waiting to reincarnate IAM.  As a Universe we are awash in ExFormed Code Language; enthymematic and patient hope, wrapped around affinitive Logos.

The Quantum Physics Department, like the entire Metaphysics Department is measured with temporal frequency calculation. All evidence to date, including Einstein’s work, supports the hypothesis that Physics is not completely independent of temporal frequencies.  Quite the contrary; Physics is completely immersed in revolving wave patterns.  Ultrasound frequencies and black light, Xrays, and QBism and Black Holes, Gravity and Micro Waves, all softly boundary the Special Case of Physics, looking outward toward Metaphysical liminally boundaried, dissonantly boundaried, negatively boundaried ExFormation.  These are all negative, or Reverse-Temporal-System perception issues, as are our Creation, Evolution, Metric, Information, and Time paradigms.

If we go with Fuller, then metaphysics is distinguishable from the Special Physical Sub-Department, but not completely separate, by any means.  In fact, Physics and Metaphysics are affinitively bound together, appositively positioned, as plus to minus, white to black, Other to Self. Form and Function, Physics and Geometry, are Binary Prime Relationships. They, and we, need each other to create, develop, learn, grow, evolve, articulate, nuance, regenerate.

Fuller, born into what is now the Unitarian Universalist Society, frequently reminds his usually overwhelmed readers “Universe is the integral of all metaphysical and physical phenomena.” (1979, p. 446) Integral has a mathematical systemic meaning to him that includes the idea of synergy as mutually-defining and self-perpetuating appositional Prime Relationship. Meta-Physics is Ultra-Physics, and Physics is Not-Ultra-Physics. Metaphysics is ExFormed and inclusively enthymematic Not-Physics.  Metaphysics is like Ununoctium, a necessary ingredient for a Physicist to patiently prepare her Higgs Boson Advent Table for her faithful, and thirsty, Mother Hydrogen.

Internal Physical and Metaphysical Communication Systems

If the Universe is a (0) Core Vectored Physical Center within a Metaphysical Boson, then what about God and freedom, justice and love, passion and enlightenment, and our Creation Story?  Do our religion scholars need to learn their math and logic then go back to Re-Accounting vocations?

Perhaps there is reason to hope and to rediscover faith in Grigori Perelman’s soul conjecture proof. Perelman, with considerable help from William Thurston, Richard Hamilton, and the entire Geometrization community, was the mathematician credited for proving the Poincare Conjecture; to paraphrase, If and when we are not all in this together, with optimized confluence, then we run into a whole lot of dissonance, confusion, and loss of energy.

Turns out it all has to do with prime temporal frequency waves that form octaves and function in fractal event units.  Maybe.  But, this most clearly is the case if the Universe is appositionally symmetrical (Prime Binary Relational); if Yang-values equal Yin-values, and vice versa.  Perelman’s soul conjecture proof says that if a smooth-structured (no irrationality allowed), symmetrical, soul vector is surrounded by an elliptic Boundary that is isomorphic to the soul, then all possible vectors on the Boundary and within the soul vector’s positional relationships have isomorphic relationships to each other.  In other words, the relationship pattern within the soul vector is a holon of relationships between Self and Environment. As within, so without; and As without, so within.

Other versions of this isomorphic Information/Exformation pattern go back to ancient religious traditions, diversely expressed:

As above, so below; as below, so above.

If I treat Other the way Self likes; then Other and Self will treat Me the way Self likes.

Golden Ratio: If A+B is to A as A is to B, then the ratio between A and B has Golden Harmonic Value.  This is optimized confluent energy strength, or stability of the A, B, and A+B Set.

If Prime Relationship between Ellipse+soul is to Ellipse as the relationship between Ellipse and soul, then Ellipse and soul are optimally appositionally valued—all relationships are symmetrical and balanced, and no one is left out of the network.

For Fuller, because of the synergetic unity of the Universe, God is 1 (integral Universe), and soul is 0, in any Whole Universe Information System.  However, if the soul Vector is (0), then it does not matter what even numeric symbol we assign the entire universe. Whether 4, 8, 10, 12, 16, or 120, isometrically submerged values and frequencies prevail at 100% confluence as symmetrically and harmoniously as the Golden Egg. It is not the numeral that is of metric interest to our Cretion Story; it is the percentage.  Integral means “1” as in 100% inclusive of all diversity.

This theological analogy is further matriculated with William Thurston’s 8-manifold rational Universe Geometrics (see, for example, Geometrization conjecture, www.wikipedia.org, for an accessible summary).  It is consistent with Fuller’s Physics as Special Case Metaphysics hypothesis to suggest there are no more than 8 possible Prime Relationship frequency structures, within any one smooth-structured Boson. We have geometric and biometric evidence that our cognizable universe is analogous to a 4-Binary-dimensioned Prime Relationship within a regeneratively evolving System.

[Polynomial Information (+) = NonPolynomial Exformation (-)] enthymematically leads to NonNonPolynomial Information (+/-) Balance [Binary Relationship is Magnetic Primal]

In fact, there is considerable scientific and Information System experience suggesting that a prime binary structural assumption is why the 8-bit Information-Byte is a standard metric design for data processors.

Thurston’s 8-fold amplification does, however, bring us to what may be Tegmark’s missing hypothesis. What about the part of Physics of greatest interest to religious studies, the within Physical?

Permaculture Hypothesis: There is an internal physical structure that is incompletely separate from us, to paraphrase Tegmark. Perma for permanent, meaning the temporal dimension extends into eternity in both directions from any chosen (0) Core moment, with backward coded as negative or 0-Binary, and forward coded as positive or 1-Binary. Culture (think yogurt, or yeast, or DNA), in a bicameral communication system is affinitive and inclusive enthymematic hope.  Enculturation is iterative Information development in this communication development theory. Communication develops from enthymematic (0) Core Vector affinitive stasis, through eisegetical hope, fulfilled in exegetically consonant faith.  Or something close to that.

Exegetical Code, in the science paradigm, is deductive, syllogistic reasoning from previously identified experiential patterns. Calculation is predicated in syntactic Information-developing process. Syllogism and logic and analogy move from enthymematically-rooted premise [Stage I] to potentially replicable experience [Stage II]; from prediction to explanation [Stage III], from hypothesis to exegesis, stamped by the scientific community as True. If we think of each paradigm as a Code Book, developing according to Stage I-III syntactic order, then RNA, the Table of Elements, the Higgs Boson, embryonic, and enzymatic communication systems all appear to self-generate using the same analogous page . Each of these Information Codes follows an incarnating, staged sequence that synergizes Formation, like bread, and babies, and stories, and faith communities.

The interface between the separate external “Other” and the bicameral internal “Me” is our science lab, where we experience, learn about, remember, code, write our memories about how to replicate our experience patterns.  This is our deductive process toward understanding and recreating our +/-(0) Prime Relationship soul, to meet Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) permaculture design standards .

The problem with Math System as WhatIs, is that it includes all possibilities without the bicameral “Me” side of the equation, my experience of that WhatIs. If Tegmark is saying that we have learned to perceive temporal frequency patterns that are most confluent with our Information Code Syntax then he describes an evolutionary sequence of  development; but that is metaphysics without interest in its soul, its heart, its Source.  WhatIs evolves, revolves, regenerates toward what, and out of what? We have left the Physics Department behind, as if it were “completely separate” from our science story, rather than the source of our Information Codex.

Un-incarnated Physics is like imagining temporal order and sequence within a non-universe without a clock, or even a cell phone. Far more interesting is the internal reality of bicameral consciousness.

Science requires the ability to grow and store and retrieve information that is internally consistent, and fits with ongoing human experience. With Fuller and Thurston and Perelman we might reasonably assume that a (0) Core Vector smooth-structured geometric system rationally and symmetrically describes our Information System, and 4-Based affinitive frequencies do seem to provide the appositional balance, rhythm, and flow of our incubating [enculturating] egg, and chicken.  However, metaphysical development is a cognitive communication process; not only a binary formed system, but also a bicamerally functioning system—at least on our better days.

In humans, consciousness is what happens within a bicameral mind. Our right and left hemispheres are a binary Information Processing System. Communication systems are what happens between bicameral minds doing the best we can to move from enthymematic Stage I through Exegetical Stage III, internally, and globally.

Religion’s roots lie in our earliest attempts to successfully engage in Information transactions. Far older than the Science Department and even the Math Department, transposing experience into symbols, mythos into logos, begins internally with taste, and externally with touch, affinity, acidity, fragrance, dissonance recognition (temporal only at first—spaciated temporal perception came along fairly late in our evolutionary journey toward speciation), sound, sight, memory storage. When we finally get to our proto-history, mythos evolves into logos with enthymematic Information transactions such as reenactment, imitation, dance, song, ritual, retelling dreams.

As Fuller tells us, science is Special Case Information Development.  “Quantum” and “Complex” and “Trend Analysis” and “Communication Development Theory” are about as close as science and statistics have taken us to date toward reiterating our bicameral Regenerative Narrative journey.  Our bicamerally-based science lab does include enthymematic, intuitive, hopeful, faithful measurement, explanation, and prediction, but has nothing to explain this useful ExFormed infrastructure.  It was always intended as a deductive-only exploration. What cannot be individuated cannot be deduced from, cannot be cognized as a thing, an event. But, just maybe, an undifferentiated concept can be hypothesized as a potentiated pattern-confluence within a grayscaled liminal Boundary.  Inductive soul-submersion back, down, within, toward the enthymematic yolk of communication is only traveled in reverse by heuristically assuming eisegetical awareness has potential truth value for other bicameral minds.

Psychologists seem to agree, at least somewhat, that inductively developed memory storage and retrieval is the land of our Right hemisphere.  The elder right-brain creates by finding affective allegorical patterns, so the Species-specific left-brain can deductively learn.   Ritual and storytelling emerged from imagining, and dreaming, probably with the emergence of our bicameral mind, from a pre-cameral sensory processor. The precameral mind (Jaynes, 1976) was, and perhaps is, unable to accomplish consciousness, as distinguished from awareness of “difference.” Our  Species’ bicameral perception developed into the capacity to synaptically translate power-source difference as “Other” when we arrived at sometime before proto-history.

The concept of Other is the (0) Core Vector for our development of Left-brained consciousness, eventually requiring metric symbology for replication, explanation, prediction purposes. What is this Other? Other began in the precameral mind as a non-aptic event, an anomaly, a difference from Power-Within Awareness.  Affinitive Power-Within probably remains our Right hemisphere’s  awareness of what our Left hemisphere translates as Self, as in, So, then I said to my SelfPower, how much you wanna bet that you are nothing more than “Not Other?” To which my Right hemisphere would respond, if it had linguistic capacity, “Correct, Yang–Self (P) is nothing more and nothing less, but very precisely the opposite polarity of, Yin-Not Other (NP), as zero is to one, and 100% is to +/-0%.

I expect a proper Regenerative Development System to sort out the metric system choice for optimally explaining,  predicting, and sustaining enculturation and creation values.  How else will we know our origins or what might happen next, or learn how to optimize our values for life, for freedom, for sustainability, for love?  Universe as home, as nest, as womb, as community, includes the eggshell-encased plasma running through our organic and cultural life stream; the within prime-easy nutrients of affectively-engaged, permacultured communication systems.

Left-Hemisphere: +1/-0  = Yang/Yin = SelfConsciousness/Awareness =  Inductive Enthymematic Information/Deductive ExFormation = synergetic fractal and double-binary rhythm and development flow

Right-Hemisphere: +0/-1  =  Yang/Yin  =  WithinPower/OtherPower  =  Static/Diastatic =  Ergetic/Synergetic  =  Radiant/Gravitational Pull  =  Information QBit/ExFormed Enthymematic Information-Transfer Consonant Position (0) Binary Core  =  e-Frequency 4-Base Directional Syntax/Octave Struction  Harmony Wisdom  = Logos/Mythos =  Time-AffectValue Memory Code/Prime Relationship Regenerating System  =  Equilibrious +/-  Revolution

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Deductive logic structure and Codex structions are useful for remembering how to put Humpty Dumpty back together again. Information system design retells our Creation Story and History as medium is to stored message patterns (see Marshall McLuhan). We can synchronize, analogize, code linguistic and numeric development stages to help us understand and replicate and empower value development; attenuate disvalues, dissonance, disease. To do so, we need to increase the effective sustainability of Information transfers between people, paradigms, and processors .

Fuller believed that our universe, or at least our planet, and our bicameral minds, exhibit a regenerative systems optimization design; essentially syllogistic and trinitarian. Unfortunately, this is the point where most of us lose track of Buckminster Fuller. Fuller calls this Synergetic Design, but when he begins talking about design as it applies to temporal functions he has trouble avoiding long, tacitly weird, adverb/adjective narrative strings like Regenerative (0) Core Vector System Optimization Design, binary smooth-structured with 4 equal dimensions–including 1 prime-linear-only Special Polynomial Time-Revolving dimension, so that P=NP.

Our regenerative journey is a transpositional nightmare when moving from the Black Hole of Physics to the synergetic enlightenment of Metaphysics.  I find it easier to imagine in the opposite, counter-evolutionary direction, informed by the within physicist, Julian Jaynes, who worked for the Psychology Department at Princeton, but was uncomfortable when confined to the “Psychologist” box. Jaynes, the communication scientist and historical-cultural researcher, most famous for his Bicameral Mind evolutionary theory (Jaynes, 1976), was adept with perceiving analogy most everywhere. He recognized that our religious development string (journey, or Way) began in the older Right hemisphere’s aptic v. synaptic event memory syntax, and gradually shifted to Left hemisphere deductive and linguistically-coded dominance.

In the precameral mind, there was no awareness of spatial dimension. Space perception emerges as sound and sight reception become bicameral, during Left-hemisphere evolution. OtherPower Code evolved from temporal grayscaled frequency patterns to the ExFormed spaciated Forms of pitch, rhythm, movement, and eventually color.  We evolved into space awareness, and that is what Jaynes calls the consciousness available to the bicameral mind that was not available to our ancestors’ precameral aptic awareness.

Measurement and calculation evolved from Left-brained deductive logic which, in turn, evolved from normal and not-normal Right-brained wave-pattern frequencies.  Self as WithinPower becomes emergently limned, Boundaried, as an energy directional difference from Other-empowered event patterns. OtherPower event patterns were synergetically nutritious, or synaptically acidic, and yucky. Awareness, in the pre-conscious mind was (and probably still is) aptic Self-As-Not-Other-Empowered. Awareness of Other-empowered messages (not-aptic) was, and remains, a synaptic event.  But, once the bicameral communication system incorporated linguistic syntax, synaptic event memory and capacity exploded to become the new norm.

Back in Jaynes’ version of proto-history, our Species’ precameral mind was aware of “God/Other-empowered” as a synaptic memory pattern of anomalous events.  Our Left hemisphere’s self-noticing difference messages are compared to the Right hemisphere’s significant Other-empowered Code Memory. Business-as-usual aptic was whatever was not synergetic or synaptic relatedness.  Information transactions are Magnetic Value/Disvalue Relationship Events—plus for nutrient synchronization  and minus for dissonant synaptic OtherPower.

Our taste receptors, followed by touch-boundary receptors, in turn followed by sound frequency receptors could only be aware of messages they could recognize as NOT Aptic—Incoming!!!!!   Our bicameral cognitive miseries of gluttony and chaos and incommensurability and irrationality and heresy were not yet code-able.  Bicameral dissonance was precameral Power–difference. Our Species’ lifesource  plasma evolved with a difference-triggered Prime Relationship of either 0-aptic or 1-synaptic affect.

The bicameral mind adds individuation, labeling, categorizing by temporal position and frequency and volume and rhythm and flow, physical perception, then consciousness of space and Self as spatial (not merely temporal), and spatialized time, and lifetime, mortality, communication, and religion, and history. Not always in consecutive order. The precameral mind brings us to the threshold of the Bicameral-Era taproot sprouting a new (0) Vectored Bi-Cameral enculturated string.

Split-brain research has supported Jaynes’ observation that, without capacity to learn from the Left hemisphere’s experience, we have surprising cognitive lapses due to the Right hemisphere’s linguistic blindness.  But, linguistic blindness may be the reverse side of the Right hemisphere’s love for mythos, for analogy, for temporal synergy—what mathematicians might refer to as a smooth-structured Lie Group. If handicapped by only Left visual field capacity, after corpus callosotomy, linguistic capacity is deactivated.  However, the left hand can signal recognition of an identified memory analogy, the more multi-dimensional the better, including religious metaphor. The Left-processor is linguistic and deductively directional, conscious of this event as In-Formed by past events. The Right-processor is affective and inductively directional, scanning for a “sync” between the Left-processor’s message and permissively ExFormed Boundary Codex.  Enthymematic receptor-censors operate metaphorically and analogically, syllogistically.  The Right hemisphere’s default setting is aptic, roughly translating as we’re all in this together—if there isn’t some memory to the contrary, then proceed toward heuristic exploration.

In short, affective memory storage is progenitive to deductive information, as analogous OtherPower pattern creation is enthymematic to deductive learning.  Bicameral Information Memory is a relational consciousness development history. Affective OtherPower mythic Memory Syntax liminally predicts linguistics  and religious development in human cognition.  The Left hemisphere’s role is newer, and analytically fills in the cognitive gaps, creating metric and linguistic images that feel confluent with OtherPower value and disvalue patterns. Our bicameral evolution opens the capacity to perceive that WithinPower [soul] is to Not-OtherPower, as OtherPower [ExFormed appositional relationship] is to Not-WithinPower = God. The metric relationship between  the bi-elliptical soul and God is functionally equivalent to a binary appositional (+/-), self-perpetuating, mutually defining, Prime Relationship. Speaking syllogistically, of course.

All of us bicameral swans unite in one aptic balanced-awareness flock surrounded by a revolving nest-cooperative of evolving history.  Our PermaCultured regenerating nest is Core Vectored at (0) and the string of evolution composes 100% of all Polynomial frequencies.  Half of our speciated communication system trajectory is waiting there in our Right hemispheres, the Black Swan of NonPolynomial Universe. Each Right hemisphere receives the Left-hemispheres heuristic proposal messages marked Notice? (more or less equivalent to (-U)? if you speak RNA) and compares this enthymematic message to our Right-brained Reality Storage System.[5]  The root of our incarnation, religion, language, communication, and evolution, is lodged in our precameral mind. Our Prime Root is the binary information development thread extending far back into the aptic mists of (-U) = God.

Jaynes theory of the evolution of awareness to consciousness of Self as WithinPower, then logos, then internal dialogue, then reenactment, then communication, then iconic symbol narrative, appears to be a smooth-structured reverse-journey description of moving from the study of religion toward sacred-awareness-of-timeless-aptic wisdom = +/-Harmony, when centering. Religious experience is re-enculturating, remembering, re-centering Affective-Temporal awareness. Mystic experience is enthymematic awareness of our shared, radiantly ergetic[6]  (0) Prime Relationship Vectored soul. This is where the only consciously accessible NOT-SELF soul eternally resides, quietly waiting in our Right-hemisphere’s background white-sound. Within this awareness lies developing wisdom, breathing Yin-ExFormed PowerWithin function in, and Yang-formed Permaculture Codex Half-Positive Equals Half-Negative nutrient values/disvalues out, around and through (0) Prime Relationship awareness.

Our Left-hemisphere Binary-Deductive Information Processors notice, explain, understand, predict, and write our narrative strings. These encultured, incarnated, ExFormed communication strings, are coded for synaptically high fractal frequencies upon becoming aware that “Right-brained {real=(-U)²U = +1.00%Qbit-frequency trend=pi³}” is the 50% value demarcation line meeting with “Left-brained {true=+1Yang/-0Yin Core Vector-Bicameral Assumption: Polynomial is Nonpolynomial, reverse 4-Based trended, fractal rhythm }.  This BiCameral Assumption that Left-True should be equal to Right-Reality pervades all religious traditions, a quite probably explains the underlying dynamic of enthymematic hope, which Michael Polanyi called “Personal Knowledge,” and our friends at Harvard call the “Happiness Factor,” and biologists and chemists recognize as magnetic attraction, affinitive gravity. Interior-Precameral Memory establishes syntactic norm-frequency-values: e- frequency (Eulerian) Natural Laws of Regenerative Systems Development and Design.  The Binary Information Structure underlying the Left-brain’s “True” default setting[7] is the structure of enthymematic, active, nonviolent hope, and communication. When two or more bicameral minds discover their enthymematic “True-Real” default values sync, that is the point where they have confirmed that their diverse-coded “True” messages  have achieved mutual self-defining harmony “Real” NonPolynomial awareness; this mutual enthymematic synchronization is what Jim Rough calls “Dynamic” but it may be dynamic because it includes a whole mess of high-frequency synaptic activity in the local communication system. Mutual enthymematic awareness of compatibility quickly leads to enthymematic affinity, with optimized +ConfluenceValues and minimized Negative-Dissonance Values; Permacultured +/-NutrientValue Balance.

Precameral RNA Message Receivers recognize syntactic structure as confluent, or not so much, dissonant.  Analogical syntax structures our universally aptic Pattern string[8] shared by all our organic ancestors.  Physics needs an Information System Design class to consistently define What Is, and our Bicameral Processor Network needs Communication System Development Theory to define What Is NotYet, but actively hoped for; the metaphysical nonpolynomial.

Without prejudice to Jaynes, Fuller, Tegmark, Perelman and Thurston, when I throw them a ll together, the outline of what I see in the religious study of science, and vice versa:

1. Our Continuous Quality Improvement Wisdom trend is to attend carefully to the ecological implications of Poincare’s Theorem: avoid causing dissonance for both PowerWithin and PowerWithout TRUE   PRIME PERMACULTURED RELATIONSHIP: +0/-1, WHERE -1=(-U).

As (0) within, so 1 without, and as (1) without, so (-1) within.

(0) plays the Yin role of Pregenitive Soul: NotWhatIsYet Enthymematic Radiantly-Aptic (Yin +.50%/Yang -.50%) Self Assumption,

while (1) plays the Yang-explicated role of Boson ExFormed Coding Design Ellipse (Yang +.50%/Yin -.50% = 100%  4-Dimensional Assumption: smooth-structured Group = pi=100% Value Information System

2. Coded Precameral Temporal Information frequencies are synaptic over aptic. This is spaciated time [e.g. a “long” time “ago”] Analogic Correlation Foreshadowing. Time is OtherPower/WithinPower  = 0/-1. So Polynomial Time is equivalently proportioned to Not-Polynomial Time, by reversing the magnetic polarity direction. P=NP as 0=-1 in a Binary system programmed to optimize sustainable value harmony.

3. The relative strength of religious, philosophical, humanitarian, and ecologically-aware cultures, in various historic eras, in diverse geographic areas, is either thin or dense.  That is the dissonant v.confluent ratio between PermaCultured Religious [Regenerative] Enthymematic Affinity and competing cultural myths’ explanations and predictions regarding information-value and communication system sustainability patterns .

4. Information is ExFormation in reverse temporal sequence. In other words, to predict how it all ends up for us, we re-cognize our Logos (ExFormed mutual-affinity awareness) Commandment to assume as True until proven otherwise: WithinPower future will  be analogous to how it all started for each of us, with purgative fertilization, opening to new binary QBit-0-potentiated strings of reiterated, communicated, hope.

5. We call awareness that is at least analogous to enthymematic ExFormed frequency patterns “Dream-state.” Julian Jaynes argues rather convincingly that our Proto-Historians would have made no such distinction, prior to the Left-hemispheric capacity for “consciousness.” Aptic awareness, removed from body-Boundary exigencies, may be at least metaphorically equivalent to what mystics report as “bliss.” Bliss is synaptically enthymematic, self-perpetuating, affinity within a Prime Relationship (0)-Bicameral Information Network, functioning within a continuously sustainable Regenerative Communication System.

6. Learning is systemic creation in reverse temporal sequence. To learn creatively is to recreate ourselves with inclusively balanced values. To regenerate communities, paradigms, ideas, traditions, we do the opposite of what we would do to degenerate communities, paradigms, ideas, and traditions.

7. Memory is Prediction in reverse temporal sequence.

8. Polynomial is Nonpolynomial in reverse temporal sequence.

9. Eisegetical Cultural Logos (Truth Narrative-individual and collective enthymematic awareness) incarnates Exegetical Cultural Mythos (synaptically enthymematic affinitive SpeciesMemory) in regenerative historical cycles, to become Exegetically-InFormed Logos (Orthodox, in the religion paradigm). The Golden Rule is an icon of this principle:

Permanent Mythos: My Self is and does, thinks and plays, creates and learns, as I hope we will continue toward future synergetic awareness. This is the Polynomial = Nonpolynomial Assumptive Hope, following a duodecimal systemic Golden PermaCulture Binary Rule.

10. Finally, permanently encultured (permaculture) standards for Continuous Value Improvement whole systems design and development may be rooted in The Golden Ratio:

A is to B, as A+B is to B.

Where 0 is to 1, as 0+1 is to 1 in a binary-magnetic Information System Design.

And Polynomial is to NonPolynomial, as P+(-P) is to NP.

And Information is to Exformation, as Metaphysics is to Mythos.

And Science is to Religion, as Logos is to Mythos.

Our Prime QByte Design Assumption, throughout our evolutionary journey, tracking back at least as far as Solomon, flowing full-throttled on back through our Precameral Memory Code, is:

Polynomial soul and 0, are equivalent and symmetrical reflections of NonPolynomially Integral I. beginning with Time-I AM-(0%),

II.  Mythos (-1) and 1,

III. within each of our four dimensions = 100% Polynomial Time,

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IV. As within, so without. As without, so it is within.

At last this Science of Religion Swan Song is done.  Atheist and Theist each remain both Binary Information System “True” and Bicamerally ExFormed “Real”—especially in the sweetspot where they see they are reverse faces of each other, both true, depending on which direction you choose to face, forward into the future, or backward into Species’ Memory. The chicken may rest comfortably inside the egg, the U-Narrative QBit string is regenerated inside-out, backwards-forth, and full-double-octaved for eternity. The Wisdom Wonder Swan can stop waiting for her two Taoist Eggs to hatch, first Form within, then Function without, then Revolve within and without in reverse directions at the same time.  Continue until culture-alignment has been achieved. Enjoy our richly nutritious, 100% organic bliss-feast.

CVI PermaCultured QBit = +/- = 0 = -1

Where 0 equals Yang-Form, and -1 equals Yin-Function, Binary Thermodynamic Assumption, 4-Based positional Metric System.

Where awareness that optimizing harmonious values is defined appositionally as ZetaFrequency (0) Core Optimized Linear Affinitive Awareness,

and +50% Yang-SelfQuantityValuePower is equilibriously returned by -50% Yin ExFormedOtherPowerValues. Radiant ultrasound PowerWithout nutrients equilibrate to succulently dense PowerWithin nutrients, and gravitational embrace faithfully predicts propelled regeneration.

Scientific Hypothesis: We seem to die alone

Religion Thesis: But have wisely flown together in our synergetic past.

Informative Purgation: I seem to die,

ExFormed PermaCultured Sublimation: To fly forever.

Who could ask for anything more?

Kay Swift

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Bargh, John A., Our Unconscious Mind, Scientific American, January 2014, pp. 30-37.

Bateson, Gregory, Mind and Nature, A Necessary Unity, 1979, E. F. Dutton, New York.

Fuller, R. Buckminster, Synergetics, 1975, MacMillan Publishing, New York.

Fuller, R. Buckminster, Synergetics 2, 1979, MacMillan Publishing, New York.

Jaynes, Julian, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, 1976, Houghton Mifflin, NY.

Kuijsten, Marcel, The Julian Jaynes Collection, 2012, Julian Jaynes Society, NV.

Norton, Robert and Brenders, David, Communication & Consequences: Laws of Interaction, Lawrence Erlbaum, New Jersey.

Perelman, Grigori, Proof of the soul conjecture of Cheeger and Gromoll, Journal of Differential Geometry (1994) 40 (1): 209–212, ISSN 0022-040X, MR 1285534, Zbl 0818.5305

Rough, Jim, Comparing Dialog, Deliberation, and Choice-Creating, Center for Wise Democracy, http://www.wisedemocracy.org/page13/page39/page40/page40.html.

Tegmark, Max, Math Made Flesh, Discover, December 2013, pp. 44-47.

Thurston, William, Three-dimensional geometry and topology, Vol. 1. Edited by Silvio Levy. Princeton Mathematical Series, 35. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1997. x+311 pp. ISBN 0-691-08304-5 (in depth explanation of the eight geometries and the proof that there are only eight)


[1] In a 4-Based metric positional system, the Prime Set for all subsequent numerics is 1,2, and 3 tri-metric sequential function. When double-bound by 0 and 4 (4=10% in a 10-Based metric system assumption) they compose 100% of Prime Progenitive Formation in relation to all subsequent values within the metric Universe, both positive and negative. This progenitive position within a developing Binary Information System is experienced as enthymematic struction, or syntax within communication and logic paradigms.

[2] Julian Jaynes refers to logos awareness as “…the preoptive nature of consciousness….I am not now entering my lexical storehouse and selecting items to string on these syntactic structures.  Instead, I have what can best be described as an intention of certain meanings, what I call structions.” (Kuijsten, ed., p. 155,2012) A struction is a boundary-instruction, or predicated instruction.  In logic, an enthymeme fulfills this function, embedded as a syntax presupposition within a syllogism with an implicit, heuristic, or hypothesized as perhaps True, premise.  Enthymeme, then, is before-and-within-the-meme; implied-within-the-meme.  Jaynes sees these enthymemes as metaphors implied by the potential relationship within a precameral affect-structured storage system.

[3] See Fuller on Bubbles, especially p. 659, 1975)

[4] Affinitive here defined as Not-Affect stasis, distended, engorged awareness, waiting confluently in equilibrium(Jaynes, on affect v. feelings, and aptic v. synaptic)plus Precessed Position in Fuller.  Combined cognitively as what’s missing in this picture? In metrics and syllogisms, affinitive means enthymematically positioned.

[5] Recent dream research suggests that sleep deprivation can be a mental health issue due to inadequately processed enthymematic proposals since our last nap.  So I guess we process in “naptic” awareness (0)-Based Frequency.

[6] Ergetic flow is equivalent to Fuller’s precession, in geometrics. Think fused synergetic event, like a rose closing at night, then think in reverse temporal order, a diffusing-radiantly, reverse-synergetic, 3-dimensional metaphysical space-expansion event, like inhaling. I understand that space does not actually expand when the rose opens, but within my cognitive map, the rose composes a larger proportion of my spatial consciousness than it did prior to the Ergetic-flow trend.

[7] See, for example, John Bargh’s very interesting work in Psychology at Yale University, studying the difference between conscious decision making and unconscious choice making, which seems to recognize “True” signals synaptically and reflexively resistant to binary +WithinPower/-AlienPower dissonance. Jim Rough is also working with this enthymematic momentum toward balanced power values when he works with groups using a “choice-making” process, distinguished somewhat from a merely deductive decision-making process.  Dynamic Facilitation enthymematically follows confluent-trending values  toward  optimizing sustainable group communication outcomes.

[8] Pre-enculturated aptic expectation of synergetic response , in Communication Theory, is a Rhetorical Event in an enthymematic stage.  In Group Theory, enthymematic stage would translate as a pre-elliptical Binary metric system assumption of balanced +/-.  In Taoism this translates into the harmonious reversely-self-defining primal relationship Root Power  +.50% Yang/-.50%Yin.

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This document is evolving to incorporate Research Notes for a Social Communication Theory of Learning.  Please see: http://www.socialcommunicationfoundation.org for more on the connection between learning to learn cooperatively, as a Species, inclusively, and the social regeneration mission of our current Transition Generation.

Least effort for greatest abundance may be summarized with “water the flowers, not the weeds.”

BUT, to OPTIMIZE abundance:

1. Notice the suffering weeds

2. Deep understand, PermaCultured Learning, with the suffering weedsw; become one with WeThem. This is a position of radical solidarity, of mutual in-forming, mutual EcoMinistry, the position of abundant, optimized, nonviolent listening.

3. Regeneratively Design, with the weeds, how, together, we can nurture and cherish our mutual Paradise Flowers.

In Permaculture Design, one of the primary principles of systems change efficiency is “Least Effort for Abundant Outcomes”. Therapists sometimes refer to this as “Water the Flowers, not the Weeds.” So, perhaps Deep Learning starts with two students, one more advanced in some ways, perhaps, or maybe even a handful of students, first noticing what they consider flowers, and what they consider weeds, and why. What is confluent, resonant, enthymematically underlying “Truth”, (e.g., Polanyi’s “Personal Knowledge”, or “inductive faith”)? What is dissonant, alien, an underlying “Lie”? How are they related; mutually defining?  In Permaculture, what are the nutrient flow dynamics of the ecosystem, or communication system, or learning system? How do we most effectively, sustainably, water the flowers we all agree are flowers, and engage the weeds in providing appropriate nutrients for those flowers?

I am working on a Regenerative EcoMinistry Development Project, informed by Permaculture Design Theory. My experience to date has been primarily about learning to Deep Listen my way into understanding regenerative evolution Whole-OpenSystems Process.

Currently upgrading credentials in Permaculture Design and in Doctor of EcoMinistry education projects.

Also trying to figure out how to most effectively homeschool my 4 kids ranging from gifted-with-high-sensitivity, to Attention Deficit-slow deductive processing, to Fetal Alcohol-Cerebral Palsy–Mental Illness, to Non-Linguistic–Profound Cerebral Palsy–Mental Aptic, Enthymematically Constant.

Would love to work with some people on Deep Listening and Learning skill-sets appropriate to diversely challenged minds, to help all of us communicate better with each other, with more compassion, more understanding, more Care. So we all teach each other that we are here for each other on a journey that is profoundly inclusive, and increasingly synergetic.

I have begun playing with putting “Problem” statements together with “Solution” proposals to intentionally try to create what look at first like an “oxymoron.”  That is, tease out the apparent polarities first and list them in conversation with each other, as directly as possible.  Then start playing with reversing the polarities on both sides of the resulting oxymoron, one side at a time, until you have listed all options, probably using a Josiah Window framework, but instead of using the Binary categories of “Win” and “Lose” as we do in Game Theory, change the headings to True and Real.  So each oxymoron shows up as True-True, True-Not Real, Not Real- True, and Not True-Not Real.  With the “Left” half of the binary oxymoron occupying the “True” and Not-True” positions, and the “Right” half of the oxymoron occuping the “Real” and “Not Real” positions.

Interesting Information emerges when a group, or even an individual, “steps back” and looks at all 4 squares as one gestalt, or potential “Boson.”  Individuals find themselves looking toward the center of the Josiah Map, regardless of which of the 4 squares felt most comfortable, confluent, when they entered the room.  Or that’s the theory anyway.

RE: the mission of interspirit dot net. I have heard it said, perhaps too often, that Spirituality is God looking for me, while Religion is Me looking for God. I would guess there is some truth in that, but interesting things happen when we pretend that the phrase “Spiritually-Centered Religion” is an oxymoron.

Let’s heuristically act as if Spirit is the +(0) Core Vector of a polarity with Religion as a smooth structured Manifold overlying this Prime Relationship Vector, numerically Coded as +(1). Our search, as the Interspirit Network is for the +50%/-50%  global Value/Power Information (0) position-scaled. From that position, we are best able to hold both ends of any relevant polarity in balance, with the +0 position as constant denominator, and +1 position as constant numerator.

Polarities that seem to be of particular interest from this perspective, when held simultaneously in our Group Theory as: Explicated/Implicated = Encultured Value/Infinite Power, include

law/grace

exegetical(orthodox)/eisegetical Truth

Truth/Reality

Power/Values

deductive logic/inductive analogy

Revolutionary/Regenerative

Me/We

Regenerating Growth/Permanence (foundation of “permaculture” design/development) God/Speciation [foundation of both Creation and Creativity v. grayscaled “still-state” Reality Boson-b=()]

Yang/Yin (where “Tao” = “Truth”)

Polar/Binary

Oppositional/Appositional

Progenitor/Spirit/Creation [where “Trinitarian-Expressed” is Tao Prime Relationship (%)] Form/Function

Polynomial/Non-Polynomial

Information/-(Information); where not-information may be called “Affect-Temporal Frequency Exformation” implicate order (Closed Set Coded Binary), potentiated Information, negatively predicted Information, Prophecy, Time Traveling, Complex Science, Dense, Dark, Boundary Issue, Incommensurability–depending on the paradigm/Tradition and whether recognizing it as having potentially transposed Information Values, or not.

Prime Information Fractal Relationship Memory/Expectation/Prediction in the Information Code read left to right: +/- = As it was, so shall it be; as it shall be, so has it been OVER As within, so without; As without, so within

Prime Temporal Fractal Relationship:  As it was, so shall it be; as it shall be, so has it been [Golden Rule]—Left Hemisphere

OVER

As 0, so 1; as 1, so -1 [Golden Rule]—Right Hemisphere

Right/Left PermaCulture Synchronization = Golden Fleece of Universal Regenerative Value Improvement

This Information Systems Analysis is derived from Buckminster Fuller’s Synergetics and Synergetics 2 (1975, 1979), Max Tegmark’s work at Berkeley and MIT, Grigori Perelman’s proof of the “soul conjecture,” and apparent mathematical homologous implicated patterns with the Higgs (“God”) Boson’s structural frequencies.

Regenerative Systems Development and Design Application comes from the linguistic development theory of Julian Jaynes, Catherine Hogan’s work at the www.socialcommunicationfoundation.org, Taoism, Judeo-Christianity, and, apparently, Sufism.

What are the Continuous Quality Improvement Learning Standards for Inclusion Teaming participants?

They have learned how to empty themselves of their own Language Truths enough to be able to receive Information through alternative (“challenged”) enthymematic Language proposals, to consider such communication rationally as it may, or may not, be confluent with their own “Received View” of Truth/Reality.

When a heuristic “sync” is made by the Receiver of Information, how to check for confirmation.

When a heuristic “sync” is not made by the Receiver, a facilitated Storage space for the Team to note as “Concern” or “Data.”, for future reference.

In these ways, the Team learns how to continuously monitor for the quality of mutual and inclusive Information Value/Power optimization. Watering the Flowers, not the Weeds (F. Peacock). At the same time, the “Weeds” of dissonance are noted as enthymematic pattern-tools that may be useful later in the group’s evolving communication development project.

As lists composing Data Storage Coded as 1 or 0 (rather than 2), the “Concern (1)” and “Data (0)” lists, trend toward empty sets, these items will help fill in the Explicated Information Lists, “Problems” and “Solutions.”

At this point, the learning to communicate goals of Inclusion Teaming, Phase 1, have been met.

The achievement standard for each Team in Phase 2, regarding a generalizable “learning to learn” CQI Standard for any Binary Information System, is to learn to translate all items on the “Problems” list into their appropriate positions in conversation with the “Solutions” list. The Inclusion Teaming CQI Standard for UDL meets Information System Design optimization standards, for any (0) Core Vectored Universe, significantly and explicitly defined as:

Information structure: As within, so without; As without, so within.

Where without and within are metrically analogous to -/+, Recession (= “Not-Formed” Open-100% Core Prime Relationship Vector (0) submerged smooth-structured within Group Theory fused 4-Base Positional System OVER 16/Base implicate (assumed) positional metric system. -1=0=+1,  [see Group Theory, Wikipedia]

Information/Not-Formation Universal Polar/Binary Hypothesis.  That is, Information is to Not-Formation as Polynomial/Calculatable is to Non-Polynomial/What Is Trend Predicted as Rooted in the (0) Core Prime +50%/-50% Relationship Assumption, but not yet proven as True, Exegetically speaking.

Prime Relationship is diversely Open Binary System Universe defined as:

1/0

Yang/Yin

+/(-)

Justice/Peace

Power/Value

Explicated/Implicated Dimensional Frequencies

Me/We

Creator [Regenerative Learner]/Creation

System Design/Development-Evolution

Problem/Solution

Issue/Business As Permanently Encultured Usual

Information/Exformation (Not-Temporally-Bound at the Moment Reverse-Formation Design/Development)

within/without

convex/concave

self/other

encultured/permanent (“permaculture”)

Truth/Reality

Heuristic/Proven

Eisegetical/Exegetical

Experience/ Prediction

Message/Syntax (or CODEX)

Physics/Metaphysics

Hydrogen/(0) Core Vector Binary Universe

Polynomial/NonPolynomial

White/Black

Plus/Minus

Up/Down

Forth/Back

Deduction/Induction

Inhalation/Exhalation

Precessed Stage/Recessed Stage

Fission/Fusion

Full/Empty

Radiance/Gravity

Information/Exformed Syntax

Communication/Enthymematic Sub-Liminal Syntax [not “not-real”?]

Community/Regenerative Communication String

Ex-Formed Reverse-Temporal Regenerative Structure = Metaphysically Created Diversity OVER/ Permanent Synergetic Pulsation (see Buckminster Fuller on “synergy”)

On oxymorons (paradoxial polarities):  especially “unstructured systems” as Exformation.

In Information Theory, the linguistics of an oxymoron translates as a double negative, or 0+1 = 1+0.

Let’s, again heuristically, assign the value of “1” to the first half of all the following dyads; and the value of “0” to all the second half of all the following dyads, and imagine the 1’s as static mental images emerging from 0’s diastatic, permutating, fertilizing, synchronizing, developing, growing, nutritionalizing Prime Harmonious enthymematic influence.

Justice/Peace

Yang/Yin

Male/Female

Green/Red-Yellow-Blue/White/Black

Precession (post-inhalation)/Recession (post-exhalation) [see B. Fuller]

Revolution/Regeneration [in both “Scientific Revolution” and in “Whole Systems Development”]

Encultured/Permanence [root of concept “permaculture”]

Life/Death

Sublimation/Purgation

Me/We

Explicate/Implicated [see David Bohm, probably Max Tegmark]

Power/Value

Problem/Solution

Opposition/Apposition

Polar/Binary

One/Zero

True/Real

God/Soul

God/Explicated Regenerative Information-Transfer System Codex (Binary Prime Relationship, (0) Core Vector Assumption)

Some of these dyads, when looked at as a 2-word phrase, look like opposites, or “potential” opposites, and some look oxymoronic.

However, if we maintain our heuristic and Information metric assumption that the first position is on the opposite side of any balanced-metric 8-Octave “color” frequency Wheel, we can use this image to create a map of diverse positions on a True Justice Power/Real Peace Value map (see Gregory Bateson on mapping and Information Systems).

An adaptation of the Game Theory/Group Theory Fractal that can be useful for large populations to use apparent oxymorons to mutual advantage may be found in the Dynamic Facilitation/Wisdom Council paradigm.

All positions of individuals within a population are first listed in one of four sections.

1. Problems: encultured, explicated eisegetical (individual) Truth statements about my life.

2. Solutions: permanent, implicated Exegetical (accepted as “Orthodox” by consensus) Truth statements about our shared lives that appear to be True and Real confluent with all data (treating linguistic and numeric proposals as Value-data)  on all 4 lists.

3. Concerns: Statements that note tensions between 1 and 2 above.

4. Data: Metrics and Trend Analysis offered eisegetically (by individuals), potentially germane to 1-3 above, but being Stored for confirmation at a later time.

From this perspective, the facilitator’s “Dynamic” role helps the group decide which square each position appears to fit best in the initial iteration. This may include suggesting a transposition of “Problem Statements.” Can you say the problem reversing the positives and negatives to derive a statement that might better fit on the “Solutions” list, at least for the first iteration?

After the map is complete by quadrant sectors, participants work on clustering information that may emerge as patterned.

And so the creative process toward learning to learn with each other begins. And sometimes, on one of the better days, the creative process toward learning to love together, and live together, also begins.

It tends to help if you start out with a group where Value Information patterns appear to be highly homologous, and a “control” group of approximately equivalent scale, whose selection is either random, or even intentionally scans for Information paradigm/Tradition diversity. These “outlyers” are really good at making sure the total assembly retains Continuous Quality Improvement standards for high replication values, Universal Information Economy. See, for example, http://www.socialcommunicationsfoundation.org, for some interesting pilot work in process, intentionally bringing together “normed” and “challenged” High Frequency Communicators.  The “challenged communicator” outlyer Information Control group tend to exhibit communication patterns homologous to autistic and attention-deficit neural systems.  Catherine Hogan’s theory is that if these kids can learn to communicate together effectively enough to inclusively develop a community-based service project, leaving no one in a secondary (marginalized) role, then they have demonstrated inclusive social regeneration potential, individually, and as a Team.

In other words, yes, we are playing a 0-Sum Game with regard to polarities, but within an Open Group System analogy. We are assuming no exterior boundaries to regenerative power and value.  When power polarities are balanced, sustainable, self-regenerating, then global values are optimized, inclusive of what feels both Exegetically True and Real within each individual participant, and what is most likely to be both Valued and Empowered globally.

Gerald Dillenbeck, M. Div., MPA in Community Development http://www.gdill52.com, see especially “Spaceship Earth CQI” on Permacultured Information Systems Design. Your comments here, or there, deeply appreciated. Including the possibility that this message belongs on the “Problems List.”

But to be clear: I did not mean to say that “Stealth Democracy” argues for a form of government. What I instead tried to say about the book is that it defends our current form of government as providing “stealth democracy.” It does so, for example, when it says (a) that the people can if they so choose remove politicians from office, and (b) that’s the only political role that the people want or ever will want.  It also does so via the title itself, in that it announces that the U.S. is now a democracy. Thus I do not see the book as a critique of the ideal of raucous deliberative democracy; I see is an a critique of any kind of deliberative or dialogue democracy. Indeed I think it is very explicit about that.

 

Also in case I did not make myself clear in my last message: there is in my view one aspect of majority public opinion that is less deserving of respect than the many pearls of wisdom to which you rightly point. That is the idea that so many people have that there would no basic disagreements at all if people were well-intentioned and unbiased. And that idea (which is celebrated by “Stealth Democracy”) is in my opinion very damaging. Indeed I think it is (ironically) a major cause of much of the vituperative argument that the public so dislikes! That’s because, if someone thinks that all reasonable people will agree, then when someone does not agree with them they are likely to get vituperative and nasty. After all, they we “know” that that other person is being unreasonable (biased, selfish, etc.).  And that is exactly how many politicians act. They do so not because they are bad people but because they believe in the idea that politics of any kind would not exist in a society of reasonable people.

Dr. Phil Neisser

Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences

Chair, Department of Politics

Coordinator, Environmental Studies

Dunn 103/Satterlee 307

SUNY Potsdam

Potsdam, NY 13676

315-267-2230 (o)

315-854-3520 (c)

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neissept@potsdam.edu

Wow, Phil, that was excellently stated.  And even rational, at least to my eisegetical way of thinking. I am compelled to see if I can translate any of that into Information Theory, just in case someone in the NCDD community is working on the intersection of public wisdom and Information.

“Stealth” Information might also be called “Ex-formation,” it is the transposition of Information. Power-from-within (see Tom Atlee) is Information Empowered.  Power-from-without is Exformed–Information Valued; but not yet Information In-Powered.  In other words, in Information Theory, Not-Rational also includes the Information, as a subset, in linguistic language, Not Yet Rational. It is enthymematic information. The apparently irrational can be “rationalized” by reversing the Power Position, cognitively, in reverse-temporal-planning mode, trending back toward the middle of any Universal Information Storage System, using base Information, Core Vector bit (0), Binary Metric Code.

What we will find, when we all talk together inclusively, especially when we use large numbers of Information Processors (presumably people in this context), is that we are likely to trend toward a confluent median and mean.  Global community-based Information metrics will trend toward confluence somewhere between +/- Prime Relationship Confluence = 0 and Dissonant-Outlyer = +/-1.  If, as facilitators, we have done a remarkable job of being sure to include equally balanced ends of a polarized policy position, then that median/mean emergent trend will, most often, show up centered appositionally at a liminally emergent Core Center +50%/-50% of all value data listed.

The united median and mean Core Information vectors are important to retain as symmetrically weighted to avoid dissonance and distortion between what is recognized by the cultural majority and what may also be recognized by a marginalized minority. Using a directional trend analysis between the median and mean Prime Confluent Vectors, rather than more simply relying on the median Prime-Value, secures the defense of the minority and allows us to capture the full-range value of all outlyers.

In other words, with a large enough, and diverse enough, group of participants, including Received View expert-seeding (the academic perspectives germane to the issue), trend analysis reporting may indicate both where this group was today, and where we, as a society, are heading for the future.

Even so, processes that begin with a smaller range of options that more equitably represent both the “normed” position and the “outlyer” position, giving intentional power-added value to initial outlyers not only helps safeguard minority rights, but also assures capturing those comparatively rare moments of “Wild” Information-genius that may not be immediately apparent within any one Information Universe.  You never know, you just might have some kind of policy genius in your midst.  While rare, it would be a shame to ignore it; rather like having a potential Scientific Revolution (in the Thomas Kuhn sense of that term) on your hands and missing all the fun.

PermaCulture Information Re-Development Program: Global Design Laboratory

Shaman Legend Marketing Plan: Religion, Education, Economics, Cooperative Community Development, Communication System Design, Metaphysics, Learning and Communication Therapy, Sustainability, Continuous Quality Improvement Program Design and Development Standards, Permaculture Global Paradigm

Grades 4 through 16, collaborative learners of all ages and paradigms.

Realizing I could well be insane, I think that what we want to do with our high school and young adult programs is to place each religious tradition in dialogue with widely diverse other faith paradigms so we can all recognize our shared hope, and how that does and does not connect with what we most love about ourselves and our environment.  Once we get all that squared away, then we can figure out what we want to do make things better as a community committed to the vision of Jesus Christ, the Judaic prophets, Muhammad, Laotze, Buddha, the Dalai Lama, etc.

I plan to start a Doctor of Ministry program during 2014, and could use a ministry site for a permacultural regenerative vision of faith education.  It is my aspiration to bring this new faith community cooperative planning model to educators globally, but giving my first priority to religious education.

Risk-Assessment Assumptions:

Memory/Opportunity = P/NP Temporal PermaCulture (0) Prime Relationship Balance

Range: +50% to -50%

1. Past Trends: Contextual Information for PermaCulture Global Design Laboratory, CT

Germane value equivalency trends

a. Projection target +/- 5 years

b. Experience of PermaCulture Information Redevelopment Programming: Global Design Laboratory

AND

Shaman Legend Potential Targets for CQI Optimization

2009-2013

Some assumptions and proposed definitions for our Global Regeneration Project:

Math is to calculating as

Information is to communicating.

Metrics are an Special Case of Information Theory.  A metric system is a system of Information chosen by a Binary PermaCulture Prime Coded Information Processor, with a (0) = +50%/-50% Prime Regenerative Relationship Codex Affect-Temporal Frequency.

If you follow Julian Jaynes back to the anthropological proto-history of an evolving left hemisphere.  This newbie hemisphere became our Symbol Dominant Information Processor within the last 4,000 years.  We can find the origins of a metaphysics of Information Values Theory in the Golden Ratio defined as “As without, so within; as within, so without.” This also fits syllogistically (analogically) with the Eastern metaphysic of Tao where Polynomial Yang is CAT(0) blanketed by Non-Polynomial Yin in Universal equipoised Prime Relationship.

Fuller believes fractal Information function is equivalent to Euler’s e-function (temporal dimension frequency change) for both time and spaciated-time dimensions.  Now this is some Sirius math structure. Fuller says (p. 64, Synergetics 2) We are quite possibly the most complex of the problem-solving challenges of the invention that is eternally regenerative Scenario Universe. [by the way, I think Fuller, post-“string theory”, would have used the word String where he uses the more static-sounding Scenario] In this way each of us might be a department of the mind of what we might call god.

This is Fuller’s version of what later became geometrically defined as the “soul conjecture,” where Polynomial = Reverse-NonPolynomial in a Universal +/- Balanced Core Vector Zeta-Prime Temporally Octaved kinda way.

To Professor Tegmark, historians, economists, geometry teachers agree that, in any systemic process, where you end up is significantly predicted by where you start.  Your starting 0-Core premise is enthymematically related to your conclusion; as 0 predicts 1, as minus predicts plus. If we start our dialogue with the assumption that there is a Physical Universe that is COMPLETELY separate from us, then we are starting with the assumption that we are not necessarily all in this together.  If we start with the assumption that we are not necessarily all in this together, then we should expect that we will end up in some form of random dissonant and entropic still-state, eventually, as well-illustrated by the Poincare Conjecture.

In Hyperreason (The God Series) Mike Hockney states that Hyperrationalism differs from rationalism in one crucial regard. It asserts that all rational truths are mathematical and that the universe is 100% mathematical.

Well, that is true, but it does not necessarily follow that 100% of mathematics = 100% of our Universal Information System.  In other words, I would prefer to end Hockney’s sentence with the Universe is 100% mathematical Open Binary Information System.

The Illuminati and Ayn Rand probably have it right that we live in an Information-based meritocracy of power values.  Yes, this complexity of more confluent and more dissonant, pulsating, wave patterns is a survival of the fittest Universe.  But, the fittest are those who are most Prime-Relationship Rooted with their metric system. Optimized metrics for a relationship-based network of Information is the system that is most rational AND most inclusive. Secrets and exclusions slow down our regenerative system trend toward Pythagorean abundance and harmony. The Prime Relationship assumption of your metric system meritocracy is radical, binary synergy.  Some people call that love.  Those of us in the Wisdom business think of it more as learning to learn.

Your non-Pythagorean logical error is to assume metric form, or structure, trumps metric function; that it is somehow more rational, more hyperrational.  Nowhere is this an accurate portrayal of what is actually the case in any metric system that is bicamerally thinkable. This is your unsupported metric assumption for calculating your meritocracy. If you were to assume the opposite, that Prime Binary Relationship function (for a definition of metric temporal function see Euler, or Bucky Fuller’s work with Eulerian geometric functions, in Synergetics, 1975) is Core Vector in any Metric Functionable (systemizable, v. random) Universe, then metric form, structure, system development is historically and temporally secondary to metric design functionality in any cognizable meritocracy. Look at Poincare’s Conjecture as a metric example of this principle that Prime Relationship +/- Symmetry functionality is enthymematically implicated in any elliptical metric structure.  Basically, Poincare observed, using trigonometric functional assumptions, that when we are all in this together, our value measurements tend to project longer, more abundantly sustainable trends.  Where our numeric values head off into the irrational, asymmetric, withheld, secretive, that is where our value system becomes dissonant, disproportioned, and not sustainable as a regenerative system. Pythagoras was fairly clear that, as within our geometric system, so without, in our value meritocracy permacultured system.

A Value-Merit economy is an improvement over other autocratic, even capital-centric, economies when merit metrics follow PermaCultured Continuous Quality Improvement Information System Design and Development Standards. This PermaCulture Cooperative system does not recognize “secrets” as an efficient stratagem for optimizing global values. Secrets are information vacuums, and we all know how Nature feels about her vacuums! Don’t even think about going there! Trust me, your idea of intellectually exclusive meritocracy is not nearly big enough for the real world of nature, or any lasting metaphysical theory of regenerative system development.

Value is discovered through the reality of goodness, beauty, proportion—Pythagoras lived this Information System. Power is discovered through True-to-Nature collective experience. Power and value are always found together in the Tao but they are mirror images.  When separated, as when True is separated from WhatIsReal, then fracture, confusion, disorientation make way for potentiated information, for regenerative centering in the future.

Value + Power = Wisdom as

Yin + Yang = Tao

Sometimes we forget that Pythagoras found all of this joyful and universally inclusive.  I imagine his self-koan to have been something like: Leap Boundaries with others, Laughing. But, maybe I’m just projecting onto history what I have learned during my personal history.

The Illuminati, in its current incarnation, understands that our universal Information System has paradigm-fusing power value. However, ignoring this System’s Prime Relationship Bicameral Source, it is easy to forget that our Meta-Communication system design can meet optimized value-performance standards using radically inclusive “power-from-within” development procedures. Prime Relationship is symmetrically balanced Trinitarian, including male/female and deduction/induction balanced transfers.

Yang power is only long-term sustainably optimized at steady-state equilibrium with Yin’s power-from-within Value.

Death and dissolution and disarray radiate information toward a new moment, a new environment, resolved only as we understand how its ExFormed structure has made room for regenerated confluence. As cilia makes room for flagella; as creative redevelopment makes room for learning through enthymematic sources.

Math is the economics of communication transfers between a static Information System Form and ExFormed enthymematic Binary Prime Relationship +Confluence/-Dissonance Function. It operates at a metaphysical or abstract and cognitive level more inclusively than System Form Information alone. The difference between metaphysics and physics, metrically speaking, is the difference between calculating metric system optimization values (and disvalues) and using an already developed, or explicated (Bohm), metric system to measure value differences.

When calculating, remember you are measuring both within the isolated value system problem you have selected and the power of the value system assumptions, the quality of the regeneratively-intended design, you are using to do the measuring.

Yoga is union; union is vibration that sometimes erupts into words.  Vibrations we radiate as life energy through our blood coursing within, through our brain-messages processing vibration messages found in our internal communication system. There is deeply breathed, rooted, belief that this yogaunion is accessed, available, through self-thought purgation.  This self-emptying is a communication-system centering and syncing and synergizing process of 4-dimensional alignment; centering our vibrations to our very Prime TaoCore default awareness. The result is a mutual symbiosis of Self/Other-Love and self respect. There is a rhythmic exchange in this vibration of loving and learning, then loving to learn to love to learn and love, to create, to recreate, to regenerate systemic evolution of our internal/external communication awareness.There is an immaculate purity of centric relationship between soul and Manifold; a yoga-vibration of Prime Relationship Balance.

Love: you are part of me, and I am part of you. Left-brained, emotive.

Respect: your creation is regenerated in my creation, and your creation is regenerated in my optimized learning/loving creation. Your people are my people; and my people are your people. Your constituencies are my constituencies, and my constituencies are like your constituencies. Your subsets are like my subsets, and my subsets are iconic of your subsets. Universal vibration union is like my vibration confluence, and my Reality is enthymematically synergetic with all that is.

I have a Big Idea.  In essence, my Big Idea is that you have the same Big Idea waiting at the core of your awareness.  Should that happen to be true, then we have discovered what we might call a Permanently Encultured Prime Relationship Core Awareness of Universal Synergy.

Optimizing our global Value abundance is balancing our love of self with our respect for Other, inclusively, radically, vibrationally, if you will excuse the allusion to ‘vibe. What we love is what we value.  What we respect is what has power for us. These are our affective paradigms (a Right-brained experience of reality).

Learning to Regenerate Our Paradigms Toward PermaCultured Values

What has potential power for us is what we

I. Enthymematic Notice: a problem; an optimized path toward resolution.  The problem is how to learn the solution.

II. Hope Translation/Transposition: This heuristic learning game moves from imagining the problem as a solution through self-emptying as a precursor to understanding the relationship between you, us, and the issue. Each of us needs to be realistic enough to see ourselves as a stakeholder in the problematic system (Boson) of focus.

III. Faith: Then re-member, re-generate, reverse the problem relationship trend in our cooperative imagination. The problem continuing into the future is your disvalue.  Change the negatives to positives, the befores to afters, the withins to withouts, to imagine the solution that is hidden in your problematic relationship with the issue at hand.

When did this problem start?  How?

Do I understand the problem the same way you do?  If not, why not?

What solution elements would respond to the way some or all stakeholders understand the problem, without making the problem worse for any stakeholder?

Imagine a future in which the problem is gone.  What is it like living in that imagined universe? What might it have been like halfway between what it is like now and what it is like then? What stuff happened at the front end of the transformation that set things up for the things that happened toward the back end of the regeneration process?

III.Learning to Learn/Learning Creatively: Re-Creation: You have just learned to learn from yourself, your planning/problem-solving group, from your environment.

IV. Loving to Learn, Regenerative Replication of Creation Story: Now go tell everybody what you did, how you did it, so they can do the same.

Communication and learning and meditation, contemplation are rooted in primal vibrations toward union, toward yogic, or shaman, awareness of self-design, self-designation; syncing, synergizing, connecting.  Radiating vibrations are about diversity, energy, creation, development, growth, wild yeast, intuition, creativity, power. Love and re-spect, to see without what we see within, are two Janus-faces of the same Prime Relationship wave. Breathing in and out is the yogic root of the root of these within/without holonic vibration, synergetic and iteratively rhythmic communication events.

To exhale is purgative, “self” submerged awareness, as

To inhale is sublimating consciousness, encultured wisdom emerges with self-as-other-re-spection; or regenerative power-value equipoised perception.

To share wisdom is to re-incarnate self purely as an icon of Species-Self in all ways that we communicate and commune with Other.  Wise communication is Binary Information System regenerative fuel.

Injustice is to revolutionary momentum as precessed air in a pair of overfilled lungs.

Peace is to regenerative momentum as recessed air in a pair of empty lungs.

It’s best to try to keep the two in balance, and synchronized.

Explicated systemic order is to power, as

Implicated Binary-systemic design is to permacultured value.

As a Binary Species, we look for +1/-0 power/value equivalencytrends to optimize the trajectory of our PermaCultured Value String (or Scenario, or Narrative, or predicted history).

One person’s Science is another person’s Religion, just as

One person’s Religion is another person’s Science, just as

One person’s Fact is another person’s Frequency Issue, just as

One person’s Frequency Issue is another person’s DisFunctional Fact.

Just as one person’s home is another person’s house,

AND that person’s house feels like a home should feel.

Science: What is Exegetical (permanently-to-date culturally accepted as Orthodox) Truth about Physical Reality (Special Case, Closed Set Boundaried).

Religion: What is Exegetical Reality about the Unboundaried Universe (inclusive of the Special Case)

God is to Permaculture System Design, as

Form is to Functional Development, as

Regenerative System Design Ecology is to Scientific Method, as

AND is to OR, in Logic.

The quality of genius is enthymematic design, artistry.

The power of genius is ingenuity.

The value of genius is creativity.

In-genuity is most effectively premised with not being too awfully full of oneself.

If creation is revolutionary regeneration, then it is regenerative speciation.  To get to the core of a newly speciated cognitive string requires humility, a willingness to lose, to give up, to purge oneself, a degenerative stage, entering the darkness of Exformation.  Enthymematic awareness, waiting with expectation, is necessary to open a closed door, to see universe in a new way.

This is easier and more fun to do if we learn how to do this in groups, giving each other permission to explore the full range of our apparent polarities, our pesky appositions, toward building something new.

There is not a care in the world that was not created by our mind.  There is not a care in the world that cannot be reverse-conceived as an area of opportunity for growth.  It’s all about the sand, the pearl, the oyster, and the oyster’s shell.

Problems are in reverse polarity to re-solutions because learning is in reverse appositional relationship to creativity. While we cannot deductively learn to create we can reverse-deductively create to learn. It helps to imagine a future without the problem and then work ourselves back to the current stasis.  It can also help to analyze history back to the nearest time when this problem was not a problem.  From that point, stage the developing trend toward dissonance, back to the current era of the problem.  Now what might it look like to reverse-order those development stages as a resolution plan?

Going back to the (0) Core Vector of the Issue-String, is there a different way of imagining our options now than was known to be available at that time?  If you could go back in time, knowing what you know now, could you have chosen a different option, or additional options, to bring confluent and sustainable values into that future? For example, when you realize that you and another person are no longer communicating effectively, could you stop the unraveling string, together go back to where each of you lost track of each other, and look at alternative word and/or action choices that could get you back in the resonant vibe?

Imagine that the temporal flow of the universe is a bloodstream flowing universe, and that Gaia is an enzyme within that bloodstream. Linear waves are strings.  Each strin is Core Vectored, before which it was only implicated within the blood flow.  If you could reverse time (like reverse-spinning transparent top, each o these strings would re-emerge into view and continue on their trajectory. Non-linear high-frequency waves appear to be a Manifold, or elliptically enveloping us as seen from “within” perspective.  Within the Boson calculating RNA-fueled Information Processors, each of these narrative strings ends in Information glia (Exformed) space.  Each string begins in Prime Core Vector (0); both mental, and physical.

Physically branching plasma strings flow through regenerative revolutions.  The more Information, as wave frequencies, included in a mental  or physical string, the more inclusive, the more dense, compacted, solid, are the linear string-branches, and the longer the emergent branch-string will remain intact as a system.

Thus, the experiential Universe is a reverse-appositional regenerating, evolving, Fractally Pulsating Heart, if you will.  As an Information 3-dimensional cognitive system, this whole looks like an evolving in reverse Tree.  If you imagined how we would look today to the shamans of 1000 BC, we are Exformed future prophesy, while the shaman is part of the Prime Relationship Regenerative Development Creation Story proto-history core vector.

When conceived within Time as 1 dimension, liner,then the evolution of Universe story looks like a tree reverse-radiating, developing, growing toward the Prime Taproot 1/0.

But, when using a 4-Base Equivalent dimension with Time  as a self-perpetuating exhaling/inhaling/exhaling, as without, so within, as within, so without, sort of Heart-Lung combination, a bit like our BiCameral Right and Left-Hemisphered Information Processors, then it is easier to see the unfolding, infolding Fourier series striction of our aptic bloodstream PermaCultured Universe.  We can swee the unfolding symmetric balance between two compatible frequency strings, Yand and Yin hemispheric flow, back and forth, strengthening them as a self-perpetuating bond strength, growing, tightening, harmonizing, as dissonance between their respective frequencies mutually adjust.  This is regenerative revolving evolution.  This is the evolution if Information from the Exformed chaotic glia in our Special Case Physical Universe, liquid frequency static/diastatic oscillation.

It is that moment when enthymematic Exformation fractally synapses into a new (0) Core Vector in any Information System, Physical or Metaphysical, Bionic or Biological, Geometric or Biometric or Ecometric or Communimetric.  Any metric System is an Information System.  Information is the syntax of Metric Systems.  This (0) Core Vector is a Constant PermaCulture Value for each individual string, each person, each species, each Boson, each ellipse, each Universe, each RNA string, each Binary Prime Relationship +/- Balanced Moment. The larger the ExFormed space-gap potential confluence, the larger the synaptic event when -1 Exformed NonPolynomial fractally reemerges as +1Polynomial.

Think of building momentum toward an orgasm between a high, fast, convexed, flagellated penetrator and a cooler, more moderated enveloping “Mental/Physical Space Gap.”  When the wave frequencies harmonize, the frequencies sync, creating a fused new system, a new Boson string is born.  We call this potentiated Hydrogen, the Higgs Boson.

Imaginatively recreating potentiates learning, as

Learning potentiates creativity.

Calculation and creation are appositionally bound as a spectrum. Creating our Reality Story, which may be dissonant from creating our True-Information Story, is what we tend to call “living my life.” Reality is our power-from-within root-source; our structure, plus function, plus temporal frequency pattern, emergent from our soul () Core Vector.

Equipoised, balanced, reality creation is most abundantly self/other empowered, is operating at sustainably optimal frequencies, when awareness recognizes the continuity and flow of the eternal moment as that (0) Core Vector where past meets future, me meets other, physics meets metaphysics, evolving narrative meets permanent regeneration.

In the Now was Time.

In Time was information frequency.

In Information was Exformational Power Source

In Exformed Power lies Prime Relationship

Balanced, Graceful, Proportional.

The quality of genius is artistry,

The power of genius is ingenuity,

The value of genius is creativity.

Ingenuity: is to be an Open Door; not full of oneself; purged and enthymematically waiting for sub-liminal sublimating hope.

In educational, training, development settings, we are collectively engaged in transferring the nonpolynomial into the polynomial within individuals and within the group as a whole.

In developmental settings, the cooperative bicameral Information System Processor is the engine, the propelling mechanism for communication.  Bicameral communication systems are the infrastructure for learning and creating through the growth, development, articulation, incarnation of mutually-defining, polynomial, relationships. The enthymematic field within any rhetorical event, within any developmental setting, is the liminally articulated, heuristic, hypothesized boson, boundary, moment, between that population’s nonpolynomial universe, and that population’s polynomial universe.

As a Species, we are a bicamerally incarnated planetary-organic system, living in a binary Information Physical and Metaphysical Universal System. It’s all about organic and non-organic fractal geometrics.  We live in a (0) Core Vectored Fractal, Tetrahedrally-Octavely designed and developed, 4-symmetrical dimensioned Metaphysically Binary-synergetic Universe.  So that’s who we are and our shared vocation is to remember that this is our Regenerative Creation Story.

Reverse your thought experiment, your attempt to try to learn who you are and who you are becoming.  Go back through your development stages.  Use Erickson and Piaget for you as an individual.  Then use biology to get back to you as an enzyme.  Then use history to get back to the source of that egg’s egg’s egg’s egg….. Eventually you will remember that you are, at core, your entire Species, which you could discern if you imagine how you could have gotten out of your egg, as a species, to become who you already are.  Then imagine creating an egg of yourself by learning what you were like before now (Erickson’s stages of human development), then before that (Piaget’s stages of infant development), then before that.  Pay special attention, while Time Traveling, to the Information that is and is not, yet available on the time-line of history. Jaynes is helpful with regard to the emergent development of Left-hemispheric deductively-confirmed Information, and the development of Languaged (Syntaxed) Information.  Always follow the densest, most nutritious, fertile, Information Core.  For example, we sort of evolved from a Bicameral Information Processor.  Become real friendly with Hydrogen energy frequencies, establishing a mid-vector calculating Root of pi/1e-frequency = 1QBit in a Binary/Reverse-Binary Bicameral Information System.

It is syllogistically compatible with Group Theory and the Soul Conjecture to say that as a species, and as individuals, we started out as a (0) Core Vectored string inside an eggshell Manifold filled with potentiated Coding Instruction Information (e.g. enthymematically ExFormed potentiated Information) for revolutionally precessing, then recessing, then precessing, etc. a Reverse-Binary Tree of Information Memory in a 4-Based Numeric Geometric Design Structure.  This is a Black Swan Soul conjecture story.

Developing Black Swan Souls learn most effectively and inclusively from each other, with nurturing support from one or more mature, adult Black Swan Souls. We are a Species of Creation Story Regenerators.  A mature, adult chicken, or a duck, is a mistake when we do Regenerative Swan Lake.

Information frequencies that are accessible to human sight and sound receptors is not full metaphysical information range.  Higher and lower frequencies cannot send messages to our liquid-normed energy receptors.  Our shared Right brain coding system is not able to differentiate, to contextualize, to organize, to mutually define and therefore individuate, ultra-frequency. These are core-aptic high frequencies.  The frequencies of stasis, rather than diastasis.  They are “flat-lined” sinusoidally intuitive ExFormed enthymematic Information potential Prime Relationship Core ultra-temporal-frequency.

Traditionally, according to Julian Jaynes, this aptic land of the metaphysical imagination was our space-gap of self-awareness. Despite Jaynes’ perspective that this is a land only of historic interest, I believe, as did Jaynes’s father, Reverend Julian Jaynes, that this “land” continues to be our Species’ Prime Relationship Core String of aptic awareness Binary Information.  On the other hand, I agree with Jaynes that awareness became consciousness as sight-sound bicameral receptors grew from other-imaging-only (precameral) to self-perception (bi-cameral). The capacity to be self-aware, the emergence of the Left hemisphere dominance, ushered in the speciating capacity to re-cognize Prime Relationship +/-.

Enthymematic communication, designed to propel a new imaging-string connection, for learning purposes, for dialogue purposes, to communicate effectively and iteratively develop toward other analogous strings, each leading back to Prime Root, we rely on liminal imaging-only temporal ExFormed frequencies. These images are cognitively spaciated as “empty space” in collective memory.  These spaces are eisegetically familiar as hypotheses, as self-proposals, but are not recognized as exegetically real by the individual and/or by the species. Enthymematic communication is rooted in designing between the boundary lines of reality, to create some new narrative, for the individual, for a group, for a community, for a species, for a planet.

I suspect (and I wonder if Jaynes did as well) that there is an audio component to high frequency reception that is internally cognizable as sending inductive veto messages when our imaging messages enthymematically propose a relationship that is logically contradictory to the assumption that Nonpolynomial Information is reverse-equivalent to Polynomial Information.  This proposal, in a Bicameral Information Processor, functioning optimally within a Binary Prime Relationship Information Universe, would be contrary to the permaculture value assumption that as without, so within, and as within, so without.

If so, then our Species’ capacity to learn and explain and create and predict is the revolving, evolving explication of high-frequency temporal awareness within ExFormed, inductively received, analogical Boundary Instructions.  This Boundary Instruction follows primacy for mutually-defining variables and values, connected by their affinitive Power-From-Within relationship-building potential. We are programmed to resist Power-From-Without proposals that would override our exegetical Prime Relationship Root awareness. In other words, if our Right hemisphere allowed proposals that would permit one thing to become another thing that is incompatible with the one thing, then deductive reasoning would not be internally consistent to the population of Information Processors. This is Right-brained Anathema.  In some faith traditions this is known as “sin.”

Creation is the implicating, breathing in, of ultra-frequency between-the-lines ExFormation. ExFormation can cause an inductive Information implosion in precessed (prime-enthymematic engorged) synergetic, fractal ana-logic (anti-logic) generalized metaphysical concepts that synaptically sync with the Left hemisphere’s Special Temporal-frequency liquid-based only.  Calculation Range.  This Calculation Range has been metrically systematized using 12-base duodecimal.

The aptic/synaptic Right hemisphere’s Information System is 16-Based metrically.  ExFormation-Only Right hemisphere Information system is defined by Left hemisphere deduction-only as the absence of Information AND, because of bicameral understanding capacity—sharing the Right hemisphere’s Prime Relationship Root Code Assumption, the absence of Prime Relationship confluence.

Temporal Information frequencies are revolving frequency coded in 12 duodecimal by bicameral processors because the earth revolves, clocks revolve.  There is no speciated “time” in the eternal darkness of metaphysics-only ExFormation.  There is only Prime Relationship+/-, where Polynomial Time = Nonpolynomial Time-In-Reverse.

As Exformed Prime liminal messages breathe into our bicameral awareness minds, so Informed enthymematically nurtured, created messages breathe out to optimize our hope for a regenerative communication string of learning and creating together from our shared Power-From-Within. Breathing out is preparing to re-create, it is understanding what we just created and communicating it back into our environment. It concludes with a recessed, purged, enthymematic pause before breathing in again.

Information is the fuel of communication systems.  It is consumed by sensory receptors with effects that range from highly toxic to highly nutritious. Information is to a communication product, or system, any relational system, as energy value fuel is to a permacultured economy.  Some information is confluent and nutritious within the relational system, and some information is highly dissonant.  Most information transactions within our relational-communication economy fall somewhere between the two extremes.

Continuous Value Improvement of our regenerative communication system:

Continuous = Constant, Sustainably balanced development within an inclusive system.

Value = ExFormed relationship to Prime (0) is Quality, which is some combination of confluent and dissonant frequencies.  Adding Quality of Prime Relationship to Information Power, the ratio of confluence to dissonance, gives us a measure of permacultural Value. Calculated relationship to Prime (0) is Quantity.  Measuring the change in that relationship over time is the permacultural value trend.

Improvement = Optimized system development is a balanced Power ratio of +.50% Confluent Power-From-Within AND -.50% Dissonant Power-From-Without the System, Set, Problem, Issue, Self, Species, Planet, mental Universe.

Spiritual awareness and evidence of learning and evidence of successful communication within any system is iteratively reincarnating continuously valued Information.

Communication System Development is iterative evolution trending toward an enthymematically primed, internally consistent, precessed Information paradigm closure.

Regenerative System Development is the revolutionary trend of Information System Development toward an enthymematically remembered Universal System Prime Relationship +50%Information/-50%ExFormation Open System Harmony.

Healthy learning systems are iteratively-revolving, empowered-from-within, cultural mythos communication systems that are inclusively incorporating Prime Relationship balance for diverse participants. All optimally effective communication systems merge toward the same, shared, prime taproot of binary core relationship, where the awareness of soul reflects our consciousness of both self and universe as appositionally affinitive and mutually defining, and continuously regenerating System.

Educational process:

Learn to accurately value and sustainably communicate internally

Learn to accurately value and sustainably communicate as a team

Learn to accurately value and sustainably communicate as a species

Learn to accurately value and sustainably communicate as a planet

Enthymematic means before-and-within-the meme boundary structure.

Think of any rhetorical event that you are participating in as a community of meme-variables that we call values and disvalues.

The underlying enthymematic field of your meme population is the affinitive default that Polanyi calls “Personal Knowledge” and the Wisdom Literature refers to as affinitive Awareness.

Julian Jaynes and some other psychologists (e.g., John Bargh; the ones I know tend to be associated with University of Michigan and Yale University, but I am sure there are many others) argue that the precameral mind (our shared-species mind before the Left hemisphere linguistic and self-consciousness emerged into what we now call homosapiens) is Business-As-Usual aptic-affinitive, and Exterior-Alien Powered synaptic.  In other words, our intuitive, Right-brained, knowledge is rooted in enthymematic hope of connection between our shared community of memes.  We are DNA programmed to want things to work out, to recognize that we are all in this together.

The liminal meme boundary structure for any meme community is reversely defined.  That is, the centrist value axis carries all the transaction power potential.  Outlyer memes add balance and torq, but there is no hard boundary about what could be compatible except what is logically repelled as incompatible or highly dissonant, resistant, to the centrist value momentum.

Dynamic Facilitation follows the affinitive centrist momentum, watering the flowers, not the outlyer weeds.  Once the meme population gets a good spin going, the affinitive power and momentum sucks in the outlyers in their direction.  Probably not all the way, but far enough to achieve whole-meme-system consensus.

Pretend your Team is 8 Meme sub-systems within one Team Meme Value/Disvalue Communication System.

All the memes within each individual are trying to get along as confluently as possible with each other; with the least amount of dissonance as possible.

All the memes between individuals are also trying to get along as confluently as possible, with minimal dissonance.  That is because our bicameral communication system is designed to expect, hope for, want, desire, like, feel good about affinitive relationships, confluence, between memes. Affinitive awareness is the enthymematic trend for successful message transactions within an ecological system of meme-values. Enthymematic hope for communication is rooted in the affinitive-awareness faith of intuitive knowledge, of memes that are confluent with our personal knowledge, our internal organic system of meme confluent-values.  This is how a regenerative, nonviolent, dynamically inclusive communication system grows and self-sustains; both within, and without.

I do think it draws on the underlying infrastructure that may be most transparently understood as heuristic affinity value, or hope of confluence, rather than dissonance.  Basically all the psychological and communication theory merely asks why this seems to be our species natural default perspective when operating in a communication system, unless there is something seriously wrong, like fear, greed, rabidity, sociopathology.  What you do is set up process to optimize this instinctive hope of confluence, which, in communication systems theory, Robert Norton, Ph.D. (yes, there it is) calls “enthymematic communication.” Joanna Macy calls it “active hope.”  It is more than “nonviolent listening,” but perhaps not more than “nonviolent living.”

In Physics, the question is why do we have creation, synergy, rather than just entropy; which is a lack of system or pattern; merely random chaos. Why does form move to synchronicity, affinitively.  Why do forms move inward, toward each other at least sometimes?  Why do we have In-Formation rather than merely Un-Formation?  How is it that creation happens? That learning happens?  That communication happens?

See, for example, John Bargh’s very interesting work in Psychology at Yale University, studying the difference between conscious decision making and unconscious choice making, which seems to recognize “True” signals synaptically and reflexively resistant to binary +WithinPower/-AlienPower dissonance. Jim Rough is also working with this enthymematic momentum toward balanced power values when he works with groups using a “choice-making” process, distinguished somewhat from a merely deductive decision-making process.  Dynamic Facilitation enthymematically follows confluent-trending values  toward  optimally balanced sustainable group outcomes.

Pre-enculturated aptic expectation of synergetic response , in Communication Theory, is a Rhetorical Event in an enthymematic stage.  In Group Theory, enthymematic stage would translate as a pre-elliptical Binary metric system assumption of balanced +/-.  In Taoism this translates into the harmonious reversely-self-defining primal relationship Root Power  +.50% Yang/-.50%Yin.

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