I write this Post to answer three Questions I am asked about Living System Psychology: Is It Practical; Is It an Advantage; and Why Does It Appear so Strange?

From the Mindset of an emerging Stage A' - Living System, 2nd Renaissance Human who is aligned with the current World Human Transformation, the answers to these questions are simple and direct. They are Yes, it is Practical - Yes, it is an Advantage to use - and It is Not Strange at all because it is the natural thing to believe and use if you wish to be most successful now. I explain these answers next.

Psychology as the central underlying foundation for human life and work is a new concept and practice that emerge at Stage A'. This became recognizable in human affairs about 1900 A.D. except for rare earlier individual examples. Its importance for emerging leaders has accelerated since the 1970's. Conventional linear system life and work (Stage E) or earlier stages of human psyche evolution (Stages A through D) cannot perceive psychology in this way and therefore cannot practice it. Relativistic system life and work (Stage F) acts as an essential bridge stage between the linear system pattern and the living system pattern of life and work.

What I am saying is valid but it may be diffficult to understand until one is able to adopt the new Mindset. It should become clearer as you discover the contents of this Blog and the other Isis Group Network materials.

Now let's answer three Questions from a Living System human's Mindset.

Living System Psychology - Is It Practical?

Rudolph Steiner, an early example of a Stage A' - Living System Human, wrote near 1900 A.D in his book Theosophy:

"Only he who understands human life can become a truly practical man."

Steiner was a pioneer in transforming human life and leadership. He was saying that the practical management of human affairs is based on a profound understanding of inner human life rather than the conventional focus on external non-human forces and events. His ideas are a natural result of the new stage of the human psyche, the Stage A'.

It is a discontinuous break from what generally exists even today. It is a leap in what it means to be Practical. It is the leap from the conventional focus of being Practical in terms of the external material world to being Practical by focus on 1) First understanding the internal world of human affairs and their psychology so 2) Second it is then possible to become Practical in the external world in transformed ways.

Carl Jung, another Living System pioneer, wrote in 1961 in the memoir of his life's work - Memories, Dreams, Reflections:

"There is a general feeling to be sure, that we have reached a turning point in the ages, but people imagine the great change has to do with nuclear fission or fusion, or with space rockets. What is currently taking place in rh human psyche is usually overlooked."

Both Jung and Steiner were saying essentially the same thing - That the key to understanding human life and taking Practical actions is the underlying psychological patterns of mankind. Thus, Practical actions really flow from the underlying psychology.

There is in progress a massive transformation in what is Practical. Human psychology is now primary for those who can adopt the new Mindset. Living System Psychology, the Human Psyche System and its stage-by-stage process of human evolution are the central tools for understanding human life and thus being Practical in the emerging Stage A' pattern.

Living System Psychology - Is it an Advantage?

A good way to answer this question comes from a talented software "Hacker" named Paul Graham, whose psyche appears to operate in the Mindset of an emerging Stage A' leader. (Please note that a Hacker is a talented sofware creator - A Cracker is the software criminal that does harmful and illegal things with computers.) Paul Graham wrote in an essay about successful software development entitled Beating the Averages:

"In business there is nothing more valuable than a technical advantage your competitors don't understand."

He was writing about software development, but his concept applies broadly. Living System Psychology is now the core "Technology" for effective leading-edge human action, including leadership, organization and entrepreneurship. Because almost nobody now has any idea about what Human System Psychology is or how it can be used, it is a powerful competitive advantage for those who do know. The vast majority of your competitors don't understand it. Even in the future it will remain a great advantage because the majority of existing individuals and organizations will probably not be able to transform themselves or their organizations to Stage A' Living System Life and Work.

So, Living System Psychology is an Advantage.

Living System Psychology - Why Does It Appear Strange?

Living System Psychology is based upon Living System science that results from the Stage A' human psyche. The psychologies of earlier Human Psyche System stages are based upon non-living system sciences. Therefore, they are discontinuously different from Living System Psychology - They are inconsistent with it.

One example illustrates this psyche stage difference. The well known Freudian approach to psychology is based upon and consistent with Linear System science (Stage E science). While the still lesser known Jungian approach to psychology is based on the emerging Living System science (Stage A' science).

Linear System science and Living System science are qualitatively discontinuous. From the mindset of Linear System Science, anything consistent with Living System science will appear to be Strange. From the mindset of Living System science, anything consistent with Linear System science will appear to a limited special case of Living System science where the "living" characteristics are reduced to zero.

The first, Linear System science, is the science of independent mutually exclusive events on the conscious plane of reality. Linear System science statistical distributions are peaked, like the well known Gaussian, or Bell Curve, distributions. The logic of Linear System Science is Either-Or, not both simultaneously. It is uni-polar. This Linear System Science is what is generally known as "science" and therefore is not Strange to most.

The second, Living System science, is the science of inter-dependent complementary bi-polar events on both the conscious surface plane of reality and the unconscious underlying plane of reality - With the unconscious plane of reality being the primary guiding influence. This is called the "Morphic Field", or underlying guiding field. Living System science statistical disributions have no most probable peaks. They follow a Power Law distribution, commonly refered to as the "Long Tail". The logic Living System science is Both-And. It is bi-polar. This Living System science is not yet generally known as "science" and therefore does appear Strange to many.

Therefore, from a Living System mindset, Living System Psychology is Not Strange at all - But from a Linear System mindset it is Strange.

John Clayton Caris