Living System Psychology Review

This outline Reviews and summarizes the Foundation Principles and Key Concepts for Living System Psychology that I presented in Part 1 and Part 2 of this series.

First - To understand the emerging World Transformation to Living System Life and Work we must understand the history of mankind - for both individuals through a lifetime and for collectives through history.

Second - The Human Psyche System stage profile of one’s psyche determines the nature of one’s current life.

Third - The psyche stage profile of a collective’s leaders determines the nature of that collective’s current life.

Fourth - The Human Psyche System evolution process has two complementary parts for each stage that follow each other in cyclical sequence. It is bi-polar. One pole is Inter-Stage Transformation – The shorter, turbulent, discontinuous leap to a new stage. The other pole is Intra-State Development – The longer, gradually changing, development within a given stage.

Fifth - Individuals born, raised and conditioned in a collective tend to evolve in their own life up to the most evolved stage of that collective. This is called Recapitulation.

Sixth - Not all individuals, collectives and their cultures are equally evolved. There is a diversity of dominant psyche stages and psyche stage profiles at different locations throughout the world, and even at one location. These stage differences are the source for much disagreement and conflict.

Seventh - There are two types of inter-stage psyche transformation for both individuals and collectives: The Recapitulation type – This is individual transformation up to the stage of their current collective. And the Transcendence type – This is individual transformation to a stage beyond the stage of their current collective stage.

Eighth - Individual Transcendence results in personal growth traumas and in the eventual transformation of their collectives. Individual transcendence always occurs before collective transcendence to the same stage. Collective Transcendence of leading-edge institutions results in the buildup to the transformation of other institutions they interact with. This leads to the eventual transformation of the World’s leading society into a new era of human history. That is now started again for the seventh time in human history.

Ninth - If an individual’s psyche stage evolution at any stage is prevented from going to completion, psychological problems are buried in the psyche - Mostly in the unconscious part of the psyche. At this time much of our society has reached the point in psyche evolution (Stage F pattern) where those buried problems naturally emerge from the unconscious. This contributes to the chaos of our time.

Tenth – Conclusion - We live and work at one of those few times in human history when a new era of human history emerges – The seventh. We name our new era - the 2nd Renaissance. The transcendent individual responsible for it we name the Stage A’ -Living System pattern human who uses what we define as 2nd Renaissance Living System Life and Work concepts and processes. This results in a transformed leadership/management profession and a new definition of who are truly practical persons and what are the right means for them to use.

John Clayton Caris

Links to other Posts in this series:

Living System Psychology Overview - Part 1 - Foundation Principles
Living System Psychology Overview - Part 2 - Key Concepts