Do not be concerned if you do not understand all that I write in the three posts of this Blog Series named Living System Psychology Overview. I am introducing you to a transformed human foundation for successful life and work. It is based upon a Living System Science concept and practice of human psychology that is dramatically different from conventional psychology.

As you become acquainted with the materials in this Blog named Human Psyche System and Living System Psychology, these posts and the ones to be published soon can make sense to you if you are willing and able to transform away from conventional mindsets. This a non-linear learning experience in which what you now know and believe are not only of little help to you - They may be a serious blockage to your learning. That is the way it is when you enter a path of learning that is a Discontinuous Break from what now exists. That is of course what is required if you are to understand the World Human Transformation now in progress.

Always recall the words of Frank Herbert, the author of the Dune Books. He wrote:
"The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand."

Hopefully this series of Blog Posts, this whole Blog and all the other Blogs of the Isis Group Blog Network will enable you to discover things you do not understand and thus be the beginning of your knowledge of today's emerging World Human Transformation and its marvelous new path for Living System Life and Work - The New Pattern for Success.

Now let's begin this Blog Series.

Living System Psychology Foundation Principles

This outline presents Foundation Principles for Living System Psychology.

- Living System Psychology is founded on the Human Psyche System and its Structural Stage process of psyche evolution for both human individuals and collectives.

- Living System Psychology and the structure and dynamics of the Human Psyche System are consistent with the principles of Living System Science.

- The Human Psyche System is the most fundamental living system at the core of human life. It and its living system evolution process underlie all human affairs. They are the cause for all that manifests humanly - Internally and in the external world.

- Whatever manifests in human affairs are constructs of the current Human Psyche System stage profiles of persons, collectives and their leaders at a given time and location. This means that all areas of human action, including science, the arts, emotions, thought, motivation, behavior, leadership/management, organization, entrepreneurship, are governed by the psyche stage profiles of the individuals and collectives taking the actions.

- Human Psyche Systems, for individuals and collectives, are non-physical energy fields composed of both conscious and unconscious sub-systems. The individual Human Psyche System is not the brain. The brain is a bio-physical living system that enables the individual to experience the psyche.

- The Human Psyche Evolution Process is a living system process. That means it is bi-polar and cyclical. The Human Psyche System evolves by continuous, quasi-linear development within a stage (Called Intra-Stage Development) and then evolves by discontinuous, non-linear transformation between stages (Called Inter-Stage Transformation). Periods of development evolution and transformation evolution follow each other in cycles.

- The Human Psyche Evolution Process for both individuals and collectives progresses through the same specific sequence of stages – Individuals through a lifetime and collectives through the course of human history.

- So far in individual and collective human life seven Human Psyche System Stages have manifested. The seventh is the stage that is now driving today’s World Transformation.

- The Purpose for Living System Psychology is to enable you to understand how the process of Human Psyche System evolution has led through individual lives and through human history up to the psyche stage now manifesting as today’s World Transformation to Living System Life and Work in the lives of leading-edge humans.

John Clayton Caris

Links to other Posts in this series:

Living System Psychology Overview - Part 2 - Key Concepts
Living System Psychology Overview - Part 3 - Review