John Clayton Caris Blog

How the Isis Group Network Program Began and Evolved

The Isis Group Network program began over 30 years ago. But I was not then aware that I was beginning a program aligned with an emerging World transformation to Living System Life and Work and its resulting transformation to a new pattern of business.

Why? Because I was not then consciously aware that a world transformation was indeed in progress. And I certainly did not know what its nature was. But I must have been unconsciously aware because of the powerful emotional sensations I began to have that everything was in the process of some unknown discontinuous change.

How that awareness developed, what I was led to learn and how to act on it, I discuss in the About section of this weblog. An outline of the whole story is there.

John Clayton Caris

Four Mega-Forces - Real Underlying Causes for What is Happening Today

Four Mega-Forces are real unseen causes for what is happening today - locally and worldwide. They are driving forces for your life, your family and your business for at least the next two decades.

First - A Vast - But specific - human transformation is in progress throughout the world. It is a qualitative leap from what currently exists to a new type of science and its resulting new pattern for successful life and work. A new type of human being and leader is emerging whose life purpose, leadership, management, organization structure, operations process and entrepreneurship are discontinuous breaks from conventional patterns. That is Mega-Force 1.

Second - This human leap - unseen by most - is accelerating during the most critical decade of a powerful long term wave - the Kondratieff Wave Cycle - underlying the world's economic, geo-political and financial patterns - also unseen by most. We are now in the last quarter of the current K-Wave cycle characterized by world deflation that is being masked by the most massive governmental manipulations in human history. They are fueled by uncontrolled floods of irredeemable fiat money and unregulated derivatives. That is Mega-Force 2.

Third - This human leap of Mega-Force and critical economic, geo-political and financial situation of Mega-Force 2 is unfolding during accelerating demographic imbalances throughout the world. Fertility rates of most developed countries are so low they cannot maintain their populations without massive immigration - legal and illegal. On the other hand, most undeveloped countries, and the Islamic world in particular, have fertility rates so high a demographic bomb has been created. That is Mega-Force 3.

Fourth - The coming together of these three Mega-Forces - their Cataclysmic Confluence - brings critical needs for transforming the nature of effective human life, leadership and business development model in both developed and developing countries. That is Mega-Force 4.

These forces and their confluence are a unique situation in the history of modern times. Aligning your life and work with them is the path to discovering how to transform your life and work. The needed transformations can only be achieved by first transforming and then their organizations - Not the other way around..

The situation arising from the 4 Mega-Forces is NOT dire for those who understand and align. Enabling you to accomplish this is the work of the Isis Group Network and its Isis Institute, the first learning institution for the newly transforming leaders. For those who neither understand nor align with today's emerging pattern, the current situation is indeed dire, although many are not even aware. Charles Dickens wrote words at the time of an earlier world human transformation that apply to us today,

                            "It was the best of times - It was the worst of times."

Which it is for you depends on your choice whether to understand, transform and align.

Our research has also discovered at least three more future Mega-Forces now forming like young hurricanes out at sea. They deal with emerging Mega-Force strength discontinuities in energy supplies; money, credit and the world banking system; and World geo-political and financial hegemony. I discuss the coming Mega-Forces in later Isis Group Network blog posts.

John Clayton Caris

Why the Name "Isis"?

We are often asked, "What does the word Isis mean?" or "Why do you use the name "Isis" for your group?"

The word Isis means for us the Goddess Isis of ancient Egypt. We use her name because she is a profound symbol for the creation, development and growth of all living things. The story of Isis is a powerful archetype that resonates with humans world wide for all time. She is our patron Goddess for who we are and and what we do.

The gods and goddesses of ancient Egypt carried in their right hands a golden Ankh. It was their insignia of being a god. The logo symbol to identify the Isis Group Network is the word ISIS that uses an ankh for each letter I.

Our Isis Group Network, its Living System Life and Work and its Nodal Network Business implementation are based upon the emerging pattern of Living System Life and Work that is the foundation source for the world transformation of human affairs now in progress. Therefore, the name Isis is an appropriate symbol for us to align with.

More highly effective patterns of human thinking, emotions, motivation and behavior have appeared at six previous times in human history. Each of them marked a turning-point into a new human civilization to replace the previous one. Thus, each of these six previous patterns was eventually replaced during a massive qualitative transformation in life and work. This led to a another new era of human history.

Now this same type of human transformation is appearing in leading edge humans for the seventh time in history. This emerging pattern of living and working is now in the process of leading highly productive humans away from the currently dominant but declining patterns of linear machine system and relativistic-collectivist system life and work. The mission of the Isis Group Network is to be a catalyst and enabler for emerging leaders to successfully accomplish their transformations into Living System Life and Work. The Goddess Isis is symbolic for this emerging transformation into what we define as the 2ndRenaissance(R) era.

Further, the Goddess Isis has been described as the "She who gives birth to heaven and earth, ... , seeks justice for the poor, and shelter for the weak. Some of Isis' many other titles were Queen of Heaven, Mother of the Gods, The One Who is All, Lady of Green Crops, The Brilliant One in the Sky, Star of the Sea, Great Lady of Magic, Mistress of the House of Life, She Who Knows How To Make Right Use of the Heart, Light-Giver of Heaven, Lady of the Words of Power, and Moon Shining Over the Sea."

The powerful archetypal energy of Isis emerged in ancient Greek mythology as the Goddess Demeter where she was known as the goddess of agriculture and fertility. In Roman mythology, the Isis archetype was the Goddess Ceres where she was known as the goddess of the earth, agriculture and fertility. Reverence for Isis continues to this day.

John Clayton Caris

The Curse of Add-On Knowledge

There is a fundamental problem with the way most of us approach problems, and opportunities. It involves trying to add-on new knowledge to what we now know and believe - Rather than letting go of what we now know and believe to make room in our psyche for the entry of what is Truly New.

The current process of life and work (Stage E and Stage F human psyche stage patterns) is based upon linear system science and relativistic-collective science. Its linear system pattern of learning is conscious, rational and step-by-step sequential. Its natural way to try to solve problems is to "add-on" to its current knowledge in a stepwise logical, continuous way. The means to try to implement solutions in human affairs is by collectivist coercion. Such process in human affairs does not perceive the need for discontinuous transition, a leap away from what now exists.

In the current patttern of life and work there is a strong desire to find a rational sequential path from where we are now to where we want to be to solve our current problems. The world today is deluged with such "fix-up" schemes. Some of them are quite ingenious, but in the current linear pattern, not in the emerging new non-linear Living System pattern that is required for success.

Another of my posts entitled What Is happening Now in the world and Can Happen in Your Life discusses the world transformation now accelerating that requires us to turn away from linear and relativistic-collectivist "add-on fix-up" schemes in the current pattern and to leap to the emerging non-linear Living System pattern if we are to be successful in life and work. There are no effective linear step-by-step or coercive collectivist paths to solutions anymore.

Letting go of what we now know and believe and have found to be successful "in-the-past" is a scary process. Our purpose is to enable you to demonstrate to yourself that it is absolutely necessary and is doable given One Condition - That you transform your life and work from the still currently dominant, but declining, linear and collectivist system patterns by leaping into the emerging Living System pattern.

The biggest curse we now face is being addicted to the conventional pattern of learning by add-on knowledge to what we now know and believe. What is now now happening demands we abandon current knowledge that would prevent the discontinuous transformation of ourselves first as humans and then as professionals. That is what the Isis Group Network and its Core Knowledge areas are all about.

John Clayton Caris