Living System Science & Principles

10 Human Living System Principles - Part 2

The Ten Human Living System Principles are directly useful for guiding persons and organizations in the practice of Living System Life and Work. I have learned that in practice. However, there are reqirements to be met before these Principles can be understood, become useful and can lead to superior performance.

They cannot just be added on top of conventional ideas and practices - The conventional must be set aside, thanked for its previous service, and then abandoned - That is the price for implementing the New Pattern for Success. The New is embraced and the Old is set aside.

First, you require a new Mindset to understand and use these Principles. Then, Second, you need a new Approach to Human Living Systems founded on the Human Psyche rather than on non-human living system sciences like biology, ecology or modern physical theory. And Third, you need to realize that Human Living System Science is a dramatic discontinuity from conventional science.

I repeat below the Ten Principles of Human Living System Science for your reference before I proceed to discuss the three pre-requirements for understanding and using the Principles. If you have not read the Previous Post in this series you may want to read it now.

- Inherent Bi-Polarity
- Underlying Morphic Fields
- Function in Cyclical Waves
- Organize as Nested Systems in Nodal Networks
- Open Systems with dynamic Interactions
- Embedded in Enabling and Nurturing Environments
- Never at Equilibrium - Unless Dead
- Optimal Sizes for Sub-Systems
- System Analysis by Underlying Wave Patterns
- Power Law Statistical Distributions - The Long Tail

Now the pre-conditions for their understanding and use. You need to satisfy them if you are to be able to transcend the conventional paterns of living and working that surround us.

Let's deal with the third requirement first - Realizing Human Living System Science is a dramatic, qualitative discontinuity. Holding on to conventional ideas about what is "scientific" and true will retard your progress.

The knowledge I present in this series of posts is inconsistent with much of what is understood to be valid "Science" today. Please review the Purpose of this Blog. Human Living System Science cannot be "added-on" to current ideas and practices of existing science to develop the next step in scientific understanding. It is not simply a next step - It is a discontinuous leap away from what generally exists. This may be somewhat confusing at first - But it is confusing only if you try to understand it in terms of conventional scientific ideas. Sorry - That is just the way it is with Human Psyche Stage Transformations - They are leaps from one psychological reality to another.

The second requirement is to approach Living System Science from the viewpoint of the Human Psyche - The energy field that comprises all of the processes of the human conscious and unconscious. It is the most fundamental Living System underlying all human affairs.

The Human Psyche It is NOT the Brain. It is a non-physical energy field system. It is the Underlying Source for human life and work - It is the "Morphic" Field for our motivations, thoughts, intuitions, feelings and behavior. The Brain is a marvelous bio-material system through which we as humans can be aware of portions of our Psyche, depending our evolutionary stage, during our physical life on Earth. The Brain is also a living system, but secondary to the Psyche. The Psyche and the Brain serve us as what we will call a Bi-Polar pair of systems at the core of our life.

The first requirement is to develop a new Mindset so we can experience reality in a new way - To become enabled to perceive and then understand the Living System Pattern of human life and work that is now the emerging pattern for superior performance.

My purposes in the series of Blog posts are four:
1) To better understand Human Living Systems and their science, that can be called the Science of the Underlying Plane;
2) To begin understanding the Principles for making Living System applications yourself;
3) To begin learning how some leading-edge persons and organizations are making partial applications of Living System Science concepts and practices in their life and work with dramatic positive results; and therefore
4) To begin practicing the New Patterrn for Success in ways of leadership, organization and operations your conventional competitors cannot even understand, much less try to imitate.

In the next Post I introduce you further to the fundamental transformation in life and work you are enbarking on. This should better prepare you for grasping the specific Human Living System Principles.

I look forward to your Comments, Questions Suggestions.

John Clayton Caris

Click Continue Reading link below for lists of Previous Posts in this series.

10 Human Living System Principles - Part 1

Here begins a series of blog posts presenting Ten Principles of Human Living System Science I discovered in my research and applications. They are the foundation for making applications of Living System Life and Work and its Nodal Network Business that are your new path to superior personal and organization performance.

There are surely more Principles to be discovered. But these are enough to begin understanding the structure and behavior of Human Living Systems in all types of human affairs - Individuals, organizations, business, markets and the sweep of human history from the distant past to the present and into the future.

A thoughtful man questioned me about Living System Life and Work saying, "How do you put legs on this table?" Here is my answer.

That is indeed doable. But, we must be sure to see and understand the nature of the "table" before we try to put legs on it - Meaning trying to use the new table in action. Let's use his analogy of Living System Life and Work as a new "table", that is the platform or work place, for a new pattern of living and working.

We are talking about a unique type of new "table" that did not previously exist - Knowing about conventional tables is not useful. In fact it is harmful. You cannot put Living System legs on a conventional Linear System table. They do not fit. They will not support the new Living System "table".The two types of table are discontinuously different as platforms for useful work.

The Principles of Human Living Systems in this series of posts define the nature of the new Living Sytem Life and Work "table". Applications of these new Principles for living and working are the "legs" for the new Living System "table". How we practice the new applications defines how we "put the legs on the new table".

So there are three things we are dealing with:

1) A new Platform for living and working - The Human Living System Principles (The Table),
2) New Applications of the Human Living System Principles (The Legs), and
3) New Practices of the Applications consistent with the new Principles (Putting the Legs on the Table).

And all of these three things are inconsistent with conventional principles, applications and practices of life and work today.

Let's start with listing the Human Living System Principles I am now aware of and use:

- Inherent Bi-Polarity
- Underlying Morphic Fields
- Function in Cyclical Waves
- Organize as Nested Systems in Nodal Networks
- Open Systems with dynamic Interactions
- Embedded in Enabling and Nurturing Environments
- Never at Equilibrium - Unless Dead
- Optimal Sizes for Sub-Systems
- System Analysis by Underlying Wave Patterns
- Power Law Statistical Distributions - The Long Tail

Do not expect to understand these principles from this first exposure. It cannot be done. In the next post I explain why. Later posts in this series discuss each Principle, introduces some of its applications and your practices to use it.

Many have not been prepared to deal with such new knowledge that is discontinuous from nearly everything we have previously known and believed. Recall the wisdom of Frank Herbert, the author of the Dune Books, when he wrote, "The beginning of knowledge is the discvovery of something we do not understand."

Such new knowledge cannotbe added on our old knowledge to take a next step in learning. It may help to read, or re-read, a previous post I made in my personal blog entitled the Curse of Add-On Knowlege.

I look forward to your Comments, Questions Suggestions.

John Clayton Caris

Purpose of Living System Science and Principles Blog

The Living System Science and Principles Blog enables you to understand the nature of Human Living Systems composed of individual persons, collectives and their networks - And to apply this new knowledge to your own life, relationships, groups, organizations and networks so you can implement the emerging New Pattern for Success that we define as the practices of Living System Psychology, Living System Life and Work and its Nodal Network Business.

We approach Human Living Systems science and principles from the viewpoint of the human psyche - As the most fundamental living system for humans - rather than from the conventional approaches of non-human biological, ecological and physical systems. The human psyche stages and evolution process are the direct underlying causes for all human experience and behavior - Personal and collective.

This sounds unfamiliar and strange. But, it is the most direct path to understanding and using Human Living System Science and its Principles. Frank Herbert wrote, "The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand". His wisdom applies to discovering this new path as something dramatically different from what we now know and understand. This blog explores the new path. Its knowledge is a discontinuous leap beyond conventional beliefs about Human Living Systems.

John Clayton Caris