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