Best Approach to Understanding Human Living Systems - The Human Psyche

We need the most direct approach to understanding Human Living Systems. That approach is through Human System Psychology for individuals and collectives - That means through the unconscious and conscious processes of the Human Psyche System - Specifically its Stages of human life and their evolution process through individual human lives and through collective human history. The Human Psyche is the most fundamental Living System at the core of all human affairs.

Our interest is making applications to Human Living Systems - That means making applications to the lives and work of human individuals and their collectives from two person relationships to organizations of any size. Our focus is on human leadership, organization, operations and entrepreneurship.

Most other discussions approach Living Systems from a "Non-Human" Living Systems perspective - Some are quite linear in their mechanical perspective. Specifically, they use an historical scientific perspective from biology, ecology or some version of modern physical concepts, such as quantum mechanics or physical field theory.

This approach cannot go directly to useful applications in human life and work – Especially in business. It requires making complicated analogies and interpretations from Non-Human systems to Human Systems before trying to be applicable to human persons and their organizations.

I find such analogies weak, often misleading or wrong. They do not, because they cannot, directly shed light on the transforming patterns of human motivation, behavior, leadership, organization and entrepreneurship that are direct results of the Human Psyche System.

Starting from Human System Psychology enables us to make direct applications to the lives and work of humans. We do not need to make analogies or interpretaions about how biological, ecological or modern physics systems are like human systems before we can make applications. We can go directly to the heart of the matter - And that is what we do.

As you proceed in this blog and the other two Core Knowledge Blogs, especially the Human Psyche System and Living System Psychology Blog, you should become comfortable with the reality that the Human Psyche System is the underlying energy field system for human life. It is not the human brain, which is the portion of our physical body that enables us to become aware of our psyche's energy fields during our life on Earth. The psyche is the totality of all conscious and unconscious processes at the core of our life. Its transformations are what cause transformations through the stages of our individual lives and through the stages of collective human history. They are the same series of stages for individuals and for collectives. All human practical applications follow from this.

To tell business people that the most important thing to understand about the New Pattern for Success is a new Genre of human psychology may sound strange. I assure you it is not. It certainlyis a new concept for many, but it is not strange. It is the core of Living System Life and Work.

Rudolph Steiner, an early pioneer in what has become Living System thought, wrote: “Only he who understands life can become a truly practical man.” Our path is to approach Living Systems from the Human Systems viewpoint so we can directly understand the stages of human life and their practical consequences in individuals and organizations. With this knowledge we can become a new type of practical person who naturally operates in the New Pattern for Success.

I want to assure I am being clear, so I summarize what I have said about approaching Human Living Systems from the viewpoint of the psyche. Once we understand the Human Psyche System and its transformations, there is no need for analogies to make direct applications in life and work. The Human Psyche, its structure, its behavior and its stage-by-stage evolution process, are what we need to know to understand what is happening in the world, in our own lives and how to create, organize and operate a business organization containing real people. You do not need analogies from molecular biology, genetics, ecology, fundamental particle physics, etc. We believe this the most important human knowledge a leading-edge business leader needs to implement the New Pattern for Success.

I emphasize - Our approach to Human Living Systems is from the most modern science of the Human Psyche System. It is not the conventional viewpoint that almost always begins from the science of non-human Living Systems. This knowledge can give you strategic advantage in creating, leading/managing and operating a Living System Business. This blog presents information that should enable you to decide for yourself.

John Clayton Caris

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