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1. Total Human Development and Harmony Through Synergism 2. Holistic Health Care and Medicine 3. Deep Ecology and Harmony with Nature 4. Sense of History and Sense of Mission 5. Civics and Democratic Governance 6. Culture as Community Creativity 7. Light-Seeking and Light-Sharing Education 8. Gender Sensitivity, Equality & Harmony 9. Reconstructive/Restor-ative Justice 10. Associative Economics, Social Capital and Sustainable Development 11. Synergetic Leadership and Organizations 12. Appropriate/Adaptive Technology 13. Mutual Enrichment of Families and Friendships 14. Human Dignity and Human Harmony: Human Rights and Peace 15. Aesthetics Without Boundaries: 'Art from the Heart' . |
General and Specific Outlines on Human Synergetics By Ed Aurelio C. Reyes Prof. Reyes is one of the foremost champions in the Philippines of the serious study and conscious application of the synergism principle on various fields of human concern. He taught synergism-oriented subjects of Applied Cosmic Anthropology, the doctoral program of Asian Social Institute (ASI) in Manila. Below are the General and Specific Outlines he submitted to the founding board of the Lambat-Liwanag Network which the latter approved for popularization and further development as the contents of Paradigm 1. He later wrote out a book, titled Human Holons: Power-Packed Synergies, which has been published in Pilot Edition in 2002. This book is now available on-line. click here.
I. GENERAL OUTLINE:INTRODUCTIONA. SYNERGISM AND THE COSMIC HUMAN
a. The Cosmos as Understood by Humans b. Human Interactions with Space-Time Dimensions c. Applied Synergism in Physics and Chemistry
a. Quest for Truth and Consistency in Comprehension b. Quest for Unified Field of Knowledge c. Diversity & Negation in Experiencing Existence & Identity d. Imperative of Earnest Human Conversations
a. Concept of Oneness of All; Alienation as Evil b. Interlinking of Human Consciousness c. Concept of God as Synergy of All Synergies
B. SYNERGISM AND THE BIOLOGICAL HUMAN
a. Cell Colonies and Organisms b. Interdependent Biological Life Systems c. Energy Levels, Centers and Channels
a. Symbiosis and the Web of Life b. Bio-Diversity and Ecosystem Stability c. Deep Ecology vs. Sustainable Development C. SYNERGISM AND THE SOCIAL HUMAN
a. Proven Efficacy of Appropriate Teamwork for Any Effort: b. Complementation of human needs and capabilities within basic social interactions c. Interdependence of Human Development and Harmony
a. Basics from Robinson Crusoe: Economies of Scale b. Laissez Faire as Fragile Ideal: Ruined by Rise of Monopolies/Cartels c. Associative Economics and Cooperativism
a. Sovereignty of the Body Politic b. Democratic Governance vs. “Participatory Democracy” c. Synergism in Empowering Organizations: empowering the total human –body, mind, spirit
a. Holistic Health of Physical, Psychic and Spiritual Bodies b. Holistic Health in the Synergy of Healing Modalities c. Physical Fitness from Cooperative Efforts
a. Recognition of Aesthetics as Basic Human Faculty and Expression of Spirituality: All humans are artists. b. Freedom of Expression from Competitions and Universal Standards c. Perception of Beauty in the Rich Diversity of Artistic Styles and Elements 6. Synergism in Culture a. Culture as Community Creativity b. Totality of Community Interaction within itself and with the Flow of Life. II. DETAILED OUTLINE (with some passages/descriptions):INTRODUCTION
A. SYNERGISM AND THE COSMIC HUMAN1. Synergism in the Cosmos a. The Cosmos as Understood by Humans Oneness of the Cosmos / Integrity of Creation-- “The Universe is a four-dimensional space-time continuum” Integrated Logic and Beauty of the Cosmos -- “God does not play dice with the Universe”—Einstein Synergetics as integration of Geometry with Philosophy, by R. Buckminster Fuller More references from Drunvalo Melchizedek Gravity and the Expanding Universe— Repulsive force opposite gravity has not been found (said Stephen Hawkings in his Time magazine article on Eistein as “Person of the Century”) implying that the Universe is predisposed to cohere; stars that recede faster are therefore farther, but does not prove acceleration in the rate of expansion of the Universe after the “Big Bang” (this is a reinterpretation of a “Red-Shift” observation, which in many literatures is used to imply accelerating and therefore infinite expansion of the Universe); cohesion as basic force. Drunvalo Melchizedek, in his The Secret of the Flower of Life, asserts that all known suns in the Universe are fusion-type nuclear reactors, implying the primacy of unification, rather than fission, in natural generation of energy. Magnetic Fields-- These unify by influence on magnetic orientation. “Like flows attract; opposite flows repel” (poles are only important as indicators of magnetic flux). Magnetic orientation of lodestones from hardened lava, and the compass needle are proofs of strong magnetic action via field influence on orientation. Unification of magnetic orientation tremendously increases the magnetic field that causes such unification in the first place. b. Human Interactions with Space-Time Dimensions Aura— the colorful force field around the body seen by psychics and by cameras of Kirlian photography. The body goes far beyond one’s skin. Merka-ba— polyhedral field spinning around human body around the latter’s axis, which corresponds to the main energy channel. Sacred Space and Architectural Philosophy – “conquest” of space not only for physical body dynamics and comfort but also along spiritual energy flows. This concerns specific forms (shapes in 3-D) and relative positions (as studied by Geomancy/feng-shui) Time: Sense of History as basic as Human Memory; + “Hope Springs Eternal” c. Applied Synergism in Physics and Chemistry Chemical Synergies in Medicine (most usual application of synergism as a term); In chemistry, you cannot expect any chemical reaction to occur when mixing together quantities of identical substances. Synergies in Engineering (mechanical advantage and durability from precise arrangement of elements) Synergies in Substance Complementations or “Composite materials” (combined characteristics of plastic, glass, metals, ceramics, etc., in various uses, especially in construction and electronics.) From: How Things Work Today (Scientific American) From How Things Work Today (published by Scientific American, 2000): “Composites are made by combining two or more materials in order to maximize their useful properties and minimize their weaknesses. One of the earliest composites was developed by the ancient Greeks who inserted iron rods into marble to strengthen it. Steel rods are now used in this way to reinforce concrete. Modern composites were developed from light and strong materials for the aerospace industry. Most modern composites consist of fibres of one material tightly bound into another material called a matrix. The matrix binds the fibres together like an adhesive and makes them more resistant to damage, while the fibres make the matrix stronger and stiffer.” From: Fuller’s website on synergy and synergism: “Synergy alone explains metals increasing their strengths. All alloys are synergetic. Chrome-nickel-steel has an extraordinary total behavior. In fact, it is the high cohesive strength and structural stability of chrome-nickel-steel at enormous temperatures that has made possible the jet engine. The principle of the jet was invented by the squid and the jellyfish long ago. What made possible man's use of the jet principle was his ability to concentrate enough energy and to release it suddenly enough to give him tremendous thrust. The kinds of heat that accompany the amount of energies necessary for a jet to fly would have melted all the engines of yesterday. Not until you had chrome-nickel-steel was it possible to make a successful jet engine, stable at the heats involved. The jet engine has changed the whole relationship of man to the Earth. And it is a change in the behavior of the whole of man and in the behavior of whole economics, brought about by synergy.” 2. Synergism in Philosophy a. Quest for Truth and Consistency in Comprehension Aristotle and Reason: "Aristotle's defined the basic principles of a rational view of existence and of man's consciousness: that there is only one reality,
the one which man perceives--that it exists as an objective absolute (which means:
independently of the consciousness, the wishes or the feelings of any perceiver)--that
the task of man's consciousness is to perceive, not to create, reality--that abstractions
are man's method of integrating his sensory material.
Ayn Rand and “Conceptual Integrations”: “Philosophy is a system of ideas. By its nature as an integrating science, it cannot be a grab bag of isolated issues. All philosophic questions are interrelated. One may not, therefore, raise any such questions at random, without the requisite context. If one tries the random approach, then questions (which one has no means of answering) simply proliferate in all directions. ….The difference between an infant’s mental state and yours lies in the number of conceptual integrations your mind has performed. You have no choice about the necessity to integrate your observations, your experiences, your knowledge into abstract ideas, i.e., into principles.” (underscoring supplied) Fuller: “Children conduct their spontaneous explorations and experiments with naive perceptivity. They have an innate urge first subjectively to sort out, find order in, integratively comprehend, and synergetically memory-bank their experience harvests as intertransformability system sets. Thereafter they eagerly seek to demonstrate and redemonstrate these sets as manifest of their comprehension and mastery of the synergetic realizability of the system's physical principles. Consequently children are the only rigorously pure physical scientists. They accept only sensorially apprehensible, experimentally redemonstrable physical evidence.” Hegel and Dialectics: The True, said Hegel, is the Whole, The Unity of Opposites (enriched but also distorted by Marxists, who have stressed on conflict of opposites and the crushing of one side by the other) Felix Rizvanov: Evolution of the living super-organism of global human culture through the global dynamics of its six major components: Communication, Organization, Innovation, Cognition, Synergism and Spirituality. b. Quest for the Unified Field of Knowledge John Lovelock and Gaia Hypothesis—Earth as one living organism named “Gaia” Maharishi and Unified Field c. Diversity and Negation in Experiencing Existence and Identity From Conversations with God by Neale Donald Wasch, the very reason why God decided to effect Creation. d. The Imperative of Earnest Human Conversations Ethics and Goals of Light-Sharing Human Conversations, as articulated in the fifth of the Seven Flames for Holistic Synergies, (pamphlet) by SanibLakas Foundation, Manila 2000
3. Synergism in Spirituality a. Concept of Oneness of All; Alienation as Evil “Ken Wilber, in his book The Atman Project, suggests that men intuit unconsciously the fact that they are, in their innermost being, one with that wholeness (one with all life). But the fear to let go the separate self shuts out their understanding of oneness.” –From “The Wonder of Oneness” by Jack Patterson, Theosophy in New Zealand “Give us today our bread for today, and forgive us our offenses, as we forgive those who hurt and offend us. Do not bring us to the test, but deliver us from all alienation and separation from You and from one another. Amen.” --From “Our Divine Parent” (Our Father, slightly modified), fourth of the “Seven Pillars of Fire,” Seven Flames for Holistic Synergies, (pamphlet) by SanibLakas Foundation, Manila 2000 b. Interlinking of Human Consciousness The human consciousness grid and the “Hundredth Monkey” experiment, shared by Drunvalo Melchizedek in The Secret of the Flower of Life. c. Concept of God as Synergy of all Synergies
B. SYNERGISM AND THE BIOLOGICAL HUMAN1. Synergism in Anatomy and Physiology a. Cell Colonies and Organisms – Cell colonies are clusters of identical cells, with no cell differentiation and therefore no specialized function for any groups of cells. In organisms, differentiated cells make up tissues, organs and systems with diverse but complementing functions. b. Interdependent Biological Life Systems: Digestive, Circulatory, Respiratory, Nervous, Muscular, etc. The diverse but complementing functions of tissues, organs and systems enable the organism to survive, grow, reproduce and thrive. Organisms, and each of their incarnations, are synergies. b. Energy Levels, Centers and Channels: Chakras, Acupuncture Points, yin and yang in macrobiotics 2. Synergism in the Biosphere a. Symbiosis and the Web of Life b. Bio-Diversity and Ecosystem Stability c. Deep Ecology vs. Sustainable Development & the Ethics based on Ecological Anthropology (Ernie Gonzales)
C. SYNERGISM AND THE SOCIAL HUMAN1. Synergism in Social Basics a. The Proven Efficacy of Appropriate Teamwork for Any Effort: “Togetherness à Each Achieves More” (TEAM) (John Maxwell) challenge to management—whether objectives-oriented or results-oriented—is to do the best in designing and orchestrating maximum teamwork in human and material resources within any time frame. b. Complementation of human needs and capabilities within basic social interactions Complementation in family, friendship and community settings; equality in diversity; synergy between individual and collective empowerment c. Interdependence of Human Development and Harmony; Philosophy of non-violence in conflict resolutions, non-physical resolutions to non-physical conflicts The “Win-Win” Paradigm for Maximized Complementation 2. Synergism in Economics a. Basics from Robinson Crusoe: Economies of Scale b. Laissez Faire as Fragile Ideal: Ruined by Rise of Monopolies/Cartels Observations of Lenin on the rise of monopolies + present-day indictment of Free Trade Globalization as unequal, exploitative and unsustainable c. Associative Economics and Cooperativism 3. Synergism in Politics a. Sovereignty of the Body Politic (no tyrants where there are no slaves) b. Democratic Governance vs. “Participatory Democracy” c. Synergism in Empowering Organizations: empowering the total human –body, mind, spirit 4. Synergism in Health and Health Care a. Holistic Health of Physical, Psychic and Spiritual Bodies (+ role of meditation) b. Holistic Health in the Synergy of Healing Modalities c. Physical Fitness from Cooperative Efforts 5. Synergism in Aesthetics
“Art is an archetypal conception in the mind of God; and the nearer to the archetype, the more beautiful is the artistic creation. The artist, being more sensitive to the soul of things than ordinary people, brings out in his art that which was not clearly manifest in the form he reproduces; he becomes a bridge, so to speak, between heaven and earth, over which comes to humanity a beauty that is God’s life—manifest. Thus Art may be defined as a partial expression of God as beauty.” --Dorothy Dobbins, The Theosophist “…Aesthetics is a basic human faculty, and inborn capacity and enjoyment of every human and…therefore, all humans are artists,” -- from the Credo of “Synaesthetics,” sixth of the Seven Flames for Holistic Synergies, (pamphlet) by SanibLakas Foundation, Manila 2000: b. Freedom of Expression from Competitions and Universal Standards “We believe that art is the emotional and spiritual resonance with beauty and appreciation. Intellectualization of art can never comprehend it fully; too much analysis can only diminish free expression and exhilaration. We would rather create and appreciate than criticize and debate. Art is too good, noble and soulful to be lowered to the level of intellectual, judgmental contests.” -- from the Credo of “Synaesthetics,” sixth of the Seven Flames for Holistic Synergies, (pamphlet) by SanibLakas Foundation, Manila 2000: c. Perception of Beauty in the Rich Diversity of Artistic Styles and Elements In an orchestra, the richness of the musical sound produced comes from the wide variety of instruments played a single sequence of notes in the arrangement. In choral group singing, the blending of voices cannot occur and be enjoyed if all sing only the melody, the "first voice." 6. Synergism in Culture
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Synergism and the Cosmic Human-- in Cosmology, Philosophy, &
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