Trying to summarize: The drawing of a distinction is a formative act.  Drawing a distinction FORMS the space, constellates the infinitely possible unknown into spaces which are shaped by the particular WAY in which the distinction is drawn.  The resulting spaces can not help but take the complementary shape of the distinction that defines them. The drawing of...

So then to begin in the middle I have many questions:     What constitutes an observer? How do we think about what an observer is/does? Is it as simply complex as the recursive: “An observer creates distinctions; distinctions create observers.”?     What is a distinction? In order for it to occur, does it require...

today I stand on the horizon beyond the vast, known spaces my steps tracing a Moebius membrane as the white sea pours through my heart no there, no past, no unwanted memory --all swept lovingly into the waves seeds for waiting oysters did you know that I ...

Earth --> Day-waking (i.e. 'normal' adult) consciousness  Water --> Imaginative consciousness  Air ----> Inspirational consciousness  Fire ---> Intuitive consciousness   Earth --> Thinking 'about' - object-oriented  Water --> Thinking 'with' - process oriented  Air ----> Thinking 'between' - polarity-oriented, (Brad exemplifies this very well)  Fire ----> Thinking 'as' - whole-oriented   Further, considering that all thinking...

A friend of mine said: "... Concerning self-correction, can we say that the system corrects itself toward a state of homeostasis (feedback----correction----goal) OR toward maintaining the integrity of the closed system? Is it o.k. to look at this in terms of homeostasis?   Reason why I'm asking is that I've been looking at the socialization behavior...

<insert context here - not me: YOU> ...but did we/they take off and burn the restraints of our minds?  Did they/we realize that we cannot 'heal' the 'patients' when we don't know that the patients are ourselves?  That the demons aren't simply 'out there' to be feared, nor are they 'in here' to be repressed...

Ross Ashby says: No system adapts to the changing: it can adapt only to what is constant. (http://www.rossashby.info/aphorisms.html)  

There is often confusion about the differences between Waldorf and Montessori methods of education.  Having been a Waldorf teacher for six years certainly puts me in a biased position, but potentially one that can also offer some perspective on the matter. The Waldorf pedagogy recognizes that how one approaches the child is keyed closely to...

Ross Ashby says: That homo has a brain no more entitles him to assume he knows how he thinks than possession of a liver entitles him to assume that he knows how he metabolises. (http://www.rossashby.info/aphorisms.html)

shadows fall on shadows, aghast at their own darkness times keep falling out of place, surprising themselves, trailing numberless atrocities like the dust of a comet sweeping ominously across a shrouded, weeping planet the forces are arrayed, the engines started words have been spoken, in earnest, in fear, in foreboding the percolating matrix of desire...