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...

sole to sole, my mirror image and I striding above and below the deep waters curious, I dip beneath the surface stare back up at myself, asleep didn't you call me? i ask have I not come and knelt at your side? the shadow grasps my hand with a solidity I could never muster and bursting into flames I can only weep and...

what spirit speaks the heart re-echoes its lofty chambers with choric ringing  twist and fold in timely rhythm the fountain's deep moods springing   unshadowed now, revealed and waking all forge and fire, veils rent aside the swallowed sun, see! - beaming again 'cross the rivers, stride in stride the call's heard round from distant shores the ferryman's change cast far away for the...

Knowing is action Knowledge is the corpse of action

Is it possible for a system to be both hierarchical AND innately mysterious? Is it possible for self-embedded reciprocity within such a system to lead towards a breaking out of the self same system while still being a part of it on another level? Can NON-understanding be a "part" of ANY system,...