SYNERGY-NET on http://www.wiredbrain.net/ Comments: Peter Benefit/cost models The traditional input out put model can not handle the complex reality of business, government, education or other social choices. This traditional model is: |--------------------------| | | INPUTS --- | PROCESS | ______OUTPUTS | | | |__________________________| | + make more | _______________FEEDBACK__________________| - make less ACTIVITIES OBJECTIVES GOALS Missions (Magangement by Objective MBO) The model is that labor, materials, information, capital goes into the "system" and products, profits, waste, come out the other end. If the "market" takes the goods the message is positive = make more - if the market or competition or other factors rejects the goods the feedback is negative "make less" or make better or make different. Waste taxes (pollution fees) provide feedback - make less waste! Experiment with the mix of inputs, more of this and less of that and process (new equipment) can change the ratio between inputs and outputs = productivity. Now if the "model" is goal seeking it gets information on its relative market share and moves in a strategic as well as tactical manner. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE? It lacks intelligence, passions, perceptions. It is at best a robot mouse or insect. It is materialist, amoral, and has no sense of value (price of everything and the value of nothing). It lacks quality. The critical environmental information is only based on the success or lack of success of its current activities. What if (in the 1920's) the railroads had thought about other forms of transport - trucks and airplanes rather than running the railroad and selling stock? It can't take into account the danger to the species and biosphere of planet earth. The single purpose, single mission model will not catch the major technological shifts. It lacks VISION. PATHOS LOGOS ETHOS Z-LEVEL----------------|------------------|---------------- adult SPIRIT | MEANING | SOUL Essence | | | | Y-LEVEL----------------|------------------|---------------- youth EMPATHY | SELF (EGO) | MORALS Language | | | | X-LEVEL----------------|------------------|---------------- Child PASSION | NEEDS | ME-VALUES Material | | FEELINGS THOUGHTS VALUES BEAUTIFUL TRUE GOOD HEART MIND SOUL Economic theory is Level 1, only concerned about NEEDS and ME-Values, maybe self-development and public appearance. (personality). It's a child or teenager. Traditional economic models need to "Grow up!" The question is how do we build into our models moral purpose, understanding of costumers needs now and in the future, the feeling of clients, the motivations of employees, the concerns of suppliers, regulators, communities, and the responsibility for the stewardship of planet earth. The first step is go beyond input-outputs = productivity models. Demning (Out of the Crisis) suggest a statistical model of process variables. In 1950 W. Edwards Deming, an industrial engineer, introduced to Japan a method of statistical quality control. Over the last several decades Deming's approach has become well-known as quality control circles. An analysis of Deming shows there is a basic misunderstanding of evaluation in manufacturing. INPUTS ---- PROCESS------OUTPUTS Quality of Inputs Quality of outputs System Variables Process (individual) Variables Quality is measured by direct contact of producers and consumers (internal and external). Each unit seeks to preform within its own understanding of mission and role. What are we doing? If it is providing a part for another process how is that part used and are the people who use it satisfied. Maybe there is a better way. Motorola put it this way in a want ad for production workers: "Workers need to be able to measure the parameters of the manufacturing process and report significant variance in quantity and quality . They should be able to design and conduct experiments to test the effects of changes in process, inputs or organizational methods to see if they improve quality. They should understand the companies international competitive position." So how do you do benefit/cost analysis? We need to get into the process and ask the participants how they are doing. We need to include values of a more progressive and long term range. Can quality be defined, or is it more accurate to view quality as a recognizable characteristic? Quality isn't something you lay on top of subjects and objects like tinsel on a Christmas tree. Real Quality must be the source of the subjects and objects, the cone from which the tree must start. To arrive at this Quality requires a somewhat different procedure from . . . . "Step 1, Step 2, Step 3" instructions . . . (Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycles maintenance 1974, p. 262). "Quality can be defined only in terms of the agent. Who is the judge of quality?" (Deming, 1986, p. 168). Deming sees determination of quality as involving three agents, including workers and managers as well as customers. Van Gigch, John P. TITLE: Applied general systems theory EDITION: 2d ed. PUBLISHED: New York : Harper & Row, 1978. foreword by C. West Churchman. Edition:2d ed. Riggs, James L. Introduction to operations research and management science : a general systems approach / James L. Riggs, Michael S. Inoue. : McGraw-Hill, <1975> McGraw-Hill series in industrial engineering and management science Weinberg, Gerald M. An introduction to general systems thinking / Gerald M. Weinberg. New York : Wiley, <1975> Wiley series on systems engineering and analysisNotes:"A Wiley-Interscience publication."Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Sutherland, John W general systems philosophy for the social and behavioral sciences John W. Sutherland., Braziller <1973> The International library of systems theory and philosophy Includes bibliographical references. Baker, Frank, Organizational systems; general systems approaches to complex organizations Homewod, Ill., R. D. Irwin, 1973 Series note: Irwin series in management and the behavioral sciences Kuenne, Robert E. The Polaris missile strike; a general economic systems analysis, Ohio State University Press <1966> McDaiel, Herman, Applications of decision tables; a reader. Princeton, Brandon/Systems Press <1970> D. T. Schmidt and T. F.Kavanagh. > What we need is a solvent that will loosen the gears between> the ears of frightened economists and get them to think and> perhaps risk and perchance be wrong several times before they> get a new model.I agree that this would be nice, but it had better not be the main hope. A new paradigm takes over by winning over a large number of the students, not by winning over a large number of their teachers. Bruce McFarling,bmcfarling@pstcc.cc.tn.us RE: Traditional Functions of Religion: Almost all societies (cultures) have religions. ( Age Groups, Athletics, Adornments, Calendar, Cleanliness, cooking styles, cosmology, courtship, Dancing, Division of Labor, Education, Ethics, Etiquette, Family, Feasting, Folklore, Funerals, Games, Gestures, Gifts, Government, Hospitality, Incest Taboo, Inheritance, Jokes, Kinship groups, Language, Laws, Magic, Marriage, Medicine, Sanctions, Names, Property rights, Puberty customs, Ritual, sexual rules, status, tools, trade, Visiting, protection, aggression - etc. - yet people think there is not a Human Nature - If cats have a nature so do people) Religion ties it all together. The "people" are created with certain laws - the covenant. The covenant is the ecological relationship between the people and the land. The people are their religion=culture. They can no more change religions than stop being as a people. Western types change religions for political and social reasons. Religion is a small part of our ~reason d'etat" or Being. Maybe we don't have any reason to be? Maybe we have broken the Covenant and no longer have a guiding paradigm as a "people" with the clan territory. Back to the Ecology Text: It seems that there is still a very large gulf in outlook on ethical issues between "economics" and "ecology". Conservation biologists regularly consider consequences for nonhuman and judge the goodness of those consequences by criteria other than people's shifting "revealed" preferences. I'll repost the "statement of ethical principles" from Primack. Alan McGowen [From _Essentials of Conservation Biology_, Richard B. Primack, 1993, Sinauer Associates Inc., Sunderland, Massachusetts, pp. 19-20. ]Statement of Ethical Principles Conservation biology rests on certain underlying assumptions that are generally agreed upon by members of the discipline (Soule 1985). These statements cannot be proved or disproved, and accepting all of them is not a requirement for conservation biologists. None the have immoral or wrong preferences. They think that policy choice should be think this is a poor basis for decisions because they believe many people consequences should be judged in terms of people's preferences. Rightists judged in terms of its consequences for people and that the goodness of Consequentialists believe that the goodness of a policy change should be Eileen van Ravenswaay writes: Subject: Re: Philosophical basis of economic theory TO: Multiple recipients of list( ecol-econ@csf.colorado.edu It seems that there is still a very large gulf in outlook on ethical issues between "economics" and "ecology". Conservation biologists regularly consider consequences for nonhuman and judge the goodness of those consequences by criteria other than people's shifting "revealed" preferences. I'll repost the "statement of ethical principles" from Primack. Alan McGowen [From _Essentials of Conservation Biology_, Richard B. Primack, 1993, Sinauer Associates Inc., Sunderland, Massachusetts, pp. 19-20. ] Statement of Ethical Principles Conservation biology rests on certain underlying assumptions that are generally agreed upon by members of the discipline (Soule 1985). These statements cannot be proved or disproved, and accepting all of them is not a requirement for conservation biologists. None the-less, these assumptions represent a set of ethical and ideological statements that form the basis of the discipline and suggest research approaches and practical applications. As long as one or two are accepted, there is a rationale for conservation efforts. 1. The diversity of organisms is good. In general, humans enjoy seeing biological diversity. The hundreds of millions of visitors each year to zoos, national parks, botanical gardens, and aquaria are testament to the general public's interest in biological diversity. Genetic variation within species also has popular appeal, as shown by dog shows, cat shows, agricultural expositions, flower exhibitions, and large numbers of specialty clubs [African violet societies, rose societies, etc.] At a local level, home gardeners pride themselves on how many types of plants they have in their gardens, while birdwatchers compete to see how many species they can see in one day or in their lifetimes. 5. Biological diversity has intrinsic value. Species have a value all their own, regardless of their material value to human society. This value is in part conferred by their evolutionary history and unique ecological role, and also by their very existence. This biological valuation stands in contrast to an economic viewpoint that assigns monetary value to each species on the basis of the goods and services that it provides or could potentially provide. Thomas P Maxwell, Research ScientistUniversity of Maryland may often view acting out their preferences in our dreams. This swarm includes many entities of both sexes and all ages, generally possessing radically differing sets of preferences. Behind the swarm lies a realm of archetypes, which represent universal qualities at various levels of abstraction. Carl Jung and others have argued (IMHO, quite persuasively) that all humans have access to basically the same set of archetypes, and that these archetypes can be viewed as energy sources that fuel the various sub-personalities. Different sub-personalities are tuned to (fueled by) different combinations of archetypes. In this model, the field of psychology deals with the interface between`sub-personalities, and spirituality deals with the interface between sub-personalities and archetypes. The goal of spiritual practice is to attune to (energize in the personality) "spiritual" archetypes such as love, harmony, and beauty. As Peter Pflaum has so emphatically pointed out, the spiritual traditions of the world have given us thousands of practices for accomplishing this, so the process of attuning to specific archetypes should be straight-forward to persons trained in any of these. Energizing these "spiritual" archetypes tends to shift the balance of sub-personalities away from those whose preference structure is based on self-aggrandizement and toward those whose preference structure is self-less. I believe that this shift is a central feature of mankind's natural growing-up process, but with the current planetary situation turning up the heat IMHO we may find that the human race will have to grow up very fast in the next several decades or risk failing the course. It has been argued that the major challenge facing the human race today `achievement of a sustainable existence on this planet. In response to this challenge, ecol-econ minded folks might follow the following line of inquiry: 1) What sets of agent preferences tend to yield sustainable societies of agents? 2) What sets of sub-personalities maximally exhibit these preferences (and minimally exhibit contradicting preferences)? 3) What set of archetypes best supports these desired communities of sub-personalities? 4) What practices can we glean from the world's spiritual traditions that will maximally energize these archetypes? I suspect that this exercise will simply bring us back to what the world's greatest spiritual leaders have been telling us all along, but there may be some very important ramifications for our current unique situation (pushing the carrying capacity) and at least it should provide some incentive for folks do their practices (if they don't listen to saints then perhaps they will listen to scientists). Disclaimer: All opinions expressed herein are my own, and do not attempt to reflect those of the University of Maryland. Regards,-Tom________________________________________________ _____ _____________________Thomas P Maxwell, Research ScientistUniversity of MarylandURL: http://kabir.umd.edu/Tom/Maxwell.html Discovering Values: Or how even Economist could find values. Values are what you do. If I said that once I said it a 1000 times, values are what you do. They are not "where the tire hits the sky". If you believe in traditional social values you live that way. If you believe in God it effects your life. (Stephen Covey - Seven Habits of Effective People). The learn new values you have to change your experience. Here is my lesson plan. There are 33 steps but I can't take you past about 20 if we are luckily - here are the first 3 or so. Lesson Plans 1.) See twice - Peter Weir's The Last Wave - Rhino-Home Video 2.) Get Wallace's The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca, (In paper reprint from Random House about $10) oh and read it, twice? 3.) Steven Halpern - Music Halpern Sounds, 1775 Old Country Road #9, Belmont CA 94002 Spectrum Suite, Comfort Zone or something newer, he is getting popular ( names and address maybe out of date) and/or River of Light. or At Rivers edge from EarthLight Center, 13906 Ventura Blvd. Sherman Oaks CA 91423 (why are there people in LA, need I ask) - Medicine Wind Productions Amethyst Music, 86 N.W. 55'th Street, Gainsville FL 32601 (they are not in CA or is) Vital Body Marketing, Box 703, Fresh Meadows NY 11365 - Songs, Chants, Sufi Sounds -catalog. Chants are in - my students tell me. 4.) Relaxation tape - many on the market - Psychology Today had Daniel Goldman - very good - (Will this stuff be in the Whole Earth Catalog? Is there a on line service?) Listen to the sounds - in a quiet place - 20 minutes - do the relax tape - relax. 5.) Yogi Shalom - Charles Schoelen, 487 W. San Jose, Fresno Calif - Yoga of the Old Master - a set First tape and LOVE. 4.) Herrigel, Eugen ZEN (Zen in the Art of Archery) The Method of ZEN (McGraw-Hill)- and/or OM Creative Meditations - by Alan Watts - (Celestial Arts, MillBrae, CA) Electronic Education Program P.O. Box, Mill Valley, CA 94941 A couple of Sufi books - They are hard to find so get what you can. ( did you get the reading list?) I sure hope some of these people are still in business - if not do the best you can. Alternative - Hero with a 1000 Faces- Stephen Covey, Seven Habits of Effective People, this is getting expensive? BUT this is great stuff. We had a baby (The editorial we) with the earth sounds - The staff was so impressed it become standard procedure, also the massage therapy got copies. The "baby" is now 12 so all this stuff is old. Let me know how it goes and we can move to 4, 5, 6 getting in touch - It Takes magic I afraid to do things useful it will take magic. I don't know another answer. When hunters are not finding the game they need to survive they randomize the search. Some put bones in the fire and use the cracks as a map. The same methods are used to hunt enemy submarines. It time to put some bones in the fire. THE ANSWER IS MAGIC: Thesis; Treat the society that is out of touch as you would a person who doesn't know who they are? Out of touch - The dream world - reality - illusions When people have profound psychological problems - the general belief is that you need to deal with the emotional basis of the causes - While there are many theories of practice - rather than talking or running away - we go through the experience. To help someone with a stutter you practice the stutter until it is under control. We are going to learn mind control. 5.) Alexander Lowen, Bioenergetics - (Harper & Row) a form of Gestalt - Autogenic and other names (Mind as Healer, Mind as Slayer by Pelletier, Kenneth) and Wilhelm Reich - ( but goes back to every Shaman I know ) has a simple and direct approach. Emotions are feeling - feeling are NOT thoughts - they are physical. (Thoughts exist in the brain but I talking about fight/flight a series of body reaction to emotions) This has been called the Stress syndrome - 6.) The practice is to work directly on the stoppages - the blocks - then rational thought can begin to solve problems - not before. You didn't talk you way in you can't talk you way out. The words, centered, balance, grounded, mean something in practice. You do it not talk about it. (The Way to Vibrant Health ) Harper 1977 Alex and Leslie Lowen - The process of life by respiration and metabolism creates energy. The mind and body are identical and one is a reflection of the other. How you feel effects how you think and how you think effects how you feel (Also Norman Cousins interesting book on Health - Bill Moyers series on public T.V. Benson on Stress etc) Out of touch means not only with our feeling - how up-tight we are, how afraid, how uncertain, (The ad with the kid inside that wants the frosted side ) out of touch with the "child within", with our spouses, our kids, our students, or communities - This is the dream world - the sub or un awareness - most of the forces that control our lives. The "real" world is an illusion created by social norms, language, advertising, political interests, etc. The real world is in our dreams. Hard to believe? Difficult to believe? Magic is real - real is magic. Magic is the use of perception of forces that we may not be aware of today - or a trick - something appears to be different from what it is - like matter - stars - other people - The President - social conventions - et al. How do I know? I don't. You have to practice - body knowledge - and see what you feel. How do we treat the society, the world - by practice - by example - by doing- not talking and directly at the emotional base of behavior and being. Be Careful - Notes from The Secret Garden: Mahmud Shabistari, (E.P. Dutton & Co, 1974) Sufism is not a religion. The Sufi practice is a the science of man, or the "Science of Certainty." In most societies, most of the time, the Sufi could not find acceptance or a fair hearing. Any ideas that were not devoted to the service of the state and the prevailing ideology were regarded as not only odd but dangerous treason, and was feared as subversive. The Moslem cults, the brotherhood, and many others are mixtures. Will the real Sufi please stand up. Sufi cloaked their teaching and activities in the outward garb of religion. The ability to pretend and remember what is image and what is real, is a critical Sufi art - but many cults came to believe the outside as inside. Sufis focused on cultural pursuits which in authoritian societies allows certain freedoms and contacts with different people. The Persian-speaking Sufi's dominated the classics, which became convert Sufi textbooks. The public forms of Sufism are imitations. The desire for fantasies led to groups and activities that are popular and acceptable to the dogmatic climate. Imitation Sufis abounded. Scholars and the public are naturally confused on what is true Sufism and what is mystic popular imitations. The Christians have the same problem - the unreal imitations of Christ and popular but weaken practices. A belief that some cult has a special way. Spain became a Sufi center in the Middle Ages, and still in the south reverberates in songs and stories. The spread of Culture from Spain and the Renascence brought Sufi practice to Europe. The Freemasons were partly based on these traditions. The Sufi have a special science in psychology and the study of man. All Sufi activity in the West until after WWI was private. Sir Richard Burton only saw imitation cults and did not know of the small private non-cultist Sufis. The Russo-Armenian philosopher Gurdjief published the first western text about a origin in Central Asia with links to the distant past, early forms of Christianity and the monasteries in the Hindu Kirsh. Ouspensky, a disciple, transmitted these ideas in lectures, demonstrations, and books. Dr. Maurice Nicholl and Dr. Kenneth Walker used the psychologically-oriented to attempt a system of practice. The authors of the Bloomsbury group brought Sufi ideas to literature which continues today by many writers - Borges, Lesing?, (many more). The true Sufi potential was largely untouched. Sufi does not have authority figures, a or a set of customs or habits. It is more open than Zen and even more difficult to fix in place. Hadrat Sayed Idries Shah in the major book "The Sifis" brought light to the confused situation. His work has brought the Sufi tradition back into focus for the West. The all too human desire to have a talisman, a messianic figure who would transform the world is not true Sufi but many cults still seek such a ideal. Idries Shah would not confine himself to closed groups who thought they had key to wisdom. The desire to feel special, to have secrets, ceremonies and special knowledge is not unique to these Sufi cults. It is tribal. Poets, scientist, professors of literature and physics, anthropologist claimed something of value in Idries Shah's work. Serious sociological journal found the ideas of prime importance in solving current human problems in advanced societies. It's vital importance to education and learning became the Society of the Understanding of the Foundation of Ideas (1966). So what is Sufi - first you find a Guide - to be continued. AUTHOR Abun-Nasr, Jamil M. 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English A Sufi martyr; the 'Apologia' of `Ain al-Qudat al-Hamadhani PUBLISHED : London, Allen & Unwin, 1969 Eaton, Richard Maxwell. Sufis of Bijapur, 1300-1700 : social roles of Sufis in medieval India Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1978 Corbin, Henry. L'homme de lumiere dans le soufisme iranien. English TITLE : The man of light in Iranian sufism Boulder, Colo. : Shambhala ; : distributed by Random House, 1978 Bennigsen, Alexandre. Mystics and commissars : Sufism in the Soviet Union PUBLISHED : Berkeley : University of California Press, c1985. As in Palacios, Miguel, 1871-1944. TITLE : Abenmasarra y su escuela. English. TITLE : The mystical philosophy of Ibn Masarra and his followers PUBLISHED : Leiden : Brill, 1978 "Mankinds' moral sense is not a strong beacon light, radiating outward to illuminate in sharp outline all that it touches. It is, rather, a small candle flame, casting vague and multiple shadows, flickering and sputtering in the strong winds of power and passion, greed and ideology. But brought close to the heart and cupped it one's hands, it dispels the darkness and warms the soul." James q. Wilson timothy@infuse.com john@polaris.umuc.edu : RE: How do you get HERE from THERE The new world of super conductibility come from the design of office networks. Novell's Perfect Office or MS Office are the pattern we will all be following. There are stations - me here, you there. If we are in a organization there is a LAN (local area network) connecting machines so we share data,(dBASE) printers, fax, can send notes. (E-Mail) On the office there are quick tasks that involve (Rolex) address books, appointments and scheduling, travel plans and expense reports, set up of slides, drawing, or overheads, budgets, newsletters, so my station is a all purpose place from Word Processing to conferences. If our workstation need to connect with others outside the local area we can use a modem and pay toll charges. If we are big time we can get special lines, satellite, or other special long distance networks. Since Windows95, NT, OS/2 and Mac have built in ports for internal and external connections we could hook up and use the INTERNET. We build or rent services from your own a local provider we call a NODE. This cost is usually $7,000 to $60,000 in Sun Microsystems equipment that has a high capacity cable connecting to a long distance company such at AT & T, MCI, Sprint. I don't know what the local Bell's offer. The NODE knows all the protocols and has the address book for the INTERNET. Most node have capacity to handle 100's of users at the same time - Netcom is one national system of this kind. But there is rapid growth of local providers that will give unlimited time at $20 a month for individuals and maybe $100 for companies. Schools, hospitals, clubs, newspapers, may think about building their own node. Node to node connections move fast and can include video etc. The modem connection to the NODE should be 28 standard (with compression goes at 115,000) and limits video and some multi-task systems. Now you at home or in your office can call your local provider (NODE) and hook up for $20.00 a month unlimited time. Then you pull NETSCAPE and Winsoct (Trumpet) off the list that provide this software. (Go the Yahoo and search program FTP for a FTP program) Use now pay later. The system is designed for 32 bit and will use Windows95 but you don't have to do that now. As a local user its not necessary. Winsock does what Windows95 and the others do in setting up ports or sockets (SOCKS) for web browser (NETSCAPE), Tenet, FTP (File transfers), Phone, Video, Sound, -- Just like the office we showed you above.. It is the office above - That is the driving force.. There is no place (I can see) for AOL, Prodigy, CompuServe which are passage ways that get slow and crowed and don't do much for you, and charge by the minute. You want to or need to leave your network on the background to get I-mail (replaces) e-mail, notices, or say you need a ... graphic, a drawing, a piece of information, a reference, a business contact, a price on a ticket, send flowers, buy a suit in Hong Kong, send a plan to Moscow, yes Blaine in Spain, with Silvia in Berlin, all at $20.00 a month - Since other will want to contact you about your information, you will need a nice HOMEPAGE, giving current prices, colleges on classes offered, bookstore hours, you should be online NOW. The system will be on Cable shortly so the TV cable will be the INTERNET connection going a zig bits, video, WorldChat a virtual reality conference and shop is online now. Rent a room and send in your photo, (Any VideoCam and take a picture and PC edit and send) am there you are in your 3d conference room with sight and sound. Check it out. The virtual classroom is the same thing, its a conference center. Hay .. How about in virtual reality room from WorldChat.. Shows pictures, runs movies, just like Encarta - We are building and need free masons, carpenter, hard board people, electricians, and other subcontractors - You'all come on down ************************************************