Peter E. Pflaum - Golden Globe - The Synergy Network http://www.wiredbrain.net/ pflaump@cfl.rr.com RE: The structure of knowledge and The meaning of Life: 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 All level are part of life - It is not higher or lower Reality is multi-leveled. Level one (X) material things The chair, physical feeling including passions (Fight/Flight Syndrome) Basic and Safety needs (MASLOW) Law No. 1 - NO free lunch - matter or energy is not created or destroyed - you don't get something for nothing - also if you want to move on it will take energy - For Covey it is getting control of you thinking, going from reactive to proactive. Management style is rule, laws, tests, inspections, top down, we do The thinking you do The work - The Navy way - Model Organization GM - teaching (training) by step-by-step manuals with a PERFORMANCE test and grades. Level two (Y) social behavior and habits. The prevailing paradigm - capitalism, individualism, socialism, Christian etc. Love and Self-esteem in MASLOW. In Covey social and family responsibility. Trust and respect of what ever the Romans are doing. Language is a social convention and carries The context, subjective meaning. Law no 2. If no one does it doesn't get done - or If not me who? If not now when? (Social responsibility) Management style is participation - human relations - motivational and personality driven. Do you have The right attitude? Do you fit in? Model organization IBM. Teaching style progressive education - social skills, getting along and streaming or tracking. Level three (Z) = character - synergy - in MASLOW's last book B (for being Values) Now this is The spirit world of Don Juan, (Fiction as Anthropology) or The Peter Weir Film The last Wave (Fiction as Anthropology). There is no language to talk about The third level. (Language is a social convention - what we mean by Justice is a cultural totem). Law No. 3 - there has to be something beyond the self - while entropy increase so does Empathy. There must be a global ethic for a global culture. Our tribal customs no longer work. See below for one teachers statement of law 3. The Classical Greek culture that developed these levels had three words for reality - material - language - and really- real. A tree (level 1) is an object - as a word it means one thing in Florida and another in Maine. (because we have different trees) Level 2. A picture of a tree by a great artist is beautiful because of its treeness. (level 3) Not only that she has created something but put herself in a meaningful relationship with trees. For most Westerner this VISION thing is hard. I just saw a VIPER - it is passion, it is material but also it is a dream. We are sold dreams all The time - this product will make you beautiful, sexy, respected. Our nation was founded on dreams and advertising and politicians sell dreams. (Illusions) Without higher (3 rd level) causes the rest falls apart - families, companies, states, organizations, all come apart when they no longer share "The dream" - Israel - USSR - Chrysler before it's dreams were restored. Facts follow vision - first Lee had to dream up a car like The Viper - then make it. Because there is not a social convention or a material object when you talk of dreams no one knows what you are talking about. (That doesn't make them less important, life love, faith, hope, justice, et al) The way is by practice - The Sufi or Zen way. The teaching style is open, cooperative, active non-directive and creative. Riddles and parables are used to illustrate issues that can not be approached directly/ In the Episcopal Church (COE) the book of common prayer gives the summary before the lesson; one great teacher put it this way. Matt 22:36 "Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?" Jesus replied: "`Love the Lord your God with all your heart (level 1) and with all your soul (level 3) and with all your mind.' (level 2) This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: `Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments." (NIV) Law No. 3. God is mind - the first cause, God is body and God is spirit ************************************************************ Peter E. Pflaum Ph.D. GLOBAL_VILLAGE_SCHOOLHOUSE 225 Robinson Road, New Smyrna Beach * IN THE WORLD - FL 32169-2176 (904) 428-9609 * BUT NOT OF THE WORLD pepflaum@bellsouth.net * ACTIVE - COOPERATIVE - pflaump@cfl.rr.com * SMALL SCHOOLS JOURNALS pflaump@cfl.rr.com, pflaump@cfl.rr.com, ZEN IS THE ART OF GETTING YOURSELF OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY ************************************************************ Is This OK? Anyone not want to READ this? Do not flame!