I'm using this blog as a means to explain and share what I feel is my powerful thinking" tool", (aka Bucky) to people.
"Bucky" as a tool is a powerful thinking tool??
Okay, here we need to be like Einstein, use our imagination, even stretch it.
Like for example, see "Bucky" as a superduper camera on timer!!
Like how?
Imagine that we go back to the year 1250. And we set our "Bucky" camera (tool), with very special film, on timer, the camera shutter opens, and remain open for about 800 years till 2000.
1250 was the year when the first chemical element arsenic, was isolated by the alchemist of the day as they try to turn lead into gold.
Imagine then that subsequent isolation of chemical elements were then captured on this timer camera. What then appeared on the film over time was a horizontal trajectory line which climbed vertically, like an exponential curve if plotted on a graph.
What is then the significance of this super 800 year long snapshot?
It had given us a profile of Humanity's Industrial Revolution, (see his book Critical Path)
Huh?
A line showing the isolation of the 92 members of the family of chemical elements, which began from approx 1250 to the 2000 appeared on the picture.
This line, graphically portrayed on the time-lapse film, revealed an exponential curve. When this line is superimposed on the Industrial revolution, and interpreted, what a couple of invisible phenomenon began to appear
1.the invisible phenomenon of Accelerating Acceleration,
Meaning? Change is taking place at a faster and faster rate!
2. the invisible phenomenon of "Doing More with less."
Meaning? Technology is growing ever more powerful, in terms of performance, and using less and less resources.
That’s the beauty of Bucky, he was able, using his "third eye," to see things from a totally different perspective, and make what was invisible VISIBLE.
This is what’s really happening to our world today, accelerating acceleration, and doing more with less. These abstract concepts, these invisible phenomenon (BEHAVIORAL PATTERNS) are becoming more popularly recognised and talked about.
The isolation of the 92 members of the family of chemical elements were the physical elements, which basically dealt with the physical world.
What appeared was an exponential curve, first running horizontally on the x axis, to rising very steeply into a vertical line and suddenly it disappeared. Perhaps if we extrapolated further, it meant that we’ve gone off the vertical line, into the invisible, into the abstract, which is the metaphysical, we have entered the realm of the Pure Principles of Universe.
So today, we’ve come to the isolation of the metaphysical world of principles. And that is what is Bucky about. Isolation of Principles, what he called the Generalized Principles operating in Universe. Bucky thus discovered and came to the conclusion that Universe is pure principles, which interacting together, the Principles coming together to give us our Energy Events, the physical world that we experience. Like the Generalized principles of Synergy, of Leverage, of Precession, of Interference, of Similitude, etc
So what? What is the significance of all this, to you and I?
It is ALSO perhaps the awareness, the realization of our MIND. Because as Bucky puts it, MIND discovers the Generalized Principles. (see Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth by Bucky).
We've discovered that who we truly are is MIND. Brain and muscles are just "machines", like our computer.
Any other significance of all this to you and I?
That we were meant to Generalists and NOT Specialists.
As Bucky put it, Over-specialization leads to extinction.
We see it in our World of work today. The highly specialized worker in society is rendered extinct, is obsoleted by technology. Many people that I know of, who were working in the banking industry lost their jobs due to swift advancement in Information Technology, or simply put.......computerization!
So?
We must become as what Charles Handy calls it Portfolio people, or as Bucky called it Generalists.
Because we have MIND as distinct from Brains. This MIND is not the ego or programmed mind. This Mind is the MIND which discovers the invisible relationship of Energy Events of Universe, of our World, which we recognize as our human experience.
In order to stay relevant to our changing environment, driven by technology, we have to engage our MIND.
Through observing, reading, reflecting, writing, learning, doing......
become the Generalist, and the scholars that we were meant to be, otherwise Nature would have equipped us with specialized ability. Instead Nature equipped us with MIND for general adaptability....
End of the day it really meant we got to go back to school, back to continuous learning, only this time, we self-educate.
Most importantly we've discovered and is using a very powerful "tool for thinking" that is "BUCKY"
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Monday, May 21, 2007
Perturbation?
Have you been perturbated?
Perturbation? What's that?
In our Revisit the Money & You principles, our group discussed this behavioral pattern in nature. It was recognised by Prigogine in his observations. The behavioral pattern, this process was then conceptualized and named "perturbation". It was derived from Illya Prigogine's research and discovery of energy systems. It was called "Theory of Dissipative Structure". This is a process in which change, or rather transformation can occur in energy systems.
In nature there are open systems and closed systems. And all are energy systems. Open systems are predominantly animate systems which inter-exchange energy with their environment, like human beings. Closed systems are relatively inert inanimate systems like rocks which do not inter-exchange energy with their environment.
When systems absorb energy they can become unstable, as more and more energy is loaded into the system, they become so unstable that transformation take place. This is the perturbation process which people go through in life, when real change, transformation occur.
Examples? When water is brought to its boiling point, it is transformed to steam.
When your mind is stretched, loaded with real learning, by self, transformation occurs. You experience and see things differently. You are transformed.
When you experience major crisis in your life, transformation occurs.
In the world of work, technology creeps up on us quietly, catches us
off-guard, obsoletes our job.....we have to change....otherwise... we're obsoleted ourselves...
Terminology to describe this are "continuous change" and "discontinuous change." Continuous change is predictable change. Discontinuous change is unpredictable change.
Seems like this process is irreversible.
Yup, once one is transformed one can't go back to the before.
You're Perturbated?
May be a good thing. Afterall nature, the Universe is always transforming........
Perturbation? What's that?
In our Revisit the Money & You principles, our group discussed this behavioral pattern in nature. It was recognised by Prigogine in his observations. The behavioral pattern, this process was then conceptualized and named "perturbation". It was derived from Illya Prigogine's research and discovery of energy systems. It was called "Theory of Dissipative Structure". This is a process in which change, or rather transformation can occur in energy systems.
In nature there are open systems and closed systems. And all are energy systems. Open systems are predominantly animate systems which inter-exchange energy with their environment, like human beings. Closed systems are relatively inert inanimate systems like rocks which do not inter-exchange energy with their environment.
When systems absorb energy they can become unstable, as more and more energy is loaded into the system, they become so unstable that transformation take place. This is the perturbation process which people go through in life, when real change, transformation occur.
Examples? When water is brought to its boiling point, it is transformed to steam.
When your mind is stretched, loaded with real learning, by self, transformation occurs. You experience and see things differently. You are transformed.
When you experience major crisis in your life, transformation occurs.
In the world of work, technology creeps up on us quietly, catches us
off-guard, obsoletes our job.....we have to change....otherwise... we're obsoleted ourselves...
Terminology to describe this are "continuous change" and "discontinuous change." Continuous change is predictable change. Discontinuous change is unpredictable change.
Seems like this process is irreversible.
Yup, once one is transformed one can't go back to the before.
You're Perturbated?
May be a good thing. Afterall nature, the Universe is always transforming........
Bird's Nest and the Benefits of Bucky Gp?
Just a short little blog, this time to share with you about our Visit to a Bird's Nest Farm
On Sunday, May 20th a small number of Bucky Gp members from Singapore visited a friend in Johor Bahru, who is in the Bird's Nest "Farming" Business.
Not only were we treated to breakfast at his home, we were also given an education in the health benefits of Bird's Nest.
If I'm not mistaken the early Chinese explorer's to the SouthEast Assian region have discovered Bird's Nest and known of this health benefits.
Probably the Chinese Emperors and Empress who were seeking the Elixir of Immortality must have found that the Bird's Nest gave them good health and longevity that is why literally the bird's nest is worth their weight in gold
The Bird's Nest were produced by Swiftlet's which were nesting their young. After the young have flown, the Nests were harvested, and cleaned by some secret processes.
Thereafter our education, we given an excursion to Batu Pahat, to see the Bird's Nest "Farm". It's really a cosy Bird Hotel, where the Swiftlets come home to roost.
Apparently this Health giving Bird's Nest business is a multimillion dollar industry.
Our host shared that investment opportunities in the business etc. is possible, if we were interested.
As I reflected on this event, I realized the above event was possible because of the sustained and committed learning activities of the Bucky Group Singapore.
Therefore some benefits of the Bucky Group in this Age of Entrepreneurship are?
1. Opportunity for Real Friendship through sustained Fellowship
2. Opportunity for real Learning, real Change,
3. Opportunity for service and business relationship
4. Opportunity for New Experiences.
This is real WEALTH
Comment received:
Hi Karen,
I have problem trying to reach you, as I do not have your email address. The notification about your "comment" does not allow me to email you directly.
Anyway you can follow-up on Bird's Nest info with Boon Siong at drtanboonsiong@hotmail.com
On Sunday, May 20th a small number of Bucky Gp members from Singapore visited a friend in Johor Bahru, who is in the Bird's Nest "Farming" Business.
Not only were we treated to breakfast at his home, we were also given an education in the health benefits of Bird's Nest.
If I'm not mistaken the early Chinese explorer's to the SouthEast Assian region have discovered Bird's Nest and known of this health benefits.
Probably the Chinese Emperors and Empress who were seeking the Elixir of Immortality must have found that the Bird's Nest gave them good health and longevity that is why literally the bird's nest is worth their weight in gold
The Bird's Nest were produced by Swiftlet's which were nesting their young. After the young have flown, the Nests were harvested, and cleaned by some secret processes.
Thereafter our education, we given an excursion to Batu Pahat, to see the Bird's Nest "Farm". It's really a cosy Bird Hotel, where the Swiftlets come home to roost.
Apparently this Health giving Bird's Nest business is a multimillion dollar industry.
Our host shared that investment opportunities in the business etc. is possible, if we were interested.
As I reflected on this event, I realized the above event was possible because of the sustained and committed learning activities of the Bucky Group Singapore.
Therefore some benefits of the Bucky Group in this Age of Entrepreneurship are?
1. Opportunity for Real Friendship through sustained Fellowship
2. Opportunity for real Learning, real Change,
3. Opportunity for service and business relationship
4. Opportunity for New Experiences.
This is real WEALTH
Comment received:
Hi Karen,
I have problem trying to reach you, as I do not have your email address. The notification about your "comment" does not allow me to email you directly.
Anyway you can follow-up on Bird's Nest info with Boon Siong at drtanboonsiong@hotmail.com
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
5 tips to read Critical Path?
This is an excellent book by Buckminster Fuller (Bucky), which summarizes humanity's history in Universe, and gives one a glimpse of the Generalized Principles operating in Nature, in Universe, by Bucky's experience and perspectives.
Because he prefer not to be understood than be misunderstood, he had written it in his own style (described as Fullerese) that people many found him difficult to understand and follow.
Here are 5 tips for those who would like to read it.
1. Trust that you will get insights into "what is truly happening in our world today". Bucky gives you new perspectives, which makes sense.
2. Be obsessed about it. Talk about it with friends, or anyone who cares to listen.
3. See Bucky as your invisible friend and companion, always with you, ready to share his thoughts with you through his books.
4. Take the book apart, literally, carry just a few pages with you in your pocket, which you can pull out at any moment to read it, like when you are standing in queue, while you're waiting for some service.
5. See "Bucky' as a tool, a powerful thought tool (I call him my multi-purpose Swiss Army knife), which using it, can help you see complex problems in a newer perspective, and thus you can solve them.
Because he prefer not to be understood than be misunderstood, he had written it in his own style (described as Fullerese) that people many found him difficult to understand and follow.
Here are 5 tips for those who would like to read it.
1. Trust that you will get insights into "what is truly happening in our world today". Bucky gives you new perspectives, which makes sense.
2. Be obsessed about it. Talk about it with friends, or anyone who cares to listen.
3. See Bucky as your invisible friend and companion, always with you, ready to share his thoughts with you through his books.
4. Take the book apart, literally, carry just a few pages with you in your pocket, which you can pull out at any moment to read it, like when you are standing in queue, while you're waiting for some service.
5. See "Bucky' as a tool, a powerful thought tool (I call him my multi-purpose Swiss Army knife), which using it, can help you see complex problems in a newer perspective, and thus you can solve them.
Sunday, May 13, 2007
Success?
My friend Lincoln posted me this thought:
"Always ponder why people who are successful with one thing and cannot duplicate their success in another."
Hmmm....if the above thought by Lincoln is true, then what I can say is that there are lots of assumptions here
So let’s talk about SUCCESS.
In immediate response to the above statement, perhaps it may be said that Success like Truth, is a pathless land, each one must live his own truth, travel his or her own road of Success. No path can ever be the same. And if that is so, one person’s path of Success cannot be duplicated by another. and also that path of Success cannot be repeated. Why? Because things have changed. The environment have changed.
a person who is successful with one thing may not be able to repeat this success again. The circumstances have changed
Also no two persons can, or are ever the same. Each is unique, and even though they come from same background, their experiences are never the same because they respond differently to their environment. Already their paths are different.
Like Buckminster Fuller’s definition of Universe:
Scenario Universe is the aggregate of all of humanity’s experience, which has been consciously apprehended and communicated to self or others, with the non-simultaneous, always and only partially overlapping, non-identical, always complementary, weighable and un-weighable ever-omni-inter-transforming energy events sequences.
If the above statement boggles you, don’t worry about it. What it boils in to is:
Each of us is a little “Universe,” non-identical, always complementary, in other words UNIQUE.
Our path will be different from others. We can live by the same “Success” principles, however the outcome, the results could and would be different. There are many variables in the "Success Formula".
Make sense?
Success?
Perhaps we need to redefine Success.
What really is Success?
Firstly, that implies that we are failures to start with. I have to earn money, I have to earn the right to live. I have to earn the right to be successful. Powerful society’s conditioning! Some other guy wants you to feel that you are less successful, until you have all the money in the world, all the fame in the world, all the power in the world, then you’ll be successful and happy.
Why? So that perhaps they can sell you their “Success” formula, to become some kind of billionaire, and however if one falls for it, then they go laughing all the way to the bank. Ha Ha. They become billionaires because many fall for the false hope they are selling, people pay them good money, which make them so.
Dont' believe me! Just take a look at the numerous "Get rich" ads in the newspapers. I wonder how many really got rich from their schemes??
Let's take a look at the so-called Successful people, which by general society's definition are the "Money-rich" people. They are supposed to be happy because they are money rich. True?
Not true.
Why?
There are plenty of people out there in the world who are money-rich beyond most ordinary people’s dreams, yet they are NOT happy. A Billionaire shipping magnate’s daughter, money was like a curse for her. She can never be sure if her friend truly care for her or her money. Or a famous money-rich Hong Kong actor who committed suicide.
And people who have fame? Princess Diana, was she ever really happy?
Or power? People in power live in fear and they have body-guards to protect them, especially politicians.
So, we’ve been condition by the people who wants to make money, that money and material things mean success. That power means success. that fame mean success, that relationship mean success.
And that if we don’t have these "things" we’re failures?
Wealth is Success.
Here I share Buckminster Fuller's definition of Wealth.
It's our know-what and know-how capabilities to take care of X number of people for Y number of Forward days in terms of our protection, our nuture, our accomodation, our education, while removing our restrictions, increasing the range and depth of our explorations, giving us greater Freedoms.
Success is realizing our True Wealth, which is what Bucky has defined.
And if that is so?
Then we have to realize that we’re already successful. The fact that we are healthy, and can enjoy a simple meal, and we have friends around us who accept (and we accept ourselves, warts, moles and all) us for who we are, not what we have, that we can laugh at ourselves, and have a good night sleep, that we are free to live our possibilities, we’re truly successful.
Btw, Cosmic evolution is turning our "environment" inside-out, enabling greater freedoms to a growing percentage of humanity to live their possibilities.
Don’t let others condition us otherwise.
WestGirl said...
Hi JooHOck:Absolutely, AGREE w u on ur definition of Success and Wealth?. ...'n never allow others to condition u otherwise'... hmm well said n a good reminder fr a person truly with Success n Wealth...
May 15, 2007 7:45 AM
"Always ponder why people who are successful with one thing and cannot duplicate their success in another."
Hmmm....if the above thought by Lincoln is true, then what I can say is that there are lots of assumptions here
So let’s talk about SUCCESS.
In immediate response to the above statement, perhaps it may be said that Success like Truth, is a pathless land, each one must live his own truth, travel his or her own road of Success. No path can ever be the same. And if that is so, one person’s path of Success cannot be duplicated by another. and also that path of Success cannot be repeated. Why? Because things have changed. The environment have changed.
a person who is successful with one thing may not be able to repeat this success again. The circumstances have changed
Also no two persons can, or are ever the same. Each is unique, and even though they come from same background, their experiences are never the same because they respond differently to their environment. Already their paths are different.
Like Buckminster Fuller’s definition of Universe:
Scenario Universe is the aggregate of all of humanity’s experience, which has been consciously apprehended and communicated to self or others, with the non-simultaneous, always and only partially overlapping, non-identical, always complementary, weighable and un-weighable ever-omni-inter-transforming energy events sequences.
If the above statement boggles you, don’t worry about it. What it boils in to is:
Each of us is a little “Universe,” non-identical, always complementary, in other words UNIQUE.
Our path will be different from others. We can live by the same “Success” principles, however the outcome, the results could and would be different. There are many variables in the "Success Formula".
Make sense?
Success?
Perhaps we need to redefine Success.
What really is Success?
Firstly, that implies that we are failures to start with. I have to earn money, I have to earn the right to live. I have to earn the right to be successful. Powerful society’s conditioning! Some other guy wants you to feel that you are less successful, until you have all the money in the world, all the fame in the world, all the power in the world, then you’ll be successful and happy.
Why? So that perhaps they can sell you their “Success” formula, to become some kind of billionaire, and however if one falls for it, then they go laughing all the way to the bank. Ha Ha. They become billionaires because many fall for the false hope they are selling, people pay them good money, which make them so.
Dont' believe me! Just take a look at the numerous "Get rich" ads in the newspapers. I wonder how many really got rich from their schemes??
Let's take a look at the so-called Successful people, which by general society's definition are the "Money-rich" people. They are supposed to be happy because they are money rich. True?
Not true.
Why?
There are plenty of people out there in the world who are money-rich beyond most ordinary people’s dreams, yet they are NOT happy. A Billionaire shipping magnate’s daughter, money was like a curse for her. She can never be sure if her friend truly care for her or her money. Or a famous money-rich Hong Kong actor who committed suicide.
And people who have fame? Princess Diana, was she ever really happy?
Or power? People in power live in fear and they have body-guards to protect them, especially politicians.
So, we’ve been condition by the people who wants to make money, that money and material things mean success. That power means success. that fame mean success, that relationship mean success.
And that if we don’t have these "things" we’re failures?
Wealth is Success.
Here I share Buckminster Fuller's definition of Wealth.
It's our know-what and know-how capabilities to take care of X number of people for Y number of Forward days in terms of our protection, our nuture, our accomodation, our education, while removing our restrictions, increasing the range and depth of our explorations, giving us greater Freedoms.
Success is realizing our True Wealth, which is what Bucky has defined.
And if that is so?
Then we have to realize that we’re already successful. The fact that we are healthy, and can enjoy a simple meal, and we have friends around us who accept (and we accept ourselves, warts, moles and all) us for who we are, not what we have, that we can laugh at ourselves, and have a good night sleep, that we are free to live our possibilities, we’re truly successful.
Btw, Cosmic evolution is turning our "environment" inside-out, enabling greater freedoms to a growing percentage of humanity to live their possibilities.
Don’t let others condition us otherwise.
WestGirl said...
Hi JooHOck:Absolutely, AGREE w u on ur definition of Success and Wealth?. ...'n never allow others to condition u otherwise'... hmm well said n a good reminder fr a person truly with Success n Wealth...
May 15, 2007 7:45 AM
Monday, May 7, 2007
Freedom and Buckminster Fuller?
When I launched myself into my "journey of Doing Bucky" (which became my passion) since 1994, ie R&D-ing Buckminster Fuller, I began to conduct my Bucky workshops, afterall, they said that the best way to learn something is to teach it to others, even though you may not really know it well.
I also initiated the activities of the weekly Bucky Group sessions.
It was the start of my new true journey in my life, a journey of real learning. I began not to JUST "study" Bucky only, I also went into studying the writing and thoughts of other eminent thinkers and doers, in the likes of people like Anthony de Mello, Krishnamurti, Charles Handy and many others (see my profile)
In due course, I have found that "teaching" Bucky is a challenge. Already studying him is a daunting task enough, can you imagine "teaching" or rather sharing his Thinking, Ideas and Philosophy?
If ever, I taught by lecturing about an aspect of his work, I will surely do one better than the doctor trying to cure you of insomnia. Trust me, I can put you to sleep in 2 minutes.
So I have been mulling over how, for example on How to share about the Generalized Principle of Precession, a principle by which Bucky lived his life. It is one of the 6 Degrees of Freedom and perhaps the most important Generalized Principle that Buckminster Fuller can share with us.
I realized I have to make a game out of this.
The 6 degrees of Freedom refer to the possible motions of physical Universe. How can I demonstrate them? Or rather how can I help the participants of my Bucky fun Workshop discover it for themselves? Then they won't fall asleep....ha ha
Got it!
Imagine. You have been a warrior, and one day you saved your King's life. Being grateful he decided to grant you whatever you asked for, whatever you value, ask and you'll be given it. You thank your King, and you asked him for some time to think about it. He said, take your time, you don't have to decide immediately.
But what to ask for? Hmm... you don't really know!
Ah.... I got it, you thought to yourself.........I will go to the town square and ask to wise old Man whose name is Bucky. He should be able to give me good advice.
So the next day, you went. Dear Wise old Bucky, you spoke, I saved my King's life and in gratitude he would grant me anything that I would ask for. What I should ask for that is really of value?
Freedom! That's what you should ask for!
Freedom? But I've been a Warrior all my life, I have served my King all my life, I don't know what freedom is. What do I do with my life when I'm FREE?
Yes, that is true, replied Bucky.
Then Bucky pulled out from his side, a small bag, and opened it.
Then Bucky said, "Your purpose in life is to live your True Purpose. However you can only live your True Purpose when you are living in Freedom."
See this object, go and find out what are it's possible motions, it's degrees of Freedom, and when you've finally found them, go and ask your King to grant you Freedom. That's the first thing you must do.
And you will know what to do with your life.......
Bucky added: "Do you know why you should ask for Freedom? Because that's your birth-right."
All the Great Teachers of humanity, from the ancient times to the 20th Century, from Jesus Christ to the likes of Mahatma Gandhi, they came to set us free. But it is true, 99.99% of human beings do not know how to be free. They fear freedom. They don't know what to do being FREE.
Like we are being set free from our slavish ways, from our earning a living, (which assume that we human beings are failures and must prove our right to live) by technology, and we are fighting it.
When you've discovered these motions, these degrees of Freedoms, come back and tell me what you learnt, then go and ask your King for it, then you'll can truly be free.
You took the object into your hands, thanked the Wise old Bucky and went off.
Participants explore the Object and discovers its Motions, it's 6 degrees of Freedom, and the significance of the Freedoms
Debrief:
One day, as I was conducting one of my my Bucky workshop sharing my perspectives of Bucky's "6 degrees of Freedom" which is basically, that there are only 6 Fundamental Motions of Universe, it struck me that Buckminster Fuller was aligning himself to the intentions of Universe.
He was trying to free Man from his old ways of living. He saw that Human beings were expanding his "to-ing and fro-ing," his range of travel on Earth. He saw the Cosmic Evolution was freeing man from his muscle bound work to that of using his Mind. How so? Automation was taking over the repetitive work that he was doing, like in the car assembly line of the automobile industry in the production lines of the factories. Bucky observed that Cosmic evolution seemed intent on freeing man from his robotic and slavish ways. Man as Bucky said was born with legs and not with roots.
Then I realized that man doesn't want to be Free. Not that he doesn't really want to, but that he doesn't know how to. He is afraid of Freedom. He doesn't know what to do being FREE!!
However when man is truly free, his Mind will be clear, he will discover his true purpose and live it.
Explain!
Some time ago, I watched the Movie "Shawshank Redemption." Great movie. What I liked about it?
It's the story of Andy Dufrane being convicted of murdering his wife (of which he was framed). Anyway he went to do hard time in Shawshank Prison.
There he met Brooks and Reds. They were fellow convicts who had been there much longer than him and knew the ways of prison life and how to survive the gaunlet of gang warfare and the brutalities of the prison guards. Reds, who became his friend, was "prison smart."
Reds respected Andy because in his own way, Andy though beaten up, was able to stand up to the prison gangs.
Anyway, to cut a long story short, I take you to what I felt is to me the more significant part of this movie, the story of Brooks.
Brooks?
Brooks was the old man who had spent a good half of his adult life in prison. Prison became the only home he knew. He was made the prison's librarian, which Andy Dufrane initiated and set up for the inmates.
However, when it was time for Brooks to be released, he didn't want to leave, he had gotten so used to prison life, it was all he knew. The routine. To avoid leaving he tried to attack a fellow inmate with a knife, so that his release would be revoked.
However he was "saved" from his desperate attempt, and he broke down. The prison authorities were kept out of this, and Brooks was released.
Brooks however was a broken man. All he knew was the routine of prison life. Prison was security he had known. The outside world, the unknown, the freedom was tough. Brooks couldn't take the "verbal and mental" abuse from his fellow workers in a supermarket which employed ex-convicts. He hanged himself, at a half-way house for ex-prisoners.
Well, as I reflected, it struck me of what happening in the World today. Many of us living our life in our little prison called our "work", clinging on to the security of the known, but living lives of quiet desperation.
However Cosmic evolution, through technology, is changing our environment, and at the same time is freeing humanity. That's what going on.
We are being freed from the tyranny of organizational life, by technology. Why and How so ?
"Unfortunately" or fortunately, depend on how you see it, technology is turning our World of work inside-out. Or as some put it upside-down. What it means? Technology is wreaking changes in our work environment, relieving us from our muscle and brain work.
How do we earn a living? How do I survive? You ask. That's why many resist technology.
The "prison" of the life-long career is being obsoleted. But many are unprepared. Life in the "prison" of the life-long career was all we knew. We have become so conditioned to that "prison" life we don't know how to be free. It may be said that we actually fear freedom, because freedom is unfortunately the unkown.
Even the "core rules" of our lives are shrinking, in other words the "rules" of life are lessening. The "space" of our lives are expanding. This is the space of possibilities. We are moving into greater opportunity to live out our potentials, the possibilities, to have greater Freedoms
"So give us back our prison," our rules, our Cage, we don't mind of course, a golden gilted cage, though still a cage, we demand
Isn't this a real shame?
Dr. R Buckminster Fuller perhaps was a harbinger of this freedom to come. He demonstrated it, deciding not to earn money for a living, instead he lived his life PRECESSIONALLY, as a 55 year experiment with his own life, doing what he felt needed to be done, doing his True Purpose and trusting that Universe would support him. It's tough, not for the faint-hearted.
Remember the song? "Blowing in the Wind"
I would prefer this version now:
How many roads must a man walk down?
Before they call him a FREE man?.......
The "FREEDOM" my friend is blowing in the wind....
the Freedom is blowing in the wind........
So freedom is being thrust upon us via technology. Today humanity is being emancipated by the evolving technology from being a brain and muscle automaton to Man as Mind, the freedom to create his own life.
From subconcious evolution to conscious evolution with his Mind.
However the old paradigm to hold sway over humanity. We're still struggling to breakout of our reflex-conditioned behavior.
Do we dare step into precession?
LIVING life in Freedom is living PRECESSIONALLY, and thus doing one's True Purpose. (Precession will be explained in detail in another chapter)
Do we dare to be FREE?
I also initiated the activities of the weekly Bucky Group sessions.
It was the start of my new true journey in my life, a journey of real learning. I began not to JUST "study" Bucky only, I also went into studying the writing and thoughts of other eminent thinkers and doers, in the likes of people like Anthony de Mello, Krishnamurti, Charles Handy and many others (see my profile)
In due course, I have found that "teaching" Bucky is a challenge. Already studying him is a daunting task enough, can you imagine "teaching" or rather sharing his Thinking, Ideas and Philosophy?
If ever, I taught by lecturing about an aspect of his work, I will surely do one better than the doctor trying to cure you of insomnia. Trust me, I can put you to sleep in 2 minutes.
So I have been mulling over how, for example on How to share about the Generalized Principle of Precession, a principle by which Bucky lived his life. It is one of the 6 Degrees of Freedom and perhaps the most important Generalized Principle that Buckminster Fuller can share with us.
I realized I have to make a game out of this.
The 6 degrees of Freedom refer to the possible motions of physical Universe. How can I demonstrate them? Or rather how can I help the participants of my Bucky fun Workshop discover it for themselves? Then they won't fall asleep....ha ha
Got it!
Imagine. You have been a warrior, and one day you saved your King's life. Being grateful he decided to grant you whatever you asked for, whatever you value, ask and you'll be given it. You thank your King, and you asked him for some time to think about it. He said, take your time, you don't have to decide immediately.
But what to ask for? Hmm... you don't really know!
Ah.... I got it, you thought to yourself.........I will go to the town square and ask to wise old Man whose name is Bucky. He should be able to give me good advice.
So the next day, you went. Dear Wise old Bucky, you spoke, I saved my King's life and in gratitude he would grant me anything that I would ask for. What I should ask for that is really of value?
Freedom! That's what you should ask for!
Freedom? But I've been a Warrior all my life, I have served my King all my life, I don't know what freedom is. What do I do with my life when I'm FREE?
Yes, that is true, replied Bucky.
Then Bucky pulled out from his side, a small bag, and opened it.
Then Bucky said, "Your purpose in life is to live your True Purpose. However you can only live your True Purpose when you are living in Freedom."
See this object, go and find out what are it's possible motions, it's degrees of Freedom, and when you've finally found them, go and ask your King to grant you Freedom. That's the first thing you must do.
And you will know what to do with your life.......
Bucky added: "Do you know why you should ask for Freedom? Because that's your birth-right."
All the Great Teachers of humanity, from the ancient times to the 20th Century, from Jesus Christ to the likes of Mahatma Gandhi, they came to set us free. But it is true, 99.99% of human beings do not know how to be free. They fear freedom. They don't know what to do being FREE.
Like we are being set free from our slavish ways, from our earning a living, (which assume that we human beings are failures and must prove our right to live) by technology, and we are fighting it.
When you've discovered these motions, these degrees of Freedoms, come back and tell me what you learnt, then go and ask your King for it, then you'll can truly be free.
You took the object into your hands, thanked the Wise old Bucky and went off.
Participants explore the Object and discovers its Motions, it's 6 degrees of Freedom, and the significance of the Freedoms
Debrief:
One day, as I was conducting one of my my Bucky workshop sharing my perspectives of Bucky's "6 degrees of Freedom" which is basically, that there are only 6 Fundamental Motions of Universe, it struck me that Buckminster Fuller was aligning himself to the intentions of Universe.
He was trying to free Man from his old ways of living. He saw that Human beings were expanding his "to-ing and fro-ing," his range of travel on Earth. He saw the Cosmic Evolution was freeing man from his muscle bound work to that of using his Mind. How so? Automation was taking over the repetitive work that he was doing, like in the car assembly line of the automobile industry in the production lines of the factories. Bucky observed that Cosmic evolution seemed intent on freeing man from his robotic and slavish ways. Man as Bucky said was born with legs and not with roots.
Then I realized that man doesn't want to be Free. Not that he doesn't really want to, but that he doesn't know how to. He is afraid of Freedom. He doesn't know what to do being FREE!!
However when man is truly free, his Mind will be clear, he will discover his true purpose and live it.
Explain!
Some time ago, I watched the Movie "Shawshank Redemption." Great movie. What I liked about it?
It's the story of Andy Dufrane being convicted of murdering his wife (of which he was framed). Anyway he went to do hard time in Shawshank Prison.
There he met Brooks and Reds. They were fellow convicts who had been there much longer than him and knew the ways of prison life and how to survive the gaunlet of gang warfare and the brutalities of the prison guards. Reds, who became his friend, was "prison smart."
Reds respected Andy because in his own way, Andy though beaten up, was able to stand up to the prison gangs.
Anyway, to cut a long story short, I take you to what I felt is to me the more significant part of this movie, the story of Brooks.
Brooks?
Brooks was the old man who had spent a good half of his adult life in prison. Prison became the only home he knew. He was made the prison's librarian, which Andy Dufrane initiated and set up for the inmates.
However, when it was time for Brooks to be released, he didn't want to leave, he had gotten so used to prison life, it was all he knew. The routine. To avoid leaving he tried to attack a fellow inmate with a knife, so that his release would be revoked.
However he was "saved" from his desperate attempt, and he broke down. The prison authorities were kept out of this, and Brooks was released.
Brooks however was a broken man. All he knew was the routine of prison life. Prison was security he had known. The outside world, the unknown, the freedom was tough. Brooks couldn't take the "verbal and mental" abuse from his fellow workers in a supermarket which employed ex-convicts. He hanged himself, at a half-way house for ex-prisoners.
Well, as I reflected, it struck me of what happening in the World today. Many of us living our life in our little prison called our "work", clinging on to the security of the known, but living lives of quiet desperation.
However Cosmic evolution, through technology, is changing our environment, and at the same time is freeing humanity. That's what going on.
We are being freed from the tyranny of organizational life, by technology. Why and How so ?
"Unfortunately" or fortunately, depend on how you see it, technology is turning our World of work inside-out. Or as some put it upside-down. What it means? Technology is wreaking changes in our work environment, relieving us from our muscle and brain work.
How do we earn a living? How do I survive? You ask. That's why many resist technology.
The "prison" of the life-long career is being obsoleted. But many are unprepared. Life in the "prison" of the life-long career was all we knew. We have become so conditioned to that "prison" life we don't know how to be free. It may be said that we actually fear freedom, because freedom is unfortunately the unkown.
Even the "core rules" of our lives are shrinking, in other words the "rules" of life are lessening. The "space" of our lives are expanding. This is the space of possibilities. We are moving into greater opportunity to live out our potentials, the possibilities, to have greater Freedoms
"So give us back our prison," our rules, our Cage, we don't mind of course, a golden gilted cage, though still a cage, we demand
Isn't this a real shame?
Dr. R Buckminster Fuller perhaps was a harbinger of this freedom to come. He demonstrated it, deciding not to earn money for a living, instead he lived his life PRECESSIONALLY, as a 55 year experiment with his own life, doing what he felt needed to be done, doing his True Purpose and trusting that Universe would support him. It's tough, not for the faint-hearted.
Remember the song? "Blowing in the Wind"
I would prefer this version now:
How many roads must a man walk down?
Before they call him a FREE man?.......
The "FREEDOM" my friend is blowing in the wind....
the Freedom is blowing in the wind........
So freedom is being thrust upon us via technology. Today humanity is being emancipated by the evolving technology from being a brain and muscle automaton to Man as Mind, the freedom to create his own life.
From subconcious evolution to conscious evolution with his Mind.
However the old paradigm to hold sway over humanity. We're still struggling to breakout of our reflex-conditioned behavior.
Do we dare step into precession?
LIVING life in Freedom is living PRECESSIONALLY, and thus doing one's True Purpose. (Precession will be explained in detail in another chapter)
Do we dare to be FREE?
Sunday, May 6, 2007
Bucky Group & University of the Universe?
1. An Introduction
A Warning. The Thinking, Ideas and Perspectives shared here may not go well with certain Mindsets. Enter at your own risk.
Advice and suggestion: Take it with an open mind. You do not have to believe or agree with the Thoughts shared here by JooHock. And please feel free to share you comments. Thank you.
Bucky Group?
Huh? What's that?
Sounds cultish!
A friend of mine once pointed out that the way I shared about Buckminster Fuller and his works, it sounded like the Bucky Group had become a cult.
The Bucky Gp. is named after the nickname "Bucky" of Dr. R. Buckminster Fuller.
Okay now you are asking: Hmmm....What is this Bucky Gp?
The Bucky Gp comprised about 20 like minded individuals who meets weekly to share and discuss the Works of Buckminster Fuller. Initially members were keen to study and understand Bucky's book, "Critical Path," which was reputed to be the most difficult to read. We couldn't resist the challenge! Hah! These people come from all diverse background, from engineers to lawyers, to entrepreneurs and even educationists etc. Then I took on the role of championing his (Bucky's) Thinking and Ideas, his Perceptions and Works. The Gp have been meeting since about June 1994. It's most important Value, is it's love for Learning.
(Btw, our Bucky Gp on Facebook boast a membership of more than 550 members)
So Buckminster Fuller? Who is he?
What is Bucky known for? Why should I accord him such an honour? True!
Afterall, Bucky said, "I'm just an ordinary healthy human being who chose to use his option to do his own Thinking, please don't make me out to be some kind of a Messiah. You can do this to Krishnamurti."
What is it then, that I have admired about Bucky, that made me give him such high regard?
What is it that makes me want to shout out to the World and say: "Hey you might want to listen to this man, this phenomenon called Buckminster Fuller!"?
I need to answer this, otherwise I might be misunderstood for according him almost cult status, which even he would have frowned upon.
I'll share 3 major reasons here, but of course there's more which you will learn as you read into my blog-book
1. New lease on life.
Well in my opinion, my life didn't make much sense, till Bucky came along. In my own small World, life was a work, work work, and make money kind of world. Not much meaning to it. My life changed, it was enriched by the new learnings and doings as a results of studying and sharing Bucky, I found quality of life.
2. Generalized Principles operating in Universe
As I studied deeper into "Bucky" I felt he was the one and so far only one whom I've come across, as a first class scientist, whom ironically the perspectives of life that he shared was a breath of fresh air that I could relate to. He was a non-conformist maverick thinker and many in the educational establishments would want to acknowledge him, because they may feel threatened in terms of their status by this iconoclast, who had conceptualized the idea of Generalized Principles and thus identified some of the many Generalized Principles Operating in Universe, and named them so.
Examples are Principle of Leverage, Principle of Synergy, Principle of Precession.
These terms, these concepts of course soon became popular, as many writer and business gurus soon learnt about them and used them.
Bucky felt that if we could re-apply the Generalized Principles of Universe, uncovered through trial and error aka experience, in new ways, we could up the performance of our physical resources, that we could take care of all of humanity, at higher standard of living without disadvantage to anyone and without ecological offense to our environment. He was probably the first proponent of Sustainable Development. Also he received 28 patents for his inventions, and was noted for his famous Geodesic Domes, his Dymaxion Houses, and Dymaxion Cars, etc.
In the process Bucky had also uncovered Nature's operating system, developed a mathematical system, which he termed Synergetic Geometry, aka Nature's Coordinate System.
(See his book Synergetic Geometry, an Exploration into the Geometry of Thinking. I will have to give you the link.)
However more significantly, and importantly to my mind is the fact HE LIVED HIS LIFE BY THE GENERALIZED PRINCIPLES, ESPECIALLY THE GENERALIZED PRINCIPLE OF PRECESSION. I will explain Precession in a chapter by itself.
Now one could share about these Principles like the way theories, formulas, ideas and concepts are generally taught in formal education, dry as bone and boring stuff.
However I've learnt, generally that when we are present with bare TRUTHS, we tend to reject them. However when Truths are delivered to us by way of a Story, we open our hearts and mind to them, that's why Great Teachers like Jesus and Buddha used parables to share the Truths we needed to learn.
So?
I intend to share the life stories of Bucky behind these Principles. By sharing the personality and the stories of the persons behind the Principles, they help us CONNECT with these principles. Principles become alive for us. This is VERY IMPORTANT.
Just like the way Eliyahu M. Goldratt of renown for his TOC, taught his Theory of Constraints, with the story of Alex Rogo.
As someone once said: The Universe is not made up of atoms and molecules, the world is made up of stories
3. Making Sense At the Global level.
Going by what's happening..... Global Warming, De-forestation, Poverty and Hunger, etc etc....despite the many Technological breakthroughs mankind has been making.....this is a senseless world.........again the voice of Bucky made a lot of sense. Wow, it look like I've some more explaining to do.
How so?
The World today is caught up in a Make Money as the be all and end all of the world. The economic imperative is first and foremost. Whereas Bucky said: You either make money or make sense, they are mutually exclusive. Bucky chose to rather Make the world work for total humanity especially for the future generation to come
So what are my Intentions here?
In Section 1, What I've learned from Bucky? In this section I will share some of The Generalized Principles of Universe which Bucky uncovered with stories and anecdotes about Bucky. This process will help make the principles come alive. As someone once said, the Universe is not made up of atoms and molecules, the universe is made up of stories. In sharing I will also gain deeper understanding of the Principles
In section 2, The Mount Everest I've decided to climb. "Doing Bucky" is like climbing Mount Everest, a challenge............I like to share my personal journey and reflection as a results of "doing Bucky" of how this has changed my perceptions, impacted and enriched my life. It's what I
In section 3, Other Thoughts to share...................I like to share with you about the Bucky Gp. a group of life-long learners who decided to join me in this journey to learn about the Generalized Principles that Bucky lived and worked with.
I'm sure there will be over-laps among the sections. I guess that's because we can see the same situation, the same event from several different perspectives.
But one thing is sure "Bucky" is not a cult! Not to worry.
So welcome to the Bucky Group & the University of the Universe
A Warning. The Thinking, Ideas and Perspectives shared here may not go well with certain Mindsets. Enter at your own risk.
Advice and suggestion: Take it with an open mind. You do not have to believe or agree with the Thoughts shared here by JooHock. And please feel free to share you comments. Thank you.
Bucky Group?
Huh? What's that?
Sounds cultish!
A friend of mine once pointed out that the way I shared about Buckminster Fuller and his works, it sounded like the Bucky Group had become a cult.
The Bucky Gp. is named after the nickname "Bucky" of Dr. R. Buckminster Fuller.
Okay now you are asking: Hmmm....What is this Bucky Gp?
The Bucky Gp comprised about 20 like minded individuals who meets weekly to share and discuss the Works of Buckminster Fuller. Initially members were keen to study and understand Bucky's book, "Critical Path," which was reputed to be the most difficult to read. We couldn't resist the challenge! Hah! These people come from all diverse background, from engineers to lawyers, to entrepreneurs and even educationists etc. Then I took on the role of championing his (Bucky's) Thinking and Ideas, his Perceptions and Works. The Gp have been meeting since about June 1994. It's most important Value, is it's love for Learning.
(Btw, our Bucky Gp on Facebook boast a membership of more than 550 members)
So Buckminster Fuller? Who is he?
What is Bucky known for? Why should I accord him such an honour? True!
Afterall, Bucky said, "I'm just an ordinary healthy human being who chose to use his option to do his own Thinking, please don't make me out to be some kind of a Messiah. You can do this to Krishnamurti."
What is it then, that I have admired about Bucky, that made me give him such high regard?
What is it that makes me want to shout out to the World and say: "Hey you might want to listen to this man, this phenomenon called Buckminster Fuller!"?
I need to answer this, otherwise I might be misunderstood for according him almost cult status, which even he would have frowned upon.
I'll share 3 major reasons here, but of course there's more which you will learn as you read into my blog-book
1. New lease on life.
Well in my opinion, my life didn't make much sense, till Bucky came along. In my own small World, life was a work, work work, and make money kind of world. Not much meaning to it. My life changed, it was enriched by the new learnings and doings as a results of studying and sharing Bucky, I found quality of life.
2. Generalized Principles operating in Universe
As I studied deeper into "Bucky" I felt he was the one and so far only one whom I've come across, as a first class scientist, whom ironically the perspectives of life that he shared was a breath of fresh air that I could relate to. He was a non-conformist maverick thinker and many in the educational establishments would want to acknowledge him, because they may feel threatened in terms of their status by this iconoclast, who had conceptualized the idea of Generalized Principles and thus identified some of the many Generalized Principles Operating in Universe, and named them so.
Examples are Principle of Leverage, Principle of Synergy, Principle of Precession.
These terms, these concepts of course soon became popular, as many writer and business gurus soon learnt about them and used them.
Bucky felt that if we could re-apply the Generalized Principles of Universe, uncovered through trial and error aka experience, in new ways, we could up the performance of our physical resources, that we could take care of all of humanity, at higher standard of living without disadvantage to anyone and without ecological offense to our environment. He was probably the first proponent of Sustainable Development. Also he received 28 patents for his inventions, and was noted for his famous Geodesic Domes, his Dymaxion Houses, and Dymaxion Cars, etc.
In the process Bucky had also uncovered Nature's operating system, developed a mathematical system, which he termed Synergetic Geometry, aka Nature's Coordinate System.
(See his book Synergetic Geometry, an Exploration into the Geometry of Thinking. I will have to give you the link.)
However more significantly, and importantly to my mind is the fact HE LIVED HIS LIFE BY THE GENERALIZED PRINCIPLES, ESPECIALLY THE GENERALIZED PRINCIPLE OF PRECESSION. I will explain Precession in a chapter by itself.
Now one could share about these Principles like the way theories, formulas, ideas and concepts are generally taught in formal education, dry as bone and boring stuff.
However I've learnt, generally that when we are present with bare TRUTHS, we tend to reject them. However when Truths are delivered to us by way of a Story, we open our hearts and mind to them, that's why Great Teachers like Jesus and Buddha used parables to share the Truths we needed to learn.
So?
I intend to share the life stories of Bucky behind these Principles. By sharing the personality and the stories of the persons behind the Principles, they help us CONNECT with these principles. Principles become alive for us. This is VERY IMPORTANT.
Just like the way Eliyahu M. Goldratt of renown for his TOC, taught his Theory of Constraints, with the story of Alex Rogo.
As someone once said: The Universe is not made up of atoms and molecules, the world is made up of stories
3. Making Sense At the Global level.
Going by what's happening..... Global Warming, De-forestation, Poverty and Hunger, etc etc....despite the many Technological breakthroughs mankind has been making.....this is a senseless world.........again the voice of Bucky made a lot of sense. Wow, it look like I've some more explaining to do.
How so?
The World today is caught up in a Make Money as the be all and end all of the world. The economic imperative is first and foremost. Whereas Bucky said: You either make money or make sense, they are mutually exclusive. Bucky chose to rather Make the world work for total humanity especially for the future generation to come
So what are my Intentions here?
In Section 1, What I've learned from Bucky? In this section I will share some of The Generalized Principles of Universe which Bucky uncovered with stories and anecdotes about Bucky. This process will help make the principles come alive. As someone once said, the Universe is not made up of atoms and molecules, the universe is made up of stories. In sharing I will also gain deeper understanding of the Principles
In section 2, The Mount Everest I've decided to climb. "Doing Bucky" is like climbing Mount Everest, a challenge............I like to share my personal journey and reflection as a results of "doing Bucky" of how this has changed my perceptions, impacted and enriched my life. It's what I
In section 3, Other Thoughts to share...................I like to share with you about the Bucky Gp. a group of life-long learners who decided to join me in this journey to learn about the Generalized Principles that Bucky lived and worked with.
I'm sure there will be over-laps among the sections. I guess that's because we can see the same situation, the same event from several different perspectives.
But one thing is sure "Bucky" is not a cult! Not to worry.
So welcome to the Bucky Group & the University of the Universe
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