Last update: 27 August 1996
This area is devoted to the study of whole systems.
Nature is a whole system. But also an economy, a family, a company, a community, or many other things, can be looked at as whole systems. A whole system view would include all the factors involved and examine how they relate to each other and how they work as a whole. To deal with a whole system we can't leave anything out as irrelevant. Intuition is as important as rationality, we must address both scientific and artistic approaches, both material and spritual needs, the small as well as the big, what we feel as well as what we think, what we perceive as well as what we imagine.
Whole systems are dynamic, they change they move, they develop. Frozen pictures of how things are supposed to be might do us no good, we need to deal with the live systems, whichever surprising directions that might take us in.
There is no one authority in the field of whole systems. Luckily nobody has monopolized it by putting it into a standard curriculum defining what it IS. So, we all have the opportunity to discover together what whole systems are about.
There is a Whole Systems mailing list for the exploration of whole systems principles, particularly in regards to economic, ecological, sociological and metaphysical transformation of our civilization.
Whole Systems Design Networking - (50+) The Networking Institute. Learning Organizations (100+) Mind Mapping Mind-Mapping (30+) Total Quality Management:
TQM BBS (by gopher),
Kaizen home page (continuous improvement)
Holographic Universe Holonomics
Cybernetics and Systems Theory - (200+) Principia Cybernetica
General Semantics
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (50+) NLP and the Existential Quest Complex Systems
Complex Systems (100+) Modeling and Simulation (200+) Simulation Memetics - (20+) understanding the spreading of useful ideas. Patterns Home Page - (12) patterns and pattern languages. Also check Anamorph and Patterns-Discussion FAQ History of Game Theory HoloDynamic Compression - mapping miracles into the machine. Geomancy The Enneagram System Dynamics (20+)
Kevin Kelly: "Out of Control" Peter M. Senge: "The Fifth Discipline" Buckminster Fuller: "Critical Path" Buckminster Fuller: "Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth" James P. Carse: "Finite and Infinite Games" Jessica Lipnack and Jeffrey Stamps: "The Age of the Network" Joel Arthur Barker: "Paradigms" Jose Arguelles: "Earth Ascending" Michael Talbot: "The Holographic Universe" David Bohm: "Wholeness and the Implicate Order" Tony Buzan: "The Mind Map Book" James Redfield: "The Celestine Prophecy" Alfred Korzybsky: "Science and Sanity" Alan Watts: "The Book - about the taboo against knowing who you are" Tara Singh: "The Future of Mankind" Peter Drucker: "Post-Capitalist Society" T.Kun: "Project Mind" Ken Wilber: "No Boundary" Charles Hampden-Turner: "Maps of the Mind" Creating a New Civilization - book by Alvin and Heidi Toffler. Daniel Quinn: Ishmael Whole Earth Catalog - (50+)
Whole Earth Review (50+) The Futurist Cybernetics and Systems The Systems Thinker Popular Science
Buckminster Fuller - Spaceship Earth. Gregory Bateson - Ecology of Mind. Arthur Koestler - Holarchies of nature Alfred Korzybsky - General Semantics Rupert Sheldrake - Morphogenic fields David Bohm - Holographic physics Edwards Deming - Total Quality Peter M. Senge - The Learning Organization Tony Buzan - (50+) Mind Maps, memory. Jean Houston - (10+) Waking World. Mystery School. Jessica Lipnack & Jeffrey Stamps - (50+) Networking Alan Watts (10+) Edward de Bono Jack Sarfatti - (100+) New physics and consciousness, post-modernism. Jay Forrester - (20+) System Dynamics. Pierre Teilhard
de Chardin
New Civilization Network - (100+) Cooperation for a better world. The World
Game Institute - (20+) Making the world work. The Networking Institute (50+) The Change Project - (100+) change in organizations, communities, families and individuals. International Institute for Sustainable Development - (20+) Institute for Global Communications - (500+) The Progressive Directory Global Business Network World Future Society Buckminster Fuller Institute Center for Process Studies - process@cgs.edu Institute for Whole Systems Design - (20+) Antioch University, Seattle. Institute of Noetic Sciences Santa Fe Institute - (50+) multi-displinary studies, complexity. OneWorld Online - (500+) global justice, conflict, aid, trade, education, health, human rights, population. Communications as Engagement - The Rockefeller Foundation. Netherlands Design Institute - (10+) economics, knowledge systems. Nanothinc - (100+) Nanotechnology of all forms. Lots of graphics. University of Houston - Future Studies MIT Organizatonal Learning Network
Geosphere Project - visualizing planet Earth. The Dancing Rabbit Project Intentional Communities - (100+) The Venus Project (10+) Redesigning a culture. Arcosanti - (40+) arcology project. Paolo Soleri. Global Energy Network Oceania - (20+) the Atlantis Project. XVille - Doctress Neutopia's experimental community. The Quality Community Page (7)
Mind Mapping New Civilization Game by Bill Robertson.
Infinite Games - A vision of life as play and possibility. Activity Alignment Domains Holarchies Meta Programs Symbol Test - Test people's attitude to work. Cognitive Tools - for collaboration between teams. The Fourth Wave: A Normative Forecast for the Future of "SpaceShip Earth - by Oliver W. Markley. Fourth Wave Concept Overview by Bob Debold. Open Network and the Emergence of Freeorder - (10+) Pattern research.
Monetary System for the New Millenium - by Roger Langrick. A Warning to Humanity - from the leading scientists of the planet. Global Resource Bank - proposal to U.N. conference. An afternoon with Jeremy Rifkin - long transcript. Shared Energy Grid? - a thread of messages. The Web and the new civilization - by Tom Munnecke.
Whole Systems Quotes The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World - by Vaclav Havel, president of the Czech Republic. A Call for New Values Mikhail Gorbachev. The Hundredth Monkey by Ken Keyes. Chief Seattle Declaration of Evolution by Timothy Leary. Onar Am - (30+) the origins of knowledge. Buddhist Economics by E.F.Schumacher.
Gaia, Our Living Earth Alexander Chislenko - (200+) futurism, knowledge, and more. ISWorld Net - (50+) information technology, information infrastructure. Visionary Leadership - (10) Organizational Elements Model. Virtual Chaos - (10) a theory of everything.
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Abundance Economics The Whole View Re-cycling/re-using Holons Scarcity Money The Eyes of a Child Holonomics The Great Pirates The Whole Reality Synergy Paradigms Science and Sanity Myth Radiant Thinking Society and Culture The Fifth Discipline Fundamental Social Laws - proposed basic rules. Knowing who you Really are - Alan Watts. Shifting the Burden - a system template. Resource Ethics - principles for dealing with resources. Ephemeralization - doing more with less. New Civilization Network - proposal for new network of teams. Just in Time Proactive Money Free Resources Economy - how the money system works. Going beyond Normalcy Government Backlogged Progress Pattern Languages Master and Apprentices Teen-age Society Eco-Village Social Artistry Profit Reframed Universal Wholeness Math Discontinuious Trends
Trust Starship Earth Nate Tour and his mother
New Circuit Designs for Planet Earth
The General Theory of Relativity of Suffering and Enjoying
| "The essential new quality implied by the quantum theory is... that a system
cannot be analyzed into parts. This leads to the radically new notion of
unbroken wholeness of the entire universe. You cannot take it apart. For if
you do, what you end up with is not contained within the original whole. It
is created by the act of analysis." - David Bohm - Wholeness and the Implicate Order |
Whole System Glossary under construction.
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