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james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• almost 5 years ago

The Fundamental Differentiating Process

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james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• almost 5 years ago
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1. At any given moment in a process, we have a certain partially evolved state of a structure. This state is described by the wholeness: the system of centers, and their relative nesting and degress of life.

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james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• almost 5 years ago
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2. We pay attention as profoundly as possible to this wholeness -- its global, large-scale order, both actual and latent.

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james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• almost 5 years ago
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3. We try to identify the sense in which the structure is weakest as a whole, weakest in its coherence as a whole, most deeply lacking in feeling.

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james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• almost 5 years ago
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4. We look for the latent centers in the whole. These are not those centers which are robust and exist strongly already; rather, they are centers which are dimly present in a weak form, but which seem to us to contribute to or cause the current absence of life in the whole.

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james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• almost 5 years ago
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5. We then choose one of these latent centers to work on. It may be a large center, or middle-sized, or small.

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james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• almost 5 years ago
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6. We use one or more of the fifteen structure preserving-transformations, singly or in combination, to differentiate and strengthen the structure in its wholeness.

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james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• almost 5 years ago
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7. As a result of the differentiation which occurs, new centers are born. The extent of the fifteen properties which accompany creation of new centers will also take place.

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james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• almost 5 years ago
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8. In particular we shall have increased the strength of certain larger centers; we shall also have increased the strength of parallel centers; and we should also have increased the strength of smaller centers.

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james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• almost 5 years ago
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As a whole, the structure will now, as a result of this differentiation, be stronger and have more coherence and definition as a living structure.

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james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• almost 5 years ago
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9. We test to make sure that this is actually so, and that the presumed increase of life has actually taken place.

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james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• almost 5 years ago
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10. We also test that what we have done is the simplest differentiation possible, to accomplish this goal in respect of the center that is under development.

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james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• almost 5 years ago
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11. When complete, we go back to the beginning of the cycle, and apply the same process again.

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