The Taos
Discussion
Tuesday, August 23, 2005
ARC model and the tone scale:
3 in thread of 4 beads
If the Foundation has a higher purpose it is to address, in a non-religious fashion, the need to understand how a person might move in a balanced fashion. Mastery of balance can be achieved through competition, or through self-isolation, or through an informed state of collaboration.
Generally we individual humans survive by moving in an unbalanced way though the circumstances that life brings to us. What is different about 2005, is that most Americans are profoundly aware of the fact that an age that we all depended on has disappeared and can not be regained. The price of gasoline is but one sign that this age no longer exists.
This profound awareness leads many of us to ask about the transformation of ourselves, and our society. So we see in ourselves what we see in our social surroundings.
The purpose of the trip was to set up a line of communication between the Ghost Town Museum in Terlingua and the Foundation. The phenomenon of social and individual transformation is a key to establishing a line of communication that is transparent.
The “Warrior’s Way” suggests to us that an understanding of other realities allows the master to clearly see how to create an affinity between various realities / perceived- realities. Only when this affinity is established can there be true communication. Only if there is transparent communication can we reach a collaborative relationship that is not using lines of influence to control outcomes. (Again see the AIC model by Smith).
We had an opportunity to recognize the reality of the Ghost Town Museum and place this reality into a positive relationship to the reality of the Foundation. To archive this placement by keeping the ARC model in mind. Other models were also kept in mind, including the AIC (Appreciation, Influence, Control) model that Bill Smith developed (www.odii.com) and which has been adopted by the planning process for the National Project on Ontological Sciences.
The reality of the Ghost Town Museum serves for the Foundation one example of an abstract model for Virtual Museum Portals in various parts of the world.
The Master’s Way is derived from the Warrior’s Way by bringing a scientific grounding to the notion that each moment has a specific structure to the set of all causes involved in the creation of that moment. Moreover, a specific discipline called “qualitative structural activity relationship analysis” allows the master of this discipline to become aware of lines of influence and affinity relationship (sometimes called “affordances”).
It is by understanding what the realities afford that one is able to build an affinity between these realities, and in this way tune into larger forces than oneself.
The trip to Terlingua was both a physical move and an intellectual one. Emotions were addressed so that as time come for decisions there was a grounding of our actions in the Master’s Way.