A Stochastic World View of Quantum Physics and Zhuangzi's Ahnming Wuwei(安命無爲)

LEE SEONGMI

doi:10.15754/jkpe.2016.38.3.006

Margeret j. Wheatly - Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World

ICR Journal ◽

10.52282/icr.v2i1.696 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 211-213

Author(s):

Eric Winkel

Keyword(s):

Quantum Physics ◽

World View ◽

Management Style ◽

The Real ◽

New Science ◽

Management Consultant ◽

Wide Experience ◽

The Right ◽

And Control ◽

Control Management

Writing from wide experience working with organisations as a management consultant, Margaret Wheatley has seen the necessity for integrating the new science with organisational management. The new science of quantum physics, fractals, and chaos theory creates a new nonlinear world view. The old, linear view is suited only for the factory model, where outputs increase in a linear fashion according to the inputs. But the real world is nonlinear: think about learning. We study and study and suddenly, we understand. Wheatley describes the conventional command-and-control management style, where we think the company is a black box with inputs on the left and outputs on the right. She talks about laboriously crafted organisational charts, when the real communication of the company takes place around the water cooler. She shows us how organisations flounder and stagnate when they are seen as machines in a Newtonian world, the old mechanistic view.

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Deep Donkey and Dadirri: asking Creatura out to play

Murmurations: Journal of Transformative Systemic Practice ◽

10.28963/4.1.4 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 32-47

Author(s):

Roger Duncan

Keyword(s):

Quantum Physics ◽

World View ◽

Well Being ◽

Ecological Crisis ◽

Indigenous Australian ◽

Nature And Culture ◽

Systemic Practice ◽

The Social ◽

Systemic Impact ◽

Western Imagination

This article is based on the premise that we are currently awakening to the full systemic impact of the emerging global ecological crisis which is already having a devastating effect on the ecosystems of the earth and also a highly destructive impact on psychological well-being. The ecological crisis has coincided with the painful awakening to the social and environmental destruction that has resulted from the legacy of a colonial world view of nature and culture. These events now demand a radical and deep adaption of our view of nature and culture. It is becoming clear that we are facing not only an ecological break down and a narrative collapse, but also a breakdown in how to make sense of what we are facing. This article explores how systemic psychotherapy and Gregory Bateson’s work on the gnostic ideas of pleroma and creatura, can provide a framework to support the Decolonial Turn but also an EcoSystemic Return. This article uses the children’s game of Donkey and the Indigenous Australian practice of Dadirri to playfully explore how we might overcome Bateson’s notion of epistemological error when engaging with systemic practice, Indigenous nature practice and quantum physics. The article suggests an imaginary game of Deep Donkey to overcome the destructive legacy of Cartesian dualism at the core of western culture and to begin to open western imagination to an intra-subjective dialogue with nature. I suggest the game of Deep Donkey could a helpful practice in realigning western thinking with sophisticated and long subjugated Indigenous ecological and cultural wisdom.

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“At the Speed of Trees”

Le Simplegadi ◽

10.17456/simple-171 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 19 (21) ◽

pp. 27-40

Author(s):

Antonella Riem

Keyword(s):

Quantum Physics ◽

World View ◽

The Novel ◽

Richard Powers ◽

Human Love ◽

Cultural Paradigm ◽

The Earth ◽

Fundamental Relationship ◽

Different Types ◽

Fundamental Values

This essay applies Riane Eisler’s biocultural partnership-dominator model as a relevant testimony of how transdisciplinary approaches to literature can broaden our critical scope, methodology and understanding when examining different types of texts. This comprehensive methodology for the study of literature draws upon different fields of knowledge and scientific investigation, such as quantum physics, biology and systemic science, ecosophy, ecoliteracy and contemporary studies on plant life. With the aim of rekindling the fundamental relationship between humans and nature, Richard Powers’ novel The Overstory (2018) is analysed as a powerful denunciation of the current dominator, destructive, violent world-view pervading our planet. If the Earth and its inhabitants are portrayed as being controlled and exploited, the novel also unmistakably reinforces the fundamental values of the partnership cultural paradigm, which focuses on the caring potential of human love and reciprocity

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