by proplog2 4 Replies latest watchtower bible
The book "Science and Sanity" by Alfred Korzybski is probably the most important book I've ever read.
It can turn ordinary minds into "genius" minds. (I'm not a genius but I certainly was an impaired imbecile before I read it).
It's not a quick read. The first part of the book is mostly non mathematical and I've read it several times. The last part of the book explains relativity and I only read that once.
Here is the link. Check it out.
bttt
thanks proplog!
Thanks proplog2,
I have downloaded all the chapters.
--VM44
Snipped out of Wikipedia
Korzybski's work influenced Gestalt Therapy, Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, and Neuro-linguistic programming (especially the Meta model). As reported in the Third Edition of Science and Sanity, The U.S. Army in World War II used his system to treat battle fatigue in Europe under the supervision of Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, who also became the psychiatrist in charge of the Nazi prisoners at Nuremberg. Other individuals influenced by Korzybski include Kenneth Burke, William S. Burroughs, Frank Herbert, Albert Ellis, Gregory Bateson, Buckminster Fuller, Douglas Engelbart, Stuart Chase,Alvin Toffler, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, A. E. van Vogt, Robert Anton Wilson, entertainer Steve Allen, and Tommy Hall (lyricist for the 13th Floor Elevators); and scientists such as William Alanson White (psychiatry), physicist P. W. Bridgman, and researcher W. Horsley Gantt (a former student and colleague of Pavlov). He also influenced the Belgian surrealist writer of comics Jan Bucquoy in the seventh part of the comics series Jaunes: Labyrinthe, with explicit reference in the plot to Korzybski's "the map is not the territory."
In part the General Semantics tradition was upheld by Samuel I. Hayakawa, who did have a falling out with Korzybski. When asked over what, Hayakawa is said to have replied: "Words".
Thanks. A quick peruse seems to be related to "the Mysteries" cultic knowledge secrets. Interesting. Newtonianism, Aristotelian, Eleusinian and non-Eleusinian? (yep, here we go again...)
Thanks prop!
JCanon
