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The Lecture
with Glen River
The Zen Process Lecture is an overview, followed by several in depth examples to demonstrate the concept of transfluent media. Along with passing information in and out of language and literature principals of dynamic structure form the understanding of the transport system. When several models of dynamic transport are compared, the abstract principal is available for those who can grasp it. Video clips are avalible as well as DVD, CD, Books and one line references. The Zen Process centers
on the realization of the individuals creative path.
The Organizing Vision
Lecture 1
The term Zen as it is used here comes from the comparison of art to Zen archery. I describe the artistic
consciousness as the bow, The Organizing Vision. The disciplines themselves are the arrows.
Introductory Lecture:
à Balance, Form, Action
à Cross Pollination
à Keystone of Perception
Balance is an influence or force tending to produce equilibrium. We start by considering our base of
reference from this view. As we discover polarizing events we dilate our perception to the greater arena of
interplay. The multiple fields interacting as viewed from a focal plain or vantage point sufficient to
successfully describe these events is our point of balance.
Form is the shape and structure of an object, the mode in which a thing exists, acts, or manifests itself, or the
essence of something. Our discoveries lead us to define various forms. These forms help us to organize our
understanding of disciplines and their function.
Action is the causation of change by the exertion of power or a natural process. When we energize a system
we observe the process in action. This is the proofing of our knowledge.
Cross Pollination
Our examples for cross pollination are the disciplines of Book Making, WWW Publication, Movie Making,
DVD Publication.
Students within a workshop environment discover the learn to fill a need motivation. Action directed learning imbeds skills
necessary to the process.
Transfluence
Transfluent - Flowing or running across or through; as, a transfluent stream. I coin the word Transfluence to
mean a successful state of exchange within a governing intelligence or organization of complex systems.
e.g.: The painter’s arrangement of drawing, description of light, color coordination, and literary symbolism
achieve an amazing state of Transfluence.
Keystone of Perception
The director, conductor, or producer continues the management of complex systems and disciplines to
achieve a unified work.
The term interdisciplinary, has functioned as a catch all umbrella to cover various fields of endeavor encompassed by an
individual’s work. The limitation of this description is in presumed quality. “Jack of all trades” is the specialists assumption
that mastering multiple disciplines is beyond human attainment. The degree of difficulty for the true interdisciplinary is like a
big wave for a surfer. The steep learning curve becomes the desired challenge. In Zen Process the ocean of knowledge and
experience provide many challenging waves.
Experts in multiple fields stand apart from the “Jack” of multi disciplines. We expect the Expert’s profound achievement
merits highest regard from the foremost practitioners within each field.
The ability to bring a focus of vast expert achievement to any process is the desired result of the Zen Process Expert. I use the
Zen archer as an example to define the focus of achievement on process. The art of process is the bow. The disciplines I
describe as the arrows. One bow, many arrows. One unified art.
Additional lectures address the creative process and applications to specific forms of problem solving using
the meta-discipline concepts of Zen Process.
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