POSTSCRIPT

The very idea that an entity, a self-contained being, can have meaning of and by itself is physically and psychologically impossible, non-viable and nonsequitur. "Separate" is not synonomous with "unique." And unique can have significance only within a framework that supports its self-expression, and nurtures and channels its growth in a manner conducive to allowing it to help maintain the hierarchy of embedded systems of which it is an integral part.

Such systems (families) I have described as "symmetric" fully realizing that this designation is ideal. Any system, be it human or otherwise, if not attempting to approximate some degree of symmetry, will try to balance itself through exaggerations and compensatory asymmetric bulgings localized in defense of macrodissolution. This rationale supports the dictum, "form as function," or better yet, "group of functions," in order to appreciate what it is about the parts that is so vitally important, and how critical it is for the strength of the system that these parts be free to realize their potential within its collective frame. The concept of "nonlinearity" demonstrates the uncertainty inherent in living systems.

There is a certain topography to spontaneity. Without freedom, expression is hamstrung. They are inseparable like water and wetness. Without them there is little personal discovery and fulfillment of abilities, talents, emotions, growth, understanding, and appreciation. "Why are we here" must assuredly be intertwined with the question, "What is the nature of Reality."

We are taught scripts, roles and their commensurate rules of behavior from day one, programming, separating we, the social self from we, the real self. A social self is obviously important if only as a means to procure mutual survival. But, when carried to extremes in the form of authoritarian environments, be they macroscopic on the scale of civilization and societies, or micro, on the scale of the basic unit, the family, they serve to create an almost robotic dedication and submission, a morose, desparing and stultifying denial of our true Selves. Social systems are intended to be in the service of and support Mankind, not the other way around. But even if the latter takes precedence, Nature will not long be denied. Eventually, inexorably a system's intensification increases its rigidity; its ossification effect will reach a critical point. Herein, paradoxically, lies the seed of change.

At these concrete-like roadblocks, walls of infinitely dense constraints to psychological, social, economic, political, emotional, and identity rearrangements force dissolution transformations to spontaneously occur. Transitions from a bankrupt and devitalized envrionment trigger a state of affairs that may very well be nothing short of chaos. These times can be most trying for the individuals involved, and indeed stressful, dangerous and often tragic, of course, I am no idealist, to be sure.

But chaos can and does, somewhere down the road, reveal an emerging order, subjectively perceived. If anyone or group approaches the maturity of vision requisite for change, and pertinent to existing circumstances, and are able to differentiate between abstract systems, mental-construct patterns and the reality these point to and reference, then there will always be a chance to bridge the transitional 'moment' to rearrange the eco-pattern for the good of the whole, and for the good of the one.

Mankind's very existence predicates a boundless asymmetric and holisitc will-to-express, a will-to-be Self/self actualized through the medium of Man as creator and primary actor. Each and every instantaneous universe is one of transition and spontaneity; the creative Self is ultimately the only reality and the only hope.

Patterns of invariant properties are patterns of simple group transformations, of functions, a creatively active geometry of Man in a continuous state of flux. Each function, in turn, forms its own gestaltic composition series. And, as we probe more deeply into the nature of that which is accessible to us, we discover yet other similar, self-consistent arrangements.

Physical and psychic realities are structured as a composite of fractal feedback systems globally connected. The multi-tiered layers of consciousness within which and by which we define our Selves, and the moment, exhibit processes within processes ad infinitum.

As the Self is both center and outer edge of our experience, this symmetry-identity spontaneously orders and organizes this lightning flash we call LIFE.

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