Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecturers:
List of all the lectures. And to my delight, many are in mp3!
Later
Here is a pdf of Albert Ellis
Links to more follow later in this months posts.
Alfred Korzybski: Writing
This book, Alfred Korzybski: Collected Writings, 1920-1950, from 1990 is only available second-hand – too expensive. I then found the Google edition below.
Later:
This book and all of Korzybski’s books are for sale cheaply at General Semantics Institute online
Later
I a Bought Science & Sanity from GSI – arrived in days! It is also online here.
Alfred Korzybski: Collected Writings, 1920-1950 follows (embedded)
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RET, Albert Ellis and general semantics
IGS Discussion Forums: Albert Ellis in the News:
Dr. Albert Ellis gave the Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture in 1991 in New York City. It was all about the parallels between his Rational-Emotive Therapy (RET) and General Semantics. He stated, “I was distinctly influenced, when formulating and developing RET, by several of Korzybski’s ideas.” (General Semantics Bulletin #58, p. 25)
General semantics – Outline
GENERAL SEMANTICS: An Outline Survey
by Kenneth G. Johnson 3rd Edition Revised
A very interesting Outline! This is by the same guy who I quoted earlier.
11.4 “ ‘You’d be interested to know,’ he (the psychiatrist) said, ‘how many people come to me with troubles that are largely a matter of nomenclature. They suffer the tortures of the damned at the idea that a particular label may fit them or may not fit them. ‘Am I a man? Am I a coward? Am I a failure? Am I an invert? Sometimes, simply, am I a lunatic?’ If you could only get it through your head that it’s you, only you, who’s pinning the label on or taking it off, you’d have your problem half licked.’ ”
– Louis Auchincloss [14]
Why language matters!
I just quoted Moreno on Korzybski, and they are both right. Language used in a certain way leads to inaction, and a false belief that we are not acting beings at all times.
The passage I found & that I have quoted below makes clear.
I know I have coached people to use EMA, English Minus Absolutism without rationally knowing why, or understanding the principle, I feel grateful and excited to discover this deeper principle. Also to see more clearly how it is related to Psychodrama and action.
Using E-Prime and English Minus Absolutisms to provide self-empathy.
Quote and some discussion follows.
Moreno and General Semantics
From the Preludes to an Autobiography 1955, following a link in an earlier post. I discovered that this is one and the same as the Preludes in “Who Shall Survive?” where this passage appears on page lxiii
I am still tracking the article in Sociometry mentioned in that earlier post. The Christchurch Psychodrama library has every volume bar 1946 1/2 !
Quote follows
Classical Science is a Subsystem of Quantum Science
http://nexusforchange.wikispaces.com/file/view/DF-WC+presentation.ppt
Classical science is a subset of quantum science
PowerPoint by Jim Rough.
I love the way my various enthusiasms come together.
“emergence, through evolution, of a higher level of organization”
This Wikipedia entry links to my current wave of enthusiasm for the evolution of dialogue. We inherit forms that are hard to change. Finding a new way of sitting to talk is a big deal.
I thought about this in watching the movie 2012 (not that I really want to mention that movie or that year). In a UN meeting of heads of state some are in the room and some are on screens – it hardly matters. Technology has advanced, but the science of communication has not – the process is much the same as the old inherited voting system, combined with a bit of power-play.
Yet I think we can hasten and improve the means of generating creative intelligence. Process design. People are talking about it a lot!
Metasystem transition – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
A metasystem transition is the emergence, through evolution, of a higher level of organization or control. Prime examples are the origin of life, the transition from unicellular to multicellular organisms, and the emergence of symbolic thought. A metasystem is formed by the integration of a number of initially independent components, such as molecules, cells or individiduals, and the emergence of a system steering or controlling their interactions. As such, the collective of components becomes a new, goal-directed individual, capable of acting in a coordinated way. This metasystem is more complex, more intelligent, and more flexible in its actions than the initial component systems.
Thinking creātically – By Kenneth G. Johnson
Thinking creātically: a systematic, interdisciplinary approach to creative … By Kenneth G. Johnson
That is the Amazon link to the used books at a huge price.
As part of my link journey on the General Semantic theme I found it on Google and took a snap off the screen with the iphone of some references I wanted.
More details of my process and the book follows.
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A generally semantic journey
I have enjoyed some of the writing and audio from Al Turtle a relationship therapist. I get an RSS feed of his updates and today found a link to his favourite books. Great idea!
I found an ebook of A. E. Van Vogt’s The World of Null-A, non-Aristotelian logic in SF form. I see that this is not a one-off in Al’s list! He is into General Semantics – intrigued I went off on a search trail.