Abraham Maslow introduced the term Jonah Syndrome, at the suggestion of Frank E. Manuel, in 1968 in the journal Religious Humanism, changed to Jonah Complex in his posthumously published book Farther Reaches of Human Nature, in the chapter on ‘Neurosis as a Failure of Personal Growth’.

If we are to manage our business, political, economic, academic, and medical affairs with full awareness of what we are doing, we need to view the way that we organize society through the meaningful modelling methods of information systems architects, rather than the financial modelling methods of quantitative economists, investment bankers, and management accountants.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin coined megasynthesis in French in Le phénomène humain, completed in 1940, but published posthumously in 1956. He introduced the word to denote a vision of all the divergent streams of evolution during its fourteen billion of years of development converging in a megasynthesis of everything, at evolution’s Omega Point.

In the Hegelian dialectical process, synthesis denoted a new and higher level of truth, resolving the conflict between thesis and antithesis.

To develop a system of governance that gives everyone the opportunity to realize their fullest potential as humans, we need to go back to the PIE roots of system and learn to ‘stand together’ with a common purpose. In this way, we could cocreate an organized whole, able to see the whole of creation, the meaning of system when it entered the English language in 1619, the same year in which Johannes Kepler’s magnificent The Harmony of the World was published.

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