The word synergy was not in the battered edition of The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English that I was using in 1979, when I discovered the word while attending an IBM international meeting in Canada discussing the marketing and development of Decision Support Systems in business. Then the word denoted the increase in the meaning and power of information that arises from fully integrated databases.

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An assembly of seekers of the Truth who gather around a spiritual teacher for reflection on the ancient wisdom. Sanskrit sat is also seen in Ghandi’s satyagraha ‘truth force’, bodhisattva ‘one whose essence is enlightenment’, from sattvam ‘essence, being’, and sattva ‘harmoniousness, peacefulness, composure’.