IV. Four Ways of Knowing: The Architecture of Perception

Since ancient times people have worked to find the simplest way to honor all the ways that human beings perceive the world. The four directions of the medicine wheel, the four causes of Aristotle, the four modes of perception identified by Carl Jung, and the four elements of alchemy—fire, water, air, earth all point toward an underlying architecture of perception that is universal. This is what Arthur M. Young explains so persuasively in his Reflexive Universe and Geometry of Meaning. This fourth posting in the Theory of Process Series aims to introduce you in a visually unforgettable way to the power of this Four-Fold Operator, the last of the basic operators in the Theory of Process. I'm going to step through how Young defines these ways of knowing and then share how The Grove has built on his ideas to develop new tools for group process leading.