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V. The Arc of Process: Finding Freedom Through Constaint

The Fifth in a Theory of Process Series—Exploring the Seven Stage Arc of Process

V. The Arc of Process: Finding Freedom Through Constaint

This fifth article in the Theory of Process Series explains how Arthur M. Young analyzed the two-fold nature of action with the four-fold ways of knowing and discovered what he called the Arc of Process. It describes a universal evolutionary pattern that can be seen in any kind of process. While his theory was deducted from first principles, he exhaustively tested it against the best findings of science and metaphysics to confirm his thinking. (Rereading IV. Four Ways of Knowing might help you understand this even better).