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Changing The World View and Conversation about What Is Life

Table of Contents

• Home
• Theory
  • Theory Development
  • Why New Science?
    • Definition of Science; Philosophy and Science Complementary Methods of Inquiry
    • Why New Science of Life-itself is Now Possible
  • Background & History
    • Invitation to Scholars - Part I
    • Invitation to Scholars - Part II
    • Advancing Human Knowledge, How?
    • History of Formalisms Leading to Advance in Knowledge
    • Implications for Government
    • What is Life-itself?
  • Hypotheses
    • Our Science Process Outline
    • Prologomena of Life-itself Science
    • Logic for Life-itself Science
    • Unique Characteristics of New Science
  • Life-itself Properties
    • Research findings to date
    • Life-itself as organism characteristics
  • Paradigms
    • Metaphysics of Life-itself
    • Metaphysics of Materialism
  • FAQ
    • What you need to know
    • Why New Science of Life-itself is Now Possible
• New World Views
  • Applications and Implications
    • Inner Tapestry Articles Archives
    • Value Dynamics Evidenced in Open Space Technology Circles
    • Getting the Big Picture of Life'S Processes When Times Are Hard
    • Happy Life to All
  • Art/Creativity
    • Art is Essential to Life - An article for Inner Tapestry, February-March 2005
  • Eco Consciousness
    • Eco Consciousness - We're All United in One Big Organism
  • Education Approaches
    • Education, Living Organisms and Riley School
    • Life Has It's Way, and Children know it. Let's Listen to Them
    • How the Riley School Approach to Education Fits with Emerging Scientific Views on the Nature of Life
  • Emergent Paradigm
    • Living Evolution: Life Heals by Creativity Within the Laws of Coherence
    • The Spiraling Organic Way Moves Humanity to the Next Stage: Learning to Live Together
  • Governance
    • A Better Way Than Mere Opinions for Guidance in Government
  • Health and Healing
    • Life - Health Care: No single system of health-care can address the infinite variety of life
  • Peaceful World
    • Why Violence and Why There is Hope too?
    • Why War? My Life's Walk
    • New Possibilities: A World That Works For Everyone - Part I
    • New Possibilities: A World That Works For Everyone - Part II
  • Personal Development and Life
    • Artistry of Life Heals; Living Creatively
    • Self-expression, a process essential to life, your life.
    • Hidden Internal Relations: The Unknown Ingredient of Relationships
    • The HeartWay And Overcoming the Shoulds
    • Where's the meaning? What's Life All About, Anyway?
  • Spiritual
    • The "Oneness Effect" Shift
    • Something's Missing; Why Force
    • Transcendence; A New Reality
    • Turning Within: The Value of Quietly Tuning Inward
  • Value Intelligence
    • Are There Family Values?
    • The New Reality: The Age of Values
    • Values are Inherent, Within
    • The Discovery of Value Intelligence: Unique to life, a full body/mind process
• Papers
  • Re-Creating Science in Higher Education: Exploring a Creativity Philosophy
  • VALUE INTELLIGENCE IN ALL CREATIVE ORGANISMS
  • Cosmos Editor's Intro of Paper:What is Life
  • What is Life? - Part I
  • What is Life? - Part II
  • Education and Learning
  • Life as Field Being - Part I
  • Life as Field Being - Part II
  • The New Emergent Life-itself Paradigm Requires Understanding of Values
• Special Papers
  • Foundations For An Axiological Science Hartman's Science Realized by Norm Hirst
  • Life before matter, possible signification before tangible signs: Toward a Mediating View by Floyd Merrell
  • The Dynamical View of Natural Form by T. Irwin and S. Baxter
• Services
  • Autognomics Coaching/Consulting
  • Services and Activities
  • Value Intelligence Assessment
• News
  • Attending the Emergence of a New Science - Part I
  • Attending the Emergence of a New Science - Part II
  • Movement of Life: Living Organisms Evolve
  • Our Bodies Are NOT Machines; They Know How to Heal
  • Getting the Big Picture of Life'S Processes When Times Are Hard
  • Just Move On!
  • Inner Landscape, Integrity and Wow what a Reality?
• Forum
• Blog
  • Norm's Blog
    • Life is Fundamental, Not Matter: A LifeVIEW
    • Life requires a science that deals with the improbable.
    • "Scientific Materialism Destroys Life" - Now let's Make a Declaration for Life!!
    • The Phenomenon of Life and What are Possibilities and What it Requires of Us
    • Words from Norm Hirst
  • Skye's Blog
    • A logic derived from whole-ness
    • I Love Beginnings (Welcome 2016)
    • A great nation is not saved by wars but by ideas of human caring
    • What do you know about yourself? Who, what, why are you? What do you Value?
    • Personal Agency Gets Us Where We Want to Go (consciously or unconsciously)
    • Lincoln, the Movie - A Life Lesson on Valuing Processes, Uncertainty, and more...
    • The Process of a Living Reality - How Does It Work? It's Time to Know Better
    • I Know the Way You Can Get (without a drink of love) Hafiz
    • Experiencing Our Human Amazingness Together-a LifeVIEW
    • What does it mean to be alive?
    • Our Glorious Diversity: Why We Should Celebrate Difference - Desmond Tutu
    • Are Big Ideas Gone for Good?
    • The Invisible Creates
    • Washington DC Abstractions Isolated From Reality - Misplaced Concreteness
    • What's Real?
    • Loving Times Are Upon Us
    • Finding our Moral Compass
    • The Magic of Our Beingness
    • Mary Baker Eddy - Lead in new Thought about Life's Phenomenon
    • Whitehead Processes Point the Way to New Mind
    • We need a New Mind to Understand Life
    • Solitude in Leadership
    • Birdsong Morning
    • Awesome Fabric
    • OK Self Monitor
    • However
    • "If you can't see God in all, you cannot see God at all."
• Glossary
• About
  • History of TAI
  • Mission
  • What People Are Saying About TAI
  • About Founders
    • Words From Norm Hirst
    • Words From Eugene Pendergraft
    • Bio & Words from Skye Hirst, Ph.D.
    • Tribute to Robert Hartman
• Participate
• Contact Us
• Friendly Links
• Links
  • Medicine in New Key
  • New Organic Way for Medicine
• Papers & Quotes
  • Auxiliary Papers
  • Quotes Inspiration
• Forum
  • Forum Categories, Topics, and Threads
  • Forum Members
  • We are Not Machines and that changes everything
• LifeIS