Optima Bowling: Potentiality and Actuality

The Optima Bowling site opened in July 2019, replacing the Bowling Ed site that I opened in March 2017. Now, a few iterations later, you can more easily find the soul, interest, and purpose of my 1968 quest to unravel the mystery of the primary wicked problem that had to be mostly buried initially. Humanity's lack of understanding, comprehension, or even knowledge of why the world is so utterly crazy has, for me, finally reached a point of resolution with a revelation in the form of Human Development. The profundity and simplicity of that declaration are now placed front and center in a fully energizing way. Today (May 12, 2025), Optima Bowling has committed to communicating this seemingly simple yet complex concept of the lifespan purpose of each individual's development of self-consciousness. Please enjoy yourself as you explore the site.

1. Back to the Beginning

Optima Bowling: Potentiality and Actuality is based on the Psychology of Lifespan Performance and Perceptual Control (LPPC model) and is built upon it, incorporating five additional systems-of-systems, which form a comprehensive, integrated ideological approach to Livelihood Development. The systemic, dynamic, and cyclical design, supported by an interlocking series of subsystems, operates to move students and teachers through latent human potentialities to reach actualized Performance Activations. The design is a methodology created using insights from innovative coaching dynamics, systems, and theories from diverse intellectual traditions, molded into a coherent and accessible model. This approach provides a valuable resource for performance coaches, athletes, and individuals seeking self-improvement through comprehensive, research-informed practices.

These lived episodes are the data-points that first signalled a pattern of uncontrolled perceptions.

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A Coherent, Accessible Model

Potentiality and Actuality encapsulates assured tension and possible harmony. Potentiality represents the vast, largely untapped capacity inherent in every human being. Actuality is the manifest expression of that potential through purposeful self-development and performance activations. At its core, the site is dedicated to self-research for self-development, a transformation movement from abstract possibilities to a tangible self-controlled lifespan performance. The research underlying this approach draws heavily on the foundational system, the Psychology of Lifespan Performance and Perceptual Control.

2. How to Control Your Life

Humanity's shared purpose, to be practical, is the practice of lifespan performance and perceptual control to monitor one's livelihood developmental transition from ignoring worlds to working upon worlds. (BC Vann 2023)

The Foundation: Lifespan Performance and Perceptual Control

Opening with the Psychology of Lifespan Performance and Perceptual Control (LPPC model) provides the backbone for understanding why individuals perceive, interpret, and ultimately act upon the world around them. This internal system constantly examines the hierarchy of perceptual control sub-systems, from basic sensations to abstract perceptions. It demonstrates how layers of perceptions interact to produce behavior as the control of perceptions.

Here, raw observations are organized into information—principles that convert experience into predictable feedback loops.

Every performer's life begins with raw sensory inputs at the most fundamental level. Over time, basic inputs are organized into more complex forms of perception, such as intensity and configuration. As individuals grow and learn, their inner models of the world become increasingly refined. So, they begin integrating their concrete objective physical sensations and subjective abstract feelings and thoughts, and this ongoing interplay of what (perception inputs), how (wholeness level of development), and why (understanding) forms the basis of the human being's activity. The essential innate latent potential lifespan performance activations are gradually realized as the tiered perception control mechanisms become fine-tuned through experience and deliberate practice.

The LPPC model also reveals that performance is not a static state but a dynamic developmental process that unfolds over one's lifespan. The progression from potentiality to actuality requires continual adaptation and refinement of one's sensible abilities and essential qualities. This livelihood developmental process, this flow is central to understanding why coaches and athletes can learn self-control by following the principle that behavior is the control of perceptions.

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3. A Purposeful Life

The PIE: Coach-Play Perspective in Motion

The PIE: Coach-Play Perspective in Motion is a critical tool of Optima Bowling: Potentiality and Actuality. This system concept expands on the traditional roles of coach and player by viewing them not as separate entities but as interdependent components of a dynamic system. From this perspective, the roles of teacher and student are in constant flux, each influencing the other in a way that bridges the gap between latent potential and actual performance activations. Here, we find the guiding principle: Performance as The Way of PIE (Purpose, Integrity, and Experience).

When information is practiced deliberately, it becomes knowledge: skilled, reversible patterns enacted by purpose, integrity, and experience.

• Purpose: The why of performance, as a vision, informs training and competition to ensure a clear and compelling reason supporting the flow toward realization and reflects the inner drive and the potential that motivates individuals to strive for improvement that directs every goal to activation.
• Integrity: As the how of one's existence, integrity represents an internal alignment. Physical conditioning, emotional awareness, and mental-level intelligence are wholly interwoven into an irrepressible fundamental order that aligns potentiality with structured, ethical, and effective practices focused on the potential wholeness of one's being (physical, emotional, and mental).
• Experience: Embodies the external expression of one's internal state accounting for what, where, when, and who of performance activations, encompassing every interaction, every competitive engagement, and every practice session to validate and enrich the internal-external relationship. The tangible outcomes of The Way of PIE process are the lived reality that emerges when a potential is transformed into skillful action.

The interplay between these elements becomes especially significant from a Hybrid Coach-Play perspective. From this perspective, a coach is encouraged to adopt a hybrid approach, simultaneously as a teacher while actively participating in the creative process of their lifespan performance. By engaging in the systemic, cyclical, dynamic PIE movement, practitioners will develop beyond the rigid teacher-student dichotomy and instead embrace a fluid, reciprocal relationship where both teaching and learning are a continuous, energetic flow towards harmony. This essential dynamic for converting potentiality into actuality relies on another quality, creating an environment where the best ideas and practices can emerge organically from the interaction of all participants.

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4. Performance Authentication

The four steps demonstrate how knowledge forms into system-level competence, in-depth and definitive enough to authorize itself.

The Four Steps to Performance Authentication illustrates the clear, progressive transition of performance from its initial, fragmented, externally driven, basic skills level to holistic, self-initiated, self-authorized excellence. The four phases (Performance Management, Performance Development, Performance Versatility, and Performance Optimization) represent distinct and measured steps on your way.

1. Performance Management: Learners are guided by structured pedagogical methods that focus on externally determined behaviors. The emphasis is on activating basic foundational skills and establishing clear, measurable goals. Although this phase relies heavily on external authority and guidance, it is essential for setting the foundation for further development.
2. Performance Development: The focus shifts toward andragogy, self-directed learning, and the beginning of greater self-responsibility for growth, as individuals use the externally determined frameworks they have mastered to step toward a more independent practice. This phase reflects a growing recognition of one's inherent latent potentialities.
3. Performance Versatility: Arriving here marks a significant turning point. Applying heutagogy heuristics and autodidactic methods leads to adaptability and innovation. The transition from following prescribed methods to actively exploring new ways of solving problems, enhancing performance, and versatility is clearly expressed, driving actualized potential, where the boundaries between coach and player start to blur in the light of self-guided mastery.
4. Performance Optimization: The full realization of potentiality. In this phase, performance is authentically optimized through physical, emotional, and mental levels of perceptual feedback. As an Integrated Self, the individual achieves self-initiated self-authorization, where performance continuously works through the will to unity, embodying the activation of potentiality and actuality.

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5. Systemic Levels of Being Human

Integrating competence across the physical, emotional, and mental-causal dimensions yields comprehension—awareness of the system that is doing the controlling.

I have also included, within the Optima Bowling: Potentiality and Actuality ideology, the Systemic Levels of Being Human (Physical Organism-Etheric, Emotional Repulsive-Attractive, and Mental-Causal).

1. Physical Organism-Etheric: This level encompasses the tangible, material aspects of human existence, as they relate to physical health, coordination, and the embodied experience of performance. It is crucial because the body and the energies that flow through it serve as the primary vehicle through which potential is expressed and actualized.
2. Emotional Repulsive-Attractive: This level describes the affective dimensions of human life. Emotions are discernible as transient states and powerful forces that hinder or propel performance. The model recognizes that effective performance requires emotional balance, which is the ability to control both repulsive and attractive emotional energies. In this sense, emotional intelligence becomes critical to the overall potentiality and actuality process.
3. Mental-Causal: We are talking about measurable levels of intelligence. At this level, individuals form models of the world, integrating sensory data with abstract concepts that reveal a coherent understanding of reality. The mental-causal being is essential for planning, executing complex actions, and adapting to new challenges.

These three levels underscore the significance of considering human potentiality as a multifaceted phenomenon, where physical, emotional, and mental capabilities synergize to achieve high-level performance integrity.

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6. Hybridization of Ideological Streams

It is essential to situate current practices within a broader historical and ideological context to self-realize the actuality of potentiality. The hybridized ideological stream demarcated by Optima Bowling: Potentiality and Actuality invites users to consider how ideas from the past, present, and future converge to inform contemporary practices. The model identifies three ideological streams: Past-Stream, Mainstream, and Future-Stream.

• The Past-Stream draws upon time-honored wisdom and practices that have shaped traditional approaches to performance and development. These innate yet largely overlooked historical insights can offer valuable lessons that continue to resonate in some modern coaching methods. But by acknowledging foundational principles that have guided human endeavor for centuries, practitioners are reminded of the enduring nature of certain truths.
• The Mainstream represents current best practices and established methods validated through research and real-world application. It reflects the collective experience of contemporary practitioners who have refined their techniques through trial and error, as well as systematic study. This stream bridges the historical and the innovative, ensuring reliable and effective practices.
• The Future-Stream, meanwhile, is the realm of innovation and emerging ideas. It challenges conventional wisdom by exploring novel approaches to performance and self-development. This forward-looking stream is crucial for ensuring that the system remains dynamic and adaptable, continuously pushing the boundaries of what is possible.

Comprehension widens into a historical and futuristic context, revealing that self-development is neither new nor complete.

Synthesizing these three ideological streams yields a hybrid model that is rooted in tradition yet open to innovation. This synthesis is a powerful tool for developing latent potential into actualized performance, as it encourages the continuous integration of past insights, current practices, and future possibilities.

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7. Human Development

The Evolution of Coaching, considered through a human development perspective, appears less a static craft than a circulating current that thickens, bifurcates, and re-converges each time collective insight about the human condition advances. Whenever a culture revises its understanding of why individuals mature, the practical art that guides maturation realigns its structure, language, and diagnostic instruments. Optima Bowling situates this reciprocal motion inside a purposeful systems-of-systems framework: the present overview elucidates why synchrony matters and how it has unfolded across epochs.

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8. Integrating Fragmentation and Wholeness

Finally, context clarifies the master claim: Human Development is not a bolt-on technique but the long arc that can reconcile the world’s apparent chaos.

One of the most distinctive aspects of the Optima Bowling: Potentiality and Actuality approach is its resolution of the classic dichotomy between fragmentation and wholeness. Traditionally, the roles of teacher and student, or coach and player, have been viewed as separate and often conflicting. This fragmentation can inhibit the full expression of potential by creating artificial boundaries that limit the flow of ideas and energy.

The hybrid Coach-Play Ideology promotes an integrated and holistic approach. The roles of coach and player are not mutually exclusive but are instead seen as complementary facets of the same system. An energetic exchange of knowledge, experience, and insight characterizes this dynamic relationship. Rather than being confined to rigid roles, this approach, grounded in the LPPC model and expanded by the Performance as the Way of PIE principle, encourages a fluid movement between guiding and being guided.

The boundaries between learning and teaching dissolve when the teacher or coach is willing to participate as a student or play partner. This hybrid coach-play approach leads to a harmonious state of wholeness, where fragmentation and dichotomy are overcome, allowing for the full spectrum of human development to be accessed through dialogue. The hybrid coach-play approach offers a powerful means for transforming latent, isolated abilities into integrated actualities of performance activations.

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9. A Systems-of-Systems Perspective

The Optima Bowling: Potentiality and Actuality site is more than a resource for improving athletic performance; it is a comprehensive system designed to facilitate multilevel holistic self-consciousness activations. By drawing on rigorous research and integrating various interlocking systems, the approach provides a cyclical, dynamic framework for understanding why and enhancing how we can utilize the full spectrum of human capabilities. The Potentiality and Actuality movement is not linear but an evolution of humanity encompassing perceptual control, dynamic coach-play interactions, systematic performance authentication, multidimensional being, ideological synthesis, and a coalescence of fragmentation with wholeness.

Optima Bowling is designed to serve as a resource for all people committed to reaching the pinnacle of human development (the self-realization of an integrated personality). The approach is made possible by, while connected to causal consciousness, attending to the energy flowing down from the essential dimension. Learning this thoughtful synthesis of ancient teachings, established theories, and emerging perspectives has been jump-started from the present, drawing on the experiences you have already created and your personal performance activations. This was an invitation from your past discoveries, from your explorations of latent capacities, all while actively engaging in self-realization, in a practical, measurable, and significant way.

By leveraging my research, which spans psychology, philosophy, education, and practical coaching, Optima Bowling offers an innovative approach to achieving optimal lifespan performance. Each system, from the foundational principle of Perceptual Control Theory to the fundamental Hybrid Coach-Play ideology, is designed to empower movement beyond the constraining, fragmented traditional ways. The focus here is the law of freedom aligned with the development of integrity (wholeness), an integrated, adaptive, and self-authorized method of human development.

Remember, the Psychology of Lifespan Performance and Perceptual Control (the LPPC model) encourages a balanced view of development initiated by utilizing mainstream knowledge, honors the wisdom of the past, while boldly exploring the possibilities of the future. The Optima Bowling perspective is one of self-realization, transformational development, and fundamental change. Every individual has the opportunity to move beyond superficial desires and imaginations, to achieve a harmonious embodiment of the basic systemic levels of being human (physical, emotional, and mental) as an integrated personality. Here, potentiality is not merely a concept but a living, dynamic force that continually drives the evolution of performance activations and self-realization of personal excellence.

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Continuing My-Research For My-Development

As we move through 2025, coaches and players, teachers and students, I’ll remain focused on a few key tasks: strengthening how I communicate the development of human consciousness and potentiality, expanding the content concerning the latest iteration, Optima Bowling: Potentiality and Actuality, all the while continuing my research for my development in a scaled-down version to create a less esoteric (mysterious) context and approach to becoming an integrated personality. This Hybridization process is progressing nicely through Past-Stream, Mainstream, and Future-Stream ideologies to take us back to the future. 

As has been said before, the future is now.

My last direct reference from an esoteric knowledge source is for you, the seekers of reality. Please read it. You'll find your future there.

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