Inner and Outer Freedom

(Last Update 1/19/22)

What follows is a copy of my final paper for the course led by Yasuhiko Genku Kimura, Mastering Inner & Outer Freedom (July 17, 2021, through December 4, 2021).

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Worldview

The mastery of inner and outer freedom requires, at a minimum, a philosophy of freedom. Here, I am presenting my philosophy of freedom as a bowling coach worldview.

Applied research and the creation of the Optima Bowling Coach worldview:

I started creating my worldview by assembling a participatory integral philosophy from research focused on modern (East-West) philosophy.
Then, I created the psychology of performance as worldmaking, a unique learning to create process from applied research in behavioral psychology.
By developing that tool, I eliminated the world's current teaching and learning dichotomy from my coaching worldview.
This combination of worldview and learning to create uncovered a key principle to understanding and resolving the teacher/student relation problem; the fundamental principle is to utilize our innate capability for "external teaching" and "internal teaching."

Worldview as Freedom, and Freedom as Learning

My current working worldview, or Synergy Visualization Tool, presumes the four domains or dimensions of participatory integral philosophy: Subjectivity, intersubjectivity, objectivity, and interobjectivity. Further broken down as Art (the beautiful), Technology (the good), Science (the true), and Performance (worldmaking, action).

My worldview structure is composed of three concepts: Individual, Society, and Environment. With the addition of Performance, we have a system, and each of the four concepts is composed of additional concepts. A system of systems, unfolding-enfolding in a spiral dynamic, synergistic method of interconnections that build infinitely toward integral technoartescience performance optimization. Which the applied research specifically addressed.

My Coaching Worldview

Optima Bowling coach worldview and the infinite game of bowling.

Coaching Worldview

Philosophy/Psychology of Education (compiled from my research notes):

Metaphysics (Environment) the world beyond physics: (1) The vital need for right livelihood. (2) It is about business. (3) Man's relation to the cosmos, being (purpose to be). (4) Reality (the explicate and implicate orders of the universe). Livelihood; beyond doing something from passion, emotion, beyond doing it for fun. It is about evolution, the history of Man through the ages, from the Age of Body (existence) experience (phenomenology). Through the Age of Mind (consciousness), integrity (the unfolded explicate order - finite and the enfolded implicate order - infinite). And now the developing Age of Being (bliss) purpose, with the "Ecstatics."
Politics (Society) Institutions: It is about respect for people, free competition, and our relationship among each other. Our aspiration of "alignment beyond agreement" (YG Kimura) and for "omnicentrically" organized communities. The global psychological misunderstandings of collective control, human and cultural development, and the relationship between finite and infinite games, are the essence of universal external freedom privation.
Ethics (Performance) as Worldmaking: It is about the psychology of learning to create; value production, applied to social functions. Man's relationship with himself and his behavior towards others (where behavior is the control of perceptions). Ethics is the essence and responsibility of one's overarching need for right livelihood. While learning to create, values or principles equate to understanding (PCT level 10).
Epistemology (Individual) Psyche: Man's relationship with his mind, his method of thinking. It is about the wisdom of love and character development, about inner freedom, being a freethinker. Which is about mature integrated thinking: (1) Purpose: Heart, being, fundamental discipline. (2) Integrity: Mind, fragmented or holistic thought. (3) Experience: Body, need, and ability to act, control.
Aesthetics (Principle of Synergy): Is about Man's relationship with beauty (value reflection), fully integrated integrity, and the concretizing of values, as the synergistic sum of interconnections. We are talking about appearance. The practice of fully integrated integrity is experiencing Life either as a whole or at various levels of fragmentation. One's development here is that which we can respect in people.

Worldview Core Assumptions

A high-level discussion for another time would focus on how new connections build synergistically through transculturation and the reflective equilibrium of assimilation and accommodation.

But for now, my worldview focus is on:

The application of all four philosophical domains (subjectivity, intersubjectivity, objectivity, and interobjectivity)
Along with the psychology of performance as worldmaking
And the Purposeful PIE integrated method of thinking

The Optima Bowling Coach worldview, as the foundation, has the potential to lead us, each human being, to a better understanding and application of Life's complex relationships.

The Optima Bowling Academy has focused on involving interested bowlers and coaches; (students, associates, or partners) participating as performers in this innovative bowling education system. With my worldview in place and inner freedom verified, to accomplish such a complex enterprise, I propose four core assumptions or tools of the trade:

Right Livelihood
Performance Authenticity
Method of Thinking
Living Organisms’ Behavior as Control of Perceptions

See: Transculturation

1. Right Livelihood

Right livelihood is the first Optima Bowling worldview core assumption.

Driven by Man's naturally evolving resolute, motivating, and persistent thrust for optimization. Performance as worldmaking becomes a life quest, a commitment to the design-build, learning to create movement of the essential and overarching fundamental human need for right livelihood. Where a right livelihood equates to one's particular technoartescience performance.

Psychology of Performance as Worldmaking

Extremely relevant to developing a worldview is the psychology of performance as worldmaking, a design-build, learning to create movement. To start it moving, we begin with the object, or in this case, interobjectivity (e.g., bowling performance), flow-through teaching, knowing, understanding, and ultimately creating. This holistic movement of learning (worldview as freedom) to create (worldmaking as responsibility) is an application of the perceptual control theory psychology of behavior.

2. Performance Authenticity

As envisioned, the bowling academy teaching and learning environment will feature four phases of performance:

Why authenticity?

During phase 4, one is an authentic freethinker. But why authenticity?

The discussion begins with the concept of fear, the lived experience, or phenomena of being fearful. I have said that fear is created by the mind, as psyche ("I" "me" image-identity). And not from one's fundamental purpose, to be, which originates in the heart. When an experience of life is whole (heart, mind, and body), we are said to be having an authentic experience (event, phenomenon). Then, while acting from the embodiment of the "wisdom of love," wherefrom fear is no longer an issue, one has made the shift from a fearful to a joyful life.

But what is authenticity, and why does authenticity seem to be so important?
In the performance authenticity section, we will work out the authenticity question. Hint, see more: character development.

3. Integrated Method of Thinking

The Optima Bowling Coach integrated method of thinking I named, Purposeful PIE, is grounded in the philosophical characteristic, wisdom of love. The necessary knowledge and understanding of practical wisdom as the management of temporal aspects of life, in a context of learning and lived experience, grounded in spiritual themes: Heart (bliss), Mind (consciousness), and Body (existence).

Purpose – The Why: Innerstanding - Heart - Bliss - Life's fundamental purpose is being or "to be" – Discipline
Integrity – The How: Knowledge - Mind – Consciousness - One's knowing how to be is either whole or fragmented – Thought
Experience – The What: Understanding - Body - Existence - Phenomena (event) and the ability and desire to act - (What: That which, the thing that) – Control

The current iteration of Purposeful PIE, as the embodiment of participatory wisdom (wisdom of love) and with the inclusion of DTC: Discipline, thought, and then control, has finally gained much-needed clarity. And has proven to be the Optima Bowling coach worldview integrated method of thinking. The cycle moves from Heart (purpose) - discipline; through Mind (integrity) - thought; and then Body (experience) - control. If you need to repurpose or iterate anew, back around the cycle you go.

See more: The Purposeful PIE

4. Living Organisms’ Behavior as Control of Perceptions

For a living organism, such as a human being, behavior is the Control of Perceptions. To augment our understanding of the Purposeful PIE integrated method of thinking, I have added a fourth core assumption, the Perceptual Control Theory (PCT). According to the latest version of PCT, the human mind contains an twelve-level hierarchical living control system of PCA control systems:

Perception
Comparator
Action

Perceptual Control Theory

When considering the psychology of perceptual control, our mental mechanism of behavior, as the foundation of performance as worldmaking (above), we find a complex system of systems. And rather than being a cyclical process, as per PIE, or linear as per the traditional controlling behaviors paradigm (behaviorism or cognitive psychology), PCT is a hierarchy of cyclical negative feedback control systems (PCA's). The worldview to worldmaking flow is up the levels when learning (design) and down the levels to control perceptions relevant to a particular creation (build).

People as living control systems are not directly controlled by the environment; people control. Linear cause-effect stimulus-response is an illusionary behavior control process. We are not inanimate objects, so we are not easily controlled by things or the environment. No person or thing can control a living organism without overpowering coercion. Yes, humans are socially conditioned. But only if one chooses to allow such conditioning. Which would require ignoring the resulting conflict.

Engineers understand how control works and now build capable robots, but most people (including psychologists) have only a very general sense that we control and do not yet understand this fundamental, very simple phenomenon that is ubiquitous in nature. As a result, people all around the world, in all walks of life, of all persuasions, scientists and lay people alike, are profoundly ignorant of how living organisms— and that includes people—actually function. We all suffer the consequences of this ignorance—in our personal lives, on the job, in our society and all over the world. Dr. Tim Carey has called this our greatest global challenge.

Quote from PCT – The 2016 Book of Readings

Bowling Education

My last word. An Optima Bowling education strives to create authentic communication between the coach and the athlete. When successful, the practice of fully integrated integrity becomes an experience of life as a whole. A real-time beautiful synergistic sum of one's interconnections. The Optima Bowling Academy education system has solved the teacher-student relation problem. But its application requires a working understanding of perceptual control theory. Please reflect on the PCT principle, "external teaching and internal teaching," to highlight the importance of the Optima Bowling Academy coaching approach presented here.

See More: Teacher-Student Relation

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