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COLUMNS OF TEXT LIKE THIS CONTAIN FACTS ABOUT THE EXTENT OF OUR AMAZING WORLD WHICH YOU CAN EASILY IMAGINE AND REMEMBER
Contents
AL etc
Hello
OriginALity
InfluentiALity
MateriALity
MotionALity
DifferentiALity
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IntegraALity
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IntellectuALity
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PhenomenALity
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InternALity
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RelationALity
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Summary - balance
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Perfect Love
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Octaikon
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What do I do now?
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YOU CAN USE TIME TO IMAGINE LARGE NUMBERS: ONE MILLION SECONDS = 12 DAYS. ONE BILLION SECONDS = 30 YEARS. ONE TRILLION SECONDS = 30,000 YEARS
OR YOU CAN USE SPACE TO IMAGINE THEM: ONE MILLION MILLIMETRES = 1 KM. ONE BILLION MM = 1000 KM. ONE TRILLION MM = 25 TIMES AROUND THE WORLD.
This is AL,
penfriend of the writer,
who helps him to illustrate his ideas
about life, love and reALity.
The diagram behind AL is an Octaikon,
also brainchild of the author,
helping to integrate everybodys ideas.
This text is Phrase-Profiled,
another of his crazy inventions,
aimed at making reading, writing
and presentation easier
for dyslexics and others.
Als creator effusively extends
many thanks to everyone,
especially his beloved wife,
children, friends and
his own Creator
whose patience and help
have enabled him to
think, write
and draw
up to this
point
YOU COULD SQUASH ALL THE WORLD'S POPULATION OF 7,400,000,000 (7.4 BILLION) ONTO THE ISLE OF WIGHT (OR NYC) (35Km X 20Km). THAT'S 10 PER SQ.M
IF YOU COULD SPREAD THE WHOLE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE OVER A FULLSIZED FOOTBALL PITCH, THEN ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY COULD BE HELD IN YOUR HAND.
SANSKRIT HAS 96 WORDS FOR LOVE; ANCIENT PERSIAN HAS 80, AND GREEK THREE. ENGLISH HAS ONLY ONE, WHICH MAKES IT DIFFICULT TO EXPRESS THE IDEA!
Hello!
IT IS ESTIMATED THAT 107 BILLION PEOPLE HAVE EVER LIVED. THIS MEANS THAT THERE ARE 15 WHO HAVE DIED, FOR EVERY ONE OF US WHO IS NOW LIVING.
IF YOU IMAGINE THE AGE OF THE UNIVERSE AS ONE YEAR, THEN THE LONGEST HUMAN LIFE WOULD BE OVER IN JUST THE BLINK OF AN EYE (THAT IS 1/4 SEC.)
IF YOU IMAGINE THE EARTH AS ONE DAY OLD, THEN LIFE STARTED AT 4 IN THE MORNING BUT HUMAN HISTORY ONLY BEGAN AT ABOUT ONE MINUTE TO MIDNIGHT.
OriginALity
riginALity
IT'S A BROKEN WORLD. THERE ARE ABOUT NINE MILLION OF US WHO RESIDE IN PRISONS, AND NEARLY HALF A MILLION OF US WHO ARE MURDERED EACH YEAR.
IF THE FOUR FORCES & PHYSICAL CONSTANTS UNDERLYING REALITY WERE FRACTIONALLY DIFFERENT, THE UNIVERSE WOULD BE VERY DIFFERENT OR NON-EXISTENT
OF THE 4 NATURAL FORCES, GRAVITY IS INSIGNIFICANTLY WEAK AT ATOMIC SCALE. WE FEEL ITS EFFECTS BECAUSE EARTH IS MADE OF GAZILLIONS OF ATOMS!!
InfluentiALity
InfluentiALity
OUR EARS CAN DISTINGUISH 1/2M TONES & OUR EYES 20M COLOURS (BY VIBRATION), BUT OUR NOSE, BILLIONS OF ODOURS (BY MOLECULAR SHAPE AND MIXTURE)
THERE ARE 92 NATURAL ELEMENTS. THEIR ATOMS ARE ALL ABOUT THE SAME SIZE, BUT URANIUM IS 238 TIMES THE MASS OF THE LIGHTEST ELEMENT (HYDROGEN)
EACH OF US CONTAINS ENOUGH IRON TO MAKE 1 LARGE NAIL; PHOSPHORUS FOR 500 MATCHES (10 BOXES); CARBON FOR 900 PENCILS; AND FAT FOR 75 CANDLES.
MateriAL
ateriALity
ALity
is materialitys complement.
Without movement
nothing material would exist.
The big bangs infinite heat
set everything in motion.
No quark, electron, atom,
molecule, organism,
body, planet or galaxy
is ever still.
Everything is either orbiting,
vibrating, undulating, waving,
spinning or accelerating.
We can never reach
absolute zero temperature
because that's when
atoms stop moving.
And there are upper limits
to motion too, it seems.
Nothing can go faster
than the speed of light.
All life depends on motion.
We NEED to move
to work and play.
Even if we are sitting still
we are constantly
breathing in air,
our heart is beating,
blood is circulating,
food is digesting, and
cells are a hive of activity.
As we apply ourselves
to our businesses
producing outputs
we humans constantly want
to get ourselves and things
moving faster and further.
In our efforts to move more,
we sometimes forget that
we also NEED to slow down
in thought, word and deed.
But we do NEED to get exercise
and keep moving to be healthy.
No life without MotionALity!
12 MEN IN TOTAL HAVE WALKED ON THE MOON, AND THE GREATEST DISTANCE MAN HAS TRAVELLED FROM EARTH IS THE FAR SIDE OF THE MOON OVER 400,000 KM.
WE HAVE ABOUT 5 LITRES OF BLOOD, WHICH OUR HEARTS CAN PUMP AT 50 LITRES PER MINUTE THROUGH VESSELS THAT WOULD ENCIRCLE THE EARTH FOUR TIMES.
LIGHT TRAVELS AT 300,000 KM PER SECOND, OR 7.5 TIMES AROUND THE EARTH. LIGHT FROM THE SUN TAKES 500 SECONDS (8 MIN. 20 SEC.) TO GET TO EARTH
MotionALity
MotionALity
THERE ARE ABOUT 37,000,000,000,000 (37 TRILLION) CELLS IN OUR BODY, AND EVEN MORE BACTERIA MAINLY IN OUR GUT. THEY WORK TOGETHER TO FORM US!
WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE IN TERMS OF SIZE, SINCE OUR MILKY WAY GALAXY IS THAT MUCH BIGGER THAN WE ARE, AS A PROTON IS THAT MUCH SMALLER THAN US.
THE LARGE HADRON COLLIDER (LHC) IS THE LARGEST MOST COMPLEX MACHINE EVER BUILT, AND IS USED TO STUDY THE SMALLEST PARTICLES IN THE UNIVERSE!
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DifferentiALity
ifferentiALity
LIVING THINGS RANGE IN SCALE FROM ONE MICROSCOPIC CELL, TO BLUE WHALES WEIGHING UP TO 200 TONS, AND GIANT SEQUOIA TREES WEIGHING 2000+ TONS.
A SUPERTANKER CAN BE STEERED BY A PILOT USING ONE FINGER. ONE BILLION CHINESE SUBJECTS CAN BE GOVERNED BY THEIR PRESIDENT LIFTING A FINGER!
THE FIRST KNOWN ANALOG COMPUTER (THE ANTIKYTHERA MECHANISM) WAS MADE IN 200 BC, AND USED +30 BRONZE GEARS TO PREDICT ASTRONOMICAL POSITIONS.
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IntegrAL
ntegrALity
ntegrALity
A MEMORY STICK OF 1 TERABYTE (ONE TRILLION BYTES) CAN STORE THE TEXT OF ONE MILLION BOOKS WHICH WOULD REQUIRE A BOOKSHELF ABOUT ONE KM LONG.
OUR BRAIN HAS OVER 100 BILLION NEURONS AND AT LEAST 100 TRILLION SYNAPTIC CONNECTIONS WHICH MAKES IT THE MOST COMPLEX ORGAN IN THE UNIVERSE
A 56 YEAR OLD SAVANT WHO INSPIRED THE MOVIE "RAIN MAN" IS SAID TO HAVE MEMORISED NEARLY 12,000 BOOKS AND COULD READ A PAGE IN 8-10 SECONDS.
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In
ntellectuALity
tellectuALity
THERE ARE NOW MORE MOBILE PHONE SUBSCRIPTIONS THAN THERE ARE PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD (7 BILLION) MAKING IT THE FASTEST GROWING TECHNOLOGY EVER.
THERE ARE 6500 LANGUAGES AND ON AVERAGE OVER OUR LIFETIME WE SPEAK AS MANY WORDS AS THERE ARE IN 1000 BIBLES (THAT IS A TOTAL OF 860 MILLION)
WE'RE GETTING MORE AND MORE CONNECTED! ABOUT 40 PERCENT OF THE WORLD'S POPULATION USES THE INTERNET. TWENTY YEARS AGO IT WAS JUST 2 PERCENT.
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PhenomenALity
PhenomenALity
THE QUIETEST PLACE IS AN ANECHOIC CHAMBER IN THE USA. IF YOU REMAIN TOO LONG, YOU HALLUCINATE. THE LONGEST SOMEONE HAS STAYED IS 45 MINUTES
THERE ARE MORE THAN 8 IN EVERY 10 PEOPLE WORLDWIDE WHO IDENTIFY AS ADHERING TO A RELIGIOUS FAITH. THAT'S A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE IN PRAYING!
WE'RE FORMED OF ALMOST NOTHING EXCEPT FORCE FIELDS, SINCE THE INSIDE OF ATOMS THAT MAKE US ARE ONE HUNDRED TIMES "EMPTIER" THAN OUTER SPACE.
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InternALity
InternALity
balances InternALity.
Everything in the universe exists in
external relation to something else.
Einsteins theories of relativity
say as much.
At the same time as
things are getting further apart
others are coming
closer together.
The universe is full of attraction
as well as repulsion.
That also applies to us humans!
We naturally NEED
to find and form
meaningful, constructive relations
with things that are external to us.
The poet John Dunne wrote that
No man is an island,
entire of itself.
While we grow up, we NEED to form
many changing relationships:
As children with
parents or guardians;
As family with
siblings, friends and acquaintances;
As pupils with
peers and teachers;
As workers with
colleagues and managers;
As nationals with
politicians and leaders;
As lovers with
the beloved and then our spouse.
And so on throughout our lifetime
completing the circle of life.
All of life is relational
and a constant process of feedback.
If we believe in a divine being
then its with that we must form
our ultimate relationship, so as
to meet our most life-giving needs.
We NEED each other.
Reality really lies in RelationALity.
OUR GLOBAL POPULATION IS CURRENTLY INCREASING BY ABOUT TWO PEOPLE PER SECOND AND DURING THIS TIME FOUR OF US ARE BORN FOR EVERY TWO WHO DIE.
IT'S A SMALL WORLD: WE CAN BE ACQUAINTED WITH EVERYBODY IN THE WORLD THROUGH A CHAIN OF SIX "FRIENDS OF FRIENDS OF FRIENDS OF FRIENDS ETC.."
WE INTERACT WITH AN AVERAGE OF 80,000 PEOPLE (A LARGE STADIUM) OVER OUR LIFETIME, BUT WE CAN FORM ONLY A MAXIMUM OF 150 STABLE RELATIONSHIPS
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RelationALity
RelationALity
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THE WORLD'S POPULATION IS 7 BILLION OF WHICH 1% OWN MORE WEALTH THAN THE OTHER 99% AND THE RICHEST 80 PEOPLE OWN MORE WEALTH THAN HALF OF US
WE ARE CURRENTLY CONSUMING 30% MORE OF EARTH'S NATURAL RESOURCES THAN ARE BEING REPLACED, DEGRADING THE ENVIRONMENT AND CHANGING OUR CLIMATE
IF WE EAT MEAT, EACH OF US NEEDS AT LEAST 0.5 HA OF FARMLAND FOR A SUSTAINED BALANCED DIET. IF WE'RE VEGETARIANS, WE NEED JUST 0.07 HA LAND.
IndenticAL parade
Balance
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THERE ARE NEARLY ONE BILLION SONGS IN THE WORLD, AND WELL OVER HALF OF THEM ARE ABOUT LOVE AND RELATIONSHIPS - LOVE MAKES THE WORLD GO ROUND
IN 2012, THE EU GOT THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR PROMOTING PEACE, RECONCILIATION, DEMOCRACY & HUMAN RIGHTS. 1946-2016 IS THE LONGEST PEACE IN EUROPE.
IN 2012 THE 1ST UN MEETING ON HAPPINESS WAS HELD. BHUTAN IS THE ONLY COUNTRY USING A GROSS NATIONAL HAPPINESS PRODUCT TO MEASURE DEVELOPMENT
Perfect Love.
Octaikon
OK - so we've taken a look
at the ten aspects of reality
and the perfect love
that glues them together
so that all our needs
can be perfectly met.
Weve seen how we humans
reflect the pattern of creation
(and the image of God, if Christian)
How can we summarise it all?
It's all too complicated,
you may think.
Well, fear not! All is not lost.
The fracALities relate together
in such a way that
you can represent them
on an octagonal diagram
showing how they link together
and form the five pairs that balance.
I call this diagram an Octaikon.
Its based on dozens of existing ideas,
in science and religion,
of many writers, old and new,
that explain, exactly how
we live and move
and have our being
to coin a phrase attributed to
the Greek philosopher Epimenides.
Now its up to you.
Visit and explore the website
www.octaikon.co.uk
and read the other books
that explain the Octaikon.
You'll discover all the theories
on which it is based
and how they can help you
at whatever stage of life
or needs that you may have.
On the opposite page,
there are four of over a 100 topics
Ive compared using the Octaikon.
(For more, visit the website
and look at the Okki-maps).
AL illustrating balance!
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BRAIN FUNCTIONS
Our amazingly complex brain
is structured and functions in ways that
correspond to how we think.
WAYS WE LEARN
We have different preferences
in the ways we like to learn subjects
and ask questions about them
TEAM ROLES
Eight team roles in management
have been identified all of which
play important parts in planning.
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What do I do now?
As well as exploring the website, you can use this booklet
to develop the ideas of fracALities, balance and love presented in it
either by yourself or in a discussion group,
and then put them into practice in your life.
Id suggest that you do this in several ways
using the following or similar starter questions:
Consider all the fracALities together, and ask:
To what extent do you agree with the model outlined in the book?
Which fracALities do you most and least prefer? Why is that so?
How do they relate to your work and play? Do you meet their needs?
How do they relate to each other? Where do they overlap?
How could the universal model be improved?
Consider each pair of fracALities, and ask:
Which ones are the most and the least balanced in you? Why is that?
How could you achieve a better balance? What do you need to change?
What about getting balance in partnership with someone else or as a group/team?
Consider each fracALity by itself, and ask:
What do you think about that fracALity? How important is it to you?
How do you meet the needs engendered by it?
What happens if you cant meet those needs?
Does your pursuit of them stop others meeting theirs?
How do you help others meet their needs?
Consider the glue perfect love, and ask:
To what extent do you agree with the types of love introduced in the book?
Where you disagree, what would be your understanding?
To what extent do you agree that there is spiritual side to life?
If there is, how does it demonstrate a divine dimension (God)?
What do you think of the metaphor that this dimension is perfect love?
To what extent are you able to show perfect unconditional love for others?
How does your personal inner life affect your public life?
Where do you fail in showing your love? Does it matter?
Who could help you to show your love better?
How could the divine play a part?
You may get further copies of this document by:
Printing out, photocopying, buying paper copies from Lulu.com
or getting a PDF from amj.robbins@googlemail.com)
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