Our 59th Anniversary Verbal Level

education + entertainment = edu-tainment !!

interactive
general semantics

An Evening of Learning Demonstrations
Led by G S Members:

Mary Dawne Arden Juliet Nierenberg
Michael Fandal Nan Wright
Gerard Nierenberg

Thursday, February 24, 7 PM
Albert Ellis Institute, 45 East 65^th Street

NYSGS members Free
Non-Members $5

Come for an evening of participation in upgrading your G S software, the tools and techniques you can use in everyday living and learning: how to interact more effectively in business and interpersonal relations.

We’ll bring education and entertainment together as we practice G S extensional tools such as

Dating                    Consciousness of
Indexing                 Abstracting and Labeling
Hyphens                 Non-Identity
Quotes                    Non-Elementalism
Map – Territory    Self-Reflexiveness, “to me”
Non-Allness            Conditional reactions
Structure-Order-   Time-binding
Relations

We’ll study some of these G S critical thinking and evaluating tools, and work on others at future sessions of “Interactive General Semantics.”

Rachel Lauer’s pamphlet “Some Basic Ideas of General Semantics” will be given out, for you to keep as a handy reminder.

Annual Business and Election Meeting
March 10, 6:30 PM - Be Prompt !
Public Meeting with Lifwynn at 7 PM

Members of the New York Society for General Semantics are urged to attend the Annual Business and Election Meeting. The Nominating Committee has recommended the following membes for the Board for three year terms:

Ron Amend
Pearl Eppy
Mary Dawne Arden
Allen Flagg
George Barenholtz

Any other member may be nominated to serve on the Board by a petition signed by five members, to be submitted, with a statement of consent by the member nominated, to the Secretary on or before March 1, 2005.

Any motion may be proposed by a petition signed by five members, to be submitted, with a summary of less than 300 words of matters relevant to each motion, to the Secretary on or before March 1, 2005.

Members may vote in person or by absentee ballot, which may be requested. Contact the Society at 212-532-1467.

WORKING AT SOLVING HUMANITY’S PROBLEMS:
BURROW AND KORZYBSKI, SIXTY YEARS LATER;
an exercise in time-binding

A Joint Meeting with the Lifwynn Foundation

Lloyd Gilden, PhD
President, Lifwynn Foundation for Social Research, and Members

Thursday, March 10, 7 PM
(After 6:30 Annual NYSGS Meeting)
Albert Ellis Institute, 45 East 65^th Street

NYSGS and Lifwynn members Free
Non-Members $5

Two giants in the fields of Social Psychology and General Semantics, Trigant Burrow (1875 – 1950) and Alfred Korzybski (1879–1950) corresponded to discover the similarities in their attempts to resolve the ills of humanity.

Both wrote important books, both founded important organizations to carry on their work, Burrow founding Lifwynn Foundation in 1927, Korzybski founding the Institute of General Semantics in 1938.

The two organizations will meet together in 2005 to share their concerns and work together in finding ways to collaborate.

Lloyd Gilden, President of Lifwynn, and some of their members will share their in-sights in a Social Self-Inquiry dialogue, and invite interactive involvement in this way of resolving misunderstandings, inappropriate feelings and attitudes, mistaken inferences and assumptions, and challenge patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving.

Together we will extend our personal learn-ing experiences to their application in under-standing humanity’s problems.

Come and participate in this important meeting !

Lifwynn Foundation for Social Research
Lloyd Gilden, PhD, President

Trigant Burrow, MD, the first president of the American Psychoanalytic Association, established the Lifwynn Foundation in 1926 to explore his insight that neurosis is not limited to individual patients, but afflicts the whole human species, including psychoanalysts. He gathered his patients and colleagues into a group and developed what he called “group analysis,” today referred to as “social self-inquiry,” that has evolved into a process that integrates somatic and verbal aspects, including sensory awareness. Special attention is paid to emotional reactions which reflect ver-bally conditioned, self-oriented and self-biased social reactions. When such reactions enter awareness and are contemplated, they tend to dissipate, and are replaced by more adaptive, socially integrative feelings and behavior.

F I O N S, Friends of the
Institute of Noetic Sciences
Our Co-sponsors June 2

Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon, founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences in 1973 to study mind, conscious-ness, and ways of knowing. Members in New York City founded FIONS in 1988 to collaborate with IONS and explore the many ways “consciousness” governs every aspect of life. FIONS offers its members, and the public, talks, workshops, courses and informal discussion groups to bring together science and spirit through dialogue and practice.

53^rd ALFRED KORZYBSKI MEMORIAL LECTURE
April 22, 2005
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

ROBERT CARNEIRO
Curator, Anthropology Division
“From Autonomous Villages to the State:
An Irresistible Trend in the Grand Sweep of Human History

At the beginning of the Neolithic period, human societies consisted of thousands of autonomous bands and villages. Today, 10,000 years later, the world’s much larger population is aggregated into fewer than 200 autonomous political units – states. This transformation was a steady progression, resulting from the operation of definite and identifiable factors. AMNH Curator of Anthropology, Robert L. Carneiro will attempt to reconstruct the process involved in this great movement in political evolution.

This event is sponsored by the Institute of General Semantics, and co-sponsored by the Division of Anthropology, AMNH.

Dr. Carneiro studied under the anthropologist Leslie White, who introduced him to General Semantics. White wrote an important article for the first volume of ETC. magazine, 1944, titled “The Symbol: The Origin and Basis of Human Behavior.” He wrote The Science of Culture: A Study of Man and Civilization. Dr. Carneiro’s books include Evolutionism in Cultural Anthropology: A Critical History; The Muse of History and The Science of Culture; co-editor of Essays in The Science of Culture: In Honor of Leslie A. White and Leslie A. White: Ethnological Essays.

Dr. Carneiro has done field projects on three indigenous tribes inhabiting the Amazon basin: the Kuikuru Indians of central Brazil, the Amahuaca of eastern Peru, and the Yanoramo of southern Venezuela.

In his studies of the ways in which societies have evolved, Dr. Carneiro is particularly interested in ascertaining the factors that best account for it.

Warren Robbins, the 1990 Korzybski Memorial speaker, will introduce Dr. Carneiro. Mr. Robbins is Founder of the National Museum of African Art, and the Robbins Center for Cross Cultural Communication. He and Dr. Carneiro were both students of Leslie White, who led them to Korzybski. His 1990 talk was titled “No Dinosaurs on the Ark; Science, Language and Art in Evolving Human Culture.”

A One – Day Colloquium
“ENVISIONING THE EMERGING FUTURE’

April 23, 2005, 9 AM – 4 PM
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Six Interactive Presentations,
Panel, and Musical Celebration

Sponsors: American Museum of Natural History,
Institute of General Semantics, New York Society for General Semantics

Interactive presentations in the fields of anthropology, media studies, psychi-atric sociology, general semantics and history will explore the implications of Dr. Robert Carneiro’s Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture.

The tentative schedule is as follows:

Steve Stockdale, Executive Director of the Institute of General Semantics:
Welcome to the Colloquium.

Martin Levinson, Vice President, New York Society for General Semantics,
Former Director of PROJECT SHARE, New York City Public Schools, and

Katherine Liepe-Levinson, Muse Educational Resources;
“Understanding ‘WIGO’ to Influence the Future.”

Lance Strate, Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies, Fordham University; President, Media Ecology Association: “The Future of Consciousness.”

Milton Dawes, Roving General Semantics Ambassador: “Structures and Rhythms.”

Ron Gross (Channeling Socrates !); Chair, University Seminar on Innovation, Columbia University: “Your Role in the Emerging Future.”

Lloyd Gilden, President, Lifwynn Foundation for Social Research: “Integrating-Nonverbal with Verbal Processes in Consciousness.”

Paul Levinson, Professor and Chair, Communication and Media Studies, Fordham University: “The Little Big Blender:

How the Cell phone Integrates the Digital and the Physical, Everywhere.”

Panel: “Where Are We Going as a Species?
How Can We Influence Our Own Development?”

Roben Torosyan, Moderator, Assistant Director, Center for Academic Excellence, Fairfield University;

Warren Robbins, Robbins Center for Cross Cultural Communication;

Milton Dawes, Roving General Semantics Ambassador; and others.

Musical Celebration of the Colloquium:

Milton Dawes, “Developing a Sensitivity to Rhythms,” and piano music.

ALFRED KORZYBSKI ON “ANTHROPOLOGY”

Alfred Korzybski, on pages 38f of his Science and Sanity, states that “the selection of a name” for his proposed general science of man would be difficult as the “only really appropriate name, ‘Anthropology’, is already pre-empted to cover a most fundamental and sound discipline, without which even modern psychiatry would be impossible. This name, at present, is used in a restricted sense…” “I propose, then, to call the very valuable existing Anthropology the Restricted Anthropology, and to call the generalized science of man General Anthropology, so as to include all his natural functions…” He is referring to his de-fining “man functionally as a time-binder, a definition based on a non-el functional observation that the human class of life differs from animals in the fact that, in the rough, each generation of humans, at least potentially, can start where the former generation left off…”

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